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Australias captain Steven Smith has refused to blame an unusual schedule for his sides poor display in the first Test of the summer, a defeat that made it four in a row and the first opening loss of a home season for 28 years.In order to cater for a second day-night fixture in the summer in Brisbane, the traditional Gabba opening was swapped for a first Test in Perth, where South Africa have never lost a Test match.Additionally, the early November start meant that Australias players had only one Sheffield Shield match, with a pink ball, to prepare for the WACA ground. By contrast, South Africas squad had two warm-up matches before the first Test and will have another under lights before the third Test is played under flood lights in Adelaide.Look I cant comment on scheduling that is put in place pretty early, Smith said. So for me its about making sure that the guys prepare as well as they can and I think we all had a Shield game, all the batters who played, most of the batters scored runs in that Shield game and had some valuable time in the middle.We were in a position to be able to drive the game having bowled South Africa out for 240 and then getting to 0 for 150. We had another big collapse of nine for 100, and we werent able to capitalise on what the openers did to put us in a great position.Smith focused on the way Australias first innings unravelled virtually from the moment Dale Steyn was injured, meaning the hosts were unable to place any pressure on the South Africas bowling attack, led superbly by the man of the match, Kagiso Rabada. Such collapses have become troublingly commonplace for the Australians.It has happened a little bit of late, which is disappointing and the batters really have to continue to work hard to try and rectify what they are doing out in the middle there, Smith said. We have to form some more partnerships and get big first-innings totals. And if I think if we were able to build quite a big lead on that wicket, it would have been a different story.I guess for us it was just about trying to spend time out in the middle and I guess grind them down. When you have two fast bowlers, I guess the way they used them and the way we thought theyd use them, to use the quicks from one end and some spin at the other end. So, if you keep them out there for long periods of time they cant continue to do that for a long period of time.But we werent able to capitalise after Dale went down and we let them get back into the game and run away with it. So, credit to the way South Africa played, I think in their second innings the partnership between Duminy and Elgar really took the game away from us and we weent able to come back from there.Looking ahead to Hobart, Smith said the team needed to find a lot of improvement in a short space of time. When we get out in the middle we have to do things better. We havent been able to do that for a while and if we want to stay in this series we have to turn it around quickly in Hobart.When you are playing international cricket you are always under some sort of pressure, the guys have prepared well, they were excited for this series, we know South Africa are formidable opponents and they outplayed us in this Test match. We are going to have to play a hell of a lot better if we want to compete with them in the next game. Cameron Payne Raptors Jersey . Thats not a comment on the suspension that banished the Portland Winterhawks general manager and coach from his Western Hockey League teams bench for most of the 2012-13 season. C.J. Miles Raptors Jersey . The Dutchmans tenure got off to a poor start when referee Guido Winkmann awarded a penalty within two minutes for Niklas Starks clumsy challenge on Alexandru Maxim. https://www.raptorsrookiesshop.com/Vince-Carter-City-Edition-Jersey/ . 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SAN DIEGO -- With his 19th home run, Wil Myers is playing so well that his manager expects him to be San Diegos representative in the All-Star Game at Petco Park on July 12.And then theres 28-year-old rookie Ryan Schimpf, who hit his first big league home run Friday night, when the San Diego Padres avoided a total bullpen meltdown to hold off the New York Yankees 7-6.It felt good to get it out of there for sure, said Schimpf, who played 733 minor league games before getting his first big league call-up on June 14.He homered to right-center leading off the second inning.Its kind of always been my game, I guess, ever since I was little, said Schimpf, who hit 15 homers in 51 games at Triple-A before being called up. Kind of a big-swing guy trying to drive the ball every time. Thats just kind of how Ive always been, but obviously I dont want to be big swing, big miss. I want to go up there and put together a good at-bat and hit the ball hard.Said manager Andy Green: It was fun to see. ... Theres a lot of positives to pull from it and hes going to continue to get opportunities.Colin Rea (5-3) pitched six strong innings for the Padres, who snapped a three-game losing streak and handed the Yankees their fourth loss in six games. The righty held New York to two runs, one earned, and four hits while striking out five and walking one.The Padres, who traded closer Fernando Rodney to Miami on Thursday, then gave up four runs in the ninth.After Matt Thornton allowed pinch-hitter Alex Rodriguezs RBI single that pulled the Yankees to 7-3, Brandon Maurer came on with two on and none out in the ninth. He allowed Didi Gregorius RBI double and Aaron Hicks RBI groundout before his wild pitch brought in another run. Pinch-hitter Carlos Beltran doubled and advanced on Jacoby Ellsburys groundout before Maurer got Brett Gardner to ground out to earn his first save.Myers didnt slow down even though the calendar has turned to July. He had 11 homers, 33 RBI and 21 extra-base hits iin June.ddddddddddddMyers hit a two-run, opposite-field shot to right off Nathan Eovaldi in the fifth. Travis Jankowski was aboard on a leadoff single.I wasnt too worried about the calendar flipping, Green said. I felt pretty good about where his swing was and what he feels like, takes his walk, steals a base, homers. Its what hes been doing for a while now, so he better be an All-Star.New Yorks Brian McCann homered with one out in the sixth off Rea, his 13th.The Padres jumped on Eovaldi for three runs in the first, on an RBI single by Melvin Upton Jr. and Derek Norris two-run double.Ellsbury hit an RBI single for the Yankees in the second.Eovaldi (6-6) lost his fourth straight start, allowing six runs and seven hits in 4 1/3 innings, struck out two and walked three.`Hes got good stuff but consistently he has to locate or hes going to get hit, manager Joe Girardi said. 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