WASHINGTON -- Right-handed pitcher Tanner Roark burst upon the major league scene in 2014 as he won 15 games as a member of the Washington Nationals starting rotation. Jose Quintana White Sox Jersey .Last year he spent most of the year in the bullpen as the team signed Max Scherzer to a free agent contract prior to the 2015 campaign.Roark returned to the rotation this year and on Wednesday afternoon he will have a chance to tie a career high as he goes for his 15th win of the year against the New York Mets. He was drafted in the 25th round out of the University of Illinois by the Texas Rangers in 2008 and traded to Washington two years later.He went from being a 15-game winner to going to the bullpen, said Clint Robinson, who knows the feeling as backup first baseman to Ryan Zimmerman. As a professional you kind of want to be at the highest level. I know it had to be tough for him (in 2015). He has been a rock for us all year.Roark has a 1.88 ERA in his career against the Mets. He has thrown 186 1/3 innings this year; he went 198 2/3 in 2014.We are glad to have him. Tanner is one of those guys that grits his teeth and gets the job done, Robinson said.Fellow right-hander Robert Gsellman of the Mets will start on Wednesday in Washington. He began the season with Double-A Binghamton of the Eastern League. The California native got his first win against the Nationals at home Sept. 3 as he went six innings and gave up one run on six hits.The Mets are now nine games behind the first-place Nationals in the National League East but are very much in the wild card hunt after an exciting 4-3 win in 10 innings on Tuesday to the Nationals.New York will got for its seventh straight series win Wednesday.We have a chance to win tomorrow, Mets manager Terry Collins said after rookie T.J. Rivera hit his first career homer, in the 10th, to win the game Tuesday.The Nationals had won their last five games decided by a run.We are not giving up whatsoever. We are right there. It is all about getting the wild card spot, said Josh Edgin, a reliever for the Mets. Maybe we will catch the Nats. We are definitely pushing for the wild card. Maybe we will meet (the Nationals) in the playoffs.Edgin is back with the Mets after missing out on the 2015 season and the World Series berth. Washington won the East title in 2014.They are the top of our division right now, Edgin said of the Nationals. We have to try and win every game. We are trying to get that wild card. Unless something drastic happens that is what we are shooting for.With a large lead the Nationals will try to fine tune their lineup down the stretch. And that means trying to get first baseman Ryan Zimmerman and catcher Wilson Ramos out of extended hitting slumps.Zimmerman is 4-for-28 on the current homestand and 9-for-57 in his last 16 games.Ramos is 5-for-23 on the homestand and 10-for-57 in his last 16 games.Nobody takes it well. It happens, manager Dusty Baker said of slumps. I have to play him enough to keep his confidence up. We need him. I think the guys are pulling for him harder than anybody on the team.Baker hopes Zimmerman can get hot down the stretch and in the playoffs.A couple of weeks is all we need. Confidence is a big key. He is certainly not old. He is not overweight, Baker said.Roark was the losing pitcher Sept. 3 in New York in a 3-1 setback to the Mets and Gsellman. In his previous start Roark went six innings and allowed one run on six hits and two walks with eight strikeouts against the Philadelphia Phillies while he did not figure in the decision on Friday. Bill Melton Jersey . Just not the game. 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Hawaii (2-6) missed 10 of 11 shots in the period.Billings also had three assists, three steals and two blocks.I would say its the focus, having a will to dominate, Billings said. ... Just be tough every possession.Hawaii (2-6) had great trouble setting up plays offensively and breaking UCLAs fullcourt press. Guard Sarah Toeaina led the Rainbow Wahine with 16 points, and Briana Harris had 10 points, all in the second half. Hawaii suited up and played just seven players.Nicole Kornet hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer at the end of the second quarter to give UCLA a 45-17 lead at halftime. She and teammate Kari Korver had a high-flying celebration afterward.It went in, it was fun and it was a good way to end the half, Korbut said.The Bruins had as much as a 33-point lead in the third quarter.Hawaii improved in the second half and outscored UCLA 32-27 in the third and fourth quarters combined.We started to believe that we could at least complete with them, maybe not beat them but compete with them, Hawaii coach Laura Beeman said. I also think UCLA held the reigns back a little to work their stuff, and that allowed us to get in a little rhythm a little bit. I think we competed better in the second half and didnt turn the ball over as much.BIG PICTUREHawaii played back-to-back Top-10 opponents in Mississippi State and UCLA, givingg it an opportunity to test its mettle against the countrys best. Robin Ventura White Sox Jersey. 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Its just a fun time to be a part of UCLA basketball. -- UCLA coach Cori Close on the success of the mens and womens teams and watching the end of UCLAs win over Kentucky on SaturdaySTAT OF THE GAMEUCLA held Hawaii to just three points in the first quarter, the fewest points allowed in a quarter since the womens game instituted four quarters instead of two halves last season.UP NEXTHawaii returns home and is off for a week before hosting Hawaii Pacific on Dec. 11. Then its back to its usual schedule logging plenty of air miles as it plays at Nevada and Boise State.UCLA is off for another week before it hosts Michigan on Dec. 11. After that, the Bruins play three consecutive road games -- at UC Santa Barbara, South Carolina and North Carolina AT&T. Cheap NFL JerseysCheap NFL Jerseys ChinaCheap Jerseys From ChinaCheap NFL Jerseys AuthenticWholesale Jerseys ChinaCheap NFL Jerseys ChinaNFL Cheap Jerseys ' ' '
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