He blanked the Bombers until Jacoby Ellsbury’s home run in the sixth. “And that’s your time on the field and your time in the box”.
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Reds’ pitcher John Lamb gave up four consecutive two-out hits, capped by Gonzalez’s 23rd homer of the season. Adam Jones homered twice, including a two-run blast that capped the Birds’ nine-run fifth. He was hitless in three at-bats and scored a run.
Houston pulled out a 6-5 win over Detroit on Jose Altuve’s walk-off, RBI single in the bottom of the ninth. The Astros stretched their lead in the AL West to 3 ½ games over the second-place Angels.
With that, New York maintains 63 wins and 52 losses and is now 1st in the National League Eastern Division. The Cincinnati Reds are the only team they’ve enjoyed any real success against, sweeping them at Citi Field back in late June. Left fielder Starling Marte followed with a high chopper to first base, where Daniel Murphy – who usually plays second or third base – fielded it and fired to third to try to get Cervelli.
The Mets will resume the pursuit of the franchise’s first playoff berth since 2006 on Tuesday, when New York visits the Baltimore Orioles for a two-game series. 305 against him. The 31-year-old will need a better performance than his last trip to the mound, as he permitted five runs on 10 hits in five innings before walking away with a no-decision against the Los Angeles Dodgers. 336 with three homers and 13 RBI.
Stewart and Cervelli might not get the media attention across baseball that they deserve, but it’s hard to find a pair of catchers in baseball getting the job done as well as the Pirates’ backstops are in 2015.
Most would rather argue a better showing against the Washington Nationals and San Francisco Giants would have paved the Mets’ way towards a more rewarding 2014 season.
Sandy Alderson and his lieutenants have done plenty to fortify a contender and yet there is more to do.
Neil Walker homered with one out in the first for the Pirates. Mets RHP Erik Goeddel (elbow strain) had his rehab moved to Double-A Binghamton from Class A St. Lucie, where he had a 7.71 ERA in five appearances…. He also drove in the go-ahead run with his second homer of the season.
Uribe led off the bottom of the seventh with a line-drive homer to center field, cutting the Pirates’ lead to 3-1. Atlanta has scored just 32 runs for Miller during the winless skid.
J.A. Happ will be making his second start for the Pirates on Friday night after he was acquired from the Seattle Mariners at the trade deadline.
Ryan Braun’s team record-tying 251st career home run was a grand slam in Milwaukee’s 6-1 rout of Philadelphia.
When action resumed, Arquimedes Caminero recorded two outs and left both runners stranded.
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Pirates: Charlie Morton (7-4, 4.48 ERA), from Flemington, New Jersey, starts Saturday night.
