MILWAUKEE -- Yuniesky Betancourts secret to his home run binge is simple.
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plate and I swing," the Milwaukee first baseman said. Betancourts eighth homer
of the season capped a five-run first inning Tuesday night and the Brewers
snapped a season-high five-game losing streak with a 6-3 victory over the Texas
Rangers. Aramis Ramirez also homered for the first time this year and NL batting
leader Carlos Gomez added a two-run double for Milwaukee, which rebounded from a
four-game sweep by visiting St. Louis last weekend. "After a rough five games,
it was a good start," said Gomez, who is hitting .449 during his career-best
13-game hitting streak. "It brought the energy back to the team." Wily Peralta
(3-2) gave up three runs -- two earned -- and five hits in six innings. The
right-hander, who turns 24 on Wednesday, struck out two and did not walk a
batter. "Great sinker, great fastball," Milwaukee manager Ron Roenicke said.
"Had a good change-up and got some outs on it. His slider was a little
inconsistent but this was a great game for him. This is a good lineup to go
through and I really thought he made some great pitches when he needed to."
Three relievers followed with an inning each for the Brewers, including Jim
Henderson in the ninth for his seventh save. Mitch Moreland homered for the
Rangers, who lost consecutive games for the third time this year. They also lost
their season-high fourth straight on the road. Justin Grimm (2-2) gave up five
earned runs on eight hits in five innings after entering the game with a total
of six earned runs allowed this year. The right-hander struck out seven and
walked three. "(The first inning) was long. Too long," Grimm said. "Balls were
finding grass and not gloves. I made a couple of good pitches and I made a
couple of bad ones. It was a little frustrating. It was just that one inning
there." After back-to-back singles by Norichika Aoki and Jean Segura in the
first, Ryan Braun drove in Milwaukees first run with a single over the head of
Nelson Cruz in right field. "Cruz thought he was closer to the wall," Texas
manager Ron Washington said. "He jumped a little too soon and didnt come up with
the ball." But because Segura thought Cruz was going to catch the ball near the
warning track, he was headed back to first when he saw Braun rounding the base
for what turned out to be a long single. Seguras mistake did not cost his team,
however. One by leftfielder David Murphy later in the inning did. With two outs,
Gomez blooped a two-run double to left-centre. Murphy got a bad break on the fly
ball hit to his left, and then it bounced passed him as he ran toward it. "I
lost it," Murphy said. "I dont know exactly what I lost it in. I tried to change
direction just because I was unsure where the ball was. I slipped. I picked it
up again. I went after it, and then I lost it again in the window or whatever
that is up above the seats (behind home plate). It was an unfortunate play."
Betancourt followed with his two-run homer, also to left-centre, to give
Milwaukee a 5-0 lead. "We really shouldnt have been in that (5-0) hole,"
Washington said. Betancourt leads the Brewers with eight homers after hitting
seven last season. "Yuni, if he keeps driving the ball, its impressive but hes
squaring up a lot of baseballs," Roenicke said. "Hes seeing the ball." Texas got
its first run in the second when Moreland hit his fifth homer, a solo shot to
left-centre. It was the only hit for the Rangers in the first four innings. In
the sixth, Texas added two more runs. Adrian Beltre hit a grounder to Ramirez at
third that bounced off his glove and allowed Jeff Baker to score from third.
Cruzs sacrifice fly scored Elvis Andrus and cut Milwaukees lead to 5-3. Ramirez
made it 6-3 with his homer to left off reliever Jason Frasor. Milwaukees Tom
Gorzelanny pitched the seventh and Brandon Kintzler the eighth. NOTES: Milwaukee
is 10-3 when scoring first. ... Braun extended his interleague hitting streak to
29 straight games dating back to June 17, 2011 at Boston. . The last time these
teams met was June 13, 2010, at Miller Park. ... Grimm has 16 strikeouts in his
last two games -- both losses. ... This is the sixth time and first since 2006
that Texas played a different opponent on three consecutive days. The Rangers
hosted Boston on Sunday and played the Cubs at Wrigley Field on Monday.
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many positives from the Orlando Magics first victory of the season that it was
hard for coach Jacque Vaughn to stop praising his players.
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schedule. The 36-year-old American also turned in the top time in Thursdays
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. Pirlo limped out of Sundays 1-0 win over Udinese after just 13 minutes.
Juventus says Pirlo underwent tests on Monday which revealed he has "a
second-degree lesion to the collateral medial ligament in his right knee.TORONTO
- If youve played or coached in the NBA long enough, you probably have a tried
and tested method for shaking off unsettling losses. A couple days removed from
the Raptors most recent defeat, a triple overtime loss to the Washington
Wizards, Dwane Casey is still making notes, having reviewed the game tape two or
three times since Thursday night. DeMar DeRozan has also watched the tape,
hoping to identify areas of weakness in his and the teams performance. However,
that form of reflection is not for everybody. Some prefer to look ahead, rather
than dwell on the past. "I didnt watch it," Kyle Lowry admitted. "No. We lost. I
didnt watch that game." The Raptors overcame a spotty showing on the boards,
giving up 18 offensive rebounds, and in the trenches, allowing 80 points in the
paint, giving themselves a couple of opportunities to steal a victory in what
would eventually become the franchises longest game. In the end, Toronto simply
ran out of bullets. By the third overtime period, they were without Lowry,
Amir Johnson and Patrick Patterson - all having fouled out - as well as
Terrence Ross, who left the game with an ankle injury in the first half. "Its
definitely tough, just to watch it and understand how close we came to pulling
it [out] but it happens," said DeRozan, who scored 34 points - his third 30-plus
point outing in the last five games - in 57 minutes of action. "Its the NBA and
youve got to learn from it." For Jonas Valanciunas, who struggled in overtime
after sitting out the entire fourth quarter, Thursdays loss was another learning
experience, one Casey hopes his young centre wont take too personally. "We all
make mistakes," Casey said following practice Friday afternoon. "He made some
mistakes down the stretch, hes got to learn from them, not get his head down
[or] feel like the weight of the world is on his shoulders [and] play
basketball." "Hes 21-years-old, not really good looking but a nice looking guy,"
he joked. "Why be stressed about anything?" "His role is to go in, have fun,
learn, get better, improve and try to play the game the right way. If you make a
mistake, okay, learn from it. Dont make the same mistake twice." With a rare
four-day break looming, the Raptors have an opportunity to redeem themselves
when they host the Golden State Warriors Sunday. Its been nearly three full
months since they last saw the Warriors but their 112-103 loss in Oakland on
Dec. 3 is not one that can easily be forgotten. "Me personally, I remember it,"
Lowry said of that game, in which the Raptors surrendered a 27-point lead, the
largest collapse in franchise history. "At the end of the day, were a different
team, theyre a different team so were just going to go out there and play our
game..
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the trade of Rudy Gay, Toronto led 88-70 after 36 minutes before the Warriors
went off for a 42-point quarter. Since that night, the Raptors have gone 26-15
while solidifying themselves as one of the leagues best fourth quarter teams,
holding opponents to 21.9 points in the final frame, first in the NBA. The
Raptors have lost only two games when leading going into the fourth quarter this
season. "It was tough, man," DeRozan said, looking back on that night. "I think
that game really bothered us afterwards because we had them beat and before you
know it, they started raining threes. It sucks to lose like that so we
definitely understand that and I definitely think everyone remembers that."
Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson accounted for 26 points, on 6-of-7 shooting from
three-point range, in the fourth, carrying the Warriors to victory. The Raptors
are winless in seven games facing Golden State with Curry in the lineup,
allowing 119.3 points in those contests. The all-star guard averages 27.3 points
and 8.7 assists against Toronto, his highest marks against any opponent in his
career. "You have two of the best shooters in Golden State, probably in the
league," DeRozan said of Curry and Thompson. "The way Steph can score the ball
at an all-time high is definitely amazing and youve got a guy like Klay that can
catch and shoot at will. It makes it tough so weve got to come out [Sunday]
night and be aggressive on both ends, make it tough on them." Averaging a
combined 41.8 points per game, the Warriors duo of Curry and Thompson is the
NBAs highest scoring backcourt, just ahead of Lowry and DeRozan, who average
39.6. Lowry was a full participant in practice Saturday and insists he is good
to go against the Warriors after coming down on his right ankle at the end of
regulation Thursday. Ross was held out of practice as a precaution, though he
did get some work in on the stationary bike, and is considered questionable for
Sundays contest. The Raptors, who have won 12 of their last 16 at home, havent
lost back-to-back games at the Air Canada Centre since Dec. 1 and hope to avoid
doing so against the red-hot Warriors. Golden State, in the middle of a
season-long six game road trip, has won five of six. After being held to 83
points and losing to the Bulls by 20 on Wednesday, they scored a season-high
126, dismantling the Knicks by 23 Friday night. "We stopped attacking the
basket, settled for jump shots, we tried to play their game and theyre better at
it," Casey said of his teams collapse in Oakland. "[We] didnt do a good job of
handling their pressure offensively. They made some tough shots, now weve got to
go down, attack the paint, make them play defence [and] attack the rim if our
jump shots are not falling."
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