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Baseball Today
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SCOREBOARD
Saturday, Sept. 6
Philadelphia Phillies at New York Mets (3:55 p.m. EDT). Pedro Martinez will face Jamie Moyer in a key NL East showdown. The Mets are trying to avoid another September collapse.
STARS
Friday
- Brandon Morrow, Mariners, pitched 7 2-3 innings of no-hit ball in his first major league start before allowing a two out double in the eighth and Seattle beat New York 3-1.
- Alex Rios, Blue Jays, hit two home runs and drove in three runs to help Toronto beat AL East-leading Tampa Bay 6-4.
- Jay Bruce, Reds, went 2-for-3 with his 16th home run and four RBIs in Cincinnati's 10-2 rout of slumping Chicago.
- Zach Duke, Pirates, threw a six-hitter for his third career complete game and second shutout in Pittsburgh's 7-0 win over San Francisco.
- Brett Myers, Phillies, struck out 10 and allowed three hits in eight shutout innings and Philadelphia closed the gap in the NL East to two games with a 3-0 win over first-place New York.
- Mike Lowell, Red Sox, was 3-for-5 with a double, a homer and four RBIs in Boston's 8-1 rout of Texas.
- Juan Uribe, White Sox, hit two home runs for his seventh multihomer game and Chicago beat Los Angeles 10-2 in a battle of first-place teams.
- Derek Lowe, Dodgers, gave up two hits in eight innings and Los Angeles shut out Arizona 7-0 to close within a half game of first place in the NL West.
FOR STARTERS
Brandon Morrow's bid to become only the second pitcher in modern history to throw a no-hitter in his first major league start ended when pinch-hitter Wilson Betemit doubled with two outs in the eighth inning, and the Mariners beat the Yankees 3-1. The 24-year-old righty, whose 100 previous big league outings were all in relief, blanked the Yankees until Betemit, batting for Jose Molina, lined a clean drive far over right fielder Ichiro Suzuki. Bobo Holloman of the St. Louis Browns is the lone pitcher since 1900 to throw a no-hitter in his first big league start, doing it against the Philadelphia Athletics on May 6, 1953.
MORE MOUND GEMS
Derek Lowe allowed two hits over eight innings and Los Angeles moved to within a half game of the first-place Diamondbacks with a 7-0 win over Arizona. ... Brett Myers buzzed through the Mets' lineup, pitching eight dominant innings and leading the Phillies to a 3-0 victory to cut their NL East deficit to two games. ... Zach Duke pitched a six-hitter to snap a career-worst nine-game skid and the Pirates ran their winning streak in San Francisco to seven with a 7-0 victory over the Giants. In two of Duke's previous three outings, the Pirates failed to score while he was on the mound.
SINGULAR SENSATIONS
Cleveland got five RBI singles in a row in their six-run fifth inning against Kansas City and went on to a 9-3 win. Asdrubal Cabrera started it by lining a single up the middle. Grady Sizemore pulled one through the right side. Jamey Carroll drove in a run with a single, and then David Dellucci, Jhonny Peralta, Victor Martinez and Shin-Soo Choo followed with RBI base hits.
UNTOUCHED
CC Sabathia didn't get a decision despite a dominant seven innings in Milwaukee's 3-2 win in 11 over San Diego, but his record in the NL remained unsullied - he still hasn't lost in 12 starts since he was acquired by the Brewers on July 7.
TEMPER, TEMPER
American League home run leader Carlos Quentin has a broken right wrist stemming from his own temper, and the Chicago White Sox left fielder will have surgery Monday that could sideline him for the rest of the season. Quentin was injured Monday night in Cleveland. After fouling off a pitch while batting against Cliff Lee, Quentin hit his right hand on the bat as he was holding it with his left.
WHO NEEDS HITS?
The Athletics crossed the plate eight times in the eighth inning, and they did it with only one hit: a grand slam by Rajai Davis that sealed an 11-2 victory over the struggling Orioles. Three Baltimore pitchers issued six walks - four with the bases loaded - and hit a batter in the eighth before the fourth reliever, Randor Bierd, served up Davis' first career grand slam. The Orioles have walked 56 batters during their current seven-game losing streak.
STRANGE BUT TRUE
The Orioles gave up five bases-loaded walks in an 11-2 loss to Oakland, becoming the first team to issued that many bases-loaded walks in one game since the Chicago Cubs did it against San Francisco on Sept. 2, 2000. The walkathon ruined what was an otherwise memorable day for Trembley. Not only did the Orioles exercise the club option for 2009, but they added another one for 2010. In August 2007, after club president Andy MacPhail promoted Trembley from interim manager, Baltimore lost 30-3 to Texas. This time, the Orioles allowed 10 walks and yielded double figures in runs for the fifth time during their seven-game slide.
AILING
Indians right-hander Anthony Reyes came out after pitching three innings against the Royals due to elbow soreness. Reyes, 4-2 with a 2.93 ERA going into the game, walked Alberto Callaspo to start the third inning, then got three straight flyouts. He didn't return for the fourth inning, replaced by Edward Mujica after allowing one hit and one walk. The Indians won, 9-3.
SPEAKING
"I mean, there's six scoreboards starting me in the face. It's hard not to see.'' Mariners starter Brandon Morrow after throwing 7 2-3 innings of no-hit ball in Seattle's 3-1 win over the Yankees.
SEASONS
Sept. 6
1905 - Frank Smith of the Chicago White Sox pitched a no-hitter against the Detroit Tigers in a 15-0 victory in the second game of a doubleheader. The score is the most lopsided margin of victory for a no-hitter in AL history.
1924 - Urban Shocker of the St. Louis Browns pitched two complete games against the Chicago White Sox and won both, 6-2.
1943 - At 16 years, 8 months and 5 days, Philadelphia A's pitcher Carl Scheib became the youngest player to appear in an American League game.
1950 - Don Newcombe missed pitching complete games in a doubleheader for the Brooklyn Dodgers by leaving in the seventh inning of the second game trailing the Philadelphia Phillies 2-0. Newcombe had won the first game 2-0.
1976 - Los Angeles catcher Steve Yeager was seriously injured when the jagged end of a broken bat struck him in the throat while he was waiting in the on-deck circle.
1981 - Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-0 to tie a National League record of seven shutouts by a rookie pitcher.
1995 - Cal Ripken played in his 2,131st consecutive major league game to surpass Lou Gehrig's 56-year record. Ripken received a 22-minute standing ovation and went 2-for-4, including a homer, in Baltimore's 4-2 win over California.
1996 - Eddie Murray hit his 500th home run, joining Hall of Famers Hank Aaron and Willie Mays with at least 3,000 hits and 500 homers. Murray homered off Felipe Lira in the seventh inning of the Baltimore Orioles' 5-4, 12-inning loss to Detroit.
2000 - Scott Sheldon of the Texas Rangers became the third player to play all nine positions in one game when he did it in a 13-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox. Sheldon joined Bert Campaneris (Sept. 8, 1965) and Cesar Tovar (Sept. 22, 1968) as true utility players.
2001 - Barry Bonds became the fifth player in baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season, connecting in the second inning of San Francisco's game against Arizona. He joined Babe Ruth, Roger Maris, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
2002 - The Oakland Athletics' 20-game winning streak was snapped as Brad Radke pitched the Minnesota Twins to a 6-0 victory at the Metrodome. The Athletics fell short of matching the second-longest winning streak in baseball history. The Chicago Cubs of 1880 and 1935 both won 21 straight.
2005 - Texas slugger Mark Teixeira became the fifth player in major league history to hit 100 homers in his first three seasons. Teixeira's three-run shot in the top of the ninth gave the Rangers a 10-7 win over Minnesota.
2006 - Anibal Sanchez, a 22-year-old rookie, threw a no-hitter in his 13th career start to end the longest no-hit gap in major league history as Florida beat Arizona 2-0.
2007 - Rick Ankiel homered twice and had a career-high seven RBIs, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 16-4 victory over Pittsburgh in a game shortened to eight innings because of rain.
Today's birthdays: Mark Teahen 27; Derrek Lee 33.
Saturday, September 6
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Baseball Today
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SCOREBOARD
Saturday, Sept. 6
Philadelphia Phillies at New York Mets (3:55 p.m. EDT). Pedro Martinez will face Jamie Moyer in a key NL East showdown. The Mets are trying to avoid another September collapse.
STARS
Friday
- Brandon Morrow, Mariners, pitched 7 2-3 innings of no-hit ball in his first major league start before allowing a two out double in the eighth and Seattle beat New York 3-1.
- Alex Rios, Blue Jays, hit two home runs and drove in three runs to help Toronto beat AL East-leading Tampa Bay 6-4.
- Jay Bruce, Reds, went 2-for-3 with his 16th home run and four RBIs in Cincinnati's 10-2 rout of slumping Chicago.
- Zach Duke, Pirates, threw a six-hitter for his third career complete game and second shutout in Pittsburgh's 7-0 win over San Francisco.
- Brett Myers, Phillies, struck out 10 and allowed three hits in eight shutout innings and Philadelphia closed the gap in the NL East to two games with a 3-0 win over first-place New York.
- Mike Lowell, Red Sox, was 3-for-5 with a double, a homer and four RBIs in Boston's 8-1 rout of Texas.
- Juan Uribe, White Sox, hit two home runs for his seventh multihomer game and Chicago beat Los Angeles 10-2 in a battle of first-place teams.
- Derek Lowe, Dodgers, gave up two hits in eight innings and Los Angeles shut out Arizona 7-0 to close within a half game of first place in the NL West.
FOR STARTERS
Brandon Morrow's bid to become only the second pitcher in modern history to throw a no-hitter in his first major league start ended when pinch-hitter Wilson Betemit doubled with two outs in the eighth inning, and the Mariners beat the Yankees 3-1. The 24-year-old righty, whose 100 previous big league outings were all in relief, blanked the Yankees until Betemit, batting for Jose Molina, lined a clean drive far over right fielder Ichiro Suzuki. Bobo Holloman of the St. Louis Browns is the lone pitcher since 1900 to throw a no-hitter in his first big league start, doing it against the Philadelphia Athletics on May 6, 1953.
MORE MOUND GEMS
Derek Lowe allowed two hits over eight innings and Los Angeles moved to within a half game of the first-place Diamondbacks with a 7-0 win over Arizona. ... Brett Myers buzzed through the Mets' lineup, pitching eight dominant innings and leading the Phillies to a 3-0 victory to cut their NL East deficit to two games. ... Zach Duke pitched a six-hitter to snap a career-worst nine-game skid and the Pirates ran their winning streak in San Francisco to seven with a 7-0 victory over the Giants. In two of Duke's previous three outings, the Pirates failed to score while he was on the mound.
SINGULAR SENSATIONS
Cleveland got five RBI singles in a row in their six-run fifth inning against Kansas City and went on to a 9-3 win. Asdrubal Cabrera started it by lining a single up the middle. Grady Sizemore pulled one through the right side. Jamey Carroll drove in a run with a single, and then David Dellucci, Jhonny Peralta, Victor Martinez and Shin-Soo Choo followed with RBI base hits.
UNTOUCHED
CC Sabathia didn't get a decision despite a dominant seven innings in Milwaukee's 3-2 win in 11 over San Diego, but his record in the NL remained unsullied - he still hasn't lost in 12 starts since he was acquired by the Brewers on July 7.
TEMPER, TEMPER
American League home run leader Carlos Quentin has a broken right wrist stemming from his own temper, and the Chicago White Sox left fielder will have surgery Monday that could sideline him for the rest of the season. Quentin was injured Monday night in Cleveland. After fouling off a pitch while batting against Cliff Lee, Quentin hit his right hand on the bat as he was holding it with his left.
WHO NEEDS HITS?
The Athletics crossed the plate eight times in the eighth inning, and they did it with only one hit: a grand slam by Rajai Davis that sealed an 11-2 victory over the struggling Orioles. Three Baltimore pitchers issued six walks - four with the bases loaded - and hit a batter in the eighth before the fourth reliever, Randor Bierd, served up Davis' first career grand slam. The Orioles have walked 56 batters during their current seven-game losing streak.
STRANGE BUT TRUE
The Orioles gave up five bases-loaded walks in an 11-2 loss to Oakland, becoming the first team to issued that many bases-loaded walks in one game since the Chicago Cubs did it against San Francisco on Sept. 2, 2000. The walkathon ruined what was an otherwise memorable day for Trembley. Not only did the Orioles exercise the club option for 2009, but they added another one for 2010. In August 2007, after club president Andy MacPhail promoted Trembley from interim manager, Baltimore lost 30-3 to Texas. This time, the Orioles allowed 10 walks and yielded double figures in runs for the fifth time during their seven-game slide.
AILING
Indians right-hander Anthony Reyes came out after pitching three innings against the Royals due to elbow soreness. Reyes, 4-2 with a 2.93 ERA going into the game, walked Alberto Callaspo to start the third inning, then got three straight flyouts. He didn't return for the fourth inning, replaced by Edward Mujica after allowing one hit and one walk. The Indians won, 9-3.
SPEAKING
"I mean, there's six scoreboards starting me in the face. It's hard not to see.'' Mariners starter Brandon Morrow after throwing 7 2-3 innings of no-hit ball in Seattle's 3-1 win over the Yankees.
SEASONS
Sept. 6
1905 - Frank Smith of the Chicago White Sox pitched a no-hitter against the Detroit Tigers in a 15-0 victory in the second game of a doubleheader. The score is the most lopsided margin of victory for a no-hitter in AL history.
1924 - Urban Shocker of the St. Louis Browns pitched two complete games against the Chicago White Sox and won both, 6-2.
1943 - At 16 years, 8 months and 5 days, Philadelphia A's pitcher Carl Scheib became the youngest player to appear in an American League game.
1950 - Don Newcombe missed pitching complete games in a doubleheader for the Brooklyn Dodgers by leaving in the seventh inning of the second game trailing the Philadelphia Phillies 2-0. Newcombe had won the first game 2-0.
1976 - Los Angeles catcher Steve Yeager was seriously injured when the jagged end of a broken bat struck him in the throat while he was waiting in the on-deck circle.
1981 - Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-0 to tie a National League record of seven shutouts by a rookie pitcher.
1995 - Cal Ripken played in his 2,131st consecutive major league game to surpass Lou Gehrig's 56-year record. Ripken received a 22-minute standing ovation and went 2-for-4, including a homer, in Baltimore's 4-2 win over California.
1996 - Eddie Murray hit his 500th home run, joining Hall of Famers Hank Aaron and Willie Mays with at least 3,000 hits and 500 homers. Murray homered off Felipe Lira in the seventh inning of the Baltimore Orioles' 5-4, 12-inning loss to Detroit.
2000 - Scott Sheldon of the Texas Rangers became the third player to play all nine positions in one game when he did it in a 13-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox. Sheldon joined Bert Campaneris (Sept. 8, 1965) and Cesar Tovar (Sept. 22, 1968) as true utility players.
2001 - Barry Bonds became the fifth player in baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season, connecting in the second inning of San Francisco's game against Arizona. He joined Babe Ruth, Roger Maris, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
2002 - The Oakland Athletics' 20-game winning streak was snapped as Brad Radke pitched the Minnesota Twins to a 6-0 victory at the Metrodome. The Athletics fell short of matching the second-longest winning streak in baseball history. The Chicago Cubs of 1880 and 1935 both won 21 straight.
2005 - Texas slugger Mark Teixeira became the fifth player in major league history to hit 100 homers in his first three seasons. Teixeira's three-run shot in the top of the ninth gave the Rangers a 10-7 win over Minnesota.
2006 - Anibal Sanchez, a 22-year-old rookie, threw a no-hitter in his 13th career start to end the longest no-hit gap in major league history as Florida beat Arizona 2-0.
2007 - Rick Ankiel homered twice and had a career-high seven RBIs, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 16-4 victory over Pittsburgh in a game shortened to eight innings because of rain.
Today's birthdays: Mark Teahen 27; Derrek Lee 33.
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