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BROWNSBURG, Ind. -- Tony Schumacher won the Top Fuel portion of the NHRA Traxxas Nitro Shootout and Clay Millican raced to the qualifying lead Saturday in the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway.Schumacher, an eight-time season champion, had a 3.717-second pass at 328.86 mph to beat Leah Pritchett for his second career NHRA Traxxas Nitro Shootout victory.Schumacher, who won in Colorado and entered the specialty event as the No. 5 seed, claimed a $100,000 prize. He outlasted Brittany Force and Antron Brown before facing Pritchett.It takes the points and what we work on all year long and gets rid of that, Schumacher said. It is just, Here is a pile of money and just go be a machine. It makes it a lot on you. You come to the biggest race of the year, the Big Go, and have this thrown in the middle of it. It is fantastic.It is a magical place here in Indy. This is actually the 11th time [Ive won an event here] -- two Shootouts and nine [event] wins. 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OAKLAND, Calif. -- What the Seattle Mariners saw from Oakland As rookie right-hander Zach Neal on May 25 at Safeco Field is probably not what theyll get Sunday in a rematch at Oakland Coliseum.Neal gave up seven runs and eight hits in four innings in his first major-league start and second appearance that night in Seattle.That was so long ago, Neal said of the 13-3 loss. I feel like Im a completely different player now. That was my second game ever. Everything feels different now than it did, just as far being here more and being more comfortable. Its hard to even pull anything from that.Since then, Neal has gone 2-0 with a 2.01 ERA and one save in 10 appearances, including his second career major-league start on Tuesday against Baltimore. Neal has struck out eight, walked one and allowed 19 hits in 22 1/3 innings during that stretch.Neal gave up one run and two hits, struck out one and walked none in 5 1/3 innings in a 2-1 victory over the Orioles.In his start against Seattle at Safeco, Neal gave up two home runs to Adam Lind, a solo shot in the second inning and a two-run blast during a six-run third.Ive been a starter long enough to know you cant live and die by one game, Neal said. Its a long season, and if you do that, then its going to be an even longer season. Ive been through those many a time in my career and learned from them. I think thats part of growing up as a baseball player. Mentally being able to hanndle those situations is key.ddddddddddddariners left-hander Wade LeBlanc, who will make his seventh start of the season, knows plenty about handling adversity. LeBlanc, 31, played the 2015 season for the Seibu Lions of Japans Pacific League because he couldnt find a job in the major leagues. This year, he signed with Toronto and was pitching for Triple-A Buffalo until the Mariners acquired him in a trade on June 22.LeBlanc has gone 1-0 with a 4.71 ERA in seven appearances, including six starts for the Mariners. Seattle is 6-1 in his seven outings.Hes had some good games for us, Mariners manager Scott Servais said before Seattles 4-3 victory over the As on Saturday. Hes had some other ones where he was on the edge. His last time out he could have fallen apart, and he hung in there and gave us five innings, which allowed us to come back in the game.He has to live on the edges of the strike zone to be effective, and hes done a pretty good job for us. We have a pretty good idea of what were going to get out of him every time out there. Hes going to throw strikes, hes not going to beat himself.In his last start, LeBlanc gave up four runs and 10 hits in five innings and got a no-decision in Seattles 6-5 victory over Detroit on Tuesday. 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