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THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2012
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
BASEBALL
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Philadelphia Phillies' Vance Worley, right, drops a ball bunted by Cincinnati Reds' Bronson Arroyo in the sixth inning of a baseball game on Wednesday, Aug. 22, in Philadelphia. The Reds won 3-2.
Brown gets his first homer of the season in Reds' win
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PHILADELPHIA — Bronson Arroyo allowed three, hits, and Jay Bruce homed to lead the Cincinnati Reds to a 3-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday night.
Arroyo (10-7), who gave up both runs, retired the first 14 batters before Domonic Brown's two-out homer in the fifth. Brown doubled off the wall in right-center with one out in the eighth and pinch-hitter Kevin Fransden reached on an infield single leading off the ninth for the other hits off Arroyo.
Arroyo was 0-6 with a 9.46 ERA in his last seven regular-season starts against the Phillies. But Arroyo has been hot lately, improving to 6-1 with a 3.50 ERA in his last seven starts.
Aroldis Chapman relieved Arroyo after Fransden's hit.
erandenden went to second on Chapman's wild pitch and scored on pinch-hitter Ty Wigginton's one-out single to right. Chapman then got Chase Utlley to fly out and Ryan Howard to line out sharply to left for his 31st save in 35 chances.
Run-scoring singles by Drew Stubbs and Ryan Ludwick in the fifth inning off Philadelphia starter Vance Worley staked Cincinnati to a 2-0 lead.
Worley (6-9) allowed two runs and eight hits in six innings. It was Worley's third straight loss but the longest outing in four starts for the righty, who has one win in his last seven starts.
Brown launched Arroyo's first pitch deep into the seats in right field for his first homer of the season.
Bruce gave the Reds a 3-1 lead with a homer off right-handed reliever Josh Lindblom.
Brown lost Bruce's pop fly in the fourth inning, leading to a triple. But the right fielder made two strong defensive plays, a full-out sprinting dive to his right to rob Arroyo of extra bases in the second and an excellent throw to nail Bruce at the plate trying to score on Todd Frazier's medium fly ball in the fourth.
Philadelphia got two runners on base in the eighth when Pacido Polanco followed Brown's double by reaching on third baseman Scott Rolen's fielding error. But the Reds ended the inning with a sensational double play on Brian Schneider's grounder up the middle. Shortstop Zack Cozart ranged behind the bag at second, fielded with his glove and flipped to Brandon Phillips. Phillips jumped and caught the ball, then spun in one motion for a one-hop throw to first that was cleanly picked by Frazier.
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Takeaways are key
FOOTBALL
Coming off of last year's 2-10 record, the football team is looking to improve in many areas this season. Defensive coordinator Dave Campo has emphasized the importance of takeaways to his players in practice everyday.
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Junior safety Bradley McDougald tackles his opponent, quarterback Riley Dodge from McNeese State, at Memorial Stadium.
"If you can break serve a few times, that's one of the ways to do it and give your offense an extra opportunity and take one away from them," Campo said. "That's a big advantage. We've been working hard at it. That is something we have been working on everyday."
Kansas came away with only 18 turnovers all last season, eight of them coming off interceptions. This led to a minus five turnover margin in the conference last year, finishing seventh in the Big 12.
"That is something that's extremely important," Campo said. "It's probably the most important stat, as far as winning and losing." "The team that wins the turnover battle has a pretty good chance of winning the game."
Sophomore linebacker Ben Heeney and the linebacking corps went into summer camp looking to improve in takeaways to be better prepared for the season. The linebackers did not come up with any turnovers during practices in the spring. The group made headway in the summer by coming up with 10 turnovers in practice.
The layhawks offense has a new look going into the season opener and the defense knows that their teammates on the other side of the ball can score a lot of points if they own possession. By winning the time of possession, Campo has stressed out to his team that they must capitalize on coming away with the football.
where they are expected to in the conference this season.
"With a new defensive coordinator, he comes in with the mindset of getting turnovers because that's ultimately what wins games," McDougald said. "Coach Campo and coach Bowen have done a great job of implementing turnovers, getting interceptions, getting the ball on the ground, picking it up and getting it to the end zone."
"Turnovers is where the games are won, basically;" Heeney said. "If you don't have any turnovers, it's hard to flip the field. That is something we've really stressed this summer during camp. Going from zero in the spring and 10 in the summer is a big improvement."
Edited by Ryan McCarthy
McDougald and his teammates are being kept busy by their coaches working on turnovers before the season opener.
With Campo's NFL experience, the Jayhawks look to flourish in takeaways. Campo knows that in a conference like the Big 12, turnovers are very valuable and can help Kansas finish better than
Senior safety Bradley McDougald, who co-lead the team with two interceptions, said the biggest difference from this year to last year is the focus on the small details, one of them being takeaways.
The la/hawks can rely on senior defensive end and captain Toben Opurum to provide a strong pass rush to help the defensive backs come up with some interceptions.
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