Giants infielder Marco Scutaro is in San Francisco's lineup for Game 3 of the NLCS, two days after getting run over by St. Louis Cardinals slugger Matt Holliday on a play at second base.
Giants manager Bruce Bochy expects Marco Scutaro to be in his lineup card for Game 3 of the NL championship series, two days after St. Louis slugger Matt Holliday plowed into the San Francisco second baseman.
Kyle Lohse is all about efficiency, about avoiding extended at-bats and letting hitters get themselves out.
Kyle Lohse is all about efficiency, about avoiding extended at-bats and letting hitters get themselves out.
The sight of Marco Scutaro on the ground in pain after getting flattened by Matt Holliday's hard takeout was just the spark the San Francisco Giants needed.
Ryan Braun snapped an 0-for-18 slump with an RBI double in the eighth inning, lifting Milwaukee to a three-game sweep of Cincinnati with a 3-2 win Wednesday.
The Washington Nationals' bullpen has been nearly impenetrable for the first half of the season, but Sunday it left the door open at the most inopportune of times.
For three days, the Washington Nationals reveled in all that Coors Field and Colorado's beleaguered pitching staff had to offer. They banged the ball all over the park, exploited the Rockies' strict pitch counts and showed that they could indeed be the offensive team they've been promising for much of the season's first half.
Davey Johnson didn't have an answer. He couldn't find an explanation for why his team, the best in the National League East had failed to make another below-average pitcher look like one. Couldn't reason how, against a team that was struggling to get their starters even to the fifth inning, his team allowed one with an 8.56 ERA to throw five crisp ones and allow just two runs.
