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SCOREBOARD
Friday, Aug. 15
Los Angeles Angels at Cleveland (7:05 p.m. EDT). Cliff Lee (16-2, 2.45 ERA) tries to join Brandon Webb as the only 17-game winners when the Indians take on Jered Weaver (10-9, 4.51) and the Angels. Los Angeles has the best record in the major leagues.
STARS
Thursday
- Lance Berkman, Astros, homered and drove in three runs in a 7-4 victory over the Giants.
- Dan Haren, Diamondbacks, gave up seven hits and struck out nine over eight innings in a 6-2 victory over the Rockies.
- Jake Peavey, Padres, gave up four hits and a run in seven innings, striking out eight in a 3-2 victory over the surging Brewers.
- Edgar Renteria, Tigers, hit a tiebreaking two-run double in a five-run eighth and Detroit avoided a four-game sweep with a 5-1 win over Toronto.
- David Ortiz, Red Sox, hit a three-run homer to highlight a nine-run second in Boston's 10-0 win over Texas for a three-game sweep.
- Hiroki Kuroda, Dodgers, gave up two hits and run in seven innings, striking out seven in a 3-1 win over the Phillies.
NOT SO BLUE
The Dodgers have reason to feel chipper after a 3-1 win over Philadelphia. The Dodgers hadn't swept a four-game series since accomplishing the feat on the road against Arizona in July 2004, and hadn't done so in Los Angeles since June 1995 against the Giants. They won four straight over the Phillies in July 1962 during the inaugural season at Dodger Stadium.
KOTSAY GOES CYCLING
Mark Kotsay hit a seventh-inning double off Cubs reliever Bob Howry to become the first Braves player to hit for the cycle since 1987. Kotsay drove in a run with a second-inning triple, homered off Ted Lilly in the fourth and added a sixth-inning single off Lilly. The only other Atlanta player to hit for the cycle was Albert Hall on Sept. 23, 1987.
GONE, GONE, GONE AND GONE
Jim Thome, Paul Konerko, Alexei Ramirez and Juan Uribe hit consecutive homers in the sixth inning Thursday to tie a major league record and the White Sox beat the Royals 9-2. Thome hit a two-out, three-run shot off Joel Peralta. Konerko followed with his 12th homer and Ramirez hit his 11th before Robinson Tejeda came on to pitch. Uribe, homerless in his 107 previous at-bats, greeted him with his fourth of the year.
STREAK OVER
Oakland reliever Brad Ziegler started his career by not allowing a run in 39 consecutive shutout innings - including the eighth Thursday - to tie a 59-year-old major league record for relievers set by Cleveland's Al Benton in 1949. Tampa Bay's B.J. Upton ended Ziegler's run with an RBI double in the ninth.
BACK OFF, MAN
White Sox slugger Carlos Quentin was hit by a pitch Thursday and has been plunked in his last six games, sending baseball historians scrambling to find a similar streak. Quentin is the only player since 1920 to be hit by a pitch in six straight games, according to Elias Sports Bureau. Quentin, who leads the AL with 32 homers, has been plunked a major league-high 20 times this season.
PEAVED
Jake Peavey was, well, peaved when he heard a talk radio show opining that he was avoiding tough pitching matchups against the likes of CC Sabathia. So the reigning Cy Young winner promptly struck out eight and lowered his ERA to an NL-leading 2.61 in the Padres' 3-2 win over Ben Sheets and the Brewers. The win snapped Milwaukee's eight-game winning streak.
GIANT PAIN
Lance Berkman's two-run homer spurred Houston to a 7-4 win over San Francisco, the Astros' eighth consecutive win. Houston has won 16 of 20 after the four-game sweep. Berkman's three RBIs gave him 942 for his career, tying him with Jose Cruz for third on the Astros' career list.
WORTH NOTING
Stephen Drew of the Diamondbacks extended his hitting streak to 16 games with a single in the fifth. ... Colorado's Willy Taveras stole his 53rd base, tying Eric Young's single-season franchise record set in 1996. ... The Cubs swept the season series from Atlanta for the first time since the rivalry began in 1876. ... Boston scored 37 runs in its three-game sweep over Texas. The Red Sox had a nine-run inning Thursday and a 10-run inning Tuesday, and led 8-0 Wednesday.
HURT
Tampa Bay closer Troy Percival left the game against Oakland in the ninth inning after spraining his right knee while trying to field a sacrifice bunt. Percival, who leads the Rays with 27 saves, fielded Oakland's Mark Ellis sacrifice attempt and chased Ellis down to record the out near the first-base line. The 38-year-old reliever limped back to the mound as a team trainer rushed out to check on him. Percival wore a ***** brace on his right leg and had to use crutches to get around the Rays' clubhouse after the game.
SPEAKING
"I didn't think about the streak until I started walking back on the mound. The first thought that popped in my head was, 'I can't believe that just happened with a runner on first,' but I guess the good thing it wasn't a cheap one. A whole bunch of things fell at once and so that way there's no pressure from this point on.'' - Oakland reliever Brad Ziegler on having his 39-inning shutout streak end. Ziegler had tied the major league single-season record for consecutive scoreless innings by a reliever set by Cleveland's Al Benton in 1949.
SEASONS
Aug. 15
1905 - Rube Waddell of the Philadelphia Athletics pitched a five-inning no-hit game to beat the St. Louis Browns 2-0.
1914 - Brooklyn's Jake Daubert set a NL record with four sacrifice hits in the second game of a doubleheader against Philadelphia.
1916 - In a classic pitching duel, Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox beat Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators, 1-0, in 13 innings at Fenway Park.
1945 - The Chicago Cubs routed the Brooklyn Dodgers 20-6, at Ebbets Field. Paul Gillespie knocked in six runs with two home runs and a single to lead the attack.
1955 - Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves hit a home run off Mel Wright of the St. Louis Cardinals to give Spahn a homer in every NL park.
1975 - Baltimore manager Earl Weaver was ejected twice by umpire Ron Luciano. Weaver was thrown out in the first game and was ejected before the second game.
1989 - Dave Dravecky of the San Francisco Giants, in his second start after coming back from cancer surgery on his pitching arm, broke his arm but earned the win in a 3-2 victory over the Montreal Expos. Dravecky entered the sixth inning with a three-hit shutout. He gave up a leadoff home run to Damaso Garcia and hit Andres Galarraga with a pitch. After throwing a wild pitch to Tim Raines, he collapsed to the ground and clutched his left arm in agony.
1990 - Philadelphia's Terry Mulholland pitched the record eighth no-hitter of the season as the Phillies beat the San Francisco Giants 6-0. The season's eighth no-hitter surpassed the modern record of seven set in 1908 and 1917.
1990 - Mark McGwire hit a grand slam in the 10th inning to become the first major league player to hit 30 or more homers in his first four seasons and lifted the Oakland Athletics to a 6-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox.
2001 - Trevor Hoffman pitched a perfect ninth inning for his 300th career save, completing a two-hitter that lifted the San Diego Padres over the New York Mets 2-1.
2005 - Randy Winn hit for the cycle in his first four at-bats in San Francisco's 7-3 win over Cincinnati.
2006 - Jose Reyes homered three times in the New York Mets' 11-4 loss to Philadelphia.
Today's birthday: Oliver Perez 27.
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MLB
Friday, August 15
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Baseball Today
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SCOREBOARD
Friday, Aug. 15
Los Angeles Angels at Cleveland (7:05 p.m. EDT). Cliff Lee (16-2, 2.45 ERA) tries to join Brandon Webb as the only 17-game winners when the Indians take on Jered Weaver (10-9, 4.51) and the Angels. Los Angeles has the best record in the major leagues.
STARS
Thursday
- Lance Berkman, Astros, homered and drove in three runs in a 7-4 victory over the Giants.
- Dan Haren, Diamondbacks, gave up seven hits and struck out nine over eight innings in a 6-2 victory over the Rockies.
- Jake Peavey, Padres, gave up four hits and a run in seven innings, striking out eight in a 3-2 victory over the surging Brewers.
- Edgar Renteria, Tigers, hit a tiebreaking two-run double in a five-run eighth and Detroit avoided a four-game sweep with a 5-1 win over Toronto.
- David Ortiz, Red Sox, hit a three-run homer to highlight a nine-run second in Boston's 10-0 win over Texas for a three-game sweep.
- Hiroki Kuroda, Dodgers, gave up two hits and run in seven innings, striking out seven in a 3-1 win over the Phillies.
NOT SO BLUE
The Dodgers have reason to feel chipper after a 3-1 win over Philadelphia. The Dodgers hadn't swept a four-game series since accomplishing the feat on the road against Arizona in July 2004, and hadn't done so in Los Angeles since June 1995 against the Giants. They won four straight over the Phillies in July 1962 during the inaugural season at Dodger Stadium.
KOTSAY GOES CYCLING
Mark Kotsay hit a seventh-inning double off Cubs reliever Bob Howry to become the first Braves player to hit for the cycle since 1987. Kotsay drove in a run with a second-inning triple, homered off Ted Lilly in the fourth and added a sixth-inning single off Lilly. The only other Atlanta player to hit for the cycle was Albert Hall on Sept. 23, 1987.
GONE, GONE, GONE AND GONE
Jim Thome, Paul Konerko, Alexei Ramirez and Juan Uribe hit consecutive homers in the sixth inning Thursday to tie a major league record and the White Sox beat the Royals 9-2. Thome hit a two-out, three-run shot off Joel Peralta. Konerko followed with his 12th homer and Ramirez hit his 11th before Robinson Tejeda came on to pitch. Uribe, homerless in his 107 previous at-bats, greeted him with his fourth of the year.
STREAK OVER
Oakland reliever Brad Ziegler started his career by not allowing a run in 39 consecutive shutout innings - including the eighth Thursday - to tie a 59-year-old major league record for relievers set by Cleveland's Al Benton in 1949. Tampa Bay's B.J. Upton ended Ziegler's run with an RBI double in the ninth.
BACK OFF, MAN
White Sox slugger Carlos Quentin was hit by a pitch Thursday and has been plunked in his last six games, sending baseball historians scrambling to find a similar streak. Quentin is the only player since 1920 to be hit by a pitch in six straight games, according to Elias Sports Bureau. Quentin, who leads the AL with 32 homers, has been plunked a major league-high 20 times this season.
PEAVED
Jake Peavey was, well, peaved when he heard a talk radio show opining that he was avoiding tough pitching matchups against the likes of CC Sabathia. So the reigning Cy Young winner promptly struck out eight and lowered his ERA to an NL-leading 2.61 in the Padres' 3-2 win over Ben Sheets and the Brewers. The win snapped Milwaukee's eight-game winning streak.
GIANT PAIN
Lance Berkman's two-run homer spurred Houston to a 7-4 win over San Francisco, the Astros' eighth consecutive win. Houston has won 16 of 20 after the four-game sweep. Berkman's three RBIs gave him 942 for his career, tying him with Jose Cruz for third on the Astros' career list.
WORTH NOTING
Stephen Drew of the Diamondbacks extended his hitting streak to 16 games with a single in the fifth. ... Colorado's Willy Taveras stole his 53rd base, tying Eric Young's single-season franchise record set in 1996. ... The Cubs swept the season series from Atlanta for the first time since the rivalry began in 1876. ... Boston scored 37 runs in its three-game sweep over Texas. The Red Sox had a nine-run inning Thursday and a 10-run inning Tuesday, and led 8-0 Wednesday.
HURT
Tampa Bay closer Troy Percival left the game against Oakland in the ninth inning after spraining his right knee while trying to field a sacrifice bunt. Percival, who leads the Rays with 27 saves, fielded Oakland's Mark Ellis sacrifice attempt and chased Ellis down to record the out near the first-base line. The 38-year-old reliever limped back to the mound as a team trainer rushed out to check on him. Percival wore a ***** brace on his right leg and had to use crutches to get around the Rays' clubhouse after the game.
SPEAKING
"I didn't think about the streak until I started walking back on the mound. The first thought that popped in my head was, 'I can't believe that just happened with a runner on first,' but I guess the good thing it wasn't a cheap one. A whole bunch of things fell at once and so that way there's no pressure from this point on.'' - Oakland reliever Brad Ziegler on having his 39-inning shutout streak end. Ziegler had tied the major league single-season record for consecutive scoreless innings by a reliever set by Cleveland's Al Benton in 1949.
SEASONS
Aug. 15
1905 - Rube Waddell of the Philadelphia Athletics pitched a five-inning no-hit game to beat the St. Louis Browns 2-0.
1914 - Brooklyn's Jake Daubert set a NL record with four sacrifice hits in the second game of a doubleheader against Philadelphia.
1916 - In a classic pitching duel, Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox beat Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators, 1-0, in 13 innings at Fenway Park.
1945 - The Chicago Cubs routed the Brooklyn Dodgers 20-6, at Ebbets Field. Paul Gillespie knocked in six runs with two home runs and a single to lead the attack.
1955 - Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves hit a home run off Mel Wright of the St. Louis Cardinals to give Spahn a homer in every NL park.
1975 - Baltimore manager Earl Weaver was ejected twice by umpire Ron Luciano. Weaver was thrown out in the first game and was ejected before the second game.
1989 - Dave Dravecky of the San Francisco Giants, in his second start after coming back from cancer surgery on his pitching arm, broke his arm but earned the win in a 3-2 victory over the Montreal Expos. Dravecky entered the sixth inning with a three-hit shutout. He gave up a leadoff home run to Damaso Garcia and hit Andres Galarraga with a pitch. After throwing a wild pitch to Tim Raines, he collapsed to the ground and clutched his left arm in agony.
1990 - Philadelphia's Terry Mulholland pitched the record eighth no-hitter of the season as the Phillies beat the San Francisco Giants 6-0. The season's eighth no-hitter surpassed the modern record of seven set in 1908 and 1917.
1990 - Mark McGwire hit a grand slam in the 10th inning to become the first major league player to hit 30 or more homers in his first four seasons and lifted the Oakland Athletics to a 6-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox.
2001 - Trevor Hoffman pitched a perfect ninth inning for his 300th career save, completing a two-hitter that lifted the San Diego Padres over the New York Mets 2-1.
2005 - Randy Winn hit for the cycle in his first four at-bats in San Francisco's 7-3 win over Cincinnati.
2006 - Jose Reyes homered three times in the New York Mets' 11-4 loss to Philadelphia.
Today's birthday: Oliver Perez 27.
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