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Wednesday 13 september 2017

Rain, rallies, 11th straight loss for L.A.; game ends 2:10 am

BY JANIE MCCAULEY outscoring the Cubs 20-3
AP BASEBALL WRITER in a three-game sweep
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- at Wrigley Field over the
The Dodgers rallied once, weekend.
twice and then a third Brault (1-0), making his
time. Manager Dave Rob- second start of the sea-
erts thought his club would son, only allowed a fourth-
snap out of its long losing inning walk to Ryan Braun
streak at last. and a fifth-inning leadoff
The National League- single to Jesus Aguilar. He
leading Dodgers lost their struck out six in six innings
11th straight game for the for his first major-league
longest skid since the club win.
moved to Los Angeles, fin- Milwaukee rookie Brandon
ishing their 8-6 defeat to Woodruff (1-2), allowed six
the San Francisco Giants at runs on seven hits and a
2:10 a.m. local time Tues- walk in five innings.
day morning after a pair ROCKIES 5, DIAMOND-
of rain and lightning delays BACKS 4
late Monday. PHOENIX (AP) — Nolan
“It’s disappointing because Arenado’s tie-breaking
our guys played hard to- three-run home run in the
night, they really did,” Rob- eighth inning powered the
erts said. “I thought that Rockies to a win over the
we were going to win that Diamondbacks.
game. I thought we put San Francisco Giants’ Hunter Pence hits a single to drive in a run against the Los Angeles Dodgers The Rockies took the first
ourselves in a position to during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, in San Francisco. game of a key four-game
win but we couldn’t hold series between the Na-
the lead.” 1/2 games. The Dodgers during the seventh-inning ager Bruce Bochy shook tional League wild-card
Hunter Pence hit a go- travel to play the Nationals stretch came at 1:25 a.m. up his lineup after San Fran- leader, Arizona, and sec-
ahead single in the sixth for next. And one devoted - or call cisco was outscored 21-2 ond-place Colorado. The
San Francisco against Pe- The skid topped a pair of it crazy - kayaker stayed the past two games at the Rockies moved four games
dro Baez (3-5). 10-game losing streaks in out in the cove in his craft White Sox. It was his fifth behind the Diamondbacks
Following a 42-minute de- L.A. from 1961 and ‘92. The trying to retrieve baseballs career home run into Mc- and 3 1/2 ahead of St. Lou-
lay ahead of first pitch, 1944 Brooklyn team lost 16 into the wee hours. A hardy Covey Cove beyond the is for the second wild card
Curtis Granderson struck straight games. L.A. held a group of loyal fans stayed right-field wall. slot.Arenado drove in four
out against Chris Stratton, season-best 21-game divi- until the final out. Jarrett Parker homered runs with a double and his
then the game immedi- sion lead for four days and “In my mind I didn’t think leading off the second for 33rd home run of the sea-
ately entered an even lon- as recently as Aug. 25, but we were going to be play- San Francisco. son, and the Rockies won
ger delay - this time for 2 that has dwindled to nine ing tonight, once it started Once the game resumed, their seventh straight road
hours, 52 minutes, before games over Arizona. to get around 9:45,” Giants Ty Blach was on the mound game and fifth overall.
resuming at 10:50 p.m. lo- “It’s disappointing ev- center fielder Denard Span and Stratton’s day was Left-hander Tyler Ander-
cal time. ery time you lose,” short- said. “... Then we came out done - the shortest start of son, activated from the
The total delay time of 3:34 stop Corey Seager said. “I here and tried to battle our his career. 60-day disabled list on Sun-
was more than the game thought tonight was better. butts off.” Sam Dyson, San Francisco’s day, pitched four score-
time of 3:22. Roberts said We came back, got back Ty Law (4-1) pitched the seventh reliever, pitched less innings in relief for the
his preference would have in the game a couple times. sixth for the win. the ninth for his 13th save. victory. Anderson (4-5) al-
been a doubleheader Unfortunately we didn’t Yasiel Puig homered in the PIRATES 7, BREWERS 0 lowed a hit with four strike-
but he understood it as a win. Just got to get back fifth and Los Angeles came MILWAUKEE (AP) — Steven outs.
league decision, saying “it to winning, that’s about it. back from down 4-0 but Brault and four relievers The Rockies’ winning rally
was out of our hands.” Nothing else about that.” couldn’t hold it. combined on a three-hitter started with two outs in
“This is obviously very un- An announcement came Span splashed a two-run to lift Pittsburgh over Mil- the eighth. D.J. LeMahieu
characteristic to start a on the scoreboard dur- homer into McCovey Cove waukee. tripled over the top of an
game this late,” he said. ing a fourth-inning pitch- in the bottom of the first in- Milwaukee didn’t get extreme defensive shift to-
Los Angeles, which has ing change: The final BART ning against Kenta Maeda. a runner past first base ward right field and Carlos
lost 16 of 17 overall, had its trains would leave down- Span batted third for just against the Pirates and fell Gonzalez walked against
lead atop the NL over idle town locations at 12:20 the fourth time in his career 2½ games behind Chica- Diamondbacks reliever
Washington trimmed to 3 a.m. “God Bless America” and first this year as man- go in the NL Central after Jake Barrett (1-1).q