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SPORTS Wednesday 30 august 2017

Montgomery pitches

Cubs past Bucs 6-1

By The Associated Press Miami.
CHICAGO (AP) — Mike Scherzer (13-5) allowed one
Montgomery pitched six-hit run and five hits, including
ball into the eighth inning Christian Yelich’s home run,
and helped himself at the and had 10 strikeouts in his
plate, leading the Cubs to return from the 10-day dis-
the win. abled list.
Montgomery (5-6) struck Stanton, named NL Player
out four and walked none of the Week for the second
in his second start since he time this month on Mon-
was inserted into the rota- day, went 0 for 3 against
tion after Jon Lester was Scherzer with two strikeouts
placed on the 10-day dis- and a groundball double
abled list. The left-hander play.
was pulled after Jordy Mer- Jayson Werth had a two-
cer snapped his 17 1/3-in- run homer off Jose Urena
ning scoreless streak with (12-6) in his first game with
a leadoff homer in the the Nationals since suffer-
eighth. ing a left foot contusion on
Carl Edwards Jr. got three June 5. Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Mike Montgomery delivers during the first inning of a baseball
game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in Chicago.
outs before Wade Davis GIANTS 3, PADRES 0 Associated Press
finished the six-hitter as Chi- SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jeff Sa-
cago moved 2 1/2 games mardzija allowed just three Chacin (11-10) leading off NL wild-card spot dwindled Hoskins ended his homer
ahead of idle Milwaukee singles in pitching his first the fourth, his 12th. Panik hit to three games over idle streak but did drive in the
for the top spot in the NL shutout since 2015, and a two-run shot off the right- Milwaukee. go-ahead run with a sixth-
Central. Brandon Crawford and Joe field foul pole off Phil Maton Zimmermann (8-11) went inning double, Aaron Nola
Trevor Williams (5-7) hung Panik homered to lead San with one out in the eighth, five innings and allowed pitched seven strong in-
in there with Montgomery, Francisco over San Diego. his eighth. Crawford was three runs — all in the sec- nings and Philadelphia
pitching five innings of two- Samardzija (9-12) frustrated aboard on a single. ond inning. He settled beat Atlanta.
run ball, but Pittsburgh lost the Padres to beat them TIGERS 4, ROCKIES 3 down to move his career Cameron Rupp homered
for the 11th time in its last for the first time in four starts DENVER (AP) — Nicholas mark to 7-0 against the for the Phillies, who have
16 games. Mercer went 3 this year. He allowed in- Castellanos had three hits, Rockies in 11 career starts. connected in 10 straight
for 3, David Freese had two field singles to Wil Myers in including a two-run triple, Shane Greene struck out games and totaled 21
hits and Andrew McCutch- the second and Yangervis and Jordan Zimmermann two of three in the ninth for homers over that stretch.
en singled for the Pirates. Solarte in the fifth before rebounded from early his sixth save. Rookie slugger Hoskins
NATIONALS 11, MARLINS 2 Cory Spangenberg singled trouble to help Detroit beat Antonio Senzatela (10-5) didn’t go deep after hom-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Max to right in the eighth. It was Colorado. never found his command ering in five straight games
Scherzer overpowered his fourth shutout and ninth The Rockies stranded 11 in allowing four runs over 3 while becoming the fast-
Giancarlo Stanton, Howie complete game. baserunners as they began 2/3 innings. est ever to reach 11 home
Kendrick hit a three-run tri- Crawford homered to a nine-game homestand. PHILLIES 6, BRAVES 1 runs, doing it in 18 games
ple and the Nationals beat right-center off Jhoulys Their lead for the second PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rhys and 64 at-bats. q

Trentin wins his 2nd Vuelta stage; Froome keeps overall lead

ALHAMA DE MURCIA, Spain of the 164.8-kilometer for me having Rojas with stage but stayed 36 sec- teammates and kept ev-
(AP) — Chris Froome kept (102.4-mile) ride from Car- me because he was really onds ahead of Esteban erything together.”
his Spanish Vuelta lead by avaca de la Cruz to Al- good in the downhill. I just Chaves of Colombia and Roche made one of the
avoiding trouble in the dif- hama de Murcia in south- followed him and to be Nicolas Roche of Ireland, biggest moves in Tuesday’s
ficult final descent of Tues- eastern Spain. honest, when he was re- his closest challengers in stage, gaining nearly half
day’s Stage 10, which was “I really wanted that vic- ally pushing, I was a bit in the overall standings. a minute on Froome.
won by Matteo Trentin. tory. I had been think- trouble to follow him even “I wasn’t willing to take Riders were coming off a
It was the second stage ing about this stage for though I’m (a) good de- any risks. I am in a good rest day on Monday.
victory for the Italian, who a while,” Trentin said. “I scender.” position,” said Froome, the The 72nd edition of the
outsprinted Spaniard Jose knew the downhill was su- Froome, the Tour de France stage winner on Sunday. Vuelta ends Sept. 10 in
Joaquin Rojas at the end per technical. It was good winner, finished 24th in the “We took it easy with my Madrid.q