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Saturday 11 May 2019

Rockies rally to beat Giants 12-11 at wintry Coors Field

By The Associated Press Dodgers, but posted a 0.77
DENVER (AP) — Nolan Are- mark in four starts last year
nado homered among his with Arizona. In two starts
three hits and Chris Iannet- at Los Angeles last season,
ta hit a go-ahead two-run he gave up one earned
double in the sixth inning to run over 10 innings with 14
lead the Colorado Rockies strikeouts.
over the San Francisco Gi- Freese had two of the three
ants 12-11 on Thursday on a hits against Corbin (2-1),
cold, sometimes wintry day who walked four and struck
at Coors Field. out eight. Max Muncy
Arenado reached base struck out four times for the
five times, starting with his Dodgers and left five run-
10th home run. Ian Des- ners on base. Rich Hill (0-1)
mond and Mark Reynolds took the loss after allowing
also homered. three runs in five innings.
The announced tempera- DIAMONDBACKS 3, BRAVES
ture at first pitch was 39 de- 2, 10 INNINGS
grees and a steady snow PHOENIX (AP) — David Per-
fell in the first inning. alta hit a tying homer with
Colorado won despite two two outs in the ninth inning
home runs and a career- and Ketel Marte singled
best six RBIs by Giants first home the winning run in the
baseman Tyler Austin. He 10th for Arizona.
hit a two-run homer in the Josh Donaldson put the
third inning and a three-run Braves ahead 2-1 with a
shot in the sixth off Bryan leadoff homer against
Shaw (2-0) to tie the game Greg Holland in the top of
at eight. the ninth. Luke Jackson re-
Iannetta put Colorado tired the first two batters in
back in front against re- the bottom half before Per-
liever Tyler Beede (0-1) in alta sent a drive over the
the sixth, and pinch-hitter right field fence. Jackson
Daniel Murphy singled off had held opponents score-
Austin’s glove to put the less over his past 15 innings
Rockies ahead 11-8. and converted his previous
Both teams scored a run in two save chances.
the eighth and the Giants Nick Ahmed drew a lead-
got two more in the ninth off walk from A.J. Minter
off Wade Davis before he (0-4) in the 10th and went
struck out Stephen Volt for to third on Carson Kelly’s
his sixth save. single. With the infield play-
CUBS 4, MARLINS 1 ing in, Marte won it with a
CHICAGO (AP) — Kris Bry- blooper that fell between
ant and Anthony Rizzo Colorado Rockies’ Chris Iannetta watches his two-run double off San Francisco Giants relief pitcher two Braves in shallow right
homered and Chicago Mark Melancon during the sixth inning of a baseball game Thursday, May 9, 2019, in Denver. field for his second career
beat Miami for its 10th win Associated Press walk-off hit.
in 11 games. Marlins lost for the 10th time times over the first six in- Corbin fired seven smooth Arizona right fielder Adam
Bryant sparked a two-run in 12 games, and Richards nings. The 17-run output is innings and Howie Kend- Jones took a potential
first with his sixth homer in (0-5) remained winless in the most for the Cardinals rick homered in the first as two-run homer away from
12 games. Rizzo connect- eight starts. The right-hand- since an 18-5 win over the the Nationals ended a four- Ronald Acuña Jr. in the
ed for the sixth time in 11 er gave up four runs and Chicago Cubs on July 20, game slide and stopped sixth. Called up from Triple-
games with a two-run drive seven hits in five innings. 2018. the Dodgers’ 10-game A Reno before the game,
in the fifth against Trevor CARDINALS 17, PIRATES 4 Gregory Polanco homered home winning streak. The Jon DuPlantier (1-0) worked
Richards. ST. LOUIS (AP) — Marcell and drove in three runs for left-hander entered with a a scoreless inning for his first
The Cubs overcame anoth- Ozuna drove in four runs the Pirates, who lost their 3.59 career ERA against the major league win.q
er shaky outing by Yu Dar- and Dexter Fowler had second in a row.
vish, who walked six n just three RBIs, leading St. Louis Michael Wacha (3-0) al-
four innings. Though he al- to a rout of Pittsburgh. lowed four runs and nine
lowed just one run and one Paul Goldschmidt reached hits over 5 2/3 innings. Joe
hit, only 50 of his 97 pitches base four times and had Musgrove (1-4) lasted just
were strikes. three hits and two RBIs for three innings for Pirates,
Mike Montgomery (1-0) the Cardinals, who man- giving up eight runs and six
threw three-hit ball over aged just one run in their hits.
five scoreless innings in his previous 21 innings but NATIONALS 6, DODGERS 0
return from a strained lat bounced back with 16 hits LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pat-
muscle and the NL Central- and recorded a season rick Corbin shut down the
leading Cubs headed into high in runs. Dodgers’ powerful lineup
a weekend series against St. Louis, which won for just again, pitching the Wash-
second-place Milwaukee the second time in eight ington Nationals to a vic-
on a winning note. games, sent nine or more tory in the opener of a four-
The major league-worst batters to the plate three game series.