ドジャースは、エリックミルトンを故障者リストに入れる

Milton (2-0) threw 4 1/3 innings Friday night against the Philadelphia Phillies, giving up three runs — two unearned — and eight hits in a game the Dodgers ultimately won, 4-3.

The left-hander missed nearly two コスプレseasons after having an elbow-ligament replacement procedure (the so-called Tommy John surgery) in 2007, and he was called up by the Dodgers last month.

After hearing of Milton’s back problem, Torre said, “We just shut him down because of his history with the surgery and stuff.”

Asked who would replace Milton in the pitching rotation, Torre said “That spot is not [an issue] for a while” because the Dodgers don’t play in three of the next eight days, starting with a day off Monday. Torre said the Dodgers also have left-hander [Eric] Stults as a potential replacement for Milton if necessary. Stults is recovering from a thumb sprain on his pitching hand.

Stults “hopefully will take that little splint off tomorrow and be able to start throwing the ball Tuesday,” Torre said.

Wade’s world

As the Dodgers were celebrating Andre Ethier’s walk-off home run in the 12th inning that beat the Phillies on Saturday, Torre was praising his bullpen, especially Cory Wade.

The right-handed reliever kept the Dodgers in the game until Ethier could bat by shutting out the Phillies on no hits in the 11th and 12th innings.

Wade (1-3, 4.64 ERA) also earned his first win, and entering Sunday’s game against the Phillies he had given up only one run in 6 2/3 innings during his last five outings.

The Indianapolis native was a middle-relief workhorse for the Dodgers last season in his rookie year, in which he threw 71 1/3 innings in 55 games and had a 2.27 ERA.

Despite some rocky outings early this season, “I feel like I’ve gotten back to where I was last year,” Wade said.

“I was a little ragged for a bit, but you know that’s going to happen when you play a full season; you’re always going to have ups and downs, peaks and valleys,” he said.

Torre said he likes how Wade, 26, challenges hitters. “He’s not afraid to throw the ball at the plate. . . . He can do that because for the most part he’s able to locate,” Torre said.

Wade said, “You can’t start nibbling around because you’ll start missing and all of a sudden you’re behind in the count . . . and you’re at the mercy of the hitter.”

Wade also said he hasn’t felt added pressure lately because the Dodgers’ have scored fewer runs.

“You can’t let that that get to you,” he said. “Whether we’ve got a 10-run lead or a one-run lead or the game is tied,” his job is “just getting guys out as fast as you can to get the ball to [closer Jonathan] Broxton.”

Short hops

Broxton, meanwhile, had thrown 17 2/3 scoreless innings at home this season entering Sunday’s game, with 30 strikeouts and only one walk. . . . After a day off today, the Dodgers play host to the San Diego痴漢 Padres on Tuesday and Wednesday. . . . Parking in Dodger Stadium’s general lots will be free for the three-game series June 16-18 against the Oakland A’s, with the normal $15 charge waived, the Dodgers said

ブルージェイズウィーバーストライキで10以上の勝利

The All-Star game appears on the horizon for Weaver. In perhaps the most dominant performance of a breakout season, Weaver set a career high with 10 strikeouts and scattered three hits over seven innings, leading the Angels to an 8-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday at Rogers Centre.

“I’ve been able,” he said, “to get ぽっちゃりon a good roll.”

He took a no-hitter into the fifth inning. He gave up one run for the third consecutive start and fifth time in six starts, lowering his ERA to 2.26.

Greinke, the unhittable one, is at 1.10. Santana, arguably the best pitcher in baseball, is at 2.00.

Then comes Weaver. John Lackey won a spot on the American League All-Star team two years ago. Joe Saunders and Ervin Santana did so last year.

Weaver (5-2) could give the Angels four homegrown All-Star starting pitchers within three years.

“If it happens, it happens,” Weaver said. “It would be nice to have that under your belt. It would be fun, that’s for sure.”

The Angels had some fun at bat on Wednesday. Bobby Abreu homered, doubled and drove in four runs. Chone Figgins had three hits, including two doubles.

Vladimir Guerrero doubled, singled and walked, giving him seven hits in his last four games, including three for extra bases. In his previous four games — his first since the Angels activated him from the disabled list — he had two hits, none for extra bases.

The Angels started something of a binary lineup, including seven players with either one home run or none.

But one of those players, Abreu, hit his second home run of the season as the second batter of the game, following a single by Figgins. Juan Rivera’s sacrifice fly later in the inning gave Weaver a 3-0 lead before he took the mound.

Weaver did not waver. He struck out the side in the first inning and again in the sixth, mastering a grip on his slider that he has worked on since spring training and mixing the slider effectively with his changeup and fastball.

No Angels pitcher had struck out 10 this season, and Weaver never had done that.

“It’s nice to be able to get to double digits, finally,” he said.

With the development of the slider, Weaver could reinvent himself as a strikeout pitcher, catcher Jeff Mathis said.

“I don’t think he looks at himself that way,” Mathis said. “But if he throws the fastball to both sides of the plate and his slider stays like it is, he can get more punchouts.”

Weaver started his career 9-0, but Manager Mike Scioscia said inconsistency and injury had prevented Weaver from maintaining that level.

“When he first came up, he showed flashes of potential to be one of the top pitchers in our league,” Scioscia said. “You have to do it over time. You have to show consistency.”

Scioscia said he considered Lackey and Toronto ace Roy Halladay among baseball’s elite.

Weaver posted a 2.56 ERA in 2006, then 3.91 in 2007 and 4.33 last year, now 2.26 this year. Scioscia said year-in, year-out アナルconsistency defines an elite pitcher, for Weaver or anyone else.

“His game is where it needs to be for him to have the opportunity to put himself in that elite class of starting pitchers,” Scioscia said. “Time will tell.”

車の利点を否定する理由はない

A district court here ruled illegal the Kita-Kyushu city government’s decision to suspend welfare benefits for a couple because they own a car.In Friday’s ruling, Presiding Judge Takahisa Masuda said that without a car, it would be difficult for Hisako Minekawa, 77, to travel about 15 kilometers to her hospital once a week.援交She uses a wheelchair due to an intractable disease while her husband Yoshikatsu, 68, is unable to work because of his own illness and the amount of time he devotes to caring for her.Masuda said officials at the city could “easily expect” that the couple would experience hardship without the public assistance.The city repeatedly told the couple to part with their minicar after they began receiving welfare benefits in November 2000. チェリーボーイThe payments were suspended from August 2004 to March 2005.

野火McGrathに近いサイズで2日間で2倍に

The fire, sparked by lightning on Sunday, had grown to about 12,000 acres as of last night, said Andy Alexandrou, a public information officer for the Department of Natural Resources.The Kuskokwim River separates McGrath from the fire, which isn’t likely to reach the town of roughly 割り切り300, Alexandrou said. As of Tuesday, about 130 firefighters and support workers were assigned the blaze. Fire officials planned to add roughly 100 more people today. Their focus will be on keeping the fire away from homesteads and cabins援交along the Kuskokwim and Takotna rivers, Alexandrou said. He said he hasn’t heard of any buildings damaged so far, with the fire about 10 percent contained as of Tuesday night.

2007年4月ビール出荷6.4 ％上昇第3のビールのサージ

Shipments of beer and beerlike beverages rose 6.4% year on year to 40.55 million cases in April, according to data released Friday by Japan’s five major beer producers.The second straight month of growth 逆サポwas fueled by a 35.4% surge in shipments of low-price “third beers” on the back of growing price consciousness among consumers.Also buoying the overall figure was a recovery in shipments by Sapporo Breweries Ltd. and other brewers 潮吹きthat saw their numbers drop after price hikes in April 2008.One case of beer contains the equivalent of 20 633ml bottles.

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