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Louis Cardinals relied on power and the pitching of Carlos Martinez to solve
their home woes Friday night.Matt Carpenter and Stephen Piscotty supplied
two-run homers for the National Leagues leading home run team and Martinez
(14-7) pitched seven strong innings in a 4-3 victory over the Milwaukee
Brewers.The win improved the Cardinals to 31-38 at Busch Stadium and kept them a
half-game behind the New York Mets for the NLs second wild card.Jimmy Nelson
(7-14) retired the first eight Cardinals before Martinez started a two-out rally
with a single up the middle. Carpenter followed with his 19th home run, Kolten
Wong walked and Piscotty gave St. Louis the lead by hitting his 21st homer into
the bullpen in right field.That gave me the extra energy to make it through and
get the win for the team, Martinez said of the long balls.Martinez gave up nine
hits and hit two batters in seven innings but was helped by three double plays.
He equaled his win total from last season and improved to 3-0 in four starts
against Milwaukee.Hes our guy right now, Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said.
Carlos has been so consistent weve begun to anticipate hes going to have that
strong outing.Nelson lasted six innings and allowed five hits but fell to 0-7 in
eight career starts against St. Louis.The two guys that can really hurt him,
hurt him, Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. Make mistakes to those guys and
thats whats going to happen.Its just a crazy game and stuff happens, Nelson
said. Theres never really just one answer in this game to anything. You dont
want to think theres something wrong and start overanalyzing stuff so you just
try to keep it simple.Scooter Gennetts two-run homer in the third gave the
Brewers a 3-0 lead. Milwaukee scored an unearned run in the first when Gennett
walked, Chris Carter was hit by a pitch and Kirk Nieuwenhuis hit a hard
one-hopper that shortstop Jedd Gyorko did not handle.After the first-inning
error, the Cardinals defense later stopped two potential rallies. Piscotty made
a running, over-the-head catch that saved a run in the sixth and Wong helped
Martinez escape the third by making strong plays on two grounders at second
base.Defense showed up, for sure, Piscotty said.Wong reached base three times by
walking twice and getting hit by a pitch.Im just tired of people thinking that
Im not good, said Wong, who has been relegated to backup duty much of the
season. I believe in myself to the fullest.Seung-Hwan Oh worked around a leadoff
walk in the ninth for his 17th save in 20 chances.DOUBLING UPMartinez induced
double-play grounders in the second and third innings to increase his NL-leading
total to 32, two shy of the Cardinals team record set by John Denny in 1978.
Wong backhanded a grounder up the middle and scooped the ball from his glove to
Gyorko to start the third-inning double play. Thats one of the best plays weve
seen here, Matheny said. The Brewers popped out into a double play in the
fourth.TRAINERS ROOMCardinals: SS Aledmys Diaz (right thumb) went 2 for 4 for
Double-A Springfield in a rehab start Friday night. ... RHP Trevor Rosenthal
(shoulder inflammation) will throw to hitters Saturday for the first time since
he went on the DL on July 26.UP NEXTBrewers: RHP Chase Anderson (8-11, 4.73) has
allowed three earned runs in 10 1/3 innings in two starts at Busch Stadium this
season.Cardinals: RHP Adam Wainwright (10-8, 4.61) has allowed one home run at
home this season but has lost his past two home starts.
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hole when his 15-foot birdie chip grazed the edge of the hole and stayed out.
After opening with rounds of 66 and 73 to make the cut by a stroke, he had 11
birdies in the bogey-free round. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Manager John Gibbons
ejection turned into a key moment for the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday.Russell
Martin hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the eighth inning to help the Blue
Jays overcome a poor start by 17-game winner J.A. Happ and avoid a three-game
sweep with a 5-3 win against the Tampa Bay Rays.Gibbons was ejected by plate
umpire Pat Hoberg after Martin struck out in the fourth. When Martin turned a
couple times to dispute the call while walking toward the dugout, Gibbons took
over the argument from the dugout and got tossed.Took the heat for everybody,
Martin said. I think he kept some guys in the game doing that, including
myself.Torontos victory and Bostons 1-0 loss at Oakland gave the Blue Jays a
one-game lead over the Red Sox for the top spot in the AL East.Martin hit his
17th homer on a 3-0 pitch from Kevin Jepsen (2-6). He has gone deep nine times
and driven in 24 runs over his last 18 games.If hes seeing the ball good, which
I thought he was, I gave the approval for him to take a whack at it, said bench
coach DeMarlo Hale, who filled in for Gibbons.Happ was up to 85 pitches when he
was pulled by Gibbons after Corey Dickersons RBI single put the Rays up 3-1 with
two outs in the third.Joaquin Benoit (3-1) gave up a single and struck out three
in a scoreless seventh. His second strikeout, coming against Evan Longoria, was
the 1,000th of his career.Roberto Osuna got three outs for his 30th save.Five
Toronto relievers allowed two hits in 6 1/3 scoreless innings.Thats a huge job
by the bullpen keeping us in the game, Happ said.Happ has gone fewer than five
innings in just two of 27 starts this season, with both coming against Tampa
Bay.
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over two innings in a 13-2 loss to the Rays on May 18.The Blue Jays tied it at 3
in the seventh on Devon Travis two-run single off Brad Boxberger, costing
17-game loser Chris Archer a shot at his ninth win.Archer allowed two runs and
five hits in 6 1/3 innings. He also struck out nine, running his AL-best total
to 211.Their bullpen came in and did a really good job, kept it right there, and
our bullpen came in and struggled, Rays manager Kevin Cash said. They got hits,
they got walks and then the big home run from Russell Martin.BENCH NEWSBlue
Jays: OF Melvin Upton Jr., hitting just .185 (20 for 108) against right-handers
since the All-Star break, didnt start with Archer pitching.Rays: Despite the
ability to expand rosters in September, Tampa Bay still had just three position
players on the bench on Sunday: C Luke Maile, 1B Logan Morrison and utilityman
Nick Franklin. I think theres plans to expand, Cash said.UP NEXTBlue Jays:
Knuckleballer R.A. Dickey (9-13) and Yankees RHP Masahiro Tanaka (11-4) are
Mondays starters in the first of a three-game set in New York. Toronto is 9-3
against New York this season, including 4-2 at Yankee Stadium.Rays: RHP Matt
Andriese (6-6) will face RHP Ubaldo Jimenez (5-11) and the contending Orioles on
Monday in the opener of a three-game home series. Baltimore has won nine of 12
in the season series, but is 3-3 at Tropicana Field.
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