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GAME PREVIEW
Apr 19, 2018 INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana can't wait for another crack at the Cleveland Cavaliers, especially in front of the Pacers' home crowd"It's going to be incredible being on the floor," Indiana center Myles Turner said. "I think we're in a great spot. We wanted to go 2-0 but we did our job and got one. I can't wait to get in front of the Indy fans." Pacers point guard Darren Collison expects it to be loud Friday for Game 3 of the first-round playoff series that is tied at a game apiece."We can't wait," Collison said.After winning Game 1 by 18 points, the Pacers fell behind 16-1 in Game 2 as LeBron James scored all 16 of those points, including the first 13 for either team. The Cavaliers, never trailed, but had to hold on at the end for a 100-97 victory Wednesday night.James scored nearly half of the Cavaliers' points with 46."We have to do a better job of containing him, which is easier said than done," Collison said. "We made enough plays to give ourselves a chance to win despite his 46 points." Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue's focus was to get James going early. Lue switched his starting lineup in Game 2, inserting shooters J. R. Smith and Kyle Korver in place of Rodney Hood and Jeff Green. Korver, who scored 12 points on 4-of-8 shooting on 3-pointers, started just four games in the regular season. Lue said he plans to stick with that lineup, praising the job Smith did on Victor Oladipo, the Pacers leading scorer, and the fact Korver took two charges from Oladipo.Oladipo picked up two fouls in the first 62 seconds and had to go the bench. Oladipo finished with 22 points, 10 fewer than he scoring in the Pacers' win in Game 1 on Sunday."I need to see more out of a lot of guys," Lue said.Lue understands he can't expect James to shoot that well (17 of 24) the rest of the series."Them being aggressive is something we expected," Pacers coach Nate McMillan said. "They put shooters on the perimeter, and LeBron was going to put his head down and go to the basket. We didn't do a good job tonight of keeping the ball in front of us. We made adjustments and got back into the game. The first quarter they basically came out and hit us in the mouth." And James issued the biggest punch, scoring 20 in the first quarter as the Cavs led 33-18 entering the second period. It was a stark contrast to the Game 1 loss, when the Cavs trailed 33-14 after one quarter."I just felt like I was in a really good rhythm, so just tried to see how long I could stay in that zone and just try to make a mark on the game early on, especially after the way we started in Game 1," James said.Pacers forward Thaddeus Young said the Pacers drew confidence from the fact that they had a shot to win despite James' huge offensive outburst."In order for them to win this game, he had to be aggressive," Young said. "He made some tough shots. In the first quarter, he made three or four fadeaway jumpers. He made some contested 3s. If he's going to make those contested shots, it's going to be a long series." Cavaliers forward Kevin Love, who scored 15 points in Game 2, jammed his left thumb late in the game while deflecting a pass. X-rays after the game were negative. Lue and Love said they expect Love to be fine for Friday's game.Pacers reserve Joseph Young is listed as questionable with a sinus infection.James, Smith and Love were on the Cavaliers' 2016 NBA championship team. Korver joined the trio on the 2017 team, which reached the finals."It's a fine line," James told Cleveland.com, "because now all the new guys come off the bench. But, yeah, the lineup we had (Wednesday night) worked, we all know each other and play well." For the Pacers, more focused play is a must."We were sloppy with the basketball," McMillan said. "With 17 turnovers, you are not winning. We're better than that. You can't give them 17 extra attempts. We'll make adjustments and come back and be ready for Friday."
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Apr 19, 2018 WASHINGTON -- The name of the arena has changed since the last time the Toronto Raptors visited the Washington Wizards in the playoffs.That is not all.Three years after getting swept by the Wizards in the first round of the playoffs -- with the final two games coming at then Verizon Center -- the Raptors roll into Capital One Arena on Friday night with a 2-0 edge in the best-of-seven series."We had some tough experiences out there, especially in the playoffs, right?" Jonas Valanciunas told the Toronto Sun after Thursday's practice.In 2015, the No. 5 Wizards -- led by veteran Paul Pierce -- pulled off a what was a mild upset of the No. 4 Raptors, closing out the series with a 31-point rout.This time out, the No. 8 Wizards, who played a large chunk of the season without point guard John Wall, were again thought capable of upsetting the now top-seeded Raptors, but haven't shown evidence of that.Toronto, meanwhile, appears comfortable being the hunted and are up 2-0 in a playoff series for the first time in their history."A few years ago, we had to have that (underdog) mentality, that chip on our shoulder mentality, or else," Raptors coach Dwane Casey told the Toronto Globe and Mail. "So we're growing, I think our guys are developing a mental toughness that you have to have to be the favorite." The Raptors ensured the Wizards wouldn't steal a game in Toronto by exploiting Washington's defense for seven 3-pointers and 44 points in the first quarter of Tuesday night's 130-119 victory. Washington, which trailed by as many as 23, pulled within 113-108 in fourth quarter before Toronto unleashed a 19-4 run.DeMar DeRozan scored a career postseason-best 37 points on 14-of-23 shooting as Toronto shot 51.7 percent from the floor. Valanciunas added 19 points and 14 rebounds."We are shooting ourselves in the foot coming out to slow starts, allowing guys to get open threes, allowing guys to get those shots, allowing guys to get layups," Bradley Beal told the Washington Post. "It has to be one or the other. We can't give up 3s and layups, or we're going to be down 20 in the first quarter." One bright spot for the Wizards was reserve Mike Scott, who had 20 points off the bench and was on the floor when Washington rallied.Down 2-0, Washington coach Scott Brooks may opt to go with the 6-foot-8 Scott in place of 6-11 Marcin Gortat, who has struggled at both ends thus far."When we go small, Mike's a guy that can shoot from the 3, and then they switch smalls on him, he can definitely score in the post," Wall said.The move could increase the inside advantage for a Toronto team that outrebounded Washington 48-34 in Game 2.The Wizards could also use more offense from Beal, who is 11 of 28 in two games."That's a little bit on him, a little bit on me, a little bit on John (Wall). We need him," Wizards coach Scott Brooks told the Globe and Mail. "We're going to have trouble beating this team if he's not going to play better. And he will." Washington did not enjoy a strong home-court advantage this season, posting a 23-18 record at Capital One Arena, but Casey is ready for the worst."It's going to be a hostile environment," Casey told the Globe and Mail. "They're going to be playing in a desperate mode, we've got to continue to be hungry, we've got to continue to go in with a fighter's mentality to start the game as we did at home."
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Apr 19, 2018 MILWAUKEE -- As the playoffs approached, the Milwaukee Bucks thought they might catch a break by finishing seventh in the Eastern Conference, setting up a first-round series with the Boston Celtics, who'd go into the postseason without point guard Kyrie Irving.Through the first two games of the best-of-seven series, which resumes Friday night at the Bradley Center, the Bucks have learned to be careful for what they wished for.The Bucks returned home in a 2-0 deficit in large part because of the performance of Irving's replacement, Terry Rozier.Rozier, a third-year point guard, has torched Milwaukee's defense, scoring 23 points in each of the first two games, while averaging 5.5 assists and 3.5 rebounds.He's been a particular source of frustration for Bucks point guard Eric Bledsoe. Rozier is 7 for 17 when matched up against Bledsoe who, conversely, is 4 for 13 from the floor with Rozier as his primary defender.When asked about Rozier after Boston's 120-106 victory in Game 2, Bledsoe pretended to not know who the reporter was asking about, saying "who the (expletive) is that" and Thursday, as Milwaukee returned to its practice facility to prepare for Game 3, he maintained ignorance."Who?" Bledsoe said. "I'm focused on this series, man, between Milwaukee and Boston right now. I'm just trying to help the team win. That's what point guards do." Rozier certainly is but Bledsoe has done anything but. He's scored 21 total points on 9-for-25 shooting, including a 2-for-6 mark from beyond the arc.He's also committed six turnovers, something that's been a significant issue so far from the Bucks, who've committed 35 in the series.The Celtics have made them pay for those miscues -- 20 percent of Boston's scoring in the series has come off a Milwaukee turnover -- and, while holding only a two-rebound advantage on the glass, have made the most of those opportunities, too, racking up 20 offensive rebounds which they've converted for 42 points."Our transition defense has to be better -- part of that comes from our turnovers -- and our rebounding has to be better," Bucks interim coach Joe Prunty said. "It's not necessarily high-volume as much as it is, when they get them, they turn them into points." Prunty said he hadn't addressed the Rozier issue with Bledsoe and also dismissed the notion that forward Jabari Parker was not on his "good side," as Parker hinted earlier Thursday.The forward, who didn't appear in a game this season until Feb. 2 while rehabbing from a torn ACL, had finished the regular season strong, averaging 19.5 points in 31.8 minutes over the final six games. But he's played only 25 minutes in the series, scoring two points on 1-of-7 shooting."He's on my good side," Prunty said. "We need him and everybody to be ready to go when they step on the floor and play well." Rozier downplayed the notion of bad blood or a personal rivalry with Bledsoe and said the Celtics won't take anything for granted in Game 3, even with a somewhat comfortable advantage."We already know they're going to come out aggressive," Rozier said before Thursday's practice. "They're going to come out hard."We're coming out with the mind-set that we can forget about the taking care of home court. We're coming out and we're still going to be aggressive, because we're coming out to win. That's our goal. We've got to pay attention to details."
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Tigers host struggling Royals for day-night doubleheader 6h ago• 2 min read The Kansas City Royals return to Detroit for the second time this month. Much of the preseason optimism they brought to that first series has already faded away.The Royals carry an eight-game losing streak to Comerica Park and have two chances to break it Friday. They play a day-night doubleheader to open a four-game series. The opener is a makeup of an April 4 postponement.As the Royals' 3-13 record would suggest, they have plenty of issues to resolve. They have a .237 team batting average and only one player is hitting above .271. Opponents have hit nearly twice as many homers (21-11).Their starting pitchers have delivered some quality starts, but their bullpen has been a disaster. The relievers have posted a combined 0-5 record and a 7.94 ERA. Kansas City gave up 31 runs to Toronto while getting swept in a three-game series this week."I expected the bullpen to be better," manager Ned Yost told the Kansas City Star. "That surprised me a little bit, that they've struggled to the extent that they've struggled." Third baseman Mike Moustakas (four home runs, 13 RBIs, .348 average) stands out in an otherwise punchless attack."He's swinging the bat really well, really playing well," Yost told MLB.com. "I think he's playing great defense, I think he's swinging the bat really well. He's just smoking the ball to all fields, down the third-base line, in the gaps." Jason Hammel (0-1, 3.86 ERA) and Jakob Junis (2-1, 1.93) will start the doubleheader for Kansas City. Detroit will counter with Michael Fulmer (1-2, 3.86) and Daniel Norris (0-1, 7.11).Hammel took the loss in an April 2 start at Comerica, allowing five runs in five innings. He's 3-3 with a 6.32 ERA in 15 career appearance against the Tigers.Junis is 3-1 with a 4.26 ERA in four career outings against Detroit. He posted his first victory this season on April 3 by tossing seven shutout innings at Comerica.Fulmer will try to bounce back from one of the worst outings of his career, a three-inning stint at Cleveland in which he gave up nine runs (six earned). He's 2-4 with a 3.33 ERA in seven career starts against Kansas City.Norris, a left-hander, will be making his first start of the season. He last pitched April 11 when he gave up four runs and seven hits in three innings against Cleveland. He's 1-2 with a 4.14 ERA in seven starts against the Royals.Norris could be optioned to Triple-A Toledo after the start, regardless of how he fares. The Tigers want him to pitch regularly."We are going to need starting pitching as we go along this summer," manager Ron Gardenhire said. "We've already seen that. These are conversations we're going to have. We'll talk to the bosses and do the right thing here to make sure he's prepared when we really need him to get into the rotation." The Tigers (7-9) are coming off a three-game sweep of the Baltimore Orioles. Detroit scored a season high in runs during a 13-8 slugfest on Thursday.Third baseman Jeimer Candelario had four hits, including a homer, and collected eight during the series."He's a young guy. He's getting more and more comfortable," Gardenhire said. "'He's driving the baseball. We had a bunch of those guys. The top of the order did really well and the bottom of the order did really well, too. So it was a good day offensively. We scored plenty of runs."
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Pirates, Phillies try to continue encouraging starts 3h ago• 2 min read Pennsylvania's pair of big league teams both have new-look rosters in 2018. They've been working this season for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Phillies.The Pirates and Phillies, who finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in their divisions last season, have started on the right foot in 2018. They'll meet for the second contest of a four-game set at Citizens Bank Park on Friday night.The Phillies (11-7) took the first game of the series 7-0 on Thursday, improving to 6-1 at home under first-year manager Gabe Kapler. The Pirates (12-7), meanwhile, enter the weekend atop the National League Central despite losing three of their last four games."This Philly team went through a number of changes in the offseason. We went through a number of changes in the offseason," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "Both teams are off to a representative start. They're exciting, they're young, they have some skills, they got some experienced players along helping the way. I think it's good for everybody." The Pirates average 5.2 runs per game this season, but they've been shut out in two of their last three games. Pittsburgh will see second-year right-hander Ben Lively on Friday.Lively (0-1, 5.87 ERA) had his shortest of three 2018 starts his last time out. He went four innings against the Rays, allowing three runs on seven hits Sunday in a 10-4 victory for the Phillies. The 26-year-old went 5 2/3 innings in each of his first two starts."I could have performed better but I'm going to be smiling today because we got the win," Lively told MLB.com after his last outing.Lively has faced the Pirates once in his career, giving up four runs (two earned) on five hits and a walk last July.Ivan Nova will be making his fifth start of the season for the Pirates. The right-hander has looked sharp in his previous two outings.Nova (2-1, 4.88 ERA) has pitched into the seventh inning and picked up wins in his last two starts, and has 15 strikeouts with no walks over that span. He struck out nine while giving up three runs on six hits against the Marlins on Sunday."I just stayed focused," Nova told MLB.com after the start. "The curveball is something I've been working on. I have confidence in it now, so I'm going to keep using it. The fastball is something I wasn't doing last year. I've put that in play, and it's working really good." Nova has had success against Philadelphia during his nine seasons in the majors. He is 2-1 with a 4.77 ERA and 1.08 WHIP against the Phillies in four starts.The Phillies knocked out Pirates right-hander Jameson Taillon in the second inning of Thursday's series opener. Rhys Hoskins hit his third home run of the season in the second and is hitting .327 with an 1.105 OPS this season, and enters Friday's game on a six-game hitting streak.Cory Dickerson leads Pirates regulars with a .313 average but is 1-for-11 in his last three games.
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Yankees hoping Stanton breaks out vs. Jays 2h ago• 4 min read NEW YORK -- While the results did not lead to towering home runs or big hits, the New York Yankees believe the at-bats were better for Giancarlo Stanton in the opener of a four-game series with the Toronto Blue Jays on Thursday.Stanton snapped a 0-for-15 slide by legging out an infield hit and drew a walk on a night when the slugger saw 23 pitches in a 4-3 victory.The Yankees are hoping to see more positive signs from Stanton Friday night when they continue their weekend series with the Blue Jays."Good, I thought all of them, a lot of deep counts," Boone said after the Yankees improved to 9-8. "I thought he was on pitches a lot more, laying off pitches just out of the zone."I thought he controlled his at-bats tonight, controlled the zone and hopefully a positive step for him." Stanton will enter his 18th game with the Yankees batting .203 with three homers and 10 RBIs. He batted fourth for the first time Thursday after spending his first 16 games as the team's third-place hitter behind Aaron Judge.Boone's postgame comments occurred several hours after he said he wasn't planning on moving Stanton much lower than fourth."He's too close to finding that feeling to where he can lock in, so I have no intentions of moving him down further," Boone said. "I still want him surrounded by impact guys." One of those "impact guys" is Judge, who hit his fifth homer in the seventh inning before David Robertson allowed a run in the eighth and ultimately escaping a bases-loaded jam.Judge has reached base safely in 23 straight home games dating back to last season and 14 straight overall. During those 14 games, he is batting .380 with five homers, 12 RBIs and 15 runs scored."It seems like every single at-bat is a grind for the pitcher,'' Boone said. "It's just because he controls the zone so well and obviously the power. I think he's just really in tune with what he wants to do up there and he goes up there and executes and wins a lot of pitches." Toronto has not dropped consecutive contests since losing its first two games of the season to the Yankees. The Blue Jays are 7-2 in their last nine after going 2-for-14 with runners in scoring position Thursday.The Blue Jays will face a roster decision Friday when they are expected to activate Kendrys Morales. Morales was placed on the disabled list April 10 with a strained hamstring after going 5-for-22 in his first eight games.It is possible Teoscar Hernandez could be sent down, but he is hitting .375 in five games after getting a single in the eighth on Thursday."Look at what he's doing -- maybe he ought to get regular playing time here," Toronto manager John Gibbons said before the series opener. "I don't think he has anything more to prove in Triple-A."I can't answer that yet, how it's all going to shake out. You want to throw your best team out there, don't you?Marco Estrada (1-1, 4.24 ERA) starts for Toronto on Friday and will be pitching for the first time in nine days. He last started April 11 in a 5-3 loss at Baltimore, when he allowed four runs and six hits in four-plus innings.Estrada also experienced some lower back discomfort but did not indicate it caused his first loss.Estrada is 6-3 with a 4.02 ERA in 16 appearances (15 starts) against the Yankees. He last faced the Yankees March 31 in Toronto and allowed three runs on four hits in seven innings during a no-decision in a 5-3 victory.The Blue Jays are 11-4 against the Yankees when Estrada starts. They are unbeaten in all six of his starts in New York since acquiring the right-hander before the 2015 season.Various Yankees have mixed results against Estrada, who is throwing his changeup 28.3 percent of the time.Judge is 7-for-17 with two homers and five RBIs, Stanton is 5-for-14 with three homers and five RBIs but Brett Gardner is 6-for-41 and Gary Sanchez is 4-for-19.Sonny Gray will pitch for the Yankees, who are he can provide length for a bullpen that has totaled 69 innings.Gray's first 13 innings have been inconsistent and it reflects in his 1-1 record and 6.92 ERA. Gray last started April 12 in a 6-3 loss at Boston when he allowed six runs and seven hits in three innings.Since joining the Yankees, Gray has not completed six innings in six of 14 starts. While he pitched six innings in two starts against Toronto while with New York last season, Gray labored through four innings by throwing 89 pitches to 21 hitters at Toronto on April 1.Overall, Gray is 4-3 with a 2.09 ERA in nine starts against Toronto.Toronto's current roster owns a collective .215 average off Gray. Justin Smoak is 5-for-27 off him while Morales is 2-for-20 and Kevin Pillar is 5-for-19.
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Orioles in search of wins vs. Indians after bad trip 5h ago• 2 min read The Baltimore Orioles stumbled home after a disappointing road trip and have another difficult four-game series against the Cleveland Indians beginning Friday at Camden Yards.Baltimore lost six straight games against the red-hot Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers. The Indians, who have won six of eight, split a two-game series with the Minnesota Twins in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and have been carried by their pitching.The Orioles have struggled to get key hits, and when they finally manage to score runs, the bullpen falters. Even though it's only April, the players know they need to start winning some games, beginning this weekend against Cleveland."It's so early, obviously you don't want to bury yourself right out of the gates," first baseman Chris Davis said. "We know it's a long season, this division is going to be a grind day in and day out and it's going to go down to the wire like it does every year."The biggest thing for us to remember is we are still a good team, we still have the ability to be a good team and we just have to right the ship right now." Dylan Bundy (0-2, 1.40 ERA) will take the mound in the opener for Baltimore. He is winless in four starts but has been the Orioles' most consistent starter. Bundy has allowed only four earned runs in 25 2/3 innings and has 31 strikeouts during that stretch.In his last outing, Bundy allowed three runs (one earned) and seven hits with six strikeouts and two walks in 5 2/3 innings in brutally cold conditions in Boston. Bundy is 2-1 with a 5.06 ERA in three games (two starts) against Cleveland."Right now, we're not getting team wins either, so just go out there every five days and try and give my team the chance to win the best I can," Bundy said.Struggling Chris Tillman (0-3, 11.91) will start Saturday and Kevin Gausman (1-1, 5.57) will pitch the following day. Showalter has not named a starter for Monday's game.The Indians will counter with Trevor Bauer (1-1, 2.25) in the series opener. In his last outing against the Tigers, he allowed two runs and seven hits with seven strikeouts and two walks in seven solid innings April 12 for his first win of the year."I feel my stuff is good, probably better than it's ever been, this year," said Bauer, who is 1-3 with a 5.86 ERA in five career starts against the Orioles. "So if I can just throw it in the zone more often, work ahead of guys, that's going to play more in my favor even it the ball gets put in play." Mike Clevinger (1-0, 2.70) will start Saturday, Corey Kluber (2-1, 1.52) on Sunday and Carlos Carrasco on Monday.Cleveland first baseman Mike Napoli, who is dealing with a knee injury, had a setback in a rehab assignment for Triple-A Columbus. He had to be carted off the field after injuring a knee while chasing down a foul ball.Indians manager Terry Francona is concerned about Napoli ever fully recovering from the injury."He suffered a significant knee injury ... Maybe this now starts him on a second journey in his career," Francona said. "He was an impact player. My guess is he'll impact the game doing something else now."
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Tigers host struggling Royals for day-night doubleheader 5h ago• 2 min read The Kansas City Royals return to Detroit for the second time this month. Much of the preseason optimism they brought to that first series has already faded away.The Royals carry an eight-game losing streak to Comerica Park and have two chances to break it Friday. They play a day-night doubleheader to open a four-game series. The opener is a makeup of an April 4 postponement.As the Royals' 3-13 record would suggest, they have plenty of issues to resolve. They have a .237 team batting average and only one player is hitting above .271. Opponents have hit nearly twice as many homers (21-11).Their starting pitchers have delivered some quality starts, but their bullpen has been a disaster. The relievers have posted a combined 0-5 record and a 7.94 ERA. Kansas City gave up 31 runs to Toronto while getting swept in a three-game series this week."I expected the bullpen to be better," manager Ned Yost told the Kansas City Star. "That surprised me a little bit, that they've struggled to the extent that they've struggled." Third baseman Mike Moustakas (four home runs, 13 RBIs, .348 average) stands out in an otherwise punchless attack."He's swinging the bat really well, really playing well," Yost told MLB.com. "I think he's playing great defense, I think he's swinging the bat really well. He's just smoking the ball to all fields, down the third-base line, in the gaps." Jason Hammel (0-1, 3.86 ERA) and Jakob Junis (2-1, 1.93) will start the doubleheader for Kansas City. Detroit will counter with Michael Fulmer (1-2, 3.86) and Daniel Norris (0-1, 7.11).Hammel took the loss in an April 2 start at Comerica, allowing five runs in five innings. He's 3-3 with a 6.32 ERA in 15 career appearance against the Tigers.Junis is 3-1 with a 4.26 ERA in four career outings against Detroit. He posted his first victory this season on April 3 by tossing seven shutout innings at Comerica.Fulmer will try to bounce back from one of the worst outings of his career, a three-inning stint at Cleveland in which he gave up nine runs (six earned). He's 2-4 with a 3.33 ERA in seven career starts against Kansas City.Norris, a left-hander, will be making his first start of the season. He last pitched April 11 when he gave up four runs and seven hits in three innings against Cleveland. He's 1-2 with a 4.14 ERA in seven starts against the Royals.Norris could be optioned to Triple-A Toledo after the start, regardless of how he fares. The Tigers want him to pitch regularly."We are going to need starting pitching as we go along this summer," manager Ron Gardenhire said. "We've already seen that. These are conversations we're going to have. We'll talk to the bosses and do the right thing here to make sure he's prepared when we really need him to get into the rotation." The Tigers (7-9) are coming off a three-game sweep of the Baltimore Orioles. Detroit scored a season high in runs during a 13-8 slugfest on Thursday.Third baseman Jeimer Candelario had four hits, including a homer, and collected eight during the series."He's a young guy. He's getting more and more comfortable," Gardenhire said. "'He's driving the baseball. We had a bunch of those guys. The top of the order did really well and the bottom of the order did really well, too. So it was a good day offensively. We scored plenty of runs."
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Rays' Archer takes aim at Twins 4h ago• 2 min read ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Rays pitcher Chris Archer hasn't had things go his way much this season.If there's an opponent that can turn things around for him, though, it might be the Minnesota Twins, who come to Tropicana Field for a three-game series beginning Friday.Archer is 1-1 with a 7.84 ERA this season, having given up at least four runs in each of his four starts, the last a four-inning, eight-hit, seven-run effort. But for his career against Minnesota, he's been dominant -- 6-1 with a 1.84 ERA, his lowest for any opponent he's faced more than twice.Last year, Archer faced the Twins and lasted 7 2/3 innings, striking out 11 and holding Minnesota to two runs on five hits.The Rays (5-13) have the small consolation of a series win against the Texas Rangers, taking two of three and getting a day off Thursday in the middle of their homestand.The Twins (8-5), meanwhile, have had their share of days off, with three home games against the White Sox postponed this week before the team's two-game series in Puerto Rico, which ended with a 16-inning win that spilled into Thursday morning.Jose Berrios threw seven shutout innings, and seven Twins relievers pitched a combined nine innings, giving up one run on nine hits before Ryan LaMarre won the game with a walk-off single in the 16th.Minnesota turns to right-hander Lance Lynn (0-1, 5.00), who is still working to get his first win with his new team after a solid run with the St. Louis Cardinals. He's faced the Rays three times before, going 0-1 with a 3.77 ERA. Last year, he lasted seven innings against Tampa Bay, striking out eight and giving up two runs on six hits, very comparable to Archer's outing against the Twins.The Rays have pushed through key injuries, gone 2-7 in one-run games and seen their bullpen take seven losses in the young season. But two wins in three games is relatively positive momentum, and manager Kevin Cash wants another series win with the Twins in town."We have to own the fact that we're whatever our record is right now," Cash said after Wednesday's win. "We also can be somewhat satisfied that we are playing hard. It just hasn't gone our way." Minnesota has won early with pitching -- its team ERA of 3.05 is fifth-best in baseball, and opponents are hitting .214 against them, the fourth-lowest average in the league. The Twins are not overpowering -- their 121 strikeouts are second-fewest in the majors -- but they've pushed through four postponements entering this series, which is indoors and safely away from snow and any other potential obstacles.The Rays could get a boost at the plate if infielder Brad Miller is reinstated from the disabled list. They're still without outfielder Kevin Kiermaier and third baseman Matt Duffy, getting by with a lineup that is patchwork in some places.Tampa Bay has only one player hitting better than .270, with Mallex Smith at .373.
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Mets' Syndergaard tries to subdue Braves 2h ago• 2 min read ATLANTA -- Noah Syndergaard struck out eight straight Milwaukee batters and 11 overall in 5 1/3 innings Sunday, but the New York Mets right-hander said he didn't feel like he was all the way back."I'm barely scratching the surface," he said afterward.Syndergaard, who was limited to seven starts by a lat tear last year, will try to make it to the seventh inning for the first time this season and get his first victory over Atlanta as he faces the Braves at SunTrust Park on Friday night.Syndergaard takes a 2-0 record and 2.95 ERA into the matchup with Braves left-hander Sean Newcomb and is hoping to build off his no-decision against the Brewers, when he allowed only an unearned run."I feel like this is finally a step in the right direction," he said afterward. "I finally got a glimpse of what I'm capable of. I felt like my first three starts were not up to par." Syndergaard is 0-1 with a 3.92 ERA in four career games against the Braves, but pitched six scoreless innings in a no-decision at New York last April.Freddie Freeman is 5-for-9 with three extra-base hits against Syndergaard and the first baseman will be in the Braves' lineup after getting a scare Wednesday in the series finale against Philadelphia.Freeman, who missed 47 games last year after being hit on the left wrist by a pitch from Toronto's Aaron Loup, was plunked by Hoby Milner in the same area."It missed (the bone) I broke last year by about half an inch," Freeman said.Freeman suffered just a bruise this time and he was 2-for-3 and drove in his 13th run of the season with a sacrifice fly as the Braves defeated the Mets 12-4 on Thursday in the opener of the four-game series.The victory moved the Braves (11-7) to within two games of the Mets (13-5), who had been 6-0 on the road, for first place in the National League East.Preston Tucker drove in a career-high five runs with a pair of doubles and fill-in starter Matt Wisler limited the Mets two hits, one a homer by Todd Frazier, over seven innings.The Braves lead the National League with 104 runs scored and are four games over .500 for the first time since April 2015.Newcomb made his major league debut against the Mets in June and will be facing them for the fourth time after going 1-2 with a 2.70 ERA versus New York in 2017.The former first-round draft choice of the Los Angeles Angels is 1-1 with a 4.02 ERA in three starts this season, the last two impressive outings in frigid conditions in Colorado and against the Cubs in Chicago.Newcomb, who was 4-9 with a 4.32 ERA as a rookie, has shown an effective changeup his last two starts."I've been throwing it more, more than my curve, and it has been a good pitch," Newcomb said. "I've gotten out some good hitters out with it." Asdrubal Cabrera is the Met who has had the most success against Newcomb, going 5-for-9 with a double.
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Mariners, Rangers want to end recent losing trend 4h ago• 3 min read American League West rivals Texas and Seattle will square off for the initial time in the 2018 season Friday at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas, with both teams heading into in the opener of a three-game set after losses.Mariners right-hander Felix Hernandez (2-2, 5.48 ERA) will oppose Rangers left-hander Mike Minor (1-1, 4.60). The Mariners took 11 of the 19 meetings in 2017 and won six times in Texas.The Rangers head home after a break-even, six-game road trip in which they took two of three in Houston against the defending World Series champion Astros before losing two of three at Tampa Bay.That's the way it seems things are going to go for Texas this season, especially as it battles through injuries to center fielder Delino DeShields, second baseman Rougned Odor, shortstop Elvis Andrus and infielder Jurickson Profar.The Rangers' latest setback was a 4-2 loss Wednesday to the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field in which ace left-hander Cole Hamels was saddled with the defeat.Texas managed six hits but got the winning run to the plate before a ninth-inning rally fell short."We're just really trying to put it together and play as a team," Hamels said. "For us and what we have at stake, it's going to be a battle and not easy. We are nicked up with injuries."The big hits and the big pitching performances will come. We'll start rallying off a few wins and get on a roll." Infielder Isiah Kiner-Falefa was called up to the majors for the first time April 10 and made his first start at shortstop Tuesday, getting four hits in a 7-2 victory over the Rays. So far, Kiner-Falefa has handled everything thrown at him."For me, it's just confidence," Kiner-Falefa said. "The biggest thing is getting comfortable and gaining confidence. I've felt comfortable, I've been seeing the ball well and putting good swings on it." Texas manager Jeff Banister likes what he has seen in the past two games from Kiner-Falefa."He's having fun playing baseball," Banister said about Kiner-Falefa. "He's talented and we saw in spring training that he's not afraid. He has the heart and he has the courage and he goes out and plays baseball." Seattle has lost two straight games, most recently a 9-2 thrashing at home to Houston on Thursday afternoon in which the Mariners' bullpen gave up six runs in the final four innings.The Mariners' bats also had difficulty, managing only seven hits off four Houston pitchers and despite turning a triple play in the fourth inning.Seattle manager Scott Servais said Thursday that he's concerned with designated hitter Nelson Cruz's mobility as he attempts to play his way back from a sprained right ankle. Cruz came off the disabled list Saturday, but is still running gingerly and had a single in four plate at-bats Thursday."We may have to give Cruz a day down here or there," Servais told MLB.com. "I'm hoping he gets better. I'm not so concerned with the running as looking comfortable in the batter's box, being able to handle some pitches and use his lower half correctly so he can get his swing off. I am concerned and keeping a close eye on it." Hernandez is scheduled to make his 380th major league start at Texas. His most recent start resulted in a 2-1 loss to Oakland on Sunday in which he gave up two runs and five hits in 6 1/3 innings.Hernandez will be making his 55th career start against Texas. He is 19-24 with a 4.01 ERA, 300 strikeouts and 116 walks versus the Rangers.Minor will be pitching on five days' rest after taking a no-decision in the Rangers' 6-5 extra-inning win Saturday at Houston. He faced the minimum and did not allow a hit in the first three innings, but the first five batters he faced in the fourth all reached and scored.Minor is 1-1 with a 1.64 ERA in four games (one start) in his career against Seattle.
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Potent lineup finally brewing for Brewers against Marlins 1h ago• 2 min read MILWAUKEE -- Craig Counsell wouldn't admit it, but he was pretty excited to write both Lorenzo Cain's and Christian Yelich's names atop his lineup card Thursday night.And with good reason, too as Milwaukee's offense, powered by Cain and Yelich, snapped out of an early-season funk Thursday night with a 12-run outburst against Yelich's former team, the Miami Marlins.Yelich, who returned earlier this week, went 1-for-4. Cain doubled twice and homered and Ryan Braun, out a day earlier with a sore calf, hit a pinch-hit home run as Milwaukee's offense functioned just as the front office had in mind when it assembled the roster over the winter."We're definitely going in the right direction," Counsell said.They'll try to do it again Friday night when Jhoulys Chacin takes the mound for his fifth start of the season as Milwaukee and Miami continue their four-game weekend set at Miller Park.Chacin hasn't been overly impressive through the first four starts of his Brewers career.He held the Mets to just a run his last time out -- marking a season-low for runs allowed -- but only worked four innings and gave up five hits with three walks during that stretch, striking out four.Chacin didn't face the Marlins last season but is 1-4 with a 5.22 ERA in seven career appearances against Miami, including five starts.Right-hander Trevor Richards (0-1, 4.70) gets the ball for the Marlins, who found a silver lining in their tough loss by way of Lewis Brinson's breakout game.The rookie center fielder hit his first two home runs as a Marlin, marking the first multi-home run of his big league career -- against the same team that gave him his first taste of big league action."My approach was good tonight," Brinson said. "I came back to a place I played last year and had a little bit of a chip on my shoulder. I wish we could have gotten the win but it feels good. I was in a good place tonight and hopefully I can keep it going." A first-round pick of the Rangers in 2012, he was dealt to Milwaukee at the deadline in 2016, part of a four-player deal that sent Jonathan Lucroy to Texas.He appeared in 21 games for Milwaukee last season, batting just .106 but was considered the team's top prospect until he was shipped to Miami in a deal for Yelich in January.Playing for his hometown team, Brinson had an eye-opening camp, batting .328 in Cactus League play, but was batting .131 with 20 strikeouts before Mattingly rested him for the Marlins' two-game interleague series at New York.He wasted little time showing his former team what it was missing, homering in each of his first two at-bats and credited an adjustment to his timing as a leading reason for the sudden success."He's been working a lot," Mattingly said. "His work has been good, his BP has been getting better. He still has a ways to go but we'll take what he had tonight. He's seeing some progress with staying on the ball longer. He was good tonight and hopefully this is the start of something bigger for him."
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Reds move forward without Price vs. Cardinals 4h ago• 2 min read The Price is no longer right in Cincinnati.Ahead of the opener Friday night in a three-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, the Reds fired manager Bryan Price after four years and 18 games at the helm.Bench coach Jim Riggleman will run the club for the remainder of the season with speculation swirling around the franchise that Hall of Fame shortstop Barry Larkin will be the manager for 2019.Price went 279-387 in his tenure with Cincinnati, spending the last 2 1/2 seasons overseeing a rebuilding project as the team busted up its core in July 2015. Pitching coach Mack Jenkins was also dismissed, with Double-A pitching coach Danny Darwin being promoted to replace him."Everybody in the clubhouse needs to get better and do more," Gold Glove catcher Tucker Barnhart said. "Even though we're off to a bad start, there needs to be a feel that we need to prepare and we need to expect to win every single day."It's no longer good enough just to get to the field and get ready to play. I think we need to get to the field, get ready to play and get ready to win. That's the first step in continued development." The hope was that the Reds would take a step forward behind a potent offense as a young pitching staff matured. Instead, nothing has gone right. The team has been outscored by 46 runs in a 3-15 start, the worst record and run differential in baseball.What's more, Cincinnati is making the kind of mistakes that point to a lack of focus. All-Star first baseman Joey Votto got picked off for the last out of the eighth inning last Friday night with the Reds down by two runs. The defense has been unexpectedly poor and the pitching staff owns the National League's worst ERA at 5.42."This is an organizational disappointment," general manager Dick Williams said. "Nobody feels that Bryan or Mack is a scapegoat for what happened." In its first game under Riggleman, Cincinnati will attempt to exact revenge on St. Louis (10-8) for its four-game sweep last weekend in Ohio. Left-hander Brandon Finnegan (0-1, 10.38 ERA) will take the mound for his second start of the season.Finnegan was a 6-1 loser Saturday to St. Louis, giving up five runs, six hits and four walks in 4 1/3 innings while fanning four. In nine previous appearances against the Cardinals, Finnegan is 2-3 with a 4.38 ERA, allowing nine homers in 39 innings.Michael Wacha (2-1, 5.52) will look for his third straight win as well as a longer, more efficient outing for St. Louis. He picked up a 13-5 win April 12 in Cincinnati despite yielding four runs in five innings, upping his career record to 9-1 with a 2.99 ERA in 17 career outings against the Reds.The Cardinals lost 8-5 on Thursday at the Chicago Cubs, ending a five-game winning streak. Because of postponements Monday night and Wednesday, they switched their rotation around to give ace Carlos Martinez the start Saturday and move Miles Mikolas back to Sunday."When you have your No. 1 guy, you want to get him out there as often as possible," St. Louis manager Mike Matheny said. "Carlos is our guy."
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Rockies' Arenado to return for opener vs. Cubs 4h ago• 3 min read DENVER -- The Colorado Rockies welcome back All-Star third baseman Nolan Arenado but could be facing some roster decisions on Friday before starting a series against the Chicago Cubs.Arenado completed a five-game suspension on Wednesday, when the Rockies lost 10-2 at Pittsburgh to end a 5-2 road trip that began in Washington. The Rockies were off Thursday after playing 17 consecutive days.Arenado was suspended for charging the mound on April 11 when San Diego's Luis Perdomo threw a 96 mph fastball behind him. Outfielder Gerardo Parra's actions in the ensuing brawl resulted in a four-game suspension, which Parra is expected to begin serving Friday with the return of Arenado.The status of right fielder Carlos Gonzalez could complicate matters. He made a sprawling catch in right center of Starling Marte's liner to open the fourth inning on Wednesday, and for precautinary reasons was lifted for a pinch hitter in the fifth with a slight strain of his lower right hamstring."We'll see how it sets up here over the next couple of days," Rockies manager Bud Black told reporters Wednesday. "We are hoping it resolves itself quickly, but we're not quite sure where this is headed."He's sore. It doesn't look to be a significant hamstring strain at this point, but it's still concerning. We'll see how he is in a couple of days." An iffy weather forecast on Friday and Saturday could buy time for Colorado (11-9). However, the Cubs (8-8) will be eager to play, having already endured five postponements in three weeks this season.Parra's suspension will reduce to the active roster to 24 players, and Gonzalez could make it 23 with three outfielders -- Ian Desmond, who has made 11 of his 18 starts at first base, Charlie Blackmon and reserve Michael Tauchman, who has made four starts and is 1-for-20 with one walk and nine strikeouts.Depending on Gonzalez's status, the Rockies could opt to bring an outfielder from Triple-A Albuquerque to Denver in case they decide they can't be short another outfielder in addition to Parra.Candidates for a promotion would be Noel Cuevas, a right-handed hitter, and Raimel Tapia, David Dahl and Jordan Patterson, all of whom bat left-handed.Jon Gray (1-3, 6.23 ERA) has made 62 starts in the majors but will make his first career start against the Cubs. He's 0-2 with a 10.13 ERA in his past two starts against San Diego and at Washington, giving him consecutive losses for the first time since Sept. 23-29, 2016.Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks (0-1, 3.71) has allowed two homers in each of his past two starts, including his most recent outing Friday against Pittsburgh when he gave up two runs in six innings in a 6-1 loss.Hendricks is 1-2 with a 4.04 ERA in six starts against the Rockies and 1-1 with a 3.28 ERA in four starts at Coors Field, allowing two or fewer earned runs in three of those games.Colorado is last in the National League in both batting average (.214) and on-base percentage (.285) and 12th in OPS (.666). But more homers (27) than doubles (25) and strong outings by their starters until Wednesday have helped the Rockies win six of their past eight games.While the Rockies will be looking to get their stagnant offense going, Chicago will be trying to find some flow in a season that to date has been badly disjointed.The Cubs had three games postponed at Wrigley Field this week. They made up a game with the St. Louis Cardinals on a scheduled off day Thursday, winning 8-5 to match their season-high two-game winning streak for the second time."It has been a little bit of a choppy schedule," Chicago general manager Jed Hoyer told reporters this week. "I think that's made it hard to get in much of a rhythm. But I think that we had some games early (where) we let it get away a little bit." Drawing on a golf reference, Cubs manager Joe Maddon put it another way and said: "You just play through the bad lie. That's all there is to it. There's nothing you can do about it."
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Ross, Koch open Padres-Diamondbacks series 2h ago• 4 min read PHOENIX -- The Arizona Diamondbacks' pitching staff has made a steady climb under pitching coach Mike Butcher the last two seasons, so much so that they appear as prepared as any to withstand the loss of No. 4 starter Taijuan Walker.After its 3-1 victory over San Francisco on Thursday, Arizona has a National League-low 2.87 ERA while tying a franchise record with a 13-5 start and setting a franchise record with six straight series victories to open the season.Right-hander Matt Koch has the first claim on Walker's rotation start when he opposes San Diego right-hander Tyson Ross in the first game of a three-game home series against San Diego on Friday.Koch will make his third major league start, his first since the final day of the 2016 season, while Ross has had a nice return to form after two injury-influenced seasons.Patrick Corbin and Zack Godley have stepped up to join Zack Greinke and Robbie Ray to form a solid Arizona starting quartet. Corbin has a 1.65 ERA and an 0.70 WHIP with 37 strikeouts in 27 1/3 innings."Having had five good starting pitchers eases the sting," Arizona general manager Mike Hazen said after Walker was found to need season-ending Tommy John surgery."Yes, we are going to need to fill out the fifth spot of the rotation moving forward, but we feel very strongly on the other four days, the same as we always did. Having that depth in our rotation helps you to overcome that a little bit. Certainly, those two guys stepping up along with those guys at the top."Planning out one day in your rotation to try to figure out how you are going to put it together, how you are going to use the bullpen that day versus the other days, I think that allows you that freedom to maybe match up a little more, use your bullpen in a different way on that day. Use a different starter, depending on the matchup with the flexibility we have with optioning guys. All those things could come into play." Koch was one of the last starters optioned to Triple-A Reno out of spring training, and Reno right-handers Braden Shipley and Troy Scribner also are options if the Diamondbacks opt to mix and match."We want stability," Arizona manager Torey Lovullo said. "To have a flimsy roster spot that you are bouncing around can be challenging for a young player. I don't want to predict what is going to happen. I just know that we are going to always try to find the best guys to help us win as many games as possible." After winning the final three games of a four-game series against San Francisco, the Padres were swept by the Dodgers in a three-game series to conclude a seven-game homestand that ended Wednesday.The Dodgers outscored the Padres 30-10, and only one San Diego start got into the fourth inning, a reversal of early form. The Padres have nine quality starts, and Tyson Ross and Joey Lucchesi have two apiece.Ross is 2-1 with a 3.50 ERA in three starts after missing most of the last two seasons with arm issues. He won 13 games with a 2.81 ERA and 10 games with a 3.26 ERA in his last two healthy seasons with the Padres, in 2014-15. Luis Perdomo gave up seven earned runs in three innings Wednesday to bump his ERA to 8.36, and manager Andy Green talked about his future after the game."We've got to reevaluate the situation and what's best for us," Green said. "We've been talking about a competitive culture and we intend to give guys opportunities. We have a number of young guys we like in the organization. I'm sure the conversation will be forthcoming here soon as to what's our best move." Rookie Lucchesi made the team out of spring training, and left-hander Eric Lauer is considered a top prospect.The Padres struck out 13 times Wednesday and tied a franchise high with 20 strikeouts in a 12-inning loss on Tuesday, but offensive reinforcements are on the way. Corner outfielder Wil Myers (arm nerve) and center fielder Manny Margot (bruised ribs) could join the Padres in Phoenix this weekend.Myers homered for Class A Lake Elsinore on Wednesday and could be activated Friday. Margot, who took a pitch to the ribs April 10 that led to the benches-clearing brawl with Colorado the next day, is eligible to be activated Saturday.Ross has had success against Arizona, going 4-3 with a 2.65 ERA in 13 appearances, 12 starts. He threw a complete game against the Diamondbacks in 2015, when he was 2-0 with a 2.00 ERA in four starts. He has not faced them since.Koch made the second of his two career starts against the Padres on the final day of the 2016 season, giving up one run and five hits in six innings. He did not get a decision. He pitched two scoreless innings of relief at St. Louis on April 7 after being recalled from Triple-A Reno when Jake Lamb was placed on the disabled list April 3. He was returned to Reno last week.
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A's hope to build on four-game win streak vs. torrid Red Sox 15m ago• 2 min read OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Oakland Athletics take a step up in class when they attempt to improve upon their four-game winning streak Friday night in the opener of a three-game series against the Boston Red Sox.The A's will send staff ace Kendall Graveman (0-3, 9.87 ERA) in search of his first win of the season against Red Sox left-hander Drew Pomeranz, who is expected to be activated off the disabled list in time to make his first start of 2018.Oakland used a "Free Baseball" promotion to attract more fans to the ballpark, then thrilled them with a three-game sweep of the Chicago White Sox earlier this week. The A's scored at least eight runs in all three wins of the fan-friendly series.Graveman got eight runs of support in his last start, but they weren't enough as he gave up five in the first four innings of a 10-8 loss at Seattle on Saturday.The 27-year-old has allowed at least four runs in no more than five innings in each of his four starts.Graveman held Boston to two runs in six innings without getting a decision in a 3-2 win last May when the A's took three of four from the Red Sox in Oakland. He's 0-0 with a 1.86 ERA in four games, including three starts, against Boston in his career, compiling a 1.46 ERA in two home starts.This time around, Graveman will be seeing a Red Sox team that has been the best in baseball over the first three weeks of the season.Boston completed a three-game sweep of the Los Angeles Angels with an 8-2 thumping Thursday night, getting a strong pitching performance from Eduardo Rodriguez and Mookie Betts' sixth home run of the season.In running their winning streak to seven games, the Red Sox dominated the Angels in the series, winning 10-1, 9-0 and 8-2.Now it's off to Oakland, before they'll conclude a nine-game trip with three at Toronto.Pomeranz began the season on the disabled list because of a flexor strain in his left forearm. Last year's 17-game winner made two injury-rehab starts in the minors earlier this month to stamp himself ready to face big-league hitters."I'm ready to go. I feel good," he proclaimed this week. "It was a very minor thing in the first place. I've felt good this whole time." The 29-year-old went 10-10 in two seasons with the A's in 2014-15 before getting traded to the San Diego Padres, for whom he made the 2016 All-Star Game.He's since faced the A's twice, both times last season as a starter for the Red Sox, going 1-0 with a 1.80 ERA.The game features two of the hottest hitters in the majors.Oakland's Jed Lowrie had five hits, including two homers, and seven RBIs in the three-game sweep of the White Sox. He enters the series tied with Betts and two others for the American League lead in home runs with six, while leading the league by himself in hits with 28 and RBIs with 21.The Red Sox, meanwhile, rode seven hits, including two doubles and a homer, from newcomer J. D. Martinez in the last two games of their sweep in Los Angeles.
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GAME PREVIEW
Angels look to rebound in interleague matchup with Giants 18m ago• 3 min read The Los Angeles Angels will host the San Francisco Giants for the first time in nearly six years beginning Friday in the opener of a three-game series at Angel Stadium.Both teams are looking to turn things around in their first interleague series of the season, especially on the offensive end.The Giants (7-11) have dropped five of their past six following a 3-1 loss at the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday night. The offense combined for four runs while losing two of three to the Diamondbacks. San Francisco is hitting a major league-worst .156 with runners in scoring position."That's not going to cut it," Giants manager Bruce Bochy told reporters after the latest loss.The Angels (13-6) got off to their best 16-game start in franchise history, but an even hotter Boston Red Sox team came to Anaheim and overpowered Los Angeles in a three-game sweep. The Angels were outscored 27-3 in the series.Angels manager Mike Scioscia wasn't overly concerned after an 8-2 loss in the series finale on Thursday night."Of all the components of our team right now, I think we're most secure in the fact that we feel we're going to score runs," Scioscia said. "We didn't show it this series but I think, over the long haul, we have a deep offensive club that's going to be there all year for us." San Francisco will send right-hander Jeff Samardzija to the mound in his season debut. He was diagnosed with a strained right pectoral muscle about a week before the season opener and put on the disabled list.Samardzija went 9-15 with a 4.42 ERA in 207 2/3 innings last season. He allowed a career-high 30 home runs, but also struck out 214 batters, second-most in his big league career.Samardzija had a rocky performance in his only rehab start. Pitching for the Class A San Jose Giants on Saturday night, he allowed six runs in the first inning, four on a grand slam. He settled in and retired six of the final seven batters before departing after 2 2/3 innings.Bochy told the San Jose Mercury News that he was encouraged by Samardzija's last two innings."He struck out the last five or last five out of six," Bochy said. "Command was good. Velocity was good. He came out of it fine and he took a very extended bullpen here, so that's why we're convinced he's good to go." Samardzija pitched exceptionally well in two previous starts at Angel Stadium, but has nothing to show for his efforts.In his most recent outing against Los Angeles on Aug. 19, 2015, he allowed one run and eight hits over seven innings for the Chicago White Sox, but was out-dueled by Jered Weaver and two relievers in the 1-0 loss.A year earlier while pitching for the Oakland A's, he threw an eight-inning complete game at Angel Stadium, but eight Los Angeles pitchers combined for a 2-0 shutout.Overall, he's 1-3 in his career against the Angels with a 3.71 ERA in four starts.Angels starter Andrew Heaney (0-0, 5.40) also had his season debut pushed back. He was shut down about a week before the season opener because of inflammation in his throwing elbow. He had Tommy John surgery in July of 2016.He'll make his second start of the season after pitching five innings at the Kansas City Royals on Friday night, allowing four runs (three earned), seven hits and striking out seven in the 5-4 win.Heaney has never faced the Giants in his career. He's 1-4 in interleague play with a 5.16 ERA.
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GAME PREVIEW
Scherzer, Kershaw lead off Nationals-Dodgers series 3h ago• 2 min read LOS ANGELES -- Count the Los Angeles Dodgers and Washington Nationals as two of the perplexing developments in the early going of the season, as both will look to get back to the .500 mark when they meet Friday in Los Angeles.The opener of a three-game series at Dodger Stadium comes with all the star power of title contenders. Max Scherzer (3-1, 1.33 ERA) will pitch for the Nationals against Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw (1-2, 1.73).Rich Hill had been scheduled to start for the Dodgers but went on the 10-day disabled list Wednesday with a cracked fingernail on the middle finger of his left hand.The Nationals (9-10) have actually fared much better on the road this season, so heading to the West Coast might not be such a shock to their collective system. Washington is 6-3 away from home this season and an unexpected 3-7 at home.The Dodgers (8-9) are feeling good about being back home again, but they actually have turned around their fortunes after a short bus ride to San Diego. Los Angeles is coming off a three-game sweep of the Padres and is on a four-game win streak after beating the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday.The Dodgers are actually pointing to that Sunday game against Arizona starter Zack Godley, when they coaxed six walks, as the turning point following a 4-9 start to the season."When we're taking walks, using the whole field, we're pretty tough," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, according to the Orange County Register. "When we're on the offensive -- getting guys on base, running the bases well -- it just breeds energy. I think we've got an athletic group of players. When we get guys on base and traffic, the energy kind of goes to another level and we play our best." High energy is also a defining trait of the Nationals, led by the always-determined Bryce Harper. And while Ryan Zimmerman has gotten off to a slow start, he had two home runs and a triple in Wednesday's victory at New York. New manager Dave Martinez had promised that Zimmerman's day was coming."We have a manager in there who believes in us," Harper said, according to mlb.comThe Nationals are still trying to get healthy with infielder Daniel Murphy and outfielder Adam Eaton on the DL, not to mention right-hander Joaquin Benoit. Third baseman Anthony Rendon is day-to-day with a toe injury.But in winning the most recent series against the New York Mets, the Nationals seem to have distanced themselves from a five-game losing streak earlier in the month and a recent run of four defeats in five games.The Dodgers are without a pair of infielders in Justin Turner and Logan Forsythe, but managed to revive their offense with 30 runs in three victories at San Diego and 37 runs during their four-game win streak.After struggling to score in the early going, Los Angeles has been held under six runs in a game just once since April 11, a span of seven contests.Kershaw is 11-2 with a 1.97 ERA against the Nationals while Scherzer is 3-4 with a 2.92 ERA against Los Angeles. The pitchers have combined to win five of the last seven NL Cy Young awards.
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Time: 7:00 PM EDT Venue: PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219 / There is a swirl of discussion over the availability of a few key players for Game 5 of the first-round playoff series between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers. This much, though, is certain: The Penguins, who hold a 3-1 series lead, can wrap things up and move on to the Eastern Conference semifinals with a win Friday at PPG Paints Arena. Meanwhile, the Flyers are facing elimination." We're not ready for our season to be over," Philadelphia captain Claude Giroux said Thursday. "We go to Pittsburgh, tough building to play in. We know we can win there. We know if we play our game we can win." So we're going to go out there, play our game and be back (home) for Game 6." Giroux, who had 102 points during the regular season, has been held to one assist and is minus-7 in the four games this series. Philadelphia general manager Ron Hextall exonerated Giroux, saying there are a lot of factors in one players' numbers being down, and he didn't have to get technical when breaking down his club's game plan for extending its season." We need to play better," Hextall said. "They've played extremely well, and we need to play better." Philadelphia top-line center and Selke Trophy finalist Sean Couturier, who missed Game 4 because of an injury sustained in practice Tuesday, skated but did not practice Thursday and accompanied the team to Pittsburgh. After practice, he indicated there is a chance he could play." Feeling better every day, and we'll see (Friday) how I feel," Couturier said. Pittsburgh will be without tenacious winger Patric Hornqvist for the second straight game because of an unspecified injury, although he skated on his own Thursday. The Penguins apparently dodged a huge setback after goaltender Matt Murray needed attention from a trainer during practice Thursday. Murray remained on the ice and continued in goal until the end of practice. Afterward, he declined to say what ailed him but proclaimed, "I'm good." Murray in Game 4 became the NHL goalie to reach 25 playoff wins the fastest, doing it in 36 games. With two shutouts this series - along with a 1.27 goals-against average and a .948 save percentage -- Murray has been part of a dominating Pittsburgh performance in its three wins, which have been by a combined score of 17-1. Penguins captain Sidney Crosby -- whose goal and assist in Game 4 gave him 173 career playoff points, moving him ahead of Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux for the club record -- warned that his team's three lopsided wins haven't come as easily as they might have looked." It's playoff hockey," he said. "They've had chances, and we've gotten saves and big plays." It's about momentum and different points in games, and we've executed well, but that can change quickly if you don't play the right way." Crosby and the Penguins know what facing a team on the precipice is all about after winning the Stanley Cup the past two years. In those two playoff runs, they were 8-5 when they had a chance to eliminate an opponent, 4-3 last year." It's always hard to end someone's season. We know they're going to be desperate and throw everything at us," Penguins winger Jake Guentzel said.
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Time: 7:30 PM EDT Venue: Bell MTS Place, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3C 5S5 / WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Nobody needs to tell Winnipeg Jets fans what happened the last time their team had a 3-1 lead in a playoff series. After Dave Ellett scored in double overtime in Game 4 of their first-round matchup against the Edmonton Oilers in 1990, Jets 1.0 went on to lose three consecutive games, continuing their decade-long heartbreak against their hated rival. The other time the Jets were up 3-1 in the postseason, against the Vancouver Canucks in 1992, they promptly went on a three-game losing streak, too. In fact, you have to go back to Winnipeg's days in the World Hockey Association to find a killer instinct. During the 1978-79 season, the Jets, led by super Swedes Kent Nilsson and Lars-Erik Sjoberg as well as Terry Ruskowski, took a 3-1 lead against 18-year-old Wayne Gretzky and the Oilers. They lost Game 5 on the road but locked up their third AVCO Cup championship in four years in Game 6 with a 7-3 victory. If the Jets are to exorcise some demons Friday night against the Minnesota Wild at Bell MTS Place, they're going to have to do it without defenseman Josh Morrissey, who was suspended one game for a vicious cross-check to the face of Wild forward Eric Staal during the Jets' 2-0 victory Tuesday night. When you factor in the absence of Toby Enstrom, who has been out for several weeks with a bad ankle; Dmitri Kulikov, who had back surgery in March; and Tyler Myers, who was hurt in Game 3, three of the Jets' top four rearguards are expected to be out for this all-important game." It doesn't really cross my mind," Bryan Little told The Winnipeg Sun after practice Thursday. "It's going to take a lot more for us to get nervous about that." Staal told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he wasn't spending any time worrying that Morrissey didn't receive a longer suspension." It doesn't matter," he said after Thursday's practice at Xcel Energy Center. "Regardless of what (the NHL) decided, it wouldn't have made a difference. I'm worried about trying to help our team win the game up there and take (the series) home. That's all I'm focused on." The Jets recalled defenseman Sami Niku from the Manitoba Moose, mere hours after dipping into their farm club for fellow D-man Tucker Poolman. The young Finn made his NHL debut two weeks ago, scoring his first goal against the Montreal Canadiens. The Wild will continue to be without two of their best players, too -- defenseman Ryan Suter, who broke an ankle April 2, and forward Zach Parise, who is out long term with a broken sternum. Ryan Murphy will step in on the Wild blue line for Carson Soucy and play his first NHL postseason game. He told the Star Tribune that he sees a pattern." I actually made my NHL debut against the Winnipeg Jets, too, and my Minnesota debut against the Jets," he said. "So it's Winnipeg all the time."
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Time: 9:30 PM EDT Venue: Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN, 37203 / Give the Colorado Avalanche credit for putting up a gallant fight in their first-round Western Conference series with the Nashville Predators. In fact, Colorado came within a post of forcing overtime in Game 4 and possibly evening the series Wednesday night. But Colin Wilson's point-blank chance clanged off the right post, enabling Nashville to leave Denver with a 3-2 victory and a 3-1 series lead. The Predators can eliminate the Avalanche on Friday night with a win in Game 5 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. All the odds appear to be stacked against Colorado. Nashville is 15-2 in its last 17 playoff home games, including 5-2 and 5-4 wins in Games 1 and 2 of this series. The Predators are averaging four goals per game and have been better on special teams. What's more, the Avalanche are down to their third goalie for this elimination game. Starter Semyon Varlamov is out for the series with a lower-body injury and backup Jonathan Bernier, who started the first four games, departed after two periods Wednesday night with his own lower-body injury. That means Andrew Hammond, who made a name for himself three seasons ago by going 20-1-2 for Ottawa and helping it steal an Eastern Conference playoff berth, will get the call for Game 5. Hammond stopped all eight shots he faced in the third period Wednesday night." Any chance you get in the net, you want to take advantage of it," Hammond said. "So I tried doing that tonight, and just unfortunate that we weren't able to get the win there at the end." Colorado can blame its inability to convert second-period power plays and the work of Nashville goalie Pekka Rinne. The Avalanche whiffed on a lengthy five-on-three early in the period - they converted a second one early in the third period to jump-start its comeback - and also missed another man-advantage later in the second. The Predators scored immediately after killing both penalties, and also got a return to form from Rinne. After being hooked from Game 3 when he ceded four goals on 15 shots, Rinne came up with 31 stops in Game 4, looking more like the goalie favored to take home the first Vezina Trophy of his career." I think we did a really good job at the end," Rinne said. "At the end of the day, only a couple of pucks got all the way to me. We blocked a few and they missed the net a couple of times, so we killed the clock pretty good." While Colorado will be without Bernier in Game 5, Nashville will play without forward Ryan Hartman. He was suspended one game for an illegal check to the head of center Carl Soderberg in the third period of Game 4. With Hartman out, veteran Scott Hartnell could draw into the lineup for his first action of the series. Regardless, the Predators should be motivated to close the series out and rest for a potential second-round matchup with the Winnipeg Jets." I't's going to be another battle Friday night," Nashville captain Roman Josi said. "They are a great team over there and every game is tough."
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