With the Labour Day Classics now in the books, the CFL schedule makes its midseason turn to the fall. The games get all the more important now leading up to the postseason, but theres just time enough to look back at the first half and award the midseason Most Outstanding Player. It comes down to a three-horse race with two of those horses wearing the green of the first place Saskatchewan Roughriders, but ultimately Toronto Argonauts QB Ricky Ray deserves the most MOP consideration for his outstanding first half. Ray and Roughriders QB Darian Durant have had similarly spectacular starts to the season but what gives Ray the edge is he isnt working with a potential record breaking running back in Kory Sheets (the other candidate for the midseason MOP), taking pressure off the pass game. Ray has missed some time so far this season (and is expected to miss a lot more in the second half) but when hes on the field hes nearly automatic. His 78 percent completion rate is 10 points higher than any other QB in the league and his 15 touchdowns to zero interceptions is almost unheard of. The 33-year-old continues to deliver even with teams keying on the Double Blues passing game. Ray has been without his top RB Chad Kackert for most of the season and Torontos ground game has produced just 718 yards combined on the season, just more than 60 percent of Sheets total alone. Durants stat line (21 touchdowns to one interception) is just as breathtaking as Rays; what Sheets has done in the first half is historic (and we all know how much the league loves record breakers); and the Riders league leading 8-1 record all made the decision anything but easy, but Ray and the Argos passing game has led the team to an East leading 5-4 record with little to no help on the ground. You could argue Durant and Sheets are splitting votes at the time. Durant and Sheets will have plenty of time to catch up by seasons end, and with Ray out for up to the next five weeks now the award is all but guaranteed to go to someone else when the votes count, but for now Rays incredible renaissance in the Big Smoke continues. Fringe candidates to keep an eye on in the second half of the season include last years winner Chad Owens and last years runner-up Jon Cornish, and the leagues passing leader Henry Burris. And if the award could be shared among teammates, the Calgary Stampeders trio at quarterback would deserve consideration as well. The Rouge asks: Who is your midseason Most Outstanding Player? Youve heard what weve had to say, now its your turn. As always, its Your! Call. DeAndre Bembry Jersey . -- Another baseball tradition is about to largely disappear: a manager, with a crazed look in his eyes, charging the field and getting into a face-to-face shouting match with an umpire. 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The Nationals scored six runs in the sixth on eight hits, tying for their most hits in an inning since they began playing in D.C. in 2005. Gregor Blanco and Travis Ishikawa homered for the Giants, who ended their road trip 3-3. Brandon Crawford had three singles for San Francisco, which used its bullpen for 11 2-3 innings across the three-game series. Strasburg allowed five earned runs -- his most at home since the final game of his innings-limit-shortened 2012 season -- on eight hits and two walks. His day ended by getting pinch-hitter Nate Schierholtz to pop out to short to end the fourth. Vogelsong allowed three runs and three hitss and allowed a season high-tying four walks in 5 1-3 innings.dddddddddddd He departed with a 6-3 lead after yielding Desmonds homer. Harper doubled and scored on Affeldts wild pitch. Lobaton singled in Asdrubal Cabrera and Scott Hairstons pinch-hit, RBI double tied it. Jean Machi picked Denard Span off first after entering with the game tied and runners on the corners. But Jayson Werth and LaRoche each had RBI singles to finish the scoring in the sixth. The Nationals added a run in the seventh and five more in the eighth. TRAINERS ROOM Giants: CF Angel Pagan (left calf tightness), was left out of the starting lineup for the second straight day. Pagan spent almost two months on the disabled list with a strained back before returning to the club on Aug. 7. Nationals: OF Steve Souza Jr. (right shoulder strain) entered Sunday with two hits and an RBI in five at-bats during two rehab games at Class-A affiliates, one each with Hagerstown and Potomac. UP NEXT Giants: RHP Jake Peavy (2-3, 3.5 looks for his third straight victory Monday night as San Francisco begins a seven-game homestand with the first of four against the Colorado Rockies. Nationals: RHP Tanner Roark (12-7, 2.80) will start the first of three games at Philadelphia against A.J. 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