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MIAMI —Young right-hander Randall Delgado and the Atlanta Braves bullpen made
their manager look smart. NFL Super Bowl Jersey . Delgado contributed
an RBI batting in the No. 8 spot, and after manager Fredi Gonzalez gave him a
quick hook in the seventh inning, three relievers combined to complete a
two-hitter and help the Braves beat the Miami Marlins 2-1. “It all worked out,
so the second guessing is for tomorrow,” Gonzalez said. Delgado led 2-1 and had
thrown only 80 pitches when he departed after allowing his only walk with one
out in the seventh. Gonzalez liked the matchups he could get out of the bullpen,
and he didnt want his starter facing the heart of the Marlins order for a fourth
time. The strategy worked: Braves relievers retired all eight batters they
faced. Craig Kimbrel pitched the ninth for his NL-leading 17th save in 18
chances. Gonzalez batted his pitcher eighth for the second night in a row, and
that strategy paid off, too. With two out and runners on the corners in the
fourth inning, Delgado singled on a hit and run for his first RBI of the year,
making the score 2-0. “I thought it was going to come back and bite us there,”
Gonzalez said. “We started the runner, put the ball in play and got lucky with a
hit through the hole.” Atlanta pitcher Tim Hudson drove in two runs from eighth
spot Tuesday. Delgado (4-5) had a career-high seven strikeouts and won for only
the second time in his past nine starts. “I felt very great tonight,” Delgado
said. “Our pitching was phenomenal,” Gonzalez said. “We had good solid defence,
nothing flashy, made all the routine plays and just got enough runs. Games like
these where the pitchers give you a good effort and keep the opposition from
putting a big number up—weve won four or five like this.” In the first two
games of the series, the Braves have allowed one run and seven hits. Theyve won
five of their past six games, and their 19-14 road record is the best in the NL.
Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman left the game with a bruised left index
finger. He singled home Atlantas first run in the fourth inning, then was hurt
trying to break up a double play when he was hit at close range by
Hanley Ramirezs relay throw. Freeman was called out for interference and
departed. His finger was put in a splint, and X-rays are planned Thursday. “It
doesnt feel good right now,” he said. “My hand was in the wrong place at the
wrong time.” Brian McCann had three of the Braves six hits and scored a run. “I
worked the count a little bit,” McCann said. “When I got my pitch, I didnt
miss.” Josh Johnson (3-4) lost for the first time in his past four decisions
even though he went a season-high 7 2-3 innings and allowed two runs. “The good
thing out of all this is the way J.J. threw the ball,” Marlins manager Ozzie
Guillen said. “Thats a step forward. Thats the first time Ive seen him throw the
ball like that. His velocity and command were a lot better.” Delgado retired the
first 12 batters before Giancarlo Stanton doubled to lead off the fifth. He
scored the Marlins first run of the series on a two-out single by Bryan Petersen
—only his second RBI this season. That was the Marlins final hit. Jose Reyes
went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts, ending the longest active hitting streak in
the majors at 15 games. “Their pitcher was better than we were,” Guillen said.
“Sometimes youve got to tip your hat.” NOTES: Marlins OF Austin Kearns
(hamstring) was hit on the elbow in a game Wednesday during a rehabilitation
assignment, which may delay his return from the disabled list. ... The Braves
have won nine of their past 11 games in Miami. ... Kimbrel has 34 strikeouts in
21 innings. ... Miamis Logan Morrison is batting .368 in day games and .142 at
night. ... The Marlins bullpen has allowed only five home runs, fewest in the
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Those are relatively new sensations for the on-the-rise Washington Nationals,
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Complex. DETROIT —If there were a quick and easy solution, surely this bunch
would have figured it out by now. Alex Rodriguez has over 600 home runs.
Curtis Granderson hit 43 during the regular season. Robinson Cano is one of the
best all-around players in the game. The three of them are trapped in the throes
of batting slumps at the worst possible time, and the rest of the New York
Yankees havent been much better. “There is no explanation sometimes in
baseball,” first baseman Mark Teixeira said. Put it this way: How is it possible
that St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter, a career .118 hitter, has as
many hits in the last two postseasons as A-Rod? More extra-base hits for
Carpenter, too. Like a golfer with the shanks during a major tournament, the
Yankees have looked helpless at the plate in the biggest games of the season.
They were hitting .205 in these playoffs as they prepared for Game 3 of the AL
championship series Tuesday night. New York lost the first two games to the
Detroit Tigers. Shortstop Derek Jeter is injured, and aside from unsung
outfielder Raul Ibanez and Teixeira, New Yorks power hitters have seemed lost.
Its the type of October swoon that can derail a season, and no team is ever
really safe. “Its a tough game. No matter what kind of career—what kind of
lineup you throw out there—youre going to have those times when its not
clicking,” said St. Louis manager Mike Matheny, whose team is playing San
Francisco in the NLCS. “Youve just got to battle through those times, because
theyre bound to happen.” Rodriguez is 3 for 23 in the playoffs. Over the last
two postseasons, he has five hits—the same number as Carpenter. Manager
Joe Girardi has pinch hit for A-Rod late in games and left him out of the
starting lineup Tuesday for the second time in less than a week. Granderson is 3
for 26 in these playoffs. Canos collapse is even more startling. The second
baseman finished the regular season on a 24-for-39 tear, but hes 2 for 32 since
then and was hitless in his last 26 at-bats entering Tuesday, a record for a
single post-season. Nick Swisher (4 for 26) and Russell Martin (5 for 26) arent
producing either, and Swisher was also out of the starting lineup Tuesday. The
Yankees won a key game in the division series aggainst Baltimore when Ibanez hit
a pair of late homers, and he hit another in Game 1 versus Detroit during a
four-run ninth inning against struggling closer Jose Valverde. NFL
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York offence lately. “To have that many guys and that many good hitters, sure
its surprising. Im sure its frustrating for them to have that happen to them,”
San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said. “Youre always going to see good pitching
this time of year, you understand that, but for them to have that many
struggles, I think theyre a little surprised.” In the regular season, patience
is a virtue. Streaks and slumps have time to even out over the course of 162
games. A player can start poorly but finish the year with his usual impressive
statistics, the way Albert Pujols did. “You know the Yankees are going to break
out here at some point,” Detroit manager Jim Leyland said. “That is just a
matter of fact.” Maybe so, but they cant afford to wait much longer. “The teams
not going to be too high or too low during the regular season, but in the
post-season you have five or seven games, everything is magnified,” Teixeira
said. “A two-game losing streak during the regular season, no one even talks
about. But two games in a row in a seven-game series is a big deal, so we have a
big hole to dig ourselves out of.” The worst post-season batting average by a
team that played at least seven games is .195, shared by the 1956 Brooklyn
Dodgers and 1965 Minnesota Twins, according to STATS, LLC. The 1974 Oakland
Athletics won the World Series despite hitting .198 in the post-season. The 1962
Yankees did as well, even though Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were a combined 7
for 48. Perhaps the most encouraging historical memory for the Yankees comes
from another of their championship seasons. In 1996, New York was shut down by
Atlanta in the first two games of the World Series. At that point, the Braves
had won five straight games by a combined score of 48-2. Then the Yankees took
the next four and won the title. “Its just baseball. Things turn in a matter of
a heartbeat,” Granderson said. “Its amazing how things tend to go that way—
from the good side to the bad side, from the bad side to the good side.” ’ ’ ’
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