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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17.2007
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Buckner picks up first MLB victory
Royals defeat Indians 4-3
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CLEVELAND — Not only did Billy Buckner earn his first major league victory Sunday, Kansas City's rookie right-hander helped make the AL Central race a little tighter.
Kansas City Royals third baseman Alex Gordon tags out Cleveland Indians' pinch-runner Josh Barfield after Barfield attempted to advance on a ninth-inning infield grounder by Franklin Gutierrez, Sunday at Jacobs Field in Cleveland, Ohio. The Royals defeated the Indians 4-3 to avoid a three-name sweep.
Buckner pitched the Royals to a 4-3 victory over the firstplace Cleveland Indians, who had their division lead sliced to 41/2 games when Detroit beat Minnesota.
The Indians and Tigers begin a three-game series at Jacobs Field tonight.
Making his third career start, Buckner took a shutout into the sixth inning before Victor Martinez hit a solo homer with two outs. The Indians scored twice in the seventh, but solid relief work by Jimmy Gobble and Joakim Soria over the final 2/2 3 innings sealed the victory.
out Casey Blake to end it.
Cleveland had a chance to tie it in the ninth, but pinch-runner Josh Barfield was tagged out in a rundown after trying to advance from second to third on Franklin Gutierrez's one-out grounder to shortstop. Soria then struck
Since losing the second base job to Asdrubil Cabrera a month ago, Barfield has been assigned to pinch-running duties. His blunder came at an inopportune time.
Emil Brown went 3-for-4 and drove in two runs for the Royals. All three of his hits came off starter Aaron Laffey (3-2). Brown is 6-for-6 against the left-hander.
John Buck and Mark Teahen added RBIs for Kansas City, which had lost nine of 10.
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Buckner (1-1) gave up one run and five hits in six innings, striking out three and walking one. He was called up from Triple-A Omaha on Aug. 24. Buckner made four major league appearances before Sunday, allowing 10 earned runs and 18 hits in 17 innings.
"It's a confidence thing," he said. "I have been working with Buck on controlling my pitches. I was getting ahead of hitters. If you get behind hitters or even 3-2, you'll give up home runs like I did today."
Buckner allowed at least one baserunner in every inning
except the fourth, but kept the Indians off the board until Martinez's home run.
"Buckner pitched a good game against us, but I felt like we should have done a better job, and I'm sure our guys think so, too." Indians manager Eric Wedge said. "We didn't take advantage of the opportunities we had."
After Buckner left, John Bale
walked Jhonny Peralta in the seventh and gave up a single to pinch-hitter Jason Michaels. Facing Franklin Gutierrez, Brandon Duckworth threw a wild pitch, moving the runners to second and third. Gutierrez's single scored Peralta, and Blake's RBI groundout made it 4-3.
Gobble ended the threat, retiring Grady Sizemore on a fly ball and striking out Cabrera.
Laffey allowed four runs and eight hits in 61-3 innings. After striking out the side in the first — his only strikeouts of the game — he ran into trouble in the second. Billy Butler started the inning with a single and went to third when Alex Gordon doubled. Brown hit an RBI single and Buck had a sacrifice fly.
Kansas City added a run
in the sixth. Esteban German singled, stole second and went to third when ball four to Gordon got past Martinez for a wild pitch. When Martinez was slow in getting the ball back to Laffey, Gordon went to second. Brown followed with an RBI infield single, making it 3-0.
Teahen's seventh-inning single drove in Kansas City's fourth run.
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Former Cardinals pitcher leads Cubs to 4-2 victory
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ST. LOUIS — Jason Marquis has come back to haunt his former team.
Matt Murton hit a three-run homer, and Marquis allowed just one run while pitching into the seventh inning to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 4-2 win over the slumping St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday.
Marquis says he gets no special thrill out of beating St. Louis, where he won 14 games last season. But he was happy to drop the defending World Series champion Cardinals another game off the pace in the NL Central.
Geovany Soto had a career-high four hits for the Cubs, who took three of four games in the series and maintained their one-game lead over Milwaukee in the NL Central.
"Obviously it's big because it slowly takes them out of the equation." Marquis said of the Cardinals, who have lost 10 of 11 and fell seven games out of first. "But a win is a win."
"We're in pretty good shape," said Chicago manager Lou Piniella. "We're going home with two more wins than the team directly behind us."
Things are going in the opposite direction for the Cardinals, who lost a four-game series for the first time since dropping three of four at home to Milwaukee to begin the 2004 season. But St. Louis manager
Tony La Russa saw some positives in the defeat.
“It’s a loss, but all you had to do was watch the way the club (battled) when we got down 4-0.” La Russa said. “It’s a group to admire.”
After helping St. Louis win the division last season, Marquis (12-8) signed with the Cubs as a free agent. Marquis allowed one run and five hits, walking two and striking out four in 6 1/3 innings.
"I was making pitches when I needed to," Marquis said. "I was aggressive within the strike zone, getting ahead of the hitters, which made me a lot more effective."
R y a n D e m p s t e r pitched a scoreless ninth for his 28th save in 31 opportunities, and Chicago wrapped up a 7-4 road swing.
"We did what we had to do on this road trip," Piniella said. "Now it's a 12-game season."
"I had one bad innning." Mulder said. "My arm kind of dropped in the second innning."
Skip Schumaker, who came in as a pinch hitter, drove in both St. Louis runs. Rick Ankiel had two hits and reached base three times for the Cardinals.
Ankiel had been 2-for-29 with 10 strikeouts and no RBIs in 10 games following a report he received human growth hormone in 2004. Before the report, he hit .358 with nine homers and 29 RBIs in 23 games.
Chicago scored all four of its runs in the third off Mulder. Alfonso
I was making pitches when I needed to. I was aggressive within the strike zone, getting ahead of the hitters, which made me a lot more effective.
JASON MARQUIS Chicago Cubs Pitcher
Mark Mulder (0-3), making his third start after spending most of the year recovering from surgery to his pitching shoulder, lasted three innings and gave up four runs and seven hits with three walks. Mulder has allowed 17 runs and 22 hits in 11 innings — a 12.27 ERA — in his last three starts.
Soriano began the inning with a double, but was still at third with two out when Mulder walked Aramis Ramirez. Murton then followed with a 366-foot homer off the left field foul pole that made it 3-0.
After Craig
Monroe doubled and Soto reached on an infield single, Ronny Cedeno drove in Monroe with a single to center.
Schumaker cut it to 4-1 with a pinch-hit single off Chicago reliever Carlos Marmol in the seventh. He stayed in the game and made it 4-2 with a two-out, RBI single off Bob Howry an innning later.
St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Mark Mulder reacts as Chicago Cubs' Matt Murton rounds the bases on a three-run home run during the third inning of a baseball game Sunday in St. Louis.
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