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TUESDAY, MAY 8.2007
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Bases-loaded walk in 9th seals game
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Colorado Rockies' Troy Tulowitzki lands on top of St. Louis Cardinals' Yadier Molina after throwing to first for the double play in the third inning of their baseball game Monday at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. The Rockies beat the Cardinals 3-2 after Brad Hawpe drew a full-count walk with the bases loaded in the ninth inning.
BY R.B. FALLSTROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rockies win 3-2 against Cardinals
ST. LOUIS — Brad Hawpe drew a full-count walk with the bases loaded in the ninth inning for the tiebreaking run in the Colorado Rockies' 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night.
Todd Helton homered for the Rockies, who have won three of four after taking the opener of a three-game series. Colorado was 1-5 at Busch Stadium last year.
Ryan Ludwick and Jim Edmonds each drove in a run for the Cardinals, who have lost seven of nine and are 5-11 at home. St. Louis is 2-2 during a six-game homestand, scoring in only three innings, and scored fewer
than three runs for the 16th time in their first 30 games.
T r o y
Tulowitzki had to
watch to score
the go-ahead run
after umpires
ruled that his
one-out drive
off the top of the
wall in left center
was a double
and not a home run. Manager Clint Hurdle drew his first ejection of the season for arguing the call with second base umpire Bob Davidson.
Johnson fell behind 3-1 in the count to Hawpe, got a called strike and then was well outside on ball four.
Replays were inconclusive on Tulowitzki's shot off Brian Falkenborg (0-1), but appeared to show the ball striking the base of a metal railing just above the top of the wall and beyond a section of shrubbery. Three more walks, including an intentional pass to Garrett Atkins by Tyler Johnson to load the bases, produced the run.
Zach McClellan (1-0) had two strikeouts in a perfect eighth and Brian Fuentes got the last three outs
for his eighth save in nine chances.
Troy Tulowitzki had to wait to score the go-ahead run after umpires ruled that his one-out drive off the top of the wall in left center was a double and not a home run.
Cardinals starter Anthony Reyes, who lost his first five starts, had his best outing of the year. Reyes, who won the World Series opener last fall, allowed two runs and three hits in six innings with five strikeouts and no walks.
Jeff Francis, who had lost a careerworst four straight starts with a 7.99 ERA, also had a strong outing for Colorado.
Francis allowed two runs and four hits in seven innings.
The Rockies were aided by three unconventional double plays, one on runner's interference, one on a poor bunt and a lineout to right after starting the runner off first.
Helton hit his third homer leading
on the second and Tulowitzki's two-out RBI double in the third made it 2-0. Helton batted .189 with no RBIs in 37 at-bats against the Cardinals last season.
trol problems to load the bases in the fourth on two walks and a single. Ludwick singled up the middle with a liner that barely missed Ludwick for one run and Edmonds' liner deflected off Francis' side to second baseman Oniar Quintanilla, who threw to first just in time for a run-scoring groundout that tied it at 2.
The Cardinals took advantage of Francis' con-
Notes: Cardinals 0F Juan Encarnacion was 6-for-41 (.146) with two RBIs during a reeb stint at Double-A Springfield. ... jeff Baker, who struck out as a pinch hitter to end the Rockies' seventh, is in a 1-for-30 slump. ... The Cardinals have used 27 lineups in the first 30 games. ... McClellan, who earned his first major league victory, has 13 strikeouts in 11 innings overall.
Capuano leads Brewers to another victory
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The victory pushed the surging Brewers to 22-10. 5 1/2 games up on the Chicago Cubs in the NI. Central. Washington (9-23) has lost six in a row for the second time this year.
MILWAUKEE — Chris Capuano struck out a season-high nine, Geoff Jenkins hit a homer and Milwaukee won for the eight time in nine games, 3-0 over the Washington Nationals on Monday night.
Capuano (5-0) allowed seven hits and walked none in eight-plus innings as the Brewers improved to 7-0 in his starts this season.
Francisco Cordero got three outs for his 13th save.
Matt Chico (2-4) gave up Jenkins' homer in the third.
Astros 5, Reds 4
CINCINNATI — Luke Scott broke a 2-2 tie with a three-run homer in the eighth off Todd Coffey. Craig Biggio had singled against Kyle Lohse (1-3) and Mike Stanton had walked Lance Berkman before the homer.
Roy Oswalt (5-2) improved to 19-1 against Cincinnati, allowing two runs and six hits in seven innings.
Adam Dunn and Alex Gonzalez hit back-to-back homers in the
second, and Dan Wheeler gave up Gonzalez's two-run homer in the ninth before getting his sixth save.
Padres 4, Braves 2
Scott Linebrink, Heath Bell and Trevor Hoffman completed the three-hitter, with Hoffman getting his ninth save to finish off San Diego's third straight victory.
Chuck James (3-3) gave up two runs, three hits and four walks in 3 2-3 innings, the first time in seven starts this season he has not lasted five innings.
ATLANTA — Chris Young (4-2) struck out eight in six innings allowing two runs and two hits.