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SPORTS Tuesday 17 april 2018
Flores, Syndergaard

help Mets top Brewers

3-2 for 12-2 start

METS 3, BREWERS 2 4) improved to 7-0 in day
NEW YORK (AP) — Wilmer games, completed a 4-2
Flores hit a game-winning trip and head home atop
home run with two outs in the NL Central.
the bottom of the ninth in- Ivan Nova (2-1) recovered
ning and New York beat from a wobbly start to pitch
Milwaukee to improve the 6 2/3 innings. He allowed
best start in team history to three runs and struck out
12-2. nine, his highest total since
Noah Syndergaard struck 2016.
out eight batters in a row, Jose Urena (0-3) allowed
two shy of Tom Seaver's eight hits and four runs in
major league record, and five innings. After four starts,
Brandon Nimmo finished the Marlins' ace has an ERA
a double shy of the cycle. of 5.57.
Nimmo connected for a ty- CARDINALS 3, REDS 2
ing home run against Tay- CINCINNATI (AP) — Car-
lor Williams leading off the los Martinez struck out a
sixth on a cold, blustery af- season-high 11 batters in
ternoon at Citi Field. seven shutout innings and
Flores broke a 2-all tie with Harrison Bader's two-run
a drive over the left-center home run helped St. Louis
wall against Matt Albers complete its first four-game
(2-1) for his second home sweep in Cincinnati since
run this year. New York has 1949.
opened a season with five Martinez (2-1) allowed two
straight series wins for the hits and four walks while
first time. helping send the Reds to
Jeurys Familia (1-0) worked their eighth consecutive
around a walk in a hitless loss, one short of matching
ninth. their longest losing streak of
ROCKIES 6, NATIONALS 5 last season.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ian The Reds scored 10 runs in
Desmond hit a tiebreaking, the series while being swept
two-out homer in the ninth in four games at home by
inning against his former St. Louis for the first time
team, Charlie Blackmon since July 8-10, 1949.
drove in three runs and The Reds haven't enjoyed lar season.
Colorado rallied to beat a lead in 32 innings, going Los Angeles had been 0-5
Washington. back to the fourth inning versus the Diamondbacks
After Sean Doolittle (0-1) on Thursday. They are 2-13 this year, and hadn't beat-
struck out Carlos Gonzalez for the first time since the en them in the regular sea-
and Gerardo Parra to open 1931 Reds won two of their son since last August. But
the ninth, Desmond sent a first 19 games. the Dodgers swept Arizona
belt-high, 3-2 fastball over Bud Norris allowed Adam 3-0 last year in the NL Divi-
the 402-foot sign in straight- Duvall's ninth-inning leadoff sion Series.
away center as Colorado homer and the Reds got a Chris Taylor homered, dou-
took three out of four in its runner to second with no- bled and drove in three
only visit to Washington. body out. Norris struck out runs to help the Dodgers
Adam Ottavino (3-0) got Alex Blandino and Phillip stop a three-game skid.
the win despite allowing a Ervin and got Billy Hamilton The Diamondbacks, who
run in the eighth. to line out to clinch his third had won three in row, fin-
Wade Davis worked the save. ished a 6-3 road trip.
ninth for his seventh save in Homer Bailey (0-3) allowed Kershaw (1-2) gave up one
eight opportunities. four hits and three runs run, on Paul Goldschmidt’s
PIRATES 7, MARLINS 3 with four strikeouts and two leadoff homer in the sev-
MIAMI (AP) — Starling Mar- walks in a season-high sev- enth, and has a 1.73 ERA
te went 5 for 5 with a ninth- en innings. after four starts. The Dodg-
inning homer to help Pitts- DODGERS 7, DIAMOND- ers totaled just three runs
burgh beat Miami. BACKS 2 in three previous starts this
Marte's five hits were a ca- LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clay- season by their ace lefty.
reer high, and his average ton Kershaw struck out 12 Zack Godley (2-1), who led
rose from .241 to .305. He and pitched two-hit ball the National League with New York Mets' Wilmer Flores celebrates his ninth-inning walkoff
scored four times and hit over seven innings and Los a 0.64 ERA entering the home run in a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers,
his third homer off Junichi Angeles Dodgers ended game, allowed six runs and Sunday, April 15, 2018, in New York. Brewers catcher Jett Bandy,
Tazawa. an 11-game losing streak five hits and six walks in four left, leaves the field.
The surprising Pirates (11- against Arizona in the regu- innings.q Associated Press