Saturday, July 23, 2011

Hamels, Floyd masterful

In Philadelphia Friday night, Cole Hamels pitched 8 wonderful innings against San Diego to lead the Phillies to a 3-1 win over the Padres. Hamels (12-5, 2.62) allowed just 1 run on 3 hits, walking 1 and striking out 10, as the Phillies improved to 62-36 on the year. Carlos Ruiz (.263) had a hit and a walk, scored a run and drove in another.

In Cleveland, in a matchup of HomeSiders, Gavin Floyd went 7.2 innings of 4-hit shut out ball to best Carlos Carrasco and the Indians, 3-0. Gavin walked no one, and struck out 5, to improve to 8-9, 4.11 for the White Sox. Carrasco, who lost to Alfredo Simon last week, went 6.1, and allowed all 3 runs on a 3-run homer to Carlos Quinten. In all, Carlos (now 8-8, 4.25) allowed 6 hits and 4 walks, while striking out 6. Speaking of Simon, he threw 6 shut out innings against the Angels, before yielding 2 runs in the 7th to suffer the loss in a 6-1 Los Angeles win. Alfredo allowed 6 hits and only 1 walk and is now 2-3, 4.08 for Baltimore.........In Chicago, Michael Bourn (.298) had 3 hits, stole 2 bases (for a major league leading 37) , and drove in a run for the Astros, but the Cubs took a 4-2 victory at Wrigley Field.

The wins by Hamels and Floyd give the HomeSide a total of 62 major league victories so far this year.

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