TORONTO -- After Devon Travis came within a few feet of a game-winning home run, he found a different way to circle the bases.Travis scored the winning run on a wild pitch, and the Toronto Blue Jays rallied for three runs in the 12th inning to beat the San Diego Padres 7-6 on Tuesday night.Matt Kemp put the Padres in front with a two-run homer off Jesse Chavez (1-2) in the top of the 12th, but San Diegos bullpen couldnt hold the lead.Travis drew a 14-pitch walk to load the bases, bringing Paul Clemens on in relief of Carlos Villanueva (1-2). Travis fouled off eight straight pitches, including one drive that sailed just wide of the left-field foul screen.Thats as good as it gets, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said.Clemens walked Jose Bautista to make it 6-5 before Josh Donaldson tied it with a fielders choice grounder.With Edwin Encarnacion batting, a pitch bounced away from catcher Derek Norris, and Travis slid in headfirst just ahead of the tag as his teammates stormed out of the dugout to celebrate.I know (Clemens) has a really good curveball, a really sharp one, Travis said. I was praying for in the dirt. It took a bad bounce, but a good bounce for us.Gibbons called it a crazy game.Im proud of the guys, he said. They keep gutting it out, competing.It was the second key run to score on a wild pitch: Toronto catcher Russell Martin made it 4-all when he scored on Brad Hands wild pitch in the seventh.It is a frustrating loss, especially how hard the guys battled back on a couple of occasions, Padres manager Andy Green said.Donaldson hit a two-run homer and Justin Smoak had a solo shot for the Blue Jays.Alex Dickerson hit a three-run shot, his third homer in three games, as San Diego extended its club-record streak of games with at least one home run to 24. Its the longest run since the 2002 Texas Rangers set a major league record by homering in 27 straight.Donaldson connected off Andrew Cashner in the first, his 25th, but San Diego halved the deficit on Ryan Schimpfs RBI double in the second.Smoaks leadoff homer in the fifth put Toronto up 3-1, but Marcus Stroman couldnt hold the lead, giving up Dickersons homer in the sixth.Outfielder Melvin Upton Jr., traded from San Diego to Toronto before the game, made his Blue Jays debut as a pinch hitter in the seventh. He grounded into a fielders choice.WHEELING AND DEALINGToronto announced another trade minutes after the game ended: The Blue Jays acquired reliever Joaquin Benoit from the Seattle Mariners for right-hander Drew Storen. Benoit, who turned 39 on Tuesday, is 1-1 with a 5.18 ERA in 26 games this season.WORKING OVERTIMEThe Blue Jays and Padres have played extra innings three times in their past five meetings. The first of those games lasted 17 innings.REPEAT PERFORMANCEDonaldson is the first third baseman in Blue Jays history to post consecutive 25-homer seasons.HIT PARADEBlue Jays RHP Roberto Osuna hit two batters with pitches in the ninth, matching the number hed hit in 114 previous career innings pitched.TRAINERS ROOMPadres: Class-A RHP Chris Paddack, acquired from Miami in last months trade for Fernando Rodney, has been sidelined indefinitely with a strained forearm.Blue Jays: Gibbons said Jose Bautista will be the DH on Wednesday, allowing Upton to make his first start for Toronto.UP NEXTPadres: RHP Luis Perdomo (4-4, 6.93 ERA) will make his first career appearance against Toronto. He has allowed three earned runs or fewer in six of his past seven starts.Blue Jays: RHP R.A. Dickey (7-11, 4.44) will start on three days rest, with RHP Marco Estrada getting pushed back to Friday. Estrada (back) was on the disabled list from July 3 to July 21. Dickey has lost his past two starts. 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The NCAA and the Atlantic Coast Conference followed suit this week, reclaiming a host of major events including the first and seconds rounds of the mens basketball tournament and the ACC football championship.Theres still room to dole out more financial pain, but that would require NASCAR and golf -- two entities with a hefty stake in the Tar Heel state -- to step up.Not going to happen.NASCAR, which has its headquarters, its hall of fame and one of its biggest races in the Charlotte area, is not the least bit inclined to get involved in the fight over HB2, the so-called bathroom law.Already struggling to fill seats and draw television viewers, the organization is undoubtedly mindful that its conservative fan base wouldnt take kindly to anything that sounds the least bit progressive.Ditto for golf, another sport that its fair to say comes down largely on the right side of the political spectrum. Theres zero chance that next years PGA Championship will be held anywhere other than Charlottes Quail Hollow Club or, looking much further down the road, that the 2024 U.S. Open wont be held at Pinehurst.Lets face it: If youre on a quest for social justice, better look elsewhere.Nothing to see here.NASCAR czar Brian France couldve made quite a splash by threatening to move his companys headquarters to a more-inclusive state or pull the two races held each year at Charlotte Motor Speedway -- one on Memorial Day weekend, the other part of the end-of-the-season playoff.Instead, hes continually talked out of both sides of his mouth, expressing opposition to the law but not doing anything to show hes really displeased.We dont agree with the law, he said again this week. Anything that has a discriminating component to it, we are not in favor of it. I have voiced my views directly to the governor. We are working with the governor to express our disappointment in that bill. But we dont write legislation. We are going to continue to work behind the scenes to express our values and the things that we think are important.The PGA of America sounded a similar theme when asked about holding its 2017 championship in a state that not only requires transgender people to use restrooms that match the gender on their birth certificate, but excludes gender identity and sexual orientation from any sort of statewide antidiscrimination protections.We are trying to do eeverything we can, as part of our strategic plan for our organization in golf, to make the game as inclusive as possible, said Pete Bevacqua, the PGAs chief executive officer.ddddddddddddWere not perfect. Were trying.Not trying hard enough.Then again, when has golf -- or NACAR, for that matter -- ever taken a leading role to make society more inclusive?Golf had a Caucasian-only clause in its rulebook until 1961, kept holding tournaments at private clubs that discriminated against African-Americans and other ethnic and religious groups until the early 1990s, and continues to grapple with the issue of male-only memberships. NASCAR has its roots in the segregationist South and only in recent years took a stand against the Confederate flag.Bevacqua has made it clear that next years PGA Championship will be held at Quail Hollow, no matter what happens with HB2 after the November election.North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, a strong supporter of the law, is running for another term, even while facing condemnation from a broad spectrum that also includes musicians and the businesses community.More troubling, Bevacqua wouldnt even commit to the PGA of American barring another major championship from being awarded to North Carolina if the law remains on the books.Well see how it goes next year, he said recently during this years PGA Championship at Baltusrol. We think its going to be and we know its going to be a wonderful championship when you get to the site and when the best players in the world descend on that golf course and play a golf course that they will never have seen in terms of the changes that have been made.See, it doesnt matter whats going on outside the gates as long as the greens are in tip-top condition.Bevacqua went on to parrot the message that France has been regurgitating over and over again: Hey, theres only so much a multibillion-dollar industry can do, despite all evidence to the contrary.We cant control the policies, the rules and the regulations around the country and municipalities and states, Bevacqua said. We can only do what we can do. And well try to make that PGA Championship -- like we do every PGA Championship -- enjoyable, inclusive, and shine a great light on our organization and the game of golf.Too bad hes not willing to shine that bright light on what matters.---Paul Newberry is a sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at pnewberry(at)ap.org or at www.twitter.com/pnewberry1963 . His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/paul-newberry . ' ' '
