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Friday 14 June 2019

Hamels throws 7 scoreless, 4

batters hit as Cubs top Rockies

the first two games of the moved 10 games over .500 en innings to win his ma-
series. Javier Báez and Kyle for the first time this season. jor league debut, Garrett
Schwarber homered for Josh Bell hit a tiebreak- Cooper hit a grand slam
Chicago, which snapped ing solo homer off Atlanta and Miami blanked St. Lou-
a five-game road losing closer Luke Jackson in the is to end a six-game skid.
streak. Colorado’s 10- top of the ninth. Riley, who Yamamoto, acquired last
game home winning streak had a two-run triple in the year in the Christian Yelich
ended. first, took Kyle Crick deep trade, allowed three hits
Chicago scored five times to make it 7-all in the bot- and two walks and threw
in the second off Antonio tom half. After Riley was hit 95 pitches. The rookie
Chicago Cubs’ Cole Hamels follows the flight of his single to
drive in two runs off Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Jake McGee Sentenzela (5-5). by pitch in the 11th, Albies also earned an RBI with a
in the fifth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, June 12, 2019, BRAVES 8, PIRATES 7, 11 IN- drove a gapper into right- squeeze bunt.
in Denver. NINGS center and Riley scored Two relievers completed a
Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Austin Ri- from first base, sliding three-hitter.
By The Associated Press man Nolan Arenado left ley tied the game with a headfirst across the plate Cooper finished a double
DENVER (AP) — Cole in the fifth inning with a left solo homer in the ninth in- to end it. Jacob Webb (4-0) shy of the cycle, and pulled
Hamels struck out nine in forearm contusion after ning and scored the win- pitched two innings to earn a two-out inside fastball
seven scoreless innings, Hamels (6-2) hit him with a ning run on Ozzie Albies’ the win. Michael Feliz (2-3) that was off the plate for a
singled twice and drove in pitch in the third, and three double in the 11th, leading took the loss. grand slam in the second
two runs to lead the Chi- more batters — includ- Atlanta past Pittsburgh for Rain delayed the game for inning against Miles Miko-
cago Cubs past the Colo- ing Hamels — were hit by its sixth straight victory. 55 minutes in the seventh. las (4-7).
rado Rockies 10-1 in a testy pitches later in the game. The Braves (39-29) took MARLINS 9, CARDINALS 0 DIAMONDBACKS 2, PHIL-
game on Wednesday. Chicago’s Kris Bryant was over sole possession of first MIAMI (AP) — Jordan LIES 0
Rockies All-Star third-base- hit by pitches three times in place in the NL East and Yamamoto pitched sev- PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Mer-
rill Kelly tossed three-hit ball
over 7 2/3 innings, and Ari-
zona beat Philadelphia.
Kelly (7-6) struck out five
before departing when
Bryce Harper entered the
game as a pinch-hitter. An-
drew Chafin retired Harper
on two pitches and Greg
Holland finished the three-
hitter, earning his 10th save
in 11 tries.
The Diamondbacks won
another series in Philadel-
phia and have won 11 of
their last 13 road games
against the Phillies.
Philadelphia’s Zach Eflin
(6-6) allowed two runs and
five hits in eight innings, ty-
ing a career high with nine
strikeouts.
GIANTS 4, PADRES 2
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
Evan Longoria drove in
the go-ahead run with an
infield single in the fifth in-
ning after San Diego made
two errors, and San Fran-
cisco held on to complete
a two-game sweep.
Kevin Pillar homered for
the first time in more than
a month and Donovan So-
lano had two hits and two
RBIs for the Giants. Buster
Posey went 1 for 4 after
coming off the injured list
earlier in the day.
The Padres loaded the
bases with two outs in the
ninth against Will Smith be-
fore the closer got Manuel
Margot to pop out. Smith
has 16 consecutive saves
to start the season.q