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Saturday 8 July 2017

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Dodgers rally in 9th to beat D-Backs 5-4 to complete sweep

By The Associated Press for 3 hours, 5 minutes. But
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris the grounds crew didn’t
Taylor singled home the put the tarp on the infield
winning run to cap a four- until 74 minutes after the
run rally in the bottom of scheduled start time, and
the ninth inning, and NL only a very brief, light show-
West-leading Los Angeles er hit Nationals Park before
completed a three-game the first pitch was thrown at
sweep of second-place 10:10 p.m.
Arizona. As a reward for fans who
Taylor’s bases-loaded sin- stuck around, Washington
gle off T.J. McFarland with gave away free soda, ice
nobody out eluded the cream and water.
reach of left fielder Ray The team’s scheduled
Fuentes, who was playing game Wednesday night
shallow to try to cut off the against the Mets was post-
winning run. poned amid a downpour
Josh Fields (4-0) got the win following a delay of 1 hour,
after a run-scoring balk in 55 minutes.
the top of the ninth. After taking a no-hit bid
Fernando Rodney (3-3) is- into the ninth inning against
sued three straight walks, Oakland in his previous out-
including one to Logan For- ing and throwing a career-
sythe with the bases load- Los Angeles Dodgers’ Chris Taylor watches his walk-off RBI single with the bases loaded, in front high 119 pitches, Foltyne-
ed that left the Dodgers of Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Chris Iannetta during the ninth inning of a baseball game, wicz (7-5) got an extra day
trailing 4-2. Corey Seager Thursday, July 6, 2017, in Los Angeles. The Dodgers won 5-4. of rest. He allowed two runs
tied it with a two-run single. Associated Press and eight hits, including Bri-
Jake Lamb homered twice Dodgers starter Rich Hill left runs and Mike Foltynewicz Gonzalez (7-4) broke a 2-all an Goodwin’s homer, over
for Arizona, including a after seven innings with the quieted Washington’s bats tie. Freeman’s second RBI six innings to win his third
go-ahead solo shot in the game tied at 1. He gave up as Atlanta won following double of the game and consecutive start.
eighth. Diamondbacks All- two hits and struck out nine an unusually dry rain delay 1,000th career hit extend- The 25-year-old right-hand-
Star Robbie Ray tied his ca- without a walk. that lasted more than three ed the lead during a two- er has won four straight de-
reer high with 13 strikeouts BRAVES 5, NATIONALS 2 hours. run seventh. cisions, and seven of eight
while allowing one run and WASHINGTON (AP) — Fred- Kurt Suzuki’s solo homer Despite negligible rain, the since opening the season
five hits in six innings. die Freeman drove in two in the sixth inning off Gio series opener was delayed 0-4. Jim Johnson worked
the ninth for his 19th save,
getting the final out at 1:20
a.m. Friday.
Gonzalez lost his third
straight start. He permitted
three runs in six innings be-
fore an announced crowd
of 22,274 — only hundreds
remained when he threw
the first pitch.
Nationals center fielder
Michael Taylor strained an
oblique and is headed to
the 10-day disabled list.
BREWERS 11, CUBS 2
CHICAGO (AP) — Ryan
Braun homered to ignite a
seven-run third inning and
Milwaukee beat Chicago
for its fourth straight victory.
The Brewers opened a 4½-
game lead over the sec-
ond-place Cubs in the NL
Central and are guaran-
teed to hold the top spot
at the All-Star break. This
was a makeup of a May 20
rainout.
Willson Contreras hom-
ered for the Cubs. Kyle
Schwarber went 0 for 4
with two strikeouts in his re-
turn following a two-week
stint in the minor leagues.q