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SEATTLE -- Seattle ace Felix Hernandez couldnt pick a better time to be regaining his form.Hernandez pitched eight strong innings and Mike Zunino homered and drove in three runs to lift the Mariners to an 8-2 victory over Milwaukee on Saturday night, handing the Brewers their sixth straight loss.Im getting better every time out, said Hernandez, who missed almost two months with a strained right calf. The first two innings, not that loose, and then after that everything clicked. Good fastball, good changeup, good curveball.Hernandez (8-4) gave up two runs and seven hits, striking out eight and walking one to improve to 4-0 with a 3.80 ERA in seven starts since coming off the disabled list on July 20. Steve Cishek, who had lost his closers role, pitched a perfect ninth.Hes rounding into Felix form, no doubt, Mariners manager Scott Servais said. Hes having fun. Hes healthy. He feels good about where hes at. Hes got some bullets left in his arm, having been out as long as he has. Hes still fresh.Seattle, which has won eight straight homes games and 12 of its last 15 overall, pulled one game behind Baltimore for the American Leagues second wild card.Zunino and Leonys Martin hit back to back homers off Wily Peralta (5-9) to open the bottom of the seventh, stretching Seattles lead to 4-0. Peralta was making his third start since being recalled from Triple-A Colorado Springs.When you face a guy like King Felix, your teams not going to give up, said Peralta, demoted in June after being the Brewers opening day starter. Not many runs, overall, until the last two home runs in the seventh, so I think I was throwing OK.The Brewers broke through against Hernandez in the eighth on an RBI double by Ryan Braun and a run-scoring single by Hernan Perez.The Mariners then added four runs in the bottom of the inning, capped by Zuninos two-run double to right-center.I just knew I had to be patient throughout the night and Id get a couple pitches I could hit, said Zunino, who was not called up from Triple-A until late July. Its just nice to be in a couple of those situations late in the game with runners on.Martin manufactured a run in the third to put Seattle up 1-0. He walked, stole second, moved to third on Ketel Martes ground out and came home on Norichika Aokis single to left.Aoki drove in the Mariners second run in the fifth, slapping an opposite-field double to left to score Marte from first.The Mariners doubled their lead in the seventh when Zunino opened with his eighth homer and Martin followed with his 14th.I think they were bad pitches, Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. Tired? I thought the first two hitters, I thought hed be good for sure for the first two hitters. I wanted Blaine (Boyer) ready for Marte, but unfortunately the first two hitters homered.Hernandez pitched out of trouble several times earlier, stranding a runner at third in the first, and runners at second in the second and sixth.His last two starts, hes just getting stronger and stronger, catcher Zunino said. Hes finding his rhythm, his commands great, hes doing a great job throwing the ball inside to both lefties and righties and thats opening everything up. And, his change-ups getting very close to what it was.AOKI HOTThe veteran outfielder, who was sent to Triple-A Tacoma for 16 games in July, has hit safely in 11 of his last 15 games, including three three-hit games. He is hitting .358 over that stretch with five doubles, three RBI and hit by pitches twice. I think I made pretty good pitches to him. But he just still found the barrel, put it in play, Peralta said. The first hit he got was on a very good pitch. The second one I missed a little bit. The third one was a fastball up, for some reason he just put the barrel on it. Hes pretty hot right now.TRAINERS ROOMBrewers: RHP Junior Guerra, on the 15-day DL (right elbow inflammation) reported no problems after a bullpen session on Friday and now will pitch in a simulated game. The next step for him will be Monday, hell face hitters ... basically pitch two innings, manager Craig Counsell said. Guerra, a 31-year-old rookie, has been a surprise with a 7-3 record and 2.93 ERA in 17 starts.Mariners: LHP James Paxton, on the 15-day DL with a bruised left elbow after being hit by a line drive, made a short rehab start Saturday at Triple-A Tacoma. In a 53-pitch outing, Paxton allowed two hits with one walk and three strikeouts in three scoreless innings. He could return to the rotation next Thursday.UP NEXTBrewers: RHP Matt Garza (4-5, 4.87 ERA), makes his first start against the Mariners since 2010, when he was with Tampa Bay. Garza opened the season on the DL and is making his 13th start since being activated in mid-June. He is 3-1 in his last four starts.Mariners: Rookie LHP Ariel Miranda (1-0, 5.79) makes his third start for Seattle since being acquired from Baltimore for Wade Miley. 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Traditional contenders Brazil, Greece and Turkey drew the other three spots to complete the 24-team field for this summers tournament in Spain, basketball governing body FIBA announced Saturday at its meeting in Barcelona.GLASGOW, Scotland -- The 38-member World Anti-Doping Agency Foundation Board -- a body that includes sports and anti-doping administrators, former athletes and government officials -- will meet Sunday to discuss several significant reform proposals and confirm the expected re-election of WADA president Craig Reedie.Months of conflict with the International Olympic Committee over how to deal with a massive doping scandal in Russia and correct overall deficiencies in anti-doping resulted in an open rift at the Rio Summer Games. Despite compelling evidence of state-sponsored doping gathered by whistle-blowers, investigative reporters and two separate WADA probes, the IOC dismissed WADAs recommendation for a blanket ban on Russias athletes and cleared the way for most to compete.Publicly, both sides agree on the need for greater autonomy and funding for WADA, and the chill between the two appeared to be thawing last month when the IOC formalized its wish list for a restructuring of global anti-doping that paralleled many of WADAs aims. But fissures reopened and politicking broke out last week at a meeting of national Olympic committee leaders. Sundays meeting should be a good gauge of exactly how far apart WADA and the IOC stand and what would be involved in a true separation of WADA from the sports institutions it is supposed to regulate.Whats on the agenda?Proposals call for potentially sweeping changes in WADAs structure and sanctioning power and a beefed-up investigative staff. The Russian scandal exposed WADAs inability to cope with large-scale organized doping, something the agency wants to remedy with a spectrum of penalties including fines and -- in cases where anti-doping has been systematically undermined -- the authority to impose wholesale suspensions. That is sure to inflame the IOC and move the two bureaucracies into uncharted territory in their jurisdictional battle. WADA leadership will contend there is ample support for these measures from athletes, governments who fund anti-doping and the national anti-doping organizations themselves. Another core proposal to create a new, independent testing entity from scratch is still in the study stage: How would such an entity be funded? Would established anti-doping organizations with good reputations be incorporated or dismantled? A lot of basic questions are still on the table.Is Reedies job secure?The 75-year-old IOC member and former international badminton official is running unopposed for a second three-year term. Reedie was publicly excoriated by leaders of several national Olympic committees at a meeting in Doha,, Qatar, last week, in part because WADA had just announced a suspension of the accredited laboratory there.dddddddddddd That prompted accusations of a deliberate attempt to embarrass the host, a country with obvious Olympic ambitions, but WADA officials insisted the timing was coincidental. The IOC then endorsed Reedies second term while at the same time calling for a neutral president to be selected in the course of future structural reform. Current WADA rules mandate that the position switch back and forth between individuals representing Olympic sport and a national government. In practice, it may be extremely difficult to find someone with a working knowledge of sports and anti-doping -- but without a vested interest -- to lead the organization.Where does WADA stand on Russias national anti-doping organization, which was declared out of compliance last year?The board will hear an update on RUSADAs progress. UK anti-doping officials attempting to oversee testing and reform measures there earlier this year painted a bleak picture, citing numerous instances of evasions, denial and obstruction. The Russian track and field federation remains suspended by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the sports international governing body. WADA also is slated to formalize a new whistle-blower policy outlining standards for treatment and support of those who come forward. That move follows wide criticism of WADAs longtime inaction in the case of Vitaly Stepanov and his wife, Yuliya Stepanova, the former anti-doping worker and elite runner whose notes and secret recordings tore the cover off the Russian track scandal.After this meeting, what is the next shoe to drop?Law professor Richard McLaren of Canada is due to deliver the second part of his WADA-commissioned independent investigation into Russian doping next month. His initial report, instigated by?descriptions of sabotage and manipulation of test results by the former Moscow lab director who oversaw anti-doping operations at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, was released on the eve of Rio 2016. It implicated an array of winter and summer sports other than track and field. The IOC set up its own ongoing investigation as a follow-up to McLarens and said Sochi samples would be retested. This week, the IOC said it would allocate $500,000 to WADAs investigations unit in exchange for active cooperation from McLaren, but the law professor has yet to confirm he agreed to any conditions. ' ' '