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Tehama Tracker Monday's results MLB Kansas City Athletics Sizemore 1-4, HR, 3RBI Hardin 5IP, 4ER, 10K Giants San Diego Ross 3-4, 2 2B, 2RBI Bumgarner 8 1/3IP, 2ER, 13K Today's games VOLLEYBALL Mt. Shasta Mercy TENNIS Central Valley Corning Red Bluff Foothill MLB Kansas City Athletics 7:05 p.m. KC — (Duffy 3-8) OAK— (G.Gonzalez 12-11) Giants San Diego SF — (Surkamp 0-0) SD (LeBlanc 2-4) On the tube AUTO RACING •8 a.m., ESPN2 — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, Advocare 500. at Hampton, Ga. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL •4 p.m., MLB — Regional coverage, Atlanta at Philadelphia OR L.A. Dodgers at Washington SOCCER • Noon, ESPN — Men's national teams, exhibition, U.S. vs. Belgium, at Brussels (joined in progress) TENNIS ª8 a.m., ESPN2 — U.S. Open, men's fourth round and women's quarterfi- nals, at New York •4 p.m., ESPN2 — U.S. Open, men's fourth round and women's quarterfi- nals, at New York Alumni football Around town Alumni football is com- ing to Tehama County. Grid- iron Alumni is planning a full contact alumni football game between Corning and Red Bluff High School alumni this October. Players are needed to sign up and the first 40 play- ers on each team get to play. If you or someone you know is interested in putting on the pads one more time, please go to www.gridironalumni.com Los Molinos, Orland, Hamilton, and other area teams are welcome to regis- ter as well. If you have any ques- tions, please call Chris at (530) 410-6396 or go to the website. Golf Fore a Cause Sevillano Links will host its 4th Annual Girls Club: Golf Fore a Cause Clinic on Sept. 24. Women 18 and older, will participate in a celebratory golf clinic from 9:30 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. at the expansive range & prac- tice center. The $60.00 donation fee includes the Course of Action Golf Clin- ic, Tee Party and Boutique Open, Fairway to Food Lun- cheon, Celebrate Golf-Cele- brate Life Raffle and Presen- tation, a goodie bag and a pair of Paula Creamer Col- lection sunglasses by Sun- dog Eyewear. Call 528- 4600. Booster Bonanza The Red Bluff Spartan Booster Club will host its inaugural Fall Booster Bonanza Oct. 15 in the Tyler Jelly Building at the Tehama District Fairground. The 1987 Red Bluff Lady Spartans state champi- on girls basketball team will be the featured guests. Tickets are $30 if bought in advance or $40 at the door. Pre-sale tickets can be purchased from Red Bluff Spartans athletes. For more information or to make a donation contact Ken Robison at 527-1111. MCT photo After sliding past second base, the Royals' Eric Hosmer, left, is tagged out by the Ath- letics' Jemile Weeks, as Hosmer tries to dive back to the base, during the fifth inning Monday. OAKLAND (AP) — Billy Butler enjoyed this game at Oakland Coliseum very much. Butler homered twice and drove in three runs, Alex Gordon doubled home the go- ahead run and the Kansas City Royals scored five times in the ninth inning to beat the Ath- letics 11-6 on Monday. Jeff Francoeur, Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas had two RBIs apiece and Melky Cabrera also drove in a run for the Royals, who avoided being mathematically eliminated for at least one more day. In 19 previous games in Oakland, Butler was 13 for 63, a .206 hitter, with no home runs and six RBIs. ''Who does say they like hitting here?'' Butler laughed. ''The ball carries better during the day, but that's usually true everywhere. Some days you're going to get them and some days you're going to miss them. I got some good pitches to hit and didn't miss.'' Butler, who finished with three hits, has been on a tear over the past week. He's hit safely in six straight and has a .417 batting average over that stretch. ''It just shows we're getting better offen- sively as a team,'' Butler said. ''When you look at all the positions, these are guys we're going with next year and it's been good.'' Scott Sizemore hit a three-run homer for the A's, who had won four straight. David DeJesus, Josh Willingham and Kurt Suzuki each drove in a run. Butler hit a tying two-run shot off Craig Breslow in the seventh, and the Royals broke it open against closer Andrew Bailey (0-4) in the ninth. ''We have a pretty good offense,'' Royals manager Ned Yost said. ''We keep tacking on runs. Billy is having a great offensive year and See AS, page 2B 7:05 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 2 7 6 11 Sports NEW YORK (AP) — Mardy Fish found himself dealing with all sorts of problems as he tried to reach the U.S. Open quar- terfinals for the second time. There was the brief flap with his opponent, 11th-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and the chair umpire over some dis- tracting cheering in the stands. 5:30 p.m. There were the aching right hip and hamstring that left Fish flat on his back, getting massaged by a trainer before the fifth set. There was the pressure 3:30 p.m. of knowing that he was, for the first time, the high- est-ranked American at the country's Grand Slam tennis tournament. There was the whip- ping wind that sent shots this way and that. And then, of course, there was Tsonga, the big- hitting, athletic French- man, who feels more con- fident than ever — and it shows. The eighth-seeded Fish wasted a lead and lost the fourth-round match at Flushing Mead- ows 6-4, 6-7 (5), 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 on Monday night, bringing what he saw as a premature end to what he hoped would be a run to a major semifinal. MCT photo Caroline Wozniacki hits a backhand against Svetlana Kuznetsova during match action at the US Open Tennis Championships in Flushing Meadows, New York, Monday. ''This might have been my best chance so far,'' the 29-year-old Fish said, knowing that he played well all summer on the type of hard courts used at the U.S. Open, including one title, two other appearances in finals and a victory over Rafael Nadal. ''For whatever reason — old age, I guess — my body didn't check up like I had hoped,'' said Fish, Butler leads the Royals past A's 1B Tuesday September 6, 2011 Top American man Fish loses to Tsonga who limped out of his news conference. ''Look, that's not why I lost. But it would have been nice to be able to run without pain.'' Tsonga reached his first U.S. Open quarterfi- nal, but unlike Fish, he's already tasted this sort of success. Tsonga made it to the final of the 2008 Australian Open before losing to Novak Djokovic, and got to the Wimbledon semifinals this year — where he again lost to Djokovic — by stunning Roger Federer after drop- ping the first two sets of their quarterfinal. There could be a Grand Slam rematch in New York, because Tsonga next plays either 16-time major champion Federer or Juan Monaco, whose fourth-round match was scheduled for later Mon- day night. Djokovic, meanwhile, extended his 2011 record to 61-2 by beating No. 22 Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine 7-6 (14), 6-4, 6- 2. Their 16-14 tiebreaker in the first set lasted near- ly a half-hour all on its own, with Djokovic sav- ing four set points and finally converting his sixth when Dolgopolov See OPEN, page 2B Sandoval homers twice in Giants' 7-2 win over Pads SAN DIEGO (AP) — Coming off a deflating loss to the NL West-leading Ari- zona Diamondbacks, San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy wanted to see signs that the defending World Series champions hadn't packed it in. They haven't. Pablo Sandoval homered twice, lefty Madison Bumgarner struck out a career- high 13 in 8 1-3 innings and the Giants beat the last-place San Diego Padres 7-2 on Monday to remain seven games behind the Diamondbacks with 21 to play. The Giants came into this three-game series with their biggest deficit of the season after losing two of three to the Diamond- backs in a weekend series, including a 4-1 loss on Sunday. ''I'm proud of how the guys bounced back,'' Bochy said. ''They played so well today. I mean, that's as tough a loss as we've had all year. We played one of our better games. We did a great job of putting that game behind us.'' The Diamondbacks won 10-7 at Col- orado on Monday. Bumgarner (10-12) came within two outs of his first career complete game. He was pulled after Nick Hundley hit a solo homer with one out in the ninth, his sixth. Bum- garner held San Diego to two runs and seven hits, and walked one. It was the fourth time he struck out 10 or more, all coming this season. ''What a job he did,'' Bochy said. ''I said, 'I'm going to let him start the ninth, give him a chance, get a shot at it.' He had a See GIANTS, page 2B Webb Simpson rallies to win Deutsche Bank NORTON, Mass. (AP) — Webb Simpson, a PGA Tour winner for the first time just three weeks ago, figured his next win would be easier. It was more work than he could have imagined Monday at the Deutsche Bank Championship. He had to make three par saves in the middle of the back nine just to stay in the game. He had to make a 30-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a 6-under 65, which got him into a playoff only when Chez Reavie fin- ished with a bogey on the easiest hole at the TPC Boston. Simpson made a 15- foot birdie putt on the 18th in the playoff after Reavie chipped to tap-in birdie range. Then, Simp- son completed his come- back with an 8-foot birdie on the second extra hole at No. 17 to win the FedEx Cup's second playoff event and move to No. 1 in the standings, giving him a clear shot at the $10 million prize. Pretty simple, huh? ''I told somebody early this week that I feel like next time I was in contention, it'll be a lot easier than Greensboro,'' Simpson said. ''And it wasn't that way at all. It was just as hard. The shots and the putts were just as hard. I think it helped calm me down a little, but it was like I had never won a golf tourna- ment before.'' It was hard on Reavie, too, for a variety of rea- sons. He started the season on a medical exemption because of knee surgery a year ago and lost full sta- tus by June. Not only did Reavie claw his way into the playoffs, he had a one-shot lead playing the par-5 18th. His plan all along was to lay up short of the ravine with a one-shot lead. He didn't count on his sand wedge turning with the wind and going over the green, leading to a bogey when he missed a 10-foot putt. ''Unfortunately, my wedge didn't quite work out,'' Reavie said. ''But all in all on the day, I played fantastic.'' He immediately found some consolation in his 66 for a runner-up finish. Even though he won't have full status on tour until next year, Reavie moved to No. 9 in the standings and is assured of getting to the FedEx Cup finale at the Tour Championship, putting him in Masters, U.S. Open and British Open. His eyes welled with tears just thinking about how far he has come this year. ''It's unbelievable,'' Reavie said. ''Starting the year on a medical and not knowing what's going to happen, to be able to go to the Tour Championship is a goal. It's what I wanted to do.'' A day filled with big crowds and big moments — appropriate to golf's version of the postseason — the pressure was felt by more than just the leaders. The top 70 advance to the third play- off event in two weeks outside Chicago. Ernie Els, Geoff Ogilvy and Chris Stroud made it by one shot with clutch play on the 18th hole — birdies for Els and Ogilvy, an eagle for Stroud. ''You screw up on the 18th leading and now you're going to finish second and you're going to have a $600,000 check,'' Els said. ''Here, I'm going home. It's a bad place to be, but it's a good place to come back from.'' Simpson, who had to play well late last year just to keep his PGA Tour card, started the season at See WEBB, page 2B CSNC CSNB