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2B – Daily News – Monday, May 24, 2010 A’s manager Bob Geren SWEEP (Continued from page 1B) innings but left with the game scoreless. The A’s $10 million ace faced the mini- mum through three, allow- ing Pablo Sandoval’s two- out single in the first only to get the slugger on a caught stealing. Michael Wuertz (1-0) relieved and pitched the sev- enth for the win. Andrew Bailey pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his eighth save in 10 chances. ‘‘My arm is right, my eyesight is right and it feels like I’m starting to make adjustments in time instead of too late,’’ said Sheets, who missed all of 2009 recovering from elbow surgery. The Giants had two opportunities to bunt with a man on second and no outs following leadoff walks, in the fourth and seventh. Fred- dy Sanchez struck out in the fourth and Juan Uribe did so in the seventh. Bochy felt strongly about Sanchez’s chances and said Uribe did- n’t face a favorable count with two strikes. Oakland, meanwhile, took advantage of a similar situation to score its first run. Bochy shuffled guys around to try to get the unproductive Giants offense going at last. ‘‘We didn’t get a run today — can’t say that worked,’’ Bochy said. Andres Torres batted leadoff and Aaron Rowand dropped down to the sixth hole. Molina had the day off before his pinch-hit single in the seventh that ended an 0- for-17 funk. ‘‘It feels good to get one,’’ he said. Bochy plans to stick with Torres at the top of the order. Torres drew a leadoff walk in the fourth, then stole his sixth base. But San Fran- cisco missed a chance to take the lead. Torres moved to third on Sandoval’s fly- out, then Aubrey Huff walked before Ellis made a leaping catch at second on Uribe’s sharp liner to end the inning. was ejected by first base umpire Greg Gibson in the seventh for arguing a foul tip call on Uribe that catcher Suzuki appeared to catch on the fly. Geren got in Gib- son’s face and yelled from close range down the first base line, past the dirt and into shallow right field before turning around and leaving — one of the most animated scenes of his man- agerial career. It was his first ejection of the year and seventh of his career. A wild pitch then advanced Huff from first fol- lowing a leadoff walk and Uribe struck out on the next pitch. New A’s center fielder Coco Crisp was held out of the lineup with a minor strain of a chest muscle the A’s hope will heal in a cou- ple of days. Crisp returned from the disabled list Friday night after being sidelined with a broken left pinkie fin- ger. He drove in three runs in his first two games back. NOTES: Giants reliever Jeremy Affeldt felt a sharp pain in his left hamstring in the eighth and came out of the game. He was set to have an MRI Monday. ... Rosales made his first career appear- ance in LF. ... Injured A’s RHP Justin Duchscherer headed to Arizona to try to throw off a mound for the first time since being scratched from his May 15 start because of an injury to his troublesome left hip. The two-time All-Star received an injection Thursday to lubricate the joint. ... Giants RF Nate Schierholtz missed his third straight start with a bruised left shoulder but entered in the eighth as a defensive replacement. ... San Francisco opted not to skip fifth starter Todd Welle- meyer in the Nationals series, meaning he will pitch Tuesday and two-time reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Tim Lince- cum will have one extra day of rest before his outing Wednesday. ... The game drew 35,067 fans for the A’s second straight sellout and second in all. Sharks swept in Western finals CHICAGO (AP) — Dustin Byfuglien has emerged as a force for the Chicago Blackhawks and now he is taking his game to the highest level. He and his teammates are headed to the Stanley Cup finals. Byfuglien scored his third go-ahead goal of the Western Conference finals, converting on a third-period power play as Chicago rallied to beat the San Jose Sharks 4-2 on Sunday and com- plete a four-game sweep that sent the Blackhawks to the NHL finals for the first time since 1992. ‘‘Seems like he likes the spotlight. He likes being the hero. He steps up in big time,’’ teammate Patrick Sharp said. ‘‘He told me before the third peri- od he was going to be the guy to go get it. True to his word, he got it.’’ Chicago will play either Montreal or Philadelphia and be in search of its first NHL title since 1961, more than two decades before many of the current players were born. ‘‘It’s an honor to be going to the Stanley Cup. We beat a very good team over there. It wasn’t easy,’’ Byfuglien said. The 257-pound Byfuglien was parked in front of the net with 7 sec- onds left on the power play. He took a nice pass from Patrick Kane and knocked the puck past Evgeni Nabokov to give the Blackhawks a 3-2 lead at 14:05 of the final period. ‘‘I got my stick open in front of the net, and Kaner game me a nice little feed,’’ Byfuglien said. Moving Byfuglien to the top line with Kane and captain Jonathan Toews was one of coach Joel Quenneville’s best adjustments. Kris Versteeg added an empty-net goal with 42 seconds left, and the red- clad fans at the United Center erupted, littering the ice with souvenir towels. THOUSAND OAKS (AP) — Michael Rogers of Australia won the Tour of California on Sunday, emerging from a talented field to capture a race over- shadowed by a doping scandal. Rogers won by nine sec- onds after holding the lead since Thursday. He repelled repeated chal- lenges during the 83 1/2- mile final stage on a hilly circuit in Ventura County while riding for the U.S.- Byfuglien also had the game-win- ner Friday night in overtime as Chica- go captured Game 3, 3-2. He also put the Blackhawks ahead to stay with a goal in their 2-1 victory in the opener and scored a goal in all four of the Blackhawks’ victories over the Sharks. He has eight goals in this postseason. ‘‘When you’re playing with those two kids, the pucks are going to find you when you’re not expecting it,’’ Byfuglien said of being matched with Kane and Toews. It was another disappointing ending for the Sharks, who won the confer- ence in the regular season by a point over the Blackhawks. They outshot Chicago in three of the four games but couldn’t break through, scoring only seven goals in the series. ‘‘There’s a level of frustration about the way we approached this whole series,’’ San Joe defenseman Rob Blake said. ‘‘We put ourselves in a position to be successful throughout the season and we didn’t accomplish what we needed to.’’ Logan Couture scored in the first period and Patrick Marleau had a short-handed goal in the second as San Jose built 2-0 lead. But Brent Seabrook was credited with a goal after a video replay reversed an initial on-ice ruling of no goal. Dave Bolland tied the game at 2- 2 at 18:38 of the second. The Sharks had a chance to regain the lead a minute into the final period, but a shot from the high slot by Devin Setoguchi deflected off the stick of teammate Joe Thornton and hit the crossbar. ‘‘I’m not going to criticize the effort,’’ San Jose defenseman Dan Boyle said, pointing to the strong play of Chicago goalie Antti Niemi. ‘‘A combination of them playing well based team of HTC- Columbia. American David Zabriskie of Garmin-Tran- sitions, who led Stages 3 and 4, finished second overall, his third runner-up finish in the 5-year-old race. Three-time champion Levi Leipheimer of the United States began the day third overall and ended up there for RadioShack. The U.S. team lost Lance Armstrong after he crashed Thursday outside defensively, him playing well. The blame was on us, too. We didn’t find a way to get it through and I’m not real- ly sure why that is.’’ On his tying goal, Bolland scrapped for the puck behind the net and gained control. After hesitating, he fired a wraparound shot that appeared to deflect off the stick of San Jose’s Kent Huskins before it went past Nabokov. It was the fifth goal of the playoffs and second in two games for Bolland, whose defense was a key throughout the series for Chicago. Marleau scored the short-handed goal from the right circle at 7:35 of the second, shortly after the Sharks started a break when Marc-Edouard Vlasic blocked a shot by Kane. That put the Sharks in position to take control, but they couldn’t maintain it. After Toews was called for cross- checking during a scramble at the net, leaving each team a man down, Seabrook took the puck toward the goal. As Marian Hossa battled to get control at the side, the puck slipped between Nabokov’s legs. Seabrook’s goal sliced San Jose’s lead to 2-1 and sent the crowd into a frenzy. Sharks coach Todd McLellan referred to the score as ‘‘a bit of a dis- puted goal.’’ ‘‘There’s a rule that is in the league right now that if the referee has the intent to blow the whistle, it’s dead,’’ McLellan said. ‘‘The problem with the rule, like a lot of ’em, is there’s a lot of gray left in there. Nobody knows what the referee’s thinking.’’ Couture converted a high rebound past Niemi after a shot by Setoguchi from the left boards was deflected, putting the Sharks up 1-0 at 11:08 of the first. Niemi made 16 saves for Chicago. Nabokov finished with 23. Aussie Michael Rogers wins Tour of California Visalia. That’s the same day Armstrong was accused of doping and helping others cheat by former teammate Floyd Landis, who showed up at Saturday’s time trial in Los Angeles, where he hung out in a sponsor’s tent. Armstrong returned to Texas, and tweeted that he was back on his bike Satur- day. 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