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For July 3, 2008
Cody Cubs Baseball
The Cody American Legion baseball team hit the road to face the Lovell Mustangs in Cowley on Wednesday and won 24-19 in eight innings. The Cubs were scheduled for a doubleheader last night but wound up playing just one official game because the first outing went extra innings and the Mustangs don’t have lights on their field.Cody fell behind 1-0 in the bottom of the first inning on a solo homer by Lovell but took a 5-1 lead in the top of the second. With the bases loaded and a run already across, Jeremy Tuten and Dan Sinner drove in one apiece with RBI singles and then Jake Howard knocked in two more with a single. The Mustangs plated a run in the last of the third but the Cubs scored three times in their half of the fourth to go up 8-2. Colter Bostick had a two-run single in the frame and would go 3-for-3 in the contest with three RBIs, reaching base all six times he went to the plate.
But after that, things got interesting. Lovell surged ahead 11-8 in the home half of the fourth with nine runs on six hits and an error, and then pushed across another four runs in the bottom of the fifth to make it a 15-8 game. Cody pulled even at 15-15 with seven runs in the top of the sixth inning. Connor Norton led off with a double, Matt Meyer brought him in with a triple, and then Bostick doubled-in the second run and would later score himself before the Cubs tied things up. Cody gave itself a two-run cushion in the top of the seventh but the Mustangs squared the contest at 17-17 in their last at-bat thanks to a balk with one out and an error with two down to force extra innings. However, the Cubs responded again with seven runs in their half of the eighth, and even though they allowed a pair of runs in the bottom of the frame, they were able to pull out the victory and surpass their win total from last year with 12.
Scoreboard
Wednesday in Major League Baseball, the Colorado Rockies beat the San Diego Padres at home 8-1. The Rox put up seven of their eight runs last night in the first three innings, which included a four-run bottom of the second after the Padres had tied things up at 1-1 in the top of the frame. Garrett Atkins, Troy Tulowitzki, and Yorvit Torrealba all homered in the victory as Colorado won two of three games in the series against San Diego, which has now dropped 15 of its past 18 outings. The Rockies are back on the field this evening in Denver to host the first of four games against the Florida Marlins over the holiday weekend.Elsewhere in the National League, the Dodgers took care of the Astros 4-1. The Brewers handed the Diamondbacks their eighth loss in the last 11 games, getting by them 4-3. The Cubs edged the Giants 6-5. It was the Pirates over the Reds 9-5. A walk-off solo home run in the bottom of the ninth gave the Cardinals an 8-7 triumph over the Mets. The Marlins doubled-up the Nationals 4-2. And the Phillies defeated the Braves 7-3.
In the American League, the Angels beat the A’s 7-4. The Mariners were twice as good as the Blue Jays, winning 4-2. A nine-run bottom of the seventh inning brought the Yankees back from a 7-6 deficit against the Rangers and New York went on to pound Texas 18-7. A leadoff homer in the last of the tenth gave the White Sox their seventh straight victory – a 6-5 extra-inning triumph over the Indians. The Twins scored five times in the bottom of the third frame and made it 13 wins in their past 15 outings by shutting out the Tigers 7-0. The Orioles took care of the Royals 5-2. And the Tampa Bay Rays pushed across six runs in the home half of the seventh to come back and complete a three-game sweep of the Red Sox, sending Boston to its fifth loss in a row with a 7-6 defeat.
News & Notes
In basketball, an NBA franchise will be on the move in the future. The City of Seattle has agreed to part ways with the SuperSonics – a Northwest Division foe of the Denver Nuggets. Team owner Clay Bennett agreed to settle a lawsuit with the city on Wednesday, pre-empting a judge’s ruling on the matter that was supposed to come today. According to Bennett, the settlment calls for an immediate payment of $45 million to the City of Seattle. Another $30 million will be paid to the city in 2013 unless the State of Washington authorizes at least $75 million in public funding to renovate the Sonics’ current home, Key Arena, by the end of the year 2009, or if Seattle gets an NBA franchise of its own again within the next five years. What the agreement does is allow the team to move to Oklahoma City, but it will not be able to bring with it the same name or colors.And we go back to baseball, where the Colorado Rockies placed starting pitcher Jeff Francis on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to June 29 on Wednesday with an inflamed left throwing shoulder. The four-year veteran underwent an MRI exam yesterday after experiencing pain during some warmup pitches late in recent games. Francis’ last outing was last Saturday against the Tigers in Detroit, where he tossed six innings and gave up five runs on 11 hits but did not factor into the decision. The 27-year-old is just 3-and-7 on the mound this season with a 5.67 earned run average after winning 17 games last year. The Rockies recalled left-handed starter Mark Redman from their Triple-A minor league affiliate in Colorado Springs to take Francis’ spot in the rotation. Redman, who’s a nine-year vet, began the season in the majors but was sent down to the minors back in May after beginning the season 2-and-3 with an ERA over seven.
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