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SPORTSWednesday 23 September
NL Capsules
Marte’s 4 hits lead Pirates past Rockies 9-3
DENVER (AP) — Starling homer. The right-hander Jorge Soler hit a pinch-hit,
Marte homered among 3-run shot and the Cubs
his four hits and came is winless in his last 23 out- beat the Brewers.
within a triple of the cy- The Cubs inched closer to
cle, and Pittsburgh beat ings, the longest drought a NL playoff berth as their
the Rockies. magic number to clinch
Aramis Ramirez went for a starter in Atlanta his- fell to four.
deep and Jody Mercer Rizzo reached in all five of
had four hits for the Pi- tory, since coming within his at-bats after walking
rates, who reduced their twice to go along with his
magic number for clinch- one out of a no-hitter in a three hits.
ing a postseason berth to Milwaukee’s Adam Lind
two. A win Tuesday and a 6-0 win May 17 at Miami. tied the game at 4 with a
San Francisco loss would two-run homer in the fifth
clinch at least a wild card DIAMONDBACKS 8, inning off Cubs starter Ja-
for the third straight sea- son Hammel (9-6), who
son. DODGERS 4 allowed three earned
Mercer hit doubles in the runs over his five innings.
second and fourth in- LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paul Wily Peralta (5-10) al-
nings to drive in Francisco lowed four walks and
Cervelli, who had three Goldschmidt homered eight hits. He gave up six
hits, as the Pirates built a runs over 4 2-3 innings.
5-0 lead on Jon Gray (0- after Yasmany Tomas CARDINALS 2, REDS 1
2). ST. LOUIS (AP) — Rookie
Pittsburgh starter A.J. Bur- and Aaron Hill gave the Stephen Piscotty dou-
nett (9-5) cruised through bled in the go-ahead run
the first four innings be- Diamondbacks the lead in a two-run eighth inning
fore an error in the fifth and the Cardinals turned
preceded Tom Murphy’s with longballs off Brett An- it on late for a victory over
three-run homer that the Reds.
made it 5-3. derson as Arizona beat Rookie Tommy Pham tri-
METS 4, BRAVES 0 pled off J.J. Hoover (8-2)
NEW YORK (AP) — Jona- Los Angeles. to open the eighth and
thon Niese won for the first Jhonny Peralta’s one-out
time in a month, Michael The Dodgers’ loss in the single tied it ahead of Pis-
Conforto homered and cotty’s drive off the wall
the Mets moved closer to opener of this four-game in left-center.
an NL East title with their Johnathon Broxton (3-
victory over the Braves. series kept their magic 5) allowed one hit the
Daniel Murphy lined a eighth and Trevor Rosen-
number for clinching a thal earned his 47th save
in 49 chances to match
third straight NL West title the franchise record.
In other NL games it was
Pittsburgh Pirates’ Starling Marte points to Aramis Ramirez after at seven, with second- N.Y. Mets 4, Atlanta 0;
he singled to drive in Marte against the Colorado Rockies in Chicago Cubs 9, Milwau-
the ninth inning of a baseball game Monday, Sept. 21, 2015, in place San Francisco idle. kee 5; St. Louis 2, Cincin-
Denver. Pittsburgh won 9-3. nati 1;
Jhoulys Chacin (1-1) al- Pittsburgh 9, Colorado 3;
Associated Press and Arizona 8, L.A. Dodg-
lowed two runs, six hits ers 4.q
and four walks over 5 1-3
two-run double, Yoenis Niese (9-10) tossed three- innings in his fourth start
Cespedes had three hits hit ball for six innings,
and the Mets handed keeping the ball down for the Diamondbacks,
hard-luck Shelby Miller during an encouraging
(5-16) his 15th straight de- outing and getting 13 of one day after they were
feat. New York stretched his 18 outs on the ground.
its lead to 6 1/2 games Miller lost his seventh mathematically elimi-
over the second-place straight start. He threw a
Nationals with 12 to play season-high 113 pitches nated from postseason
and lowered its magic in six innings, allowing
number for clinching the two runs and seven hits contention. The seven-
division to seven. — including Conforto’s
year veteran right-hand-
er posted his first win in
the majors since June 12,
2014, with Colorado.
The Diamondbacks’ bull-
pen came up big in the
sixth after Chacin walked
two batters and was
pulled with one out. An-
drew Chafin struck out
pinch-hitter Scott Van
Slyke and David Hernan-
dez fanned pinch-hitter
Scott Schebler.
CUBS 9, BREWERS 5
CHICAGO (AP) — An-
thony Rizzo had three hits
and scored three runs,
