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Friday 28 September 2018
Cubs, Brewers clinch NL Central playoff spots

By The Associated Press enth was recorded.
CHICAGO (AP) — Shortly Nationals rookie Victor Ro-
after their playoff spot was bles had a career-high four
assured, the Chicago Cubs hits, including a three-run
beat the Pittsburgh Pirates homer and a two-run dou-
7-6 on Albert Almora Jr.'s ble, and also stole a base.
single with two outs in the Brian Anderson homered
10th inning Wednesday for the Marlins.
night. Wander Suero (4-1) got the
The NL Central-leading win with an inning of score-
Cubs clinched their fourth less relief. Wei-Yin Chen (6-
straight postseason ap- 12) was the loser.
pearance when Milwaukee METS 3, BRAVES 0
beat St. Louis. The Brewers, NEW YORK (AP) — Jacob
who sealed a playoff slot deGrom was dominant
with their win, are a half- in what likely was his final
game behind Chicago. pitch for the NL Cy Young
One of them will win the NL Award, throwing eight stel-
Central, the other will play lar innings for New York
in the NL wild-card game. and leaving with a major
After Pittsburgh tied it in the league-best 1.70 ERA.
ninth on a two-out, two-run DeGrom (10-9) made his
double by Starling Marte, final regular-season start,
the Cubs bounced back striking out 10 and allow-
to win. Ian Happ led off the Milwaukee Brewers celebrate after defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1 in a baseball game ing just two singles against
10th with a walk and was Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, in St. Louis. The win clinched a postseason spot for the Brewers. NL East champion Atlanta.
replaced by pinch-runner Associated Press He retired the final 20 hit-
Terrance Gore. Mike Free- ters after allowing a single
man's sacrifice moved up five shutout innings and the loss. of nine was set by New to Johan Camargo. De-
Gore, and he took third on Travis Shaw hit a pair of RBI ROCKIES 14, PHILLIES 0 York's Mickey Welch in an Grom gave up no more
a groundout. Almora sin- singles to help the Brewers DENVER (AP) — Hard- NL game in 1884. than three runs in his last 29
gled to left on an 0-2 pitch completed a three-game throwing German Marquez Nick Pivetta (7-14) was the starts to extend his own sin-
from Richard Rodriguez (4- sweep. started with eight straight loser. gle-season record. The All-
3). The Cardinals missed a strikeouts to match a mod- DIAMONDBACKS 7, DODG- Star ace also matched the
Jason Heyward homered big chance to tie it in the ern-era big league record, ERS 2 overall mark set by Jake Ar-
and drove in three runs eighth inning. Matt Carpen- and Colorado routed Phila- PHOENIX (AP) — A.J. Pol- rieta in 2015-16.
for the Cubs. Javier Baez ter walked and was lifted delphia to take over the NL lock hit a three-run homer Seth Lugo threw a scoreless
singled for his NL-leading for pinch-runner Adolis Gar- West lead. and Arizona dropped Los ninth for his third save.
111th RBI as the Cubs won cia. Jose Martinez then hit David Dahl homered for Angeles to second place in Luke Jackson (1-2) was the
after blowing a five-run a slow roller to third base- the third straight game, the NL West. loser. Atlanta had won six
lead. Star third baseman man Mike Moustakas, who and the Rockies went deep The Dodgers' second loss straight.
Kris Bryant didn't play be- threw wildly to first. Garcia four times in all as they ex- in a row put them a half- ROYALS 6, REDS 1
cause of a bruised left was waved home but fell tending their winning streak game behind Colorado. CINCINNATI (AP) — Rookie
wrist. Jose Osuna and Co- halfway to the plate, allow- to six. Arizona chased Ross Strip- Heath Fillmyer struck out
rey Dickerson homered for ing second baseman Her- Colorado moved a half- ling (8-6) with three runs in a career-high nine, Adal-
Pittsburgh. nan Perez to easily throw game ahead of Los Ange- the second inning and Pol- berto Mondesi tripled, stole
Brandon Kintzler (3-3) got him out to end the inning. les for the division lead. lock hit his three-run homer two bases and scored
the only batter he faced Chacin (15-8), who had Marquez (14-10) allowed in the fifth for a 6-2 lead. twice, and Kansas City
in the top of the 10th to hit lost his last three decisions, three hits in seven innings Zack Greinke (15-11) over- beat Cincinnati to wrap up
into a double play. gave up one run on just one and struck out 11 to set a came a shaky start to allow its road schedule.
BREWERS 2, CARDINALS 1 hit over five innings. Xavier Rockies record with 221 for two runs and strike out six in Whit Merrifield, who went
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Milwaukee Cedeno, Corbin Burnes, the season, seven more six innings. Socrates Brito hit into the game tied for the
clinched its first playoff spot Josh Hader and Jeremy than Ubaldo Jimenez's to- his first big league homer in American League lead in
since 2011 by ensuring at Jeffress combined for four tal in 2010. By striking out his two years and David Per- hits and leading in stolen
least a spot in the NL wild- shutout innings as the Brew- first eight batters, he tied a alta hit his 30th of the sea- bases, extended his sea-
card game, helped when ers held the Cardinals to a post-1900 mark set by Hous- son in Arizona's final home son-high hitting streak to 16
a rookie St. Louis pinch- season-low two hits. Jeffress ton's Jim Deshaies in 1986, game. games with a third-inning
runner fell on his way to the earned his 13th save in 18 and equaled by the New NATIONALS 9, MARLINS 3, 7 single. He also stole two
plate. chances. York Mets' Jacob deGrom INNINGS bases. Alex Gordon tacked
Jhoulys Chacin pitched Chasen Shreve (3-4) took in 2014. The overall record WASHINGTON (AP) — Bryce on a solo home run.
Harper was 0 for 4 with two The only run Fillmyer al-
strikeouts in the rain-short- lowed was Jose Peraza's
ened game that many ex- 14th homer in the first in-
pect was his last at Nation- ning. Fillmyer (4-2) allowed
als Park as a Washington four hits and two walks
player. while tying his career high
Harper can become a free with 7 1/3 innings. Fillmy-
agent at season's end. The er also had his first major
storm arrived as Harper league hit and RBI with a
stood in the on-deck circle sixth-inning double. Cody
while the last out of the sev- Reed (1-3) was the loser.q