METS 3, NATIONALS 1: Curtis Granderson and former Ray James Loney came through with big hits to back rookie Robert Gsellman as host NY rebounded from consecutive losses and won for the 10th time in 14 games, moving within one game of the Cardinals for the final NL wild card.
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The San Francisco Giants faceoff with the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field in Sunday action.
“Yeah”, the Giants’ stoic shortstop said.
Rizzo reflected on beating Hodgkin’s lymphoma.”Obviously come a long way”, he said.
As Crawford softly spoke at his locker, a nearby trash can contained the remnants of one of his bats with a No. 35 decal on the handle.
“There’s good energy on the field, there’s a strong belief that we’re going to play a pretty good game”.
The Giants’ psyche is less solid.
Anthony Rizzo is tagged out by Brandon Crawford after overrunning second base on a sacrifice bunt in the ninth inning Saturday at Wrigley Field.
The Cubs worked Bumgarner for another run in the sixth after loading the bases on two singles and a hit batter. While today was the same result- except they were on the losing end this time. They made a litany of leather-seeking lineouts against Lester, and all that hard contact was as productive as taking maple to concrete.
“A little bad luck, a little missed execution”, Arrieta said.
Get him to the postseason and watch him go: Bumgarner won World Series MVP honors in 2014 for a Fall Classic performance that just begs on the superlatives.
The Giants collected just three hits in each of their two losses. We expect great things out of ourselves and we expect to win every game. “We got to two strikes and he didn”t bite at the curveball.
Lester was cruising with his no-hitter in the truest sense.
Orioles 2, Yankees 0 • Kevin Gausman pitched six scoreless innings, Zach Britton got his 40th save and Adam Jones hit his 25th homer to lead host Baltimore.
For the Giants (72-62), they simply felt marked by the beast.
The Giants scored in the first after a throwing error by Tommy La Stella, who was playing third base in place of Kris Bryant, who started at first.
In Nez’s first at-bat, he lined a comebacker that Lester, who wouldn’t win a Gold Glove if it were a participation trophy, somehow smothered.
Chicago Cubs left-hander Jon Lester’s bid for a second career no-hitter has been broken up by Hunter Pence, who homered with two outs in the seventh inning.
Before Pence’s home run, the Cubs had retired 40 of the last 41 Giants batters they faced.
On a day when two of the best pitchers in baseball matched up, it came as no surprise that defense and heads-up baseball would play a big part in determining a victor.
“Just wanted to say happy anniversary, so glad you are here,” Ross said.
Then, because it always seems to happen this way, Crawford was rewarded for much softer contact. Justin Upton homered in the second and added an RBI single in the third.
“I thought the momentum had changed”, Crawford said in a deadpan. Did he think perhaps third base wasn’t being covered?
DENVER – Nick Hundley hit a grand slam and pinch-hitter Daniel Descalso also homered in a seven-run eighth inning that sent Colorado past Arizona. Matt Szczur struck out with two runners on to end the inning.The Cubs left the bases loaded in the seventh when Russell flew outwith two out.A review overturned Baez getting on base in the eighth. He ranks second in the NL in ERA to Kyle Hendricks and third in strikeouts behind Max Scherzer and Jose Fernandez, and he’s instinctively the man that manager Bruce Bochy and the Giants look to when things aren’t going well and the team is in dire straits.
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They didn’t have to squint hard, though, to see what they can be, even with the way they’ve played over the past 45 games.
