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2B – Daily News – Wednesday, April 13, 2011 A’s lose in 10 innings Athletics 5 Chi. WhiteSox 6, 10 inn CHICAGO (AP) — Alexei Ramirez hit his sec- ond homer of the game with two outs in the 10th inning to lift the Chicago White Sox to a 6-5 win over the Oakland Athletics on Tues- day night. Courtesy photo Horse Race Winners Joe and Candis Vasilj; third place team Tom and Melodi Byrne and runners-up Mike Loofbourrow and Lynne Beyers. SPRING (Continued from page 1B) Blocker, 135, 3, J.R. and Susan Brewer, 138; 4, Jim and Nancy Fortier, 141. Closest to the Pin Men Saturday 1st Flight: Bruce Nutter, 8’8”. 2nd Flight: Stan Kaber, 10’7”. 3rd Flight: Bob Fredricks, 13.25”. Sunday 2nd Flight: Ernie Bell, 24’2”. 3rd FlightKen Shroyer, 16”. 4th Flight – Bill Schmidt, 15’6”. Women Saturday 1st Flight: Tina Macdonald, 3’10.5”. 2nd Flight: Beth Pilger, 5’9”. 3rd Flight: Evelyn Conant, 6’0”. 4th Flight: Carol Breedlove, 33’7”. Sunday 1st Flight: Kimberly Wood, 15’9”. 3rd Flight: Minell Fredricks, 24’10.25”. 4th Flight: Susan Brewer, 12’10.5”. Long Drive Men Saturday 1st Flight: Steve Wood. 2nd Flight: Devan Leitem. 3rd Flight: Bob Delbo. 4th Flight: Tim Kuhn. Women Saturday 1st Flight:Kellie Froome. 2nd Flight: Sue Leitem. 3rd Flight: Judy Hodgkin. 4th Flight: Juanita Wierzbicki. Team Long Drive Sunday 1st Flight: -Barfuss and Connor. 2nd Flight: Devan and Sue Leitem. 3rd Flight: Ken and Rochelle Shroyer. 4th – Juanita and Bob Wierzbicki. Putting Contest Winners: Mac and Tina Macdonald. Kings finale feels like farewell Sacramento Kings SACRAMENTO (AP) — Some will cry. Others will protest. There will be signs of support and banners expressing anger. And in the end, no matter the score, everyone will say goodbye. time. Maybe for the last The deadline so many fans here have dreaded finally arrives Wednesday night when the Kings host the rival Los Angeles Lakers in what might be the final game in Sacramento. With the Kings mulling a move to Anaheim, "Fan Appreciation Night" suddenly feels like farewell. "It's going to be a basketball funeral," said Robert Crashner, a Kings season-ticket holder for almost a decade. "Unless a mira- cle happens, I guess it's going to be over." The outlook in Cali- fornia's capital city cer- tainly seems gloomy. Kings fans, most already talking about their team in the past tense, are still organiz- ing for what will surely be an exhausting regu- lar-season finale. Social-networking efforts have sprouted up and a sellout crowd is expected, with every- thing from a sit-in after- ward to a boycott beforehand among the possibilities planned. Signs reading "Save Our Kings" and bill- boards across town plastered "It's Not Over" have been the widespread themes thus far, and there will sure- ly be countless posters — maybe even a few cowbells — at the finale. For most, the Lakers game offers a chance to vent any feelings — frustration, anger, joy, whatever — one last time. "It's a Hail Mary pass, it's the bottom of the ninth, it's the 15th round, whatever sports analogy you want to use," said Carmichael Dave, a Sacramento sports-talk host who helped form the group "Here We Build," a grass roots initiative aimed at raising funds for a new arena. "We're going down with a fight." Hours after the final buzzer sounds, the NBA Board of Governors will begin meeting a conti- nent away in New York to start deciding Sacra- mento's basketball fate. Kings owners Joe and Gavin Maloof, who are not expected to attend the season finale, are scheduled to make a pitch to fellow owners to move the franchise to Anaheim next season, and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson — a for- mer NBA All-Star — also will attend the meeting to plead the city's case to keep the franchise. The Maloofs have until Monday to offi- cially file for permis- sion to relocate, and a vote would likely come within weeks of that request. All that's required is approval by a simple majority of the owners, and no NBA team has ever been denied permission to move in the 27 years under Commissioner David Stern. The only thing guar- anteed for Sacramento is 48 more minutes of professional basketball. "The not knowing part — it stinks," Kings forward Donte Greene said. "I don't know what I'm going to do if we leave. I know the fans are going to be hurt, and I feel for them." Only a few years ago this scenario wouldn't NHL PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) Today’s games Phoenix at Detroit, 4 p.m., VS Series tied 0-0 Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m. Series tied 0-0 N.Y.Rangers at Washington, 4:30 p.m., VS Series tied 0-0 Chicago at Vancouver, 7 p.m., VS Series tied 0-0 Nashville at Anaheim, 7:30 p.m. Series tied 0-0 have seemed possible. Sacramento was a thriving NBA franchise that produced sellout streaks of 497 and 354 straight games. The building formerly known as Arco Arena provided one of the most notorious home- court advantages in the league, a place where fans clanked cowbells so loud opposing coach- es and players pleaded to have the noisemakers banned. The Kings won an NBA-best 61 games in the 2001-02 season behind Chris Webber and Vlade Divac, losing to the eventual champi- on Lakers in the West- ern Conference finals at home in a decisive Game 7. "This was a special city when I was here," said Rick Adelman, the coach of those memo- rable Kings teams. "The fans were incredible. It would be sad to see them leave. It is hard for me to believe there won't be a team in Sacramento." Sacramento, with budget deficits and heavy job losses during the economic downturn, has turned down initia- tives for years to con- tribute public dollars to replace or upgrade the aging arena. The Kings have steadily declined, and so has fan interest. So the Maloofs began exploring other options. Anaheim's Honda Center in Orange Coun- MLS WESTERN CONFERENCE WL T Pts GF GA Salt Lake 3 0 0 9 7 1 Colorado 3 1 0 9 8 5 Galaxy 2 1 2 8 5 6 Vancouver 1 2 2 5 9 10 QUAKES 11 2 5 5 4 Seattle 1 2 2 5 5 6 FC Dallas 1 2 1 4 4 5 Chivas USA 0 2 2 2 3 5 Portland 0 2 1 1 2 6 EASTERN CONFERENCE WL T Pts GF GA Philadelphia 3 1 0 9 3 1 N. England 1 1 3 6 5 6 Houston 1 1 2 5 5 4 New York 1 1 2 5 2 2 Toronto FC 1 1 2 5 6 6 Columbus 1 1 2 5 3 3 Chicago 1 1 1 4 5 5 Kansas City 1 1 1 4 8 8 D.C. 1 2 1 4 6 8 ————————————————— Today’s games Los Angeles at Toronto FC, 5 p.m. Colorado at Real Salt Lake, 6 p.m. ty offers high-priced corporate sponsors the Central Valley can't match and an NBA- ready arena with more luxury suites and improved sightlines, perhaps outweighing the downside of com- peting with the Lakers and Los Angeles Clip- pers in the same market. Anaheim's City Council already has issued the bonds needed to entice the Kings to move, new federal trademark names — Anaheim Royals, among them — have been requested and about everything else to move the franchise is in motion. Still, some Kings fans hold out hope that maybe, just maybe, it will all fall apart. "When I walk out after the season finale, I have to believe it's not over," Crashner said. "If I didn't, it would be too sad to ever leave." MLB West Division Texas American League WL Pct GB Angels 5 5 .500 3.5 A’s 9 2 .818 — 56 .455 4 Seattle 3 7 .300 5.5 East Division WL Pct GB Baltimore 6 3 .667 — New York 5 4 .556 1 Toronto 5 5 .500 1.5 Tampa Bay 3 8 .273 4 Boston 2 9 .182 5 Central Division WL Pct GB Cleveland 8 2 .800 — Chicago 7 4 .636 1.5 Kansas City 6 4 .600 2 Minnesota 4 6 .400 4 Detroit Ramirez also hit a three- run shot in the second inning and scored a run after draw- ing a walk in the sixth. Chicago reliever Chris Sale (2-0) picked up the win with two shutout innings. Daric Barton had four hits and scored a run, and Kevin Kouzmanoff hit a two-run homer for Oakland. Hideki Matsui, who entered the game hitting .182, had three hits, including a dou- ble, and drove in two runs. Bobby Cramer (0-1) took the loss for Oakland. Adam Dunn made his return to the Chicago lineup after missing the last six games because of an emer- gency appendectomy April 6. He went 1 for 4 and drew a walk in five plate appear- ances. The A’s went ahead in the second inning when Mark Ellis lined a double to the wall in left-center, scor- ing Ryan Sweeney from first. Oakland righty Trevor Cahill was making his first start since agreeing to a new five-year contract on Mon- day. If Cahill was still cele- brating his new pact, the White Sox cut the party short, putting him on the rocks early. Cahill escaped the first inning without a run scoring despite allowing a single, a walk and throwing two wild pitches. He wasn’t as fortu- nate in the second. Ramirez hammered his second homer of the season on a hanging breaking pitch to put the White Sox up 3-1. Chicago added another run in the inning on Paul Kon- erko’s grounder, but Cahill settled down after that, retir- ing six batters in a row. He ran into more trouble in the fifth. Dunn hit a lead- off single before a two-out error by shortstop Andy LaRoche put two runners on with two outs. Cahill’s pitch count was up to 97 and the lefty-hitting Pierzynski was coming up, so Oakland manger Bob Geren summoned lefty Craig Breslow from the bullpen. Breslow got Pierzynski on a flyout to left to end the inning. Cahill threw 4 2-3 innings, allowing six hits, four runs, walking three and striking out three. Oakland manufactured a run in the third, capitalizing on Barton’s leadoff double MLB West Division National League WL Pct GB Colorado 7 2 .778 — Dodgers 6 4 .600 1.5 Arizona 4 5 .444 3 Padres 4 5 .444 3 GIANTS 46 .400 3.5 East Division WL Pct GB Philadelphia 7 3 .700 — Florida 5 5 .500 2 Washington 5 5 .500 2 Atlanta 5 6 .455 2.5 New York 4 6 .400 3 Central Division WL Pct GB Cincinnati 7 3 .700 — Milwaukee 5 5 .500 2 Pittsburgh 5 5 .500 2 Chicago 5 6 .455 2.5 St. Louis 4 6 .400 3 Houston 3 8 .273 4.5 ————————————————— Tuesday’s results 4 7 .364 4.5 ————————————————— Tuesday’s results Chicago 6, Oakland 5, 10 innings Detroit 5, Texas 4 Minnesota 4, Kansas City 3, 10 innings Tampa Bay 3, Boston 2 Cleveland at Los Angeles, late Toronto at Seattle, late Baltimore at New York, ppd., rain Today’s games Oakland (Anderson 0-1) at Chicago (Danks 0-1),11:10 a.m.,CSNC Texas (Bush 0-0) at Detroit (Scherzer 2-0), 10:05 p.m. Kansas City (Davies 0-1) at Minnesota (Liriano 0-2), 10:10 a.m., MLBN Toronto (Drabek 1-0) at Seattle (Vargas 0-1), 12:40 p.m. Baltimore (Tillman 0-0) at New York (A.J.Burnett 2-0), 4:05 p.m. Cleveland (C.Carrasco 1-1) at Los Angeles (E.Santana 0-1), 4:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Shields 0-1) at Boston (Lackey 1-1), 4:10 p.m. Thursday’s games Detroit at Oakland, 7:05 p.m. Minnesota at Tampa Bay, 3:40 p.m. Baltimore at N.Y.Yankees, 4:05 p.m. Seattle at Kansas City, 5:10 p.m. Monday’s late results Cleveland 4, Los Angeles 0 Seattle 8, Toronto 7 Los Angeles at San Francisco, Atlanta 5, Florida 0 Washington 7, Philadelphia 4 Houston 11, Chicago 2 St. Louis at Arizona, late Cincinnati at San Diego, late Colorado at New York, ppd., rain Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, ppd., rain Today’s games Los Angeles (Lilly 0-1) at San Francisco (J.Sanchez 0-1),7:15 p.m. Cincinnati (T.Wood 1-1) at San Diego (Stauffer 0-1), 3:35 p.m. Milwaukee (Marcum 1-1) at Pittsburgh (Correia 2-0), 4:05 p.m. Philadelphia (Halladay 1-0) at Washington (Lannan 1-0), 4:05 p.m., ESPN2 Colorado (Rogers 1-0) at New York (Niese 0-1), 4:10 p.m. Florida (Jo.Johnson 1-0) at Atlanta (T.Hudson 2-0), 4:10 p.m. Chicago (Zambrano 1-0) at Houston (W.Rodriguez 0-1), 5:05 p.m., WGN St. Louis (Westbrook 0-1) at Arizona (I.Kennedy 1-0), 6:40 p.m. Thursday’s games Colorado at New York, 9:10 a.m., 1st game Colorado at New York, 12:40 p.m., 2nd game Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m. Philadelphia at Washington, 4:05 p.m. Florida at Atlanta, 4:10 p.m. San Diego at Houston, 5:05 p.m. St. Louis at Los Angeles, 7:10 p.m. Monday’s late results Los Angeles 6, San Francisco 1 Cincinnati 3, San Diego 2 St. Louis 8, Arizona 2 Monday’s late results Oklahoma City 120, Sacramento 112 Phoenix 135, Minnesota 127, OT when Matsui brought him home on a groundout. Jackson was coming off a dominant performance in which he struck out a career- high 13 over eight innings in a win over Tampa Bay on April 7. Jackson couldn’t make it out of the fifth on Tuesday, costing him a chance at his third win in three starts even though he departed with the lead. Matsui drove in the Ath- letics’ third run, singling with two outs in the fifth to score Coco Crisp and cut the deficit to 4-3. Kurt Suzuki reached on a error on a grounder bobbled by Ramirez. That came on Jackson’s 100th pitch of the night, which turned out to be his last. Chicago manager Ozzie Guillen brought in reliever Will Ohman, who got Sweeney on a fielder’s choice to escape the threat with the lead intact. Jackson went 4 2-3 innings and allowed seven hits and three runs while walking two and striking out four. The Athletics took advantage of Chicago’s wobbling bullpen in the sixth. Ellis started with a sin- gle off Tony Pena and scored when Kouzmanoff launched a homer into left field, putting Oakland ahead by a run. The Athletics then loaded the bases against Pena, but the righty escaped the jam by striking out Suzuki. The White Sox evened the score in the sixth, turning Ramirez’s leadoff walk into a run on Juan Pierre’s solid single to left off Breslow. NOTES: SS Cliff Pennington was unavailable for the Athletics because of what Geren called ‘‘a little infection of his sweat gland.’’ Geren said his availability is day-to-day. ... Geren said Athletics reliever Michael Wuertz (hamstring) will likely throw a simulated game on Thursday, followed by a start in a minor-league rehab game on Saturday. ... White Sox OF Lastings Milledge cleared waivers on Tuesday and accepted an assignment to the club’s Triple-A affiliate in Charlotte. ... LaRoche’s throwing error in the fifth snapped Oakland’s streak of six-plus games without an error.The Athletics committed an Oakland-record nine errors in their first four games. NBA WESTERN CONFERENCE Pacific Division WL Pct GB y-Lakers 55 25 .688 — Phoenix 39 42 .481 16.5 WARRIORS 35 46 .432 20.5 Clippers 31 50 .383 24.5 KINGS 24 57 .296 31.5 Southwest Division WL Pct GB z-San Antonio61 19 .763 — x-Dallas 56 25 .691 5.5 x-Memphis 46 34 .575 15 x-N. Orleans 46 35 .568 15.5 Houston 42 39 .519 19.5 Northwest Division WL Pct GB y-Okla. City 55 26 .679 — x-Denver 50 31 .617 5 x-Portland 47 33 .588 7.5 Utah 38 43 .469 17 Minnesota 17 64 .210 38 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division WL Pct GB y-Boston 55 26 .679 — x-New York 42 39 .519 13 x-Philadelphia 41 40 .506 14 New Jersey 24 57 .296 31 Toronto 22 59 .272 33 Southeast Division WL Pct GB y-Miami 57 24 .704 — x-Orlando 51 30 .630 6 x-Atlanta 44 37 .543 13 Charlotte 33 48 .407 24 Washington 23 58 .284 34 Central Division WL Pct GB z-Chicago 61 20 .753 — x-Indiana 37 44 .457 24 Milwaukee 34 47 .420 27 Detroit 29 52 .358 32 Cleveland 18 63 .222 43 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference ————————————————— Tuesday’s results Chicago 103, New York 90 Memphis at Portland, late San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, late Today’s games Lakers at Sacramento,7:30 p.m.,CSNC Portland at Golden State,7:30 p.m.,CSNB Atlanta at Charlotte, 5 p.m. Denver at Utah, 5 p.m. Detroit at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Houston at Minnesota, 5 p.m. Indiana at Orlando, 5 p.m. Miami at Toronto, 5 p.m. Milwaukee at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m. New Jersey at Chicago, 5 p.m. New Orleans at Dallas, 5 p.m., ESPN New York at Boston, 5 p.m. Washington at Cleveland, 5 p.m. Memphis at L.A.Clippers, 7:30 p.m., ESPN San Antonio at Phoenix, 7:30 p.m.