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Wednesday 19 april 2017
Thames, Braun power Brewers

past struggling Cubs 6-3

CHICAGO (AP) — Eric hit ball to pick up the vic- Lynn (1-1) allowed three
Thames homered in his tory. hits and struck out five
club record-tying fifth BRAVES 5, PADRES 4 while walking one. Seung-
straight game as Milwau- ATLANTA (AP) — Dansby Hwan Oh worked around
kee beat Chicago. Swanson hit an RBI single an RBI double by pinch hit-
Milwaukee never trailed with two outs in the ninth ter Gregory Polanco in the
after Thames hit an oppo- inning as Atlanta, boosted ninth to record the Cardi-
site-field homer to snap a by Freddie Freeman’s two nals’ first save of the sea-
3-3 tie in the third inning. home runs, beat San Diego son.
Jeromy Burnitz was the oth- for a four-game sweep in its Ivan Nova (1-2) gave up
er Brewer to homer in five first series at SunTrust Park. five hits and no walks in
straight games in August of Swanson’s bases-loaded eight innings while striking
1997. hit fell just in front of diving out three.
Ryan Braun and Jeff Ban- left fielder Allen Cordoba. DIAMONDBACKS 4, DODG-
dy also went deep for the The Braves have followed ERS 2
Brewers, the only team to a five-game losing streak LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jake
hit as many as three hom- with five straight wins. Lamb hit a solo home run
Milwaukee Brewers’ Eric Thames, right, celebrates his home run ers in a game off Chicago Jim Johnson (2-0) pitched in the eighth inning and
off Chicago Cubs starting pitcher John Lackey, with Ryan Braun, starter John Lackey (1-2) the ninth. David Peralta added a run-
during the third inning of a baseball game, Monday, April 17, last season. Kurt Suzuki hit a one-out scoring triple in the ninth to
2017, in Chicago. Brewers starter Chase An- single in the Braves ninth off lead the Diamondbacks to
Associated Press derson (2-0) pitched five closer Brandon Maurer (0- a victory over the Dodgers.
innings of three-run, seven- 1). With two outs, pinch run- J.J. Hoover (1-0) threw two
ner Chase d’Arnaud ad- scoreless innings in relief of
vanced to third on Emilio Robbie Ray to earn the vic-
Bonifacio’s bloop single in tory and Fernando Rodney
front of Cordoba’s dive. blanked the Dodgers in the
An intentional walk to ninth to earn his fifth save.
Ender Inciarte loaded the It was Lamb’s third homer
bases for Swanson, whose of the season.
first career game-ending The Dodgers took a 2-0
hit again fell beyond the lead against Ray, scoring
reach of a charging Cor- an unearned run in the sec-
doba. ond on Logan Forsythe’s
CARDINALS 2, PIRATES 1 sacrifice fly and taking a
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lance two-run lead on an Enrique
Lynn pitched seven shut- Hernandez solo home run
out innings and Kolten in the fourth. It was his first
Wong homered as St. Louis of the year.
stopped a three-game los- The Diamondbacks tied it
ing streak. on RBI hits by A.J. Pollock
The Cardinals, who had lost and Peralta.
six of seven, are 4-9 and still Chris Hatcher (0-1) pitched
have the worst record in 2 2/3 innings and took the
the NL. loss.q