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Friday World Cup — South Africa vs Mexico, 6:30 a.m., ESPN World Cup — Uruguay vs France, 11 a.m., ESPN MLB — White Sox at Cubs, 11 a.m., WGN MLB— Phillies at Red Sox, 4 p.m., MLBN MLB — Athletics at Giants, 7 p.m., MNT-21 PGA— St. Jude Classic, Noon, TGC Sports 1B Friday June 11, 2010 Cahill leads A’s past Angels Giants falter late OAKLAND (AP) — Manager Bob Geren walked to the mound after Trevor Cahill issued his first walk of the game with one out in the eighth inning, making sure his starter still had enough left in the tank. Cahill persuaded Geren to keep him in the game to the delight of the Oakland crowd and capped another strong start by retiring the final two batters of the inning. Cahill allowed one run in a career-high eight innings to win his fourth straight start and the Athletics beat nemesis Ervin San- tana and the Los Angeles Angels 6-1 Thursday. ‘‘I just wanted to make sure he was OK,’’ Geren said. ‘‘I wanted to see the look on his face and the reaction to the questions I asked him. I knew pitch count wise he was fine. The weather was just right. I felt like he was OK.’’ Cahill (5-2) was more than that, allowing only an RBI single from Bobby Wilson in the fifth while extending his run of strong starts. Cahill gave up six hits and one walk, lowering his ERA to 1.33 in his past four starts. He got a standing ovation from the crowd of 12,328 when he fin- ished, topping the 7 1-3 innings he pitched last year against Ari- zona. ‘‘It was pretty cool,’’ he said. ‘‘We don’t have the biggest crowds so when they’re into the games like that it shows they’re paying attention. It was pretty special.’’ Ryan Sweeney scored three times and Daric Barton drove in one run and scored two for the A’s, who earned a split of the four-game series against their AL West rivals. Andrew Bailey finished with a perfect ninth, sending the A’s into an interleague series in San Fran- cisco against the cross-bay rival Giants on a high note. The A’s struck for two runs in the fourth and three in the fifth against Santana (6-4), who came into the game with an 11-2 record and a 1.50 ERA in 19 career appearances against Oakland. His ERA was the lowest any pitcher with at least 10 starts had against the A’s and he had never given up MCT photo Trevor Cahill pitches during a 6-1 Athletics win,Thursday. more than three runs in a single start. ‘‘I made a couple mistakes but that doesn’t really matter because I have to refocus and just pitch,’’ Santana said. ‘‘That’s going to happen a lot. Nobody’s perfect.’’ The Angels finish their 14- game road trip with a three-game series in Los Angeles against the Dodgers. They are 8-3 so far on the trip. Santana, who had won five straight starts, retired the first eight batters he faced and appeared to be in control once again until issuing a leadoff walk to Barton to open the fourth inning. Sweeney followed with an RBI double that right fielder Juan Rivera appeared to misplay and Gabe Gross drove in another run with a swinging bunt single with two outs. ‘‘Guys were just getting good pitches to hit up in the zone and taking advantage of it,’’ Sweeney said. ‘‘We didn’t try to do too much. We scored quite a few runs off him today which was good.’’ The A’s added three more runs in the fifth on RBI singles by Bar- ton, Kurt Suzuki and Kevin Kouz- manoff to make it 5-1. Cliff Pen- nington scored the first run after his second single in the game. Pennington had been mired in a 3-for-46 slump before coming through against Santana. Santana allowed five runs — four earned — and seven hits in five innings — his shortest start of the season. ‘‘Ervin wasn’t that far off. Those guys did a good job when they got some guys in scoring position,’’ manager Mike Scios- cia said. ‘‘I certainly don’t think he pitched as poorly as maybe his linescore is going to show.’’ Celtics dominate inside, even series BOSTON (AP) — Andrew Bynum gave it a go, but couldn’t go for long. Battling a painful right knee, the starting center for the Los Ange- les Lakers was limited to about 13 minutes in Game 4 of the NBA finals, and the Boston Celtics took advantage to notch a 96-89 victory Thursday night that evened the series at two games apiece. Bynum was on the floor for less than two minutes in the second half, and the Lakers sorely missed his size and strength. The Celtics had a whopping 54-34 advantage in points in the paint, a 20- 10 edge in second- chance points and outre- bounded Los Angeles 41-34. Bynum has a torn meniscus, and the knee quickly refilled with fluid after he had it drained last week. He wasn’t on the floor down the stretch in Game 3, but Lakers coach Phil Jackson said before Thursday’s game that Bynum wanted to give it a shot. ‘‘We’ll try to get him six, seven minutes at the beginning of the game,’’ Jackson said. ‘‘He likes to get out there and par- ticipate and get the feel of the game, and we’ll see how he goes from there.’’ It don’t go much fur- ther. Bynum played 10 minutes of the first half, then wasn’t on the floor CINCINNATI (AP) — Brandon Phillips had four hits, including a two-run triple in the eighth inning Thursday that rallied the Cincinnati Reds to yet another comeback win, 7-6 over the San Francisco Giants. Phillips’ triple off Guillermo Mota (0-2) tied it at 6. Joey Votto’s single up the middle gave the Reds their 12th win in their final at-bat, the most in the majors. The Reds opened a 1 1/2-game lead over idle St. Louis in the NL Central, the latest in a season that Cincinnati has been in first place since June 17, 2002, their final year at Cinergy Field. They finished 78-84 that year under manager Bob Boone. Cincinnati has a streak of nine straight losing seasons, its longest in more than a half-century. Left-hander Arthur Rhodes (2-1) retired five batters — his longest appearance in two years — for the win. Francis- co Cordero retired the side in the ninth, getting his 17th save in 21 tries. The Reds’ latest comeback settled a wild game of wast- ed chances and pitching surprises. San Francisco grounded into three double plays with the bases loaded, and had anoth- er runner caught in a rundown between third and home after a botched squeeze play. The Giants also lost starter Todd Wellemeyer, who hasn’t won on the road since May 27, 2009, with St. Louis. The Giants handed him his best chance yet — a 4-0 lead in the top of the third inning — but he hurt himself trying to add to it. Wellemeyer grounded into a bases-loaded double play in the third, straining to try to beat the relay to first base. He hurt his right thigh and pulled up after crossing the base, then left the game. Summoned on a moment’s notice, Denny Bautista had a tough time getting going, giving up four runs in the bottom of the third. Cincinnati used a pair of walks and two infield hits while batting around. Even then, rookie Mike Leake was in line for his first big league loss — until the majors’ last-minute team went at it again. Aaron Rowand and Aubrey Huff homered off Leake, but the Giants couldn’t take advantage of those three straight bases-loaded chances to put the game away. USC on probation LOS ANGELES (AP) — The NCAA threw the book at storied Southern California on Thursday with a two-year bowl ban, four years’ probation, loss of scholarships and for- feits of an entire year’s games for improper benefits to Heis- man Trophy winner Reggie Bush dating to the Trojans’ 2004 national championship. USC was penalized for a lack of institutional control in the ruling by the NCAA following its four-year investiga- tion. The reported cited numerous improper benefits for Bush and former basketball player O.J. Mayo, who spent just one year with the Trojans. The penalties include the loss of 30 football scholarships over three years and vacating 14 victories in which Bush played from December 2004 through the 2005 season. The NCAA says Bush received lavish gifts from two fledgling sports marketers hoping to sign him. The men paid for everything from hotel stays and a rent-free home where Bush’s family apparently lived to a limousine and a new suit when he accepted his Heisman in New York in December 2005. Colorado joins Pac-10 DENVER (AP) — The college sports landscape began a much-anticipated shift Thursday with the University of Col- orado accepting an invitation to join the Pac-10. The Buffaloes might not be the only team bolting from the Big 12. Nebraska could become part of the Big 10 as soon as Friday, and speculation is heavy that Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State may also jump to the Pac-10 to possibly form a 16-team super conference. ‘‘This is the dawning of a new day for the Pac-10,’’ com- missioner Larry Scott said shortly after announcing Col- orado as the conference’s 11th member. The Pac-10’s last expansion came in 1978 when the con- ference added Arizona and Arizona State. Scoreboard WORLD CUP Interleague Friday’s games South Africa at Mexico, 6:30 a.m., ESPN Uruguay vs France, 11:30 a.m., ESPN Saturday’s games England vs United States,11:30 a.m.,ABC South Korea vs Greece, 4:30 a.m., ESPN Argentina vs Nigeria, 7 a.m., ESPN MLB American League Wednesday’s late results L.A. Angels 7, Oakland 1 MCT photo Rajon Rondo sneaks in front of Pau Gasol to grab a rebound,Thursday. for the start of the third quarter. He eventually checked in with about 4 minutes left in the peri- od, then was back on the bench for good with 2:13 remaining. Without him, the game resembled some- thing from the 2008 NBA finals, when Bynum wasn’t available after knee surgery and the Celtics overpowered the Lakers inside. Boston’s Glen Davis was able to bull his way to the basket in the fourth quarter, and the Celtics had a key pos- session extended in the closing minutes with an offensive rebound. Bynum had been averaging only about 25 minutes in the postsea- son because of the knee, but he had been effective early in this series. He had 21 points and seven blocked shots in Game 2, when he was able to stay on the floor for 39 minutes. But perhaps the cross-country flight, fol- lowed by the short turn- around before Game 3, took its toll on Bynum. Thursday’s results Oakland 6, L.A. Angels 1 Baltimore 4, N.Y.Yankees 3 Chicago White Sox 3, Detroit 0 Cleveland 8, Boston 7 Kansas City 9, Minnesota 8 Texas 12, Seattle 3 Toronto 3, Tampa Bay 2 National League Wednesday’s late results Arizona 2, Atlanta 1 L.A. Dodgers 4, St. Louis 3 Thursday’s results Cincinnati 7, San Francisco 6 Atlanta 11, Arizona 7 Florida 2, Philadelphia 0 Houston 5, Colorado 4 Milwaukee 5, Chicago Cubs 4, 10 innings San Diego 4, N.Y. Mets 2, 1st game N.Y.Mets 3, San Diego 0, 2nd game Washington 4, Pittsburgh 2 Today’s games Oakland (G.Gonzalez 6-3) at S.F.(Lincecum 5-2),7:15 p.m.,MNT-21 Chicago White Sox (Peavy 4-5) at Chicago Cubs (R.Wells 3-4), 11:20 a.m., WGN Houston (Myers 4-3) at N.Y.Yankees (Pettitte 7-1), 4:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Dickey 3-0) at Baltimore (Guthrie 3-6), 4:05 p.m. Pittsburgh (Ohlendorf 0-3) at Detroit (Verlander 6-4), 4:05 p.m. Washington (Atilano 5-2) at Cleveland (Westbrook 3-3), 4:05 p.m. Florida (Ani.Sanchez 5-3) at Tampa Bay (J.Shields 5-4), 4:10 p.m. Kansas City (Hochevar 5-4) at Cincinnati (Arroyo 5-3), 4:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Moyer 6-5) at Boston (Lackey 6-3), 4:10 p.m., MLBN Atlanta (T.Hudson 6-1) at Minnesota (Liriano 5-3), 5:10 p.m. Texas (Harden 3-2) at Milwaukee (Narveson 4-3), 5:10 p.m. Toronto (R.Romero 5-2) at Colorado (Jimenez 11-1), 6:10 p.m. St. Louis (J.Garcia 5-2) at Arizona (R.Lopez 2-4), 6:40 p.m. Seattle (J.Vargas 4-2) at San Diego (Correia 5-4), 7:05 p.m. L.A. Angels (Pineiro 4-6) at L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 6-3), 7:10 p.m. NBAFINALS Thursday’s result Boston 96, L.A. Lakers 89 Series tied 2-2 MLS Thursday’s results Kansas City 2, Philadelphia 0