CHICAGO - Bryant’s Travis Wood hit a three-run home run and drove in four runs to back his nine-strikeout performance on the mound, leading the Chicago Cubs to a 5-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday night.
Wood (1-2) gave up 1 run and 6 hits over 7 innings. His four RBI and nine strikeouts matched career highs.
Bronson Arroyo (1-2) allowed 5 runs and 8 hits in 5 1/3 innings for Arizona. The Diamondbacks have lost nine of 10 games and have the worst record in the majors (5-17).
Welington Castillo hit a two-out bloop single to right field to score Starlin Castro from second for a 1-0 lead in the second inning.
Ryan Kalish followed Castillo’s RBI single with a single of his own to extend the inning. Arroyo fell behind in the count 1-0 before Wood hit a hanging slider for a three-run shot into the left field bleachers. It was Wood’s seventh career home run.
Wood drove in another run in the fourth with an RBI double that nicked off Arizona center fielder Tony Campana’s glover near the wall, giving the Cubs a 5-0 lead.
PIRATES 6, REDS 5 Ike Davis became the first player to hit grand slams for different teams in the same April, and Neil Walker had a winning run single with two outs in the ninth inning as host Pittsburgh twice overcame deficits to beat Cincinnati. Pittsburgh trailed 2-0 before Davis’ fourth-inning home run off Mike Leake. Davis hit a game-winning, ninth-inning slam off the Reds’ J.J. Hoover on April 5 for the New York Mets, who traded him to the Pirates on Friday. According to STATS, no player previously hit grand slams for different teams in the same April. Davis became just the third to hit slams for different teams against the same opponent in the same year, following Ray Boone in 1953 and Mike Piazza in 1998.
BRAVES 4, MARLINS 2 (10) Evan Gattis hit a two-run home run in the 10th inning, leading host Atlanta past Miami. Dan Uggla led off the inning with a single up the middle off Arquimedes Caminero (0-1), and Gattis followed with a shot into the left-field seats for his fifth home run of the season - and first career game-winning shot. METS 2, CARDINALS 0 Jenrry Mejia pitched four-hit ball into the seventh inning and David Wright delivered another key hit as New York beat visiting St. Louis. Wright lined an early RBI single that extended his hitting streak to 12 games and Kyle Farnsworth earned his first save as the New York’s newest closer. The Cardinals lost for the third time in four games. Tyler Lyons (0-1) lost in his first major league game of the season. Promoted from Class AAA Memphis earlier in the day, he allowed 2 runs and 6 hits in 6 innings.
BREWERS 4, PADRES 3 Aramis Ramirez homered and Ryan Braun drove in two runs for host Milwaukee. Wily Peralta (3-0) gave up 3 runs and 6 hits in 6 1/3 innings as the Brewers improved their major league-best record to 15-5.
ROCKIES 8, GIANTS 2 Charlie Blackmon hit two of host Colorado’s five home runs and Jorge De La Rosa threw five efficient innings, lifting the Rockies to a victory over San Francisco. Nolan Arenado, Wilin Rosario and Corey Dickerson also homered for the Rockies.
AMERICAN LEAGUE ORIOLES 7, RED SOX 6 Clay Buchholz allowed six runs in the third inning, and visiting Baltimore held on to beat Boston in the annual Patriots’ Day morning game at Fenway Park, a year after theBoston Marathon bombings. Trailing by two runs, Boston loaded the bases in the ninth. Mike Napoli hit an RBI groundout before Tommy Hunter retired Mike Carp for his fifth save.
INDIANS 4, ROYALS 3 Jason Kipnis and Michael Brantley each hit two-run home runs, powering host Cleveland past Kansas City. Kipnis connected in the sixth inning off Jeremy Guthrie (2-1), overcoming a 3-2 deficit. Brantley provided Cleveland a 2-0 lead in the fourth.
WHITE SOX 3, TIGERS 1 Jose Abreu and Dayan Viciedo hit RBI doubles in the seventh inning, and visiting Chicago rallied for a victory over Detroit.
INTERLEAGUE ANGELS 4, NATIONALS 2 Raul Ibanez delivered a tiebreaking three-run double as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning on a night that Mike Trout and Bryce Harper went a combined 2 for 8 with zero runs or RBIs in their first matchup as opponents as visiting Los Angeles beat Washington. Los Angeles trailed 1-0 going into the eighth. But Albert Pujols reached on the first of shortstop Ian Desmond’s two errors in the inning. Later, Erick Aybar’s third hit of the game scored Pujols to tie the game at 1-1. After Tyler Clippard (1-2) walked the bases loaded, Ibanez doubled to left-center.
Monday’s games NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 6, Cincinnati 5 Atlanta 4, Miami 2, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 2, St. Louis 0 Chicago Cubs 5, Arizona 1 Milwaukee 4, San Diego 3 Colorado 8, San Francisco 2 Philadelphia 7, L.A. Dodgers 0 AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore 7, Boston 6 Cleveland 4, Kansas City 3 Chicago White Sox 3, Detroit 1 Texas at Oakland, (n) Houston at Seattle, (n) INTERLEAGUE LA Angels 4, Washington 2
Sports, Pages 19 on 04/22/2014