Highlights of Thursday's MLB games

Send a link to a friend  Share

[September 11, 2015]  Sept 11 (The Sports Xchange) - Highlights of Thursday's Major League Baseball games:

Mariners 5, Rangers 0

Felix Hernandez extended the Texas Rangers' offensive woes and Seattle team mate Nelson Cruz made a triumphant return from a quad injury as the Mariners won 5-0 to salvage a split in the four-game series on Thursday.

Hernandez pitched eight scoreless innings and Tom Wilhelmsen finished as the Rangers were unable to score a run for the second game in a row.

Texas has struggled through 18 consecutive scoreless innings while falling 2 1/2 games behind first-place Houston in the American League West.

Cruz went 2-for-4 in his first game in a week, with a two-run homer in the seventh inning that essentially put the game out of reach.

- - -

Reds 11, Cardinals 0

Home runs by Brandon Phillips and Todd Frazier helped rookie John Lamb to his first career victory as Cincinnati hammered St Louis.

Phillips homered in the seventh inning and former Cardinal Skip Schumaker drove in two runs with a pinch-double, making the score 9-0.

Frazier went 3-for-5 with a double, three runs and three RBIs. He hit his 32nd homer of the season, a two-run blast in the eighth.

- - -

Brewers 6, Pirates 4 (13 innings)

Logan Schafer and Luis Sardinas, who entered the game earlier as reserves, hit consecutive run-scoring singles with two outs in the top of the 13th inning to give Milwaukee a victory over Pittsburgh.

The Pirates remained 4 1/2 games behind St Louis in the National League Central. Pittsburgh's lead for the first NL wild card was sliced to 2 1/2 games over the Chicago Cubs, who were rained out at Philadelphia.

- - -

Rockies 4, Padres 3

Daniel Descalso greeted Joaquin Benoit with Colorado's fourth solo homer of the game in the eighth inning to lift the Rockies over San Diego in the hottest game in the 12-year history of Petco Park.

The 93-degree Fahrenheit temperature at game time for the makeup of the first July rainout in Padres history in San Diego stands as the fourth-hottest temperature ever for the start of a major league game in San Diego.

- - -

[to top of second column]

Indians 7, Tigers 5

Michael Brantley's home runs in the seventh and eighth innings lifted Cleveland over Detroit.

Brantley broke a 3-3 tie with a home run leading off the seventh inning when the Indians took a 5-3 lead. After Detroit scored twice in the top of the eighth to tie it, Brantley homered in the bottom of the inning.

Cody Allen pitched the last 1 2/3 innings to get the win.

- - -

Mets 7, Braves 2

Bartolo Colon's scoreless streak ended but the 42-year-old pitched well enough to earn his 14th win as the New York Mets beat Atlanta at Turner Field.

Colon extended his scoreless streak to 31 innings before the Braves scratched for a pair of runs in the seventh inning. It was the team's longest scoreless streak since R.A. Dickey set the franchise record of 32 2/3 innings in 2012.

- - -

Yankees v Blue Jays (postponed, rain)

The race for first place in the American League East wound up getting an unscheduled night off. Heavy rains at Yankee Stadium postponed the Toronto-New York game, which will be made up as part of a single-admission doubleheader on Saturday.
 


- - -

Phillies v Cubs (postponed, rain)

Thursday's rained-out game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on Friday. (Editing by John O'Brien)

[© 2015 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved.]

Copyright 2015 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Back to top