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ARCADIA, Calif. -- Theres something about Santa Anita and long-distance runners that brings out the best in trainer Brendan Walsh.The Walsh-trained Scuba on Friday galloped to a 4-1/4-length victory in the Grade 2, $200,000 Marathon Stakes at Santa Anita. Two years ago, also at Santa Anita, Walsh won this same race with Cary Street.Its nice to win it again; this is where you want to be isnt it? Walsh said in the Santa Anita winners circle.Walsh said he called on his experience with Cary Street when he decided to send Scuba on marathon distances after going shorter didnt work. The Marathon win was Scubas third straight. He won the Grade 3 Greenwood Cup at 1 1/2 miles in September at Parx Racing, and the Temperence Hill Stakes going 1 5/8 miles at Belmont in October, before Fridays victory.Walsh said after the Greenwood Cup that Scuba just seemed like he got so much confidence from getting his head in front and hes gotten better and better. Going into this, his last two works were unbelievable.Breaking from the rail under Kendrick Carmouche -- who was riding his first dirt race ever at Santa Anita -- Scuba scurried to the front, but was soon confronted by Hard Aces and Blue Tone. Scuba was actually third for a few strides entering the far turn the first time, but Carmouche held his rail position.Though the stretch the first time, Scuba was back on even terms with Hard Aces, who was being smooched to by Santiago Gonzalez, which got Scuba on the muscle, according to Carmouche.He was wanting to get on the muscle and wanted to go, I kept talking to him easy, easy not yet, not yet, Carmouche said. By the time we turned down the backside, he fell back into my hands and I knew it would be a race from there.Scuba opened his advantage at the three-eighths pole and was never seriously threatened from there to the wire. Hard Aces finished second by 1-1/2 lengths over Blue Tone, who nosed out Melmich for third. Melmich was followed, in order, by Quick Casablanca, Cowboy Rhythm, Tale of Verve, Sammy Mandeville, and Estrechada.Scuba, a 5-year-old gelding by Tapit, covered the 1-3/4 miles in 2:58.20 and returned $6 as the 2-1 favorite. Scuba is owned by the DARRS Inc. stable of David Ross.Its been great with this team that weve had with this horse, Ross said. We finally found his niche. I cant thank Brendan enough. Kendrick is such a patient rider, this is a race that requires patience. He just did a terrific job. Jake Rogers Jersey .J. -- Marshawn Lynch said Thursday it will be good to get back to football after the Seattle quiet talking running back wrapped up his final mandatory media session of Super Bowl week. Tigers Jerseys China . The third-ranked Ivanovic, who won the event in 2008 and 10, served five aces and broke Wickmayer, also a former winner in 2009, five times. "The result looked easier than it really was," Ivanovic said. https://www.cheaptigers.com/ . -- Bobby Ryan helped the U. 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A breakout by the balanced lineup that propelled them to a National League championship and the best record in the majors was just a swing away.Three swings, as it turned out.Kris Bryant provided the first, a sharp single to center field off Cleveland Indians starter Trevor Bauer two batters into Game 2 on Wednesday night that gave the Chicago dugout and blue-clad Cubs fans scattered throughout Progressive Field a needed jolt.The second came seven pitches later, a double to right from Anthony Rizzo that sent Bryant racing home with the Cubs first World Series run since Harry Truman was president.The third was in the fifth, a triple to right by Ben Zobrist that handed Jake Arrieta all the cushion he needed in a 5-1 victory that tied the Fall Classic at one game apiece heading back to Wrigley Field on Friday.Our goal today, it felt like a must-win for us, Bryant said. We didnt want to go home down 0-2.And so the Cubs didnt, thanks in large part to three players who represent the various stages of Chicagos renaissance under President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein.Rizzo, the teams longest-tenured position player, endured 101 losses during his first season with the Cubs in 2012, a summer-long bout of misery that led to Chicago taking Bryant with the second pick in the 2013 amateur draft.Bryants arrival in the majors last spring helped propel the Cubs to 97 wins and a spot in the NLCS, leading Zobrist -- fresh off a championship with the Royals in 2015 -- to sign with Chicago last winter.There the three were in the heart of the order Wednesday, scoring four of their teams five runs to move the Cubs within three victories of the franchises first World Series title in 108 years.Oh, and the guy hitting behind them -- designated hitter Kyle Schwarber -- is 3 for 7 in the World Series after missing all but two games thhis season with torn ligaments in his left knee.ddddddddddddI like our chances with and without Schwarber, Chicago catcher David Ross said. I like them a lot more with Schwarber.And the duo nicknamed Bryzzo, too.Bryant went hitless in his first Series game Tuesday night, though he was hardly alone as the Cubs mustered little against Corey Kluber, Andrew Miller and Cody Allen.The going wasnt nearly as tough against Bauer, who pitched with the pinkie on his right hand still recovering from a gash sustained while he was tinkering with a toy drone earlier in the playoffs.Bryant ripped a single up the middle on a 2-2 pitch in the first and scored on Rizzos double. It was Chicagos first run since the eighth inning of a Game 7 loss to Detroit in the 1945 World Series, a mere 44 years before Rizzo was born.Those guys, theyre the two keys, Zobrist said. The biggest cogs in our lineup and when those guys swing the bat it gives the rest of us confidence.Rizzo walked and Zobrist singled in the third before Rizzo scored on a single by Schwarber to make it 2-0. In the fifth, Rizzo led off with a walk and raced home on Zobrists triple into the right-field corner. Zobrist scored to make it 4-0 when Schwarber singled up the middle.Zobrist has come through in the clutch much the way he did while helping the Royals to a title last fall.Hes been our leader, especially in this World Series, Ross said. Hes the guy you lean on thats been in this moment. And hes the one stepping up big, getting the best at-bats, taking walks, hitting doubles, running the bases really well. Just a baseball player through and through.One thats now 5 for 9 through two games in his third World Series.In the end, this October night on baseballs biggest stage felt like so many other games Chicago has played over the last six-plus months. Arrieta dominated, the lineup delivered and the crowd chanted Lets Go Cubs.All the way back to Chicago, where a chance to start a party more than a century in the making awaits. ' ' '