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Tehama Tracker Friday's results MLB Giants Houston DeRosa: 1-2, 2B, walk Stewart: 1-2, walk Saturday's games FOOTBALL Los Molinos Scrimmage 9 a.m. VOLLEYBALL Durham Jamboree Corning 9 a.m. CROSS COUNTRY Olive Festival Fun Run MLB Giants Houston SF — (Bumgarner 7-11) HOU — (Lyles 1-7) Toronto Athletics 6:05 p.m. CSNC TOR — (H.Alvarez 0-0) OAK — (G.Gonzalez 9-11) NFL Preseason Raiders 49ers 5 p.m. FOX-30 Sunday's games MLB Giants Houston SF — (Undecided) HOU — (Sosa 0-2) Toronto Athletics TOR — (L.Perez 2-2) OAK — (Moscoso 6-6) On the tube SATURDAY AUTO RACING • 9:30 a.m., SPEED — NASCAR, Truck Series, VFW 200 • 11:30 a.m., ESPN — NASCAR, Nationwide Series, NAPA Auto Parts 200 GOLF • 10 a.m., TGC — PGA Tour, Wynd- ham Championship, third round • Noon, CBS — PGA Tour, Wyndham Championship, third round GYMNASTICS •5 p.m., NBC — Visa Champi- onships, at St. Paul, Minn. HORSE RACING •2 p.m., NBC — NTRA, Alabama Stakes, at Saratoga Springs, N.Y. LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL •8 a.m., ESPN2 — Junior League, World Series, championship game •9 a.m., ESPN — World Series, elim- ination game • Noon, ABC — World Series, elimi- nation game •3 p.m., ESPN — World Series, elim- ination game, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia- Langley, British Columbia loser vs. Rotterdam, Netherlands-Maracay, Venezuela loser, at South Williamsport, Pa. •5 p.m., ESPN — World Series, elim- ination game LITTLE LEAGUE SOFTBALL •2 p.m., ESPN2 — Junior League, World Series, championship game MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL •1 p.m., FOX — Regional coverage, St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee at N.Y. Mets, or Cincinnati at Pitts- burgh •4 p.m., MLB — Regional coverage, Arizona at Atlanta or N.Y. Yankees at Minnesota •4 p.m., WGN — Texas at Chicago White Sox TENNIS • 10 a.m., ESPN2 — ATP World Tour, Western & Southern Open, semifi- nals, at Mason, Ohio •4 p.m., ESPN2 — WTA, Western & Southern Open, semifinals, at Mason, Ohio SUNDAY AUTO RACING • 10 a.m., ESPN — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Pure Michigan 400 GOLF ª 10 a.m., TGC — PGA Tour, Wynd- ham Championship, final round • Noon, CBS — PGA Tour, Wyndham Championship, final round LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL •9 a.m., ESPN2 — World Series, opening round • 11 a.m., ABC — World Series, opening round •3 p.m., ESPN2 — World Series, opening round •5 p.m., ESPN2 — World Series, opening round MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL • 11 a.m., TBS — N.Y. Yankees at Minnesota •5 p.m., ESPN — St. Louis at Chica- go Cubs NFL FOOTBALL •5 p.m., NBC — Preseason, San Diego at Dallas SOFTBALL • 11 a.m., ESPN2 — National Pro Fastpitch, playoffs, championship series, game 2 TENNIS • 9:30 a.m., CBS — ATP World Tour, Western & Southern Open, champi- onship match, at Mason, Ohio •1 p.m., ESPN2 — WTA, Western & Southern Open, championship match, at Mason, Ohio 1:05 p.m. CSNC 11:05 a.m. CSNB 4:05 p.m. CSNB 7:30 a.m. NAPA (AP) — Before he trans- formed Stanford from a laughing- stock into a powerhouse and achieved his goal of being an NFL head coach tasked with rebuilding the floundering San Francisco 49ers, Jim Harbaugh got his full-time coaching career started across the bay in Oakland. Fresh off the end of a 15-year career as an NFL quarterback, Har- baugh joined the Oakland Raiders in 2002 near the lowest rung of the coaching ladder as an offensive assistant on a team that went on to win the AFC championship. Despite the long days and little pay, Harbaugh took plenty out of his two years on Bill Callahan's staff with the Raiders where he became a favorite of owner Al Davis. He learned how to coach. ''I'd never coached before full time, so how to be a coach, how to be detailed, so many things, sitting in on personnel meetings from the best, Mr. Davis, and Bill Callahan, tremendous football coach, and exposed to great players like Rich Gannon,'' Harbaugh said. ''So many things, a thousand things really that I learned over there.'' Harbaugh will get to show the Raiders some of what he learned on Saturday night when he leads his new team into the annual Battle of the Bay exhibition game. Harbaugh went from offensive assistant with the Raiders in 2002 to quarterbacks coach the following season. Then to Davis' disappoint- ment, Harbaugh left to become the head coach at the University of San Diego. ''He wanted me to stay,'' Har- baugh said. ''At the time he thought I really wanted to be a pro coach and I told him that I was going to go back and coach in college and emu- late the way he had done his career, where he had started off as a college coach.'' That's when Davis pointed out a small difference in the two men's paths. ''He told me that he had been at U-S-C, not U-S-D,'' Harbaugh said. Harbaugh went 29-6 in three years at San Diego before taking over a one-win Stanford team for the 2007 season. Harbaugh resurrected the Cardinal, leading them to a bowl game in his third season and then a 12-1 mark and No. 4 national rank- MCT photo San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh watches quarterback Alex Smith during practice. ing that was the highest season-end- ing ranking for the school in more than 70 years. He parlayed that success into the job with the 49ers, where he hopes to lead this once-proud franchise back to the playoffs for the first time since 2002. There was speculation that Har- baugh could be a candidate for the Raiders job, but he decided to go to the 49ers and Oakland promoted offensive coordinator Hue Jackson to the head spot. Jackson is plenty familiar with Harbaugh and his family, having served as an assistant with his broth- er, John, on the Baltimore Ravens staff. ''He is a fine football coach,'' Jackson said. ''I really was impressed (with) what he did at Stanford and obviously he had some time here at the Raiders before. So I'm looking forward to, you know, matching wits against them this weekend.'' Along with being Harbaugh's coaching debut at Candlestick Park it is also a surprising return to the stadium for Alex Smith. When he walked away in January, he hardly figured he would be returning with the home team less than eight months later. Instead, the 2005 No. 1 overall pick signed a one-year free agent deal to return to the 49ers — despite the boos from his own crowd, despite the critics and skeptics. Smith struggled in the exhibition opener at New Orleans, going 2 for 7 for 10 yards in a 24-3 loss to the Saints. Then he even heard the boos from fans during last Sunday's Fan- Fest at Candlestick. ''My mindset is a play at a time, put some good plays together,'' Smith said. ''Not get too carried away with anything else, fans or a mistake or whatever. ... Throw some good balls, get some rhythm for this offense. We really struggled to get any rhythm last week. That's really the next step. Besides that, I'm real- ly not worried about anything.'' The Raiders' first-team offense fared better than Smith and the Nin- ers did in their exhibition debut, with Jason Campbell leading two lengthy drives that led to one field goal in a 24-18 loss to the Arizona Cardinals. Oakland committed 10 penalties, managed just one touchdown on five trips inside the Arizona 30 in the game and struggled in pass defense after the starters left. That leaves plenty of room for improvement against the 49ers. ''I expect us to be a very domi- nant defense and I want to see our defense play that way,'' Jackson said. ''I expect us to be an offense that can execute at a high level and I expect us to do that. I expect this team to start taking the next step. Again, everything headed toward that opening game, but we need to improve in all areas. I need to improve coaching. We need to improve playing.'' Rodriguez, Astros shut out Giants 6-0 from Ryan Vogelsong (10- 3). HOUSTON (AP) — Wandy Rodriguez pitched eight innings and had a two- run single to lead the Hous- ton Astros to a 6-0 victory over the slumping San Fran- cisco Giants on Friday night. The Astros were leading 2-0 in the sixth inning when Carlos Corporan hit an RBI single with two outs and Rodriguez followed with a long single down the right field line on the first pitch The Giants have lost 15 of their last 21 games, including four of five. The Astros won their third straight game. Houston had not won more than two straight games since it had a four-game run May 30-June 2, the longest streak of the season. Rodriguez (9-9) allowed five hits, struck out eight and walked two. It was his third eight-inning performance of the season. Houston's 41-84 record is the worst in the majors. Brian Bogusevic, who hit a walkoff grand slam against Chicago on Tuesday, made it 6-0 with a homer off Guillermo Mota in the eighth. It was the Astro's fourth shutout of the season and their first since June 30 against Texas. Vogelsong had won four of his previous five deci- sions. He pitched seven innings, allowed four hits, two earned runs and walked four with three strikeouts. The Astros struck first in the third. Clint Barmes walked to start the inning and Corporan doubled before J.S. Shuck doubled down the right field line to make it 2-0. Vogelsong walked the bases loaded in the fifth inning but escaped when J.D. Martinez took a called third strike. Rodriguez escaped a two-on, two-outs close call in the second when Mike Fontenot hit a single to right fielder Bogusevic, who made a clean throw to the plate for the tag on Aubrey Huff. Notes:San Francisco has a 27-15 record at Minute Maid Park, the best of any major league team. The Giants lead the majors with a 32-0 record in games they led by three or more runs. INF Jeff Keppinger returned to Minute Maid Park for the first time since the Astros traded him to the Giants in July. He popped out as a pinch-hitter in the eighth The Giants have used the DL 21 times this season. Kentucky beats home favorite Pa. at LLWS SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Kentucky starter Griffin McLarty silenced Pennsylvania's hitters and their huge cheering section at the Little League World Series with a little help from his defense. The lanky, 6-foot pitcher from LaGrange, Ky., struck out 12 and hit a homer in a 1-0 win Friday night over the hometown favorites from Clinton County, just 30 miles down the road from South Williamsport. Central Pennsylvania's favorite sons drew such a huge crowd that fans sat shoulder-to-shoulder on the grassy, terraced hill above the outfield fences. But it was the Kentucky contingent that was celebrat- ing loudest by the end of a tense night that had the atmosphere of a major league playoff game. The 13-year-old McLarty calmly walked off the mound after getting a strikeout to end the game with runners on sec- ond and third. Pennsylvania also had the potential tying run thrown out twice at the plate, including Tyler McCloskey in the sixth after Brandon Miller beat out an infield single. As if McLar- ty's night wasn't memorable enough, the ace also hit an opposite-field fly that just landed inside the left-field foul pole for a homer. Earlier Friday, Colby Ring scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the sixth inning to give Langley, British Columbia, a 6-5 vic- tory Friday over Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Maracay, Venezuela, defeated Rotter- dam, Netherlands, 6-1; and Huntington Beach, Calif., pounded Cumberland, R.I., 11-0. But even California manager Jeff Pratto knew all the attention Friday night would be on the blue-clad Keystone league team from Clinton County. Little League officials said the game drew 41,848 fans, breaking the record of 40,000 that had been set in the 1989 and 1990 champi- onship games. ''It's Pennsylvania out there on their home turf. It's a sea of blue out there,'' Pratto said. ''It's going to be a fun one.'' Nerve-wracking, too. There were hard plays that landed players on the turf; a Pennsylvania double that was called back after the third-base umpire called it foul even while the left-field umpire called fair; and a crit- ical double play that pre- vented Pennsylvania from scoring the tying run in the fifth. California didn't have quite as difficult a time Fri- day, though there was a scary moment when pitcher Braydon Salzman missed getting hit in the head by a comebacker. The hard shot didn't keep the 13-year-old right-hander down on the mound long. He dusted him- self off to finish the third inning with a strikeout and scored three runs too. A scary scene turned into a lighthearted moment after the convincing win. ''It was supposed to be a curveball, but I think he threw the No. 5 ... the pan- cake,'' Pratto joked. Sitting next to him, a giggling Salz- man sported a red spot on his forehead from where the line drive forced the brim into his head. ''It's hard to say,'' Salz- man said when asked if he thought he would return to the game. ''I didn't know if I was going to come back and throw strikes.'' After walking the next batter, Salzman, 13, got his fifth strikeout to finish off the inning. A six-run fifth inning allowed the Hunting- ton Beach bombers to pull away. Trevor Windisch had three RBIs, two of them coming on a single. 6 0 Sports 1B Weekend August 20-21, 2011 49ers prepare to take on Raiders at