HOUSTON -- Kendall Graveman continued his string of good outings Saturday, with arguably his best start of the season.
Cheap Air Max 97 China .He threw eight solid innings and Stephen Vogt had three hits, including a homer, as the Oakland Athletics held on to beat the Houston Astros 3-2 on Saturday.Graveman (5-6) allowed two runs on five hits and struck out three in extending his win streak to four games. The outing tied the longest of his career at eight innings, which he set June 13, 2015 at the Angels. He retired the first 14 batters to start the game before A.J. Reed singled with two outs in the fifth.I think the movement of the fastball was as good as I have had it, Graveman said. I commanded it very well. There were some I missed location, but the movement took over, so we still got groundballs.Graveman has allowed two runs or less in five of his last six starts.His last three or four starts the movement from what hes trying to accomplish out there has been the same, Oakland manager Bob Melvin. But getting that deep in the game with the pitch count low is probably the best Ive seen.Vogt hit a solo home run to left field in the second, an RBI single in the third and came around to score on a Marcus Semien bases loaded walk that made it 3-0.I got some pitches to hit and strung together some at bats and drove the ball the other way, Vogt said.Graveman was replaced by Ryan Dull after allowing singles to Jake Marisnick and Marwin Gonzalez to lead off the ninth. Marisnick scored on a Jose Altuve groundout to third.Dull induced a Carlos Correa pop-up before Luis Valbuena hit an RBI single to cut the lead to one, but Dull struck out Carlos Gomez to earn his first save.Were going to keep fighting and we play until the end, Houston manager A.J. Hinch said. Sometimes when you cant score or you dont hit, theres a dullness to the game and theres a lack of energy or enthusiasm, but our guys dont quit.Coco Crisp had two hits after serving a one-game suspension Friday, and Josh Reddick had two hits, including a triple.Lance McCullers (4-3) allowed three runs on seven hits with six strikeouts and four walks in a season-low four innings. The right-hander had allowed four runs over his previous three starts before Saturday.TRAINING ROOMAstros: OF Colby Rasmus was out of the lineup for a second straight game due to an ear infection. Hes still not feeling well, Hinch said. He would have played today and yesterday if he would have felt up for it, but it sounds like hes still a little under the weather. . RHP Scott Feldman, who threw 3 2/3 scoreless innings, left the game in the ninth. After allowing a single to Jed Lowrie to lead off the ninth, Hinch went out to the mound with the trainer to look at Feldman. Following two warm-up pitches, Feldman was replaced by Chris Devenski. Hinch said Feldman was a little stiff, but it was a precautionary move, and he was day-to-day.UP NEXTAthletics: LHP Sean Manaea (3-5) will try to right the ship on the road Sunday when he takes the mound for the final game before the All Star break. Manaea is 0-3 with an 11.66 ERA in three road starts this season.Astros: LHP Dallas Keuchel (6-9) will look to pick up his fourth straight victory Sunday. Keuchel allowed two runs on five hits in his last outing Tuesday against the Mariners.DULLS STREAK ENDSDull had stranded all 36 runners he had faced entering Saturday, but that streak came to an end on the Altuve fielders choice groundout in the ninth. The streak of inherited runners stranded was the longest by any pitcher in the expansion era, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.You knew it was going to eventually happen, especially in that situation, Dull said. I was going to do anything to get the double play because that would help us more than that one run. I would gladly sacrifice it to get the double play there.
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http://www.cheapairmax97china.com/ . -- Lou Brocks shoulder-to-shoulder collision with Bill Freehan during the 1968 World Series and Pete Roses bruising hit on Ray Fosse in the 1970 All-Star game could become relics of baseball history, like the dead-ball era. With its top players deciding to forgo the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Australia announced its mens golf team of Scott Hend and Marcus Fraser on Wednesday. The countrys most successful womens player, Karrie Webb, was missing the games for a different reason -- she failed to qualify.Jason Day and Marc Leishman (concerns over Zika virus) and Adam Scott (scheduling issue) said they wouldnt play in Rio, leaving the 81st-ranked Hend and No. 86 Fraser to play in golfs s return to the Olympics after 112 years.Minjee Lee (No. 14) and Su Oh (No. 41) will play on the womens team for Australia, leaving Webb, a seven-time LPGA major winner and World Golf Hall of Fame member, on the sidelines after her ranking of 58 failed to see her qualify.Those selected jumped at the opportunity provided to become their countrys first golfing Olympians.To play in the Olympics is a dream come true, said Fraser. Obviously, with golf being back for the first time in over 100 years, it is pretty amazing, and its going to be a great week and I cant wait to represent our great country.?Hend, who will turn 43 during the final round of the 72-hole stroke play event, is embracing the Olympics as a new experience in his long career.Ill go to Brazil and represent Australia the best way that I can, said Hend. Ive never been to Brazil, and while Ive competed in Mexico and Panama, Imm looking forward to pulling on the green and gold, as it will be something different.
Discount Air Max 97. Lee, 20, is the highest ranked of the Australians at world No.14, having already won two LPGA Tour titles inside her first two seasons as a pro.I cant wait to represent Australia in the Olympics and think it is the highest honor that you can ever have, Lee said.Just being among all the amazing athletes will be pretty cool, and the atmosphere of the Olympics will be a special thing.Oh, also 20, edged out golf great Webb for the second Australian womens team berth on ranking, after claiming second and eighth placings on the LPGA Tour in the past couple of months.When my parents brought my big sister, my little brother and me to Australia when I was 8 years old, I didnt even play golf, Oh said. They could never in their wildest dreams have imagined one of us would represent Australia in the Olympic Games.Its a dream come true for my whole family.?Lee and Oh were part of the Australian team that won the world amateur championship in 2014.The Olympic womens golf tournament starts on Aug. 17, while the mens tourney begins Aug. 11.Information from the Associated Press and?Australian Associated Press was used in this report. ' ' '