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1B Sports Tehama Tracker Thursday's results Friday July 5, 2013 MLB PP Giants Cincinnati Postponed due to rain Chicago Cubs 0 Athletics 1 CHI — LP M. Guerrier (2-4) OAK — WP D. Straily (5-2) Today's games MLB Dodgers 7:15 p.m. Giants SF — Matt Cain (5-4) LAD — Hyun-Jin Ryu (6-3) A's 5:10 p.m. Royals OAK — Tommy Milone (7-7) KC — Wade Davis (4-6) On the tube By The Associated Press Friday, July 5 AUTO RACING 11 a.m. ESPN2 — NASCAR, Nationwide Series, pole qualifying for Firecracker 250, at Daytona Beach, Fla. 1 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, pole qualifying for Coke Zero 400, at Daytona Beach, Fla. 1:30 p.m. NBCSN — Formula One, practice for Grand Prix of Germany, at Nuerburgring, Germany (same-day tape) 4:30 p.m. ESPN — NASCAR, Nationwide Series, Firecracker 250, at Daytona Beach, Fla. BOXING 6 p.m. ESPN2 — Light heavyweights, Allan Green (32-4-0) vs. Eleider Alvarez (12-0-0), at Hartford, Conn. CYCLING 5 a.m. NBCSN — Tour de France, Stage 7, Montpellier to Albi, France GOLF 6 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Open de France, second round, at Paris Noon TGC — PGA Tour, The Greenbrier Classic, second round, at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 1 p.m. MLB — Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs 4 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees or Detroit at Cleveland SOCCER 8 p.m. NBCSN — Men's national teams, exhibition, United States vs. Guatemala, at San Diego TENNIS 5 a.m. ESPN — The Wimbledon Championships, men's semifinals, at London Giants-Reds rained out CINCINNATI (AP) — A rainout at Great American Ball Park did more than push Homer Bailey's next attempt at pitching another no-hitter out of Cincinnati. It also raised the possibility, San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy mentioned, of the Giants and Reds playing a makeup game at a neutral site. Thursday's game never got started and was called after a wait of nearly 2 1-2 hours. No makeup date was announced. This was the last day the Giants were scheduled to be in Cincinnati this season. The Reds visit San Francisco later this month. Reds manager Dusty Baker said he would keep his rotation intact. That would mean Bailey, who beat the Giants by pitching his second career nohitter Tuesday night, wouldn't start Sunday at home against Seattle. Instead, Bailey would try to match Johnny Vander Meer's 1938 achievement of pitching no-hitters in back-to-back starts on Monday in Milwaukee. Trying to find a makeup date for two teams that might be in playoff contention could be tricky. The Reds and Giants are both off Aug. 29. It would be the first day after the Reds finish a stretch of 20 games in 20 days and the last before they play 13 games in 13 days; it is also San Francisco's only day off between stretches of playing on 16 and 17 consecutive dates. Major League Baseball rules prohibit teams from playing more than 20 straight days without permission from the players' union. Norris scores on passed ball in A's 1-0 win OAKLAND (AP) — Derek Norris scored on a passed ball with two outs in the seventh inning and the Oakland Athletics beat the Chicago Cubs 1-0 on Thursday. Dan Straily (5-2) gave up a hit over seven innings after being recalled from Triple-A Sacramento earlier in the day. He made the start to allow a sore Jarrod Parker to get two extra days of rest. Straily walked three and struck out six. Norris walked with two outs and went to third on Seth Smith's single. Matt Guerrier (2-4), making his first appearance with the Cubs since being acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers, threw a strike on the outside part of the plate. Pinch hitter Eric Sogard swung at the pitch and Cubs catcher Wellington Castillo had the ball glance off his mitt, allowing Norris to score the unearned run. Cubs' starter Travis Wood allowed three hits over six innings. He walked one and struck five in recording his third consecutive no-decision. Alfonso Soriano got Chicago's lone hit off Straily. Wood extend his winless stretch to six starts despite an ERA of 2.58 over that span. Ryan Cook pitched the eighth and Grant Balfour recorded the final three outs for his 21st save in as many chances. In the fourth, Yoenis Cespedes threw out Starlin Castro trying to score from second on Soriano's single to left field. Soriano was later thrown out by Norris attempting to steal second, ending the inning. AP photo Oakland Athletics' Derek Norris, right, scores on a passed ball by Chicago Cubs catcher Welington Castillo next to Chicago Cubs reliever Matt Guerrier, left, during the seventh inning of an MLB baseball game on Thursday. Castro walked to open the inning and advanced when Nate Schierholtz grounded out. The A's also had a potential run thrown out on the bases. Against Matt Guerrier, Chris Young singled with one out in the seventh but was caught stealing by Castillo. Norris drew a walk and went to third on Seth Smith's single prior to the passed ball. Pedro Stroup also made his Cubs debut with a scoreless ninth as the Cubs matched their franchise record for players used before the All-Star break with 41. The Cubs also extended their franchise record by using 23 pitchers before the break. NOTES: Cubs OF Brian Bogusevic left the game after the top of third inning with left hamstring tightness. ... The A's optioned C Stephen Vogt to Triple-A Sacramento to make room for Straily. ... The Cubs announced that RHP Carlos Villanueva (2- 4, 3.45) will start Sunday's game against Pittsburgh, filling the spot vacated when RHP Scott Feldman was traded to the Baltimore Orioles. Villanueva started the year in the rotation, but went to the bullpen when RHP Matt Garza came off the disabled list. ... RHP Jeff Samardija (5-7, 3.34) will take the mound Friday night against the Pirates at Wrigley Field. He's 4-2 with a 1.56 ERA against the Pirates all-time, though just 1-2 against them this year. ... LHP Tommy Milone (7-7, 4.17) will start for the A's in Kansas City. He's 1-2 with a 5.96 ERA over his last four starts. ... Giants LHP Barry Zito is donating $500 for every strikeout in the major leagues on Thursday. ... According to Sports Features Group, the last time the Cubs lost a 10 game, with the lone run scored on a passed ball, was July 1, 1962, in Milwaukee. Greipel wins 6th stage, SAfrica's Impey leads Tour MONTPELLIER, France (AP) — Stage 6 of the 100th Tour de France was a textbook demonstration of teamwork. Like playing pass the parcel, an Australian deliberately handed over the race lead to help a South African teammate and friend become the first rider from that country to wear the famed yellow jersey. And Andre Greipel, who won the stage with a fierce finishing sprint, owed a debt of gratitude to teammates who plied him with drinks all afternoon, ferrying bottles back and forth from cars at the back of the race, so he didn't melt in the scorching sun. ''Room service,'' the big German said light-heartedly. As the new leader of cycling's showcase race, Daryl Impey can look forward to some first-class treatment, too. Being the first South African to wear the yellow jersey ''will definitely change my life,'' he said. Rugby, cricket and, for the majority black population, football, are the big sports for South Africans. Impey can shop in the malls of Johannesburg, where he trains and lives, without being recognized, said his wife, Alexandra. But that was before his buddy on the Orica GreenEdge team, Simon Gerrans, passed him the race lead at the Tour. ''Wearing the yellow jersey now is definitely going to change things for cycling, put it on the map in South Africa,'' said Impey. ''Hopefully people will start recognizing me, maybe.'' Gerrans knows the feeling. To wear canary yellow at the Tour is to be king for a day — or more depending on how long the rider AP photo Simon Gerrans of Australia, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, waits for the start of the sixth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 176.5 kilometers (110.3 miles) with start in Aix-en-Provence and finish in Montpellier, southern France, Thursday. keeps the lead. Gerrans had it for two unforgettable days. Fans clapped and cheered when they saw him. Reporters chased him. A particularly boisterous crowd of Aussie fans played air guitar for him. The jersey also carries extra responsibilities: news conferences, podium ceremonies and other distractions can eat into rest and recovery — so important for riders to survive the three-week trek over 2,115 miles. Injuries from crashes have already culled seven of the 198 rid- ers who started in Corsica on June 29. Impey worked for Gerrans earlier at the Tour, helping him win Stage 3 and riding hard in the time trial Orica won as a team in Stage 4. Gerrans figured it was time for some payback. So on Thursday he rode in five seconds behind Impey in Montpellier. That was enough for the race lead to pass from one to the other, because they started the day with the exact same overall time, with Gerrans in first place and Impey second. ''Daryl was a huge part of me getting the jersey so I thought it was a nice gesture to be able to pass it on to him now. Hopefully for a few days,'' Gerrans said. ''To have the yellow jersey, it just really changes your life as a cyclist.'' ''I'll have a bit more time to myself now and pass all that extra work on to Daryl,'' Gerrans added. ''I don't count it as losing the jersey. I count it as passing it on to a mate. It was the plan before the stage and we were able to execute it perfectly.'' Daytona redoes gates, readies for groundbreaking DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Daytona International Speedway has completed one project and is about to start another. NASCAR's most famous track finished installation of revamped cross-over gates Wednesday, a day before drivers and teams took to the high-banked oval to begin preparations for Saturday night's 400mile race. The gates were reinforced following a frightening wreck in February that injured nearly 30 spectators. Daytona and Talladega added cables at the crossover gates, which allow fans to move between the grandstands and the infield before and after races. The tracks also installed supplemental tethers between the gate frame and support posts. Track president Joie Chitwood III says, ''We've been around 55 years and, yes, things happen. But we've done a really good job of giving fans a safe and fun environment. You never stop doing that.''