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SEATTLE -- The Toronto Blue Jays got another huge crowd cheering for them at Safeco Field on Monday night, and they rewarded the Canadian fans with a 3-2 win over the Seattle Mariners.Toronto already turned the Mariners home field into Canada South, and now the Blue Jays want to inflict further damage by knocking Seattle further back in the American League wild-card hunt.The Blue Jays (82-68) are currently tied with Baltimore atop the wild-card standings, with Seattle trailing by three games. A win Tuesday could really put the Mariners (79-71) in a bad spot with just 11 games left on the schedule.Weve got to keep playing; thats what our schedule says, Seattle manager Scott Servais said after Mondays loss. And we play the same team (Tuesday), and theyre the team ahead of us.The Blue Jays were celebrating after winning the first game of the series, and they gave the fans who traveled south a lot of the credit.Its incredible, center fielder Kevin Pillar said of the pro-Blue Jays atmosphere that comes from thousands of Canadians from British Columbia heading south for the annual series. The best way to describe it is overwhelming. Its emotional. ... Not to knock our fans at home, but when its the only three games our Canadian fans are going to see all year, its just a different energy.Starter Marco Estrada, who flirted with a no-hitter before giving up a leadoff single in the seventh inning, echoed those sentiments.We felt like we were the home team, he said after a one-hit performance over seven innings. And its something we can build off of.One-time Mariner (and three-time Blue Jay) J.A. Happ is scheduled to be on the mound for Toronto. Happ began last season with Seattle but was traded to Pittsburgh midway through the year. He re-signed with the Blue Jays in the offseason and is having a career year at the age of 33. Happ (19-4) goes into Tuesday seeking the first 20-win season of his career.Seattle will counter with dependable veteran Hisashi Iwakuma, who leads the team with 16 wins -- also a career high. Iwakuma was the Mariners best starter for the first four months of the season but stumbled down the stretch in August. The 35-year-old right-hander has rebounded to win each of his past two starts.Iwakuma might be pitching at home, but hell be in a somewhat unfamiliar environment. The thousands of Canadian fans have made sure the Blue Jays feel right at home in Seattles stadium.The hometown feel gave the Blue Jays a lift Monday night, and now the AL wild-card leaders are hoping to build off that win and keep rewarding the visiting fans.We really needed this, Estrada said after the Blue Jays snapped their two-game losing streak Monday night. We just have to build off this and keep it going.Jordan Scarlett Youth Jersey . But what about the officials? Every sport has officials and they also have stories about hard work and sacrifice but their accomplishments are seldom recognized by anyone outside their inner circle. Christian McCaffrey Jersey . Pence singled in the winning run with no outs in the ninth inning to give the Giants a 7-6 victory over the San Diego Padres on Sunday. http://www.shoppanthersonline.us/panthers-greg-little-blue-jersey/ . 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Madrid is third in the Spanish league, six points behind leader Barcelona, going into Saturdays game against Valladolid.RIO DE JANEIRO -- With a 64-player field and 16 seeds -- half that of the majors -- the Olympic tennis draw set up some intriguing first-round matchups.Play opens Saturday, though many of the big names wont start their tournaments in Rio de Janeiro until Sunday. Novak Djokovic does take the court Saturday, but in doubles, not singles.Heres what to look for on Day 1 of what is scheduled as a nine-day event -- weather permitting.DJOKOVIC DOUBLES: Djokovic, a 12-time Grand Slam singles champion, teams with Nenad Zimonjic for Serbia in doubles. They face Croatias Marin Cilic and Marin Draganja in the first round Saturday.Djokovic and Zimonjic are 6-7 as a pairing in their careers, including a first-round defeat at the 2008 Beijing Games. Djokovic has played two doubles matches this year, both with Zimonjic, and they lost each time -- in Davis Cup in March and in Toronto just over a week ago in an Olympic warmup.The 40-year-old Zimonjic is a three-time major doubles champion.In singles, at least, Djokovic has dominated Cilic, the 2014 U.S. Open champion, winning all 14 of their meetings.Cilic is scheduled to play twice Saturday, opening his singles tournament with a potentially tough matchup in Grigor Dimitrov. Two years ago, Dimitrov made his first Grand Slam semifinal at Wimbledon at 23, seemingly a harbinger of big things to come for the player nicknamed Baby Fed -- as in Federer.A first-time major champion did indeed break through at the next Grand Slam tournament, but it was Cilic, who is seeded ninth in Rio. Dimitrov, meanwhile, hassnt made it past the fourth round at a major since, and his ranking is down to 34th.ddddddddddddVENUS RISING: Its been 16 years since Venus Williams won her singles gold medal at the Sydney Games. At 36, shes rolling into Rio with her best results in more than half a decade.The older Williams sister is No. 6 in the world -- her best ranking since early 2011. And shes coming off a semifinal appearance at Wimbledon -- her deepest run at a major since the 2010 U.S. Open.Williams faces 62nd-ranked Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium, a 2013 Wimbledon semifinalist, in the first round Saturday on Center Court. The Williams sisters open their bid for a fourth Olympic doubles gold medal Sunday.FALLING STARS: For Sloane Stephens and Eugenie Bouchard, one player will move on Saturday with a chance for a momentum-building run in Rio. The other will see her tournament end in singles after one match.At times in recent years, Stephens and Bouchard have each looked poised to crash the top of the rankings, but it has yet to happen. Stephens, a 23-year-old American, stunned Serena Williams to reach the 2013 Australian Open semifinals; Bouchard, a 22-year-old Canadian, was the runner-up at Wimbledon the next year.But neither is even seeded in Rio -- with Stephens ranked 22nd and Bouchard 39th.Ninth-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain gets a tough first-round matchup against 26th-ranked Ana Ivanovic, the 2008 French Open champion. ' ' '