Tue, 08/17/2010 - 09:09 by Prince damin
New York -- Max Scherzer tossed six shutout innings and Ryan Raburn homered Monday to pace the Detroit Tigers to a 3-1 decision over the New York Yankees.
Scherzer (8-9) baffled the Yanks on two hits, walking two and striking out six to notch a win in his first career appearance against New York.
Phil Coke and Ryan Perry combined for 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief and Jose Valverde picked up his 23rd save despite allowing a run in the ninth, securing a Tigers victory in the first of four games in New York.
Raburn socked a two-run shot in the second off Javier Vazquez (9-9), who yielded just those two runs in four innings of work for New York.
The Yankees fell into a tie with Tampa Bay for first place in the American League East
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Mon, 05/31/2010 - 09:44 by Pankaj Damin
Detroit -- Max Scherzer threw 5 2/3 shutout innings and Miguel Cabrera went 4-for-5 with four RBI Sunday in the Detroit Tigers' 10-4 win over Oakland.
Scherzer (2-4), making his first start since being recalled from Triple-A Toledo to replace Dontrelle Willis in the Tigers' rotation, was spectacular, fanning 14 batters and allowing only a pair of hits in his start.
Joel Zumaya gained his first save of the year by pitching a scoreless eighth and ninth innings.
Cabrera smashed his 14th homer of the year in the eighth inning after also plating a run with an RBI double in the third to make it 3-0 Detroit, helping the Tigers salvage one contest of the three-game weekend series with the A's.
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Sat, 09/26/2009 - 12:54 by shalini.bahadur
Phoenix, Sept. 26: Kevin Correia reached a career milestone Friday by throwing a six-hit shutout that gave San Diego a 4-0 victory over Arizona.
In the 78th start of his major league career, spread over seven seasons, Correia threw his first shutout and first complete game. He has also made 124 relief appearances.
Correia (12-10) struck out seven and walked only one.
Will Venable and Chase Headley drove in runs in the fourth, Adrian Gonzalez had an RBI single in the fifth and David Eckstein delivered another score with a single in the seventh.
The loss went to Max Scherzer (9-11), who surrendered three runs on five hits in five innings.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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Sat, 08/29/2009 - 10:10 by preet_20
Phoenix, Aug. 29: Alex Romero finished off a seven-run third inning with a three-run homer Friday to send Arizona coasting to a 14-7 win over Houston.
Romero's home run was the first of the year for Romero and the second of his major-league career. He has spent most of this season with Class AAA Reno.
The Diamondbacks pounded out 16 hits in the slugfest.
Arizona sent 11 men to the plate in its big third inning, and the first seven reached base.
Ryan Roberts opened the inning with a walk off Yorman Bazardo (0-1), went to second on a single by Justin Upton and scored on a base hit by Mark Reynolds.
Miguel Montero then doubled home Upton, and Gerardo Parra's double drove in Reynolds and Montero.
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Wed, 08/12/2009 - 11:20 by preet_20
Phoenix, Aug. 12: Gerardo Parra and Alex Romero had two RBI each and Max Scherzer struck out eight in Arizona's 6-2 win over the struggling New York Mets Tuesday.
Scherzer (7-6) notched the win with 6 2/3 innings in which he allowed two runs on eight hits and fanned eight.
Jeff Francoeur had a leadoff home run in the second inning for the Mets, who lost for the eighth time in their last 10 games.
Livan Hernandez (7-7) lasted only four innings in the start, giving up five runs on six hits and three walks. He struck out five.
Francoeur's homer tied the game 1-1 but the Diamondbacks scored three times in the third to take a 4-1 lead. Romero had a two-run single in the frame.
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Mon, 07/27/2009 - 11:55 by surajdogra
Phoenix, July 26: Max Scherzer and Blaine Boyer combined on a five-hit shutout Sunday to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 9-0 rout of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Scherzer (6-6) scattered the five hits over seven innings with no walks and eight strikeouts. Boyer retired the six batters he faced in relief.
Gerardo Parr had three hits -- one a two-run homer -- and four RBI. Mark Reynolds had two hits -- one a two-run third-inning homer, and Ryan Roberts and Chris Young had two hits and one RBI apiece. Stephen Drew had two hits, while Miguel Montero added one RBI for the Diamondbacks, who have won four of six.
Garrett Jones, Brandon Moss, Jack Wilson, Steve Pearce and Ryan Doumit all had one hit for the Pirates, who have lost four of six.
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Thu, 07/09/2009 - 11:51 by preet_20
Phoenix, July 8: Felipe Lopez hit a three-run homer in a five-run eighth Wednesday, rallying the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 6-2 win over the San Diego Padres.
Wednesday's victory finished a three-game sweep.
His only hit capped the scoring with two outs in the bottom of the eighth after the contest was tied 2-2 when the inning started.
Chad Tracy had two hits and one RBI.
Two others had one RBI, while Gerardo Parra also had two hits for the Diamondbacks, who have a season-high five-game winning streak after sweeping a series for the first time this season.
The winner was reliever Clay Zavada (2-2).
Starter Max Scherzer gave up two runs and four hits in seven innings with three walks and nine strikeouts.
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Sat, 07/04/2009 - 09:55 by preet_20
Denver, July 3: Jorge De La Rosa threw eight shutout innings Friday and the Colorado Rockies opened a 10-game homestand with a 5-0 blanking of Arizona.
The Diamondbacks, who committed three errors and had only four hits, have lost eight of their last nine.
De La Rosa (5-7) won his third straight start. He allowed all four Arizona hits, struck out six and walked four.
Joel Peralta and Huston Street finished off the shutout by combining for a perfect ninth.
Ian Stewart put the Rockies in front with a solo homer in the second.
Max Scherzer (5-6) took the loss. He allowed five runs, three of them earned, on six hits in six innings.
The game was delayed 22 minutes at the start by rain.
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Wed, 06/24/2009 - 12:57 by preet_20
Phoenix, June 24: Justin Upton and Felipe Lopez both drove in three runs in Arizona's 8-2 romp over the Texas Rangers Tuesday.
The first three batters in the Diamondbacks' lineup accounted for eight of the team's 11 hits and scored five runs.
Max Scherzer (5-4) won his third consecutive start by yielding two runs on seven hits and striking out seven in six innings.
Matt Harrison (4-5) took the loss after being roughed up for seven runs on seven hits in a 2 2/3-inning start. The loss equaled a season-high five-game losing streak for the Rangers.
Upton started things with a two-run homer in the first inning. The Diamondbacks added two more in the second on Lopez's bases-loaded single.
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Thu, 06/18/2009 - 12:09 by preet_20
Kansas City, Mo. June 18: A two-run homer by Mark Reynolds and a bases-loaded triple from Stephen Drew Wednesday helped carry Arizona to a 12-5 battering of Kansas City.
The Diamondbacks ended a three-game skid by getting to starter Zack Greinke and then beating up on the Kansas City relief corps. Greinke (8-3), who won eight of his first nine decisions, has allowed 31 hits and 15 earned runs in his last 26 innings.
Arizona had only a 4-2 lead going into the seventh inning and two of those four runs were unearned thanks to a pair of Kansas City errors in the fourth.
Greinke, however, gave up a one-out double to Drew in the seventh and Reynolds hit his 18th homer of the season.
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Sun, 05/17/2009 - 11:57 by Salinder Kumar
Atlanta -- Max Scherzer and four relievers combined on a seven-hit shutout Saturday when the Arizona Diamondbacks rolled to a 12-0 win over the Atlanta Braves.
It was Arizona's first win for Manager A.J. Hinch.
Scherzer (1-3) recorded his first major league victory by hurling 5 1/3 scoreless innings with four hits, three walks and four strikeouts.
Arizona was leading 6-0 before adding six runs in the top of the ninth -- four on Chris Snyder's one-out grand slam.
He matched his single-game career high five RBI by also hitting a second-inning sacrifice fly.
Center fielder Gerardo Parra had three hits and three RBI.
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