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SAN DIEGO -- Batting cleanup in his second game back from his second stint on the disabled list, Curtis Granderson gave the New York Yankees some badly needed power. Granderson hit a two-run home run, his first since coming off the DL, and Ivan Nova dominated the Padres through seven impressive innings to lead the Yankees to a 3-0 victory against San Diego on Saturday night. Tyson Ross was pitching well for the Padres when it quickly fell apart. Alfonso Soriano singled to centre leading off the seventh and Granderson followed with a homer into the Jack Daniels Old No. 7 party deck atop the right field wall. "Its good. Any way to help the team out," Granderson said. "It was scuffle against Ross out there. He had thrown really well against us. Finally the third time around we were able to get a little thing going with Soriano to get the bloop there and then finally to get a pitch that caught some of the plate. He didnt give us much of that throughout the earlier parts of the game." It was Grandersons first hit since being activated before Friday nights game. Hes been on the DL twice since spring training after being hit by pitches. It was his second homer of the season. "I fell behind first pitch changeup away, and then I tried to go fastball and got too much of the plate and he made me pay for it," Ross said. Granderson scored again in the ninth when he hit a leadoff single, stole second and came in on Jayson Nixs two-out single. "He was part of all three runs tonight," manager Joe Girardi said. "Ive talked about how Curtis can change the complexion of the game really quickly and thats what he did tonight. Thats why I put him in the four slot tonight, because of how he can change a game and its really nice to have him back." The sellout crowd at Petco Park was on its feet as Mariano Rivera came on to start the ninth. He pitched a perfect inning to earn his 35th save in 37 chances in his farewell season, and the 643rd of his career. Nova (5-4) held San Diego to just four hits in seven innings while striking out eight and walking one. He retired 15 straight batters from the second through sixth innings, keeping the Padres off-balance with a mixture of curveballs and fastballs. Novas streak began after he allowed Alexi Amaristas leadoff double in the second. Amarista took third on Logan Forsythes groundout but was stranded as Nova got Nick Hundley to ground out and then struck out Ross. "He was tough," San Diegos Chase Headley said. "I felt he did a really good job of locating his fastball and obviously he had that really good breaking ball going tonight. I looked up at the scoreboard in the sixth or seventh inning and saw that he had thrown 15 or 18 balls total. And when someone has thrown as many breaking balls as he did, thats pretty impressive. He did a great job of locating his pitches and had really good stuff." The Padres didnt have another baserunner until Will Venable doubled leading off the seventh. Nova retired the next two batters, walked Logan Forsythe and then punched out Hundley on a curveball to end the inning. Nova was taken by San Diego in the December 2008 draft but was returned to the Yankees at the end of spring training in 2009. Ross (2-5) retired the first 13 Yankees batters, including striking out five in a row at one point, before Lyle Overbay lined a single to left. Ross then got Eduardo Nunez to fly out to centre and struck out Brett Lillibridge. "Early on he was getting a lot of quick outs," Granderson said. "He was pitching no-hit baseball for a while until Overbay was able to get one in and then that finally, I guess, settled everybody in a little bit to say, OK, we can hit him. Lets do what we need to do up there and stay within our approach and get something we can hit. " Ross allowed two runs and three hits in six-plus innings, struck out a career-high nine and walked three. His previous career high was eight strikeouts, accomplished three times previously, including twice this season. Ross was coming off a 1-0 victory against All-Star Patrick Corbin and the Arizona Diamondbacks in which he allowed only three hits in eight innings. NOTES: Yankees manager Joe Girardi is giving SS Derek Jeter two games off to rest his sore right leg. Girardi says Jeter has been battling a calf injury. The manager doesnt know if the injury came about because of a strained right quadriceps that landed Jeter on the disabled list from July 12 until being activated last Sunday. "Its a concern of ours and weve got to try to get him healthy," Girardi said. ... Eduardo Nunez started at SS on Saturday night after starting at 3B on Friday night. Lillibridge started at 3B on Saturday night. ... David "Boomer" Wells, who grew up in San Diego and pitched for both the Yankees and Padres, watched from right behind home plate. ... 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The New Westminster, B.C., native plowed three yards into the end zone for the last score of a heated, see-saw battle between the two teams with the best records in the CFL. ARLINGTON, Va. -- Marcus Johansson was back in Toronto for another arbitration hearing with the Washington Capitals, but this time he didnt have to go through with it.Hours before Johansson and the Capitals were set to go to arbitration for the second time, they agreed on a $13.75 million, three-year deal. The 25-year-old Swedish forward will count $4.583 million against the salary cap, almost exactly between the two sides arbitration asking prices but on a longer contract.Johansson got as close as the entrance to the hotel where NHL arbitration cases are heard before the deal got done.I dont think anyone wants to go to arbitration. Thats kind of a last resort, Johansson said on a conference call from Toronto on Wednesday. It was a little tight schedule before the meeting, but Im really happy that we worked it out.Johansson will make $4.25 million next season and $4.75 million in 2017-18 and 2018-19 on a contract thats similar to the one former teammate Mathieu Perreault signed as a restricted free agent with the Winnipeg Jets earlier this summer.The $4.583 million cap hit fits into Washingtons offseason plan with one more restricted free agent left to sign in defenseman Dmitry Orlov. The Capitals won the Presidents Trophy as the leagues top regular-season team a year ago and will have almost the same group back to take another shot at the Stanley Cup next season.To be able to keep the team, its hard, Johansson said. Its hard for everyone. Im just happy we were able to figure it out in the end. To be able to be part of this team for three more years, thats important to me. I thinnk both parties are happy with it.dddddddddddd Theres obviously the cap in the NHL and they have to find a way to stay under it.Johansson had 17 goals and 29 assists for 46 points in 74 games last season. In 419 regular-season NHL games, Johansson has 78 goals and 154 assists for 232 points and has added 22 points in the playoffs.Under coach Barry Trotz, Johansson has developed his all-around game and improved his production by going to the net more.Thats been a part of my game that Ive been working on and trying to score more goals and get more pucks to the net, Johansson said. You always want to be part of it and score goals. Thats always a fun part. But as long as you feel youre improving on it and getting better, I think thats a sign that youre moving in the right direction.Signing him for three years takes some of the mystery out of next summer, when the Capitals have forwards T.J. Oshie, Justin Williams and Daniel Winnik and defenseman Karl Alzner as unrestricted free agents and forwards Evgeny Kuznetsov and Andre Burakovsky as restricted free agents.This offseason Washington acquired center Lars Eller in a trade with the Montreal Canadiens and let long-time left winger Jason Chimera leave in free agency. Johansson said the Capitals continue to make moves to improve.Mac has done a great job getting us what we need, he said. I think last year we showed that were really contending. ... This is a team and a group that I really think we can win with. ' ' '