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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Two pitchers who are hitting their stride as the season concludes will face each other when the Oakland Athletics meet the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night to begin a three-game series at Angel Stadium.Rookie left-hander Sean Manaea has pitched 11 shutout innings in his past two starts for the As. Veteran right-hander Jered Weaver posted his 150th career win in his last start with the Angels as he continues his finest stretch of the season.In six starts since Aug. 25, Weaver has gone 4-1 with three quality starts and 31 strikeouts in 34 2/3 innings. Before that surge, the 11-year veteran compiled an 0-4 record and a 7.01 ERA in six starts while getting just nine strikeouts and allowing opposing batters to hit .391.Everything is starting to come together, Weaver told MLB.com. Ive been able to throw the ball the way I want to, and the location of all my pitches has been where I want it to be. Its been promising.Weaver has been fighting numerous physical problems and declining velocity for three years. But in a testament to his resiliency, the three-time All-Star secured his 150th career win Wednesday night against the Texas Rangers. In six innings, Weaver allowed four runs, six hits and two walks while striking out six in the 5-4 victory.He has been incredible for a long time, Los Angeles manager Mike Scioscia told MLB.com. Hes part of the heart and soul of what weve done. Its great to see him reach some milestones.Weaver ranks second to Chuck Finley in career victories for the club. Finley won 165 games between 1986 and 1999.Manaea, who missed the first two weeks of September because of a strained back, scattered just three hits and a walk while striking out five and throwing 67 pitches during five scoreless innings in his return Sept. 14.The left-hander combined with three other pitchers in an 8-0 rout of the Kansas City Royals, the team that originally signed Manaea three years ago before sending him to the As last year in a three-player trade for Ben Zobrist.He was great, Oakland manager Bob Melvin told MLB.com afterward. It didnt look like he had any time off.In this next start on Tuesday night against the Houston Astros, Manaea collected seven strikeouts in six innings while conceding just two walks and three hits. But the Astros rallied for a 2-1 win in 10 innings.That was one of his best outings of the season, As reliever Sean Doolittle told MLB.com, and to squander it is incredibly frustrating.When Manaeas rookie season began, he lost three of his first four decisions. Now as it ends, the left-hander possesses a newfound confidence that he seeks to refine.At the beginning of the season, I didnt really trust my stuff and I was shying away from contact, Manaea told MLB.com. Now it just seems like Im pounding the strike zone and I want those early contact swings. Thats been a huge difference from the beginning of the season until now. I feel like Im doing a pretty good job of that.Balenciaga Shoes Sale Online . Tests earlier this week revealed a Grade 2 left hamstring strain for Sabathia, who was hurt in last Fridays start against San Francisco. Its an injury that will require about eight weeks to heal. He finished a disappointing campaign just 14-13 with a career-worst 4. 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The 25-year-old Japanese star has officially been posted by his club team, the Rakuten Golden Eagles.RIO DE JANEIRO -- In a hallway beneath the Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Missy Franklin was surrounded by the media after her first race of the Rio de Janeiro Games.Until Katie Ledecky walked by.At least half the reporters bolted away from Franklin while she was in mid-answer Monday, all of them eager to fire a few questions at Ledecky.It was the clearest sign yet of the changing of the guard on the U.S. womens swim team.Franklin was the darling of the London Games, a high schooler who captured four gold medals and the hearts of everyone back home with her bubbly personality.Ledecky won gold in her only London race -- quite an accomplishment for a 15-year-old -- but her triumph was dwarfed by Franklins long shadow.Now, its Ledecky who is poised to be the biggest womens star in Rio. The 19-year-old already has two medals and one world record, blowing away the field Sunday night in the 400-meter freestyle.By the time Ledecky is done, she very well could have four golds and a silver, which would surpass Franklins medal haul (four golds and a bronze) in 2012.Franklin seems to have accepted her fate.Its so hard knowing all the work you put in everyday and then to get here and be so far behind where you feel like you can be, she said, her eyes tearing up.Franklin isnt anywhere close to the form she showed four years ago.She struggled mightily at the U.S. trials, qualifying for the team in only two individual events and one relay -- a far cry from her seven-evennt program at the London Games.dddddddddddder first event of the Olympics gave scant evidence that shes suddenly regained her speed over the past month. Franklin failed to qualify for the final of the 200-meter freestyle, finishing last in her semifinal heat and posting only the 13th-best time among 16 swimmers. She actually went slower in the evening than she did during the afternoon preliminaries.Ledecky, on the other hand, cruised into the final as the second-fastest qualifier, with a time of 1 minute, 54.81 seconds -- nearly 3 seconds faster than Franklin.For Ledecky, this is already her third event of the games. For Franklin, it was the first chance to swim after sitting out the first two days.She conceded that her confidence level is really different than it was before the London Games.Its been awesome coming back here and just kind of accepting the expectations I have now, and knowing thats just to do my best, Franklin said.Ledecky, of course, is aiming so much higher.Nothing less than gold in any of her remaining events will do.I feel like every year at the big championship meets, my stroke just feels as good as it ever has, she said. Once I get going, its kind of hard to stop.---Follow Paul Newberry on Twitter at www.twitter.com/pnewberry1963 . 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