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Strasburg earns 100th win, Nationals beat White Sox 9-5

By The Associated Press querque on May 24.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ste- REDS 4, CARDINALS 1
phen Strasburg earned his ST. LOUIS (AP) — Luis Castillo
100th career victory, An- pitched one-run ball over
thony Rendon homered six innings, Yasiel Puig hom-
and drove in five runs and ered and Cincinnati beat
the Washington Nationals St. Louis following a rain de-
rallied past the Chicago lay of 1 hour, 20 minutes.
White Sox 9-5 on Tuesday. The loss snapped the Car-
Strasburg (6-3 gave up four dinals' four-game winning
runs in a 39-pitch first inning streak after sweeping the
and spotted Chicago a 5-0 Chicago Cubs over the
lead. He completed five in- weekend.
nings and gave Washing- Castillo (6-1) gave up two
ton's offense time to solve hits, walked four and struck
former teammate and out eight with 111 pitches.
White Sox starter Reynaldo Castillo did not allow a hit
López. after the first inning. He re-
Rendon belted a two- tired his final 12 batters fol-
run double in the third, lowing a walk in the third.
then smacked a three-run Raisel Iglesias pitched the
homer in the fifth to chase ninth for his 12th save in 14
López (3-6) and give the Washington Nationals starting pitcher Stephen Strasburg throws to the Chicago White Sox in the chances.
Nationals a 6-5 lead. first inning of an interleague baseball game, Tuesday, June 4, 2019, in Washington. St. Louis starter Genesis Ca-
Reliever Josh Osich surren- Associated Press brera (0-2) pitched 4 2/3
dered back-to-back dou- innings, allowing four runs,
bles before Victor Robles Bochy has 1,003 losses in foot shot to left-center field by López (4-5) and three re- three earned, with eight
belted a two-run homer to San Francisco and is 1,951- for his eighth. lievers, finishing with six hits hits and two walks.
make it 9-5. Washington's 1,978 during a 25-year ca- Dan Winkler (2-1) had one in its worst loss of the sea- DODGERS 9, DIAMOND-
six runs in the fifth were its reer as a major league strikeout in a scoreless sixth son. BACKS 0
most in any inning this sea- manager that started with inning to get the win. Braves It was already 4-0 when PHOENIX (AP) — Hyun-Jin
son. a dozen years in San Diego. starter Max Fried gave up a Chase Anderson (3-1) was Ryu allowed three hits in
Sean Doolittle recorded McGraw led the New York season-high five runs and pulled after four ineffective seven scoreless innings,
the final two outs for his 13th Giants to 2,583 wins from nine hits in four innings. innings. Cody Bellinger hit a two-run
save in 15 opportunities. 1902-32. Melky Cabrera had two CUBS 6, ROCKIES 3 triple after a rare day off
Howie Kendrick homered Appearing for the fifth time hits, including a two-run CHICAGO (AP) — Kyle and Los Angeles stretched
for the Nationals, who have in an eight-day span, Rob- homer, and three RBI, bat- Schwarber and Javier Báez its winning streak to seven
won eight of their last 10. ert Gsellman (1-1) gave ting cleanup for Pittsburgh homered, Kyle Hendricks games with a rout of Ari-
Yoan Moncada hit Chica- up a single to pinch-hitter in place of Josh Bell. was solid through seven zona. Ryu (9-1) needed 25
go's lone homer, a solo shot Tyler Austin leading off the Steven Brault allowed two innings and the Chicago pitches to get through the
in the second. 10th, walked Brandon Belt runs and five hits in four in- ended Colorado's season- first inning thanks to shaky
Strasburg struck out six as and bounced a wild pitch. nings. high eight-game winning defense behind him, but
he improved to 100-55, be- Vogt lined a changeup MARLINS 16, BREWERS 0 streak. dominated after that to win
coming the first National to over leaping Michael Con- MILWAUKEE (AP) — Garrett Carlos González had two his seventh straight start.
reach the 100-win plateau forto and off the right-field Cooper had two hits and RBIs — on a double and Bellinger had a two-run tri-
since the franchise moved fence. scored twice during Mi- sacrifice fly — as he started ple in his first at-bat against
from Montreal. The right- Mark Melancon (2-0) ami's franchise-record, 11- in right field for a second Taylor Clarke (1-2) following
hander earned a victory pitched a perfect ninth. run fifth inning in a rout of straight game. his first day off since May 3.
while allowing more than Wilson Ramos hit a solo Milwaukee. Hendricks (6-4) allowed He went 1 for 4, dropping
four runs for the first time in homer and rookie Pete Cooper matched a ca- three runs and six hits while his big league-best aver-
his career. Alonso hit a two-run drive reer high with four hits and striking out 10 — including age to .374.
GIANTS 9, METS 3, 10 IN- for the Mets. scored four times, leading five in a row over the sec- Enrique Hernandez hom-
NINGS BRAVES 12, PIRATES 5 the way as last-place Mi- ond and third innings. ered and had two RBIs for
NEW YORK (AP) — Bruce PITTSBURGH (AP) — Austin ami rolled to its 12th win in Steve Cishek followed with the NL West-leading Dodg-
Bochy joined John Mc- Riley and Josh Donaldson 17 games. Cooper, Starlin a perfect eighth. Pedro ers, who have won 11 of 12.
Graw as the only Giants hit three-run home runs in Castro and Brian Anderson Strop pitched a 1-2-3 ninth Corey Seager hit a pair of
managers to win 1,000 reg- consecutive innings, and homered, and rookie Har- for his fifth save in seven run-scoring doubles and
ular-season games when Atlanta rallied past Pitts- old Ramirez continued his chances. Daniel Murphy hit David Freese a two-run
San Francisco beat New burgh. hot start with two hits and a solo shot and drove in an- double.
York behind Stephen Vogt's Freddie Freeman added two RBIs. other run with a single. No- The Diamondbacks were
tiebreaking, two-run dou- a two-run homer, his 15th, Every player in Miami's lan Arenado extended his held to three hits in their
ble in the 10th inning. in a three-run ninth inning starting lineup had at least hitting streak to 14 games seventh loss in nine games.
On a night that began as a that sealed the Braves third one hit, scored at least with a single and Tony PHILLIES 9, PADRES 6
rematch between the Gi- straight win. once and drove in at least Wolters had an RBI, but the SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jay
ants' Madison Bumgarner Riley sent a slider from Kyle one run. Even pitcher Pablo Rockies came up short in Bruce hit a grand slam and
and Noah Syndergaard Crick (2-2) over the wall in López got into the act, hit- a rematch of last year's NL a two-run homer, and Phil-
of their duel in the 2016 NL right field for his ninth home ting an RBI double in the Wild Card game. adelphia beat San Diego
wild-card game, New York run of the season in the sev- fifth that drew a hearty Colorado's Jeff Hoffman to snap a five-game skid.
rallied from a 2-0 deficit enth, turning a 5-3 deficit round of boos from the Mill- (1-2) gave up five runs and Bruce tied a career high
to take a sixth-inning lead into a one-run lead. Don- er Park crowd of 25,364. six hits through six innings in with six RBIs in his second
only for its bullpen to falter aldson pushed the lead to Milwaukee had won five of this third start since being game since being ac-
again. 9-5 in the eighth with a 439- seven. But it was shut down recalled from Triple-A Albu- quired by the Phillies.q