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FRANKGUNN—THECANADIANPRESS Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) drives against Toronto Raptors forward Pascal Siakam (43) during the second half Wednesday in Toronto. ByPaulAttfield TheAssociatedPress TORONTO Stephen Curry had 35 points, Kevin Durant added 30 and the Golden State Warriors beat the Toronto Raptors 127-121 on Wednes- day night for their fifth straight vic- tory. The Warriors also have won five in a row against the Raptors, three in Toronto. NBA scoring leader DeMar DeRo- zan led the Raptors with 34 points, and Kyle Lowry had 24. DeRozan was 17 of 17 from the free-throw line, and had his ninth 30-plus-point game in 11 games this season. The Raptors led for most of first quarter, stretching their lead as high as 10 thanks to nine points apiece from Lowry and DeRozan. Durant chipped in with nine of his own as the Warriors fought back to close the deficit to 38-34 after 12 minutes. Durant and Curry, in particular, ensured they improved on that in the second quarter with 10 points each. Aided by the Raptors shooting 5 for 24, the Warriors closed out the half on a 23-6 run, turning a four-point deficit into a 13-point lead, 66-53. The 66 points were the most the Raptors have given up in a first half at home since surrendering 71 to the Los An- geles Clippers on Jan. 25, 2014. Golden State pushed the advan- tage to 19 points over the first 1:30 of the third quarter, but DeRozan brought the Raptors back with 19 points to send the Raptors into the fourth trailing 95-86. Over the final 12 minutes, the Golden State backups stretched the lead to 16, and were able to hold on as the Raptors rallied within 4 with 13 seconds to play. Tip-Ins NBA Curry,WarriorsbeatRaptors Golden State star scores 35 points, Durant adds 30 in victory on the road WARRIORS127,RAPTORS121 Up next: Golden State Warriors at Boston Celtics, 5p.m. Friday, TV on CSN-BA, ESPN. THESCORE By Jimmy Durkin Bay Area News Group ALAMEDA Khalil Mack knows a lit- tle Spanish. "Hola. Como estas?" the Oak- land Raiders defensive end offered Wednesday when quizzed on his language skills ahead of the team's trip to Mexico City for a Monday Night Football showdown against the Houston Texans. Mack even knows what that means. "Hey, how are you doing?" he said, before seeking a quick con- firmation. That's about where his Spanish skills end, which hopefully will be enough when his Raiders partici- pate in only the second ever NFL regular-season game played in Mex- ico City. A 2005 game between the San Francisco 49ers and Arizona Cardinals was the first and the Raiders also played in a 2001 exhi- bition game against the Dallas Cow- boys. Unlike international games in Europe, the Raiders won't spend any extra time in Mexico to promote the game. Both teams will simply fly in Sunday, play the game on Mon- day night and head home. The Raiders gave up a home game in order to play on the Mon- day night stage, but expect to find a partisan crowd at legendary Esta- dio Azteca, which has played host to the 1968 Olympics and two World Cups. "I've got a feeling there's going NFL RAIDERS PREPARE TO PLAY IN MEXICO Oakland faces Texans in second regular-season game NFL teams have ever played in Mexico City The Oakland Raiders' Latavius Murray (28) spikes the ball a er catching a 1-yard touchdown pass against the Denver Broncos in the second quarter Sunday, Nov. 6, in Oakland. PHOTOS BY JOSE CARLOS FAJARDO — BAY AREA NEWS GROUP FILE The Oakland Raiders' Khalil Mack (52) sacks Denver Broncos starting quarterback Trevor Siemian (13) in the third quarter Sunday, Nov. 6, in Oakland. By Tim Reynolds The Associated Press NAPLES, FLA. By Lydia Ko's standards, this is a major slump. She hasn't won in nine starts since mid-July, her best fin- ish being a silver medal at the Rio Olympics. She hasn't been among the top 10 in any of her last five starts and wasn't even in the top 40 in three of those. Despite all that, all the big prizes — player of the year, money title, scoring title and the yearlong points chase called the Race to the CME Globe — are well within Ko's reach this week. The LPGA Tour season wraps up with the CME Group Tour Championship that starts Thursday, when Ariya Juta- nugarn and Ko will basically go head to head for year-end hon- ors. "Obviously, I'm not coming into this week with the great- est form," said Ko, who won the Globe in its inaugural season in 2014 and retained it last year. "But I still feel like it's been a season where I'm really proud of it. For me to be in this posi- tion, to have an opportunity to go for the Globe again — and all the other things — it's a pretty cool position to be in." Only a win this week would be enough to give Ko her sec- ond straight player-of-the-year award; any other result, and that title goes to Jutanugarn. They come in separated by $17,305 in the money standings, and Ko (69.611) enters with a minuscule edge over In Gee Chun (69.632) for the Vare Trophy presented to the player with the lowest scor- ing average. "It would be a pretty special Sunday," Ko said. GOLF Jutanugarn, Ko to decide LPGA player of year By Ben Walker The Associated Press NEW YORK Max Scherzer cele- brated aboard a boat off the Brit- ish Virgin Islands, doused by col- lege pals on a floating party. Rick Porcello enjoyed the mo- ment at his parents' home in New Jersey, surrounded by fam- ily, friends and a few bottles of wine. As for Justin Verlander, well, fuming supermodel Kate Upton brought the heat for her fiance. Rotation mates for five seasons in Detroit, the three right-hand- ers topped the Cy Young Award talk Wednesday: Scherzer easily won the NL prize, Porcello edged out Verlander for the AL honor. "That's just the weird thing about these," said Scherzer, who ruled the majors with 284 strike- outs and topped the NL with 20 wins for Washington. "It's the vot- ing." Porcello led baseball with 22 wins for Boston, and had a 3.15 ERA. Porcello won despite getting just eight of the 30 first-place votes from members of the Base- ball Writers' Association of Amer- ica — this was the first time the AL Cy winner didn't get the most firsts. Verlander went 16-9 with a 2.40 ERA while leading the AL in strikeouts and other catego- ries. He got 14 first-place votes, but didn't draw as much support across the board — he was left off two ballots, too. Overall, Porcello won 137-132 in the second-closest vote since 1970 (Verlander lost by four points to David Price in 2012). Voters list their five picks in order. A first-place vote is worth seven points, four for second, three for third, two for fourth and one for fifth. Verlander needed to pick up five more points to match Porcello. Upton fired off three tweets, one of them rather saucy, telling Porcello "you didn't win." Asked whether he was both- ered by the brouhaha, Porcello simply said, "No, I honestly don't care." "I'm not the one who made the decision," he said on a conference call. Porcello got a $100,000 bonus for winning the Cy. Verlander, who won the 2011 award, would've gotten $500,000 for this win. Porcello bounced back from go- ing 9-15 in his first season with the Red Sox, finishing 22-4 for the AL East champs. He shared this last win of 2016 with those who "never wavered" in their support, admitting, "It was hard not to start bawling and crying." Cleveland's Corey Kluber was third and got three first-place votes. Baltimore reliever Zach Brit- ton, who went 47 for 47 on save chances with a 0.54 ERA, had five first-place votes and was fourth. Scherzer breezed, drawing 25 first-place votes to beat out Chi- cago Cubs teammates Jon Lester and Kyle Hendricks. CY YOUNG AWARD Scherzer wins NL, Porcello gets AL LPGA PAGE 2 RAIDERS PAGE 2 WARRIORS PAGE 2 SPORTS » redbluffdailynews.com Thursday, November 17, 2016 MORE AT FACEBOOK.COM/RBDAILYNEWS AND TWITTER.COM/REDBLUFFNEWS B1