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TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 2007
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MLB
Pittsburgh gets 3-2 victory against St. Louis; Cards 1-5 at home since World Series
BY R.B. FALLSTROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS - Albert Pujols popped up with the bases loaded for the final out, and the Pittsburgh Pirates got an excellent pitching performance from Ian Snell in a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday night.
Snell threw seven innings of three-hit ball and Xavier Nady had two RBIs, helping the Pirates snap a four-game losing streak. Salomon Torres escaped a bases-loaded jam in the ninth, retiring Chris Duncan
on a shallow fly to left and Pujols on a foul pop-up to third.
Anthony Reyes barely made it out of the first inning for the Cardinals, who are 1-5 at home since clinching the 2006 World Series. St. Louis swept a three-game series at Pittsburgh last week, beating Snell even though he allowed only one run in seven innings.
Freddy Sanchez singled and tripped for the Pirates, who are 5-2 on the road after finishing 24-57 away from home last year — the worst record in the National League. Pittsburgh, which returned to action
after two rain-outs at home last weekend, was 1-13 on the road to start 2006 and didn't win its fifth road game until June 5.
Snell (1-1) allowed one run with six strikeouts and four walks, two coming in his final inning when the Cardinals got an RBI single from Adam Kennedy and had the bases loaded with one out before pinch-hitter Skip Schumaker fouled out and David Eckstein grounded out.
Scott Rolen singled twice for the Cardinals, one with two outs in the first and the other leading off the seventh. Between those at-bats, Snell
His toughest inning by far was the seventh, when he faced seven hitters.
retired 16 of 17 batters with the stretch interrupted only by Yadier Molina's two-out walk in the fifth.
Jim Edmonds drove in his first run of the season with a bloop single off Damaso Marte that cut the deficit to one in the eighth. Torres worked the ninth for his fifth save in six chances, completing a six-hitter.
Reyes (0-2) needed 47 pitches to escape the first, allowing three hits and walking two while the Pirates took a 3-0 lead. The first run scored
on Jason Bay's bases-loaded, full-count walk, and Nady followed with a two-run single.
Reyes held off the Pirates his last four innings, stranding Sanchez after a leadoff triple in the third and getting Adam LaRoche on a double-play ball with runners on first and third to end the fifth. In five innings, Reyes gave up three runs and six hits.
Duncan was 1-for-5 for the Cardinals, making him 8-for-15 the last four games. Much criticized for his outfield play last season, Duncan also made the defensive stop of the
game with a diving grab on Sanchez's sinking liner for the first out in the eighth.
Notes:
》 Pirates LHP John Grabow (elbow irritation) allowed two hits and struck out one in a scoreless inning in his second rehab appearance for Triple-A Indianapolis
Pittsburgh went 64 innings without an error before LaRoche botched a slow grounder to first in the ninth
>> The Pirates were 1-5 at Busch Stadium last year.
MLB
Royals lose in Detroit
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Detroit Tigers shortstop Carlos Guillen avoids Kansas City Royals' David DeJesus to turn a double play on Jason LaRue in the sixth inning of a baseball game Monday in Detroit.
Rodriguez leads Tigers with 6 RBI grand slam in 12-5 victory
DETROIT - Seven months later, the Detroit Tigers managed to beat the Kansas City Royals.
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He added a two-run double in the second off Jason Standridge that put the Tigers ahead 7-2.
Ivan Rodriguez had a grand slam and six RBIs to back Justin Verlander's first win of the season in the Tigers' 12-5 victory against the Royals on Monday night.
After the Tigers loaded the bases on a single and two walks in the first against Zack Greinke (1-2), Rodriguez fouled off a pair of two-strike pitches before driving a 1-2 offering over the wall in right-center. It was the sixth career slam for Rodriguez, a drive estimated at 423 feet.
He allowed three runs and five hits in six innings, struck out six and walked none.
Verlander (1-0) had not allowed any earned runs in 13 innings coming in, but didn't get a decision in his first two starts.
Carlos Guillen had four RBIs for the Tigers, who were swept by lastplace Kansas City on the final weekend of last season, costing Detroit the AL Central title. As a wild-card team, Detroit beat the New York Yankees and Oakland in the playoffs, advancing to its first World Series since 1984 before losing in five games to St. Louis.
Detroit has three slams in 13 games — Curtis Granderson hit one on April 4 against Toronto and Craig Monroe had one in Baltimore on April 11. There was one grand slam in the entire National League entering Monday.
Greinke, who had been 6-0 in his prior eight starts against the Tigers, lasted just two-thirds of an innning,
the shortest of his 60 major league starts.
Kansas City did close to 4-2 in the second on RBI doubles by Emil Brown and John Buck, but Tony Pena Ir. misplayed Magglio Ordonez's potential double-play grounder to shortstop in the bottom half as Placido Polanco scored, and Rodriguez's double put the Tigers ahead by five.
Polanco's liner in the third hit off the heel of Mark Teahen's glove
Kansas City Royals' Mike Sweeney, left, argues with home plate umpire Brian O'Nora after a called third strike in the second inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers on Monday in Detroit.
in right, allowing Tigers to add an eighth run, and Guillen led off the fourth with a 438-foot homer to right-center.
Notes:
Rodriquez drove in nine runs for Texas against Seattle on April 13, 1999 . Kansas City made an unusual defensive switch in the third inning
Kansas City cut the gap on David Defjesus' RBI single in the fifth, and Ryan Shealy's two-run homer off Jose Mesa in the seventh. Guillen
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STILLWATER, Okla. - Tyler Mach went 2-for-4 with four RBIs and three other Oklahoma State players homered on Monday as the Cowboys beat Kansas State 9-6.
hit a three- run double in the eighth against Jimmy Gobble.
BIG 12 BASEBALL Wildcats fall to Cowboys in back-and-forth game
— bringing Jason LaRue in to play third.
moving Alex Gordon to shortstop and Pena to second. LaRue hadn't played third since 2001, and Gordon and Pena were making their major league debuts at those new positions. The moves came after second baseman Esteban German left with a sore shoulder. He is day to day.
Mach's two-run double put Oklahoma State (27-9, 8-4 Big 12 Conference) ahead 2-0 in the first inning.
Rodriguez fouled off a pair of two-strike pitches before driving a 1-2 offering over the wall in right center.
The Cowboys led 4-1 in the third inning after a solo home run by Rebel Ridling, but fell behind 5-4 in the top of the fourth as Kansas State (23-13, 5-7) scored four runs, two on a single by Derek Bunker.
Oklahoma State regained the lead in the bottom of the fourth on a two-run single by Mach. The Cowboys added three insurance runs in the seventh on a solo home run by Corey Brown, his 15th of the season, and a two-run homer by Jordy Mercer.
Justin Friend (4-2) relieved Matt Gardner in the fourth inning and picked up the pitching win for the Cowbys. Friend allowed three hits and struck out four in 5 1/3 innings.
Adam Muenster, Drew Biery,
Nate Brinkn and Tyler Ruch had
two hits aplice for the Wildcats.
Kansas State starter Ben Hornbeck (2-1) took the loss, allowing six runs, five hits and four walks in 31/3 innings.
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