Justin Grimm gave up a pair of singles and Freddy Galvis’ three-run homer without recording an out. Everybody talks about black and white, but if you look at Martin Luther King and Muhammad Ali, they talked about civil rights and humanity.
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“I just saw a real low-scoring game there, and I was trying to get a point or two on the board”, Maddon said.
YANKEES 5, ANGELS 2: Carlos Beltran hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning, Aroldis Chapman quickly returned to form and NY rallied past Los Angeles.
“I didn’t like the way he gave me the ball”, Mackanin said after the game.
Between top and bottom of the 4th inning, I took a break to head to the rest room and made a concession stop for a couple of waters.
That same day Lackey worked 6 2/3 shutout innings against Arizona, allowing five hits while striking out nine and walking two. The 26-year-old allowed two runs on three hits over eight innings to notch his sixth quality start in 10 outings. He then scored when Heyward homered.
“That’s the story of my first two months, personally”, said Heyward, who’s hitting.
“This is really the first time I’ve been on the DL for a baseball-related thing – I had an appendectomy back in 2014 – and this has been one of those things that as much as it [stinks] I’m not up there competing with my team, there are a lot of worse places to be”, Appel said. He struck out Kris Bryant twice on slow curves. They loaded the bases with none out in the eighth against Phillies setup man Hector Neris and pulled within 3-2 on a Dexter Fowler sacrifice fly.
“You could see the determination in (Morgan’s) eyes, ” Phillies manager Pete Mackanin said. The select group of starters who have stifled Chicago’s offense this season ranges from the elite (Madison Bumgarner and Gerrit Cole) to the crafty (Scott Kazmir) to the under-the-radar good (Drew Pomeranz, Chad Bettis and Tyler Chatwood).
RHP Jerad Eickhoff snapped a personal two-game losing streak by going seven strong innings against the Cubs on Tuesday, allowing one run on two hits while striking out eight and walking two. Of his 101 pitches that start, 67 were strikes and no opposing batters walked. I feel like our hitters wait, they wait to see if it’s a good pitch and then they swing, so they get beat by a fastball, then they get behind in the count and get panicky and then they start to chase out of the zone. “I know he’s young”.
Matt Carpenter tied it with a one-out, two-run double in the ninth off Tony Cingrani (1-2). One out later, Heyward lined Morgan’s 2-1 slider into the seats in right field for his third homer of the season. Miguel Montero led off the inning by reaching on a throwing error by Cesar Hernandez, which Addison Russell promptly followed with a single to left to put runners on first and second. The right-hander leads the majors with a 5-0 road record and a 0.43 ERA, but at Coors Field he is 2-4 with a 5.30 ERA.
The only downer of the evening for the Cubs: Jorge Soler, who had been picking it up offensively of late, suffered a hamstring injury while sprinting down the line on a base hit and will undergo an MRI Tuesday. Chicago moved 10 games in front of second-place Pittsburgh in the NL Central.
Mackanin backed Henderson on Tuesday and said he’s been doing all the right things when it comes to working with the Phillies’ hitters. Phillies OF Odubel Herrera, the team’s leading hitter with a. 317 average, was not in the starting lineup Monday.
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Considering how well Lester and the Cubs are playing these days, they shouldn’t have a problem getting the road win in this game.
