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Thursday MLB— Rangers at Tigers, 10 a.m., MLBN MLB—Yankees at White Sox, 5 p.m., WGN MLB—Phillies at Giants, 7 p.m., CSNB PGA— Bridgestone Invitational, 11 a.m., TGC PGA—Reno-Tahoe Open, 3:30 p.m., TGC Sports 1B Season’s last splash Wednesday: Corning Manta Rays • Today: Red Bluff Tritons • Friday: SOAR Thursday August 4, 2011 Meet your All-Stars... 17. michael chapman LF Bats: Right Throws: Right Age: 12 Family: Greg and Lorie School: 8th grader at Berrendos Favorite MLB Player: N/A Ambition: N/A Hobbies: baseball Scouting Report: has to be busy at all times...can’t sit still Giants end skid SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Orlando Cabrera had become a bit concerned as San Francisco’s skid hit five games while its offense sputtered. Then, Cabrera started clicking with his new club and, Courtesy photo The Red Bluff Tritons showed team unity by dressing as pirates and mermaids. SWIMMING The North Valley Aquatic League Championships held at Shasta College was the home of the pirate sporting Red Bluff Triton swim team last weekend. The 100 degree weather was the setting for personal records, big smiles and the final swim for the seasonal swimmers. The Tritons showed their spirit by theming themselves as pirates and mermaids and out of 13 teams they were proud to walk away with the third place trophy. Red Bluff’s coaching staff Asa and Sam Robinson and Maria Humphrey said they were over- whelmed with the determination and personal records that took place on the water. Top 5 overall places were earned by Kristina Tobin, Addison Snod- grass, Ethan Williams, Jace Shults, Claire Tobin, Sevee Johnson, Mitchell Sauve, Jordan Johnson, Curtis Twitchell and Greg Wilson. Samara Robinson placed third in the 100 and 200 freestyles and Quinn Rosser placed 17th in the 50 backstroke. In the girls and boys 6-and-under division Kristina Tobin and Jace Shults swam their first legal 25 flys and Joslyn Shults placed 12th in the 25 backstroke. Claire Miller placed 12th in the 50 backstroke and smiled at com- pleting all eight events without being disqualified. Mahlon Owens swam her first 500 in 8:31 and with a big smile accepted 25th place out of a very large group of athletes. A and AA times were met by Sevee Johnson, Jordan Johnson and Curtis Twitchell. Out of the 630 athletes and 3,947 entries the Red Bluff Tritons walked away with their heads held high, but there was a bit of sadness in the air with the thought of two very special people ending their 14-year involve- ment with the Red Bluff Tritons. Stroke and Turn officials Bruce and Jodi Wilson are sending their son Greg to college and with that will not be wearing their blue and whites next year by the pool. Their daughter and Tritons coach Sam Robinson began swimming at suddenly, so did the rest of the Giants. And Ryan Vogel- song? He was his typical reliable self on the mound when it mattered. Vogelsong won his career-best sixth straight decision, Cabrera hit a two-run double and drove in three runs, and the Giants remained atop the NL West with an 8-1 victory against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday. ‘‘Man, finally. I was starting to worry,’’ said Cabrera, who joined his ninth team since 2004 in a trade from Cleveland last week. ‘‘I’d like to believe if you win the World Series you have to hit at some point. It’s basically the same team.’’ Vogelsong (9-1), the bright spot in a standout rotation this year, helped the Giants snap a five-game losing streak in which they were outscored 31-8, including a 9-0 loss Sunday at Cincinnati, and had their division lead trimmed by four games in as many days. Carlos Beltran tripled among his three hits, scored twice and drove in a run in his best game since joining the Giants in a trade from the New York Mets last Thursday. San Francisco scored its most runs in a home game so far in 2011. Beltran and Pablo Sandoval each hit RBI singles in a Courtesy photo Claire Miller in the 50-yard fly event. age five which began their career as the backbone of the Red Bluff Tri- ton Swim Team. “They are our go to people when we have concerns and problems” said Humphrey. “I can’t imagine the team without them”. Jodi Wilson recalled her fondest memories of watching children learn sportsmanship, experiencing families coming together and enjoy- ing the wholesome family environ- ment that swimming provides. As tears welled up in her eyes she felt the realism of not spending her summers with the kids, families, and water. The Wilsons have been an instru- mental part of what the Red Bluff Tritons are today, and the parents and swimmers will miss them. The following Tritons set person- al records at the meet: Jasmine Atencio: 50 fly (third place) and 200 freestyle (fifth place) Dante Beeman: 100 freestyle Samantha Beeman: 200 freestyle (ninth place) Richard Cain: 200 freestyle Chloe Casey: 50 breast (seventh place) Zoe Casey: 200 IM Kris Horn: 100 freestyle Trey Hughes: 50 freestyle (eighth place) Jaden Humphrey: 100 freestyle Kaylee Humphrey: 200 freestyle Isaac Jackson: 100 freestyle Joshua Jackson: 500 freestyle (fourth place) SEATTLE (AP) — Newly acquired Charlie Furbush retired the first 13 batters in five strong innings and the Seattle Mariners swept past the Oakland Ath- letics 7-4 on Wednesday. Furbush (2-3), acquired Saturday in a four-player deal with Detroit, kept the damage minimal within his pitch-count framework. He had a perfect game through 4 1-3 innings before Conor Jackson ended it with a fifth- inning double off the left- field wall that was inches away from being a home run and needed a video review. Furbush matched his longest career outing and allowed one run and two hits with three strikeouts and no walks. It was his second big- league win, his first as a starter. Brandon League got the last two outs for his 26th save. Josh Bard had the biggest of the Mariners 14 hits, a 2-run single in the fourth off Gio Gonzalez (9- 9), who is 1-4 with a 6.26 ERA in his last five starts. It was the third series sweep for the Mariners this season, the first since taking three from San Diego May 20-22. It also was their first sweep over Oakland since Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2009. Trail- ing 7-1, the A’s rallied with Micah Jackson: 50 freestyle (11th place) Jordan Johnson: 200 freestyle (first place) Sevee Johnson: 100 freestyle (first place) Blake Jones: 50 backstroke (fifth place) place) Broc Jones: 100 IM (eighth Hanna Lang: 50 freestyle Kiya Lile: 50 freestyle Emmie Louisell: 100 fly Claire Miller: 50 backstroke (12th place) Abby O’Sullivan: 100 IM Sosanna O’Sullivan: 50 freestyle Mahlon Owens: 50 fly Haley Rosser: 100 backstroke (ninth place) Mitchell Suave: 50 breast (sec- ond place) Nicole Suave: 200 IM (ninth place) Ted Sheppard: 50 freestyle Jace Shults: 25 breast (first place) Addison Snodgrass: 25 freestyle (sixth place) Megan Snodgrass: 200 freestyle Claire Tobin: 100 freestyle (fourth place) Katelyn Tobin: 200 freestlye Kristina Tobin: 50 freestyle (sec- ond place) Curtis Twitchell: 50 freestyle (first place) Hunter Wilhite: 50 freestyle Tanner Wilhite: 50 freestyle Ethan Williams: 25 backstroke (third place) Mariners’ newcomer tops Athletics Josh Willingham’s 3-run home run off Jeff Gray. Dan Cortes came in to get one out, but walked Scott Sizemore and League came in to get Adam Ros- ales on a pop up and Ryan Sweeney to ground out. Ichiro Suzuki had three singles, giving him 274 career hits against Oakland, second most ever by an opponent. He trails only Rod Carew (282). Suzuki is a .333 career hitter against the A’s. Casper Wells, who came along with Furbush from the Tigers, had a pair of hits and two RBI. Mike Carp had three hits and a pair of RBI. He’s now hitting .367 with six extra-base hits and 14 RBI in 14 games since being recalled on July 19. It was scoreless until Bard lashed his RBI single to center. The line shot bare- ly averted Gonzalez’ glove wave. He punched the air after missing it. The Mariners added a couple more in the fifth on an RBI groundout by Carp and Wells’ single to score Dustin Ackley. Wells added a RBI single in the seventh and Carp drove in the final run in the eighth with a RBI single. A’s DH Hideki Matsui had a single in the ninth to extend his hitting streak to 12 games. four-run third against Jason Marquis (8-6), who lost his Arizona debut four days after being acquired in a trade with Washington. The Giants scored four more runs in the fifth. ‘‘We had two big innings. That’s great for us,’’ manag- er Bruce Bochy said. ‘‘It’s been a while since we’ve had innings like that. ... This game was probably our biggest game to date of the season, with the losing streak. We had to stop the bleeding.’’ Marquis tossed a five-hit shutout of San Francisco on April 29, but this was Vogelsong’s day all the way. The right-hander allowed one run on five hits, struck out seven and walked three in six innings to lower his NL-best ERA to 2.19. He also owns the lowest home ERA in the majors (1.30) and his run of 10 straight starts at AT&T Park giving up two or fewer runs is the longest such stretch by a Giants starter since Scott Garrelts did it in 12 consecutive outings from June 11, 1986, to July 16, 1989. Vogelsong has been the Giants’ most reliable starter and hasn’t lost since May 26 against Florida. He extended his career high for victories Wednesday with a 108-pitch per- formance in which he withstood deep counts for much of the afternoon. Not bad for a guy who just keeps improving after showing up at spring training as a non-roster invitee, getting promoted in mid-April, then becoming an improb- able All-Star at age 33. ‘‘I think it’s a little too early to be pushing the panic but- ton,’’ Vogelsong said. ‘‘Obviously I knew we’d lost five in a row and we needed to win.’’ After Zach Duke’s seventh-inning RBI single got Ari- zona on the board and chased Vogelsong, Guillermo Mota entered and struck out the side in both the seventh and eighth for a career high-tying six Ks. Aubrey Huff’s single in the fifth was the fourth straight hit to start the inning off Marquis, who left after giving up 10 hits and a season-high seven earned runs. Cody Ross had a two-run double moments later to spoil Brad Ziegler’s first outing with Arizona since a trade from Oakland on Sunday. Bochy shook up his lineup in an effort to get things going, and it worked wonders. Andres Torres returned to the leadoff spot and center field. Beltran, slated to be the regular No. 3 hitter, batted cleanup and Sandoval moved up a spot to third. Ross drew two walks and drove in three runs in the No. 7 hole. ‘‘We have good hitters in our lineup,’’ Beltran said. ‘‘Sometimes we get caught up in trying to do too much. It happens to every team.’’ The Giants were outscored 11-3 in first two games of the series as Arizona moved into a tie for first in the West heading into the finale, but they denied the D-backs the chance to move into sole possession of first place for the first time since a four-day stretch atop the standings that ended June 25. ‘‘In the grand scheme of things, we got a lot accom- plished on the road trip,’’ D-backs center fielder Chris Young said. ‘‘We played good baseball and got a lot closer in the race. We just need to keep pushing forward from there.’’ San Francisco’s losing streak matched its longest this season. Giants starters were 0-4 with a 6.51 ERA during the skid, making Vogelsong’s outing all the more impor- tant. Sandoval put the Giants — who had gone 12 straight games without scoring more than four runs — ahead in the third with an RBI single and Beltran followed with one of his own during as sequence of four straight base hits and an RBI groundout by Cabrera off Marquis. D-backs slugger Justin Upton struck out three times and had his 14-game hitting streak snapped. “Mikee” Arizona 1 Giants 8 Athletics 4 Seattle 7