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Turner homers twice, Nationals rally past Marlins

By The Associated Press disabled list. Matt Carpen-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trea ter and Harrison Bader also
Turner hit two homers, in- went deep, while Yadier
cluding his first career Molina singled three times.
grand slam, and drove in The Cardinals had a sea-
eight runs to help the Wash- son-high 18 hits — their most
ington Nationals rally from a since getting 19 against the
nine-run deficit and defeat New York Mets on Aug. 24,
the Miami Marlins 14-12 in a 2016.
wild slugfest Thursday night Alen Hanson homered for
to end a five-game losing San Francisco, which has
streak. scored five runs while losing
The Nationals, who four straight.
dropped 17 of their previ- Weaver (5-7) faced two
ous 22, have won 12 con- over the minimum and had
secutive games against Mi- seven strikeouts. He car-
ami dating to last season — ried a perfect game into
their longest winning streak the sixth before giving up
against any team since the a single and Hanson's two-
franchise moved to Wash- run homer. Weaver then
ington in 2005. bounced back to retire
The victory came a day the final seven batters he
after the Nationals called Washington Nationals' Trea Turner hits a two-run single during the seventh inning of a baseball faced.
a players-only meeting game against the Miami Marlins, Thursday, July 5, 2018, in Washington. The Nationals won 14-12. Cueto (3-1) was rocked
Wednesday after Washing- Associated Press in his long-awaited return
ton was swept by Boston from the 60-day disabled
and slipped under .500 for Chacin threw seven solid while matching a season lasted only three innings list. He gave up four runs in
the first time since May 2. innings and Hernan Perez high with seven strikeouts in his third start of the sea- the first inning — one more
Turner's eight RBIs tied for homered among his three in what tied for his longest son, giving up four earned than he had in 32 innings
the most ever by a leadoff hits, leading Milwaukee to outing this year. The right- runs and four hits with three before going out with right
hitter, according to STATS a 7-2 victory over Atlanta hander was 0-2 in his previ- walks. elbow inflammation.
LLC. in a matchup of first-place ous three starts while allow- CARDINALS 11, GIANTS 2 PADRES 6, DIAMONDBACKS
Shawn Kelley (1-0) pitched teams. ing 10 runs in 15 2/3 innings. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — 3
a scoreless sixth for the win. The NL Central Division- Dan Jennings pitched two Luke Weaver pitched two- PHOENIX (AP) — Eric Lauer
Sean Doolittle earned his leading Brewers won their perfect innings for his first hit ball over eight innings limited Arizona to a run over
22nd save in 23 opportuni- fourth game in a row to go save this season, and sec- and the St. Louis Cardinals five innings, Austin Hedges
ties. 17 games over .500 (52-35) ond of his career. beat the Giants. homered for the first time
Adam Conley (2-1) allowed for the first time since July 1, NL East-leading Atlanta Jedd Gyorko had three since April 10 and the San
five runs in 2/3 of an inning 2014, when they were 51- dropped its third consecu- hits, including a homer, and Diego Padres opened a
and took the loss. 34. tive game after winning drove in five runs to spoil four-game series in the des-
BREWERS 7, BRAVES 2 Chacin (7-3) gave up three four straight. Braves left- the return of Johnny Cueto ert with a victory over the
MILWAUKEE — Jhoulys hits and two earned runs hander Max Fried (1-3) after two months on the slumping Diamondbacks.q

here," he said. "I'm just look- and that's a big positive for were at 10 under. Kim shot
ing for two more low ones me." After shooting 61 on 68 and Varner shot 64.
and a bunch of scoring op- Thursday, Simpson saw his Simpson is the only one
portunities." chance for a very low score among the top six players
Lahiri shot a career-low end quickly on Friday. on the leaderboard with a
61 and Simpson had a 67. Starting on the back nine, PGA Tour win. Since its 2010
Both were at 12 under. Simpson hit a tee shot that debut, the tournament has
Lahiri has yet to make a went out of bounds and produced four first-time
bogey in his first trip to The made double-bogey on winners, including three
Greenbrier resort. He found the par-5 12th, a hole he rookies.
just eight of 14 fairways but had eagled the day be- DIVOTS: Tournament ex-
reached all 18 greens in fore. He then bogeyed the ecutive director Habibi Ma-
regulation Friday. Four of his par-4 13th after his tee shot mone said Friday the event
nine birdies were putts of 18 found the rough. He made will move to the fall. No
feet or longer. five birdies the rest of his specific dates were given,
Anirban Lahiri, of India, lines up his putt on the ninth green during "I've been feeling good round. but Mamone said she ex-
the second round of the A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier in
West Virginia golf tournament in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., over the last two weeks," "It was not the start I was pects it will be in late Sep-
Friday, July 6, 2018. Lahiri said. "I've seen the looking for," Simpson said. "I tember or early October
Associated Press improvement on the golf hung in there. I weathered 2019, meaning it could be
course and I've tried to plug that storm and made some left off the PGA Tour's 2018-
WEST VIRGINIA with a six-foot birdie putt on the gaps that I've found birdies there on the front 19 schedule. The tour hasn't
Continued from Page 17 the par-4 16th. over the last two weeks. nine to keep it under par released the schedule
Kraft made four birdies on Reminded that it's his first And I'm happy that more and give myself a chance for the coming season. ...
the front nine and didn't let time leading a PGA Tour than anything else I haven't for the weekend." Bubba Watson, the highest
a bogey on the par-5 12th event after 36 holes, Kraft dropped a shot. But I'm not Jason Kokrak shot 64 and ranked player in the field,
hole derail him. He added said he was confident. thinking about that. The fo- was in fourth place at 11 shot 66 and was at 6 under.
birdies on the next two "I've been up there before cus is just to put myself in under. Whee Kim of South Phil Mickelson posted a 69
holes and took the lead and I know I can play out the best position that I can, Korea and Harold Varner III and was at 5 under.q