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Tehama Tracker Thursday's results 1B Sports Friday August 16, 2013 MLB Giants 4 Washington 3 SF — Sanchez 1-1, 3 RBI, 1 HR WAS — Desmond 1-5, 2 RBI Houston 0 Athletics GIANTS 4, NATIONALS 3 Sanchez's 3-run homer lifts Giants 5 HOU — Grossman, 2-4 OAK — Gray 8 IP, 4 H, 0 ER Today's games MLB Giants CSNB Miami 4:10 p.m. SF — Gaudin, 5-2 MIA — Eovaldi, 2-2 Cleveland Athletics CSNC 7:05 p.m. CLE — Masterson, 13-8 OAK — Griffin, 10-8 NFL 49ers myTV Kansas City 5 p.m. Raiders New Orleans NFL 5 p.m. On the tube AUTO RACING 9 a.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practice for Pure Michigan 400, at Brooklyn, Mich. 11 a.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, final practice for Michigan National Guard 200, at Brooklyn, Mich. 12:30 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, pole qualifying for Pure Michigan 400, at Brooklyn, Mich. BOXING 6:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Light heavyweights, Andrzej Fonfara (23-2-0) vs. Gabriel Campillo (22-5-1), at Chicago GOLF 6:30 a.m. TGC — LPGA, The Solheim Cup, first round matches, part I, at Parker, Colo. Noon TGC — PGA Tour, Wyndham Championship, second round, at Greensboro, N.C. 2 p.m. TGC — LPGA, The Solheim Cup, first round matches, part II, at Parker, Colo. 6 p.m. TGC — USGA, U.S. Amateur Championship, quarterfinal matches, at Brookline, Mass. (same-day tape) 8 p.m. TGC — Champions Tour, Dick's Sporting Goods Open, first round, at Endicott, N.Y. (same-day tape) GYMNASTICS 5 p.m. NBCSN — P&G Championships, at Hartford, Conn. LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL 10 a.m. ESPN — World Series, double elimination, Ottawa, Ontario (Canada) vs. Taoyuan, Taiwan (AsiaPacific), at South Williamsport, Pa. Noon ESPN — World Series, double elimination, Chula Vista, Calif. (West) vs. Grosse Pointe, Mich. (Great Lakes), at South Williamsport, Pa. 2 p.m. ESPN2 — World Series, double elimination, Brno, Czech Republic (Europe & Africa) vs. Tokyo (Japan), at South Williamsport, Pa. 5 p.m. ESPN — World Series, double elimination, Newark, Del. (MidAtlantic) vs. Urbandale, Iowa (Midwest), at South Williamsport, Pa. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 4 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, N.Y. Yankees at Boston or Toronto at Tampa Bay NFL FOOTBALL 5 p.m. FOX — Preseason, Tampa Bay at New England TENNIS 8 a.m. ESPN2 — ATP World Tour/WTA, Western & Southern Open, men's and women's quarterfinals, at Cincinnati 4 p.m. ESPN2 — ATP World Tour, Western & Southern Open, quarterfinal, at Cincinnati Around town Fall baseball signups The Shasta-Tehama Crushers Fall Baseball Team will be holding signups/tryouts 5 p.m. Thursday at the West Valley High School baseball field. This is for high school aged students who are not playing a fall school sport. Registration is $50. Softball tryouts The All American Mizuno Organization will be holding tryouts for a 14-and-under softball team on Sunday Aug. 25 from 9:30 a.m. to noon at Big League Dreams in Redding. If you have a date of birth in the 1999 year or younger you are eligible to play for the team. Contact Richard Walker at richsgirls4@yahoo.com with any questions. AP photo San Francisco Giants' Hector Sanchez (29) watches his three-run homer during the ninth inning against the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park Thursday in Washington. WASHINGTON (AP) — Pinch-hitter Hector Sanchez stepped to the plate with one thought in mind against Washington Nationals closer Rafael Soriano: Look for a fastball. After being on the right side of a borderline call with the game on the line in the top of the ninth, Sanchez was ready for the next one. With a full count, he drove a three-run homer just inside the right field foul pole in the second deck, helping the San Francisco Giants beat the Nationals 4-3 on Thursday. ''In my mind I just think 'Stay fair.''' Sanchez said. Sergio Romo worked a scoreless bottom half for his 29th save. Javier Lopez (2-2) pitched 1 2-3 scoreless innings of relief to earn the win. The loss snapped Washington's five-game winning streak and spoiled Dan Haren's six- inning, one-run effort. ''That one hurt,'' Nationals manager Davey Johnson said. The Sanchez homer followed a 2-2 fastball that Soriano (2-3) thought was a strike, but home plate umpire Jim Joyce ruled high. Johnson acknowledged that Joyce had called the high pitch consistently a ball all game. His closer disagreed. ''That pitch, to me, I think it (was) a strike,'' Soriano said of the 2-2 pitch. ''I think that's when the game changed.'' Johnson, however, pointed to Soriano's walk of left fielder Roger Kieschnick with two outs and Buster Posey at first base after a leadoff single. ''A .250 hitter, you've got to get him out,'' Johnson said. ''You can't come close. You've got to make him put it in play.'' That set the stage for Sanchez, a switchhitter who was batting left-handed. He turned on the next fastball and tucked it inside the foul pole. ''I know my job, like everybody,'' Sanchez said. ''I have to be ready for that situation. I have to come into the cage during the game and get ready.'' Ian Desmond doubled home two runs in the third inning and Jayson Werth added two hits for the Nationals. Brandon Belt homered for the Giants and extended his hitting streak to 10 games. Ryan Vogelsong allowed three runs in the third inning, all with two outs. San Francisco, which had a late rally fall short in a 6-5 loss on Wednesday, snapped a three-game losing streak ''The boys needed this,'' Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. ''To come up short (Wednesday) after fighting so hard there in the ninth? Save a little sanity here.'' Vogelsong labored during a 39-pitch third inning. Desmond's double into the gap in leftcenter drove home both Denard Span and Werth. Adam LaRoche then followed with an RBI single to score Desmond and put the Nationals up 3-0. In the seventh inning, LaRoche's line drive struck Giants reliever Sandy Rosario in the chest. Rosario immediately left the game and was replaced by Lopez. He was diagnosed with a bruised sternum. ''One of the hardest hits I've seen a pitcher take,'' Bochy said. ''Scary moment. He's going to be sore for a couple of days.'' San Francisco's struggling offense did little against Haren, who during one stretch allowed just two runners to reach base out of 14 batters. One of those runners came via error and was erased by a double play. Belt snapped that stretch with a solo home run in the sixth inning to cut the deficit to 31. But Haren escaped the inning without further damage. He threw 98 pitches and gave up just one run on three hits with two walks and three strikeouts. ''A lot more positives than negatives,'' Desmond said of Washington's recent surge. ''But right now, I think we're just kind of resting on the negative. Shake that off and we'll be ready to go (Friday in Atlanta).'' ATHLETICS 5, ASTROS 0 Freiman, Gray help A's beat Astros OAKLAND (AP) — Sonny Gray has been hearing the comparisons since his high school days in Tennessee. The references to Tim Hudson, another right-hander with a slight build and a big arm. Fittingly, in the very ballpark where Hudson shined as a member of Oakland's Big Three beginning in the late 90s, Gray dominated the Houston Astros with his fantastic fastball and snapping curve on the way to an impressive first major league victory. Gray struck out nine in his home debut, and the Athletics used Nate Freiman's two-run homer and four RBIs to avert a three-game sweep by the lowly Astros with a 5-0 victory on Thursday. ''I've been getting comparisons ever since high school, the short righty,'' Gray said with a grin. ''If you compare me to Tim Hudson, he's one of my favorite pitchers, one of the greatest pitchers.'' Fellow rookie Freiman had a two-run double in the first, and then hit his third home run in the third with a drive to the left-field stands. He finished with four hits. ''Pretty special day for both those guys,'' manager Bob Melvin said. The 23-year-old Gray (1-1) allowed four hits and walked one over eight innings, throwing 118 pitches in his second career start and fourth big league appearance. Like so many other young pitchers in the A's organization, the top prospect has been on the fast track to the majors since Oakland drafted him in the first round at No. 18 overall in the 2011 amateur draft. Melvin asked Gray after the seventh how he felt, and the pitcher wanted to keep going. ''It was good for him to have the confidence in me to leave me AP photo Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Sonny Gray throws to the Houston Astros during the fourth inning Thursday in Oakland. out there,'' Gray said. It's a difficult call for a skipper, especially when dealing with a young pitcher. ''With any of our guys, when they're getting them out, they're going to stay in,'' A's pitching coach Curt Young said. ''We're never going to get crazy with the pitch count. We thought it was doable and he ended up finishing a great outing. He's just got nice composure in the two starts that he's had. Nothing seems to both- er him.'' Gray still had his best stuff in the late innings. He retired leadoff man Robbie Grossman on a called third strike in the eighth, and then left to a warm ovation from an announced crowd of 16,487 in his first home start at the Oakland Coliseum. Fans yelled, ''Come on, Sonny!'' Dan Otero finished the fivehitter for Oakland's 10th shutout. Houston never found any kind of groove against Gray. ''He got us to expand the zone,'' manager Bo Porter said. ''He pitched a tremendous game.'' Freiman added singles to his impressive day in the fifth and seventh innings. He is batting .315 (40 for 127) since May 1 after batting .148 in April. Oakland jumped on Erik Bedard (3-9) in a hurry. He dropped to 0-6 over eight starts since a win against St. Louis on June 26. For the A's, a sweep by the Astros would have been demoralizing. They already had lost two in a row to Houston each by one run, including in 11 innings Wednesday night. Oakland pulled within 1 1/2 games of idle first-place Texas in the AL West, avoiding falling three back for biggest deficit since May 31. After Chris Young beat out an infield single leading off the bottom of the first, Jed Lowrie hit an RBI double to stake Gray to a quick lead. Lowrie was the designated hitter rather than playing his usual shortstop spot as he nurses a sore lower right leg after being hit by a pitch Tuesday. Freiman doubled three batters later to make it 3-0. He faced Gray in the minors last season and predicted big things. ''It was awesome,'' Freiman said. ''We were all, 'This guy's good.' I'm not surprised.'' Bedard's day only got tougher. The lefty allowed five runs and seven hits in 4 2-3 innings. He is winless in his last three outings against the A's since a victory at Oakland for Seattle on May 27, 2009. Houston's Chris Carter hit a liner at ex-A's teammate and shortstop Eric Sogard in the seventh and the barrel of Carter's bat broke off, sailed through the air and struck Sogard in the left leg. He stayed in the game.