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Harper, Realmuto

power Phillies past

Rockies 7-5 for sweep

By The Associated Press righty threw his first com-
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce plete game in the majors.
Harper homered for the Syndergaard (3-4) retired
second straight day and his first 12 batters and al-
pinch-hitter J.T. Realmuto lowed two runs in seven in-
also went deep to help nings.
Philadelphia complete a The Mets (20-25) have their
three-game sweep of Col- longest losing streak of the
orado. year and are a season-
Harper's tiebreaking, two- worst five games under
run shot in the sixth inning .500. They went 1-5 on their
wasn't as prodigious as trip and have dropped 16
his 466-foot drive in Satur- of their past 20 road games.
day's 2-1 victory, but this The Marlins (13-31), who
404-footer had plenty of came into the series with a
distance to clear the right- seven-game losing streak,
center wall for the NL East have their first three-game
leaders. winning streak of the sea-
The $330 million slugger also son. Curtis Granderson
had a single and an RBI homered for their final run
groundout. in the eighth.
Ryan McMahon hit two BREWERS 3, BRAVES 2, 10 IN-
homers, and Charlie Black- NINGS
mon and Trevor Story also ATLANTA (AP) — Ben Gamel Philadelphia Phillies' Bryce Harper follows the flight of the ball after hitting a home run with one
went deep. But the Rockies, led off the 10th inning with run batted in during the sixths inning of a baseball game Sunday, May 19, 2019, in Philadelphia.
who dropped 9½ games a home run that lifted Mil- Associated Press
behind the first-place waukee over Atlanta.
Dodgers in the NL West, All five runs in the game three runs and Russell Mar- outs in the ninth. Crawford ninth for his 13th save.
have lost four straight. came on homers. tin added a solo homer for made a spectacular play Moran's homer off rookie
Realmuto tied it 5-all in the Gamel's drive off Wes the Dodgers. to save the Giants, diving Cal Quantrill (0-2) helped
sixth with his first career Parsons (1-2) helped the Verdugo's RBI double gave to his right and hopping up stake Musgrove to a 4-0
pinch-hit homer, a two-run Brewers end Atlanta's the Dodgers a 1-0 lead in to make a throw that beat lead before he threw a
shot off Bryan Shaw (2-1). four-game winning streak. the second inning and they Jones by a step. pitch. Josh Bell, who hom-
Harper connected against Christian Yelich and Keston added a run in the third on Sandoval had a pinch-hit ered twice Saturday night,
Mike Dunn. Hiura also connected for a fielder's choice. homer in the eighth inning was aboard on an RBI sin-
Edgar Garcia (1-0) got one Milwaukee, which avoided Reds right fielder Yasiel of San Francisco's 8-5 win gle.
out for his first major league a three-game sweep in a Puig crashed into a re- Saturday night and added CUBS 6, NATIONALS 5
win, and Pat Neshek matchup of 2018 NL divi- taining wall in foul territory another off Yoshihisa Hira- WASHINGTON (AP) — An-
earned his third save. sion winners. while making a catch and no (1-2). thony Rizzo homered, Al-
Struggling starter Kyle Free- Ronald Acuña Jr. and Fred- later left the game with a Will Smith struck out the side bert Almora Jr. had three
land lasted just 1 2/3 innings die Freeman went deep for sprained right shoulder. for his 12th save in 12 op- hits and Chicago held off
for Colorado. the Braves. Freeman has Bellinger's two-run shot that portunities. Washington.
MARLINS 3, METS 0 homered in four consecu- glanced off the glove of a PIRATES 6, PADRES 4 Chicago led 6-1 before
MIAMI (AP) — Sandy Alcan- tive games for the first time leaping Nick Senzel in cen- SAN DIEGO (AP) — Colin Washington closed to
tara threw a two-hitter in a in his career. ter field made it 4-0 in the Moran hit a three-run hom- within a run on a three-run
pitching duel with Noah Josh Hader (1-3) pitched seventh. er and finished with four homer by Anthony Ren-
Syndergaard, and Miami two perfect innings after Jose Peraza and pinch-hit- RBIs, and Joe Musgrove don in the sixth inning and
beat the reeling New York Brewers starter Brandon ter Derek Dietrich homered beat his hometown Padres a solo home run by Howie
Mets to finish a three-game Woodruff went eight. in the ninth for the Reds. for the second time in two Kendrick in the seventh.
sweep. DODGERS 8, REDS 3 Tanner Roark (3-3) allowed seasons as Pittsburgh won Kyle Hendricks (4-4) retired
A day after being shut out CINCINNATI (AP) — Hyun- two runs in five innings. to take three of four from the first 11 Washington
on just one hit, the Mets lost Jin Ryu threw seven shutout GIANTS 3, DIAMONDBACKS San Diego. batters and didn't allow a
their fifth in a row. The lat- innings to extend his major 2, 10 INNINGS Musgrove (3-4) was the sec- hit until Kurt Suzuki's single
est defeat against a team league-leading streak to PHOENIX (AP) — Pablo San- ond straight alum of Gross- leading off the fifth, but
with baseball's worst record 31, and Cody Bellinger hit doval opened the 10th in- mont High in suburban El finished by giving up four
is sure to intensify specula- his 17th homer as Los Ange- ning with a pinch-hit homer Cajon to beat the Padres. runs and six hits in 5 2/3 in-
tion about the job security les defeated Cincinnati. after shortstop Brandon Steven Brault won Satur- nings. Steve Cishek pitched
of manager Mickey Calla- Ryu (6-1) had baserunners Crawford made a game- day night in relief of opener a 2 1/3 scoreless innings for
way. in each of his first five in- saving stop in the ninth, Montana DuRapau. his fourth save as the Cubs
Alcantara (2-4) struck out nings, but none of them got sending San Francisco past The big right-hander took took two of three from the
eight, walked one and past second and he retired Arizona. a one-hit shutout into the Nationals and improved to
needed only 89 pitches his last eight batters. The The Diamondbacks ap- seventh inning before the 10-1-1 in their past 12 series.
for the Marlins' first com- left-hander allowed five peared to have the game Padres broke out for four Washington starter Jeremy
plete game shutout since hits with one walk and five won when Adam Jones hit runs, the big blow coming Hellickson (2-3) allowed
Edinson Volquez tossed a strikeouts, lowering his ERA a grounder into the hole on Hunter Renfroe's three- three runs and four hits
no-hitter against Arizona in to 1.52. off Sam Dyson (2-0) with run homer. with three walks in three
June 2017. The 23-year-old Alex Verdugo drove in a runner on third with two Felipe Vazquez pitched the innings.q