Justin Grimm (6-5) trailed when he threw his last pitch, but the Rangers scored twice in the bottom of the fifth to go ahead and make him the first Texas starter this month to get a victory.

Rangers starters had gone 17 consecutive games without a win since Derek Holland beat Kansas City on May 31. The team’s previous longest such stretch was 16 in a row in 1975.

Nelson Cruz, hitting third for the first time this season, had three hits and drove in two runs, and Lance Berkman homered for the Rangers.

Murphy had only seven hits in his previous 51 at-bats before hits in three consecutive innings—two singles before a double in the seventh.

The nine runs were the most for Texas since a 9-5 win over Arizona on May 30. Their 14 hits were the most since a night later against Kansas City in the game Holland won.

Ian Kinsler had a sacrifice fly off Tommy Milone (6-7) that tied the game in the fifth before Leonys Martin raced home on a grounder with the go-ahead run.

The Rangers won for only the fourth time in 14 games, and pulled within two games of Oakland. The A’s will go for a split in the finale of the four-game series Thursday, but will leave Texas still in first place regardless of what happens.

Oakland went ahead 3-2 in the fifth on a three-run homer by Chris Young, a .186 hitter in the leadoff spot while both Coco Crisp and John Jaso got the night out of the starting lineup.

Grimm walked Josh Reddick, a .206 hitter, before a wild pitch and then a walk to No. 9 hitter Eric Sogard. Young homered onto hill in straightaway center field, a shot estimated at 404 feet for a 3-2 lead.

Before that, the A’s didn’t have a runner get past first base. But their lead didn’t last long after Grimm’s last pitch.

Murphy and Martin, left-handed hitters at the bottom of the Texas batting order, had consecutive singles off lefty Milone to start the fifth. Murphy scored on the Kinsler sac fly and Martin immediately took off running from third toward home when Nelson Cruz hit a grounder.

Third baseman Josh Donaldson’s throw was to the first base-side of the plate, and by time Derek Norris caught it and reached back to try to apply a tag, Martin had slid past him and reached back with his hand to slap the touch the plate.

Grimm allowed three hits and the runs on the homer. The right-hander struck out three and walked three while getting his sixth victory, most for American League rookies.

Robinson Chirinos and Murphy had consecutive one-singles in the sixth to chase Milone, who allowed six runs and eight hits.

Martin and Kinsler greeted reliever Dan Otero with consecutive RBI singles.

Jaso, who was getting a break before Thursday’s day game, had to come in after Norris got hit by a foul tip off Adrian Beltre’s bat in the sixth. Norris went down to his knees and stayed in that position for several minutes before being helped off the field.

When play resumed, Beltre had an RBI double for an 8-3 lead.

Notes: Rangers 1B Mitch Moreland completed a three-game rehabilitation assignment going 6-for-9 with three doubles and a homer for Double-A Frisco. He is eligible to be reinstated Friday for the opener of a three-game series at St. Louis. … Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito threw the ceremonial first pitch. … Oakland is 5-6 its last 11 games. … Berkman’s homer was a two-run shot in the second, his sixth of the season.

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Brandon Belt and Marco Scutaro also drove in runs as the Giants won their second straight following a three-game slide. Scutaro and Hunter Pence each had two hits.

Will Venable and Jesus Guzman each hit home runs for the Padres, who have lost two straight after a seven-game winning streak.

Madison Bumgarner (7-4) won his third straight start after allowing two runs and three hits over seven innings. He walked four and struck out eight.

Padres starter Eric Stults gave up two runs and seven hits over 6 1-3 innings. He walked two and struck out three.

Luke Gregerson (4-3) did not retire a batter, giving up two runs and four hits. He took over for Stults after Tony Abreu singled with one out in the seventh.

Pinch-hitter Hector Sanchez also singled ahead of Blanco’s triple, which one-hopped the fence in right-center field. Scutaro followed with an RBI single and Buster Posey singled before Tyson Ross came on to strike out Pence and Joaquin Arias. He also struck out the side in the eighth.

Jake Dunning pitched the eighth and Sergio Romo worked the ninth for his 18th save in 21 chances.

The benches cleared briefly in the second inning when Guzman took a few steps toward the mound after a pitch from Bumgarner sailed behind his back.

Venable hit his 10th home run of the season, a solo shot leading off the third to put the Padres ahead.

The Giants tied it with a run in the fourth. Belt’s looping fly ball down the left field line fell just out of the reach of the charging Kyle Blanks, allowing Pence to score from third.

Guzman led off the seventh with his third home run of the season and second in two games. He’s a .304 career hitter against left-handers and .429 (12 for 28) against Bumgarner.

Guzman, who made his major league debut with the Giants against the Padres, has hit four home runs in San Francisco, second only to eight in San Diego. He has no more than one in any other ballpark.

NOTES: The Padres put INF Everth Cabrera on the DL with a left hamstring injury and recalled OF Jaff Decker from Triple-A Tucson. … San Diego OF Carlos Quentin was not in the starting lineup for the fifth straight game. … Guzman hit home runs in consecutive games for the first time in his career. … Stults has pitched into the seventh inning in each of his last seven starts after doing so three times in his first eight. … RHP Jason Marquis (9-2, 3.63) goes for the Padres when they open a four-game series at home against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday. Marquis is working on an eight-game winning streak that dates to April 28. … RHP Chad Gaudin (2-1, 2.83) makes his fourth start of the season for the Giants Thursday, when the Miami Marlins visit to open a four-game series. Gaudin has not beaten the Marlins in three career starts. … Giants INF Brandon Crawford will likely miss two games as a result of swelling in two fingers on his right hand. … Giants OF Angel Pagan is scheduled to start a rehab assignment with San Jose on Thursday. Giants manager Bruce Bochy said Pagan could return as soon as this weekend. … San Francisco INF Pablo Sandoval will join San Jose on a rehab assignment on Saturday and could join the Giants in Los Angeles on Monday night. … The Giants, with 41,866 in attendance, recorded their 200th consecutive sellout.

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Bumgarner’s first pitch to Guzman sailed about belt-high, apparently in response to Guzman’s excessive celebration after hitting a pinch-hit home run Tuesday night.

Guzman jumped out of the way and then took several steps toward Bumgarner with his bat pointed at the pitcher. Giants catcher Buster Posey and plate umpire Tony Randazzo immediately stepped in front of Guzman.

Bumgarner walked toward home plate as players and coaches from both sides gathered around the area between home plate and the mound. Guzman was restrained along the first base line as order was restored and both teams warned. No one was ejected and no punches were thrown.

Guzman flied out to the warning track in left field. In the seventh inning, Guzman connected for a home run against Bumgarner to give the Padres a 2-1 lead.

The Giants ultimately won the game 4-2.

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Roman reportedly inked a two-year deal, which will take him through 2015.

Roman was a hot candidate this offseason for open coaching jobs and was probably undone only by the fact that San Francisco went so deep in the playoffs (teams filled their openings with available candidates before he could really get a chance to interview).

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Hundreds of members of Unite Here Local 2 and their supporters gathered outside the ballpark on Tuesday evening before the Giants’ game against the San Diego Padres, then dozens bought tickets to the game and came inside, police said.

The union, which represents the concession workers, is in a labor dispute with the team’s food and beverage subcontractor Centerplate for better wages, benefits and job security.

About 40 to 50 protesters staged a “sit-down” demonstration near the Gilroy Garlic Fries stand behind Section 119 during the game. When officers notified them that they were violating the ballpark’s fan code of conduct and asked them to leave, 10 refused and were arrested, police said.

The protesters were cited for trespassing and were released after being escorted out of the ballpark, according to police.

The Unite Here Local 2 concession workers, who launched a one-day strike during a game last month, were chanting to fans and encouraging them not to buy food at the concession stands, union spokeswoman Nischit Hegde said.

Hegde said the workers have not received a pay hike in three years despite two lucrative World Series wins by the Giants.

She said the union is asking for “wage increases and dignity,” including benches to sit on during work breaks.

Sam Singer, a spokesman for the subcontractor Centerplate, has said AT&T Park workers, who he said earn between $15 and $20 per hour, are the highest-paid staff in the concession business.

Giants spokeswoman Shana Daum has emphasized that the dispute is not with the team and that the organization is encouraging both sides to get back to the bargaining table to resolve their differences.

Hegde said the union and Centerplate met for negotiations last week but that the company “has pretty much dug in on their proposal.”

She said two more bargaining sessions are scheduled between the two sides next month.

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This just in: Winning a Stanley Cup is difficult.

Most of the current Bruins roster knows that firsthand, as two years ago they had to erase 2-0 and 3-2 deficits against Vancouver. They, of course, did that, forcing a Game 7 in Vancouver and winning 4-0 to earn that title. This year, it’s too early to say whether or not their season will have the same end result, but they’re unquestionably in a much better position to do it this time around.

But now, the real work begins. Nothing in the world was more important to the Bruins than winning Game 3 on Monday night. Now, it’s meaningless history, because anything short of a perfect effort Wednesday night in Game 4, and the balance of power in the series will shift right back to Chicago. While it may seem like the Bruins seized control of the series with Monday’s 2-0 win, the fact is that the Bruins have outscored the Blackhawks by just two goals over the course of nearly 13 full periods.

Now, nothing in the world is more important for the Bruins than winning Game 4, thereby inviting Lord Stanley’s Cup to the Windy City this weekend and putting a world of pressure on Chicago going forward. Here’s a look at how they can do it.

1. Survive Early
The greatest mystery of Game 3 was the impossible-to-explain appearance of the Blackhawks simply not giving an all-out effort. The Bruins likely deserve some credit for imposing their will and making it hard for Chicago, but overall, there was very little desperation on display by the Blackhawks. Once they fell behind by two goals, they looked like a team waiting to lose rather than one willing to fight to win — or at least try to win.

If this were an early round and if the Blackhawks were the clearly inferior team, it might be safe to assume they’d roll over and quit. But this is the Stanley Cup Final, and these Blackhawks were the best team the NHL had to offer all season long. They will not fade away quietly, and I expect them to come out guns a-blazing early on in Game 4.

For the Bruins, that might mean treating the first 10 minutes like a road game. If the Bruins can stick with their defensive game plan, limit Chicago opportunities, lay big hits whenever the opportunity presents itself, block shots and allow Tuukka Rask to see shots, keeping the Blackhawks off the board early may deflate their sails, allowing the Bruins to mount an attack of their own.

The Blackhawks are going to hit the ice looking to get an early goal and take the crowd out of the game. It’s up to the Bruins to withstand the surge.

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Mayor Chuck Reed said the clock on their patience finally ran out when it comes to the relocation of the A’s to San Jose and he said it was time to get the ball rolling.

“Four years is my utter limit of how long to be patient. As I’ve said before, you have to be patient and persistent, but eventually everybody reaches a limit. We’ve been at it for a very long time and it’s pretty clear that we’re not going to get an answer and we need to press the issue and stand up for our rights,” Reed said.

At least one councilman had been advocating for a suit against baseball for some time now.

Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone, who’s been battling for decades to bring Major League Baseball to the area, was glad to see the city stepping up and taking some action.

“It’s a great move by the city, long overdue. You know the one thing that baseball covets the more than anything else is the antitrust exemption,” said Stone

In a statement, MLB called the suit an unfounded attack on the fundamental structure of the game.

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SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) – Who knew Chuck Reed had that kind of curveball in his arsenal? San Jose’s mayor shocked Major League Baseball Tuesday by filing a lawsuit against Bud and his so-called “Blue Ribbon Committee.”

Here is the meat of the lawsuit.

“For years, MLB has unlawfully conspired to control the location and relocation of major league men’s professional baseball clubs under the guise of an ‘antitrust exemption’ applied to the business of baseball,” the lawsuit reads.

In short, Reed and the San Jose City Council are prepared to challenge baseball’s sacred antitrust exemption in court. A’s owner Lew Wolff is dancing a tightrope, saying publically he didn’t think litigation was a good idea. But in the privacy of his own bedroom, the guy is doing cartwheels. The A’s and San Jose have waited four years for the Blue Ribbon Committee to form some conclusion as a possible relocation to San Jose. One Giants executive told me that the committee’s silence was a finding in itself.

So let’s cut through the ribbon BS and get right to the point. San Jose doesn’t want to litigate this thing. Baseball surely doesn’t want to go to court on the remote possibility that Justice Scalia turns out to be an A’s fan. No, what San Jose is doing is pushing the go button. After four years of silence, baseball will have finally be forced to act, or else. What action? There are really only two options.

First, the A’s and baseball hand over an outrageous ransom to the Giants who then forfeit their territorial rights. Second, the Giants hold firm in their refusal and force the lawsuit to go to court. If you’re scoring at home, the antitrust exemption has been challenged twice in court in 1953 and 1972, both times being upheld. But times are different and MLB knows it.

Baseball’s special rule came into play in 1922 when the court ruled that baseball is not interstate commerce that Congress can regulate. But that was 91 years ago and much has changed; Certainly enough to challenge the rule all the way to the Supreme Court. Does baseball really want to risk that? Sure, it could take years and the A’s could move elsewhere.

Does anyone wonder why baseball teams rarely relocate, while other leagues move from city to city like families who find new jobs? It’s because the antitrust exemption gives absolute power to baseball’s owners. It is the owners who refused the Giants sale to a Tampa group in 1992. Take away the exemption, take away the power.

The chances of baseball losing the exemption over this lawsuit? I’ll give it five percent. Let’s be honest. Congress and the courts have far more pressing matters than an A’s baseball stadium in San Jose. It’s less about the lawsuit than it is about the threat. But the thought of Chuck Reed and his gang council people taking on mighty MLB could make for must-see TV.

See you on TV.

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A couple more performances like this one, and it’s going to be hard to return him to the minors.

Perez threw out a runner at the plate and then hit a tiebreaking single with two outs in the eighth, helping the Giants end the San Diego Padres’ seven-game winning streak with a 5-4 victory on Tuesday night.

“He’s been quite the sparkplug that we seemed to have needed,” said Sergio Romo, who pitched the ninth for his 17th save. “He’s showing us who he is and what he can do, and that’s what you like to see out of young guys like that.”

Perez was initially called up as a temporary fix while Pagan recovered from a hamstring strain, but the rookie is batting .421 (8 for 19) in seven games since joining the Giants on June 7. Defensively, he already has four assists.

With Pagan possibly beginning a rehabilitation assignment this week, San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy could have a dilemma on his hands.

“We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it but you have to like the things that (Perez) is doing,” Bochy said. “He’s doing all he can to stay here, I’ll say that. As soon as Angel’s ready to go, we’ll probably have a tough decision to make.”

Buster Posey started the San Francisco comeback with a leadoff single. After Hunter Pence struck out, Brandon Belt doubled in pinch runner Andres Torres. Nick Noonan was intentionally walked and Joaquin Arias lined out to center before Perez rolled a single just past second baseman Logan Forsythe for the go-ahead score.

“I was just trying to put the ball in play and make something happen,” Perez said. “I just have to keep enjoying myself and try to help the team win. After that they’ll make the decision.”

Belt finished with three hits for the Giants, who moved into a second-place tie with Colorado in the NL West. Jean Machi (2-0) retired one batter for the win.

Perez’s clutch swing came after pinch hitter Jesus Guzman gave San Diego a 4-3 lead with a two-run homer in the top half of the inning.

“Every game we lose is tough; this is more so because we just moved into third place,” Guzman said. “This was a game we had to win, but in this ballpark it’s hard to beat those guys.”

Nick Hundley and Logan Forsythe homered for San Diego. The Padres entered with an NL-leading 17 come-from-behind wins and were in position to add to that total before the Giants rallied.

Perez also made a key play in the seventh when he threw out Mark Kotsay at home plate after Kotsay had doubled leading off the inning.

“He’s come up and really been a shot in the arm for us,” Bochy said of Perez. “He’s something we need right now.”

Marco Scutaro had two hits in his return to San Francisco’s lineup. Gregor Blanco and Posey also had two hits apiece.

The wild finish was in stark contrast to the first part of the game, when San Francisco ace Matt Cain and Andrew Cashner were locked in a pitchers’ duel.

Cain had a season-high 10 strikeouts in seven innings and was charged with two runs and six hits. He retired 15 straight at one point.

Cashner scattered 10 hits over 6 2-3 innings and allowed three runs. He struck out six and walked one.

“I threw the ball well, though there were a couple of pitches I’d like back,” Cashner said. “The big thing for me was to keep the ball on the ground because the wind was blowing out.”

San Francisco beat Cashner in his first start of the season and jumped on him early in this one.

Blanco drew a leadoff walk, stole second and took third on Scutaro’s comebacker. Posey then blooped a single into short right to drive in Blanco.

Belt and Noonan opened the fourth with back-to-back singles. Belt then scored on a double-play grounder to make it 2-0.

Cain was unable to hold onto the lead.

Coming off an impressive outing against Pittsburgh in his previous start, the right-hander retired 15 straight after allowing a single to Forsythe in the first. He was cruising until the sixth.

Hundley ended Cain’s run with his fifth homer of the season, a towering shot to left that made it 2-1. One out later, Forsythe belted a drive to left-center.

San Francisco’s defense provided a spark after Kotsay’s hit in the seventh. Chris Denorfia followed with a single to center but Perez threw out a sliding Kotsay at home.

Blanco hit an RBI single off Cashner in the seventh but the Padres grabbed the lead on Guzman’s second pinch-hit homer of the season.

NOTES: San Francisco SS Brandon Crawford left with two sprained fingers on his right hand after getting thrown out attempting to steal second in the second. … Giants All-Star 3B Pablo Sandoval (left foot strain) is expected to begin a rehab assignment with Class-A San Jose on Friday. The reigning World Series MVP took batting practice and fielded grounders before the game. … The Padres signed OF Ben Francisco to a minor league contract and assigned him to Triple-A Tucson. … San Diego OF Carlos Quentin (left shoulder) sat out his fourth straight game but is improving, manager Bud Black said. … Padres SS Everth Cabrera’s left hamstring showed no signs of improvement so the Padres plan to place him on the disabled list. … LHP Eric Stults (6-5) pitches the series finale for San Diego and has a 2.26 ERA over his last nine starts. LHP Madison Bumgarner (6-4) will go after his team-leading seventh win for the Giants. … San Francisco signed first-round draft pick Christian Arroyo. Arroyo, the 25th overall selection in the draft, batted .524 for Hernando High School in Brooksville, Fla.

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The lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in federal court, also challenges the territorial claims by the San Francisco Giants over the South Bay region. The Giants have objected to the A’s potential move on grounds they relied on territorial rights to the San Jose-area market when the Giants built their ballpark.

According to the suit, the City of San Jose says MLB has been dragging its feet in having owners vote on the A’s proposed move to San Jose.

• Timeline Of A’s Attempts To Move From Oakland Coliseum

The lawsuit says MLB has controlled the location of teams under the “guise” of an exemption to federal antitrust law. The lawsuit is disputing that exemption.

Peninsula attorney Joe Cotchett, the man who filed the lawsuit, told KCBS the suit would in essence state that MLB could not block a move by the Oakland A’s  to downtown San Jose.

“It’s going to cost the city millions of dollars in tax revenues. It’s all about economics, but more importantly it could bring over 1,000 jobs building the new stadium here,” said Cotchett. “It’s all about the commissioner of baseball denying for years now, the right [for] the 10^th largest city in the nation, San Jose, one of the fastest-growing cities.

“The NBA, the NFL, National Hockey League, none of them have the law saying that they’re not governed by the antitrust law. By the way, there’s no other industry, company, area of work that has an exemption to the antitrust laws,” said Cotchett.

Baseball’s antitrust exemption was granted by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1922, with the court ruling that baseball is not interstate commerce.

While baseball may have started as a local affair, it is “squarely in the realm of interstate commerce,” the lawsuit contends.

“MLB clubs ply their wares nationwide, games are broadcast throughout the country on satellite TV and radio, as well as cable channels and MLB clubs have fan bases that span from coast to coast,” the lawsuit says.

Four years ago, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig appointed a committee to study the San Jose move, and has deferred questions about the planned move to the committee.

He rejected a proposal earlier this year from San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed to sit down and talk about the A’s plans and said Reed’s reference to additional litigation at the time was “neither productive nor consistent with process that the Athletics have initiated under our rules.”

Major League Baseball spokesman Pat Courtney declined to comment. A’s owner Lew Wolff released a brief statement.

“I have no details,” Wolff said. “However, I am not in favor of legal action or legal threats to solve business issues.”

Wolff has said he is focused on a new stadium in San Jose rather than a move outside the Bay area. Wolff is allowed to consider other sites within the A’s territory—such as downtown Oakland—but approval from MLB would be needed for a move outside the territory.

Selig has previously said additional litigation over the A’s move would be unproductive.

The A’s current stadium is run down. Over the weekend the facility had plumbing problems which resulted in sewage leaking into the team locker rooms.

The pipes backed up on the lower levels of the stadium, creating a stink and pools of water in the clubhouses used by both teams and the umpires.

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Jarrod Parker (6-6) limited the Rangers to two runs and three hits over seven innings to improve to 4-0 his last five starts.

Darvish (7-3) struck out 10, increasing his majors-best total to 137, but still hasn’t won in more than a month. The ace from Japan is 0-2 in his last six starts, a stretch that began with a 1-0 loss to the Athletics on May 21, five days after his last win.

Moss put the A’s ahead to stay when his 13th homer led off the second. Jaso led off the next inning with his third homer and a 3-0 lead.

• San Jose Files Suit Against MLB For Stalling A’s Move

The Rangers got within 3-2 in the third when Ian Kinsler scored on a vicious collision at the plate, his face slamming into the mask of catcher Jaso while sliding feet-first. Kinsler needed three stitches near his left jaw and had blood on his jersey when he finally returned to the field to play second base.

But that was it for the Rangers a night after they snapped a six-game losing streak by winning the opener of the four-game set 8-7, and matching their run total during the skid.

Oakland (43-30) has a three-game division lead, and will leave Texas later this week still in first place.

After the start of the fourth was delayed while Kinsler got treatment, Josh Donaldson singled and Seth Smith doubled for the A’s. Donaldson scored on a wild pitch and Smith came home on first baseman Lance Berkman’s error.

Moss had a leadoff triple in the eighth, and scored on Donaldson’s sacrifice fly.

The only 1-2-3 inning for Darvish was the sixth, his last. He allowed five runs, four earned, and six hits. There were also two walks, a balk and that wild pitch and he fell to 1-4 in his career against Oakland, the only team that has beat him four times.

Darvish had a 2.08 ERA his previous five starts, including four consecutive no-decisions after that 1-0 loss to Oakland. His last win was 10-4 over Detroit and Justin Verlander on May 16.

The six-game stretch without a victory matches Darvish’s longest such streak during his seven seasons in Japan before coming to the major leagues last year.

Parker, 4-1 against Texas, struck out four and walked two.

Kinsler scored on a two-run single by A.J. Pierzynski. Kinsler was at second base and had to hold up momentarily to make sure the ball dropped before running and then was waved home by third base coach Gary Pettis.

The jarring hit jerked Kinsler’s head backward, but he reached over with his foot to touch the plate, picked up his helmet and got up to go back to the dugout. Home plate umpire Paul Nauert appeared to tell Kinsler about the cut, and rookie teammate Jurickson Profar cringed when he saw it.

While getting stitches, Rangers team physician Dr. Keith Meister also screened Kinsler for any concussion symptoms.

When Kinsler ran back onto the field, he had a bandage on his face and there were several spots of blood on the front of his jersey.

The blood-stained jersey conjured up the memory of Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan when he was hit on the mouth by a Bo Jackson comebacker on Sept. 8, 1990, and kept pitching with blood dripping onto his jersey. Ryan, now the Rangers’ CEO, was sitting in the front row near the Texas dugout on Tuesday night.

Notes: Oakland is 25-11 since May 11, best record in the majors during that stretch. … Jaso has reached based in 17 consecutive games, a career high. … It was Darvish’s 14th career 10-strikeout game. .. Texas starters have gone 17 games this month without a victory. That broke the team record of 16 in a row in 1975. … Rangers SS Elvis Andrus, hitting .167 his last 25 games, was given a day off by manager Ron Washington.

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Both will serve their suspensions Wednesday when the Rapids travel to Chicago. They each drew fines from the league as well.

Pareja drew a suspension when he left his area and entered the field of play. That automatically results in a suspension according to league policy. He will not be allowed to be on the sideline or in the locker room in Chicago.

Hendry was suspended for a reckless play on Earthquakes defender Steven Beitashour in the first half.

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Tournament officials have announced in a statement that a scheduling appearance will prevent the NBA hall of famer from playing in the 24th annual American Century Championship at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course July 19-21. No other details were released.

Jordan has played in 17 previous celebrity tournaments on the shores of Lake Tahoe. His best finish was ninth when he debuted in 1990. That was the summer before he consecutively won two of his career five NBA MVP awards.

Other regulars committed this year include Charles Barkley, Jerry Rice, John Elway and Ray Romano.

Michael Phelps, the 18-time Olympic swimming gold medal winner, plans to play for the first time.

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• 2000 The A’s begin initial discussion with Major League Baseball about moving the team to the South Bay.
• 2002 Ownership discusses possibility of a downtown Oakland stadium near City Hall.
• 2003 Lew Wolff takes over search for new Oakland Athletics stadium.
• 2004 Team explores possibility of building a stadium at the current site on top of the existing north parking lot.
• 2005 Wolff, now the team’s owner, throws support behind a new Oakland stadium project.
• 2006 Team announces intent to move to Fremont, allowing them proximity to the South Bay while not infringing on the San Francisco Giants’ territorial rights.
• 2009 A’s abandon plans to move to Fremont amid complications with the possible build site and switch target to downtown San Jose. Commissioner Bud Selig forms a committee to explore the feasibility of the San Jose move.
• 2010 funding problems with San Jose redevelopment agency threaten land purchase for proposed build site. Mayor Chuck Reed and Wolff vow to continue working to make Cisco Field, adjacent to the San Jose Sharks Arena, a reality.
• 2012 A’s push for commission decision and ownership vote on South Bay move;. Officials signal willingness to explore antitrust exemption lawsuit. Commissioner Selig makes comments viewed unfavorable to hopes for San Jose move.
• 2013 Wolff tells KPIX 5’s Dennis O’Donnell that San Jose is the only realistic option remaining for a new A’s Stadium in the Bay Area.

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Tucked away in the hills with a spectacular view of San Francisco Bay below, Lahna hustles along for several laps before stopping to stretch his left leg on a hurdle. A paratriathlete for five years, the 31-year-old native of Morocco has his sights set on the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro — a longtime goal.

Born without a femur in his right leg, Lahna has a tiny foot at about knee level that fits into a prosthetic which goes up to his hip. He has proximal femoral focal deficiency (PFFD), a birth defect that affects the hip and pelvis.

It has hardly slowed him down.

In April, Lahna competed in the Marathon of the Sands in his homeland, a grueling six-day foot race across the Moroccan Sahara.

“It’s hard, the marathon training,” he said. “It’s a dream I’ve had since I was little. It’s a big event in Morocco. I had a lot of family and a lot of people on Facebook supporting me. Still, every night I’m dreaming about it and it’s waking me up.”

And with only a handful of paratriathletes in Africa, Lahna sees a great opportunity to earn a spot in the Rio Games.

He has thought about this for a couple of decades now.

“Every time I saw the Paralympics on TV, I became very sad because I wasn’t there,” he said. “It touched me, every four years I had that. I’m trying for Rio. … There’s time, but not plenty of time. Next year we will start the qualification process. Next year I have to be serious.”

Actually, his training regimen already is plenty impressive.

Lahna does two-a-day workouts every day but Friday, swimming in the morning — at either 5:45 or 6:45 before his wife goes to work — for an hour to 90 minutes, then runs or bikes in the evening once she is home for the night.

He also is the primary caretaker of his 1-year-old son, Adam, who comes along on occasion. During a workout this spring, Adam watched from his stroller. The baby, who turned 1 earlier this month, sucked on his thumb and made gargling noises.

They push on together each day.

Lahna met his Canadian wife, Ru Chen, when he attended a 2009 training camp in Atlanta and she was a student in prosthetics and volunteered for the event. She spoke French, and wound up as his translator, too.

“I wasn’t the greatest interpreter, but we got by,” Chen recalled. “After that camp, we kept in touch through the Internet and the rest is history. We got married, had a baby, and now we’ve finally got the green card issues behind us. So far, it’s worked out pretty well.”

Yet life is a tricky balancing act, with vacations scheduled around Lahna’s competition schedule around the world. Lahna received his green card in December 2011.

Often people born with his condition in the United States will have the tiny foot removed. But, he said, they didn’t know any better in Morocco when he was young.

“I can’t amputate it now. I like it,” he said with a grin.

When a friend told Lahna about triathlons in 2005, he asked for the details to be written down so he could research the event featuring swimming, cycling and a run at the end. He had already been a steady swimmer and hoped to make the Paralympics. He entered his first triathlon in 2008.

“It took me three years to do my first triathlon. At this time I didn’t know that I could run, so I was looking for a racing wheelchair for the running leg, but I couldn’t get one because it’s so expensive,” Lahna recalled.

Eventually, his friend, Patrice Ascargorta, worked to build him a prosthetic leg.

Lahna now swims at the on-campus San Mateo Athletic Club. He is training for his fourth world championships, in London this September. He was a silver medalist in 2011, then finished a disappointing seventh last year.

This weekend, he will compete in a paratriathlon World Cup event in Edmonton, then the New York triathlon next month.

“I’ve been swimming for a long time,” he said. “I just kick with my left leg. It’s easier. All my energy and speed comes from my upper body.”

Lahna lacks the support system of the able-bodied Moroccan athletes, though he is doing his part to change that. His travel expenses for the world championships will be covered, but otherwise he is all but on his own. He does receive support in the form of a grant from the Challenged Athletes Foundation and is fortunate to have a volunteer coach who loves the cause.

“It makes me very sad,” he said. “I try to push for it just to be fair. I need support to continue to be competitive. I don’t go just to qualify. This is my goal.”

A graphic designer for seven years back home before moving permanently to the Bay Area last year, Lahna will learn how to become a technician through a part-time job with a prosthetics company.

Lahna’s father, Mustafa, is a taxi driver in Morocco. He had a disabled client who is a Paralympic swimmer, and used his example to motivate his son — the oldest of five children.

“He took me to the pool when I was 12 or 13,” Lahna said. “My parents treated me as a normal kid, which is something you don’t see a lot in Morocco. When you have a kid with a disability, they treat them differently. … I’m not like that. I thank my dad and my mom for that. It helped a lot. When I was little, we played in the street with other kids. I played soccer and rode a bike. I can’t pedal, so I’d do the downhill.”

His brother, Salah, remembers a bike trip in which Lahna carried both of their gear on his mountain bike to make it easier for Salah during his first big ride.

“I saw in him a person who does not know the word impossible, a person who brings on challenges to achieve day after day,” Salah said.

Still, there were plenty of occasions Lahna became frustrated with the limitations — and grew tired of the constant teasing he endured along the way.

“My mom told me many times that I came home crying because of that,” he said. “But I grew up with that. Everything’s good now.”

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BOSTON (AP) — Five things learned in the Boston Bruins’ win over the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals Monday night:

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SUPAH TUUKKA: Tuukka Rask is proving the Bruins right for putting their faith in him. Rask watched the Bruins’ entire 2011 Stanley Cup run from the bench while Tim Thomas led Boston to the NHL title, winning the Conn Smythe Trophy in the process. But after the enigmatic Thomas decided to take a year off from playing there’s been no drop-off. Rask’s numbers this postseason are even better than Thomas’ were two years ago: 14-5 with a .946 save percentage and a 1.64 goals-against average. (Thomas was 16-9, .940, 1.98). Rask had 28 saves Monday night to post his third shutout of the playoffs and extend his shutout streak to more than 122 minutes. He’s the biggest reason the Bruins are ahead 2-1 in the series.

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LIVELY LINE: The revamped third line of Daniel Paille, Chris Kelly and Tyler Seguin paid off for the second straight game. Boston coach Claude Julien bumped Paille up from the fourth line in Game 2 and he ended up scoring the winner in overtime. Kelly scored Boston’s other goal in the 2-1 win and assisted on Paille’s goal Monday that put the Bruins up 1-0. “I think we are just putting pucks on net and reading plays,” Paille said. “I think we are managing the puck a little bit better. Just on my goal, you saw Kells go in, and I went in and then I shot. I think we are just not giving them enough time to think with the puck and we are able to get it.” Kelly and Paille also drew penalties that led to Patrice Bergeron’s goal with 5:55 left in the second, giving the Bruins a 2-0 lead. “We’re having fun. The three of us are working hard and having fun, which is nice,” Kelly said. “It’s always fun, but some days are more fun than others.” Indeed.

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FACE-OFF FOLLIES: Patrice Bergeron won 24 faceoffs on Monday night. That’s eight more than Chicago won as a team, and nobody had a worse night in the circle for the Blackhawks than Michal Handzus, who was a perfect 0-for-10 for a Bluto-like average of 0.00. “That’s definitely something that we take a lot of pride in and we talk about a lot,” Bergeron said. “We have some really good centermen, so it’s not just about the four centers, it’s about everyone on the ice chipping in and helping to get those battles.”

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DAVE’S NOT HERE: Chicago defenseman Dave Bolland had a rough night. He was called for three of Chicago’s six penalties and made two mistakes that helped lead to Boston’s two goals. The first was a turnover that led to Paille’s goal 2:13 into the second period. The second was cross-checking Kelly into the net and Chicago goalie Corey Crawford with 8:00 left in the second. A second Chicago penalty led to a brief 5-on-3 for Boston. Bolland was out of the penalty box, but didn’t have time to get back into the play before Bergeron put Boston up 2-0 with 5:55 left in the second. Chicago coach Joel Quenneville didn’t have much to say about Bolland after the game. “Haven’t talked to him yet,” Quenneville said. “We’ll reassess and reevaluate the game.”

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HISTORY MAY NOT HELP: The Chicago Blackhawks trailed the Detroit Red Wings 3-1 in the Western Conference finals then won the next three games. So a 2-1 deficit against the Boston Bruins certainly isn’t too big to overcome. It’s just that one comeback may not be the same as another. “I think they’re a little bit different team than Detroit was,” Chicago goaltender Corey Crawford said of the Bruins. “They’re able to sit back and wait for us to collapse defensively. You can’t block everything. But we made some plays, we had some good shots and had a couple of the chances went just wide.”

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After nearly three full games (13 periods), the Bruins and Blackhawks got past their pleasantries and engaged in a full-on brawl in the waning seconds of Game 3.

With roughly 20 seconds to go and the Bruins leading 2-0, Zdeno Chara dumped Bryan Bickell to the ice on front of the Boston net. Bickell tugged on Chara’s jersey and then cross-checked the much taller defenseman in the side.

Had the cross-check come in the middle of the game, Chara no doubt would have let it go without responding. Such is the price one pays while protecting the front of the net. However, with the game in hand, Chara decided to send a message to the Blackhawks that if they want to camp out in front of the net, they’re going to have to pay a price.

Chara clobbered Bickell, smothering him into the ice and remaining on top of him for several seconds until a sea of white and black sweaters converged upon them.

Out of the scrum emerged Brad Marchand and Andrew Shaw, who said before the series that he’d like to model his game after the pesky Bruins winger. Neither player landed any punches while standing, but after they wrestled each other to the ground, Shaw delivered a heavy right punch to Marchand, who was lying on his back on the ice. It may have violated “the code,” but it likely just canceled out Chara’s bullying of Bickell.

Given there’s so much at stake during these games, it’s almost a guarantee that neither team will be going out of its way to retaliate or threaten to drop the gloves in Game 4 and beyond — at least not unless a game is pretty much over, like it was in Game 3.

Regardless, messages were sent loud and clear. The Blackhawks, who could not generate any traffic in front of Tuukka Rask all game, know they’re going to have to endure a certain level of punishment if they hope to accomplish that. And both ways, the Bruins and Blackhawks know that they won’t be receiving Christmas cards with friendly holiday greetings from each other come December.

Game 4 will take place Wednesday night at the TD Garden.

After playing four extra periods in the first two games, the Bruins made an early night of it with second-period goals by Daniel Paille and Patrice Bergeron to win 2-0 and take a 2-1 lead in the Stanley Cup finals.

Rask stopped 28 shots for his third shutout of the 2013 playoffs.

Corey Crawford made 33 saves for the Blackhawks.

Game 4 is Wednesday night in Boston before the matchup of Original Six teams returns to Chicago for a fifth game. The teams split the first two games there, with the Blackhawks winning Game 1 in triple-overtime and the Bruins stealing home-ice advantage on Paille’s goal in the first OT of the second game.

But this time the intrigue came before the opening faceoff instead of after the end of regulation.

Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara and Chicago forward Marian Hossa were both injured during warmups. But while Chara needed just some stitches after his collision with teammate Milan Lucic, Hossa was a late scratch with an unspecified injury.

Hossa, who has three game-winning goals in the playoffs this year, was tied for the team lead with 15 playoff points and was third on the Blackhawks with 17 goals during the regular season.

It was a loss the Blackhawks couldn’t afford.

Not with Rask stopping everything that came his way.

The Bruins’ goalie, who was a backup to Conn Smythe-winner Tim Thomas in the team’s 2011 Stanley Cup run, didn’t face as difficult a test as in the first period of Game 2, when the Blackhawks sent 19 shots at him but managed just one goal. But he stymied them all game and got some help from the post on Bryan Bickell’s shot with 42 seconds left in the game.

The puck caromed off the right post and the goal light flickered on briefly, but play continued for another 30 seconds before the whistle blew and the game degenerated into fisticuffs. Chara was on top of Viktor Stalberg, pounding away, and Andrew Shaw got the better of Brad Marchand.

By the time it was all sorted out, the benches were a little emptier but the scoring column for Chicago was still blank.

After a scoreless first period, the Bruins made it 1-0 when Paille slapped in the puck at 2:13 of the second, falling to one knee for extra power. It stayed that way until late in the second, when the Bruins picked up their first power plays of the game on two nearly identical plays, with a Bruin racing to the net and a Blackhawk undercutting his skates and sending him crashing into the left post.

Boston set up their offense during the 11-second two-man advantage, and just five seconds after it expired — but before Dave Bolland was able to get back into the play — Jaromir Jagr slid one across the middle, past Lucic in the center to Bergeron on the other side for the easy one-timer.

It was Jagr’s 197th career playoff point in 199 games, moving him into sole possession of fifth place on the NHL’s all-time postseason points list.

Notes: Jagr had been tied with Paul Coffey on the career postseason scoring list. … Two of Jagr’s playoff points came on goals scored against the Blackhawks when they were swept by Penguins in 1992 final. … Boston’s Gregory Campbell, who broke his leg blocking a shot in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals, attended the game. … The Bruins have killed off 27 straight penalties in the playoffs. … Boston’s David Krejci entered the game tied with Chicago’s Andrew Sharp for the most goals in the postseason with nine. The Bruins center entered the game leading all scorers with 23 points. … The Bruins are attempting to win a Cup for the second time in three seasons for the third time in their history. They also did it in 1939 and ’41 and again in 1970 and ’72. … Bruins won their seventh straight home playoff game. … The Blackhawks fell to 3-5 on the road in the postseason. … Ben Smith, who played just one game this regular season and none in the playoffs, replaced Hossa in the lineup. … Stalberg replaced Brandon Bollig in the lineup for Chicago.

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“When you take the age and how long it would take to adjust, he’s run out of time,” Madden said. Beckham is 38. “Obviously he can get the kicking part of it you would assume relatively quickly. But you have to get the timing. It goes with the snap from the center, to the holder and the hold, and the rush and all that. That takes awhile, like a couple of years. You just don’t go in and say ‘I played soccer therefore I can kick a field goal.’”

Madden said starting as a kickoff specialist would be much easier.

“That would be a start… Field goals would be much more difficult,” he said.

Signing a European super star would fit with the NFL’s expansion plans.

“They’re pushing harder than ever to get over there (to Europe),” John said. “That’s a big thing for (the NFL). Eventually they’d like to have a couple of teams over there. That doesn’t seem real practical, but I do know that the NFL and owners are pushing for that to happen.” (7:05)

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Well, Crosby’s not even doing the complaining himself, leaving his agent, Pat Brisson, to be his mouthpiece. As Damien Cox of the Toronto Star passed along on Friday, “Sidney Crosby’s agent is convinced Zdeno Chara of the Bruins intentionally punched Crosby where he had broken his jaw in Game 1. Nasty.”

Game 1, in case you have forgotten, took place two full weeks before the agent spread the word. The reason may be because it took a while to not only find footage of the “punch” but to then display in slow-motion in such a way that it looked to be a heavy blow to the jaw. In real speed, Chara’s “punch” of Crosby was nothing more than a shove with his left arm, which only came after Crosby had grabbed the back of Chara’s shoulder pads following a whistle in front of the Boston net.

But in super slow-motion, and with some sort of mega zoom, Crosby and his agent were convinced that Chara had purposefully taken the time to carefully target Crosby’s exposed jaw with a direct jab in the middle of a scrum. And so they gathered the video and sent it along to TSN, which was happy to “report” on the wretched assault on hockey’s golden boy. (TSN’s Darren Dreger actually took Chara aside to show him the video. Chara is in the middle of playing for the Stanley Cup.)

The play in question came just five minutes into Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals. Tuukka Rask covered a puck, and Chara shoved Brenden Morrow out of the crease. Crosby reached out with his left hand and grabbed the back of Chara’s neck. Chara turned, saw Crosby grabbing onto him, and shoved him with his left hand to separate himself from Crosby. The Penguins’ captain did not let go of the Bruins’ captain, and after exchanging a few words, they were eventually separated by officials.

While the Zapruder-esque slow-motion footage provided by TSN looks damning for Chara, the video at regular speed (uploaded to YouTube by user @dafoomie) of the “incident” shows it for it is: nothing.

First and foremost, if Crosby’s jaw was not able to withstand the punishment that takes place during Stanley Cup playoff games, then the plastic shield guarding his jaw should never have been removed from his helmet. But it was, and that’s not any opponent’s fault.

“[Team doctors are] comfortable with it coming off, being hit and things like that,” Crosby said of the removal of his face shield prior to the series against the Bruins, thereby indicating his jaw was OK.

If Crosby wanted special treatment due to an injury from which doctors determined he had already recovered, then he shouldn’t have been on the ice at all.

Secondly, and perhaps worst of all, is the fact that this may be the first time in history that a hockey player has complained publicly about generic post-whistle roughhousing two weeks after it happened. Hockey is a man’s game, played by self-respecting tough guys who can get gashed open by a skate blade and still pretend like it doesn’t hurt. And yet, there is Crosby, upset he was shoved by a man whom he had grabbed seconds earlier. Accusing Chara of targeting his jaw two weeks after the fact is no doubt an unprecedented move in hockey’s rich history. (Continued…)

The “intentional” assault on Crosby’s jaw was used to explain why the 25-year-old was so upset at the end of the second period of that game. On his way off the ice after the second with the Bruins leading 1-0, Crosby said something to Chara, drawing a laugh from the 6-foot-9 defenseman. Crosby then bumped into Rask and appeared willing to get into a jousting match with the netminder. Then, after Evgeni Malkin and Patrice Bergeron fought each other and fell to the ice, Crosby and Chara confronted each other at the center ice faceoff dot. They exchanged words, with Chara leaning over to look Crosby eye-to-eye, and they eventually walked to their respective locker rooms.

Crosby went on to be held without a single point as his Penguins were swept by the Bruins.

Crosby did sort of refer to the play in question after the game.

“They’re letting a lot go out there, and the more it gets like that, the more it’s going to escalate,” Crosby said of the referees, who penalized him for interference as well as slashing in Game 1. “You can only control and channel that stuff so much. You keep letting guys do that stuff, you’re just going to push the envelope. That’s something we obviously want to stay away from, but it’s kind of a natural thing when it gets like that.”

Crosby might not have referred to the “punch” specifically at the time, because he knew his video team would need some time to rewrite history before it went public.

Just like the many instances of Crosby doing things on the ice that the most talented player in the world does not need to be doing, it’s disappointing to see. It’s why those of us who had hoped we were seeing the next Wayne Gretzky or Mario Lemieux have come to terms with the fact that we simply are not. Crosby may be more talented than anyone else on the planet, but the more he gets caught up in nonsense like this instead of simply dominating hockey games, the less likeable he becomes.

That shift Crosby had in double overtime of Game 3 in Boston, when he lost his helmet and went on a determined rampage to try to score the game-winning goal? That’s the Crosby we all want to see. Knowing he’s capable of that but seeing him get tangled up in this is what makes it so difficult to embrace Crosby as this generation’s greatest player.

By coming out and not only claiming a regular post-whistle shove was a direct punch but also claiming Chara purposely targeted an injured jaw is a legitimately low and contemptible action by Crosby, who continues to act like he is bigger than the game. Hopefully some day, he’ll learn he is not.

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Venable’s diving grab on the center-field warning track with his back to home plate ended the 12th and stole a game-winning hit from Juan Perez.

Moments later, Alexi Amarista started the winning rally with a single and went to third on Chris Denorfia’s single. Cashner came up to face Jose Mijares (0-1) and dropped down a bunt single between the mound and third base for his sixth career hit and second RBI.

San Diego added another run on a bases-loaded walk from Jake Dunning.

Nick Vincent (1-0) pitched two scoreless innings. Huston Street finished the 4-hour, 35-minute game for his 14th save in 15 chances. It was San Francisco’s longest game of the year.

The Padres finally came through after they had two runners on and one out in the 11th and 12th, but Giants relievers Sandy Rosario and Javier Lopez got a pair of strikeouts to end each threat.

Headley hit a tying single in the seventh against Jean Machi, who induced an inning-ending double play by Jesus Guzman to avoid further damage.

The Giants (35-34) couldn’t hold a 3-1 lead for Barry Zito and dropped into fourth place in the NL West for the first time since April 8.

Forsythe had his first three-hit game this year for San Diego, swept in San Francisco’s waterfront ballpark April 19-21.

Joaquin Arias hit a sacrifice fly, Brandon Belt and Hector Sanchez each had an RBI single and Perez added two hits and a defensive gem on a night when the road-weary, injury-plagued Giants sent out a lineup largely of backups.

They landed in San Francisco about 3 a.m. Monday after a night game in Atlanta, showed up late to the ballpark and didn’t take batting practice before the game. San Francisco just completed a grueling stretch with 14 of 18 games away from AT&T Park.

Zito struck out a season-high eight and got back on track at home where he pitches so well, but had nothing to show for it as the Padres rallied against the bullpen. The lefty walked off to a standing ovation from the sellout crowd with two outs in the sixth and runners on first and third.

Machi relieved and threw a wild pitch that allowed a run to score, then retired pinch-hitter Nick Hundley on a groundout. Machi has allowed a run in six straight outings and 10 of his last 11.

Zito had his most strikeouts since getting 10 against Atlanta on Aug. 6, 2010.

Padres starter Edinson Volquez struck out six in five innings. He doubled leading off the third and scored on Denorfia’s double for San Diego’s first run.

San Francisco shortstop Brandon Crawford went 1 for 6 while batting third for the first time this season.

Manager Bruce Bochy was asked before the game why he used Crawford there.

“Crawford asked me the same thing,” Bochy said. “I just said, `Maybe I got into the wine too much last night.”‘

NOTES: San Diego is still waiting to determine whether SS Everth Cabrera and OF Carlos Quentin will need a stint on the disabled list. Cabrera came out of Sunday’s game after the eighth inning with a left hamstring injury. Quentin missed his third straight game Monday because of left shoulder soreness. … Giants 3B Pablo Sandoval (strained left foot) and CF Angel Pagan (strained left hamstring) are expected to be activated for the start of a series at Dodger Stadium beginning next Monday. Sandoval played catch and hit in the cage without a walking boot Monday. He is tentatively slated to begin a rehab assignment Friday with Class-A San Jose, and Pagan will likely go out on rehab soon, too. … San Francisco reliever Santiago Casilla, who had right knee surgery, is expected to throw off a mound within a week. … San Francisco hosted second-round draft pick INF-RHP Ryder Jones. His late grandfather, Ron Brown, who died last August of cancer, was a huge Giants fan. “This is so cool, because he would have loved this,” said Jones’ mother, Tiffani, fighting tears in the dugout. … The Giants are 20-12 against the NL West. … RHP Matt Cain (5-3) pitches Tuesday night for the Giants against Cashner (5-3).

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The pipes backed up on the lower levels of the stadium during Oakland’s 10-2 victory, creating a stink and pools of water in the clubhouses used by both teams and the umpires.

The A’s and Mariners moved to a higher floor and cleaned up postgame in the locker room occupied by the Oakland Raiders during NFL games.

Coliseum officials said the six-day homestand, which drew 171,756 fans, overtaxed the plumbing system at the 47-year-old stadium.

“Make sure everybody finds out about this sewage thing,” Oakland starter A.J. Griffin said. “We need to get a new stadium.”

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that leaking pipes and backed up drains occur often, even on days when the Coliseum is empty. The field is 22 feet below sea level, and the clubhouse level is 3 feet below sea level.

A’s team president Michael Crowley told the Chronicle, “It’s clear, right? This isn’t the first time this has happened.”

Several Mariners left without showering. Towels were used to block sewage from running into the players’ general dressing area.

Seattle manager Eric Wedge’s office had about a foot of liquid, forcing him to hold his postgame news conference in the hallway.

The A’s, who start a road trip in Texas on Monday night, will likely have new carpeting when they return. The extent of the damage isn’t known yet.

There were visible wet spots around every drain on the ground floor, though the main damage was to the locker rooms and storage areas.

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The Rangers had scored only eight runs during what was the longest active skid in the majors, and all six losses came at home.

Cruz’s second homer was a two-run shot onto the hill in straightaway center field on an 0-2 pitch from Jesse Chavez (1-1) in the fifth. Cruz thrust his right arm into the air and shouted out while rounding the bases on his 18th homer of the season. It came right after Pierzynski’s RBI double and put the Rangers up 7-6.

Cruz added a run-scoring double in the seventh and matched his season high with four RBIs.

Oakland, which entered the four-game series opener with a three-game lead over the Rangers in the AL West, wiped out an early 3-0 deficit with a six-run fourth ignited by a bizarre play.

Neal Cotts (3-1) went 2 1-3 perfect innings in relief of rookie Nick Tepesch. Robbie Ross and Tanner Scheppers each worked 1-2-3 innings, then Joe Nathan gave up a run before securing his 21st save in 22 chances.

After being held to two runs or less in a team record-matching six games in a row, the Rangers took care of that streak in the first three innings. Pierzynski pulled a two-run homer off the right-field foul pole in the second, an inning before an RBI double by Ian Kinsler. That was Kinsler’s first hit in 10 at-bats since coming off the disabled list Saturday after missing 25 games with a rib cage injury.

The Rangers’ eight runs and 12 hits were both their most in 16 games this month.

Cruz, who had his 10th career multihomer game, hit a solo shot in the fourth.

In the Oakland fourth, Yoenis Cespedes hit a grounder that ricocheted off third baseman Adrian Beltre toward shortstop. Elvis Andrus was about to throw to first when he saw John Jaso running in front of him toward third.

Andrus threw to Beltre, who made a swiping attempt at a tag. Jaso, sliding headfirst in front of him, lifted his arm into the air to avoid the tag and then dived into the base with his left hand. He was called safe by third base umpire Jordan Baker even though it appeared his hand came off the bag while being tagged. Beltre was irate and manager Ron Washington even came out to argue the call.

Tepesch then allowed three hits and a walk to the next four hitters, including a two-run single by Seth Smith, who scored on Jed Lowrie’s double. Eric Sogard had a sacrifice fly and Coco Crisp’s RBI single made it 6-3 and chased Tepesch.

Oakland rookie Dan Straily had a 2.21 ERA in his previous five starts, a stretch that began at Texas on May 21 when the right-hander worked seven scoreless innings and faced 22 batters — one more than the minimum for that span — in a 1-0 win over Yu Darvish.

Straily hadn’t allowed a homer in his last six starts and 38 innings until Pierzynski went deep. The first of Cruz’s two homers came off him.

Cruz was the first batter faced by Chavez when he took over for Straily, who allowed six runs and eight hits over 4 2-3 innings.

NOTES: Cespedes started his fourth consecutive game as Oakland’s DH after missing two games because of left hamstring tightness. Manager Bob Melvin wants to see him in the field during batting practice before putting him back in the outfield. … Rangers starting pitchers have gone 16 games in a row without a victory this month, matching a team record set in 1975. … The Rangers have signed their top 13 draft picks after coming to terms Monday with right-hander Cole Wiper from Oregon, their 10th-round selection.

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Vogelsong broke two bones in his right pinkie area and also dislocated a knuckle in the hand on a swing May 20 and underwent surgery the next day. He had five pins inserted in his hand during the procedure at Stanford, performed by orthopedist Dr. Tim McAdams. He will examine Vogelsong on Tuesday at AT&T Park.

“Other than waving a magic wand to make it heal, we’re doing the right things,” Vogelsong said Monday, before the opener of a three-game series with San Diego.

The expected recovery time is six to eight weeks until Vogelsong is pitching again, but he likely would need a rehab assignment before re-joining the Giants.

Vogelsong said that if an X-ray on Tuesday shows increased healing, he could have a couple of the pins removed and begin additional mobility exercises. The pins poke through Vogelsong’s skin beneath a protective brace.

“Hopefully there’s some pins coming out tomorrow,” he said. “That’s the plan, but obviously I don’t know for sure until I get some X-rays tomorrow and see how things are healing. It’s good news, but I’m a little worried about getting pins pulled out of my hand. It’ll be a good thing. I’ll get over it. I should be able to start moving it around a little bit more.”

The journeyman Vogelsong, a 2011 All-Star who received an $8.3 million, two-year contract in January 2012, was hurt on a swing when he chased an inside fastball from Washington’s Craig Stammen during an 8-0 victory against the Nationals last month.

He is 2-4 with a 7.19 ERA in nine starts this season, but was injured during his best outing of the year. Vogelsong won three games during the postseason last fall for the World Series champion Giants, including one during a 4-0 sweep of the Tigers for the team’s second championship in three years.

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This season’s winner is Pittsburgh Penguins’ center Sidney Crosby.

Crosby wins his second Lindsay Award after posting 56 points in just 36 games, before breaking his jaw and missing the team’s final 12 games.

“It is nice to be recognized by the guys that you play against,” Crosby said. “I think it’s obviously a compliment.”

The Penguins’ captain returned to the form he had reached before his concussion issues began at Heinz Field during the Winter Classic in 2011.

“I was well rested,” Crosby joked. “I got [back] to the level that I wanted to.”

Crosby was also nominated for the Hart Trophy, which is the official league MVP. That award went to the Washington Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin.

Crosby wanted to win, but said losing out on the award will not cause him any lost sleep.

Crosby’s teammate, Kris Letang was nominated for the Norris Trophy as the league’s top defenseman. The award was given to Montreal’s P.K. Subban.

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Maybe they sensed that there would still be a lot more hockey before the night was over.

Ten periods into their championship series, the Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks headed to Boston for Game 3 on Monday night. No one would be surprised if this one’s as close as the first two.

“I think it’s pretty much what everybody expected,” Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask said Sunday. “I mean, I don’t know if anybody expected to go to triple overtime the first game, but still it’s been tight, one-goal games. That’s usually how the playoffs go.”

Neither team skated on the off-day on Sunday, instead choosing to conserve their energy after playing four extra periods while trading overtime victories that left the series tied at one game.

“It’s a lot about getting your rest,” Blackhawks defenseman Duncan Keith said after arriving in Boston about an hour late because of air traffic. “It’s not rocket science, you just get sleep and do as best you can and do all those little things to get ready to go.”

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After their triple overtime win in Game 1, the Blackhawks dominated the first period of Game 2, outshooting the Bruins 19-4. Heading off the ice for the first break, Tyler Seguin ditched the microphone he had been wearing as part of the TV broadcast.

Then he went back into the dressing room so the team could hash out its problems in peace.

“It was really a mix of everybody saying something,” Seguin said. “I definitely knew it was coming, so I threw my shoulder pads in the training room and put a towel over it so no one could hear what we were saying. I think we needed that team wake-up call.”

Only Rask prevented things from getting worse.

“Not much needed to be said after that first period,” said Chris Kelly, who was one of the more vocal players in the dressing room.

“I think Tuukka pointed out that was a pretty terrible period by our team. If it wasn’t for Tuukka, it would have been a lot worse.”

Neither Kelly nor coach Claude Julien nor any of the other Bruins would divulge what was said in the room.

But something snapped them out of their funk.

“Claude came in a little bit later, but I think we were all equally upset about that first period,” said Daniel Paille, who scored at 13:48 of overtime to end it.

“Definitely, Claude let us know and it was a way for us to wake up. And, also, players were keeping each other accountable, too, so it was good.”

Whatever was said, the Blackhawks managed only 15 shots over the next two-plus periods to Boston’s 24.

For the game, the Bruins had 50 hits — 10 by Milan Lucic — to 34 for Chicago.

“They’re in the Stanley Cup final for a reason,” Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane said. “It’s not like you’re going to have the momentum or dominate for three periods. Obviously, we’d love that.

“We know momentum is huge in the playoffs. You want to keep it as long as you can.”

But Blackhawks forward Dave Bolland said they relaxed after taking an early lead and dominating the first period. Another goal was disallowed when the referee lost sight of the puck and blew the whistle moments before it rolled under Rask and over the goal line.

Read: 5 Things We Learned In Game 2

“You always have to have your foot on the gas against this team,” Bolland said. “They’re a physical team. You see the guys they have. They’re a big team and they play hard and they’re going to hit, so you’ve got to be ready for that.”

Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said he didn’t think the team lost momentum by having an extra day off before Game 1 on Wednesday and Game 2 on Saturday.

“We had a great first period,” he said. “We did everything we wanted except get to two (goals).”

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