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2B Daily News – Monday, September 12, 2011 NFL By The Associated Press AMERICAN CONFERENCE East Buffalo 1 0 0 1.000 Miami WL T Pct 0 0 0 .000 New England0 0 0 .000 N.Y. Jets 0 0 0 .000 South WL T Pct Houston 1 0 0 1.000 Jacksonville 1 0 0 1.000 Tennessee 0 1 0 .000 Indianapolis 0 1 0 .000 North WL T Pct Baltimore 1 0 0 1.000 Cincinnati 1 0 0 1.000 Cleveland 0 1 0 .000 Pittsburgh 0 1 0 .000 West WL T Pct San Diego 1 0 0 1.000 Denver 0 0 0 .000 Raiders 0 0 0 .000 Kansas City 0 1 0 .000 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East WL T Pct Washington 1 0 0 1.000 Philadelphia 1 0 0 1.000 Dallas 0 0 0 .000 N.Y. Giants 0 1 0 .000 South WL T Pct New Orleans0 1 0 .000 Tampa Bay 0 1 0 .000 Carolina 0 1 0 .000 Atlanta 0 1 0 .000 North WL T Pct Chicago 1 0 0 1.000 OPEN Continued from page 1B ting off to a slow start this season. ''At the end of the day I had to believe that I was going to feel like I could play my best tennis again, and to realize that it's not all gone,'' she said. She couldn't play better than she did Sunday. It helped that Stosur had beaten Williams twice in her career, and after six meetings in all, she's no longer fazed by Williams' intimidating presence. Stosur used that when Williams lit into the chair umpire over a point penal- ty in the first game of the second set. ''It was probably the loudest I ever felt a crowd in my whole entire life,'' Stosur said. ''You're right in the middle of it. It was A'S Continued from page 1B who's going every fifth day.'' Wilson threw an assortment of pitches to a lineup that included late-season call-ups and reserves. ''I threw six different pitches,'' Wilson said. ''All of them were good. A high fastball, a sinker, a sidearm fastball that I used the last couple of innings, my curve and slider were good and my changeup. You can't just go out there and throw heaters; they'll figure that out.'' Beltre was the offensive star with four hits while Craig Gentry and Ian Kinsler added three apiece for the Rangers, who have taken 10 of their last 11 from the A's this season. Beltre has seven homers in his last eight games against Oakland and 15 RBIs against the A's this season. Commenting on reaching 300 career homers, Beltre said, ''It means I've been playing for a long time. I'm proud of that. It's something not many guys can do.'' Eric Sogard homered against Koji Uehara leading off the ninth to end the shutout bid. The Rangers extended their division lead over second- place Los Angeles to 2 1/2 games when the Angels were beaten by the New York Yankees 6-5. Josh Outman (3-5) got a spot start for Oakland, replac- ing Rich Harden, whose turn in the rotation was pushed back to give him extra rest. Outman allowed four runs and eight hits over 4 2-3 innings. Outman, whose previous three appearances came in relief, was making his ninth start of the season, first since July 2. The Rangers broke up a scoreless game in the fifth when Gentry led off with his first career triple and Kinsler drove him in with a single. Kinsler advanced to second on his 23rd straight stolen base, tying his club record, moved to third on a groundout and scored on Josh Hamilton's sacrifice fly. Michael Young reached on an infield single and Beltre followed with a two-run homer to left field. Beltre also doubled in the second to extend his hitting streak to 16 games. ''It's always a good-hitting lineup, especially in this park, no matter what nine they throw out there,'' Outman said. ''I battled through the first four innings, then in the fifth I was a little leg-weary. I felt like every mistake I made, they capitalized on.'' Beltre led off the seventh against Andrew Carignan with his 23rd homer for his 22nd career multihomer game. Later in the seventh, Gentry and Elvis Andrus had RBI singles to make it 7-0. NOTES: Wilson fell one short of matching his career high for strikeouts. He has six games of 10 or more strike- outs this season, the most for the Rangers since Nolan Ryan's six in 1991. ... Beltre is the 13th active player with 300 homers and 2,000 hits. ... The A's called up OF Jai Miller from Triple-A Sacramento and had him in the start- ing lineup. Miller spent the season with Sacramento, bat- ting .276 with 32 homers and 88 RBIs in 110 games. He was acquired by Oakland off waivers in April from Kansas City. ... X-rays showed no fracture in Oakland OF Coco Crisp's lower leg injury. He was out of the lineup for the second consecutive day, and Crisp probably won't play in the home series against the Angels from Monday to Wednesday. ... Oakland 1B Brandon Allen is in an 0-for- 18 slide. He was hitless in three at-bats, all strikeouts against Wilson. Detroit 1 0 0 1.000 Green Bay 1 0 0 1.000 Minnesota 0 1 0 .000 West 49ers WL T Pct 1 0 0 1.000 Arizona 1 0 0 1.000 Seattle 0 1 0 .000 St. Louis 0 1 0 .000 ——— Thursday's Game Green Bay 42, New Orleans 34 Sunday's Games Chicago 30, Atlanta 12 Buffalo 41, Kansas City 7 Houston 34, Indianapolis 7 Philadelphia 31, St. Louis 13 Detroit 27, Tampa Bay 20 Baltimore 35, Pittsburgh 7 Cincinnati 27, Cleveland 17 Jacksonville 16, Tennessee 14 San Francisco 33, Seattle 17 Arizona 28, Carolina 21 San Diego 24, Minnesota 17 Washington 28, N.Y. Giants 14 Dallas at N.Y. Jets, late Monday's Games New England at Miami, 4 p.m. Oakland at Denver, 7:15 p.m. Sunday, Sep. 18 Chicago at New Orleans, 10 a.m. Baltimore at Tennessee, 10 a.m. Tampa Bay at Minnesota, 10 a.m. Kansas City at Detroit, 10 a.m. Jacksonville at N.Y. Jets, 10 a.m. Oakland at Buffalo, 10 a.m. Arizona at Washington, 10 a.m. Seattle at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m. Green Bay at Carolina, 10 a.m. Cleveland at Indianapolis, 10 a.m. Dallas at San Francisco, 1:05 p.m. Cincinnati at Denver, 1:15 p.m. Houston at Miami, 1:15 p.m. San Diego at New England, 1:15 p.m. Philadelphia at Atlanta, 5:20 p.m. definitely a quite over- whelming feeling. But once I hit that next ball in the court and started play- ing again, I felt settled.'' Williams broke back in the next game, but Stosur took control to win the last four games of the match. ''I've kind of surprised myself with how much I have been able to mentally stay focused on court and bounce back from the adversity from matches,'' she said. Stosur became the first Australian woman since Evonne Goolagong Caw- ley at 1980 Wimbledon to win a Grand Slam title. Goolagong Cawley sent Stosur a text message say- ing, ''Twinkletoes, you finally have got what you deserved.'' ''Hopefully,'' Stosur said, ''this is the first day of a new beginning for me as a player.'' Monday, Sep. 19 St. Louis at N.Y. Giants, 5:30 p.m. Scoreboard MLB American League At A Glance By The Associated Press East Division WL Pct GB New York 88 57 .607 — Boston 85 61 .582 3 1/2 Tampa Bay 81 64 .559 7 Toronto 74 73 .503 15 Baltimore 58 87 .400 30 Central Division WL Pct GB Detroit 84 62 .575 — Chicago 73 72 .50310 1/2 Cleveland 72 72 .500 11 Kansas City62 86 .419 23 Minnesota 59 87 .404 25 West Division WL Pct GB Texas 83 64 .565 — Los Angeles80 66 .548 2 1/2 A's 66 80 .45216 1/2 Seattle 61 85 .41821 1/2 ——— Saturday's Games Toronto 5, Baltimore 4 Chicago White Sox 7, Cleveland 3, 10 innings Detroit 3, Minnesota 2 Oakland 8, Texas 7 Tampa Bay 6, Boston 5, 11 innings L.A. Angels 6, N.Y. Yankees 0 Kansas City 4, Seattle 2 Sunday's Games Detroit 2, Minnesota 1 Toronto 6, Baltimore 5 Tampa Bay 9, Boston 1 Cleveland 7, Chicago White Sox 3 Texas 8, Oakland 1 DEBUT Continued from page 1B This time, Ginn's kids — Kyrsten and Theodore III — get to help celebrate. The Harbaugh family, too. With the coach's par- ents, Jack and Jackie Har- baugh, in the stands to cheer him in the opener, the former NFL QB was as animated as ever — waving his arms, pacing the sideline and congratu- lating his players at every chance. He embraced Smith for several seconds. He gave Ginn hugs after both TDs. ''It felt really like we were right there to take this game over, and then things just fell apart in the kicking game,'' Carroll said. ''Ted Ginn did his stuff and had two great plays and took our chance of coming back in this game away.'' Dozens of American flags whipped in the wind off San Francisco Bay in the parking lots of sold- out Candlestick Park before the game on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11. Flags inside flew at half-staff and many of the 69,732 fans sported red, white and blue. And San Francisco police considered it a well-behaved crowd at Candlestick, where fan violence and a shooting marred the Raiders-49ers GIANTS Continued from page 1B the go-ahead run in the fifth inning and the Giants beat the Dodgers to avoid a three-game sweep. Bumgarner (11-12) struck out eight and walked three, matching the longest winning streak of his career and improving to 8-3 with a 2.73 ERA since June 26. ''I'm just making better pitches and having a little better luck at the same time,'' Bumgarner said while insisting his arm strength is fine despite closing in on the 200- inning mark. ''I don't know if I've gotten stronger. I still feel good. I'm not worried about wins and losses for me. The biggest thing is innings. You want to stay out there and pitch late. That's probably the most important thing.'' Six of Bumgarner's victories, including each of the last four, have came after Giants losses. It's probably too little too late for the defending World Series champions, who snapped a three- game losing streak and trail NL West-leading Arizona by 8 1/2 games. When San Francisco scored two runs in the fifth and five in the sixth, it marked the first time since July 3 that the Giants scored multiple runs in consecu- tive innings. Slumping Aubrey Huff had two hits and a bases-loaded walk in his first start since Monday. Sandoval finished with a career-high three doubles, tying a Giants regular- season record at AT&T Park. ''It seems to be starting a little late,'' Huff said. ''You could tell when we got a three-run lead, N.Y. Yankees 6, L.A. Angels 5 Kansas City 2, Seattle 1 Monday's Games Tampa Bay (Niemann 9-7) at Baltimore (Britton 9-9), 4:05 p.m. Detroit (Porcello 13-8) at Chicago White Sox (Danks 6-11), 5:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Pineiro 6-6) at Oakland (G.Gonzalez 12-12), 7:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 4-5) at Seattle (F.Hernandez 14-11), 7:10 p.m. Tuesday's Games Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. Toronto at Boston, 4:10 p.m. Cleveland at Texas, 5:05 p.m. Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 5:10 p.m. Minnesota at Kansas City, 5:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Oakland, 7:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Seattle, 7:10 p.m. National League At A Glance By The Associated Press East Division WL Pct GB Philadelphia94 49 .657 — Atlanta 84 63 .571 12 New York 71 74 .490 24 Washington67 77 .46527 1/2 Florida 66 79 .455 29 Central Division WL Pct GB Milwaukee 86 62 .581 — St. Louis 79 67 .541 6 Cincinnati 71 75 .486 14 Pittsburgh 66 80 .452 19 Chicago 63 82 .43421 1/2 Houston 49 97 .336 36 West Division WL Pct GB Arizona 85 62 .578 — Giants 76 70 .521 8 1/2 Los Angeles72 73 .497 12 Colorado 69 77 .47315 1/2 San Diego 63 84 .429 22 exhibition matchup last month. Rivals dating to their days in the Pac-10, Carroll couldn't complain about Harbaugh running up the score in this one. Seattle's offense had enough prob- lems for Carroll to worry about what was happening on the other sideline. The two quickly shook hands afterward and called it good. It was Carroll who in 2009 met Harbaugh at midfield postgame with a ''What's your deal?'' after Stanford ran up the score in a 55-21 rout at Southern California and even attempted a late 2-point conversion with the game out of reach. In Harbaugh's first sea- son in 2007, the Cardinal traveled to Los Angeles as 41-point underdogs only to stun the second-ranked Trojans 24-23 and end their 35-game home win- ning streak. Akers kicked field goals of 27, 24, 31 and 18 yards in an impressive first game with the 49ers in place of the retired Joe Nedney. Jackson, Brett Favre's backup in Minnesota the past two seasons, complet- ed his first six passes but was sacked twice in as many drives to start the game — by Ray McDon- ald and Justin Smith — and five times total. He was 21 of 37 for 197 yards and two TDs with one interception. ——— Saturday's Games Chicago Cubs 5, N.Y. Mets 4 Colorado 12, Cincinnati 7 Florida 3, Pittsburgh 0 Houston 9, Washington 3 Philadelphia 3, Milwaukee 2, 10 innings St. Louis 4, Atlanta 3 Arizona 6, San Diego 5, 10 innings L.A. Dodgers 3, San Francisco 0 Sunday's Games Florida 4, Pittsburgh 1 Washington 8, Houston 2 Milwaukee 3, Philadelphia 2 St. Louis 6, Atlanta 3 Colorado 4, Cincinnati 1 San Francisco 8, L.A. Dodgers 1 San Diego 7, Arizona 6 Chicago Cubs at N.Y. Mets, late Monday's Games St. Louis (Lohse 13-8) at Pittsburgh (Lincoln 1-2), 4:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs (R.Lopez 4-6) at Cincin- nati (Willis 0-5), 4:10 p.m. Florida (Volstad 5-12) at Atlanta (Beachy 7-2), 4:10 p.m. Washington (Detwiler 2-5) at N.Y. Mets (Dickey 8-11), 4:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Oswalt 7-8) at Houston (Myers 4-13), 5:05 p.m. Arizona (J.Saunders 10-12) at L.A. Dodgers (Lilly 9-13), 7:10 p.m. San Diego (Harang 13-5) at San Fran- cisco (Surkamp 1-0), 7:15 p.m. Tuesday's Games St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m. Florida at Atlanta, 4:10 p.m. Washington at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Houston, 5:05 p.m. Colorado at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m. Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m. San Diego at San Francisco, 7:15 p.m. First downs were scarce and San Francisco's defense was stingy behind defensive tackles McDon- ald and Smith. The 49ers were 0 for 9 on third-down conversions before Smith's 12-yard completion to Braylon Edwards early in the fourth. Edwards wound up with three catches for 27 yards in his 49ers debut. He was given a fresh start by another Michigan man, Harbaugh. Same for Smith. Back on a one-year free agent deal when most everybody figured he'd turn up elsewhere, Smith generated cheers instead of boos from the home crowd. He made quick decisions and scurried out of trouble several times with defenders coming right at him. He appreciated Har- baugh's enthusiasm. ''It's fun to come over and see your coach just as jacked as you,'' Smith said. ''We were all pumped up.'' The Seahawks, 7-9 last year before stunning the reigning Super Bowl champion Saints in the playoffs for the first victo- ry by a team with a losing record, have their work cut out for them to defend in a division that became known as the NFC Worst in 2010. One telling moment Sunday: Jackson was sacked by Parys Haralson, who forced a fumble that everyone relaxed and we started scoring more.'' Tony Gwynn Jr. doubled in the Dodgers' run but struck out with the potential tying run at second base in the sixth. Los Angeles lost for only the third time in 13 games. San Francisco had gone 18 con- secutive scoreless innings until breaking through against starter Hiroki Kuroda, who had not lost in four previous appearances at the Giants. Sandoval drove in Jeff Kep- pinger for a 2-1 lead in the fifth and Huff followed with an RBI single on an 0-2 pitch. In a 5-for- 36 (.139) slump coming in, Huff also walked with the bases loaded against Scott Elbert during a five- run sixth. In the second, Huff doubled leading off after initially thinking he had a home run. The ball hit the top of the fence and bounced back onto the field, but second base umpire John Hirschbeck ruled the ball was still in play. Umpires upheld the call following a video review. It was reminiscent of San Fran- cisco's win over Texas in Game 2 of the World Series last year when the Rangers' Ian Kinsler hit a ball to almost the same spot as Huff did. Kinsler was also given a dou- ble on the play. Three batters later, Eli White- side singled in Huff with San Francisco's first run. ''I was touching first and everybody thought it was a homer,'' Huff said. ''I'm like, 'Homer? I hit it high enough to get out?' I scored, so it's kind of a moot point.'' Kuroda (11-16) allowed three runs and eight hits in 4 2-3 innings, his shortest outing since Moves Sunday's Sports Transactions By The Associated Press BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS—Activated DH Travis Hafner from the 15-day DL. OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Selected the contract of OF Jai Miller from Sacramen- to (PCL). NEW YORK YANKEES—Selected the contract of C Austin Romine from Scran- ton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). TAMPA BAY RAYS—Selected the con- tract of INF-OF Russ Canzler from Durham (IL). Recalled RHP Dane De La Rosa from Durham. Designated RHP Mike Ekstrom for assignment. TEXAS RANGERS—Recalled LHP Michael Kirkman from Round Rock (PCL). National League COLORADO ROCKIES—Selected the contracts of INF Thomas Field and LHP Drew Pomeranz from Tulsa (Texas). Placed OF Ryan Spilborghs on the 60- day DL. Designated C Matt Pagnozzi for assignment. HOUSTON ASTROS—Purchased the contract of LHP Xavier Cedeno from Oklahoma City (PCL). Placed LHP Sergio Escalona on the 60-day DL. PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Signing senior vice president, general manager Neal Huntington to a three-year contract exten- sion through 2014. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS—Activated LHP Barry Zito from the 15-day DL. SOCCER Major League Soccer COLORADO RAPIDS—Signed D Miguel Comminges. was recovered in the air by Will Tukuafu on his first career play from scrim- mage. That set up Akers' second field goal. What a difference from last year's opener between the division foes. The 49ers lost at Seattle 31-6 last September on the way to a 0-5 start that dashed San Francisco's hopes of winning the divi- sion. The 49ers returned the favor with a 40-21 home win in December, but it wasn't enough to save then-coach Mike Sin- gletary's job. Harbaugh was hired from Stanford on a $25 million, five-year deal to turn around a franchise that has gone since 2002 without a playoff berth or winning record. Frank Gore, with a new $21 million, three-year deal after he missed the final five games last sea- son with a fractured right hip, ran for 59 yards on 22 carries and made three catches for 19 yards. Ver- non Davis had a team-high five receptions. Notes: TE Zach Miller had two catches in his Seattle debut. ... It marked Smith's third career rush- ing TD and first since Dec. 14, 2006, at Seattle. ... Seahawks FB Michael Robinson injured his ankle in the first quarter and did- n't return. ... Second-year Niners CB Tramaine Brock made his first career interception on the final play of the first half. getting only 12 outs against San Diego on Aug. 2 last year. ''For the most part it looks like he isn't able to locate like he usu- ally does,'' Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. ''Everybody is entitled to this kind of stretch. He's not going to cave in. It's not like he's missing with every- thing.'' Cody Ross hit a bases-loaded double and pinch-hitter Mark De Rosa added a two-run single in the sixth. Los Angeles scored its lone run in the second and had a chance for more with the bases loaded before Bumgarner worked his way out of it. He got Kuroda to ground into a force play at home then retired Dee Gordon on a comebacker. The Dodgers managed only four runners the rest of the way and ended their trip 7-3. NOTES: A moment of silence was held before the game to com- memorate the victims of 9/11. There was no ceremonial first pitch; instead, Bochy walked out to the field alone and left a ball on the pitching mound. ... The previ- ous San Francisco player to have three doubles in one home game was Nate Schierholtz on Sept. 24, 2008. ... The Giants activated LHP Barry Zito from the 15-day DL. Bochy plans to use Zito as a spot starter and out of the bullpen. ... Eric Surkamp (1-0) pitches for San Francisco in the series opener against San Diego on Monday. The rookie lefty beat the Padres on Sept. 6 for his only career win in the majors. ... Dodgers LHP Ted Lilly (9-13), who tied his sea- son high of nine strikeouts in his previous start, will pitch for Los Angeles in the opener of a three- game set with Arizona.