NATIONAL LEAGUE : Brewers’ Hall hurts Cardinals for 2nd night in a row
Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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ST. LOUIS — Bill Hall homered to break a late-inning tie for the second consecutive game and the Milwaukee Brewers also caught up with Kyle Lohse, beating the St. Louis Cardinals and their surprise ace 4-3 for their sixth consecutive victory Tuesday night.
The Cardinals have lost two consecutive after winning five in a row.
Lohse tired in the last two innings of an eight-inning outing, squandering a three-run lead and missing a chance to win his 10 th consecutive decision.
The Brewers bunched all but one of their seven hits off the right-hander in the seventh and eighth. They tied the game with two runs in the eighth on an RBI single by Rickie Weeks and a run-scoring single by J. J. Hardy in consecutive at-bats.
Hall, whose 10 th inning home run off Ryan Franklin ignited a three-run rally in a 6-3 victory Monday, hit his 14 th home run with one in the top of the ninth off Kyle McClellan (2-5 ). The Brewers have homered in 18 consecutive games, the second-longest streak in franchise history, totaling 28 in that span.
Brian Shouse (4-1 ) needed only eight pitches to retire the side in order in the eighth and Salomon Torres got three outs for his 18 th save in 22 chances.
The Cardinals’ Ryan Ludwick hit the longest home run at 3-year-old Busch Stadium. Ludwick’s 22 nd home run with one out in the first was estimated at 450 feet to left-center, 4 feet longer than the previous best by Scott Rolen on July 2, 2006, against the Kansas City Royals. PIRATES 8, ASTROS 2 Paul Maholm (7-6 ) allowed 1 run and 5 hits, all singles, and struck out 5 in 8 innings to win for the fifth time in six decisions as visiting Pittsburgh beat Houston for the sixth time in eight meetings. Freddy Sanchez went 3 for 5 with a home run and 2 RBI and Ryan Doumit hit a 3-run home run for the Pirates. REDS 4, PADRES 3 Jeff Keppinger’s one-out double in the 11 th drove in Jay Bruce, who had singled, as host Cincinnati beat San Diego. PHILLIES 8, METS 6 So Taguchi and Jimmy Rollins had two-run doubles in a six-run ninth as Philadelphia beat host New York and took over first place in the NL East. MARLINS 4, BRAVES 0 Rick VandenHurk (1-1 ), recalled Monday from Class AA Carolina, and three relievers combined on a one-hitter, and Mike Jacobs hit a three-run home run as host Florida beat Atlanta. VandenHurk pitched five hitless innings for his first victory since last Aug. 23. He walked five and left after throwing 94 pitches. Chipper Jones led off the sixth with a line-drive single up the middle off Joe Nelson, but Nelson retired the next three batters, Renyel Pinto pitched two perfect innings, and Matt Lindstrom pitched a 1-2-3 ninth. The game’s first hit — Jacobs’ home run — came on the 151 st pitch. Charlie Morton (2-3 ) walked Jorge Cantu and Dan Uggla in the fourth, and with two out, Jacobs hit his 20 th home run. ROCKIES 10, DODGERS 1 Ubaldo Jimenez (6-9 ) pitched a four-hitter in his first career complete game and Ian Stewart had three hits, including a home run, and four RBI as host Colorado beat Los Angeles.
American League WHITE SOX 10, RANGERS 2 Mark Buehrle (8-8 ), pitching on three days rest so he could attend his grandfather’s funeral in Missouri, allowed 1 run and 6 hits with no walks in 7 1 / 3 innings, Alexei Ramirez hit the first grand slam of his career, and Nick Swisher hit a three-run home run as host Chicago beat Texas to break a three-game losing streak. ATHLETICS 8, RAYS 1 Dallas Braden (2-0 ), who was making his first start of the season, allowed 1 run, 4 hits and 4 walks in 5 innings and Jack Hannahan hit a three-run home run as Oakland beat host Tampa Bay to end a six-game losing streak. BLUE JAYS 10, ORIOLES 8 Adam Lind had a career-high four hits, including a three-run home run, and John McDonald, who came in with a. 190 batting average and two RBI in 36 games, had four RBI as Toronto beat host Baltimore. YANKEES 8, TWINS 2 Bobby Abreu hit a goahead two-run home run in the sixth and drove in three runs as New York beat Minnesota for its ninth consecutive victory at home and fifth in a row overall. Tuesday’s games
NATIONAL LEAGUE Florida 4, Atlanta 0 Philadelphia 8, NY Mets 6 Cincinnati 4, San Diego 3, 11 innings Pittsburgh 8, Houston 2 Milwaukee 4, St. Louis 3 Colorado 10, LA Dodgers 1 Chicago Cubs at Arizona, (n ) Washington at San Francisco, (n ) AMERICAN LEAGUE NY Yankees 8, Minnesota 2 Toronto 10, Baltimore 8 Oakland 8, Tampa Bay 1 Chicago White Sox 10, Texas 2 Detroit at Kansas City, (n ) Cleveland at LA Angels, (n ) Boston at Seattle, (n )