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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2009
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freshman decatniete Corbin Kratovil gets some help applying sunscreen from his mother, Judy Kratovil, between throws in the shotput portion of the men's decathlon Wednesday afternoon. The decathlon and the women's heptathalon were the first two events of the Kansas Relays, which runs through this Saturday.
MLB
Cardinals defeat Diamondbacks 12-7
BY ANDREW BAGNATO
Associated Press
PHOENIX — Ryan Ludwick homered and drove in three runs and the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 12-7 on Wednesday afternoon.
Ludwick is batting .407 and has hit in all seven games he's played this season. He singled home a run in the third inning and added a two-run homer in the sixth.
Chris Duncan added a single, double and triple and two RBIs for the Cardinals, who have won six of seven.
St. Louis benefited from eight walks and three Arizona errors.
The Cardinals batted around twice, scoring five runs in the third and four more in the sixth.
St. Louis starter Joel Pineiro (2-0) was credited with the victory despite giving up five runs in five innings and allowing nine hits, including six doubles and a homer. He walked three and struck out three.
Pineiro was better than Arizona's Jon Garland (1-1), who allowed seven runs on seven hits and five walks in 3 2-3 innings. In his first two starts with the Diamondbacks, Garland has given up 10 earned runs in 10 2-3 innings.
The Diamondbacks wrapped up their season-opening home-
stand 3-6, losing three-game series to Colorado, the Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis.
The Cardinals jumped ahead early on a blustery, 72-degree afternoon.
Already leading 1-0 on Yadier Molina's second-inning single, St. Louis added five runs in the third on RBI doubles by Colby Rasmus and Duncan and run-scoring singles by Ludwick and Molina to take a 6-0 lead.
But Pineiro promptly gave most of the lead back. With one out in the third, he gave up a run on back-to-back doubles by Felipe Lopez and Conor lackson.
One out later. Chad Tracy hit
an RBI double, and then Mark Reynolds homered into the center field overhang to cut the Cardinals' lead to 6-4. Reynolds, who hit a pinch homer on Tuesday night, homered for the second time in three at-bats.
The Cardinals made it 7-4 on Pujols' grounder to score·Skip Schumaker, who led off with a double. Garland was gone after issuing back-to-back four-pitch walks to Ludwick and Duncan.
St. Louis put the game away with four runs in the sixth on an RBI double by Pujols, Ludwick's homer and Joe Thurston's RBI single.
MLB
Cubs fans heckle former pitcher
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — Jason Marquis wasn't a fan favorite in his time with the Chicago Cubs, and if he didn't know it then, he does now. The Wrigley Field faithful boomed him at every turn this week.
Marquis got some measure of revenge Wednesday, hitting a tworun single off Rich Harden to put Colorado ahead against his former team, then pitching the Rockies over the Chicago Cubs 5-2.
"Everybody has the right to react the way they want and feel the way they want," he said. "Obviously, that's not the way I was raised, to boo people, but everybody is different. If there was something I didn't like, I just didn't pay attention."
Marquis (2-0), who spent the previous two years with the Cubs, was iered during introductions before Monday's home opener and again several times Wednesday. He hit a bases-loaded single in the second and allowed one run and five hits in seven innings.
Did this win mean anything extra?
"Not really," he said. "A little ammo to talk to the guys I'm friends with, but other than that, a win is a win. It feels great every time I get it."
Rockies manager Clint Hurdle didn't talk to Marquis about pitching against his old club. He had a different take on Marquis' status among Cubs fans.
"He did pretty well here," Hurdle said of Marquis' 23-18 record with Chicago. "He pitched a lot of innings and won some games. I walked around the streets enough here the last couple of days and everybody told me they liked him."
Manuel Corpas followed Marquis with a hitless eighth before Huston Street got in trouble in the ninth, allowing a leadoff
home run to Derrek Lee followed by a walk to pinch-hitter Mike Fontenot and a single to Reed Johnson.
Jason Grilli came in, and Fontenot was thrown out by Chris lannetta trying to advance on a breaking ball in the dirt that got away from the catcher. Geovany Soto then hit into a game-ending double play, giving Grilli his second career save and first this year.
"At that point, I should've stayed at second." Fontein said. "With Geo up, he could've tied the game with one swing. I thought the ball rolled farther away from him. I was trying to be too aggressive."
Seth Smith homered for the Rockies, who completed a two-game split on a cold afternoon with the wind blowing in.
Harden, rested for much of spring training to aid a balky shoulder, allowed four runs, five hits and four walks in three innings, his shortest outing since July 7, 2007, when he went 2 2-3 innings for Oakland against Seattle. He struck out eight but threw 92 pitches.
After Harden struck out his first four batters, Colorado loaded the bases on a pair of walks and an infield single. Clint Barnes then struck out, but Matarus singled to center on a ball Johnson couldn't come up with on a'dive. Johnson did throw out Iannetta at third to end the inning.
Marquis, the 2005 NL. Silver Slugger winner at pitcher, has a .211 batting average, five homers and 43 RBIs in 446 career at bats.
Smith homered in the third, and Colorado made it 4-0 when Todd Helton doubled and Alfonso Soriano misplayed Garrett Atkins' single to left.
Pinch-hitter Micah Hoffpauir doubled in a run for the Cubs in the fifth, but pinch-hitter Dexter Fowler made it 5-1 with an RBI double in the eighth.
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