LOS ANGELES (AP) ¡ª In the early
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Rich Hill was perfect. Only he didn¡¯t feel that way.He didn¡¯t like the way the
ball was coming out of his hand, even though he wasn¡¯t letting anyone on
base.¡°Around the third inning, the feel started coming around,¡± Hill said. ¡°The
big thing was getting ahead and throwing strikes.¡±Hill allowed two hits over six
shutout innings, Chris Taylor, Justin Turner and Max Muncy homered, and the Los
Angeles Dodgers routed the San Diego Padres 11-1 on Friday night to snap a
three-game skid.Hill (6-4) retired his first 12 batters, seven of them on
strikeouts, before Hunter Renfroe doubled leading off the fifth.¡°There were a
few pitches I left out there,¡± Hill said. ¡°Everything needs to be tightened up
as we move to September.¡±Hill added another strikeout and had one walk on 90
pitches in his first win since Aug. 7 at Oakland. The only other hit the veteran
left-hander gave up was a triple to Freddy Galvis in the sixth.¡°It¡¯s
discouraging when you go into a game with a game plan and we swing at fast balls
up and out of the zone,¡± Padres manager Andy Green said. ¡°You¡¯re just not going
to get Rich Hill that way. It¡¯s going to take discipline.¡±The last-place Padres
proved the antidote that the slumping Dodgers needed after scoring just six runs
while getting swept in three games by St. Louis. Los Angeles had lost nine of
its last 12 and 10 of 14, but the victory brought them back to .500 at home
(33-33).¡°Just kind of getting that monkey off our back was big for us and
hopefully we can settle down and relax,¡± Turner said. ¡°Offense is contagious.
When it goes good early, it goes really good. When there¡¯s opportunities lost
early in the game it builds up anxiety.¡±The Dodgers pounded out 13 hits and
scored in each of the first five innings. Taylor homered on his first pitch from
Clayton Richard (7-11) in the third. Turner added a two-run shot on Richard¡¯s
first pitch to him in the fourth, extending the lead to 7-0.Richard gave up
seven runs ¡ª six earned ¡ª and nine hits in 3 2/3 innings. He struck out three
and walked two.¡°It¡¯s extremely disappointing to put your team in the hole like
that. I have no excuse,¡± Richard said. ¡°It stinks to have an outing like that.¡±
Pinch-hitter Muncy slugged his team-high 29th homer, a two-run shot that made it
11-0, in the seventh. The Dodgers have an NL West-leading 179 homers this
season.The Dodgers scored four runs in the second on Cody Bellinger¡¯s RBI
single, Brian Dozier¡¯s RBI double down the third-base line and Turner¡¯s RBI
single.Bellinger¡¯s RBI double and Hill¡¯s RBI single extended the lead to 9-0 in
the fifth.The Dodgers¡¯ bullpen completed the four-hitter. Yimi Garcia gave up
two hits and allowed the Padres¡¯ lone run on Galvis¡¯ RBI double in the
eighth.The Padres have lost nine of 11 and fell to 4-10 against their NL West
rivals this season.TRAINER¡¯S ROOMPadres: 3B Wil Myers returned to the lineup,
going 0 for 4. He had just one at-bat in the last two games after he was hit in
the face by a groundball in batting practice Wednesday. ¡°I felt good,¡± he said.
¡°No problems with anything.¡±Dodgers: RHP Daniel Hudson (right forearm tightness)
went on the disabled list. ¡ RHP Ross Stripling had his scheduled throwing
session pushed back to Saturday, when he will face hitters for one or two
innings. ¡ RHP Garcia was reinstated from the DL after missing 43 games with
right forearm inflammation.AT HOME ON THE ROADGalvis has hit safely in his last
nine games at Dodger Stadium dating to Aug. 9, 2016. He¡¯s batted .400 with six
runs, three doubles, a triple, three homers and 10 RBIs.BIRTHDAY BOYDodgers
center fielder Enrique Hernandez celebrated his 27th birthday by going 1 for 4
with two runs, a walk and two strikeouts.UP NEXTRHP Brett Kennedy
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his second against a divisional foe. LHP Clayton Kershaw (6-5, 2.40) makes his
34th career start against the Padres. He is 18-6 with a 1.89 ERA against them,
while holding opposing batters to a .186 average while averaging 9.52 strikeouts
per nine innings. ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ¡ª Shohei Ohtani homered twice during a
huge night at the plate after getting bad news about his pitching arm, and the
Los Angeles Angels beat the Texas Rangers 9-3 on Wednesday.Perhaps headed for
Tommy John surgery, the two-way rookie sensation went 4 for 4 with three RBIs,
four runs and a stolen base to power the Angels. About two hours before the
game, the team announced Ohtani has new damage in his right elbow and
ligament-replacement surgery has been recommended.The club said the Japanese
star had an MRI earlier in the day that revealed the problem in his ulnar
collateral ligament.Ohtani¡¯s homers were towering drives into the right-field
seats. With his second two-homer game, the designated hitter tied Kenji
Johjima¡¯s 2006 major league record of 18 homers by a Japanese rookie.Andrelton
Simmons also homered for the Angels and drove in three runs.Adrian Beltre hit a
two-run shot for Texas, the 472nd homer of his career, in the sixth inning
against Jim Johnson. Three of Beltre¡¯s 10 homers this season have come in the
last five games.Los Angeles rookie Jaime Barria (10-8) beat Texas for the third
time and 45-year-old Bartolo Colon (7-12) for the second.ROCKIES 5, GIANTS
3DENVER (AP) ¡ª Trevor Story homered in his first three at-bats, including one
projected at more than 500 feet, and Colorado beat San Francisco in a game
delayed 68 minutes by rain at the start.The All-Star shortstop had a chance to
tie the major league record of four homers in a game but struck out in his final
at-bat in the eighth inning.Story powered Colorado to its fifth straight win,
and the Rockies increased their NL West lead to 1 1/2 games over Arizona and Los
Angeles.It was the first three-homer game of Story¡¯s career and his fifth
multihomer game this season. The outburst came at the expense of Giants starter
Andrew Suarez (6-10).Story¡¯s solo homer in the fourth traveled an estimated 505
feet. It was the longest homer in franchise history and the longest since
Statcast began tracking distances in 2015.Harrison Musgrave (2-3) got the win
and Adam Ottavino closed for his sixth save.San Francisco has lost five in a
row.RED SOX 9, BRAVES 8ATLANTA (AP) ¡ª Brandon Phillips hit a two-out, two-run
homer in the ninth inning, highlighting his long-awaited season debut and
capping Boston¡¯s biggest comeback of the season.The Red Sox overcame a late
six-run deficit to sweep the three-game series between division leaders.Major
league-leading Boston scored six times in the eighth to make it 7-all. After
Freddie Freeman hit a solo homer with two outs in the Braves eighth, the Red Sox
bounced back for their 97th win.The 37-year-old Phillips sat out the first half
of this year, signed a minor league contract with Boston in late June and was
called up from Triple-A Pawtucket on Tuesday. He didn¡¯t play that night, but
started at second base in the final game of the interleague set.After becoming
the first player in Red Sox history to wear No. 0, in one swing the guy with the
zero became a game-day hero. Andrew Benintendi singled with one out off A.J.
Minter (4-3) and Steve Pearce struck out, bringing up Phillips. On the first
pitch, Phillips homered deep into the left field seats.Atlanta left fielder
Ronald Acuna Jr., who hit another leadoff homer in the first, didn¡¯t move as
Phillips¡¯ shot sailed over his head. Phillips scored three runs and drew two
walks.Braves stadium organist Matthew Kaminski played ¡°Welcome Back¡± before
Phillips¡¯ first at-bat in the second inning. Phillips, a high school star in the
Atlanta area who played most of last season with the
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tipped his helmet and then walked.Freeman hit his tiebreaking homer off Brandon
Workman (4-0).Craig Kimbrel pitched the ninth for his 38th save.ATHLETICS 8,
YANKEES 2OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ¡ª Stephen Piscotty hit a two-run single, Matt
Chapman and Matt Olson each doubled in a run, and Oakland jumped on New York
early.Jed Lowrie added a run-scoring single as the A¡¯s backed Mike Fiers (11-6),
who escaped a bases-loaded jam in the first inning. Fiers is 4-0 in six starts
since joining Oakland, and the A¡¯s have won all his outings.The A¡¯s moved within
3 1/2 games of the Yankees for the top AL wild card and remained 3 1/2 back of
the AL West-leading Astros.Gary Sanchez hit a two-run homer for New York but had
all sorts of trouble behind the plate. Luis Severino (17-7) was done with two
outs in the third for his shortest outing of the season. He allowed six runs ¡ª
five earned ¡ª and six hits.Severino threw two wild pitches that scored separate
runs in the first, when Sanchez also had a pair of passed balls.ASTROS 9, TWINS
1HOUSTON (AP) ¡ª Alex Bregman homered and had five RBIs, and Evan Gattis hit his
25th home run to help Houston rout Minnesota.The defending champs have won five
straight, finishing a 10-game homestand with a 7-3 record. Houston has won 12 of
its last 15 games entering a three-game series in major league-leading
Boston.Bregman gave the Astros a 2-0 lead in the third inning with his 29th
homer of the season, a line-drive shot off Jake Odorizzi into the left-field
Crawford Boxes. He added a three-run double off the left-field wall with the
bases loaded in the eighth inning, his 47th double, to put Houston up 9-1.Gattis
extended Houston¡¯s lead to 4-0 with a two-run homer in the fourth inning off
Odorizzi.Houston went up 5-1 with an RBI single to right from Yuli Gurriel off
Odorizzi (5-10).Houston starter Framber Valdez (3-1) went 5 1/3 innings,
allowing one run on five hits and three walks while striking out five.INDIANS 3,
ROYALS 1CLEVELAND (AP) ¡ª Corey Kluber became the first 18-game winner in the
majors this season, striking out 10 in Cleveland¡¯s victory over Kansas City.The
Indians moved closer to the third straight AL Central title, reducing their
magic number for clinching the division to nine.Kluber (18-7) allowed one run
and two hits in 6 2/3 innings. The reigning AL Cy Young Award winner was pulled
after 105 pitches. Cleveland used three relievers to complete the two-hitter.
Brad Hand struck out the side in the ninth for his eighth save since being
acquired San Diego and 32nd this season.Jason Kipnis had the go-ahead sacrifice
fly in the eighth and two hits.Brad Keller (7-6) lost for the first time since
Aug. 7.METS 7, DODGERS 3LOS ANGELES (AP) ¡ª Zack Wheeler stayed in the game after
getting hit in the chest by a line drive, pitching seven sharp innings to lead
New York over Los Angeles.Max Muncy and Cody Bellinger homered for the
playoff-contending Dodgers, who lost for third time in their past 12 games. Los
Angeles finished with three hits.Wilmer Flores had a pair of RBI singles and
Amed Rosario got three hits for the Mets. They went 5-4 on their road trip to
Wrigley Field, San Francisco and Los Angeles.Wheeler (10-7) retired the first 11
batters before Justin Turner hit a liner in the fourth inning that struck the
pitcher. The exit velocity on Turner¡¯s ball was clocked at 91 mph. Wheeler got a
visit from the Mets¡¯ medical staff and gave up a home run to Muncy three pitches
later.Hyun-Jin Ryu (4-2) was the loser.CUBS 6, BREWERS 4MILWAUKEE (AP) ¡ª Daniel
Murphy and Kyle Schwarber homered to back a solid start from Jose Quintana, and
Chicago held off Milwaukee to avert a three-game sweep.Pedro Strop closed out a
tense ninth inning as Chicago boosted its NL Central lead to four games over the
second-place Brewers. Quintana (12-9) allowed two runs in 6 2/3 innings,
improving to 3-1 at Miller Park with the Cubs. Strop allowed a walk and a single
to open the ninth but got the final three outs, striking out Curtis Granderson
with two runners on to preserve the win.Granderson belted his first home run as
a member of the Brewers in a pinch-hit role in the seventh, a two-run shot that
cut Chicago¡¯s lead to 6-4.The Cubs finally broke their string of 16 scoreless
innings against Milwaukee right-hander Jhoulys Chacin (14-6) when Murphy led off
the fourth with an opposite-field homer.CARDINALS
7
Blaine
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against his former team, Marcell Ozuna tied his career high with four hits and
St. Louis held off Washington.One night after bashing five homers against
Washington, St. Louis settled for three in the rubber game of the series as
Yairo Munoz had a solo shot in the sixth.Miles Mikolas (14-4) worked 6 2/3
innings and was charged with four runs on 12 hits. Carlos Martinez worked the
final two innings for his first save since 2014, getting three straight outs in
the ninth after the first two batters reached.Bryce Harper had three hits for
Washington on a day when general manager Mike Rizzo responded that he hasn¡¯t
considered any other scenario when asked if manager Dave Martinez will return in
2019.Tanner Roark (8-15) gave up six runs on 10 hits over five innings.MARINERS
5, ORIOLES 2SEATTLE (AP) ¡ª Nelson Cruz and Denard Span hit back-to-back home
runs, and Seattle overcame sloppy infield defense to beat Baltimore.Despite
winning a home series for the first time since July 22, the Mariners failed to
gain ground on Oakland in the AL wild-card race. They still trail by 5½ games
with 22 remaining.Mike Leake (9-9) gave up two unearned runs in six innings to
earn his first victory since June 23. Edwin Diaz locked down his major
league-leading 53rd save, tied for fifth-most in one season.Andrew Cashner
(4-14) gave up three runs in 4 2/3 innings.TIGERS 10, WHITE SOX 2CHICAGO (AP) ¡ª
Ronny Rodriguez hit a two-run homer and Jeimer Candelario, Mikie Mahtook and
JaCoby Jones each added a solo shot, powering Detroit to a rout of Chicago and
prized pitching prospect Michael Kopech.The game was delayed twice by rain for a
total of 61 minutes.Nicholas Castellanos went 3 for 4 with a walk and an RBI,
and Victor Martinez had a two-run single as the Tigers pounded out 16 hits and
won for the eighth time in nine games at Guaranteed Rate Field.Jordan Zimmermann
(7-6) allowed just two hits in five shutout innings and returned following both
delays.Kopech (1-1) was tagged for seven runs and nine hits in 3 1/3 innings. He
served up all four Detroit homers as his ERA jumped from 0.82 to 5.02. He had
allowed just one run over 11 innings in his first three starts in the majors,
including two cut short by rain delays.BLUE JAYS 10, RAYS 3TORONTO (AP) ¡ª
Aledmys Diaz hit a three-run homer in a seven-run first inning, Aaron Sanchez
won for the first time in three months and Toronto beat Tampa Bay to prevent a
three-game sweep.Billy McKinney added a solo homer as Toronto had 16 hits and
improved to 3-9 against the Rays this season. Tampa Bay¡¯s four-game winning
streak was snapped.Rays outfielder Kevin Kiermaier hit two solo home runs for
his third career multihomer game. He also did it against the Blue Jays on Aug.
23, 2017.Sanchez (4-5) permitted three runs and six hits over six innings,
including both of Kiermaier¡¯s homers, to win for the first time since June 3 at
Detroit. He matched a season high with eight strikeouts.Tyler Glasnow (1-5) was
the loser.MARLINS 2, PHILLIES 1MIAMI (AP) ¡ª Sandy Alcantara pitched shutout ball
into the eighth inning in his second career start, Austin Dean drove in a pair
of runs and Miami beat Philadelphia.Alcantara (2-0) allowed three hits, walked
two and struck out six. Drew Steckenrider allowed a walk and a single with one
out in the ninth, but finished off his fourth save with a pair of
strikeouts.Nick Pivetta (7-11) was the loser. The Phillies have lost four of
five. They remained three games behind Atlanta in the NL East race.PIRATES 3,
REDS 2PITTSBURGH (AP) ¡ª Jameson Taillon pitched five effective innings and
helped send Homer Bailey to yet another loss in Pittsburgh¡¯s victory over
Cincinnati.Taillon (12-9) allowed only one run as he scattered eight hits and
walked none to help the Pirates sweep the three-game series. Felipe Vazquez
survived a shaky ninth inning, allowing Dilson Herrera¡¯s pinch-hit RBI double
with none out, before earning his 30th save.Bailey (1-14) lost his ninth
straight decision. The Reds are 1-19 in his starts this season.