WPPA / T-102 SPORTS / Thursday

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Florida's Josh Johnson shook off a five-game
winless streak and withstood two solo home runs over eight innings
to lead the Marlins past the Pirates 3-2 last night. Ryan Doumit
homered in the second and Andrew McCutchen hit his 11th with two
outs in the eighth, but the Pirates still dropped their ninth in 10
games.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - The Pittsburgh Pirates have sent right-hander
Chris Jakubauskas outright to Triple-A Indianapolis after
reinstating him from the 60-day disabled list and removing him from
their 40-man roster. Jakubauskas sustained a concussion when he was
hit in the head by a line drive off the bat of Lance Berkman on
April 24th in Houston.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Jimmy Rollins hit a three-run homer, Joe
Blanton pitched into the seventh and the Phillies beat the San
Francisco Giants 8-2 last night. The two-time NL champions have won
20 of 25 and moved two games ahead of the Giants in the wild-card
race. The Phillies remain 2 1/2 games behind Atlanta in the East.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) - The Eagles have ended one of their longer
and more physical training camps under head coach Andy Reid at
Lehigh University. Players have returned to Philadelphia, where
they will board a plane to Cincinnati today for their second
preseason game tomorrow night.

LATROBE, Pa. (AP) - The Steelers are hoping to have their
secondary situation settled as training camp comes to a close. A
year after having the league's best pass defense while winning the
Super Bowl, the Steelers fell all the way to Number 16 last season.
Safety Troy Polamalu's lengthy injury absences played a major role
in the falloff - he played in only three full games.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Steelers coach Mike Tomlin is going to use
punter Daniel Sepulveda for kickoffs in Saturday night's preseason
game against the Giants. Tomlin says has Sepulveda impressed him
with kickoffs during training camp and says he's a "viable
candidate" to at least share kickoff chores with kicker Jeff Reed.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Eli Manning is going to sit out the New York
Giants' preseason game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Saturday
night. Coach Tom Coughlin announced the decision after a scarred
Manning did not practice on yesterday at training camp at the
University at Albany because of stitches in his forehead.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - President Barack Obama will welcome 33 NCAA
national championship teams, including two from Villanova, at a
White House ceremony next month. The Wildcats are the defending
Football Championship Subdivision champs and will attend the
ceremony September 13th. Villanova's women's cross-crountry team
will be there, too. They won the 2009 Division I title.


AMERICAN LEAGUE
Wednesday's Games
Tampa Bay 8, Texas 6
Oakland 5, Toronto 4
N.Y. Yankees 9, Detroit 5
Seattle 6, Baltimore 5
Boston 7, L.A. Angels 5
Minnesota 7, Chicago White Sox 6
Kansas City 9, Cleveland 7
Thursday's Games
Detroit (Porcello 5-10) at N.Y. Yankees (P.Hughes 14-5), 1:05
p.m.
Texas (C.Lewis 9-9) at Baltimore (Matusz 4-12), 7:05 p.m.
L.A. Angels (E.Santana 12-8) at Boston (Beckett 3-2), 7:10 p.m.
Chicago White Sox (Buehrle 11-9) at Minnesota (Pavano 15-7),
8:10 p.m.
Cleveland (Talbot 8-10) at Kansas City (Davies 6-7), 8:10 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Sonnanstine 3-1) at Oakland (Cahill 12-5), 10:05
p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Wednesday's Games
Milwaukee 3, St. Louis 2
San Diego 5, Chicago Cubs 1
Florida 3, Pittsburgh 2
Philadelphia 8, San Francisco 2
Atlanta 3, Washington 2
N.Y. Mets 3, Houston 2, 14 innings
Cincinnati 11, Arizona 7
Colorado 3, L.A. Dodgers 2, 10 innings
Thursday's Games
Washington (Lannan 4-5) at Atlanta (D.Lowe 11-10), 1:05 p.m.
San Diego (Latos 12-5) at Chicago Cubs (Zambrano 4-6), 2:20 p.m.
Florida (Sanabia 1-1) at Pittsburgh (Maholm 7-11), 7:05 p.m.
San Francisco (J.Sanchez 8-8) at Philadelphia (Hamels 7-9), 7:05
p.m.
N.Y. Mets (Misch 0-1) at Houston (Norris 5-7), 8:05 p.m.
Cincinnati (Tr.Wood 3-1) at Arizona (J.Saunders 1-2), 9:40 p.m.
Colorado (De La Rosa 4-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Lilly 6-8), 10:10
p.m.

NFL PRESEASON
Thursday's Games
Indianapolis at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m.
New England at Atlanta, 8 p.m.
Friday's Game
Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 8 p.m.
Saturday's Games
Baltimore at Washington, 7 p.m.
Pittsburgh at N.Y. Giants, 7 p.m.
Miami at Jacksonville, 7:30 p.m.
St. Louis at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m.
Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.
N.Y. Jets at Carolina, 8 p.m.
Houston at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Oakland at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
Dallas at San Diego, 9 p.m.
Detroit at Denver, 9 p.m.
Green Bay at Seattle, 10 p.m.
Sunday's Game
Minnesota at San Francisco, 8 p.m.
Monday's Game
Arizona at Tennessee, 8 p.m.

WNBA
Wednesday's Games
No games scheduled
Thursday's Game
Tulsa at New York, 7:30 p.m.

MLS
Wednesday's Game
Chicago 2, New England 1