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Tehama Tracker Monday's results MLB Series tied 1-1 Washington St. Louis MLB Series tied 1-1 New York Baltimore 3 2 Today's games VOLLEYBALL Central Valley Corning Los Molinos Liberty Christian Redding Christian Mercy 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. TENNIS Foothill Red Bluff Mercy Live Oak 3:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. MLB Cincinnati leads series 2-0 Giants Cincinnati SF— Vogelsong, 14-9 CIN — Bailey, 13-10 MLB Detroit leads series 2-0 Detroit Athletics DET — Sanchez, 4-6 OAK — Anderson, 4-2 On the tube ICE HOCKEY • 10 a.m., ESPN2 — Kontinental Hock- ey League, Lev vs.Dynamo Moscow, at Prague, Czech Republic MLB • 2:30 p.m., TBS — Playoffs, National League Division Series, game 3, San Francisco at Cincinnati •6 p.m., TBS — Playoffs, American League Division Series, game 3, Detroit at Oakland Orioles beat Yankees 3-2 to even 6:07 p.m. TBS 2:37 p.m. TBS off its 10th race season at the Biketober Festival in McCloud on Saturday. After a morning filled with bicy- The Ride On Race Series will kick cling events geared towards the family, racing will start at 1 p.m. The beginner's race (C-Class) will start things off racing on the closed course for 30 minutes. They will be fol- lowed by the 45-minute B-Class test- ing their abilities on the track designed to hone riders skills in challenging situ- ations. The free one lap race for kids (12-and-under) will bring cheers from the audience as the A-Class riders warm up for their 60-minute battle. Awards will be given to the overall finishers and winners of age groups. It will cost $15 to race. A helmet is required and racers 18-and-under must have a parents' consent. Courtesy photo 2012-13 Ride On Race Series Schedule Questions can be answered at rideonraceseries@yahoo.com The McCloud Chamber of Com- merce asked the Ride On Race Series to participate in the first annual Biketo- ber Fest designed to draw attention to the development of the Great Shasta Rail Trail project. When complete the trail will connect the communities of Burney and McCloud. Food, music, vendors and beer will accompany the event. Information can be found at the McCloud Chamber web site mccloudchamber.com/bike-tober. • Oct. 13, Biktober Fest, McCloud • Oct. 28, Kid's Kingdom, Redding •Nov. 11, Shastice Park, Mt.Shas- ta •Dec. 2, Boomtown, Shasta Lake • Dec 9, Caldwell Park, Redding • Jan 20, Kapusta River Ranch, Redding • Jan 27, Freebridge, Redding • Feb 17, Anderson River Park, Anderson • Feb 24, Mill Creek Park, Los Molinos • March 17, Forward Park, Red Bluff Cardinals rout Nationals to even series ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jor- dan Zimmermann always has trouble with the St. Louis Cardinals. Game 2 of the NL division series was no exception. The Washington Nation- als' right-hander retired the side in order in the first inning, then struggled to get anybody else out in a 12-4 loss Monday that evened the best-of-five series at a game apiece. ALDS at 1-1 BALTIMORE (AP) — Rookie Wei-Yin Chen outpitched 40- year-old Andy Pettitte, and the Baltimore Ori- oles beat the New York Yankees 3-2 Monday night to even their AL division series at one game apiece. Chris Davis drove two of the Cardinals' four homers and St. Louis chased an ineffective Zimmermann after three innings. Allen Craig and Daniel Descalso also went deep to help the defending World Series champions build a big lead that compensated for a two- inning start from an ailing Jaime Garcia. ''They have a great line- Carlos Beltran hit the last in two runs for the Orioles, who used the same formula that got them into the postsea- son for the first time in 15 years: a magnifi- cent bullpen and an ability to win tight games. Baltimore was 29-9 in one-run deci- sions during the regu- lar season and 74-0 when leading after seven innings. Major league saves leader Jim Johnson, roughed up for five runs in a Game 1 loss, pitched a perfect ninth to close it out. of-five series will be held at Yankee Stadi- um on Wednesday. Game 3 of the best- — Alex Smith had just engineered the most offense in San Francisco 49ers his- tory and the best balanced approach the NFL had ever witnessed when the atten- tion started to shift to this week's NFC championship game rematch against the New York Giants. ''There's a lot of bag- gage, a lot of history there,'' Smith said. ''A little unfin- ished business, I guess.'' When the Giants (3-2) return to Candlestick Park on Sunday, they might not recognize the 49ers offense. As even San Francisco (4- 1) coach Jim Harbaugh admitted: ''The talent level has been upgraded.'' The fact that the only question about the 49ers offense this week is Smith's sprained middle finger — which Harbaugh called ''very much a concern'' but Smith said wasn't an issue — illustrates just how much has changed since the even- tual Super Bowl champion Giants outlasted San Fran- cisco 20-17 in overtime Jan. 22. SANTA CLARA (AP) Harbaugh heralded his quarterback Monday, a day after his usually defensive- See 49ERS, page 2B New defense leads to 12 4 Sports Ride on Race Series marks 10 years 1B Tuesday October 9, 2012 catching up to defense Offense new defensive scheme that was supposed to transform a struggling unit has led to perhaps the least productive defense in Oakland Raiders history. poor results ALAMEDA (AP) — A MCT photo Carlos Beltran is congratulated after hitting a home run Monday afternoon. up,'' Zimmermann said. ''You get a few guys out and then you've got Beltran, (David) Freese and it never stops. You have to make your pitches and I wasn't able to do that tonight.'' Zimmermann has never beaten the Cardinals in six career starts counting the postseason, allowing at least five runs in all but one of them. He yielded five runs and seven hits Monday, his shortest start of the season. Nationals manager adjustments. ''They just came out and put some good at-bats together,'' Suzuki said. ''They put the ball in play, moved runners around and when you do that you are going score some runs.'' Craig hit his fifth career postseason homer and scored three times. ''You hate to get blown Davey Johnson said Zim- mermann didn't mix it up enough and threw too many fastballs. ''All young staffs go through this. When you get into a thing like this, some- times they revert back to just saying, 'OK, I'm going to go with what I feel is my best and pound away,'' Johnson said. ''Zim's been better than that. You've got to get them off sitting on just one pitch.'' DAILYNEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 After the perfect first inning for Zimmermann, seven of the next 11 batters reached safely as the Cardi- nals scored four in the sec- ond and one in the third to go up 5-1. Washington catcher Kurt Suzuki said Zimmermann had the same stuff in the sec- ond inning as he did in the first. The Cardinals were the ones who made the key out, but you get walked off, it probably hurts a little bit more,'' Nationals outfielder Jayson Werth said. ''The game was out of reach for a while. No big deal, a loss is a loss. We'll head home and feel good about it.'' Ryan Zimmerman and Adam LaRoche hit consec- utive homers in the fifth for the Nationals, who head home for the remainder of the best-of-five series. But the NL East champions are without All-Star ace Stephen Strasburg, shut down for the rest of the sea- son early last month to pro- tect his surgically repaired arm. ''I miss him not experi- encing this with us and he misses not experiencing it with us,'' Johnson said. ''But we did the right thing, there's no question. ''Obviously the guy was my No. 1. He'd have been the guy that opened up the series.'' Game 3 is Wednesday afternoon at Nationals Park, the first postseason contest in the nation's capital since the original Senators played the New York Giants in the 1933 World Series. Edwin Jackson starts for Washing- ton against longtime Cardi- nals ace Chris Carpenter, who made only three starts during the regular season because of injury. The Cardinals are good at bouncing back. They lost the division series and NLCS openers last fall, then finished strong in the World Series after spotting Texas a 3-2 lead. So, they're on familiar ground. And once again, as a wild card. After the Nationals ral- lied late to win the opener 3- 2, there were no lineup changes in Game 2 — just a lot more clutch hitting from players accustomed to Octo- ber pressure. Beltran homered twice in the postseason for the third time in his career, connect- ing in the sixth off Mike Gonzalez and eighth off Sean Burnett. Jon Jay had two hits and three RBIs, plus an outstanding catch at the center-field wall to deprive Danny Espinosa of extra bases in the sixth. St. Louis was 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position during Game 1 and totaled just three hits, but the Cardi- nals had five hits in a four- run second Monday. Descal- so hit his first postseason homer in the fourth, a day after getting robbed by Werth's leaping catch at the right-field wall. Beltran's drive off Gonzalez in the sixth banged off the facade in the third deck in left, esti- mated at 444 feet. ''Their numbers speak for themselves,'' Johnson said of the Cardinals. ''They have got a fine hitting ball- club, and good pitching will slow down good hitting, but you've got to make pitches, and we didn't do that tonight.'' Shadows creeped past the pitcher's mound around the third inning and didn't seem to be as big of an issue in Game 2, which started 1 1/2 hours later than the opener. Both teams had issues with the playing con- ditions after the opener. Nationals rookie Bryce Harper went 1 for 5 and struck out four times. He also was thrown out at third base on an ill-advised attempt to advance. He is 1 for 10 in the series with six strikeouts. ''Do I look overanxious? You think so?'' Harper said to a reporter. ''Maybe you should be a hitting coach.'' The Raiders (1-3) returned to practice Monday after having four days off for their bye week looking for answers on how to fix a defense that is on pace to allow the most points and yards in a season in team history. They will be tested right out of their bye, with a cross- country trip to Atlanta (5-0) on tap to face Matt Ryan and an offense that has scored touchdowns on the highest percentage of drives in the league so far. ''I'm definitely sur- prised,'' defensive back Michael Huff said of the struggles. ''I was the one buying in, believed in the scheme, believed in the coaches, believed in every- thing. I'm not staying away from that. Watching on film, we see what we can be. We're still one play here, one play there. It's there to be had. We just got to make the plays.'' Huff was the most vocal proponent of the new scheme, saying he was look- ing forward to playing a ''real defense'' for a change under head coach Dennis Allen and new coordinator Jason Tarver. Monday, longtime Raiders owner Al Davis was heavily involved in the team's defense, picking coordina- tors who would usually use his preferred system of bump-and-run coverage on the outside and pressure coming from a four-man defensive line. Until his death a year ago sive coordinator in Denver, became the team's first defensive-minded head coach since John Madden in Allen, the former defen- See OAK, page 2B