Thursday, August 06, 2009

WPPA / T-102 SPORTS / Thursday

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - J.A. Happ struck out a career-high 10 in his
second shutout of the season, leading the Philadelphia Phillies to
a 7-0 win over the Colorado Rockies last night.Jimmy Rollins,
Jayson Werth and Pedro Feliz all homered. Happ tossed a four-hitter
in his latest outstanding outing. The Phillies finish up the series
this afternoon.

READING, Pa. (AP) - Pedro Martinez recorded nine of his first 12
outs by strikeout and worked six innings for the Double-A Reading
last night, in what could have been his final rehab start before
joining the Philadelphia Phillies. In his best start since signing
a one-year deal, Martinez allowed three runs and five hits without
walking a batter.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Stephen Drew hit a tiebreaking two-run single
in the eighth inning and the streaking Arizona Diamondbacks rallied
to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 last night. Andy LaRoche and
Garrett Jones went deep for the Pirates, who have lost four in a
row and nine of 11. The Pirates once again take on the Arizona
Diamondbacks tonight.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) - Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Juqua
(Juh-KWAY') Parker has been arrested on a marijuana possession
charge in northeastern Pennsylvania. Cops say Parker was found to
be in possession of "a small amount of marijuana" and was taken
to Northampton County Prison. Parker was released after posting
$1,000 bail.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Former Philadelphia 76ers coach Randy Ayers
has returned to the organization as an assistant under Eddie
Jordan. Ayers was fired only 52 games into the 2003-04 season. He
also was an assistant in Orlando and was on Jordan's staff in
Washington.

AMERICAN LEAGUE
Final Detroit 4 Baltimore 2
Final Cleveland 8 Minnesota 1
Final N-Y Yankees 8 Toronto 4
Final Tampa Bay 6 Boston 4
Final Seattle 11 Kansas City 6
Final Chi White Sox 6 L.A. Angels 2
Final Oakland 7 Texas 5

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final N-Y Mets 9 St. Louis 0
Final San Francisco 10 Houston 6
Final Atlanta 6 San Diego 2
Final Arizona 4 Pittsburgh 3
Final Philadelphia 7 Colorado 0
Final Washington 5 Florida 4
Final Cincinnati 4 Chi Cubs 0
Final Milwaukee 4 L.A. Dodgers 1

WNBA BASKETBALL

Final Indiana 76 Chicago 67

Thursday's Schedule - All Times EDT

AMERICAN LEAGUE
Minnesota (Blackburn 8-5) at Cleveland (Carmona 2-6), 12:05 p.m.
Baltimore (Da.Hernandez 3-3) at Detroit (Porcello 9-7), 1:05 p.m.
L.A. Angels (E.Santana 3-6) at Chi White Sox (Danks 9-7), 2:05 p.m.
Texas (Tom.Hunter 3-2) at Oakland (Cahill 6-10), 3:35 p.m.
Boston (Smoltz 2-4) at N.Y. Yankees (Chamberlain 7-2), 7:05 p.m.
Seattle (J.Vargas 3-5) at Kansas City (Chen 0-6), 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Florida (Volstad 8-9) at Washington (Stammen 3-6), 12:35 p.m.
Colorado (Cook 10-3) at Philadelphia (Cl.Lee 8-9), 1:05 p.m.
Arizona (Scherzer 6-6) at Pittsburgh (K.Hart 3-1), 7:05 p.m.
N-Y Mets (Li.Hernandez 7-5) at San Diego (Richard 4-3), 10:05 p.m.
Atlanta (D.Lowe 11-7) at L.A Dodgers (Wolf 5-6), 10:10 p.m.

WNBA
Atlanta at San Antonio, 8 p.m.
Seattle at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

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