For most pitchers, flirting with a no-hitter might be one of the most memorable days of your career.
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This is what it has come to, what Max Scherzer has done to our longstanding sense of baseball and how typically not to get too excited too soon about the possibility of history.
Yoenis Cespedes homered with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the New York Mets a 2-1 victory over the Miami Marlins in the first game of a pivotal series between National League playoff contenders Monday night.
Tanner Roark (14-7) allowed four singles and struck out five. He had seven strikeouts, five of them coming in consecutive fashion in the second and third innings. Kipnis lined a 1-0 pitch from Brandon Kintzler (0-1) with one out to left-center to finally break up the scoreless game.
BOSTON – Rick Porcello became the majors’ first 18-game victor and the first Boston pitcher in 70 years to open a season 13-0 in Fenway Park, going seven solid innings in the Red Sox win over Tampa Bay. Morgan, whose streak spans 12 starts and two relief appearances and dates to May 15, became the first Phillies pitcher to have a losing streak of nine or more since Kyle Abbott dropped 11 in a row in 1992.Morgan allowed two runs and three hits while striking out five. He hasn’t won since May 15.
“I knew I was throwing the ball well, I knew I had all the pitches working, I knew I could go out there and keep different looks going multiple times throughout the lineup and really sequence guys right”, Scherzer said. I’m real pleased with that.
“He’s got a lot of things to figure out, but perhaps the All-Star game changed him a little bit and made him a little more comfortable”, Mackanin said. This is the kind of game Washington should win but often don’t…
Gonzalez was just as good on the mound. Or, if you do, you’re supposed to immediately remind yourself it’s not appropriate to give credence to such thoughts until much later in the evening. “He’s a tough cookie”.
Scherzer, who has lost only once in his last nine starts, will be facing Philadelphia for the fourth time this season. Eickhoff followed up by allowing a run-scoring double to Bryce Harper, a walk to Anthony Rendon and a run-scoring single to Wilson Ramos.
“He kept the ball down”, Baker said. “In that seventh inning, he battled and got three strikeouts. He doesn’t give it right back”. “It usually takes a while for them to score off of Max”. Musgrove had allowed 13 runs over his last two starts. He’s 3-0 with a 0.64 ERA against them this season.
Nationals: The Nationals head to NY for a three-game series against the Mets that begins Friday night with RHP A.J. Cole (0-1, 4.97) against Mets RHP Noah Snydergaard (12-7, 2.55).
Gio Gonzalez retired 12-straight Phillies’ hitters after a one-out single in the bottom of the first, but Freddy Galvis worked the count full with one down in the Phillies’ half of the fifth and hit a solo home run to left to tie it up at 1-1.
The fourth inning ended when Espinosa was thrown out at the plate on a dart from Phillies right fielder Aaron Altherr. Phillies 3B Maikel Franco is 0-for-8 in the series and 8-for-49 versus the Nationals this season.3. Mackanin said the Phillies will probably add “a couple relievers (and) maybe a hitter”, and added that other players could be added later in September, after Triple-A Lehigh Valley and Double-A Reading end their seasons.
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Coming off a performance in which he gave up six runs in just five innings of work August 26 against the Mets, Phillies manager Pete Mackanin was asked before Morgan’s start Wednesday if there were other options to take his rotation spot if he had another less than desirable outing.
