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DENVER -- Jorge De La Rosa has fashioned a pretty good comeback story that could soon get even better. De La Rosa pitched six strong innings to win his sixth consecutive decision, Todd Helton homered and the Colorado Rockies snapped the Los Angeles Dodgers six-game winning streak with a 7-5 victory on Wednesday night. De La Rosa (16-6), pitching his first full season since returning from reconstructive elbow surgery that sidelined him for a year-and-a-half, allowed two runs and six hits to match his career high for wins in a season. He tied Washingtons Jordan Zimmermann for most wins in the National League. De La Rosa went 16-9 in 2009 for the Rockies and is one win from tying teammate Jeff Francis for most wins in a season by a Colorado left-hander. No Rockies pitcher has ever led the league in wins. "Its pretty amazing, missing a year-and-a-half and coming back and pitching like he has," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. "Thats really difficult to do, just to come back and pitch and be effective. His changeup was really good. I think even when hitters know theyre going to get it, they still swung and missed, so his changeup has been outstanding this year." De La Rosa said hes a better pitcher now, benefiting from all the down time by watching tapes of other pitchers and honing his craft. "Ive learned more about pitching by watching other guys," he said. "Its helped me." Hes also fought through a left thumb bruise that has been bothering him for the past couple of months. "Its still sore, but I want to pitch," De La Rosa said. "Its not worse. Its not better. Its the same. It just needs rest to get better." And that, he said, can wait until the off-season. Colorado built an early lead off Edinson Volquez, who was making his first start for Los Angeles after being signed last week by the Dodgers following his release by San Diego. Volquez (9-11) allowed four runs and six hits in four innings in falling to 0-5 in six starts against Colorado this season. But he felt encouraged by his start and the tweaks in his delivery made by pitching coach Rick Honeycutt. "I was doing everything they wanted me to do," Volquez said. "I just missed a spot today. A lot of pitches out of the strike zone. Two-strike singles. So I got to execute the pitches now, keep the ball down, especially in this ballpark." Rockies rookie third baseman Nolan Arenado left after the fourth inning with a right thumb contusion. The team characterized his availability as day to day. After the Dodgers pulled to 4-2 on Scott Van Slykes bases-loaded double play grounder in the sixth, the Rockies extended their lead to 7-2 in the seventh on an RBI single by Josh Rutledge, a sacrifice fly by Troy Tulowitzki and a balk by Carlos Marmol that brought Rutledge home from third. The Dodgers rallied for three runs in the eighth off Matt Belisle. Michael Young had his second RBI single of the game and one out later, second baseman Rutledge booted A.J. Ellis grounder for an error. Juan Uribe followed with an RBI double and Skip Schumaker had an RBI single. Manuel Corpas relieved, and struck out pinch-hitters Carl Crawford and Yasiel Puig to end the inning. Rex Brothers pitched a scoreless ninth for his 15th save in 16 chances, helped by a running catch of Hanley Ramirezs drive at the warning track in left field by Carlos Gonzalez, who entered in the final inning as a defensive replacement. The Rockies put up at least one run against Volquez in each of his first three innings, starting with an RBI double by Tulowitzki in the first. Tulowitzki took third on a wild pitch and scored on Michael Cuddyers sacrifice fly. Helton drove a 2-2 pitch from Volquez into the Rockies bullpen beyond the centre field fence for his 12th home run to make it 3-1 in the second. A botched rundown in the third led to the Rockies fourth run. Rutledge, who had tripled ahead of Tulowitzkis double, singled to start the inning and advanced to second on a passed ball by Ellis. Tulowitzki grounded to short and with Rutledge breaking for third, Ramirez tried to get the lead runner by throwing the ball to third baseman Uribe. Rutledge retreated to second, managing to outrun Uribe and elude his lunging tag by diving back into the bag as Tulowitzki reached first. Cuddyer followed with a run-scoring single for a 4-1 lead. NOTES: LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu was scratched by the Dodgers from his scheduled start Friday at Cincinnati because of a back injury. RHP Chris Capuano (4-7) will start in his place against the Reds Mike Leake (11-6). The Dodgers travel to Cincinnati on Thursday, an off day. ... Puig was out of the starting lineup for a second straight game while resting a right knee strain but did get an at-bat in the eighth as a pinch-hitter. ... Colorado went 5-4 during its just concluded game homestand. Following an off day, the Rockies on Friday open a nine-game road trip at San Diego with Juan Nicasio (8-7) facing the Padres Burch Smith (0-1). ... Rockies RHP Roy Oswalt, who is on the DL with a left hamstring strain, had a successful rehab start Tuesday night with rookie-level Grand Junction and could be activated by the Rockies sometime this weekend. . Jane Virtanen scored two, and Alex Roach and Elliott Peterson rounded out the offence for the Hitmen (40-15-6). Brady Brassart chipped in with three assists. Colton McCarthy scored twice, Brayden Point had a goal and two assists, and Jack Rodewald also scored for the Warriors (15-35-9), who were 2 for 5 on the power play. [url=http://www.stephencurryshoe.com/ua-basketball-shoes-stephen-curry/ua-stephe... Curry 2 Blue And Yellow . Irving scored 23 points, Tristan Thompson had 20 points and 10 rebounds and the Cavaliers beat the Denver Nuggets 117-109 on Friday night. Under Armour Outlet Stores .J. Jefferson has been charged with assaulting his girlfriend. Under Armour Shoe Clearance Sale . There was no hesitation from the 40th-ranked Pospisil, from Vernon, B.C., who admitted that he cut back on his training sessions over the last few days to conserve energy as the long ATP season finishes next week at the Paris Masters. CHICAGO -- Danny Salazar and Ryan Raburn helped the Cleveland Indians keep pace in the American League wild-card playoff race. The Cleveland bullpen also played a role, too. Salazar struck out nine in 3 2-3 innings, Raburn hit an RBI double in the fifth, and the Indians earned a 3-1 win Friday over the Chicago White Sox. Cleveland defeated Chicago for the 10th consecutive time this season and leads the season series 13-2. The Indians have outscored Chicago 91-49 with four games left between the teams. Salazar is the first Indians starting pitcher since 1916 to strike out at least nine batters in less than four innings. After allowing Dayan Viciedos single with two outs in the fourth on his 78th pitch, he was replaced by Nick Hagadone with runners on first and third. His pitch count was 85 entering the game. "Today I felt good," Salazar said. "Too many pitches." The bullpen, however, made up for that. Hagadone, the first of seven relievers, got pinch-hitter Josh Phegley to ground out and end the fourth. It culminated with Chris Perez earning his 24th save in 28 chances, getting Paul Konerko to fly to centre with runners on first and second to end the game. Jordan Danks also flew out to the wall in deep centre to start the ninth, forcing Michael Bourn to make a leaping catch on the warning track. Combined, the seven Cleveland relievers pitched 5 1-3 innings and only one unearned run. Bryan Shaw (4-3) threw two innings for the win. "Its been good to be able to match up like we have," said Matt Albers, who threw a scoreless third of an inning. "Weve got quite a few left-handed power arms and weve got some righties who can get some guys up. We can probably just match up from the seventh inning on." Raburn went 1 for 3 before getting removed for a pinch-runner in the fifth, one day after playing for the third time since Aug. 18 because of a left heel injury. Raburn has 17 homers and 67 RBIs against the White Sox in 90 games, and his double in the fifth gave the Indians a 2-0 lead. It wasnt quite like Thursday when he went 3 for 3 with a homer and five RBIs, but it was enough for Cleveland. "Just trying to have good at-bats," Raburn said. "Thats all Im doing." The White Sox arent really doing that, and it prevented them from overcoming a short outing by their starter. Hector Santiago (4-9) remained winless since Aug. 18 for Chicago, going four innings and giving up three runs and six hits while walking three.dddddddddddd Santiagos outing was his second shortest since pitching 2 1-3 against the Indians on June 28, when he gave up five earned runs. Unlike White Sox manager Robin Ventura, who said Santiagos wildness might have been caused by fatigue, Santiago was adamant that wasnt the case. "I dont think it had anything to do with tiredness," said Santiago, whos thrown 142 2-3 innings. "The velocitys still there. They battled. I feel like I made good pitches." Santiago and the Chicago pitchers also got little support from the struggling White Sox lineup. Chicago was held to three runs or fewer for the 74th time and has scored five runs in its past four games, all losses. The White Sox have dropped 13 of 15 and fell a season-high 31 games below .500. Chicagos best threat came in the seventh trailing 3-1 when Danks and Marcus Semien singled to start the inning against Cody Allen. Alexei Ramirez then lined out to short, and Allen was replaced by Marc Rzepczynski, who struck out Dunn for the second out of the inning. Albers relieved Rzepczynski and got Konerko to ground to third. Chicago left 13 on base and was 2 for 12 with runners in scoring position. "We did (have opportunities). Even in the last inning, guys still get on base to try and get something going. We had a couple of balls hit hard," Ventura said. "Paulie hit his well and Jordan the same thing. We just couldnt cash that one hit in when we needed it." The Indians did. "Today we didnt have a ton of runs, but we made their starter throw a lot of pitches and we got him out of the game and sometimes thats the way you win," Indians manager Terry Francona said. NOTES: Cleveland RHP Justin Masterson played catch from 75 feet on Friday, one day after throwing from 60. Masterson hasnt pitched since Sept. 2 when he left his start against Baltimore with a strained left oblique. ... Cleveland is carrying 15 relief pitchers, and Francona was asked if its hard to restrain himself from immediately going to the bullpen when a starter first falters. "I think, when you dont give your starter a chance, as long as their stuff looks OK, I think youre asking for trouble," Francona said. ... Dunn went 0 for 4 and dropped to 3 for 34 over his past 10 games. . Saturdays pitching matchup is Clevelands Ubaldo Jimenez (11-9, 3.62) against Chicagos Andre Rienzo (2-1, 4.50). Cheap China Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China China NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys Cheap Jerseys China ' ' '
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