8 I Monday, july 26, 2010 Tigers lose two more starters to injuiy By the Associated Press DETROIT - The injuries to Magglio Ordonez and Carlos Guillen added to a disastrous week for the _________ Detroit Tigers. Ordonez frac- iis ngl ankle sliding into home plate in the third inning of Saturday night’s 3-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays and Guillen strained his right caif two innings later, raising to three the number of starters Detroit has lost in six days. Third baseman Brandon Inge, whom Ordonez and Guillen joined on the 15-day disabled list Sunday, broke a bone in his left hand Monday when he was hit by a pitch against the Texas Rangers. Ordonez is expected to miss six to eight weeks. The Tigers, who went into Sunday's day-night doubleheader against Toronto third in the AL Central 2 1 2 games back behind the Chicago White Sox, will be playing without their regular right fielder, IRELAND’S WORST NIGHTMARE New York Red Bulls forward Thierry Henry sprints past Manchester City’s Stephen Ireland on Sunday. The Red Bulls won 2-1 in Henry’s second game in New York after joining the MLS side last week. Giants sweep D-backs behind Posey’s two doubles By John Marshall ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER PHOENIX - Buster Posey had four hits to extend his hitting streak to 18 games and Travis Ishikawa drove him in with a run scoring single in the 10th inning, helping the San San Francisco Francisco Giants beat the Diamondbacks 3- 2 on Sunday to complete their Arizona first four-game sweep in Arizona in nine years. The Diamondbacks, who traded All-Star right-hander Dan Haren during the game to the Los Angeles Angels for three pitchers and a player to be named, had Pitching fails White Sox again as road trip ends in Oakland By Janie McCauley ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER OAKLAND - Dallas Braden won for the first time in 10 starts since his perfect game May 9, end ing a five-game losing streak in the Oakland Athletics’ 6-4 vic tory over the Oakland Chicago , White Sox on Sunday. Kurt Suzuki drove in three runs two days Chicago after receiving a $l6 million, four-year contract, and second baseman and third base man. Ordonez batted third in the order, Guillen was sixth and Inge seventh. “We just have to go out and play. That’s the bottom fine,” outfielder Johnny Damon said before Sunday’s game against Toronto. “We know we’re missing two of our big guys. We just have to deal with it.” Detroit filled Ordonez and Guillen’s spots by purchasing the contracts of first baseman-third baseman Jeff Larish and infielder Will Rhymes from THple-A Toledo. Tigers’ manager Jim Leyland acknowledged that the team would miss Ordonez (.304, 12 home runs and 59 RBI), Guillen (.280, five homers and 30 RBD and Inge (.263, six HR and 40 RBD, but didn’t lower expectations for his team. “There’s going to be no excuses here,” he said. “There’s going to be a lot of energy. Plus the veteran leader ship with (Miguel) Cabrera, runners on the corners in the ninth, but Sergio Romo (3-3) struck out Cole Gillespie and Chris Young. Posey started the winning rally with a double, setting up Ishikawa’s single off Esmerling Vasquez (1-3) that easily scored pinch-runner Eli Whiteside and gave the Giants their first four game sweep in Arizona since July 26-29,2001. Posey also drove in two runs and passed Orlando Cepeda for the second-longest hitting streak by a Giants rookie, leaving him four behind Willie McCoveys 1959 record. Brian Wilson pitched a perfect 10th for his 29th save in 31 chances. Justin Upton had three hits to extend his hitting streak to 12 Daric Barton hit a two-run single in the second before Suzuki fol lowed with one of his own. Suzuki added another RBI single in the fourth. Paul Konerko gave Chicago an early lead on an RBI double with two outs in the first. After that, Braden (5-7) retired 13 of the next 14 White Sox hitters. This was the lefty’s second start since coming off the disabled list July 20 follow ing a bout with tightness in his throwing elbow. Braden left in the seventh to a rousing standing ovation, the A’s well on their way to a fourth win in five games and ninth in 11. SPORTS Damon and guys like that. And we'll still be OK if we pitch.” The 36-year-old outfielder is in the last year of his contract, but only needed 135 starts or 540 plate appearances this season or a total of 270 starts and 1,080 plate appearances combined for the 2009 and 2010 seasons for his con tract to be renewed for $l5 million for 2011. He was on track for both num bers he’s at 207 starts and 883 plate appearances for 2009 and 2010 but the injury will make it difficult to reach the renewal fig ures. “We’re going to play our (butts) off and we’re going to play hard,” Leyland said. “I’m going to have to manage better and we’re going to have to do things differently. But that’s OK” The Tigers created room for Larish and Rhymes on the 40-man roster by releasing right-handed pitcher Billy Buckner and desig nated the contract of right-handed pitcher Casey Fien for assign ment. games for Arizona, which had run ners on third with one out in the eighth and ninth innings but couldn’t score. Starter Tim Lincecum made a similar escape in the eighth, get ting Adam Laßoche to hit a too shallow fly to left and a double play when Juan Uribe snared Miguel Montero’s liner and doubled off Justin Upton at first. The player the two-time NL Cy Young winner had the most trou ble with was Diamondbacks pitch er Barry Enright, who had one career hit before Sunday. The rookie knocked San Francisco’s ace for a two-run double for his first extra-base hit and added a single in the fifth. Linecum was good against everyone else, wriggling out of the jam in the eighth. The nine consecutive starts without a victory after a no-hitter was the longest such streak in major league history, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Chicago’s Mark Buehrle who beat the A’s here Friday night went eight outings without a win last year after his perfect game on July 23,2009. Braden showed improved com mand of his pitches and seemed unfazed when he fell behind early. The offense quickly provided him everything he needed to finally get back in the win column. Oakland captured its fourth straight series and third since the Magglio Ordonez (center) is helped off the field after breaking his ankle Mariners rally late to top Sox By Tim Booth ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER SEATTLE - Michael Saunders lined a two-run single off Boston reliever Hideki Okajima in the bottom of the eighth inning to give Seattle the lead, Milton Bradley’s Seattle squeeze bunt added another run, and the Mariners rallied for a 4-2 win over Boston the Red Sox on Sunday. The Mariners’ unlikely rally salvaged a split of the four-game series and sent Boston into the final stage of its 10-game West Coast trip now eight games behind the New York Yankees in the American League East. Seattle’s rally started innocent ly enough with singles by Jose Lopez and Justin Smoak. After Casey Kotchman’s bunt was botched by Okajima, Saunders . followed by slapping a 1-2 pitch into right field to score Lopez and Smoak, with third-base coach Lee Tinsley chasing Smoak almost to the dirt circle around home plate to get the lead run across. The Mariners only tacked on from there. Bradley, pinch-hit ting, followed Saunders with a squeeze bunt for a base hit that scored Kotchman. Jack Wilson faked a bunt and smacked a sin gle into right to reload the bases, but the rally ended there after Ichiro Suzuki grounded into a double play and Chone Figgins struck out. Okajima (3-3) gave up two runs and five hits. One of the runs in the inning was charged to Daniel Bard, who allowed Lopez’s single. Buster Posey hits one of his two doubles on Sunday. Posey had four hits. All-Star break, winning its seventh consecutive day game. The A’s relied on small ball a day after hit ting three home rims in a 10-2 win. They added another run on reliever Erick Threets’ wild throw past first trying to pick off a steal ing Coco Crisp at first base. Crisp was credited with a stolen base, then easily scored on the two-base error. Braden allowed two of his five hits in the seventh, giving way to Brad Ziegler. Braden struck out five and walked two in 6 1-3 innings. The White Sox got three straight RBI singles in the sev- The Daily Collegian It was the second straight day Saunders came up with a game changing hit. A night earlier, Saunders broke up Jon Lester’s no-hit bid with a two-run homer in the sixth inning of Seattle’s 5-1 victory. The young left-fielder is hitting .309 over his last 19 games. Seattle’s rally ruined a strong effort by Boston starter Daisuke Matsuzaka, who struggled with major control problems early before settling down to be in line for his third straight win. Matsuzaka was wild early, at one point in the third inning already over 60 pitches and with an equal number of strikes and balls. But the Japanese righty settled down and retired 10 of the final 11 batters he faced. After Matsuzaka escaped a bases loaded jam in the fourth, he start ed rolling, setting down the Mariners in order in the fourth, then allowed one base runner in the fifth that was left at second base. But his high pitch count early forced Matsuzaka out after six innings and Seattle took advan tage of Boston’s bullpen. Matsuzaka allowed just one run and four hits, but was hampered by five walks. He struck out four. Chris Seddon worked 2 2-3 per fect innings of relief for Seattle, but it was Brandon League (8-6) getting the win after he struck out Kevin Youkilis for the final out of the eighth inning. David Aardsma pitched the ninth for his 18th save in 22 chances. Doug Fister pitched well for Seattle, but wasn’t helped by his own control problems that saw him leave after five innings. After starting the season 3-1, Fister appeared in line for his sixth straight loss before Seattle's offense rallied. enth, from Juan Pierre, Alexei Ramirez and Alex Rios. Michael Wuertz finished with a 1-2-3 ninth for his third save. A’s closer Andrew Bailey, the reigning AL Rookie of the Year, was unavailable for the second straight game because of back spasms. Daniel Hudson (1-1) struggled in his third start since being called up from Tttple-A Charlotte on July 11. After winning at Seattle on Monday and going a career-best 6 2-3 innings, he was done after throwing 108 pitches in five innings. Hudson allowed five rims, struck out four and walked four.
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