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SPORTS Wednesday 19 July 2017

Lester dominant as Cubs hold off Braves 4-3

By The Associated Press and left knee strain. Vogt
ATLANTA (AP) — Jon Lester held onto the ball and Kuhl
(6-6) bounced back from was called out.
the shortest start of his ca- Polanco finished 4 for 4 and
reer by allowing only one is hitting .446 this month.
run in seven innings and Francisco Cervelli added
Chicago stopped Atlanta’s two hits for the Pirates, who
ninth-inning comeback. pulled within six games of
The Cubs led 4-1 before At- the first-place Brewers.
lanta scored two runs in the Daniel Hudson (2-4) picked
ninth off closer Wade Davis up the win in relief of Kuhl
and loaded the bases with when Polanco nailed Man-
two outs. ny Pina at the plate in the
Davis allowed one-out sin- sixth to preserve a tie. Po-
gles to Brandon Phillips and lanco drove in Josh Bell in
Freddie Freeman before the bottom of the inning
Phillips scored from third off Josh Hader (1-1) to put
on a wild pitch. Matt Kemp the Pirates in front. Felipe
followed with a run-scoring Rivero retired the last four
single and pinch-runner batters for his seventh save.
Lane Adams stole second CARDINALS 6, METS 3
and moved to third on Tyler NEW YORK (AP) — Paul
Flowers’ flyball to the warn- DeJong homered against
ing track in center field. New York for the fourth
Following an intentional Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Jon Lester works during the first inning of the team’s baseball game straight game and Adam
walk to pinch-hitter Matt against the Atlanta Braves on Monday, July 17, 2017, in Atlanta. Wainwright hit an RBI dou-
Adams, pinch-runner Dan- Associated Press ble while winning his fourth
sby Swanson stole second, consecutive start.
leaving runners on second With runners at the corners
and third. Davis walked of Vladimir Guerrero for man Marquez tied a career ed after surrendering seven in the bottom of the ninth
Sean Rodriguez, playing in most in Expos and Nation- high with nine strikeouts runs, five earned, over 2 1/3 inning, slugger Yoenis Ces-
his first game of the season, als history. and scuffling Colorado innings. pedes grounded into a
to load the bases. Stephen Strasburg (10-3) beat San Diego. PIRATES 4, BREWERS 2 game-ending double play
Johan Camargo’s fly ball recovered from his shortest Trevor Story added a two- PITTSBURGH (AP) — Grego- on a 3-0 pitch from Brett
to shallow left ended the start of the season by fan- run double as part of a five- ry Polanco doubled twice, Cecil.
game, giving Davis his 18th ning 11 in seven innings and run third to help the Rockies drove in two runs and threw Tommy Pham capped a
consecutive save this sea- allowing four hits, including win back-to-back games out a potential go-ahead six-run sixth with a three-run
son. Eugenio Suarez’s homer. for the first time in nearly a run at the plate to lead homer on Hansel Robles’
Julio Teheran (7-7) allowed Scott Feldman (7-7) lasted month. surging Pittsburgh over Mil- second pitch since return-
two runs and five hits and only one inning. He gave Marquez (7-4) allowed waukee. ing from the minors.
four walks in six innings. up a double, a single, three runs over 6 2/3 in- Brewers catcher Stephen Michael Conforto and Lu-
NATIONALS 6, REDS 1 Harper’s three-run homer nings. He perplexed the Pa- Vogt left the game in the cas Duda homered off
CINCINNATI (AP) — Ryan and Zimmerman’s solo shot dres by effectively mixing fifth inning after a collision Wainwright (11-5), who
Zimmerman set the Nation- in his first 12 pitches. Feld- in his curve with a 98 mph with Pirates pitcher Chad beat scuffling starter Zack
als’ career home run re- man left after facing nine fastball. Kuhl at the plate. Vogt Wheeler (3-7) for the sec-
cord with a solo shot, and batters and giving up five Greg Holland got Matt Szc- caught an incidental el- ond time in 10 days.
Bryce Harper connected runs on 33 pitches. zur to ground out following bow to the head from Kuhl, MARLINS 6, PHILLIES 5, 10
again as Washington pow- ROCKIES 9, PADRES 6 a two-out double in the and both players were INNINGS
ered its way to a victory for DENVER (AP) — Charlie ninth to earn his 29th save down for several minutes. MIAMI (AP) — Giancarlo
a four-game sweep of Cin- Blackmon ‘s fourth leadoff in 30 chances. Kuhl remained in the game, Stanton homered twice
cinnati. homer of the season hit the San Diego starter Luis Per- but Vogt had to be helped and Dee Gordon hit an RBI
Zimmerman’s 235th career facing of the third deck, domo (4-5) had his three- to his feet and left to be single with two outs in the
homer moved him ahead hard-throwing rookie Ger- game winning streak halt- evaluated for a neck strain 10th inning that sent Miami
over Philadelphia.q