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 strikeout. you have to grow on.” more because I had adrena- in the sixth against Drew gler said. and the San Diego Padres “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 Atlanta Braves 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 Ozzie Albies’ 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 save 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 Shane Greene 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 Jurickson Profar 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. Kevan Smith day third in the NL West, 5 stop has eight hits, seven changeup. You know, 0-2 on Kyle Muller’s second there.” got the second hit off Pad- 1/2 games back of first-place runs scored and six RBIs in curveballs 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 BUTCH DILL | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Alabama head coach Nick Saban speaks to reporters during the Southeastern Conference Media Days on Wednesday in Hoover, Alabama. College coaches, administrators urge players to vaccinate 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 New York Yankees 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.