Looper turns in longest outing of career (AP)
Looper turns in longest outing of career (AP)
Rick Ankiel was throwing strikes again. Only this time it wasn’t from the mound, but from deep center. Ankiel threw out two runners at third and Braden Looper pitched into the ninth inning in the longest outing of his career, helping the St. Louis Cardinals hold on for a 6-5 win over the slumping Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night.
Mulder suffers setback in rehab
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Cardinals Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)
After all these years, Rick Ankiel’s arm has become a positive again.
The former Cardinals pitcher, who experienced severe control problems and then arm trouble after a scintillating rookie year in 2000, has turned that arm into a weapon that threw out two runners in spectacular fashion Tuesday in Colorado.
Not only did the center fielder hit his sixth homer, which proved to be the insurance run, but in the first inning he also caught a flyball in center field and gunned down Colorado’s Willy Taveras, who was trying to advance to third.
That was nothing, however, compared with the play he made to end the eighth inning. Omar Quintanilla doubled to the left-center gap but Ankiel, picking up the ball at the warning track after it had hit the wall, threw on the fly…
Looper turns in longest outing of his career
Braden Looper pitched into the ninth inning in the longest outing of his career and went 2-for-3 with an RBI, and the St.
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Big Unit ties Robin Roberts with 286th win (AP)
Randy Johnson’s back was feeling good and his fastball was zipping past hitters. It was just like the old days for the Arizona lefty, who earned his 286th victory by beating Philadelphia 6-4 on Tuesday night and stopping the Diamondbacks‘ three-game skid in the process. “I felt great at the beginning of the game,” said Johnson, who tied Robin Roberts for 27th on the career victories list.
Pujols is constant presence on bases
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