European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 46 stars and stripes june 2007 padres win pitching take first in West san Diego tops dodgers with 2 hits Hoffman gets 499 Lenny san Diego padres Marcus Giles drills a single to Center Field in the eighth inning against the dodgers on by Bernie Wilson the associated press san Diego this was a Petco Park the winning team had two hits and the losing team thanks mostly to a Dandy pitching Duel Between Jason Schmidt and Chris Marcus Giles singled in the games Only run in the eighth inning and Trevor Hoffman moved within one save of becoming the first big leaguer with 500 for his career As the san Diego padres beat the los Angeles dodgers 10 tuesday night to reclaim first place in the no we won another ballgame with less than three said Russell who scored the winning run after getting hit on the foot with a pitch and getting into scoring position with a rare stolen theres no better place to play Branyan its refreshing to see a pitchers Duel six out of seven while the padres pitching staff recorded its big league est ninth the padres won for the second time this season while getting just two hits at Petco they also did it april beating san fran Cisco were definitely not going to live on two i Promise Giles tonight youve got to tip your Cap to the pitching performances on both they were just being like were Al ways used and Schmittz coming off the do and putting up a pretty Good perform the dodgers and padres went 17 innings the last time they and this game easily could have gone extra but Branyan was hit in the foot by a pitch from Rudy Seanez 21 with one out in the stole second and scored on Giles hit to Branyan 10th career stolen base in just More than six big league seasons surprised Rudy was a Little slower than the aver age so i Felt if i got a decent jump i could Branyan Russ getting that stolen base was Giles he surprised i was sitting there wondering if i missed a i Landrun or but i found out i didst miss so that san Diego is percentage Points ahead of the Arizona with the Dodg ers a Hal game the padres won for the eighth time in 10 it was just their third Victory in seven games this season against their big Gest the padres and dodgers tied at 8874 last with the padres claiming the division title because they won the sea son series against los Hoffman pitched the ninth to get his 17th save in 19 braves Carlyle gets first Victory since 1999 the associated press Atlanta talk about two improbable pitching performance just Back from the Flor idas Rick Vanden Hurk took a no hitter into the seventh inning for his first career win tuesday a few hours Atlan tas buddy Carlyle pitched one hit Ball for seven innings for his first Victory since then was shipped Back to the minors before he had time to the result was a doubleheader the braves winning the opener 31 behind Carlyle before the marlins Rode the big dutchman to a 51 Victory in the it Felt it Felt said Vanden who had been pitching at double Carolina until he was activated Between Carlyle was feeling too until being told right after the game that he was headed Back to triple unsure about the health of game 2 starter John the braves wanted extra depth in their so they called up reliever Elaine i cant say in not disappoint Carlyle we play the Roundup game to be in a clubhouse like in but theres nothing i can do about while Carlyle was going Vanden Hurk was headed the 6foot5 right hander made his first Start with the marlins since april when the braves roughed him up for six runs in on plus after being demoted to Caroli Vanden Hurk worked on his mechanics and he was a totally different Pitcher this holding the braves without a hit through the first he had a lot of late life on his Atlanta Matt Diaz it was getting up on you could Tell that by the Way we were fouling it straight we didst make the adjustment to catch up to Yusnel Escobar broke up the no hitter with a double into the Loftfield Corner leading off the Sev and Vanden Hurk was lifted after he walked the next Matt Lindstrom worked out of the retiring Andrew Jones on a Popup with runners at Sec Ond and third and striking out Jeff Francoeur to end the Florida Lone hit off Carlyle 11 was Aaron Boones third in Ning which stood until the carlyles wingless drought was 269 Days the longest among Active pitchers until he was Farmed according to the Elias sports if nothing Carlyle was much More appreciative of this win than the first which came when he was called up by san Diego at age the braves Are his seventh and that Doest even include two years spent in when youre Young and Stu you dont realize How Fortu Nate you Are to be up the 29yearold this win Means More than the other i know what a Privi lege it is to play at this pirates nationals 6 Xavier Nady hit a double and a sacrifice both with the bases and Shawn Chacon 20 allowed four runs and eight hits in his third Start since coming out of the Jack Wilson and Ronny Pauli no homered for the who opened a six game Road trip by battering nationals starter Mike Bacsik Brewers cubs 5 Ryan Corey Hart and Tony Graf Fanino hit Solo Home runs and Claudio Vargas 41 won for the first time in a month to Lead Host Chicago starter Ted Lilly 44 gave up All three Home he pitched five allowing six runs and eight hits As Chicago lost for the first time in three games since manager Lou Piniella was cardinals reds 3 at Pinch hitter so Taguchi singled Over a dra Nih Outfield in the ninth inning for his second straight Gam winning Jason Isringhausen 30 walked two and struck out two in the ninth against the who stranded 15 runners and left seven on in the last three astros Rockies 1 at Den Lance Berkman drove in two runs and Wandy Rodriguez 35 pitched five Strong innings to pick up his first win since May the benches briefly cleared in the ninth when Manny Corpas pitched behind Carlos Phil Garner was ejected for arguing with Umpire de Rapuano that 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