www.dailypostathenian.com FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2021 | SPORTS DAILY POST-ATHENIAN | B3 Tatis Jr, starter Paddack lead Padres past Braves in opener BY GEORGE HENRY his last five games. NATIONAL LEAGUE Ha-Seong Kim’s sacrifice fly. hits and walked three, work- third but was stranded at AP Sports Writer Paddack (6-6), who had “I think my tempo was ing out of jams in the first third base. a 10.31 ERA in his last five GM1: PADRES 3, Braves 2 a little fast, so I was just and third. Greene, who came “The story for me today ATLANTA — Fernando appearances, worked five rushing down the mound,” on to start the fifth, saw his was Paddack and how good Tatis Jr. hit a two-run hom- scoreless innings, allowing done a better job with. Muller said. “Early on my ERA increase to 10.38. and how efficient he was,” er, starter Chris Paddack three hits with no walks and There’s always something sliders were biting a little bit The Braves got within 3-2 Padres manager Jayce Tin- reversed his recent struggles one . you have to grow on.” more because I had adrena- in the sixth against Drew gler said. and the “I’m going to continue to All-Star closer Mark Mel- line and my arm speed was Pomeranz when Freddie “Using all the quadrants of beat the 3-2 build on this, continue to ancon wrapped it up for the moving, but they flattened Freeman singled, advanced the zone and just aggressive. in the first game of a double- grow, continue to put my Padres in the seventh, earn- out and started spinning the on ’ double and I think he kind of set the header on Wednesday. head down and tomorrow ing his major league-leading opposite way as the game scored on a passed ball. tone. He got the win, but he Tatis made it 3-0 in the is day one of five days,” 28th in 32 chances. went on. Albies scored on Austin put us in a good position at fifth inning against reliev- Paddack said. “I’m not try- The Padres went ahead “That’s something I need Riley’s sacrifice fly. the end of the game. Overall, er when ing to get ahead of myself 1-0 in the fourth when to control. I can’t go 90 Paddack retired the first really nice to get this one.” his NL-leading 29th hom- here. We did a lot of great doubled pitches in four innings. five batters he faced before San Diego had dropped er landed in the left-field things today, but there’s still off the right-field wall That’s not good enough Guillermo Heredia singled four of six and began the seats. The All-Star short- some improvements for my with one out, advanced to help the team win right in the second. day third in the NL West, 5 stop has eight hits, seven changeup. You know, 0-2 on ’s second there.” got the second hit off Pad- 1/2 games back of first-place runs scored and six RBIs in that we could’ve wild pitch and scored on Muller (1-3) allowed two dack in the bottom of the San Francisco. Take a step back

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BY JOHN ZENOR cinated likely face multiple AP Sports Writer COVID-19 tests weekly, just like last season. HOOVER, Ala. — Over “I think that conflict of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the summer, Crimson Tide sticking something up your Balloons fly over Olympians and spectators during the opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics on Oct. 10, 1964, at the coach Nick Saban urged his nose three times a week, National Stadium in Tokyo. fellow Alabama residents to all the headaches of wear- get vaccinated against the ing a mask, I think it wears coronavirus in a public ser- people out,” Pitt coach Pat Looking at Tokyo Olympics through lens of 1964 Games vice announcement. Narduzzi said. “I don’t want The thinking was that one anything to do with it.” BY STEPHEN WADE of significant risk,” Tomizawa said. necessity or assistance.” of the most popular people Coaches like Oklahoma’s AP Sports Writer But he said these Games might also This was the year that Cassius Clay in Alabama might help since Lincoln Riley and Saban be turned into “Inclusion Games.” won the heavyweight championship the state has one of the low- can point to other sports TOKYO — Just 19 years after dev- “With a high degree of difficulty,” and became Muhammad Ali. It was est percentages of vacci- to emphasize the potential astating defeat in World War II, the he added. when Roy Emerson of Australia and nated people in the nation. impact of not getting vac- 1964 Tokyo Olympics showcased “Organizing an Olympics and Para- Maria Bueno of Brazil took the titles The video shows cheerlead- cinated. Saban, who missed the reemergence of an innovative lympics during this pandemic is like at Wimbledon, when Arnold Palmer ers, the Big Al mascot and the game against rival country that was showing off bullet Simone Biles executing a Yurchenko claimed his fourth and final Masters, scenes from Bryant-Denny Auburn last year after a pos- trains, miniature transistor radios, Double Pike, a vault so difficult no and when the Beatles arrived on a Pan Stadium with the unmis- itive COVID-19 test, points and a restored reputation. other female gymnast wants to do Am flight from London to play their takable message: Protec- to the Japan’s resiliency is on display it. Biles can. Maybe Japan can, too,” first concert in the United States. tion against COVID-19 can having six players recent- again, attempting to stage the post- Tomizawa said. And it was later that same year in help everyone get back to ly sidelined by the corona- poned 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the Tomizawa’s book is titled: “ 1964 Tokyo when Yoshinori Sakai — born normal. virus and North Carolina midst of a once-in-a century pan- — The Greatest Year in the History on Aug. 6, 1945, in Hiroshima, the It is also a point of empha- State having to drop out of demic. The challenge is different, of Japan: How the Tokyo Olympics day the atomic bomb was dropped sis for the defending nation- the College World Series. and this time there is widespread Symbolized Japan’s Miraculous Rise on the city — ignited the cauldron al champion Crimson Tide “So every player has a per- public opposition that has divided from the Ashes. ” It came out last in the national stadium to open the and every other team hop- sonal decision to make to the country over the health hazards year, just months before the post- 18th Olympic Games. ing to minimize the risk of evaluate the risk of COV- with nagging questions about who poned Olympics were to open. Tomizawa grew up in New York, impacts from COVID-19 ID relative to vaccine, and benefits from staging the Games. Tomizawa writes in the book about and his father, Tom, a second-gen- this season after last year’s then they have a competi- Roy Tomizawa, who documented the massive effort to be ready in ‘64: eration Japanese-American, was an disrupted effort that saw tive decision to make on the ‘64 Olympics in a recent book, “Police were taking pickpockets editor who worked for the televi- dozens of games postponed how it impacts their ability described those distant Games 57 off the streets and ensuring bars in sion network NBC at the Olympics or canceled. to play in games, because years ago as the “Inclusion Games” Tokyo were complying with direc- in Tokyo — the first to be shown It’s a priority, and in some with the vaccine you prob- in an email to The Associated Press. tives to close down early. ... In fact, internationally using communica- cases a challenge. Univer- ably have a better chance,” He called the attempt this time the every man, woman, and child in tion satellites. sities are struggling with Saban said. “Without it, you “Exclusion Games.” But he offered Japan was getting ready to wel- The family connection and curios- whether they can legally have a bigger chance that some hope. come the world to their country ity got Tomizawa looking for a his- require students to be vac- something could happen “Whether you agree or disagree believing it was their civic duty to tory in English of those 1964 Games. cinated before returning to that may keep you from with the Japanese government, the ensure that foreigners who came He couldn’t find one, so he wrote campuses, though Notre being on the field, which Games are going ahead in the face to town were not deprived of any his own. Dame, Michigan, UCLA, doesn’t enhance your per- Washington and others sonal development. Then have taken that step. how does it affect the team Many others, certainly if you bring it to the team?” across the South, have not, Riley said his team saw NBA hastily shifts gears, now o season awaits leaving coaches like Saban “a big uptick” in vaccina- to emphasize that vaccina- tions after PGA Tour star BY TIM REYNOLDS “I think the players have tion decisions are a person- Jon Rahm had to withdraw AP Basketball Writer a better understanding al choice, but one that can from The Memorial with of sort of what we’re up impact the team. a six-shot lead because of Detroit, you are on the against in trying to run this In the Southeastern Con- a positive COVID-19 test. clock. business and I think we ference, Commissioner “One day a guy’s about to The NBA offseason — have a better understand- Greg Sankey said this week make a million and a half if you can call it that — ing of the players and what that six of the 14 football (dollars) and cruise to a six is here. The Milwaukee it’s like to travel the amount teams have at least 80% of shot victory,” Riley said. Bucks officially flipped the they do and to the stress- their roster vaccinated — a “And then all of a sudden league calendar to sum- es they’re under, the emo- number that”needs to grow he’s out of there and he’s mer on Tuesday night, tional and physical burdens and grow rapidly.” vaccinated the next week.” capturing their first title they’re under by competing The six teams include Ala- He said “a significant in 50 years and turning out at this level,” Silver said at bama since Saban indicated amount” of his team is vac- the lights on a season that the start of the finals. “And “pretty close to 90%” of his cinated. navigated its way through hopefully we can continue players are fully vaccinated, “But, you know, the real- a pandemic to crown a new PAUL SANCYA | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS to build on that.” nearly triple the rate for the ity of the matter is we’re champion. Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo reacts while Some issues to watch over state’s overall population. football coaches and we’re There isn’t much of a holding the NBA Championship trophy (left) and Most Valuable the coming days and weeks: Not every coach or pro- football players,” Riley said. break, of course. Player trophy after defeating the Phoenix Suns in Game 6 of the INJURIES: Players missing gram divulged their num- “And if you don’t get vac- The NBA draft, with the NBA Finals on Tuesday in Milwaukee. time with injuries was a bers at their respective cinated, you’re going to be Pistons holding the No. 1 major issue this season and leagues’ media days. The held to ... a different stan- pick and presumably the mous resilience from all 30 versary all year long — the offseason already has ones that did varied fairly dard and you’re going to chance to choose Okla- teams. Thank you to every starts Oct. 19. seen more news on that widely. have the opportunity to lose homa State’s Cade Cun- team and every player in That’s not even three front. Oklahoma State coach games and not be available.” ningham, is fast-approach- the league for a tremen- months away. Kawhi Leonard of the Los Mike Gundy said his team Georgia coach Kirby ing on July 29. Free agen- dous season.” The pandemic was the Angeles Clippers just had was about 55% vaccinated Smart had each of his vac- cy starts in less than two And now, it’s already next storyline of the entire sea- surgery to repair a par- as of six weeks ago. cinated assistants talk to the weeks, on Aug. 2. Most new season. son — obviously, since it tially torn ACL; injuries “I don’t know where we’re team about their reasons contracts can be signed The good news is there’s has been the storyline to that ligament, unfortu- at now,” Gundy said last for getting the shots. Smart starting Aug. 6, and sum- a sense of normalcy, even across the entire planet nately, aren’t rare in bas- week. “But as an individual, said his team is “over 85%” mer league opens two days amid a pandemic, and the — and no one in the NBA ketball, but partial tears they have to make a deci- vaccinated. after that. NBA plans to continue expects that next season are not exactly common. sion if that’s something they “What it’s really about is “We made it. We crowned along that path. Training will be able to start with- The Clippers haven’t said want to do. We all know the being able to save our sea- a champion,” NBA Com- camps will begin in late out the continued threat how long they think he’ll be pros and cons of it.” son, being able to keep our missioner Adam Silver September, as is the new of COVID-19. Protocols sidelined. ACL reconstruc- The cons, besides person- players safe,” he said. “We said during the trophy normal. Preseason games will remain in place; how tion tends to cost players al health, include missing at want to keep our coaches ceremony in Milwaukee are back in early October, many and how strict will several months, and that least 10 days of practice and and staff safe. We want on Tuesday night. “I have and the league’s 76th sea- depend on the virus and means the start of Leon- games in quarantine. And to keep our family mem- to say playing through a son — even though it’ll be what’s happening in the ard’s season is in obvious the chore of regular testing. bers safe, and that comes pandemic required enor- celebrating its 75th anni- world in a few months. doubt. Players who don’t get vac- through vaccinations.”