Never mind he wasn’t confident about his pitches.
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I can’t say enough about this team. “You go out and try to be more productive and you’re not trying to do too much”. Gordon is now batting.276 on the season while sitting atop Miami’s lineup.
Miami OF Ichiro Suzuki struck out as a pinch-hitter Tuesday and remains two hits shy of 3,000 in his major-league career.
The Padres made it 8-0 on Yangervis Solarte’s two-run homer in the sixth. Blash homered in the two-run seventh.
Junior Guerra (7-3) was the loser.
The Cubs took another step toward their destiny Wednesday when they rallied from a three-run deficit in the ninth inning to tip the Marlins 5-4, winning on a walk-off wild pitch.
Chicago Cubs’ Ben Zobrist (18) joins his teammates as they celebrate the team’s 5-4 win over the Miami Marlins after Marlins’ relief pitcher A.J. Ramos threw a game winning wild pitch to Willson Contreras, scoring Matt Szczur during the ninth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016, in Chicago.
Miguel Montero, who has shown recent signs of stirring from his struggles this season, opened the ninth with a double, followed by a Javy Baez single and walk by pinch-hitter Matt Szczur to load the bases.
“The bigger the situation, the more you have to be selective”, said Rizzo, who drew a walk in the eighth and was walked intentionally in the ninth to bring up Ben Zobrist, who drew a bases-loaded walk to tie the game.
But Chicago managed to slowly fill the bases, and after giving up a sac-fly to Dexter Fowler, the Marlins soon found themselves in an uneasy 4-3 lead with the bases fulls. The blast was a go-ahead home run when the gave was tied at one. With the Yankees expected to bring up touted catcher Gary Sanchez from the minors before their Subway Series game against the Mets, fans are wondering whether A-Rod will be cut to make roster room.
Lackey also contributed at the plate, going 2-for-2 with two doubles but failed to score each time.
It marked the second time this season – and first since April – that the Marlins were swept in a three-game series.
The Chicago Cubs made a change to their pitching staff on Wednesday morning as Jason Hammel was placed on the team’s bereavement list. It was Yelich’s 11th homer of the year. Stephen Piscotty added a solo homer, the Cardinals’ fifth in two games.
Justin Grimm (1-0) pitched the ninth inning for the victory. He walked one and struck out 10.
Brad Miller and Kevin Kiermaier also homered for the Rays.
Tom Koehler was brilliant with six strong innings. The righthander from Highland has not given up a run in 20 2/3 innings over the three-start stretch. “In the first inning, that was a great at-bat he put together”. The Twins have outscored the Indians 35-16 in winning the first three games of the series. Since the break, the Cubs have gone 13-6 and pushed their lead in the NL Central to 9 1/2 games. Eddie Rosario had three hits and three RBIs, and Max Kepler had two hits and drove in two runs.
Michael Wacha (7-7) gave up a pair of runs in five innings as he won his fifth straight decision.
Joey Votto extended his career-high hitting streak to 17 games with an RBI single in the first inning.
Colorado’s Tyler Anderson allowed two runs in seven innings to guide the Rockies to a 12-2 rout of the Dodgers, and their 11th win in 13 games.
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Koehler gave up five hits and one run while striking out seven.
