Chase Anderson took a no-hitter into the eighth inning and finished with 82/3 strong innings to lift the Milwaukee Brewers over the Chicago Cubs 4-2 on Tuesday night.
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The Brewers beat the Cubs 5-3 Thursday afternoon, taking the series 2-1. The Cubs have a 2-8 record when opponents outhit them. The Brewers held on to beat the Cubs by a score of 5 to 3.
Blue Jays pitcher Jesse Chavez was suspended three games for hitting Prince Fielder with a pitch.
The Chicago Cubs have hit their first rough patch of the season and the team with the best record in the majors hopes to bounce back Wednesday against the Milwaukee Brewers.
Meanwhile, Hendricks was throwing pretty well, matching zeroes with Anderson through three innings, except for a second-inning walk and third-inning single. He struck out six and walked just one on 110 pitches and was down to his final out for a possible complete game. “There’s no specific timetable right now, just go play, ” manager Joe Maddon said. “I know he’d like to have that pitch back”. Raucous Cubs fans who made the 90-minute drive north from Chicago made Miller Park feel like Wrigley Field.
Closer Jeremy Jeffress tossed 20 pitches in the late Wednesday thirteen inning loss, so Tyler Thornburg pitched the ninth for his first save. Guerra has won both of his home starts this season.
Manager Craig Counsell said that Braun is getting multiple treatments per day. “I watched a little bit of the end of it in here”.
Anderson took a no-hit bid into the seventh on June 12 last season with Arizona against San Francisco.
Nieuwenhuis hit a two-run home run in the sixth, and Montero cut the gap to 4-3 in the seventh when he tripled and came home on Guerra’s wild pitch.
PHILLIES 3, MARLINS 1: At Philadelphia, Tommy Joseph hit his first major league homer as part of three-hit game to lead Philadelphia over Miami. It was Heyward’s first home run as a Cub. Looking as green as they possibly can be at the plate, Federowicz struck out swinging on three consecutive pitches. They have a WHIP of 1.046 on the year, the best in the league.
– In Tuesday’s best pitching matchup, the Mets’ Noah Syndergaard outdueled the Nationals’ Max Scherzer in New York’s 2-0 win.
Asked whether there was much discussion of bumping Peralta from his current schedule, Counsell said, “I don’t think it helps him”. That’s the big thing.
Bryant didn’t actually get a ball hit to him.
“We’ll live by them and move on”.
Braun, who underwent back surgery on October 8, also missed the last two games of the series with the San Diego Padres last week because of a sore right wrist. Nelson lost to the Cubs last month, dropping to 0-4 with a 3.35 ERA in eight games (six starts) against Chicago. (April 5, a 6-1 win over the Angels, is the only walkless Cubs game in 2016.) This dropped the Cubs’ walk-per-game average to 4.95, and the season pace to 801.
Milwaukee AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Bradley will look to extend his hit streak against Royals pitchers Ian Kennedy (4-3, 3.25) and Edinson Volquez (4-3, 3.51).
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Cleveland crushed Cincinnati for the second straight night as Rajai Davis went 3-for-3 with three RBIs and four runs scored in a 13-1 blowout.
