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Saturday 17 auguSt 2019
Harper hits grand slam in 9th, Phillies rally past Cubs 7-5

By The Associated Press REDS 2, CARDINALS 1
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce CINCINNATI (AP) — Sonny
Harper blasted a grand Gray struck out 10 while
slam with one out in the pitching five scoreless in-
ninth inning, capping a six- nings, and Cincinnati held
run rally that sent the Phila- off St. Louis.
delphia Phillies over the Gray, Robert Stephenson,
Chicago Cubs 7-5 Thurs- Michael Lorenzen and
day night for a three-game Raisel Iglesias combined
sweep. for a two-hitter. Iglesias sur-
Harper delivered his big- rendered Kolten Wong's
gest hit yet in his first season check-swing RBI double
with the Phillies, celebrat- in the ninth before retiring
ing while running around pinch-hitter Matt Wieters to
the bases and then getting finish his 24th save.
mobbed by teammates at Nick Senzel and Eugenio
the plate. Suárez each drove in a
Cubs starter Yu Darvish run for Cincinnati, which
struck out 10, silencing Phil- stopped a four-game slide.
adelphia's bats for seven in- St. Louis had won five in a
nings a night after the Phil- row to move into a virtual
lies scored 11 runs in former tie with Chicago for the NL
manager Charlie Manuel's Central lead. The Cubs had
debut as hitting coach. a chance to move in front
But the Phillies rallied again, but they lost 7-5
against Chicago's bullpen at Philadelphia on Bryce
and moved within one Philadelphia Phillies' Bryce Harper, left, rounds the bases for his grand slam as he passes Chicago Harper's game-ending
Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo during the ninth inning of a baseball game Thursday, Aug. 15,
game of the Cubs for the 2019, in Philadelphia. The Phillies won 7-5. grand slam.
second wild-card spot in Associated Press Gray (8-6) walked three
the NL. and hit a batter while
Ranger Suarez (4-1) tossed run homer that helped lead hits and RBIs. homer of the game in the throwing 97 pitches.
two scoreless innings to to Julio Teheran's shortest The Mets had a season- inning and Ronald Acuña Michael Wacha (6-6) ex-
earn the win. career start, and New York high 23 hits. Amed Rosario's Jr. hit a two-run shot. Matt tended the St. Louis pitch-
Pedro Strop (2-5) took held on to beat Atlanta. career-high five hits includ- Joyce homered in the ing staff's streak of consec-
the loss. Kyle Schwarber Alonso's 39th homer tied ed two doubles, two singles fourth. utive scoreless innings to
slammed his 100th career Cody Bellinger for the Na- and a triple. Wilson Ramos Marcus Stroman (7-11) 22 before the Reds pushed
homer and team-high 28th tional League rookie re- had four hits. Todd Frazier allowed three runs, two across two runs in the fifth.
this season, and Anthony cord. Bellinger hit 39 hom- also homered. earned, on four hits in 5 1/3 MARLINS 13, DODGERS 1
Rizzo hit his 22nd homer. ers for the Dodgers in 2017, New York won despite giv- innings. Edwin Díaz earned MIAMI (AP) —Miami turned
METS 10, BRAVES 8 the same year the Yankees' ing up six homers, including his 25th save. the tables on Los Angeles,
ATLANTA (AP) — Pete Aaron Judge set the major three in the ninth. Freddie Teheran (7-8) recorded winning despite giving up
Alonso drove in six runs with league rookie mark with 52. Freeman and Josh Don- only four outs while giving four home runs, including
five hits, including a three- Alonso set career highs for aldson each hit his second up eight hits and six runs. Cody Bellinger's 40th.q

while Chip Ganassi Racing in a Chevrolet for Hendrick about DiBenedetto's plight.
had two Chevrolets in the Motorsports, followed by DiBenedetto understood
top four as Kurt Busch will the surprise of the session the Gibbs situation all sea-
be lined up behind team- in Matt DiBenedetto, who son, but hoped for a differ-
mate Larson at the start of was seventh for Leavine ent outcome.
the race. Family Racing just days af- "I don't want to say I was
Aric Almirola, a driver still ter the team informed him blindsided, I was just trying
trying to qualify for the he won't be back for a sec- to let my performance be-
playoffs, was fifth and the ond season in 2020. hind the wheel do the talk-
highest qualifying Ford driv- DiBenedetto was admit- ing and hope that would
er. He believes he'll have tedly devastated by the prevail over everything but
to fight for every position news, said he has "no irons sometimes performance
around the .533-mile con- in the fire" for 2020 with the isn't everything," he said.
crete bullring. sudden decision he's be- "I hate it is coming to an
"At this place you have to ing released, and the news end, but my entire career
be aggressive all the time. came during the best sea- has been devastation at
Dodging lap traffic and son of his career. He's a ca- the time, but it's always
cars on restarts and every- reer-best 23rd in the stand- been a better door open-
thing," Almirola said. "You ings but Leavine is aligned ing. Every single time since

Denny Hamlin watches a television monitor as the last car have to be on full send all with Joe Gibbs Racing, I was literally a kid, it's been
qualifies for the NASCAR Cup Series auto race, Friday, Aug. 16, the time and you're right and Gibbs has a logjam a tough journey and I'm
2019, at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn. on the edge of out of con- of signed drivers and not accustomed to that." Kev-
Associated Press trol, and everything hap- enough Cup seats. Christo- in Harvick, Erik Jones and
pens so fast that some- pher Bell is expected to be Alex Bowman rounded out
Continued from Page 17 aren't locked in, but I feel times that's what jumps up promoted from the Xfinity the top 10. Kyle Busch, an
"I feel if it presents itself, we good." and bites you is that things Series into DiBenedetto's eight-time winner at Bristol,
can be a little different and Martin Truex Jr. qualified happen so fast." seat. qualified an uncharacteris-
go after stage wins. We third in a Toyota for Gibbs, Chase Elliott qualified sixth "Sports suck," Hamlin said tically poor 31st.q