Chicago’s Jon Lester went into the seventh inning before giving up a hit and finished off for his second complete game of the season, steering the Cubs to a 2-1 win against San Francisco on Friday and moving to a season-best 40 games above a.500 winning percentage. Tebow announced last month that he is interested in returning to baseball, a sport he hasn’t played since he was a high school junior in 2005.
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Rizzo reflected on beating Hodgkin’s lymphoma.”Obviously come a long way”, he said. Rizzo’s foundation has raised about $2 million to support families of children with cancer and cancer research.
“We’re going up against a team that, I don’t think they’ve clinched yet, but they’re going to be there”, Bumgarner said.
“I just got frozen”, Rizzo said.
Pence ended Lester’s bid for a second no-hitter with a homer to left on a 1-2 changeup that cut over the plate.
They manufactured a run in the fourth inning when Joe Panik reached on a two-out single, advanced on a passed ball, took third on a wild pitch and scored on Eduardo Nez s single. He then worked around Trevor Brown’s one-out double in the eighth.
“We ran into a very hot pitcher who’s throwing the ball very well and he was on top of his game”, Bochy said. “If you get in, it’s a whole different deal”.
“I will say we hit some balls right at them, too”. Kris Bryant used all of his 6-foot-5 length to nab Crawford’s smash in the fifth, a ball that seemed ticketed for left field.
It’s hard to get hits off of him: Opposing hitters are hitting.185 against him this season, lowest in Major League Baseball. He allowed three hits with two walks and three strikeouts in five innings, settling down after his 34-pitch third. The over is 9-3 in the Cubs last 12 Sunday games and Chicago are 38-14 in their last 52 home games while going 35-16 in their last 51 overall. “Great game, great intensity, great matchup”. Javier Baez singled, stole second and scored from second on Arrieta’s infield single.
Red Sox 11, A’s 2 • Rick Porcello didn’t allow a baserunner until Jake Smolinski’s one-out double in the sixth on the way to his majors-leading 19th victory as Boston won at Oakland.
The Giants fell to a major league-worst 15-29 since the All-Star break, and this is how far they have fallen: They made a victory out of not getting embarrassed.
“Angel Pagan and Buster Posey quickly grounded to second, leaving Lester seven outs away from turning the pitchers” mound into an impromptu mosh pit.
Bryant made a diving, backhand grab of Crawford’s liner to lead off the fifth and Dexter Fowler made a sliding catch of pinch-hitter Kelby Tomlinson’s liner to center an inning later.
“Our defense has been fun to watch all year,” Lester said.
Over his past seven starts, the 32-year-old is 5-0 with a 1.38 ERA. That came less than two years after he was diagnosed with cancer. For the second consecutive day, they registered three hits in a one-run loss to baseball’s best team. Lester promptly bunted, and, although Giants pitcher Albert Suarez had a play on Ross at third, Suarez threw to first to get Lester. “Crawford hit a double”.
Arrieta won his first four starts of August before being knocked around for six runs in 6 1/3 innings of a no-decision Monday against Pittsburgh.
Cincinnati’s Eugenio Suarez singled up the middle with the bases loaded in the ninth inning, rallying the Reds past St. Louis 3-2. Will Smith struck Jason Heyward out to strand a runner in the eighth.
ORIOLES 8, YANKEES 0 Mark Trumbo hit his major league-leading 41st homer to cap a six-run second inning, and Baltimore peppered NY with four long balls.
RANGERS 12, ASTROS 4: Adrian Beltre and Nomar Mazara each homered, Derek Holland pitched his third straight quality start since coming off the disabled list and Texas beat Houston at Arlington, Texas, for its seventh straight victory.
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ROYALS 5, TIGERS 2 (at Kansas City) – Eric Hosmer hit his career-high 20th homer, Yordano Ventura repeatedly pitched into and out of trouble, and Kansas City snapped a three-game losing streak with a win over Detroit.
