Cole Hamels picked up his 2,000th career strikeout as the Texas Rangers beat the Seattle Mariners 6-4 and Ryan Raburn drew a bases-loaded walk for a run before Mark Reynolds added a solo homer to give the Colorado Rockies a 2-1 win over the San Diego Padres. Leake owns an 8-4 career record against Pittsburgh, but allowed four runs and three walks in 4 1/3 innings of a 5-1 setback April 6.Niese scattered four hits over seven scoreless innings Tuesday in a 3-1 victory over his former team, the New York Mets.
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“I always want to go out there and do my work for all nine innings”, Martinez said. Fellow veteran Matt Holliday belted a three-run homer in the Cardinals’ 5-1 triumph Saturday, with his three-hit effort matching the sum total of his previous seven games.
He was about to hit for the first time when he was pulled from his game with Triple-A Salt Lake in Fresno, California at about 10:30 p.m. Eastern Friday night.
Randal Grichuk also homered for surging St. Louis, which has won five consecutive games and swept a series at PNC Park for the first time since August 2009.
“Crazy things happen to us in this park, so when they get it within that kind of distance, and Trevor can come in and shut the door, he’s going to”, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said.
Holliday and Yadier Molina each had three hits.
“A couple innings there snowballed on me”, Niese said.
Salvador Perez hit an insurance homer in the ninth inning and Yordano Ventura struck out 10 in seven strong innings to lead the Kansas City Royals to a 3-1 win over the Chicago White Sox. Manager Clint Hurdle liked what he saw.
David Freese and Starling Marte each had two hits and an RBI for the Pirates.
Liriano was pitching on extra rest as he started for the first time since June 3 but still fell to 1-5 in his last six outings. Cole left his start Friday because of right triceps tightness.
Pirates: For the first time in 32 days, the Pirates have a scheduled off day Monday. He left because of left hand pain.
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Keep in mind, the timetable the Pirates gave was for a return to baseball activities, not necessarily the active big-league roster. Stewart is likely to get the bulk of the playing time behind the plate, though he left the game in the seventh inning with left ankle discomfort…. The Pirates expect to receive the results Sunday.
