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Thursday 25 april 2019

Sale remains winless as Tigers sweep Red Sox 7-4, 4-2

By The Associated Press baseman David Freese for just in front of the fence fore hitting Howie Kendrick a 5-4 lead, Jessie Biddle
NEW YORK (AP) — Zack a memorable infield single and the ball bounced out with a pitch. forced in a run with a bas-
Wheeler hit his first ma- in the second and had a of his glove and went over. Raimel Tapia homered for es-loaded walk to pinch-
jor league home run and
struck out 11 in seven sharp
innings as New York hand-
ed Philadelphia its fifth loss
in six games.
The only spirit the Phillies
showed came with two
outs in the ninth when two
fastballs by Mets reliever
Jacob Rhame sailed over
Rhys Hoskins’ head. The
benches started to clear
after the first time, and
Hoskins angrily slung his bat
after the next one, which
was ball four.
A career .129 hitter, Wheel-
er (2-2) lined a two-run dou-
ble in the second off Zach
Eflin (2-3). The next time up,
Wheeler did even better,
launching a drive over the
wall in left-center.
Todd Frazier connected for
a grand slam that made it
8-0 in the fifth.
CARDINALS 4, BREWERS 3
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Paul De-
Jong hit a tiebreaking,
leadoff homer in the eighth
inning, Yadier Molina had
three hits and two RBIs, and Boston Red Sox pitching coach Dana LeVangie, left, walks back to the dugout after a conference on the mound with Chris Sale,
St. Louis beat Milwaukee. center, during the fifth inning of the first game of a baseball doubleheader against the Detroit Tigers in Boston, Tuesday, April 23,
Milwaukee had three solo 2019.
homers, two by Travis Shaw Associated Press
and another by Orlando
Arcia. solo homer in the seventh. Reyes hit a two-run homer Colorado and Ryan Mc- hitter Phillip Ervin and Puig
DeJong took reliever Alex It was more than enough to cap the three-run sec- Mahon had two hits. Jeff hit a sacrifice fly against
Wilson (1-1) deep to make support for Quintana (3-1), ond inning and connected Hoffman (0-1), recalled Wes Parsons.
it 3-2. Molina hit his second who turned in another gem again off rookie Erik Swan- from Triple-A Albuquerque Robert Stephenson (2-0)
double with one out, scor- in the Cubs’ sixth win in sev- son (0-2) with two outs in to start in place of injured struck out two batters with
ing Jose Martinez, who had en games. The veteran left- the sixth. Kyle Freeland (finger blis- a runner on third to end the
walked to go with two sin- hander allowed two runs Nick Margevicius (2-2) al- ter), sailed through the first sixth. Raisel Iglesias retired
gles. and four hits while improv- lowed two runs and four two innings only to run into Ozzie Albies, Josh Donald-
Molina stole third but was ing to 3-0 with a sparkling hits in five innings, struck out trouble in the third. He al- son and Freddie Freeman
stranded there. It was his 0.86 ERA since he was hit four and walked five. Kirby lowed four runs in five in- for his fifth save.
first stolen base this season hard in a loss at Milwaukee Yates pitched the ninth for nings. DIAMONDBACKS 2, PIRATES
and the 17th time he’s sto- on April 5. his 11th save in as many REDS 7, BRAVES 6 1
len third in his career. NL West-leading Los Ange- chances. CINCINNATI (AP) — Yasiel PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jarrod
Andrew Miller (1-1) struck les had won seven of eight. NATIONALS 6, ROCKIES 3 Puig hit a two-run homer Dyson dived around catch-
out two in a perfect eighth But the Dodgers were un- DENVER (AP) — Patrick in the first inning off the fa- er Francisco Cervelli but
to pick up his first win as able to recover after Kenta Corbin pitched six strong cade of the second deck was only credited with the
a Cardinal. Jordan Hicks Maeda (3-2) struggled ear- innings, Victor Robles hit in left-center field, and go-ahead run in the sixth in-
pitched the ninth for his ly on. a three-run double, and Cincinnati wasted an ear- ning after a replay review.
sixth save. PADRES 6, MARINERS 3 Washington beat Colora- ly lead and then rallied to Luke Weaver (2-1) struck
CUBS 7, DODGERS 2 SAN DIEGO (AP) — Austin do. beat Atlanta. out seven over 6 1/3 in-
CHICAGO (AP) — José Hedges’ two-run homer Corbin (2-0) gave up three José Peraza had his first RBIs nings and won his second
Quintana pitched seven bounced out of center runs — two earned — and since homering on opening straight start.
crisp innings in his third fielder Mallex Smith’s glove five hits, and had a key day, and Tucker Barnhart Andrew Chafin and Ar-
straight win, and Chicago and over the fence, and base hit in Washington’s homered for the Reds, who chie Bradley got the ball to
used a fast start to beat Los Franmil Reyes homered four-run third inning. Sean have won four of five fol- Greg Holland, who worked
Angeles. twice and had three RBIs. Doolittle got the last four lowing a four-game losing around a walk and a wild
Willson Contreras hit a Hedges had an unusual outs for his third save. streak. Cincinnati led 3-0 in pitch to earn his fifth save.
three-run double in Chica- homer on a fly ball to deep Washington scored two the fifth inning, fell behind Both runs went against Pi-
go’s four-run first, and An- center off reliever Cory Ge- runs in the top of the ninth 4-3 in the sixth, then scored rates starter Trevor Williams
thony Rizzo added a two- arrin with two outs in the when Rockies reliever DJ four runs in the bottom half. (1-1), who threw seven in-
run drive in the second. Ja- sixth. Smith, a former Pa- Johnson walked Juan Soto Peraza hit a two-run double nings. He struck out four
vier Báez juked around first dres’ farmhand, leaped with the bases loaded be- off Kevin Gausman (1-2) for and walked one.q