THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, MAY 9; 2013
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Cincinnati Reds' Zack Cozart (2) is congratulated by Joey Votto (19) after Cozart hit a home run off Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Mike Minor in the third inning of a baseball game, Wednesday. May 8, 2013. in Cincinnati ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dan Uggla, Juan Francisco help Braves pummel Reds
CINCINNATI — Dan Uggla hit a pair of solo homers and Juan Francisco added his first career grand slam as the Atlanta Braves recovered from a stunning last-swing loss by beating the Cincinnati Reds 7-2 Wednesday.
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Devin Mesoraco and Shin-Soo Choo hit two-out homers in the ninth inning for Cincinnati's 5-4 win on Tuesday night. A day later, one of the NL's top power teams got the better of it. Atlanta came into the game tied with Colorado for the NL lead with 44 homers.
Atlanta took two of three in the series, the first the Reds lost at home this season. The Reds are 13-6 at Great American Ball Park, the most home wins the majors.
Uggla had solo shots in the fourth and sixth innings off Mike Leake (2-2), his first multihomer game this season. Leake pitched into the eighth, ending a streak
of six straight subpar starts by the Reds rotation.
Francisco's slam off J.J. Hoover highlighted a five-run eighth inning. The Braves obtained Francisco in a trade with the Reds last year for Hoover.
Jordan Schafer had three hits, and Andrelton Simmons had a career-high four hits in the top two spots in Atlanta's lineup.
Left-hander Mike Minor (4-2) allowed four hits in seven innings, including Zack Cozart's homer in the third. Jay Bruce had a solo shot in the ninth off Anthony Vararo.
The game matched starting pitchers taken back-to-back in the 2009 amateur draft. Minor was taken seventh out of Vanderbilt, with Leake drafted next out of Arizona State.
There was a replay review in the fourth, when Evan Gattis hit a long foul down the third base line. Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez talked to the umpires, who
reviewed the play for 3 minutes, 5 seconds and upheld the call. Gattis struck out on the next pitch.
Up came Ugga, who homered on the following pitch to tie it at 1. Ugga is 4 for 10 career off Leake with three homers.
Cincinnati loaded the bases with no outs in the second. Donald Lutz flied out to left field, and Gattis threw out Brandon Phillips at the plate as he tagged on the play. The Braves loaded the bases with one out in the third before Freddie Freeman grounded into a double play.
Both teams wasted early basesloaded opportunities.
In addition to all the homers, there were a lot of strikeouts in a series matching teams that rank first and second in the NL at failing to make contact. The Braves fanned 32 times during the three games, giving Atlanta a league-leading 304. The Reds are next with 278.
JANITORIAL WORK
Padres sweep Marlins at home
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Marquis outpitched Ricky Nolasco, Yonder Alonso had a sacrifice fly in the sixth inning and San Diego Padres beat the Miami Marlins 1-0 on Wednesday to complete a three-game sweep.
SAN DIEGO — Jason Marquis has settled into a groove and it shows.
Marquis (4-2) allowed five hits, walked one and struck out three in eight innings, his longest stint since last Aug. 11th when he had a 5-0 shutout at Pittsburgh.
"I felt pretty good," Marquis said. "I've been working real hard to get my mechanics right the last couple weeks of spring and the first probably four starts. ... It's easier now that I've figured a few things out. I have the life back on my ball, the north-south movement. (The defense is doing a great job allowing me to pitch to contact and get some quick outs."
"Today it was all about the sinker," Black said. "It was a basic Marquis mix of fastball, sliders and today with the heavy sinker down, down, down. They hit a lot of grounders and our infielders were on their toes and made some great defensive plays especially on the left side of the infield."
and four hits, with one walk and a season-high nine strikeouts in seven innings. He had won his four previous decisions at San Diego, where he dropped to 4-2 with a 2.11 ERA in his career.
Padres manager Bud Black credited Marquis's sinker for the pitcher's effectiveness, especially noting the 14 outs he got on grounders.
The Padres have won four straight, 11 of their last 14 and nine of their last 10 at home after starting the season 5-15 overall. It was their first sweep of the Marlins at home since Mav 2005
The Marlins, who are last in the majors in runs scored with 99, scored just one run and had 17 hits in three games against the Padres. Wednesday was their sixth shutout of the season.
Nolasco (2-4) gave up one run
*the members of our championship team: "I D H I T THAT"
*our Student Leadership Award recipients: MICAH MELIA and ALYSSA ONG
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The Student Endowment Board would like to thank all of the teams as well as our sponsor, GTM Sportswear, for their participation in the 5th Annual Hawk Mud Fest this year. With your help, KU Endowment provided $28 million in scholarship support to 6,900 students this past year.
FLYING HIGH
Cards used Jon Jay's bat to overcome the Chicago Cubs
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St. Louis Cardinals' Matt Holiday hits into a double play scoring Matt Carpenter off a pitch from Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Carlos Villanueva during the first inning of a baseball game. Wednesday, May 8 2013, in Chicago
CHICAGO — Carlos Beltran and Jon Jay drove in two runs apiece, and the St. Louis Cardinals capped an impressive trip with a 5-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday.
Beltran also had three hits as St. Louis won for the seventh time in eight games and improved to a major league-best 14-7 on the road. The Cardinals went 5-1 on a six-game swing to Milwaukee and Chicago, with the lone loss coming Tuesday in their first game of the season against the last-place Cubs.
The Cardinals trailed 4-3 before Beltran singled in Matt Carpenter in the seventh, and Jay drove in Yadier Molina with a tiebreaking single against Michael Bowden (1-2) in the eighth. Each rally featured a costly mistake by the Cubs, with Carpenter moving to third on an error by right fielder Nate Schierholtz and Molina advancing to second on a wild pitch.
Chicago had 11 hits but grounded into four double plays, one in every inning from the fifth to the eighth. The last one was particularly heartbreaking, with the potential tying run on third.
Anthony Rizzo had three hits and Schierholtz hit a two-run double for Chicago, trying for its second three-game winning streak this season. Instead, the Cubs finished a 4-6 homestand.
The afternoon game on a picturesque spring day in Chicago attracted 26,354 to Wrigley Field, and fans were treated to a little bit of everything. There were a couple of adventures on the basepaths, a rarely seen 4-2-3 groundout and a
Four Cardinals relievers combined for 3 2-3 innings of two-hit ball after Jake Westbrook had his worst start this season. Seth Maness (2-0) got five outs to get the win and Edward Mujica worked the ninth for his ninth save in nine opportunities.
bunch of singles — just three of 22 hits were for extra bases. Julio Borbon of the Cubs was called out for interference for running inside the baseline in the seventh.
Jay's sacrifice fly gave the Cardinals a 2-1 lead in the fourth inning, but the Cubs responded with three in the bottom half on two hits, a walk, an unusual carom and a perfectly placed grounder.
With no outs and runners on first and second, Schierholtz pulled a 3-2 pitch from Westbrook down the first-base line. The ball bounced off the wall in foul territory and out into right field, allowing Rizzo and Luis Valbuena to scamper home. Schierholtz moved up on a ground-out and scored on Dioner Navarro's slow roll to make it 4-2.
The Cardinals had their infield in with Navarro at the plate, but Schierholtz scored easily. With Molina standing in front of the plate and pointing to first, Carpenter still came home with the throw from second, and the Gold Glove
Molina also cut down Rizzo when the big first baseman tried to steal third following his two-out RBI double in the first. But the Cardinals had their own baserunning blunder in the fifth, when Carpenter was thrown out after he made a wide turn at second on Beltran's run-scoring single.
catcher made a strong throw to first to retire the lumbering Navarro.
Carpenter's gaffe became even worse when Matt Holliday followed with another single to put runners on first and second. Schierholtz then bailed out Villaneueva with a nice sliding catch in right to retire Craig and end the inning.
Westbrook allowed four runs -- three earned -- and nine hits in 5 1-3 innings, increasing his ERA from 1.07 to 1.62. He had allowed just four earned runs all year.
Carlos Villanueva pitched 6 2-3 innings for Chicago and was charged with three runs and seven hits.