“From my last start to this start, I feel like I was getting back to getting the groundballs I was used to getting. “I feel like everything was pretty synched up today,” Blackburn said. He started the season 5-0 and had a 1.70 ERA on May 25. The right-hander had allowed 21 runs and 20 hits in his previous 14 1/3 innings and was pounded for 10 runs by Texas last Sunday.īlackburn was 6-3 with 2.90 ERA before his abrupt slump.
A first-time All-Star this season, Blackburn had lost three straight with a 13.19 ERA during the slide. The veteran righty walked only one.īlackburn exited with a 2-0 lead after allowing five hits, walking none and striking out four. Anderson, who will remain active until his appeal is heard, declined to comment on the penalty after the game.Ĭhicago starter Johnny Cueto allowed two runs on six hits in seven innings. The discipline was announced just before Saturday’s first pitch. You just have to have faith and call the game as it needs to be called.”Īnderson batted leadoff and singled twice as the All-Star shortstop appeals a three-game suspension from Major League Baseball for making contact with plate umpire Nick Mahrley during an argument Friday. “Trying to get in front of it, but I felt it was the right pitch,” Murphy said. The catcher called for a breaking pitch that got away to end the game. Seth Brown hit a long solo shot for his third homer in two days and Blackburn returned to All-Star form with five shutout innings, but Oakland's season-high four-game winning streak ended. Got a taste of the postseason last year and want to get back.”
"We've still got a lot of games left," Sheets said. “That shows you his potential as a hitter when you can take a ball in and hit it 500 feet and take a breaking pitch to the opposite field,” manager Tony La Russa said.Ĭhicago, the preseason favorite to win the AL Central, is three games behind first-place Minnesota and a game behind second-place Cleveland. Sheets homered in the seventh off reliever Austin Pruitt to help the White Sox (50-50) stop a two-game mini-skid. Liam Hendricks (2-3) worked around Elvis Andrus’ double in the top of the ninth for the win. “Excited that I got two more chances and mentally stay in it and get ready for two big ones.”
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