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The Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals made waiver-wire moves

04-01-2019 at 02:01:09 AM

The Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals made waiver-wire moves

Sunday in an attempt to boost their pitching rotations for the stretch run.The Brewers added Jordan Lyles via a waiver claim Julio Urias Jersey , per an announcement by the San Diego Padres.The Cardinals announced they were awarded Tyson Ross in a separate waiver move.Lyles began the 2017 season in the bullpen for the Colorado Rockies, but after struggling and getting released in August, he signed with the San Diego Padres and moved back into a starting role.This season has been much better for Lyles, who has a 4.29 ERA with 62 strikeouts in 71.1 innings. He's made 24 appearances, including eight starts. He posted a 7.75 ERA over 38 appearances for the Rockies and Padres in 2017.Lyles was a highly touted prospect out of high school, as the Houston Astros selected him with the 38th overall pick in the first round of the 2008 MLB draft. The South Carolina native made his major league debut for the Astros in 2011 and spent three seasons with the organization before he was traded to the Rockies prior to the 2014 campaign.Lyles' best season was in 2014, when he went 7-4 with a 4.33 ERA http://www.dodgersfanproshop.com/authentic-max-muncy-jersey , 1.37 WHIP and 6.4 strikeouts per nine innings across 22 starts for Colorado. Aside from that year, Lyles has never posted an ERA under 5.00.Milwaukee failed to address its rotation prior to the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline, so Lyles can slot into the unit as the Brewers try to keep pace with the Chicago Cubs in the National League Central. He could also pitch from the bullpen, providing another bridge to Josh Hader and Corey Knebel.Ross gives the Cardinals rotation insurance with Carlos Martinez and Michael Wacha on the disabled list. The right-hander has a 4.45 ERA with 112 hits allowed and 107 strikeouts in 123.1 innings.St. Louis entered play Sunday with a 57-54 record. It trailed Chicago by 7.5 games and Milwaukee by 6.5 in the NL Central and was four games behind the Atlanta Braves for the second wild-card spot. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays and their parade of relievers are closing in on some franchise history.Ryan Yarbrough helped extend Tampa Bay’s shutout streak to 23 innings, and the Rays got their only run via video replay in a 1-0 win over the Kansas City Royals on Monday night.The franchise record for consecutive scoreless innings is 27, set in 2013. Tampa Bay began this streak with 14 shutout innings against the Boston Red Sox Chris Taylor Jersey , including a 2-0 win Sunday.“They shut out the best team in the league yesterday so that tells you how good they’re doing now,” said Willy Adames, who drove in the game’s only run.Yarbrough (12-5) pitched 5 1/3 innings in relief of opener Hunter Wood. The rookie left-hander gave up two hits and a walk while striking out six, earning his major league-leading 10th relief win.Yarbrough has primarily been a long man out of the bullpen while Tampa Bay has experimented with using relievers for one or two innings at the start of most games. He leads the majors with 96 relief innings and has a 3.84 ERA.“It’s something that you see another guy doing really well, and … we’re all competitive by nature or we wouldn’t be here,” Yarbrough said. “We just want to go out there and do the same, if not better. A little friendly competition in the clubhouse never hurts.”Ryne Stanek pitched a scoreless eighth inning http://www.dodgersfanproshop.com/authentic-max-muncy-jersey , and Jose Alvarado pitched the ninth for his fifth save.After singles by Ji-Man Choi and Kevin Kiermaier in the second inning, Adames hit a two-out chopper over third base. Adames beat Rosell Herrera’s throw across the diamond, but it took a 43-second review to reverse the original out call.“Usually the run you score in the second inning doesn’t define the game. It was pretty unusual,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said. “It just shows we had to play seven innings of perfect baseball.”The run came off right-hander Jorge Lopez, who pitched five innings in his second major league start. Lopez (0-3) gave up five hits and three walks.The Royals, who were shut out for the ninth time this season, are 0-4 against Tampa Bay with all four losses coming by one run. They never got a runner as far as third base Monday night.“The pitching was fantastic. We just couldn’t muster any offense Ross Stripling Jersey ,” Royals manager Ned Yost said.Kiermaier had three of Tampa Bay’s eight hits after coming into the game batting .127 in August.Royals reliever Jake Newberry struck out three in 1 2/3 innings in his major league debut.Wood pitched 1 2/3 innings, giving up two hits with two strikeouts.TRAINER’S ROOMRoyals: LHP Danny Duffy (left shoulder) “felt really good” after a bullpen session, according to manager Ned Yost, who will determine Tuesday whether Duffy will pitch Thursday night’s series finale.Rays: INF Daniel Robertson said recent surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left thumb went well and he has no pain. Robertson hasn’t given up on getting at-bats during the final days of the season. “There won’t be any rushing it,” he said. … LHP Vidal Nuno (strained right hamstring) will make his second rehab start Tuesday night with Class A Charlotte and should be back in September.MINORS MATTERSLHP Matthew Liberatore, taken by the Rays in the first round of the 2018 draft, allowed three hits and struck out eight over five innings to get his first pro win in the GCL Rays’ 6-0 victory over the Twins. He has a 0.98 ERA over 27 2/3 innings in eight starts.UP NEXTLHP Blake Snell (14-5) will pitch Tuesday night’s game against Royals RHP Glenn Sparkman (0-1). Snell http://www.dodgersfanproshop.com/authentic-max-muncy-jersey , whose 2.10 ERA ranks second in the AL, has not given up a run in two straight starts of five innings each.

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