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SPORTS Tuesday 1 OcTOber 2019
Cards beat Cubs 9-0 in Maddon's finale, clinch NL Central

By The Associated Press tainly Hall of Fame mana-
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. gerial career, finishing with
Louis Cardinals clinched a 9-0 defeat to Los Angeles.
the NL Central on the final Los Angeles won its fran-
day of the regular season, chise-record 106th game,
using Jack Flaherty's arm jumping to a 5-0 lead in
and Matt Carpenter's bat the first that held up on
Sunday to win their first di- Will Smith's two-run homer
vision title since 2015 with right after a bases-clearing,
a 9-0 victory over the Chi- three-run double by Corey
cago Cubs. Seager.
The Cubs lost on Joe Mad- Lefty Rich Hill worked three
don's last day as their man- scoreless innings allowing
ager. It was announced one hit in his 13th start of
before the game that he the season for the Dodgers.
won't return next year. Dustin May (2-3) pitched a
Flaherty tossed seven im- perfect fourth for the win.
pressive innings and Car- METS 7, BRAVES 6, 11 IN-
penter led a three-homer NINGS
attack with a three-run NEW YORK (AP) — Mike
drive to help St. Louis ad- Soroka recovered from a
vanced to the NL Division shaky start in his playoff
Series, starting Thursday at tuneup, but banged-up At-
Atlanta. lanta limped into October
The second-place Milwau- with a loss to New York.
kee Brewers will play at New York's Dominic Smith
Washington in the NL wild- hit a game-ending, three-
card game Tuesday night, run homer on his first com-
with the winner going on petitive swing in more than
to play Los Angeles in the two months.
NLDS. Soroka was tagged for St. Louis Cardinals' Matt Carpenter, center, is congratulated by teammates after hitting a three-run
Paul Goldschmidt and Dex- three runs and four hits in home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs Sunday, Sept. 29,
ter Fowler also homered for the first inning of the regu- 2019, in St. Louis.
St. Louis (91-71). lar-season finale. J.D. Davis Associated Press
Flaherty (11-8) allowed socked a two-run homer
two hits, struck out six and off the right-hander, who PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce into the playoffs by stretch- collect what would have
walked one. settled down after that and Harper got two hits and a ing its winning streak to a been a career-best 14th
Chicago starter Derek Hol- lasted 85 pitches. He gave standing ovation to close year-high eight games with win.
land (2-5) took the loss. up three runs and seven hits out his first season in Phila- a victory over Cleveland. DIAMONDBACKS 1, PADRES
ROCKIES 4, BREWERS 3, 13 over five innings, with seven delphia, and the Phillies fin- Washington will host the NL 0
INNINGS strikeouts and two walks. ished at 81-81 after a loss to wild-card game Tuesday PHOENIX (AP) — Taijuan
DENVER (AP) — Relegated Grant Dayton (0-1) took the Miami. night against the Milwau- Walker returned from Tom-
to an NL wild-card spot, loss. Chris Mazza (1-1) got Brad Miller hit a pair of hom- kee Brewers. my John surgery on the fi-
Milwaukee lost to Colorado two outs for his first major ers for Philadelphia, which Catcher Kurt Suzuki hit his nal day of the regular sea-
when Jake Faria threw a league win. ended a run of six straight 17th homer, a two-run shot son, Tim Locastro beat out
wild pitch in the 13th inning REDS 3, PIRATES 1 losing campaigns but fell in the third inning. Juan an infield grounder to drive
that allowed the winning PITTSBURGH (AP) — Aristides well short of expectations. Soto delivered an RBI dou- home the winning run in
run to score. Aquino hit his 19th home Starlin Castro homered ble in the first, and Brian the ninth inning and Arizo-
The Brewers will play at run, Tyler Mahle pitched five and doubled, and Sandy Dozier and Gerardo Parra na beat San Diego.
Washington on Tuesday shutout innings to pick up Alcantara pitched six sold each drove in two runs in Locastro bounced one
night in the wild-card his first win since May and innings for Miami. Martin the sixth. Parra tacked on a deep into the hole at short-
game. The winner advanc- Cincinnati beat Pittsburgh Prado and Isan Diaz also run-scoring hit in the eighth. stop with two outs, and Luis
es to take on the NL West shortly after the Pirates fired went deep for the Marlins Joe Ross (4-4) went six in- Urias skipped a throw to first
champion Los Angeles manager Clint Hurdle. Brian (57-105), who finished with nings for Washington, al- on what would have been
Dodgers. O'Grady connected for his a losing record for the 10th lowing four hits, including a close play, allowing Chris-
Yasmani Grandal hit a two- second home run and Alex straight season. Francisco Lindor's 32nd tian Walker to score from
run homer for Milwaukee Blandino added a solo shot Alcantara (6-14) allowed homer leading off the third third. Stefan Crichton (1-0)
and Hernan Perez had a as Cincinnati finished 75-87 one run on eight hits, struck inning, and striking out pitched the ninth for his first
pinch-hit homer. under first-year manager out five and walked one. eight batters. major league win.
Dom Nunez homered for David Bell,. NATIONALS 8, INDIANS 2 Mike Clevinger (13-4) was Matt Strahm (6-11) gave up
Colorado, which again Mahle (3-12) struck out five WASHINGTON (AP) —Wash- charged with six runs over three hits and the decisive
scored the tying run in the and allowed three hits to ington continued its surge 5 2/3 innings and failed to run for the loss.q
ninth and swept the three- win for the first time in 13
game series. starts. Michael Lorenzen
Bryan Shaw (3-2) picked up worked the ninth for his sev-
the win with a scoreless in- enth save.
ning. Jose Osuna delivered an
DODGERS 9, GIANTS 0 RBI single for Pittsburgh.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Trevor Williams (7-9) gave
Bruce Bochy bid an emo- up two runs and five hits in
tional farewell following 2 seven innings.
1/2 decades in what is cer- MARLINS 4, PHILLIES 3