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TORONTO -- After reliever Darren Oliver came out of his final game in the majors, Mark DeRosa sought him out on the Blue Jays b

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TORONTO -- After reliever Darren Oliver came out of his final game in the majors, Mark DeRosa sought him out on the Blue Jays bench. Air Max 270 React Rose Pas Cher . "I said How do you feel?" said the 38-year-old DeRosa. "He said I feel great. And I said Thats how it should be. You should be able to walk away on your own terms. "So Im happy for him." Oliver retired on a high note Sunday, striking out two Tampa Bay Rays in the swansong to his 20-year major-league career. The 42-year-old left-hander came on to a standing ovation to open the seventh against the meat of the Rays order, with Toronto trailing 7-3. He struck out Wil Myers and Evan Longoria while inducing James Loney to fly out. He threw 11 pitches, eight for strikes, before giving way to Steve Delabar for the eighth inning in a game Toronto lost 7-6 after a comeback fell just short in the final game of the Jays season. "It was great, a great run," Oliver said of his career. "But eventually every good thing must come to an end, unfortunately. Mine just happened to end at 42, I guess. But thats all right. It was great." The six-foot-three 250-pounder leaves the game with a 118-98 record in 766 games and 1,915.2 innings pitched. He struck out 1,259 and walked 720 in a career that included three stints in Texas as well as stops in St. Louis, Boston, Colorado, the Angeles and Mets. "He had some kind of career," said Jays manager John Gibbons. "Twenty years -- very few guys get to do that. "To play a very, very small part and be able to manage him is a pretty neat thing. He was one of the better pitchers in the game for a long time. Longevity in this business is hard to come by but to do it for that long and be that effective until the very end, that speaks volumes." Added DeRosa: "I look more at not only what hes been able to accomplish but the way hes gone about it. With class and grace. Hes handled himself like a pro from start to finish." Oliver, the son of former major league infielder Bob Oliver, returned this season after the Jays exercised a US$3-million option for 2013 During spring training, he said good health, good teams and good coaches helped keep him in the game so long. He also worked at it, studying opposition batters. "Theres really no magic explanation why Ive stayed around so long," he said. Air Max 270 React Noir Pas Cher . Tottenham claimed top spot in Group K by winning 2-0 at Tromso after defender Adnan Causevic scored an own goal before Mousa Dembele put the result beyond doubt. Valencia made sure it will finish first in Group A with a 1-0 win at Swansea thanks to an early goal from Dani Parejo. Air Max 270 React 2020 Pas Cher . Early in the first period, Stuart pinched in from the blue line, hit Nash and was assessed a minor penalty for elbowing. Nash remained in the game for the rest of the first period, but did not return for the second. http://www.airmax270reactpascher.fr/ . As each game passes (each has played close with the exception of last night) it becomes clearer just how evenly matched these two teams are and how one mistake, or one bad inning, is likely to sway the result.LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Nearly seven months after the New York Rangers Stanley Cup hopes were crushed on the Staples Center ice, they returned to Hollywood and demonstrated why theyve got a great chance to get back to the big stage again this summer.Dan Boyle had a goal and an assist, Cam Talbot made 28 saves and the Rangers held off the Los Angeles Kings for a 4-3 victory Thursday night in a rematch of last years Stanley Cup finals.Kevin Klein, Lee Stempniak and Martin St. Louis scored in a 5:46 span of the second period for the Rangers, who erased an early two-goal deficit and completed a Southern California sweep with their 12th win in 13 games overall.Its a tough building to come in and play, and obviously we didnt fare very well in here last time, said Talbot, who overcame a rocky beginning to win in just his second start in New Yorks last 13 games. Its a good measuring stick for us. It was great to get a win in a building like this.Derick Brassard had two assists for the Rangers, who are on their longest streak of regular-season success in two decades. Conn Smythe Trophy winner Justin Williams got his second goal with 4:03 to play while the Kings dominated the third period, but Talbot held on during the Kings 6-on-4 advantage in the final 35.9 seconds.When were not skating, we dont play to our strengths, Brassard said. In the first period, we were pretty slow out there. In the second period, we started skating, and that gave us a chance to win.New York looked sharp and motivated in its first appearance in downtown Los Angeles since June 13, when Alec Martinezs double-overtime goal in Game 5 of the finals clinched the Kings second NHL title in three seasons. Los Angeles won three overtime home games in that series, with the Rangers lamenting their repeated inability to score clutch goals.A season later, New York cemented its spot as one of hockeys top teams with back-to-back victories over the Anaheim Ducks and the Kings, two Stanlley Cup contenders. Air Max 270 Femme Rose Pas Cher. e were expecting them to come out this hard, Los Angeles coach Darryl Sutter said. Watching them last night, theyre on a run. Theyre hot, and when youre hot like that, youre the best team.Tanner Pearson also scored for the defending Stanley Cup champions, who returned from a four-day break with an inconsistent defensive effort. Jonathan Quick stopped 22 shots, but his teammates struggled to keep up with the Rangers speed and precision for parts of Los Angeles fourth loss in five games.Four goals against yet again, for a team that prides itself on defence, is something inexcusable, Williams said. Its something weve tried to clean up, and something we need to continue to do, because were not going to win games giving up chances like that. We seem to be in a funk, especially killing penalties. Its not for a lack of trying. The guys are working their tails off, but ... thats a down for us now.The Kings led 2-0 just 5:49 in on goals by Pearson, who snapped his 11-game goal drought since Dec. 11, and a rocket of a shot by Williams.Boyle scored 5 seconds into a power play when his slap shot deflected off Jarret Stolls stick and ricocheted high to beat Quick.The Rangers got rolling shortly after the break. Klein and Stempniak scored 19 seconds apart in the second period, both on tough-to-stop shots created by New Yorks aggression and movement. Stempniaks goal was his first in 12 games since Nov. 29.St. Louis scored unobstructed on a rebound a few minutes later, setting off a few boos in the sellout crowd.NOTES: New York completes its three-game California road trip in San Jose on Saturday night. Boyle will face the Sharks for the first time since they declined to re-sign him last summer. ... Rangers LW Tanner Glass was a healthy scratch for the fourth consecutive game. ... The Kings reached the midway point of their season in a seventh-place tie with Winnipeg in the Western Conference standings. ' ' '

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