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MINNEAPOLIS -- As a rainy afternoon turned into early evening, Denard Span said everyone in the Twins dugout had the look of wanting someone to come through with a clutch hit. Elvis Dumervil Broncos Jersey . Span did just that. He had an RBI single with two outs in the 15th inning, giving Minnesota a 5-4, come-from-behind victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday in the longest game played at 2 1/2-year-old Target Field. "I was just trying to get us to dinner," Span said, smiling. Span and Jamey Carroll had four hits apiece for the Twins, who rallied from a three-run deficit. Minnesotas bullpen pitched nine shutout innings. Anthony Swarzak (1-4) worked a perfect 15th for the win in a game that lasted 4 hours, 50 minutes. Trevor Plouffe led off the 15th with a single off Tim Dillard (0-2), and went to second on a single by Brian Dozier, two batters later. Carroll then lined a single to right field. Plouffe ran through a stop sign by third base coach Steve Liddle and was tagged out in a rundown. Dozier advanced to third base during the play. Left-hander Juan Perez came in to face Span, who hit the third pitch he saw between the first and second basemen for the winning RBI. "That was probably my first walk-off since the minor leagues," Span said. "Definitely, a lot of fun." He wouldnt have had that opportunity if not for the scoreless efforts of Swarzak, Alex Burnett, Jared Burton, Glen Perkins, Brian Duensing and Jeff Gray. "Jeff Gray was the pitcher of the game as far as Im concerned," said Twins manager Ron Gardenhire. The right-hander who had allowed six runs in his previous 4 2-3 innings over four appearances, yet kept his game plan simple. "I just wanted to throw strikes, try to get ahead, make my pitches and hopefully theyll put them in play at our guys," Gray said. "I was just trying to eat up as many innings as possible without giving up some runs and hopefully we can score one." Twins catcher Joe Mauer left the game in the seventh inning with a bruised right quadriceps. Hes day to day. "Im pretty stiff," he said. "Its good timing for the off day tomorrow." Corey Hart connected for a three-run homer in the fifth to give Milwaukee a 4-1 lead. Rickie Weeks and Nyjer Morgan each had three hits for the Brewers. Minnesota had the bases loaded against Jose Veras in the 12th, but Ryan Doumit grounded out to end the threat. Before that inning, the game was interrupted by a 42-minute rain delay. It was the second time significant showers fell during the game, but the first with the possibility of lightning being present. Both teams had good chances to end it before the delay. The Brewers had Carlos Gomez at second with one out in the ninth, but Aramis Ramirez and Hart flew out to right field. Minnesota got Doumit to third base with two outs in the 11th, but Span grounded out and the tarps were unrolled. "We both could have won the game a lot earlier. Thats the way it goes," said Brewers manager Ron Roenicke. Down 4-1 in the seventh, and with the first wave of rain having stopped, Minnesota got RBI singles from Carroll, Ben Revere and Mauer to tie the game against Zack Greinke. In eight innings, Greinke allowed 12 hits and four runs, striking out six -- including Josh Willingham four times. Greinke allowed more than one earned run for just the second time in eight starts. "Most of their hits were on mistakes, just catching too much of the plate. They had a good approach, not trying to do too much. When they stayed with what they were given, they went up the middle and they hit the ball pretty well," Greinke said. With a light rain falling in the fifth, Hart hit a full-count pitch from Nick Blackburn into the right field stands to give Milwaukee a 4-1 lead. Blackburn, who has not pitched more than six innings in any of his 10 starts this season, flirted with danger in every inning, but the Brewers failed to get a key hit until Harts homer. Milwaukee left six runners on base in the first four innings against Blackburn, who allowed nine hits in six innings. An RBI single by Ramirez gave the Brewers a 1-0 lead in the first. Milwaukee had an excellent chance to extend that lead in the second when Weeks tripled with one out. But he was thrown out trying to score on a grounder to third. The Brewers had two on with one out in the third, but a diving stop by Justin Morneau led to a double play. "A lot of things happened today; Im just glad we won the ballgame," Gardenhire said. NOTES: Twins closer Matt Capps missed the game as a precautionary measure with right shoulder soreness. Gardenhire hopes Capps will be ready when the Twins play at Pittsburgh Tuesday. The Twins are off Monday. ... Scott Diamond (5-2, 2.13) is scheduled to start for Minnesota against the Pirates Kevin Correia (2-6, 4.43) ... Milwaukee returns home to face Toronto Monday. The Brewers are scheduled to send Randy Wolf (2-5, 5.06) to the mound against Henderson Alvarez (3-3, 3.87). ... Span doubled in the fifth to end an 0-for 14 stretch. ... Revere made a stumbling catch at the warning track in right field to rob Norichika Aoki of an extra-base hit starting off the 11th, his third outstanding catch of the game. John Elway Womens Jersey . Tempers flared during the Impacts 4-2 victory on Saturday night, which featured Patrice Berniers goal on a penalty after Felipe Martins went down a little easily from a shove in the area. Joel Dreessen Womens Jersey . Richardson and Shea Emry scored second-half touchdowns Sunday to give the Montreal Alouettes a 24-12 victory over the Toronto Argonauts -- and a home playoff date. http://www.nfldenverbroncosfans.com/eric-decker-jersey . LOUIS -- Chad Billingsley strode to the mound feeling like a winner. Eric Decker Camo Jersey . Watch all the action on TSN, with the pre-game show underway LIVE NOW. Also available on TSN Mobile TV. Hamilton, which began the 2012 campaign with back-to-back defeats against Saskatchewan and British Columbia as it surrendered a combined 82 points, turned the corner after that by posting three consecutive wins in order to jump above . Champ Bailey Pink Jersey . -- Tosaint Ricketts certainly didnt look like an unemployed soccer player.These were not the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games, but they were never going to be. The field in summer sports is so much deeper – the competition, so much tougher - and quite simply, Canada does not have the same history of sporting achievement away from ice and snow. The cheering and flag waving would never measure up; Canadas athletes were an ocean away, and the time difference meant too many medals were won before Canadians at home could pour their morning coffee. Impromptu street parties and beer-soaked parades were out of the question. Instead, the defining element of these Games was something else: 18 medals; one gold, five silver and 12 bronze. One dozen bronze. Canada has never before earned this many bronze medals at a single, non-boycotted Olympic competition – it has never come close. For Canada, London 2012 was not about owning the podium or winning the games. Rather, the best-remembered stories will be of Canadians bouncing back, of athletes taking the hardest knocks but fighting to the end anyway. So often the choice was to either come away with nothing, or to come away bloodied, bruised and possibly bronzed. Canadians almost always chose the latter. When questionable officiating was blamed for the Canadian soccer teams crushing semi-final loss to the United States, there were those who said that match would remain the most memorable moment of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The athletes seemed broken, and who could blame them? Labelled whiners and sore losers by the international press, their final Olympic ticket was to the wrong game and their medal, no longer guaranteed. But in team sports, winners take gold, and losers settle for silver. Bronze is captured and won. Canadas women did not just play through their bronze-medal game against France; they fought. By the second half, the players were exhausted. Again and again, French forwards shot the ball on a seemingly clear course to the Canadian net, only to find a post, crossbar or leg in the way. Through sheer will and a fair amount of luck, Canada kept the game scoreless. In the end, it was not Sidney Crosbys golden goal, but Diana Mathesons bronzed boot that erased the disappointment of their semi-final loss. In the final minutes of injury time, the Canadian midfielder found herself in the right place at the right time, saw the ball in front of her, and scored. "We were absolutely exhausted, but we battled," team captain Christine Sinclair would tell a CTV reporter. "And thats what this team does. We caught a few lucky breaks, obviously, but to win you need that, occasionally." Again and again, the same story of Canadian tenacity played itself out: The mens eight rowers who finished last in their heat but advanced through the tiresome repechage round for silver; Brent Hayden, the 100-metre freestyle swimmer who made up for a disappointing 14th-place finish at Beijing 2008 to capture bronze at his final Olympic Games; Mark Oldershaw, the fifth member of his family to compete at an Olympic Games, suffered disappointment in 2008 but returned four years later to become the first Oldershaw to win an Olympic medal (it was, of course, bronze). No, this was not Vancouver 2010; this wasnt even Beijing 2008, an Olympic Games that seemed draped in negativity as Canada was left waiting an agonizing week for its first medal. If Londons Games have left a more positive taste in Canadian mouths, it is not because of the medal count. Canada earned the same total number of medals this summer in Great Britain as it did four years ago in China, even if the nation did finish 13th in the overall medal count, compared to 15th in Beijing. But while O Canada played three times in 2008 - over wrestling, mens eights rowing and equestrian jumping podiums - Canadas athletes will come away from London with just one gold medal: Rosie MacLennans, in trampoline. As much as Canadians will remember MacLennans golden routine, hers is not the only performance worthy of celebration - this much was suggested when Olympic fans on Twitter pushed for Sinclairrs nomination as Closing Ceremony flagbearer, and was confirmed when the Canadian Olympic Committee later put the flag in the soccer forwards hands. Joel Dreessen Jersey. And what about Paula Findlay, the 23-year-old redhead whose hip injury left her unable to sufficiently train for her first Olympic Games? She competed in the triathlon anyway. A medal hopeful after she won the 2010 Hyde Park race during her first season on the senior international scene, it quickly became apparent that she would not repeat with an Olympic medal on the line. She crossed the finish line in dead last, tears streaming down her face and laboured breathing made even worse by the sobs wracking her chest. It was such a heartbreaking image. But although Canadians felt so much sadness, so much empathy for the young woman from Edmonton, they felt even more pride. Who would have kept going, in similar circumstances? Would you have finished your 54-kilometre race? Maybe, but as likely not. After years of training and months of frustrating and painful rehabilitation, Findlay did. And she did it wearing the maple leaf. There was also Alexandre Despatie, the veteran diver from Laval, Que., who placed 11th at his final Olympic Games. He may have entered these Games as a reigning two-time Olympic silver medallist, but calling the 27-year-olds finish "a disappointment" would be a gross injustice. Despatie, a three-time world champion, pushed through an excruciating 2011 year just to get to these Games. Coming back from a knee injury, he was already in a race against time when he hit his head on the diving board during a 2012 training session in Spain. Two months out from the Olympic Opening Ceremony, his first question to hospital doctors was "When can I dive again?" "Thats how special the Olympics are," Despatie would later tell CTV host Brian Williams. "No matter what, we want to be here. I could have very well said No, Im going to sit this one out and stay home. But I wanted to be here, I wanted to compete in my fourth Olympic Games. As soon as the time frame was realistic, then there was no doubt. I was going to do everything to be here." And finally, with wounds still so fresh and raw, the mens 4x100m relay team. Initially, following Saturdays race, the results board showed the Canadians had crossed the line third. But minutes later, new results replaced the old ones - this time, the word "Canada" was at the bottom of the list, next to a finite DQ. One rogue step had cost Jared Connaughton, Gavin Smellie, Justyn Warner, and Oluseyi Smith Canadas first Olympic medal in the event since Atlanta 1996. Connaughton placed a foot on the line during his leg of the race and - just like that - Canadas 13th bronze medal was gone. The sprinters were left stunned by the side of the track, and Smith sobbed into the same Canadian flag that had been wrapped around him in celebration, seconds earlier. Their anguish was almost incommunicable, but later that same evening the sprinters travelled to the broadcasting centre to speak with Williams in studio. To a man, not one runner so much as hinted that the ruling was unfair. "The 10 minutes or seven minutes that we thought we had [a medal]? That was the best possible feeling," Smith said, instead. "Thats actually what doesnt make it so bad. Even though we dont have a medal, were joking - we keep thinking about how awesome it was for those 10 minutes. "So where do we go from here? We want to get that back and keep that feeling, next year in Moscow or at Commonwealths afterwards." No, these were not the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games. Canadas athletes will not march through the Closing Ceremony as the celebrated winners of the worlds biggest sporting event. But from Connaughton to Oldershaw to MacLennan and flagbearer Sinclair, they can return home with dignity, pride and their competitors and compatriots respect. And, if their performances in London are any indication, a burning desire to do better. Rio de Janeiro is just four years away. ' ' '
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