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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY,APRIL 9,2015
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Chicago Cubs catcher Miguel Montero (right) talks with starter Jake Arrieta during the first inning of a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals in Chicago on Wednesday.
Arrieta, Castro lead Cubs over Cardinals 2-0
BRIAN SANDALOW Associated Press
CHICAGO — Jake Arrieta allowed three hits over seven innings and Starlin Castro had a go-ahead RBI single in a two-run seventh inning, leading the Chicago Cubs over the St. Louis Cardinals 2-0 Wednesday for their first win this season.
Backed by just two hits from Chicago's offense, Arrieta (1-0) struck out seven and walked three. He was 10-5 with a 2.53 ERA in a breakout 2014 and improved to 3-0 with a 0.74 ERA in six career starts against St. Louis.
Phil Coke, Neil Ramirez, Pedro Strop and Hector Rondon combined for hitless relief. Rendon pitched a perfect ninth for his first save with the Cubs, who lost 3-0 to St. Louis on Sunday night's opener.
Lance Lynn (0-1) struck out nine in six-plus innings, allowing both runs — one earned — and two hits. Castro's single chased him in the seventh, and Miguel Montero hit a sacrifice fly off Kevin Siegrist.
Both teams again struggled to score at a cool and damp Wriglev Field.
Anthony Rizzo was hit by a pitch leading off the seventh and advanced when Lynn's pickoff throw was wide of Matt Adams at first for an error. Castro singled, ending the Cubs' 15-inning scoreless streak at the start of the season, and took second on the throw.
St. Louis drew two walks in the first but the inning ended when Jonny Peralta took a
Siegrist relieved, Chris Coghlan sacrificed and Montero's flyout drove in the second run.
called third strike. Adams stranded two runners when he struck out ending the third.
Lynn retired his first 10 batters before Jorge Soler tripled with one out ain the fourth and Rizzo walked. Castro struck out and Coghlan lined out to center.
Adams walked with two outs in the sixth, and Peralta doubled down the left-field line. But Jon Jay grounded the next pitch back to Arrieta.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Cardinals: Because the Cardinals did not alter their rotation order after Tuesday's rainout, RHP Michael Wacha will get one more day before his first start of 2015. Wacha, slowed by shoulder problems last year, will pitch Saturday in Cincinnati.
Cubs: The Cubs slightly changed their pitching rotation, scheduling LHP Travis Wood to pitch Friday and RHP Jason Hammel on Saturday against Colorado. Before Tuesday's rainout, Hammel was slated to pitch Wednesday and Wood was to throw Friday. Cubs manager Joe Maddon said the decision to push back Hammel was made to keep Wood on schedule. "Nobody's ill, nobody's hurt," Maddon said
UP NEXT
The Cardinals are off Thursday before traveling to face the Reds in Cincinnati. John Lackey is scheduled to face former Cardinals pitcher Jason Marquis in his Cincinnati debut. Marquis didn't pitch last season. Chicago is also off Thursday and will play the Rockies in Denver, when Travis Wood starts for Chicago.
Kansas rowing to close out regular season in New Jersey
The Kansas rowing team competes at a regatta last season. They travel to New Jersey for the Knecht Cup.
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The Kansas rowing team will compete in its last regatta before the Big 12 competition this weekend. After a win and two second place finishes in a regatta against SMU, Kansas will head to New Jersey to compete in the Knecht Cup, starting April 11.
The Knecht Cup is a prestigious regatta held in New Jersey every year. The Varsity Four boats were forced out of the water in the SMU regatta after severe weather caused the team to miss most of its morning races. This means the rowers on those boats will not have raced in competition for over two weeks when they take on the difficult field in the Knecht Cup.
As sophomore coxswain Kenzie Obrochaa said, "Rowing is big on the east coast."
Kansas will keep most of its lineup for its Varsity Eight boats it's had throughout the season. The lineup includes
seniors Julia Alvey, Brooke Thuston and Claudijah Lever and junior coxswain Mary Slattery.
Kenzie Obrochta is coxswain of the Second Varsity Eight that captured the Jayhawks' only win in the SMU regatta. She'll lead a team that
dominated competition since the beginning of March.
Kansas will need to speed up its starting 1,000 meters to compete against the top teams in the country, a problem coach Rob Catloth identified in the scrimmages against Drake at the end of
March.
After the Knecht Cup the Jayhawks will enter Big 12 competition. They'll compete at the Big 12 championships beginning May 16.
Edited by Callie Byrnes
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Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Anibal Sanchez throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday in Detroit.
Detroit Tigers shut out Minnesota Twins again in 11-0 rout Wednesday
NOAH TRISTER
Associated Press
DETROIT — Anibal Sanchez helped Detroit blank Minnesota for the second straight game, Jose Iglesias had four hits and Alex Avila scored four runs as the Tigers routed the Twins 11-0 Wednesday.
Ian Kinsler drove in four runs for Detroit, which had beaten Minnesota 4-0 on opening day behind star left-hander David Price. Sanchez (1-0) was impressive, as well, allowing three hits and two walks in 6 2-3 innings while striking out six. It was the right-handler's first start since Aug. 8. He was limited over the last two months of last season by a pectoral issue.
Ricky Nolasco (0-1) gave up six runs and six hits in three-
plus innings, walked four and struck out two.
Avila and Iglesias, hitting eighth and ninth in the order, reached base every time they came up — Avila had three walks and a single.
Anthony Gose, making his Detroit debut after the Tigers acquired the center fielder in an offseason trade, came within a home run of the cycle.
This is easily the longest shutout streak for the Tigers to start a season since at least 1912. They opened with 12 scoreless innings in 1914, 1947 and 2004, according to STATS.
The Twins have never gone this long without scoring their first run since moving to Minnesota, although the original Washington Senators were blanked for 19 innings at the
start of 1940.
Avila drew leadoff walks in the third and fourth, and the Tigers went on to big innings both times. Kinsler opened the scoring with a two-run single in the third, and Miguel Cabrera's RBI double made it 3-0.
Gose added a two-run triple in the fourth, and Kinsler followed with an RBI single that skipped past center fielder Jordan Schafer for an error. Kinsler came home on a wild pitch for a 7-0 lead.
Even after Avila was taken out, the No. 8 spot remained productive when pinch-hitter James McCann singled in the eighth. Iglesias followed with a walk — the last two spots in the Detroit order reached base in all 10 plate appearances.
It was the first four-hit game of Iglesias' career.
Twins: Minnesota has been remarkably healthy at the start of the season, and the pitching staff shouldn't be too fatigued even after Wednesday's game. The Twins only used four relievers.
TRAINER'S ROOM
fingers: Detroit officially put RHP Justin Verlander on the 15-day DL on Wednesday, a move that had been expected for about a week. There was some thought that Verlander might be able to come back from a strained right triceps in time for Sunday's game at Cleveland, but now LHP Kyle Lobstein is slated for that start.
UP NEXT
Detroit RHP Shane Greene — another newcomer to the Tigers — starts Thursday against Minnesota RHP Kyle Gibson.
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