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Tuesday NBAFinals — Game 1, Mavericks at Heat, 6 p.m., ABC MLB —Giants at Cardinals, 4 p.m., CSNB MLB— Yankees at Athletics, 7 p.m., CSNC French Open — Quarterfinals, 9 a.m., ESPN2 Sports 1B BASKETBALL noon • June 20-24 Girls-Boys 7th and 8th grades, 12:15 to 3:15 p.m. • June 27-July 1 Girls 9th through 12th grades 9 a.m. to noon • June 27-July 1 Boys 9th through 12th grades, 12:15 to 3:15 p.m. Camps for first and second graders are $50. All other camps are $75. Cost is $50 for 1st and 2nd graders $75 for 3rd-12th grade For more information or a brochure, contact Angie at 514-2712. BASKETBALL The Spartans Basketball Camp returns June 13-17 at Red Bluff High School. Instruction is led by current high school coaches. The cost of the camp is $50 and flyers are available at most school’s main offices as well as the Red Bluff High School Student Store. Campers must be registered by the first day of camp. Boys and girls entering fourth through six grades will play at the Red Bluff Field House from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Boys entering seventh through ninth grade will meet at the Field House from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Girls entering seventh through ninth grade will meet in the gymnasium from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. MCT photo Andres Torres is congratulated following his grand slam home run, Monday against St. Louis. ST. LOUIS (AP) — Andres Torres was so excited about his first career grand slam, he nearly passed Madison Bumgarner on the way to second base. Bumgarner stuck out an arm for the stop sign and Torres applied the brakes in time, giving the National League’s worst offense a big boost in the San Francisco Giants’ 7-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday. ‘‘I wasn’t thinking, just running,’’ Torres said. ‘‘When I saw it was out I felt great.’’ Bumgarner won his second straight after losing his first six decisions and also played a big role at the plate in 90- degree heat with high humidity. The 21-year-old left-hander is from Hicko- ry, N.C. ‘‘This feels like home, it’s what I grew up playing in,’’ Bumgarner said. ‘‘I like this weather, it feels good to get out there and sweat a little bit.’’ Kyle McClellan (6-2) was knocked out after four innings in the worst out- ing of his first season in the Cardinals’ rotation, missing a chance to tie for the major league victory lead. Albert Pujols hit his ninth homer and Allen Craig doubled twice with an RBI. Cody Ross also homered for the Giants, who are last in the National League in runs even after this outburst and had been shut out twice the previ- ous four games. Bumgarner, 4 for 19 at the plate, doubled and scored on Miguel Tejada’s hit in the third, then walked on a full count ahead of Torres’ second homer of the season in a five- run fourth. ‘‘Walking the pitcher there killed me,’’ McClellan said. ‘‘I get him out, that changes everything. Just all in all, not a good game.’’ Bumgarner (2-6) scattered six hits in seven innings and struggled only in the third when he gave up three straight hits and both runs. It’s his seventh straight outing of six or more innings with three or fewer runs allowed, with a 2.12 ERA during that stretch. ‘‘He’s pitched well enough to have a much better record. He knows it,’’ manager Bruce Bochy said. ‘‘For a young kid he’s got great poise, he does- n’t get caught up in the elements.’’ Torres, the Giants’ leadoff man, doubled his season RBI total when he drove an 0-1 pitch over the right field wall in the fourth and also doubled. San Francisco won easily despite going 1 for 18 after the grand slam and leaving the bases loaded in the fifth after three straight walks from Miguel Batista. Torres matched his career high for RBIs with what he believed to be his first grand slam since winter ball in Puerto Rico in 2004 or 2005. Matt Holliday singled in four trips after missing six starts with a quadri- ceps injury and is hitting .344, tied for the National League lead with team- mate Lance Berkman, who was 0 for 4. The Cardinals dropped to 9-2 in starts by McClellan, who has yielded a team-high nine homers. McClellan was behind in the count to eight of the first 10 hitters and both of his walks came in the Giants’ five-run fourth that made it 7-2. Manager Tony La Russa said McClellan tweaked his hip in the first inning. McClellan initially said he had not been injured, but later said he had landed awkwardly. ‘‘It raised some concern,’’ McClel- lan said. ‘‘There’s nothing wrong.’’ Aaron Rowand bruised his right hip when he landed on the ball diving into second base on a pickoff attempt in the fifth and was taken out in the bottom of the inning. The team said he was day to day. Pujols hit his 99th career homer at 6-year-old Busch Stadium — and first at home since April 23 — off Ramon Ramirez in the eighth and had an RBI single in the third for his second multi- RBI game in the last four. Only seven players have 100 or more homers in their current stadium. ‘‘He crushed the ball on the home run,’’ La Russa said. ‘‘He’s hit the ball a lot better than his average.’’ Athletics bats silent against Colon OAKLAND (AP) — The way Bartolo Colon was dealing, the Oakland Athlet- ics had little chance over- coming the first-inning hole starter Trevor Cahill created. Cahill allowed a homer to Mark Teixeira in a three- run first inning and the A’s managed just four baserun- ners against Colon as they fell to the New York Yan- kees for the eighth straight time, 5-0 on Monday. ‘‘I made a bad pitch and he made me pay for it,’’ Cahill said. ‘‘Other than that, in a game like this against a team like that, you make a couple mistakes and that’s all it takes.’’ Colon (3-3) made sure that was the case. He pitched a four-hitter and walked none to snap a five-start win- less stretch with his first shutout since blanking Seat- tle 4-0 on July 5, 2006, with the Angels. ‘‘That was really a pretty solid performance by Barto- lo Colon,’’ A’s manager Bob Geren said. ‘‘That was the best I’ve seen him in a long, long time.’’ The offensively chal- lenged A’s were shut out for the sixth time this year as they had their season-long four-game winning streak snapped. Oakland has now lost 22 of 26 games against the Yan- kees since the start of the 2008 season. ‘‘Today was just one of those days where we got beat,’’ second baseman Mark Ellis said. ‘‘They threw it better than us, they hit better than us and they caught better than us. All I can say is we have two more games in this series.’’ Robinson Cano added an RBI double in the three-run first against Cahill (6-3) and Derek Jeter recorded his 2,981st career hit and drove in a run for the Yankees. This was the latest step in a remarkable comeback sea- son for the 38-year-old Colon, who was out of base- ball a year ago and was brought by the Yankees to spring training on a minor league deal. Colon earned a spot in the rotation early this season and has maintained it with a 3.26 ERA in the opening two months of the year. ‘‘He’s really exceeding our expectations,’’ Teixeira said. ‘‘He’s been huge for us. If we didn’t have him in our rotation, we’d be scram- bling right now.’’ The Yankees have now won back-to-back games behind strong starts from Colon and CC Sabathia after losing the first two games of their nine-game West Coast trip. Cahill was shelled in two starts against the Yankees last year, allowing 14 runs in 10 innings in two losses. He started this game much the same way with a three-run first inning. Jeter got it started with a leadoff single and scored with one out on Teixeira’s 16th home run and seventh in the past 11 games. Alex Rodriguez then walked and scored on Robinson Cano’s double. Cano was caught on the play rounding too far past second and Cahill set- tled down after that. He retired Jorge Posada to get out of the first and then gave up just one hit and no runs over the next five innings. The Yankees then added an insurance run in the sev- enth. Brent Gardner and Francisco Cervelli walked and pulled off a double steal. Gardner then scored on Jeter’s shallow fly to center field when Coco Crisp’s throw home was far off tar- get. Cahill allowed four runs, four hits and five walks in 6 2-3 innings and is win- less in his last four starts. That proved to be more than enough the way Colon was dealing against Oak- land’s struggling offense, which has the third fewest runs in the majors. After allowing a leadoff double to Josh Willingham in the second inning, Colon retired the next 12 hitters. Kevin Kouzmanoff broke that streak with a leadoff sin- gle in the sixth. Kurt Suzuki reached on an infield hit in the eighth before being erased by a double play. Colon then pitched around Cliff Pen- nington’s leadoff double in the ninth to finish his ninth career shutout. He hit 95 mph on the radar gun on the final of his 103 pitches, get- ting David DeJesus to fly out to left to end the game. ‘‘It just showed you how on he was today with his location,’’ manager Joe Girardi said. ‘‘We’ve seen it before when his location is as good as it was today it’s tough to score runs.’’ ST. LOUIS (AP) — Former major league catch- er Mike Matheny, whose career was ended by con- cussions, said the hit that knocked out the Giants’ Buster Posey for the rest of the season could have easily been avoided. ‘‘You know what, it wasn’t a dirty play, he did- n’t come high spikes, he didn’t come high elbow,’’ Matheny said Monday. ‘‘But it wasn’t a necessary play. He was hunting. Buster gave him an option and he didn’t take it.’’ Matheny, 40, finished his career with San Fran- cisco in 2007 and is a minor league instructor with St. Louis, where he played from 2000-04. He said that Florida’s Scott Cousins went out of his way to take out Posey in a play at the plate last week. Matheny, who won four Gold Gloves, isn’t in favor of rules changes to protect catchers and believes hard contact plays at the plate are just part of the game. But he said Cousins had an opening to slide while Posey was defenseless while awaiting a throw and instead hit him in the opposite shoulder. ‘‘I don’t think you legislate,’’ Matheny said. ‘‘I think you just put a mark in the column that that kid took a run at a catcher. To me as a catcher I know the next time I get the ball I’m going to stick it to him. ‘‘You make those notes as a catcher.’’ Matheny said he made it to the major leagues by being tough-minded and showing pitchers he was willing to take hits. ‘‘It turned into their confidence in me which turned into them asking for me to catch them, which gave me an opportunity to play,’’ Matheny aid. Matheny last played in 2006, missing the final four months of that season after taking several foul tips off his mask, and retired in 2007 after doctors warned him that he was susceptible to more dam- age if he received another blow. He said for the most part he’s been symptom-free for 18 months, although if he overdoes an activity he might expe- rience mild symptoms for a few days. ‘‘Just a little reminder,’’ Matheny said. ‘‘Don’t forget that something happened.’’ Girls entering 10th through 12th grade will play in the gym from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Boys entering 10th through 12th grade will camp in the field house from noon to 2 p.m. For more information call Stan Twitchell at Red Bluff High School at 529-8710. SOCCER Red Bluff Youth Soccer League has teamed up with Challenger Sports to host a week long "British Soccer Camp" during the week of June 20-24. The camp will run Monday through Friday and each child will be coached by a member of Chal- lenger's team of British soccer coaches flown to the USA exclusively to work with these programs. In addition to taking part i a daily regimen of foot skills, technical, tactical practices and daily tournament play, Challenger has partnered with NAIA to help educate players in lessons on respect, responsibility, integrity, leadership and sportsman- ship. Camps are being offered for ages 3-5 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. for $83 and for ages 6-14 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. for $102. Campers receive a free t-shirt, soccer ball, giant soccer poster and a personalized skills perfor- mance evaluation. Visit challengersports.com or contact Nigel Mist at 528-2473 or nigelmist@clearwire.net for more information. Matheny critical of Cousins’ hit on Posey Tuesday May 31, 2011 Torres slam lifts Giants Summer Camps Dates have been set for this summer's Angie Weir Miller Fundamental Basketball Camps. The camps will take place at Lassen View School. • June 13-17 Girls-Boys 1st and 2nd grades, 9 a.m. to noon • June 13-17 Girls-Boys 3rd and 4th grades, 12:15 to 3:15 p.m. • June 20-24 Girls-Boys 5th and 6th grades, 9 a.m. to San Francisco Giants Giants 7 St. Louis 3 N.Y. Yankees 5 Athletics 0