Atlanta Braves’ Daniel Castro runs towards home to score on a double by Nick Markakis during the eighth inning of a baseball game as Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos waits at left Thursday, April 14, 2016, in Washington.
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After connecting on his first grand slam and 100th career home run, Bryce Harper is already thinking ahead to bigger milestones. Harper is the eighth-youngest player in Major League Baseball history to reach 100 home runs.
Making his second start of the season, Yankees right-hander Michael Pineda (1-1) allowed three runs, two earned, and five hits in six innings.
The problem was that they loaded the bases before he got up and had nowhere to put him. If Strasburg, who is 7-7 in 20 career starts against the Braves, cannot go Thursday, the Nationals could turn to Yusmeiro Petit (0-0, 4.50 ERA; 57 career starts in 162 appearance).WALK-OFFS1. “This is uncharted territory”. “So it’s got to come, it just has to”. “As a player you want to get off to a good start and as a team you want to get off to a good start and when you don’t do that, what happens is you try to win four games in one or you try to get four hits in one at-bat”.
“Once the game got going, I started to, I guess I sweated it out a little bit and started to lock in”, Strasburg said.
“We didn’t make some plays behind Julio, and he just struggled”, manager Fredi Gonzalez told MLB’s official website.
Stephen Strasburg (2-0) allowed two runs in 72/3 innings, a day after he was scratched with an illness.
TORONTO – Josh Donaldson extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a three-run homer, Marcus Stroman pitched eight innings and Toronto defeated NY.
“Obviously, you guys know I’m not too thrilled about it”, Freeman said before game against Washington. “I think about Jackie Robinson, there’s probably times when Jackie wouldn’t be pleased right now very much”. Harvin, an electric dynamo with game-changing speed and agility, was frustrated with a nagging hip injury that landed him on the injured reserve last season.
Nationals: Manager Dusty Baker was uncertain whether Strasburg would be well enough to start Thursday. Washington, which will go for the four-game sweep Thursday afternoon, improved to 6-1 and is 26-9 against Atlanta since June 21, 2014.
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In Chicago, Jason Hammel threw six scoreless innings, drove home a run and scored another to lead the Cubs past Cincinnati.
