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SAN DIEGO -- Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred acknowledged the games rising home run numbers Tuesday, but he expressed confidence that they arent a product of juiced players or juiced baseballs.Each MLB team is averaging 1.16 home runs per game this season -- the highest home run rate since the average of 1.17 per game during the height of the steroid era in 2000. The home run rate, which ebbed at 0.86 per game in 2014, began to spike during the second half of last season, but Manfred said MLB has no reason to think the rising power numbers are a product of increased steroid use.The increase in the number of home runs takes place against a different backdrop, Manfred said in his annual All-Star Game session with the Baseball Writers Association of America. Major League Baseball does 22,000 drug tests a year. The World Anti-Doping Agency says we have one of the best testing programs in the world, let alone in professional sports. Our investigative capacity in the area of performance-enhancing drugs is probably the best in the world. So Im much less concerned that this is due to [PEDs].We think it has to do with the way pitchers pitch and the way hitters are being taught to play the game. Youve seen some unusual developments in terms of home run hitters being up in the lineup to get them more at-bats. So we think it has more to do with the game this time around, because were comfortable were doing everything we can on the performance-enhancing drugs front.Since January, 70 players (13 big leaguers and 57 minor leaguers) have been suspended for violations of baseballs joint drug testing agreement. Several active players -- most notably, pitchers Justin Verlander and Jeremy Guthrie and outfielder Jeff Francoeur -- have pushed for stiffer penalties as a disincentive to players who might use PEDs.Manfred also discounted the theory that changes in the baseball used by MLB might be contributing to the rising power numbers. He said MLB has done extensive testing on the baseballs and found no changes.In 2013, Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Ryozo Kato resigned amid a scandal over livelier baseballs in Japan. The scandal broke after Wladimir Balentien of the Yakult Swallows hit 60 homers to break the record of 55 shared by Sadaharu Oh, Alex Cabrera and Tuffy Rhodes.There are certain mistakes in life that if you pay attention to whats going on around you, you are not inclined to make, Manfred said. There was a scandal in Japan over the baseball being changed that cost the commissioner his job. 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The whole deal is to keep the ball in the fairway and then attack from there. d.Married last month, Woodland took last week off and worked with instructor Butch Harmon after opening the new season in Malaysia and China.Webb Simpson was second after his second straight 65.Scott Piercy had a 6 to reach 11 under.First-round leader Chris Kirk followed his opening 63 with a 70 to drop into a tie for fourth at 9 under with local favorite Abraham Ancer (68), Russell Knox (65), Charles Howell III (64), Ben Martin (64), John Huh (66) and Adam Hadwin (66).Marc Leishman eagled the par-5 seventh and followed with a hole-in-one on the 134-yard, hitting a sand wedge for 134 yards. The Australian was 7 under after a 65.CHARLES SCHWAB CUP CHAMPIONSHIPSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Paul Goydos shot an 8-under 62 on Friday in windy conditions to take a three-stroke lead in the PGA Tour Champions season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship.The 52-year-old Goydos holed out from 167 yards for eagle on the par-4 12th and closed with birdies on the par-3 17th and par-5 18th on Desert Mountain Clubs Cochise Course.Colin Montgomerie, third in Charles Schwab Cup season standings, was second. The Scot birdied the final two holes.Points leader Bernhard Langer topped the group at 67. The top five in the standings -- Richmond winner Scott McCarron is second, followed by Montgomerie, Joe Durant and Miguel Angel Jimenez -- can take the season title with a victory Sunday. McCarron holed out from the fairway for eagle on the par-5 15th in a 69.ddddddddddddDurant shot 70, and Jimenez had a 74. Goydos entered the week 24th in the standings.Tom Pernice Jr., the winner of the playoff opener two weeks ago in California, also was at 67 along with Paul Broadhurst and Duffy Waldorf.CITIBANAMEX LORENA OCHOA INVITATIONALMEXICO CITY -- Sarah Jane Smith shot a 4-under 68 to take a two-stroke lead in the Citibanamex Lorena Ochoa Invitational.The Australian birdied four of the first seven holes, dropped a stroke on the par-4 eighth and birdied the par-3 14th. Winless on the LPGA Tour, she had a 9-under 135 total at Club de Golf Mexico.Mexicos Gaby Lopez had a 65 on her home course to match South Koreas Mi Jung Hur (66) and Colombias Mariajo Uribe (67) at 7 under in the 30-player event. Lopez eagled the par-5 second hole, hitting to 2 feet from 195 yards.South Koreas Chella Choi and Frances Karine Icher each shot their second straight 69 to get to 6 under. Spains Carlota Ciganda, tied for the lead with Smith after a first-round 67, had a 72 to drop into a tie for seventh with 2008 winner Angela Stanford (68), Austin Ernst (67) and Jing Yan (67).Michelle Wie was tied for 13th at 3 under after a 71. The 2009 winner in Guadalajara, shes playing on a sponsor invite after failing to qualify.NEDBANK GOLF CHALLENGESUN CITY, South Africa -- Alex Noren shot a 5-under 67 to take a two-stroke lead in theNedbank Golf Challenge, putting the Swede in position for his fourth victory since July.Noren had an 8-under 136 total at Gary Player Country Club.South Africans Louis Oosthuizen (66), George Coetzee (69) and Jaco van Zyl (69) were tied for second with Paraguays Fabrizio Zanotti (68) and Englands Chris Wood (69). Zanotti had a hole-in-one on No. 4.Denmarks Lasse Jensen had an albatross, holing out for two on the par-5 14th in a 69 that got him to 3 under. ' ' '