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Friday 7 July 2017

Jay, Happ help Cubs rally for 7-3 win over Tampa Bay

By The Associated Press for two months. Greg Hol- with 15 RBIs in 31 at-bats.
CHICAGO (AP) — Jon Jay land threw a shaky ninth Norichika Aoki doubled to
connected for his third ca- for his 28th save to help the begin the three-run sev-
reer pinch-hit homer and slumping Rockies win for enth and chase Braves
Ian Happ hit a tiebreaking, the third time in 14 games. starter Jaime Garcia (2-7).
two-run single an inning The game-time tempera- Springer followed with a
later, helping the Chicago ture of 97 degrees tied for single, Altuve with a double
Cubs rally for a 7-3 victory the second-hottest home and Gonzalez with a single
over the Tampa Bay Rays contest in Rockies history. to make it 7-4.
on Wednesday. Scott Feldman (7-6) gave Chris Devenski (6-3) earned
The Cubs appeared to be up four runs in five innings. the win after walking one
headed for their sixth loss BREWERS 4, ORIOLES 0 and striking out two in 1 1/3
in eight games before Jay MILWAUKEE (AP) — Matt innings.
drove a 1-2 pitch from Eras- Garza pitched into the sev- PIRATES 5, PHILLIES 2
mo Ramirez (4-3) over the enth inning and Keon Brox- PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ger-
wall in left-center for a ty- ton hit a two-run homer to rit Cole pitched six strong
ing three-run shot with two lift Milwaukee to a three- innings and drove in his first
outs in the sixth. Jay then game sweep of Baltimore. runs of the season with a
popped out of the dugout Garza allowed five hits and tiebreaking two-run single
for a curtain call, obliging two walks with four strike- to lead Pittsburgh over Phil-
the crowd of 39,855 on a outs over 6 1/3 innings for adelphia.
picturesque day at Wrigley his first scoreless outing of Cole (7-7) rebounded from
Field. the season. a poor outing Friday against
Happ got his big hit in the Oliver Drake, Jared Hughes San Francisco and a shaky
seventh, driving in Kris Bry- and Corey Knebel com- first inning against the Phil-
ant and Anthony Rizzo with pleted the shutout with 2 lies, allowing two runs and
a bouncer up the mid- 2/3 innings. seven hits with eight strike-
dle against Tampa Bay’s Chicago Cubs Jon Jay (30) hits a three run home run during the Garza (4-4) ran into trouble outs and one walk. The
drawn-in infield. sixth inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays on in the second inning after right-hander struck out the
Pedro Strop (3-2) pitched Wednesday, July 5, 2017, in Chicago. Associated Press the Orioles loaded the bas- side in his final inning.
a scoreless seventh for the es with no outs. The veteran Felipe Rivero, pitching on
win. Carl Edwards Jr. and 2016 — a span of 13 starts. farthest by any Rockies right-hander escaped by his 26th birthday, recorded
Koji Uehara worked the Wood struck out 10 and player this season — and striking out Ruben Tejada his fifth save by striking out
eighth, and All-Star Wade walked two. pitched effectively into the and pitcher Jayson Aquino the side in a scoreless ninth.
Davis got three outs. Kenley Jansen pitched the sixth inning as Colorado (1-2) before getting Seth Cole’s big hit came in the
DODGERS 1, DIAMOND- ninth for his 20th save in as beat Cincinnati on a swel- Smith to fly out to right field. Pirates’ four-run fourth in-
BACKS 0 many chances. He put the tering night. ASTROS 10, BRAVES 4 ning, when Pittsburgh also
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alex potential tying run on with Pat Valaika had a career- ATLANTA (AP) — George got some help from Ben
Wood pitched three-hit a two-out single to Bran- high three hits, including a Springer drove in the go- Lively (1-4).
ball over seven innings to don Drury before striking two-run homer and a run- ahead run in the seventh MARLINS 9, CARDINALS 6
start the season 10-0 and out Chris Herrmann to end scoring single with two outs inning, Josh Reddick and ST. LOUIS (AP) — Giancarlo
NL West-leading Los An- the game. in the eighth. Marwin Gonzalez each Stanton homered twice,
geles beat second-place Arizona’s Zack Godley (3-3) Gray’s two-run drive in the had three RBIs and streak- his 22nd career multihomer
Arizona. gave up one run and three second was the longest ing Houston beat Atlanta. game, and Marcell Ozuna
Wood became the first hits in 5 2/3 innings. among pitchers since MLB’s Houston has won four and Justin Bour also went
Dodgers starter to reach Yasmani Grandal’s RBI Statcast began tracking straight and 12 of 15 to im- deep as Miami beat St.
10-0 since Don Newcombe double to deep center distances in 2015. Gray prove to 58-27 overall, best Louis.
in 1955, when the Brooklyn field in the second scored (2-0) also was solid on the in the majors. The first three Stanton went 3 for 4 with
Dodgers won the first of the Chris Taylor from first base. mound, going 5 2/3 innings batters — Springer, Jose Al- a walk while driving in four
franchise’s six World Series ROCKIES 5, REDS 3 and allowing three runs, tuve and Reddick — went runs. He has five hits in his
championships. DENVER (AP) — Jon Gray two earned, in his second 8 for 15 with six RBIs in this last two games after start-
The 26-year-old left-hander hit his first career homer an start since a broken bone one and hit a combined ing the Marlins’ road trip in
hasn’t lost since May 30, estimated 467 feet — the in his left foot sidelined him .581 in the two-game series a 1-for-17 funk.q

Tom Brady to offer secret

to success in debut book

NEW YORK (AP) — Five-time Lifetime of Sustained Peak pick calls himself “a great
Super Bowl champion Tom Performance” is described case study” on how the
Brady is adding the title of by the publisher as an “ath- methods described in the
author to his resume. letes’ Bible” that will reveal book can transform an
Simon & Schuster an- Brady’s methods for suc- athlete. Brady and New
nounced Thursday that cess. The book will explore England won their fifth Su-
In this Feb. 5, 2017, file photo, New England Patriots’ quar- it will publish the Patriots Brady’s path to his unusual per Bowl title in February by
terback Tom Brady raises his helmet after scoring a touch- quarterback’s debut book training and exercise regi- overcoming a 25-point def-
down during overtime of the NFL Super Bowl 51 football in September. “The TB12 men. In a statement, the icit late in the game to de-
game against the Atlanta Falcons.
Associated Press Method: How to Achieve a former sixth-round draft feat the Atlanta Falcons.q