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ByJerryMcDonald BayAreaNewsGroup OXNARD TheRaidersendedthe training camp portion of their preseason Wednesday, getting out of a 2-hour and 10-minute joint session with the Dallas Cow- boys in relative good health and a sense of confidence about the direction they're headed with the scene shifting to the club facility in Alameda. With 15 days of practice ses- sions, 12 of them in pads, there has been only one serious injury. Tight end Nick Kasa, injured in Tuesday's practice, has what coach Dennis Allen believes is an ACL tear, which would end his season. There were a few more scuf- fles during the Wednesday sessions, but Allen and gen- eral manager Reggie McKen- zie thought the Raiders got enough out of it to do it again next year. The joint sessions helped break the monotony of working against teammates every day. RAIDERS Oakland offense looking good By Ronald Blum The Associated Press BALTIMORE The three candi- dates in Major League Baseball's first contested election for a new commissioner in 46 years made presentations to the 30 teams Wednesday, a day ahead of the vote. MLB Chief Operating Officer Rob Manfred, Boston Red Sox Chairman Tom Werner and MLB Executive Vice President of Busi- ness Tim Brosnan addressed team executives at a hotel a few blocks from Camden Yards in attempts to gain the 23 votes needed to re- place Bud Selig in January. They spoke for about an hour apiece, including PowerPoint pre- sentations, and the owners at- tended an evening reception at the B&O Warehouse behind the ballpark's right-field wall. The executives will split into three groups of 10 for question-and-an- swer sessions Thursday before the MLB Commissioner candidates make pitches ahead of vote IsraelandHamasagreedto extend a temporary cease- fire for five days, Egyptian and Palestinian officials said Wednesday, potentially avert- ing renewed violence and per- mitting the sides to negotiate. MIDEAST CONFLICT Israel,Hamasagreeto extend cease-fire FULLSTORYONPAGEB4 The Red Bluff Lady Spartans golf team will hold tryouts 3:45p.m. Aug. 19at Wilcox Oaks Golf Club. A completed clearance slip available from the student score is required to tryout. GOLF Lady Spartans to hold tryouts Aug. 19 Those interested in run- ning, racing or just getting in shape are invited to join the Red Bluff boys and girls cross country team. Visit Room 95 at the school to signup. Prac- tices are at 3:30p.m. CROSS COUNTRY Red Bluff Spartans season underway Get your puzzles fix with the NEA Crossword, 7Little Words and Celebrity Cipher, start your day off right with your horoscope, and read the latest advice dolled out by Carolyn Hax. YOUR DAILY BREAK Fun and games inside today SEE PAGE B3 JEFF CHIU — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Giants second baseman Joe Panik scores past Chicago White Sox catcher Tyler Flowers on Angel Pagan's single during the seventh inning in San Francisco on Wednesday. By Alex Pavlovic Bay Area News Group SAN FRANCISCO Gregor Blanco was thrown out at the plate, and it wasn't particularly close. He squinted as he looked back at a scoreboard that had the Giants still down by a run. It felt like an- other one of those disappointing days the Giants have had so many of this summer. And then a teammate got Blan- co's attention. "I heard that he might have been blocking the plate," Blanco said of White Sox catcher Tyler Flowers. Welcome to baseball in 2014. Replay confirmed the suspicion, awarding Blanco the first of seven runs the Giants would score in a strange and decisive inning in a 7-1 win over the Chicago White Sox. No manager pushed harder for changes to home-plate colli- sion rules than Bruce Bochy, and while this wasn't how he or MLB drew it up, he wasn't going to apol- ogize, either. "It's a rule. I know this rule has created a lot of controversy, and they've talked about reviewing this at the end of the season and maybe tweaking it, but it is a rule," Bochy said. "You can't block the plate without the ball. It is what it is. We'll take it." Down the hallway at AT&T Park, White Sox manager Robin Ventura had a different reaction. "You look at the spirit of the rule of what they're trying to do and what it's actually doing, and it's a joke," said Ventura, who was ejected for arguing and kicking dirt on the plate after a review that lasted nearly five minutes. "We ob- viously disagreed with it, and we got hosed today." The play came with one out and runners on the corners in the sev- enth inning. The Giants, losers of five straight, trailed 1-0 on an Adam Dunn blast into McCovey Cove. Joe Panik hit a broken-bat grounder to first baseman Jose Abreu, who made a strong throw home. Flowers had set up with his INTERLEAGUE Giants win review, game against Sox Replay decision at home leads to controversy, 7-run seventh for SF By Carl Steward Bay Area News Group KANSAS CITY, MO. Jason Vargas pitched a three-hit- ter, retiring the final 23 bat- ters he faced, as the Kan- sas City Royals beat the A's 3-0 on Wednesday night at Kauffman Stadium. One night after collecting 20 hits against Royals pitch- ing,Oaklandwascompletely stifled by the left-handed Vargas (9-5), who didn't walk a batter and struck out four. He threw just 97 pitches in the 2 hour, 6 min- ute game. The A's Scott Kazmir (13- 5)gaveupjustsevenhitsover seven innings and pitched well, but he surrendered a two-run homer to Omar In- fante in the third after Nori Aoki had preceded him with a one-out single. The Royals scratched out a run in the fifth on Salvador Perez's sac- rifice fly, and that was more thanenoughtodointheOak- land left-hander, whowalked just one and struck out three. The A's looked like they mightpickupwheretheyleft off from the previous night when Josh Donaldson hit a two-out double and Jonny Gomes followed with an in- feld single in the first inning. But with runners at first and third, Derek Norris struck out, and little did Oakland know it wouldn't get a bet- ter scoring chance. Jed Lowrie opened the second inning with a sin- gle but was erased on a Nate Freiman double play, and the A's wouldn't get an- other base runner the rest of the night. AMERICAN LEAGUE JasonVargas,Kansas CityRoyalsstymieA's Top: Kansas City Royals' Christian Colon crosses the plate past Oakland Athletics catcher Derek Norris to score on a sacrifice fly by Salvador Perez during the fi h inning of a baseball game on Wednesday in Kansas City, Mo. Le : Oakland Athletics third baseman Josh Donaldson (20) takes the throw as Kansas City Royals' Josh Willingham (7) advances to third on a throwing error to second by starting pitcher Scott Kazmir during the fourth inning of a baseball game on Wednesday in Kansas City, Mo. PHOTOS BY CHARLIE RIEDEL — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RAIDERS PAGE 2 BASEBALL PAGE 2 GIANTS PAGE 2 SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Thursday, August 14, 2014 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1