Darvish pitches Cubs past Royals 6-1
(UNDATED) – Yu Darvish pitched seven sharp innings and the Chicago Cubs beat the skidding Kansas City Royals 6-1 on Wednesday night for their sixth straight victory. Javier Baez drove in two runs for the Cubs (10-2), who handed Kansas City its sixth consecutive defeat. Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo each had two hits and scored twice. Darvish (2-1) was in midseason form for the second straight outing. He gave up five hits, struck out four and walked one. With the score 2-1, the Royals' best chance to tie the game came in the sixth when Whit Merrifield was on third with one out. Darvish struck out Ryan O'Hearn and retired Salvador Perez on a grounder, ending the threat. The Cubs capitalized on one bad stretch for Royals starter Kris Bubic, who set down his first nine batters, including four strikeouts, before Bryant singled in the fourth. Kansas City (3-10) started the scoring in the third when a double off the left-field wall by Maikel Franco was followed by Nicky Lopez's single, but a potential big inning was thwarted when Merrifield grounded into a 1-4-3 double play. The Cubs took advantage of two fielding mistakes in the eighth and ninth, tacking on four runs to make it 6-1. Bubic (0-2), making his second career start, went six innings and gave up two runs. He struck out six.
OTHER INTERLEAGUE SCORES
Philadelphia 11 – NY Yankees 7 (game one)
NY Yankees 3 – Philadelphia 1 (game two)
Miami 1 – Baltimore 0 (game one)
Miami 2 – Baltimore 1 (game two)
Minnesota 5 – Pittsburgh 2
Toronto 2 – Atlanta 1
Cleveland 2 – Cincinnati 0
Arizona 14 – Houston 7
TUESDAY N.L. SCORES
NY Mets 3 – Washington 1
San Francisco 4 – Colorado 3
LA Dodgers 7 – San Diego 6
TUESDAY A.L. SCORES
Boston 5 – Tampa Bay 0
Oakland 6 – Texas 4
Seattle 7 – LA Angels 6
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