“Looking back on it for the future, someone’s just got to go all out for it”, he said.
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Astros: Lance McCullers (3-2, 3.91) will start on Monday in the opener against Seattle after missing his last start with a blister on his right index finger. So I felt like it was my time to give them some support back. “He was a little off with his command early, particularly with his fastball, but as the game went on he was able to throw his slider to get swings and misses. My guys pulled me out and we got ourselves a win”. The last American League pitcher to reach the mark before the break was David Wells with 15 in 2000. The White Sox were trailing in the fifth when his two-run single made it 5-4.
Tigers 5, Rays 1 – At St. Petersburg, Fla.: Justin Upton snapped an eighth-inning tie with a two-run double and Ian Kinsler added his 200th career homer, helping Detroit extend its winning streak to six games with a victory over Tampa Bay.
Fister absorbed his second consecutive loss, allowing five runs, nine hits and five walks with three strikeouts in 4 2/3 innings.
“He ran into a couple of things”.
“To not eject him is a choice they made that I didn’t appreciate”, Hinch said of Quintana. He wasn’t very sharp.
Houston’s first hit came next when Carlos Correa’s odd infield popup dropped in front of shortstop Tim Anderson and allowed Springer to score and make it 1-0. Chicago though always seems to get up for a Sale start and while Houston is scorching hot right now you can be sure that Chicago will have a ton of confidence playing in this one as the big left handed gets the call on the bump.
The White Sox had a chance to pad their lead in the third, but Adam Eaton couldn’t beat the throw home on a two-out single by Brett Lawrie. Eaton, dead to right at the plate, jumped high over catcher Evan Gattis trying to score but was tagged out. Jason Castro led off with a double and Springer walked to put Quintana in a bind, but Marwin Gonzalez offered relief with two unsuccessful bunt attempts and a wild swing for strike three.
After a short coaching visit to the mound, Carlos Correa pushed the lead to 4-2 on a run-scoring single. Quintana sailed through the rest of his day, retiring his last 15 batters before he was replaced by Nate Jones to start the eighth inning. Manager Robin Ventura doesn’t yet have a timetable on how long he’ll be there.
Sale, who tossed a complete game against Houston on May 19, improved to 5-1 with a 1.31 ERA and 65 strikeouts in six career starts against the Astros.
In Los Angeles, Scott Kazmir pitched six scoreless innings, Trayce Thompson and Adrian Gonzalez drove in two runs each and Los Angeles got its eighth straight home victory. Cabrera first injured his wrist on June 18 and aggravated it on Tuesday when he ran into the wall chasing down a fly ball. Chicago White Sox – $520 to win $400: There is some slight pressure with today’s wager.
Jose Quintana had been pitching well over his last nine starts but had gone 0-7 in large part because the White Sox had managed just nine total runs in that span.
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Astros: Doug Fister (8-4, 3.36) will start for Houston on Saturday.
