European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 42 stars and stripes june 2007 Teahen Powers to rout of Louis by Doug Tucker the associated press Kansas the table was set for Kansas cites feast famine offence and the royals rigged two triples and five Bis for Mark four hits for Tony Pena three Bis each for Emil Brown and David and a Mammoth Home run for Alex Gordon for the second night in a it All added up to a 178 Victory thursday night Over Louis one night after the cardinals shut them out on one hit through eight the royals have aver aged almost 10 runs in seven Vic tories this including 17run rubbings of two National league contenders within the last five but if they Arent scoring there hardly scoring at aver aging Only runs in six june please i wish i said manager buddy Teahen had an rib single in the second a two run Tri ple in the fourth and another two run triple in the Mark ing the 26th time in club history someone tripled twice in a if we could figure it wed skip those games where we dont put up any Teahen in just going to enjoy the games like i wish we could save a few of these taking two of the three games gave the royals a series Victory Over their state rivals for the first time since some of our younger Guys Are starting to play with some conf i Bell were getting some production from top to thirteen batters went to the plate in the eight run second in Ning and 10 batted in the six run Kansas City had 15 hits and the cardinals had it was the third time in fran Chise history the royals scored six or More runs in an inning twice in the same and the cardinals most lopsided loss since a 206 rout last june 20 at the Chicago White it was a Tough commented Louis manager Tony la who had Little to Kip the first Pitcher in the majors to 10 became the first to the right hander was charged with six runs on three hits and four walks in his shortest Outing off the he lost his eighth straight not a whole lot to la Russa he had a Tough he struggled with every i dont think it makes a lot of sense to break it just say he struggled and that he had a Tough royals starter Scott Elarton was almost equally lasting Only two plus innings and allowing six runs and five hits with three the Victory went to reliever Zack Greinke who pitched four innings and gave up a run and four Greinke also won in Relief in sundays 175 Victory Over Phila when you score 17 runs you have production top to said that key for us because we dont have an Albert the cardinals got Home runs de Zurc Aap Louis starting Pitcher Kip Wells adjusts his Cap after hitting Kansas cites David Dejesus with a pitch with the bases loaded during the second inning of thursdays game Ryan Shealy from Pujols and Chris who had a three run shot off Elar ton and an rib single off Joey Gathright Drew Wells fourth loading the bases with one out in the and a run came Home when Wells hit Dejesus with an 02 Esteban German then knocked Wells out of the game with a two run bringing an ineffective Randy Flores out of the Teahen greeted Flores with an rib and Browns two run double put the royals on top Pena made it 94 a few minutes later with his second single of the whose Home run wednesday night travelled 430 hit a two run shot almost into the same spot in the baseball lawyers involved in Giambi talks the associated press new York lawyers for the baseball players Union and the commissioners office Are discuss ing ways to bring about a meeting Between Jason Giambi and steroids investigator George Mitch the talks were expected to extend into the weekend and Possi Bly next a person familiar with negotiations said speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the baseball commissioner Bud Selig said june 6 that he wanted Giambi to meet with Mitchell within two weeks and to Cooper ate fully with the steroids invest Selig threatened to discipline the new York Yankees designated hitter following published remarks by Giambi that seemed to be an admission of steroids Selig said he would take Liambis cooperation with Mitchell into account in determining any suspension or Fine would be challenged by the players which says Selig Doest have just cause under baseballs labor contract to penal ize based on there is a reasonable likelihood an arbitrator would overturn any tigers Wilson out for year following Elbow surgery Detroit tigers Catcher Vance Wilson had season ending Elbow surgery wednesday and could be sidelined Well into next who has been on the disabled list the entire had Tommy John surgery and is expected to be out for nine months to a Wilson hit As Ivan Rodriguezs backup last helping the tigers earn a postseason bid for the first time since he went on the disabled list at the end of Spring then reinsured the Elbow earlier this month while on a rehab assign ment at triple Mike who began the season with one game of major league is hitting in 18 games As Rodriguezs Back Grudzielanek to have surgery on left knee Kansas Kansas City royals second baseman Mark Grudzielanek will have sur Gery on his left knee for the Sec Ond time since and the team Doest know How Long hell be team physician Steve Joyce will perform the procedure on who won a Gold Glove award last sea has been one of the royals steadies hitters this he leads the team with 18 doubles and drove in seven runs in the three game series last weekend against on he was 3fors and matched his Ca reer High with five the royals also said thursday that right hander Brandon Duck Worth had joined Grudzielanek on the disabled list because of a strained muscle in his he was Hurt while pitching against Louis on wednesday Murray fired by dodgers los Angeles the Dodg ers fired Hall of Famer Eddie Murray As hitting coach thurs Day after completing a three game sweep of the no East leading new York mets in which they got 31 hits and scored 18 Bill hired As special assistant to general manager Ned Colletti during the will serve As interim hitting Colletti said the move had been considered for some we dont do anything Here Quick or without a lot of thought and a lot of he said during a Telephone conference we feel like theres a lot of the season left and the offence can be a lot better than it we decided to do it nationals sweep 3 from of by David Ginsburg the associated press Baltimore it had been More than a year since the Washington nationals swept a series on the yet the clubhouse was remarkably subdued after their third straight Victory Over the Baltimore maybe its because the nation als Arent really surprised by their recent run of Ryan Zimmerman singled in the tie breaking run in the eighth inning to Back Jason Simontas Chis Best Start of the and the nationals completed a sweep of the orioles with a 31 Victory thursday Felipe Lopez and Ryan Langer Hans had an rib apiece for the who have won five of it was Washington second sweep of the its first on the Road since june 2006 in Mil regardless of what people have said about this we knew we could now were playing nationals manager Manny Acta we have played Well on the we won two in Minnesota and a sweep we feel we have showed we can play with there was talk Early in the sea son of the nationals losing at least 100 now Treyve got the same record As the orioles we knew we could compete with reliever Jon Rauch now were playing Well and showing that we Simontacchi 44 allowed one nine hits and four walks in seven plus the Only other time this season he gave up fewer than three runs was on May 23 against when he yielded one run but get out of the sixth Jay Gibbons drove in the Lone run for the who stranded Baltimore has lost five straight and 10 of 12 to fall to a season High eight games under its been this whole stretch weve been said Kevin who went 2for2 with two weve lost a lot of one run we Haven gotten a big hit in the right but we cant feel sorry for nobody going to feel sorry for asked if the orioles had reached a new Low in an already distressing manager Sam Perlozzo were eight games id say Perlozzo denied feeling the but he was tossed from a game for the second time in seven in not getting ejected be cause in he Ive put up with it until a week or so i think Ive been pretty a Simontacchi was lifted after Miguel Tejada led off the eighth with a Billy Traber walked Aubrey and Rauch came in to face Jay who struck out trying to Rauch got out of the inning by striking out Paul Bako with the bases loaded and two
