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Dodgers game ends with career victories, home runs
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LOS ANGELES — Bronson Arroyo earned his 100th career victory, Joey Votto homered and drove in three runs and the NL Central-leading Cincinnati Reds beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-2 Sunday.
The Reds took two of three in the series and held their 3½- game division edge over St. Louis.
Arroyo (14-7) allowed two runs and seven hits in seven innings, striking out six and walking none. The right-hander came in 0-3 with a 5.56 ERA lifetime at Dodger Stadium.
Votto hit a tiebreaking homer in the sixth and added a two-run single in the ninth.
The win put Arroyo one shy of the career-high win total he
established in 2008 and equaled last season. At one point, he fanned the heart of the Dodgers lineup — Andre Ethier, Matt Kemp, James Loney and Casey Blake — in succession after giving up a leadoff infield single to Ryan Theriot in the sixth. Kemp homered for Los Angeles' first run and A.J. Ellis added an RBI single.
Francisco Cordero pitched a perfect ninth for his 34th save in 40 attempts.
Clayton Kershaw (11-8) struck out 11, allowing three runs and five hits over seven innings. He threw a career-high 118 pitches.
Votto, who came in leading the NL with a .321 batting average, gave the Reds a 3-2 lead in the sixth when he hit his career-high 29th homer. The solo shot broke a 1-all tie and was his first homer
The Reds loaded the bases in the ninth against Jonathan Broxton, who fanned pinch-hitter Scott Rolen for the second out of the inning before Votto lined a 3-2 pitch to left field to increase his RBI total to 86, three shy of league leader Albert Pujols.
Brandon Phillips opened the game with a single against Kershaw, who has failed to pitch a 1-2-3 first inning in any of his 26 starts this season. The 22-year-old lefty walked Votto and Jonny Gomes with one out, then gave up a two-run single by Ryan Hanigan with two out.
in 38 at-bats.
The Dodgers, coming off their first four-homer game since opening day, struck back in the second when Kemp hit his 21st.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Notre Dame embraces Manti Te'o
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
MISHAWAKA, Ind. — Outside the chapel walls on the first Sunday of August, there is little more than sunlight and a tiny thrum of cicadas.
A moderate crowd filters into the parking lots and then through the doors for the 9 a.m. service at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They're quiet
and happy. Nothing breaks the tranquility except the occasional interjection of a car door snapping shut.
Opening prayers are almost under way when a
black SUV appears on the road.
Manti Teo, Notre Dame's linchpin inside linebacker, is a bit late. But he had to borrow the ride from one teammate and pick up another. Once arrived, wearing a rust-colored shirt and tie, Teo walks inside like he does most Sundays, to reconnect with a place more than 4,000 miles away.
If there is a defensive renaissance at Notre Dame this fall, a Mormon kid from paradise will lead it. It still seems inherently bizarre that Teo could choose to spend three or four years in northwest Indiana, at a profoundly Catholic institution. After all, on his first visit to campus, it was so bitterly cold that he retreated indoors in the middle of a game.
"Slowly but surely, I had to literally tell myself: This is my reality. This is my life. This is how it's going to be. So I best just accept it instead of fighting it. Instead of fighting it and saying, 'No, this is never going to be home' — just make it home."
How he settled on snowballs over sunscreen and whitecaps still amazes even Teo, but it has become easier to manage the longing. It pained him to miss his sister's graduation to return for summer school, as he'd fallen again for the idyllic life during the semester break.
But when that satisfaction swelled in him, he felt another tug: It was time to go.
“Actually now, I really have to think: ‘Oh, I'm not in Hawaii,’” Teo says. “Of course, when I go down the street, I know I'm not in Hawaii when I don't see mountains or the ocean.”
Comfort has meant translating everything but the weather to South Bend. Notre Dame consciously billed itself as a "spiritual" institution during recruiting and like all other schools introduced him to LDS church representatives on his visit.
Teo wondered if he'd see any Polynesians in four years; on his first visit, he saw two working the desk at the Varsity Club hotel. A local Tongan family, the Molas, has embraced Teo, who calls the patriarch of the house "Uncle Pule."
"When I go down the street, I know I'm not in Hawaii when I don't see mountains or ocean."
Téo considers it part of his mission to oblige students or teammates who ask about his faith, or appear in need of counsel, and to bring teammates to church with
him — all reasons he does not plan for a traditional Mormon mission interrupting his college career.
MANTI TE'O
Notre Dame linebacker
"This school, even though it's a Catholic church school, it's created that environment for us to still grow spiritually and still believe the things we do." Teo says.
This ease is clear now. Defensive coordinator Bob Diaco even suggests the place and people now adjust to Teo, saying, "He's got
that much charisma"
"At first, he was really shy about everything, didn't really talk to too many people," linebacker Darius Fleming said. "But then he opened
up. You can tell when it was the real Manti."
'In the middle of everything'
In Hawaii, a graduation party is not just a graduation party. It is a traditional luau, an hours-long celebration preceded by 24-hour preparation shifts. Teo's sister, BrieAnne, wanted her luau this summer scaled down. Only about 500 people attended.
Uncle Keala set out his pupus.
Then there were the main courses
Ice, kaula pig,
Lomi salmon.
Then there was cousin
To mosaina's dessert section: brownies, cookies, cakes, pies.
Teo was the line captain,
making sure hot courses
feeling that I'm the captain, that I'm in control."
Teo made 63 tackles in his first year, the third-most by an Irish freshman. No one caught new coach Brian Kelly's eye more in the winter and spring. Diaco says Teo is "built perfectly" for the middle of the defense.
"To say how soon did I know there was a special player there — I'm not sure he is a special player. He's a special person. I'm hopeful he's a special player."
"If you watch the games and you listen to the people that were affiliated with his teaching before, he was a real liability," Diaco says. "He wasn't a dynamic, productive player. He's still not. He's a long way from being ready."
Yet the staff concedes nothing
Teo freely admits it. He would not have chosen Notre Dame had Charlie Weis not been the coach. He calls Weis "a great man." And that touchstone disintegrated last December.
It is another assimilation: Humbling himself to reprove what he thought he'd proved.
But Te'o felt compelled to remain.
"I just felt it it was my chance to take control," Téo says. "My chance to really establish that sense that I am somebody to count on, not only to my coaches, but especially
"I like feeling like I'm in the middle of everything," Teo says. "Not to say that I am. I like the
stayed hot, making sure serving plates stayed full. It had all the centrifugal force of running a defense from the inside out.
to my teammates.
"He's a special person. I'm hopeful he's a special player."
BOB DIACO defensive coordinator
"This whole change was a clean slate for me. I had my mistakes last year and I was blessed to have the opportunity to kind of come in on a freshman year
again. But I have that one year of experience under my belt, to not make the same mistakes I did last year."
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