Pence’s second homer in two days ended a 12 2/3-innings hitless streak for the San Francisco.
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No major league team was better than the San Francisco Giants at the All-Star break.
When Anthony Rizzo found out the eight-year anniversary of him being declared cancer-free fell on the same day fellow cancer survivor Jon Lester was pitching, he told Lester he was going to throw a no-hitter.
Tampa Bay’s Alex Cobb went five solid innings during his first start in two years, guiding the Rays past AL East leader Toronto 8-3.
It had the look of yet another stirring comeback for the major league-leading Chicago Cubs. Duffy’s double was the fifth hit of the inning. Baltimore leads the majors with 213 home runs, including 117 at home.
In Philadelphia, Adonis Garcia scored the winning run in the 10th inning after homering twice earlier in the game. Alvarez joins Trumbo, Machado (33), Davis (33), Adam Jones (24) and Jonathan Schoop (21). Dae-Ho Lee had three hits and two RBIs for the Mariners, who continue to sit four games out of an AL wild-card berth. Milwaukee’s bullpen, however, limited Pittsburgh to just two hits the rest of the way as the Brewers dealt the Pirates their fourth consecutive loss.
RANGERS 12, ASTROS 4 (at Arlington, Texas) – Adrian Beltre and Nomar Mazara homered, Derek Holland pitched his third straight quality start since coming off the DL and Texas notched its seventh straight win. “Heart of the order up, man on second, it’s a different game”.
The rookie Suarez retired the first six batters. He would have been in scoring position with one out and Kris Bryant due up.
Carlos Beltran also homered in the fourth, his 26th overall and fourth since coming to the Rangers from the New York Yankees at the August 1 trade deadline.
The Cubs (86-47) extended their National League Central lead to 15-1/2 games. “He got in a jam there and it could have got away from him but he made big pitches”.
Trea Turner led off the game with a single, stole two bases and scored on Harper’s sacrifice fly.
Brandon Crawford created another run all by himself after hitting a one-out single in the sixth.
Bumgarner gave a run back in the bottom of the inning, but he bowed his neck with the tying and go-ahead runs on base, throwing a cutter past Matt Sczur on the 10th pitch of an at-bat and 103rd pitch of his day. Melancon closed for his 38th save. After Bumgarner struck out Dexter Fowler to end the inning, he continued to bark in Cuzzi’s direction. Buster Posey’s walk in the first inning against Lester was the Giants’ only baserunner; the Cubs had retired the final 20 batters in Thursday’s game. Abraham Almonte’s two-run double pushed the lead to 6-0 in the fifth. Will Smith struck Jason Heyward out to strand a runner in the eighth. Cabrera also had an RBI single in Detroit’s three-run third. He slipped a ground ball under the glove of second baseman Ben Zobrist and hustled for a double when he saw the Cubs outfielders, perhaps stiff from inactivity, were slow to react.
Sergio Romo and his balky knees beat Baez to the bag on a force play in the eighth, though it took a replay review to reverse Cuzzi’s safe call. TLS is a decent second baseman, but doesn’t really have the arm for third base, and it showed in that first-inning error. He walked one and struck out four. Fowler bunted the third pitch down the third-base line, right near the line.
Bumgarner is second in the league in ERA (2.49) behind Cubs right-hander Kyle Hendricks (2.09), is tops in games started (28), complete games (four) and third in strikeouts (207). Freeman then lined a double to left to put the Braves up 5-4.
Suarez was finished after five innings, departing for a pinch hitter in the sixth.
Nolan Arenado and Carlos Gonzalez each had two hits for the Rockies. Brandon Crawford was paying attention to Arrieta’s propensity for bouncing pitches, and he took a crucial bag in the sixth with the Giants nursing a one-run lead.
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Descalso followed with the third pinch-hit homer of his career to finish the rally.
