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Vancouver heads to San Jose on Sunday in a battle of teams eliminated from postseason contention.The Earthquakes (8-11-13) have lost three of their last four MLS matches, but did beat Vancouver 2-1 in mid-August in the teams only other meeting this season. Quincy Amarikwa and Simon Dawkins had goals for San Jose against Vancouver.A win over the Whitecaps on Saturday would give San Jose State its first season sweep over Vancouver since 2011.The Whitecaps (9-15-8) have won only once in its last six MLS matches, but goalkeeper David Ousted expects a strong effort from his team.You might say that we have nothing to play for, Ousted said on Vancouvers team website. I dont view it that way. Not at all.Weve got our jobs to play for, weve got the fans to play for, and weve got ourselves as a team.I dont want to go out with a whimper and tuck my tail between my legs. I want to go and win. And that has to be the mentality.The Whitecaps will be shorthanded, with midfielder Pedro Morales suspended after receiving a red card in a 2-1 loss to the Seattle Sounders on Oct. 2.Morales leads Vancouver with eight goals and is second on the team with six assists. Midfielder Christian Bolanos leads the team with seven assists.Striker Bilas Perez also is suspended for the match, leaving Vancouver coach Carl Robinson with some decisions to make. His replacement options are limited, though, with a handful of younger players with the WFC2 for Saturdays USL Western Conference Final.San Jose captain Chris Wondolowski has 10 career goals against Vancouver, the most any other player in MLS. He has helped the Earthquakes keep Vancouver winless (0-2-5) at Avaya Stadium.Wondolowski has 12 goals this season to lead San Jose.The Whitecaps host the Portland Timbers on Oct. 23 to wrap up the regular season. 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Wilson hit Schenn from behind during Tuesday nights game in Philadelphia, earning a five-minute major for charging and a game misconduct. He has a phone hearing with the department of player safety, which limits any potential suspension to five or fewer games. Andy Messersmith Jersey . Anthony Davis had 31 points and 17 rebounds in his seventh straight game with more than 20 points, but that was only enough to keep the Pelicans competitive into the final minutes. Andrew Bogut had 10 points and 15 rebounds for Golden State, which rebounded from a loss a night earlier in Oklahoma City and snapped a two-game skid.SAN DIEGO -- No matter the names, the AL dominates the All-Star Game in the 21st Century and starts the World Series at home.Back in 2003, when a This Time It Counts sign was put up in right at Chicagos U.S. Cellular Field, the stars included Roger Clemens and Hank Blalock. This year, the key names were baseball Royalty: Eric Hosmer and Salvador Perez.And because they came up big Tuesday night, Kansas City would open the World Series at home again if it wins a third straight AL pennant -- a big if.It just brings that sense of comfort to the team and gives you a jump-start for the whole Series, Hosmer said after homering, driving in two runs and earning the MVP Award in the American Leagues 4-2 win over the Nationals.The Game 1 Series host has won six of the last seven titles and 24 of the last 30.I would have loved to have that seventh game last year in San Francisco, manager Dusty Baker said in 2003, thinking back to when his Giants lost Game 7 at Anaheim the previous fall.Home teams have taken a 2-0 Series lead in six of the last 13 years. No visiting team has won the first two games since the 1999 New York Yankees, who swept Atlanta.Hopefully this is something we can all rally upon for the second half and find a way to use that home-field advantage, Hosmer saidHosmer and Perez homered in a six-pitch span, and the Kansas City duo drove in alll the ALs runs.dddddddddddd The defending World Series champion Royals are languishing at 45-43, seven games off the AL Central lead and in the middle of the wild-card race.Before the game, Royals manager Ned Yost told the AL team of the importance of earning home-field.We dont know who is going to be in the World Series. We dont know who is going to be representing the American League, but we know how much that home-field advantage helped us, Hosmer recalled his manager saying.The AL cut its deficit to 43-42 with two ties -- including the infamous 7-7, 11-inning game at Milwaukee in 2002 that sparked baseball officials to link Series home field to the All-Stars the following year.After two decades of NL domination starting in the early 1960s -- 20 wins in 21 games -- the AL has nearly caught up. The NLs scoring lead is just 360-359.Even the three NL players who became All-Star MVPs in the last 13 years now play for the AL -- Prince Fielder, Brian McCann and Melky Cabrera.Of course, home-field isnt everything. Speaking in 2005, then-Cardinals manager Tony La Russa thought back to Bostons Series sweep the previous year.I think that if we had started the series in St. Louis, he said, maybe we would have lost in five. ' ' '