Then Chapman entered and used his blazing fastball to strike out one and earn his second save in three tries since being acquired from the Yankees. “I didn’t come here to get a haircut”.
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CARDINALS 5, REDS 4 Brandon Moss singled home a pair of runs during St. Louis’ fourrun first inning and St. Louis held on for a victory over host Cincinnati to even their series.
For the season, he’s 12 of 28 (.429) against the Reds with three doubles and five homers.
Green and Matz combined to throw 100 pitches in the first two innings.
CHICAGO – “Moneyball” is a book about market inefficiency, not on-base percentage, but on-base percentage is certainly part of it. There’s plenty of “Moneyball” in this year’s Chicago Cubs, but behind the lofty on-base percentages are human traits: patience, discipline, consistency of approach.
The Cubs haven’t enjoyed as many dramatic walk-off wins as they did last season, largely because they tend to just devour their opponents, instead of toying with them.
Matt Szczur scored on A.J. Ramos’ wild pitch with two outs in the ninth inning to give the Chicago Cubs a 5-4 comeback victory over the Miami Marlins on Wednesday.
“I don’t think anybody would be satisfied with anything less”, added second baseman Ben Zobrist, who drew the bases-loaded walk that tied the game at 4-4 in the ninth.
“We have a good group”, Lackey said. “A group that keeps fighting”.
“We took a shot, it didn’t play”, Maddon said.
“In the dugout we were saying, ‘Get it to the next guy”.
In terms of overall success, this wasn’t a big factor on Tuesday, but the key thing for Hammel is the difference in performance against left-handed hitters. By this time Ramos had thrown 33 pitches, the most he had thrown in any appearance this season.
Miguel Montero led off with a double to right and went to third on Javier Baez’s single.
That’s when, with first base open, Mattingly had Ramos walk Rizzo. Chicago tied the game at 4-4 on a sacrifice fly by Dexter Fowler and the bases-loaded walk to Zobrist that followed an intentional walk to Anthony Rizzo.
Kris Bryant was struck out looking on a 3-2 pitch for the second out, and it looked as if Ramos might escape.
Matt Szczur scored the winning run after Ramos’ pitch to Wilson Contreras sailed wide and into the backstop.
After the eighth inning, the Comerica Park scoreboard greeted J.D. Martinez with a highlight reel set to the theme song from “Welcome Back, Kotter”.
“The last couple of innings there, everybody did a good job of taking tough pitches and doing something with the good one”, Zobrist said. He came around on Christian Yelich’s line-drive double over left fielder Willson Contreras’ head.
“That was like a movie”, Detroit infielder Ian Kinsler said. “Him throwing in the pen (on Tuesday) is a good indicator”.
Playing for the first time since fracturing his elbow June 16, Martinez received a long standing ovation on his way to the plate to hit for James McCann leading off the inning.
“That was probably the coolest moment of my career”, he said.
Baltimore scored three runs in the first inning and that was enough to edge Texas 3-2.
“These are no fun”, he said, “but I think they’re part of what we’re becoming and are going to be something to handle and learn from and move on from”.
The Padres made it 8-0 on Yangervis Solarte’s two-run homer in the sixth. Suzuki, two hits away from 3,000 for his career, ended the series 0-for-3 in three pinch-hit appearances.
“Are you kidding me!” “I like to pitch under pressure”. I like him a lot.
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CLEVELAND (AP) – Joe Mauer had four hits and four RBIs, Brian Dozier hit a three-run homer and Minnesota continued its mastery over Cleveland.
