10B SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
MLB
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Kansas City Royals' David DeJesus, right, celebrates with John Buck, left, and Alex Gordon after hitting a three-run home run against the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday, in Detroit. The victory was the Royals' fifth straight against the division-leading Tigers.
Last-place Royals defeat division-leading Tigers
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DETROIT — Jim Leyland is out of answers.
Not only did his division-leading Detroit Tigers drop a fifth straight game to the last place Kansas City Royals, 11-1 on Tuesday night, he has to fill another spot in his patchwork rotation.
Jarrod Washburn lasted just one inning — the shortest start of his career — and gave up four runs before it became obvious that his sore left knee wasn't up to pitching. The Tigers lost Nate Robertson (groin) and Armando Galarragan (elbow) last week, while Dontrelle Willis and Jeremy Bonderman have been unavailable for almost the entire season.
"I don't have any information for you right now, because I don't have any information for myself,"
Leyland said. "I have no idea who is going to pitch. We'll get together and try to figure something out."
Washburn (9-9) struck out David Dejesus to start the game, but Willie Bloomquist doubled and Billy Butler and Miguel Olivo walked to load the bases.
A passed ball allowed the first run to score before Alberto Callaspo hit a three-run homer into the Kansas City bulpen in left-center field.
"When you've got a pitcher on the ropes like that, you have to finish him off," Dejesus said. "Even though he's hurt, we still have to play the game."
Washburn finished the inning, but was replaced by Zach Miner for the second, and fell to 1-3 with a 7.33 ERA in eight starts since being acquired from Seattle on July 31.
"Shortly after the strikeout, we could tell he was in pain." Leyland
said. "We'll see what happens, but it seems pretty obvious to me that, at this point, he unpittable."
The win was Kansas City's fourth over Detroit in the last eight days, and Robinson Tejeda's second in less than a week.
"The Tigers aren't as at full strength as Jim would like them, and we understand that," Kansas City manager Trey Hillman said. "But they are still playing for something, and we don't feel sorry for them, just like no one feels sorry for us for being in last place."
Tejeda (3-1) allowed one run and two hits in five innings after shutting them out for six innings on Sept. 9.
"I don't think I'm an ace or anything like that," Tejeda said. "I'm just going out there and throwing the ball, and I've gotten the opportunity to beat them two times in a week."
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Marlins pitchers outduel Cardinals
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ST. LOUIS — One pitch kept Adam Wainright from his 19th win. It kept the St. Louis Cardinals' magic number at 10, too.
Dan Uggla golfed a two-run homer on an ankle-high curveball for the go-ahead hit in the sixth inning and rookie Sean West had a season-high nine strikeouts while outpitching Wainwright in the Florida Marlins' 2-1 victory on Tuesday.
"I had a blast," West said. "The main thing was I wanted to attack those guys and I said 'Here you go' and got some swings, got some strikeouts, and all around a good performance."
Wainwright (18-8) allowed two runs in seven innings and struck out eight, not quite good enough to make him the major leagues' first 19-game winner. He had been 6-0 with a 1.99 ERA in
seven starts since Aug. 8.
"Almost every night with this team that's going to win." Wainrwick said. "The guy on the other side pitched a great game."
Wainwright said catcher Yadier Molina would have had to block the pitch in the dirt if Uggla had not made contact. Uggla wasn't arguing the point.
"He didn't make a mistake." Uggla said. "I probably wasn't supposed to hit the ball out of the ballpark, but somehow I did and I'll take it."
The 23-year-old West (7-5) topped his previous strike-out best of seven in six strong innings. The 6-foot-8 left-hander escaped with minimal damage in the fifth when the Cardinals loaded the bases with one out and the middle of the order coming up. Albert Pujols settled for a sacrifice fly to give St. Louis the lead, but Matt Holliday struck out to end the inning.
"I kind of gave a little smirk when Pujols came up and the crowd went crazy," West said. "I got a slider in at his feet and he popped it up and that was huge right there because I'm pretty sure he can hit it out of the park pretty easy.
"Holliday looked a little susceptible to sliders, that's what I fed him, and I got him twice."
Leo Nunez, the fourth Florida pitcher, worked the ninth for his 21st save in 27 chances.
The Marlins entered $ \frac{5}{2} $ games behind Colorado for the NL wild card. The NL Central-leading Cardinals have lost four of five.
St. Louis is 26-20 against left-handers, but 12-5 since acquiring Holliday on July 24. Ryan Ludwick thought hitters chased too many sliders out of the strike zone.
"I don't like our lineup against anybody if we help the pitcher as much as we did tonight," manager Tony La Russa said.
Keep your eye on the ball
Germany's table tennis player Timo Boll focuses on the ball as he serves in his semifinal match against Constantin Ciotti from Romania during the team competition of the Table Tennis European Championships on Tuesday in Stuttgart, Germany. The Table Tennis European Championships is held in the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart from Sept. 13 until Sept. 20.
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