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Dodgers clinch NL West crown with shutout win vs. Giants
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
Clayton Kershaw pitched
the big-money Dodgers to
their third straight NL West
title, tossing a 1-hitter as Los
Angeles beat the San Fran-
cisco Giants 8-0 on Tuesday
night.
Kershaw allowed just a
third-inning single and
struck out 13, and the
Dodgers (88-69) advance
to face the NL East cham-
pion New York Mets in the
best-of-five NL Division Se-
ries.
Kershaw (16-7) finally got
the best of his 2015 nem-
esis in their fourth matchup
of the year, striking out the
side in order three times
and retiring the final 19
batters as the Dodgers
snapped a four-game los-
ing streak.
Don Mattingly’s Dodgers
earned a third straight play-
off berth for the first time in
franchise history, and did
so by snapping a seven-
game losing streak at AT&T
Park this year. It’s also their
sixth postseason berth in 10
years.
Justin Ruggiano and A.J. El-
lis hit back-to-back home
runs in the sixth to chase
World Series MVP Madison
Bumgarner (18-9), deny-
ing the Giants their first 19-
game winner in 18 years.
CUBS 4, REDS 1
CINCINNATI (AP) — Miguel
Montero doubled home
a pair of runs during Chi-
cago’s four-run first inning,
and Dan Haren pitched
into the eighth following a
long rain delay.
The Cubs already have
Court strikes down possible payments to college athletes
RALPH D. RUSSO
AP College Football Writer
A federal appeals court
struck down a plan to pay
college football and bas-
ketball players in a ruling
that NCAA leaders believe
supports their contention
that the athletes are stu-
dents and not profession-
als.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals agreed Wednes-
day that the NCAA’s use
of college athletes’ names,
images and likenesses
in video games and TV
Los Angeles Dodgers players celebrate after beating the San Francisco Giants in a baseball game
in San Francisco, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015. The Dodgers won 8-0 to clinch the National League West
division.
clinched a spot in the NL
wild-card game for their
first playoff berth since
2008. They trail Pittsburgh
by three games for home-
field advantage. The Pi-
rates’ game against first-
place St. Louis was rained
out on Tuesday.
The Reds lost their season-
high 10th in a row, their
longest slump since they
dropped 11 straight in 1998. times this season.
PHILLIES 4, METS 3
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Da-
rin Ruf hit a three-run hom- in relief of starter David Bu-
er, Odubel Herrera had
four hits and Philadelphia
snapped New York’s fran-
chise-record 11-game road
winning streak.
Lucas Duda hit two hom-
ers for the NL East cham-
pion Mets, who hadn’t lost
broadcasts violated anti-
trust laws, but vacated a
judge’s decision that would
have allowed schools to
make deferred cash pay-
ments to athletes of up to
$5,000 per year.
“The difference between
offering student-athletes
education-related com-
pensation and offering
them cash sums unte-
thered to educational ex-
penses is not minor; it is a require — players in the
quantum leap,” Judge Jay
Bybee wrote. “Once that
line is crossed, we see no
away from home since
Sept. 6, at Miami. Duda hit
a two-run shot off Ken Giles
on an 0-2 pitch in the ninth
before Giles retired Travis
d’Arnaud for his 14th save
in 18 chances.
Bartolo Colon (14-13) al-
lowed three runs and eight
hits in five innings for his first dys Vizcaino recorded his
loss to the Phillies since Aug.
30, 2014. He beat them four
Adam Loewen (1-0) retired
the only batter he faced
chanan to earn his first win
since 2007 with Baltimore.
The lefty struck out Duda
with runners on second and
third to end the fifth.
BRAVES 2, NATIONALS 1
ATLANTA (AP) — A.J. Pier-
zynski hit two home runs
basis for returning to a rule
of amateurism and no de-
fined stopping point.”
NCAA President Mark Em-
mert said: “That was a very,
very welcome decision
from our point.”
The NCAA had appealed
U.S. District Judge Claudia
Wilken’s 2014 decision in
the so-called O’Bannon
case to allow — but not
top division of college foot-
ball and in Division I men’s
basketball to be paid for
Thursday 1 October 2015
two runs in 6 2-3 innings. He
struck out four, walked one
and hit a batter.
DIAMONDBACKS 4, ROCK-
Associated Press IES 3 (11 INNINGS)
PHOENIX (AP) — Pinch-hit-
and rookie Matt Wisler ter Phil Gosselin singled in
threw seven strong innings the winning run after Colo-
as Atlanta beat Washing- rado reliever Brooks Brown
ton for just its fourth win in walked the bases loaded
17 tries against the Nats. in the 11th inning.
Wisler (7-8) picked up the Gosselin knocked in Paul
victory, giving up one run Goldschmidt from third
while striking out four and base with one out after
walking two. Rookie Aro- Brown (1-3), the eighth of
nine pitchers for the Rock-
eighth save in nine chanc- ies on the night, walked
es. With runners on first and the three batters he faced
second and no outs in the in the inning. A.J. Pollock,
ninth, Ian Desmond bunted Goldschmidt and David
into a 2-5-4 double play. Peralta reached base af-
Vizcaino then struck out ter Brown threw 11 straight
Matt den Dekker to end it. balls. Christian Friedrich
Tanner Roark (4-7), who re- gave up the winning hit.
joined the Nationals’ rota- Randall Delgado (7-4)
tion in September, took the pitched a scoreless top of
loss. He handled everyone the 11th.
in the Braves’ lineup except BREWERS 4, PADRES 3
Pierzynski, who was 3 for 3, SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jean
giving up just five hits and Segura hit a go-ahead,
two-run homer in the sixth
inning to help Jorge Lopez
win his major league debut.
Lopez (1-0) allowed three
runs and eight hits in five in-
nings, struck out seven and
walked two. The 22-year-
old’s contract was se-
lected a week earlier from
Double-A Biloxi, where he
went 12-5 with a 2.26 ERA in
24 starts.
The Brewers trailed 3-2 go-
ing into the sixth. Khris Davis
singled to left and Segura
hit a one-out homer off
Tyson Ross (10-12) into the
balcony on the third level
of the Western Metal Sup-
ply Co. Building in the left-
field corner.q
use of their names, images scholarship covered tuition,
and likenesses. The money room and board, books
would have been put in and fees. Now NCAA rules
a trust fund and given to allow schools to raise the
them when they left school. value to include other ex-
Wilken also ruled that those penses, such as travel, that
players should be com- come with attending col-
pensated with the full cost lege. Schools determine
of attendance. The NCAA their cost of attendance
in August began allowing using federal guidelines.
its member schools to pro- “There are elements of
vide an athletic scholarship (Wednesday’s) ruling that
that covers the full cost of are either unknown at this
attending college, though point or are things that we
officials say it should not be would tend to disagree with
mandated by the courts. the court,” Big 12 Commis-
Previously, an athletic sioner Bob Bowlsby said. q