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Bellinger hits 7th HR, Dodgers beat Rockies 12-6 for sweep

DENVER (AP) — Cody Bell- seventh when righty Chaz ing fracas and was among
inger homered again, Max Roe reliever to strike out five ejections.
Muncy also went deep and lefty-swinging Brandon Belt. Derek Dietrich stood in
Los Angeles outslugged Kolarek returned to the the batter's box to watch
Colorado. mound, gave up a single the first of his two homers,
Bellinger had three hits, in- and was replaced for good a 436-foot second-inning
cluding his major league- by Diego Castillo. drive that bounced into the
leading seventh home Yandy Diaz homered on Allegheny River, and two
run, and has hit safely in the second pitch of the innings later Chris Archer
11 straight games dating game from Drew Pomer- threw his first pitch behind
to last year. The Dodgers anz (0-1), and Yonny Chiri- Dietrich's waist. Plate um-
have 24 homers and have nos (2-0) allowed two hits in pire Jeff Kellogg warned
connected in all 10 games. five innings. José Alvarado both benches and new
They scored 29 runs and pitched around a hit and Reds manager David Bell
swept a series at Coors a walk in the ninth for his jogged from the dugout to
Field for the second con- fourth save. the infield, arguing Archer
secutive season. BREWERS 4, CUBS 2 should've been ejected.
Joe Kelly (1-1) pitched 1 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Chris- Los Angeles Dodgers' Cody Bellinger follows the flight of his solo Tempers quickly escalated.
2/3 innings in relief to get tian Yelich hit his fifth homer home run off Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Bryan Shaw in the The excitable Puig, in his
the win as "Sunday Night this season and 100th of eighth inning of a baseball game Sunday, April 7, 2019, in Den- first season with the Reds,
Baseball" on ESPN made his career, a drive off Kyle ver. grabbed Pirates bench
its first appearance at Co- Hendricks (0-2), Yelich had Associated Press coach Tom Prince and
ors Field since 2001 with a three RBIs, and Josh Hader tried to put the 54-year-old
game that lasted 3 hours, struck out three over 2 2/3 his first save since last Sept. a career-high seven walks former catcher in a head-
52 minutes. perfect innings for his fifth 18. in 4 2/3 innings. lock. Puig, Bell and Reds
Colorado has lost seven save as Milwaukee won for Phillies left fielder Andrew BRAVES 4, MARLINS 3 pitcher Amir Garrett were
of eight since starting the the seventh time in eight McCutchen made a per- ATLANTA (AP) — Dansby ejected, as were Pirates
season with two wins. No- games. fect one-hop throw to the Swanson hit a game-end- pitchers Keone Kela and
lan Arenado had three hits Chicago lost for the sev- plate to prevent Marwin ing single off Adam Conley Felipe Vazquez.
and three RBIs but Charlie enth time in eight games, Gonzalez from scoring on (0-2) against a five-man Archer (1-0) allowed three
Blackmon committed two dropping to 2-7. Ehire Adrianza's single in infield after Ronald Acuña runs and five hits in six in-
embarrassing errors in right Zach Davies (1-0) allowed the third. Jr. reached on a catcher's nings. Josh Bell hit a 474-
field. Chad Bettis (0-2) took a pair of unearned runs in NATIONALS 12, METS 9 catcher's interference call foot home run off Anthony
the loss. 5 2/3 innings. The Brewers NEW YORK (AP) — Max on Chad Wallach after DeSclafini (0-1) in the fourth
RAYS 3, GIANTS 0 have won 15 of their last 16 Scherzer (1-2) allowed four his apparent double-play that cleared the batter's
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — regular season series dat- runs and eight hits in 6 1/3 grounder. eye in center.
Tampa Bay manager Kevin ing to last year. innings with seven strike- Pinch-hitter Curtis Grander- CARDINALS 4, PADRES 1
Cash moved left-handed PHILLIES 2, TWINS 1 outs, no walks and two hit son hit a tying homer in the ST. LOUIS (AP) — Adam
reliever Adam Kolarek PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rhys batters, and he also singled ninth off Arodys Vizcaíno Wainwright (1-0) gave up
to first base in a piece of Hoskins hit a two-run homer in the game's first run. (1-0). one run and five hits in six
matchup strategy, and the in the sixth inning off José Anthony Rendon homered Freddie Freeman hit a two- innings, struck out nine and
Rays opened with three Berrios (1-1), and Philadel- for the fourth time in five run homer off Caleb Smith didn't issue a walk while
straight series wins for the phia improved to 6-2. games, a three-run drive as in the first inning. throwing 100 pitches.
first time. Zach Eflin (2-0) allowed a Washington opened a 12-1 PIRATES 7, REDS 5 Jordan Hicks got four outs
Kolarek pitched a perfect leadoff homer to Max Ke- lead, and the Nationals PITTSBURGH (AP) — A for his first save.
sixth inning to protect a pler and five singles, striking were helped by 12 walks. charged-up Yasiel Puig Paul DeJong hit a two-run
2-0 lead and moved to first out five, and Hector Neris Zack Wheeler (0-1) gave barreled into a bunch of Pi- double in the fourth off
base with a man on in the tossed a perfect ninth for up seven runs, four hits and rates during a bench-clear- Matt Strahm (0-2).q

Trump administration ends

MLB/Cuba baseball deal

signing with MLB. similar to one MLB has with for Cuban players to have
The Treasury Department leagues in China, Korea the individual freedom to
told MLB attorneys in a let- and Japan. benefit from their talents,
ter Friday that it was revers- "The U.S. does not support and not as property of the
ing an Obama administra- actions that would institu- Cuban state." The MLB and
In this Feb. 10, 2019 file photo, Cuba's Los Leneros de las Tunas tion decision allowing the tionalize a system by which Cuba engaged in intense
baseball players listen to their national anthem before facing major leagues to pay the a Cuban government en- negotiations on a player-
Panama's Los Toros de Herrera for the final, Caribbean Series
baseball tournament championship game at Rod Carew sta- Cuban Baseball Federation tity garnishes the wages transfer deal through the
dium in Panama City. a release fee equal to 25% of hard-working athletes Obama administration's
Associated Press of each Cuban player's who simply seek to live and two-year effort to normal-
signing bonus. The deci- compete in a free society," ize relations with Cuba but
HAVANA (AP) — The Trump jor League Baseball orga- sion made public Mon- National Security Council the deal was only finalized
administration is moving to nizations. The change will day afternoon appears to spokesman Garrett Marquis after Donald Trump took of-
end a deal allowing Cuban once again require Cuban make the MLB-Cuba deal said. "The administration fice pledging to roll back
baseball players to sign players to cut ties with their unworkable by eliminating looks forward to working Obama's policy.
contracts directly with Ma- national program before the payment mechanism, with MLB to identify ways Continued on Next Page