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Weekend Sat — Olive Festival Fun Run, 7:30 a.m. Sat — NASCAR — Irwin Tools Night Race, 4:30 p.m., ABC MLB— Giants at Cardinals, Sat, 4 p.m., Sun, 11 a.m., CSNB MLB — Rays at Athletics, Sat 6 p.m., Sun, 1 p.m., CSNC Little League — All weekend on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 Sun — NFL Preseason — Vikings at 49ers, 5 p.m., NBC Sports 1B Weekend August 21-22, 2010 Palubeski wins 100-mile race A’s rally to beat Rays By RICH GREENE DN Sports Editor Running a mile can be a challenge for the out-of-shape faction. Running a marathon can be a challenge for even for the more ath- letic. Running a 100-mile ultra-marathon, well that’s hard for everyone, well except for Joe Palubeski. Palubeski set a course record of 19 hours 40 minutes at a 100-mile ultra- marathon in Sausalito on Aug. 8. The Team SunSweet runner took to the hobby about three years ago and as his wife Betsy puts it — he’s came into it very quick- ly. That’s not to say the running has been with- out its pain. Palubeski overcame double knee surgery a few years ago to keep his hobby going. Now no one can stop him, or even catch him. “He was just walking and he couldn’t keep up with him,” Betsy said of her family trying to help him during the race. Joe said he knew he was having a good race after 75 miles when his pace was still strong and he was eating well. “I felt wonderful it was the best race I've ever had in my life,” Joe said. Betsy said she’s always amazed at what Joe does in the races, but they also kind of make her nervous. The distance is one thing, but she’s also worried about cars on the road and at the Sausalito race even the possibility of a moun- tain lion joining in the jog. “Anything could hap- pen to him back there,” Betsy said. Joe already has his Courtesy photo Ross Palubeski Joe Palubeski won a 100-mile ultra-marathon. next race planned and Betsy already knows what to expect. “I drop him off on some mountain some- where and he runs into Ashland,” Betsy said. MCT photo Coco Crisp slides into home, Friday night. Tampa Bay 4 Athletics 5 OAKLAND (AP) — Kevin Kouzmanoff scored the go- ahead run on second baseman Ben Zobrist’s fielding error with two outs in the eighth inning, and the Oakland Athlet- ics beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-4 Friday night for their sec- ond straight one-run victory in the series. Rajai Davis hit a tying sacrifice fly in the eighth, then Cliff Pennington hit a grounder to second and wound up part of the decisive play for the third straight game. He hit a game-ending single to beat Toronto 5-4 on Wednesday and a go-ahead, two-run double in Thursday’s 4-3 victory over the Rays. Tampa Bay missed a chance to move into a first- place tie with the Yankees in the AL East after New York was shut out at home 6-0 by Seattle. The Rays lost a late lead for the second night in a row. Henry Rodriguez (1-0) pitched a 1-2-3 eighth for his first major league win. Joaquin Benoit (0-2) allowed two runs, one earned, and took the loss. He had given up only six runs all year. Jack Cust hit a solo homer for Oakland to tie the game at 3 in the sixth before Zobrist hit a go-ahead solo shot in the seventh for the Rays, whose bullpen couldn’t hold a one-run lead that would have given rookie Jeremy Hellickson a win in his fourth straight start to begin his career. Craig Breslow, pitching for the first time since taking a line drive off his forearm Tuesday, worked the ninth for his third career save and second this year. Matt Joyce hit a two- run single and John Jaso added a sacrifice fly for the Rays, who lost their second straight at the start of a seven-game West Coast trip following a five-game winning streak. Daric Barton hit a two-run single in the third, when Oak- land became the first team to produce more than two hits in an inning against Hellickson. Hellickson was trying to become the first pitcher to win four straight starts to begin his career since Cleveland’s Scott Lewis did it in September 2008. The 23-year-old right-han- der got a few boosts from the defense, too. Center fielder B.J. Upton stole a hit from Davis in the fourth with a sprint to the gap in right-center and then a stretched-out diving catch. And Upton made a great throw to See A's, page 2B Bumgarner leads Giants past slumping Cardinals Giants 6 St. Louis 3 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Madison Bumgarner would like another shot at pitching to Albert Pujols. The St. Louis Cardinals will have to play a lot better to make that happen. The 21-year-old rookie pitched into the eighth inning and the San Francisco Giants got home runs from Pablo Sandoval and Aubrey Huff, sending the Cardinals to their season-worst fifth straight loss with a 6-3 vic- tory on Friday night. All of the losses have come at home for St. Louis, which is 39-23 at Busch Stadium and has scored two runs three times during the slump. ‘‘It’s not just our offense, we need to play better,’’ Pujols said. ‘‘There are lot of different things that we aren’t doing the right way, and you can’t win like that. ‘‘There’s no tomorrow, we need to win games.’’ MCT photo Buster Posey runs through first base during the eighth inning of Friday’s game. Pujols hit his 398th career homer for the Cardinals, who led the NL Central by a game after a dramatic sweep of the Reds on Aug. 11, but have dropped five of six since then and began the night 3 1/2 games behind Cincinnati. Pedro Feliz singled and scored twice and handled two chances at third base in his debut with St. Louis. Pujols, who leads the NL with 32 homers, also lined a ball to the center field wall against Bumgarner in the third. Not that the rookie was overly impressed. ‘‘You know what, I’m look- ing forward to facing him again,’’ Bumgarner said. ‘‘I’m not going to be afraid, not going to try to go around him. I’m going to go after him.’’ The slump is getting to man- ager Tony La Russa, who com- plained about home plate umpire Gary Cederstrom’s calls in the ninth inning while Brian Wilson was finishing for his 35th save in 38 chances. ‘‘You can go ahead and fine me, I don’t care,’’ La Russa said. ‘‘There were several strikes, a guy as good as Brian Wilson, he doesn’t need. Who knows how that inning would have been?’’ Buster Posey doubled twice with an RBI off Jake Westbrook (1-1) for the Giants, who have won two straight after dropping four of the previous five to stay in the thick of the wild card pic- ture. Bumgarner (5-4) struck out five with one walk and worked out of trouble twice. Felipe Lopez popped up with the bases loaded to end the second when the Cardinals scored once on four hits, and Matt Holliday grounded into a double play with two men on to end the fifth. See GIANTS, page 2B