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Mary Lou Williams

Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and LP versions). Williams wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie.

Early years

The second of eleven children, Williams was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A young musical prodigy, at the age of three, she taught herself to play the piano. Mary Lou Williams played piano out of necessity at a very young age; her white neighbors were throwing bricks into her house until Williams began playing the piano in their homes. At the age of six, she supported her ten half-brothers and sisters by playing at parties. She began performing publicly at the age of seven when she became known admiringly in Pittsburgh as "The Little Piano Girl." She became a professional musician at the age of 15, citing Lovie Austin as her greatest influence. She married jazz saxophonist John Williams in November 1926.

Career

In 1922, at the age of 12, she went on the Orpheum Circuit. During the following year she played with Duke Ellington and his early small band, the Washingtonians. One morning at three o'clock, she was playing with McKinney's Cotton Pickers at Harlem's Rhythm Club. Louis Armstrong entered the room and paused to listen to her. Williams shyly told what happened: "Louis picked me up and kissed me."

In 1927, Williams married saxophonist John Overton Williams. She met him at a performance in Cleveland where he was leading his group, the Syncopators, and moved with him to Memphis, Tennessee. He assembled a band in Memphis, which included Williams on piano. In 1929, 19-year-old Williams assumed leadership of the Memphis band when her husband accepted an invitation to join Andy Kirk's band in Oklahoma City. Williams joined her husband in Oklahoma City but did not play with the band. The group, Andy Kirk's Twelve Clouds of Joy, moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Williams, when she wasn't working as a musician, was employed transporting bodies for an undertaker. When the Clouds of Joy accepted a longstanding engagement in Kansas City, Missouri, Williams joined her husband and began sitting in with the band, as well as serving as its arranger and composer. She provided Kirk with such songs as "Walkin' and Swingin'", "Twinklin'", "Cloudy'", and "Little Joe from Chicago".

Williams was the arranger and pianist for recordings in Kansas City (1929) Chicago (1930), and New York City (1930). During a trip to Chicago, she recorded "Drag 'Em" and "Night Life" as piano solos. She used the name "Mary Lou" at the suggestion of Jack Kapp at Brunswick Records. The records sold briskly, raising Williams to national prominence. Soon after the recording session she became Kirk's permanent second pianist, playing solo gigs and working as a freelance arranger for Earl Hines, Benny Goodman, and Tommy Dorsey. In 1937, she produced In the Groove (Brunswick), a collaboration with Dick Wilson, and Benny Goodman asked her to write a blues song for his band. The result was "Roll 'Em", a boogie-woogie piece based on the blues, which followed her successful "Camel Hop", named for Goodman's radio show sponsor, Camel cigarettes. Goodman tried to put Williams under contract to write for him exclusively, but she refused, preferring to freelance instead.

In 1942, Williams, who had divorced her husband, left the Twelve Clouds of Joy, returning again to Pittsburgh. She was joined there by bandmate Harold "Shorty" Baker, with whom she formed a six-piece ensemble that included Art Blakey on drums. After an engagement in Cleveland, Baker left to join Duke Ellington's orchestra. Williams joined the band in New York City, then traveled to Baltimore, where she and Baker were married. She traveled with Ellington and arranged several tunes for him, including "Trumpet No End" (1946), her version of "Blue Skies" by Irving Berlin. She also sold Ellington on performing "Walkin' and Swingin'". Within a year she had left Baker and the group and returned to New York.

Williams accepted a job at the Café Society Downtown, started a weekly radio show called Mary Lou Williams's Piano Workshop on WNEW and began mentoring and collaborating with younger bebop musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk. In 1945, she composed the bebop hit "In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee" for Gillespie. "During this period Monk and the kids would come to my apartment every morning around four or pick me up at the Café after I'd finished my last show, and we'd play and swap ideas until noon or later", Williams recalled in Melody Maker.

In 1945, she composed the classically-influenced Zodiac Suite, in which each of the twelve parts corresponded to a sign of the zodiac, and were accordingly dedicated to several of her musical colleagues, including Billie Holiday, and Art Tatum. She recorded the suite with Jack Parker and Al Lucas and performed it December 31, 1945 at Town Hall in New York City with an orchestra and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster.

In 1952, Williams accepted an offer to perform in England and ended up staying in Europe for two years. By this time, music had taken over her life, and not in a good way; Williams was mentally and physically drained. When she returned to the United States she took a hiatus from performing, converting in 1956 to Catholicism. This three-year hiatus began when she suddenly backed away from the piano during a performance in Paris in 1954. Her energies were devoted mainly to the Bel Canto Foundation, an effort she initiated to help addicted musicians return to performing. In addition to spending several hours in mass, Williams used her savings as well as help from friends to turn her apartment in Hamilton Heights into a halfway house for the poor as well as musicians who were grappling with addiction; she also made money over a longer period of time for the halfway house by way of a thrift store in Harlem. Her hiatus may have been triggered by the death of her long-time friend and student Charlie Parker in 1955 who also struggled with addiction for the majority of his life. Father John Crowley and Father Anthony aided in persuading Williams to go back to playing music. They told her that she could continue to serve God and the Catholic Church by utilizing her exceptional gift of creating music. Moreover, Dizzy Gillespie convinced her to return to playing, which she did at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival with Dizzy's band. One can notice a significant difference in her works after her hiatus through her willingness to take more risks with her music as well as her renewed outlook as a proponent of jazz and its legacy.

Father Peter O'Brien, a Catholic priest, became her close friend and manager in the 1960s. They found new venues for jazz performance at a time when no more than two clubs in Manhattan offered jazz full-time. In addition to club work, she played colleges, formed her own record label and publishing companies, founded the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival, and made television appearances. Throughout the 1960s, her composing concentrated on sacred music, hymns, and masses. One of the masses, Music for Peace, was choreographed by the Alvin Ailey and performed by the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater as Mary Lou's Mass in 1971. About the work, Ailey commented, "If there can be a Bernstein Mass, a Mozart Mass, a Bach Mass, why can't there be Mary Lou's Mass?" Williams performed the revision of Mary Lou's Mass, her most acclaimed work, on The Dick Cavett Show in 1971.

Following her hiatus, her first piece was a mass that she wrote and performed was named Black Christ of the Andes (1963), a hymn in honor of the Peruvian saint St. Martin de Porres; two short works, Anima Christi and Praise the Lord. Williams put much effort into working with youth choirs to perform her works, including "Mary Lou's Mass" at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City in April 1975 before a gathering of over three thousand. It marked the first time a jazz musician had played at the church. She set up a charitable organization and opened thrift stores in Harlem, directing the proceeds, along with ten percent of her own earnings, to musicians in need. As a 1964 Time article explained, "Mary Lou thinks of herself as a 'soul' player — a way of saying that she never strays far from melody and the blues, but deals sparingly in gospel harmony and rhythm. 'I am praying through my fingers when I play,' she says.'I get that good "soul sound", and I try to touch people's spirits.'" She performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1965, with a jazz festival group.

Throughout the 1970s, her career flourished, including numerous albums, including as solo pianist and commentator on the recorded The History of Jazz. She returned to the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1971. She could also be seen playing nightly in Greenwich Village at The Cookery, a new club run by her old boss from her Café Society days, Barney Josephson. That engagement too, was recorded.

She had a two-piano performance with avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor at Carnegie Hall on April 17, 1977. Despite onstage tensions between Williams and Taylor, their performance was released on an live album titled Embraced.

Williams instructed school children on jazz. She then accepted an appointment at Duke University as artist-in-residence (from 1977 to 1981), teaching the History of Jazz with Father O'Brien and directing the Duke Jazz Ensemble. With a light teaching schedule, she also did many concert and festival appearances, conducted clinics with youth, and in 1978 performed at the White House for President Jimmy Carter and his guests. She participated in Benny Goodman's 40th-anniversary Carnegie Hall concert in 1978.

Later years

Her final recording, Solo Recital (Montreux Jazz Festival, 1978), three years before her death, had a medley encompassing spirituals, ragtime, blues and swing. Other highlights include Williams's reworkings of "Tea for Two", "Honeysuckle Rose", and her two compositions "Little Joe from Chicago", and "What's Your Story Morning Glory". Other tracks include "Medley: The Lord Is Heavy", "Old Fashion Blues", "Over the Rainbow", "Offertory Meditation", "Concerto Alone at Montreux", and "The Man I Love".

In 1981, Mary Lou Williams died of bladder cancer in Durham, North Carolina at the age of 71. Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, and Andy Kirk attended her funeral at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola. She was buried in the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Pittsburgh. Looking back at the end of her life, Mary Lou Williams said, "I did it, didn't I? Through muck and mud." She was known as "the first lady of the jazz keyboard". Williams was one of the first women to be successful in jazz.

Awards and honors

Guggenheim Fellowships, 1972 and 1977.

Nominee 1971 Grammy Awards, Best Jazz Performance – Group, for the album Giants, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby Hackett, Mary Lou Williams

Honorary degree from Fordham University in New York in 1973

In 1980 Williams founded the Mary Lou Williams Foundation

Honorary degree from Rockhurst College in Kansas City in 1980.

Received the 1981 Duke University's Trinity Award for service to the university, an award voted on by Duke University students.

Legacy

In 1983, Duke University established the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture

Since 1996, The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. has an annual Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival.

Since 2000, her archives are preserved at Rutgers University's Institute of Jazz Studies in Newark.

A Pennsylvania State Historic Marker is placed at 328 Lincoln Avenue, Lincoln Elementary School, Pittsburgh, PA, noting her accomplishments and the location of the school she attended.

In 2000, trumpeter Dave Douglas released the album Soul on Soul as a tribute to her, featuring original arrangements of her music and new pieces inspired by her work.

The 2000 album Impressions of Mary Lou by pianist John Hicks featured eight of her compositions.

The Dutch Jazz Orchestra researched and played rediscovered works of Williams on their 2005 album Lady Who Swings the Band.

In 2006, Geri Allen's Mary Lou Williams Collective released their album Zodiac Suite: Revisited.

A YA historical novel based on Mary Lou Williams and her early life, entitled Jazz Girl, by Sarah Bruce Kelly, was published in 2010.

A children's book based on Mary Lou Williams, entitled The Little Piano Girl, by Ann Ingalls and Maryann MacDonald with illustrations by Giselle Potter, was published in 2010.

A poetry book by Yona Harvey entitled Hemming the Water was published in 2013, inspired by Williams and featuring the poem "Communion with Mary Lou Williams".

In 2013, the American Musicological Society published Mary Lou Williams' Selected Works for Big Band, a compilation of 11 of her big band scores.

In 2015, an award-winning documentary film entitled, Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band, produced and directed by Carol Bash, premiered on American Public Television and was screened at various domestic and international film festivals.

In 2018 What'sHerName women's history podcast aired the episode "THE MUSICIAN Mary Lou Williams," with guest expert 'Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band,' producer and director Carol Bash.

Mary Lou Williams Lane, a street near 10th and Paseo in Kansas City, Missouri, was named after the renowned jazz artist.

She is one of three women who appear in the famous photograph of jazz greats, A Great Day in Harlem.

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Mets: Don't Blink Because They Just Might Run Away With This Thing

Mets: Don’t Blink Because They Just Might Run Away With This Thing

The Mets have taken back-to-back series from the potent Padres. Don’t be surprised if this doesn’t carry forward to a runaway in the NL East.  While the Mets may give pause to the Philadelphia Phillies for being the first team in the NL East to climb back to an even.500 record, they’re taking care of business for themselves, and that’s all that matters. Mets Billy McKinney – Taking advantage of…

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Mets: Don't Blink Because They Just Might Run Away With This Thing

Mets: Don’t Blink Because They Just Might Run Away With This Thing

The Mets have taken back-to-back series from the potent Padres. Don’t be surprised if this doesn’t carry forward to a runaway in the NL East.  While the Mets may give pause to the Philadelphia Phillies for being the first team in the NL East to climb back to an even.500 record, they’re taking care of business for themselves, and that’s all that matters. Mets Billy McKinney – Taking advantage of…

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Diamondbacks rout Padres to end 24-game road skid

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Diamondbacks rout Padres to end 24-game road skid

Eduardo Escobar went 4-for-5 with a homer and five RBIs and the Arizona Diamondbacks routed the host San Diego Padres 10-1 on Saturday night to halt the longest road losing streak in major league history at 24 games.

Christian Walker also homered and right-hander Merrill Kelly (4-7) shut out the Padres on five hits over six innings. Walker, Josh Reddick, Josh Rojas, David Peralta and Pavin Smith all had two hits as Arizona racked up 16 overall while winning for just the second time in its past 22 overall contests.

The Diamondbacks also ended San Diego’s eight-game winning streak. Tommy Pham’s RBI single in the ninth prevented the Padres from being blanked.

San Diego’s Jake Cronenworth saw his four-game home run streak end.

Dodgers 3, Cubs 2

Cody Bellinger hit a walk-off solo home run in the ninth inning to lift Los Angeles over visiting Chicago, ripping a 3-1 pitch over the fence in center with two outs in the ninth off Cubs reliever Keegan Thompson (3-2) to give the Dodgers their second straight win in the four-game series.

Dodgers starter Julio Urias struck out a career-high 12 batters in 5 1/3 innings. The left-hander allowed two runs, five hits and walked one, but for the third straight outing could not secure his 10th victory of the season.

Joe Kelly, Garrett Cleavinger, Phil Bickford and David Price (3-0) blanked the Cubs over the final 3 2/3 innings. Cubs right-hander Alec Mills allowed two runs and eight hits in four innings, striking out two and walking two.

Giants 6, Athletics 5 (10 innings)

Curt Casali put a happy ending on his nightmarish game when he doubled home Steven Duggar from first base with one out in the last of the 10th inning, capping a two-run rally that pushed host San Francisco past Oakland.

Down 5-4 after a Matt Chapman sacrifice fly in the top of the inning, the Giants got even on an RBI single by Duggar off Athletics reliever Burch Smith (1-1) that scored Brandon Crawford with one out.

Casali, who had struck out in each of his previous four plate appearances, then lined a double into the left-field corner. San Francisco closer Jake McGee (3-2) was credited with the win despite allowing a run without issuing a hit in the top of the inning. The Giants (50-26) are the first team in the majors to reach 50 victories.

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Red Sox 4, Yankees 2

Nathan Eovaldi took a shutout into the eighth inning and tossed 7 2/3 innings of one-run ball against his former team as host Boston beat New York to improve to 5-0 this season against their rival after a three-game road sweep of the Yankees on June 4-6 and winning 5-3 in the series opener Friday.

Eovaldi (8-4) allowed seven hits and walked none while striking out six batters. Enrique Hernandez, Bobby Dalbec, Hunter Renfroe and Xander Bogaerts each drove in a run for the Red Sox.

DJ LeMahieu finished 4-for-5 with a solo home run and two RBIs for New York. Yankees starter Jordan Montgomery (3-2) allowed three runs on eight hits with a pair of walks and five strikeouts in six innings. New York has dropped three of its last five games.

Marlins 3, Nationals 2

Rookie Zach Thompson struck out 11 batters — the most by any Miami pitcher since 2019 – in beating visiting Washington.

Nationals leadoff batter Kyle Schwarber, perhaps the hottest hitter in the majors entering the game, went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts and had his six-game hit streak snapped. Schwarber has 22 homers this season, including 13 in his past 15 games and nine in his past seven contests.

Instead of Schwarber, this game’s hitting star was Miami’s Jon Berti, who went 2-for-3 with the go-ahead homer and a double. Thompson (2-2), who was making just his fourth career start, lasted six innings, allowing four hits, two walks and two runs for his first quality start.

Tigers 3, Astros 1 (Game 1, 7 innings)

Zack Short blasted his first career home run, Casey Mize (5-4) tossed six strong innings and host Detroit snapped Houston’s 11-game winning streak Saturday in the opener of the day-night doubleheader.

Houston’s winning streak was one shy of the franchise record, which it established on three occasions.

Short was called up from Triple-A Toledo earlier in the day to serve as the 27th man on the roster for the doubleheader. In addition to his fifth-inning home run, the 26-year-old shortstop had a double.

Astros 3, Tigers 2 (Game 2, 7 innings)

Yordan Alvarez and Carlos Correa hit back-to-back homers during a three-run sixth and Houston rallied past host Detroit in the nightcap of a day-night doubleheader.

For Alvarez, it was his 13th homer of the season while Correa now has 15 long balls. Jose Altuve reached base twice and scored a run for Houston. Lance McCullers Jr. (5-1) allowed two runs on five hits and struck out seven in 5 1/3 innings. Ryan Pressly struck out the side in the seventh for his 12th save.

Jonathan Schoop and Omar Mazara each had a pair of hits for the Tigers.

Mets 4, Phillies 3

Michael Conforto hit the game-winning sacrifice fly as New York mounted another late-inning comeback to edge visiting Philadelphia a day after the Mets forced extra innings in the seventh inning of each game of a doubleheader, and they now have won two of the first three games of the four-game series.

The Phillies took the lead without the benefit of a base hit in the top of the ninth against Edwin Diaz (2-2), who gave up the tiebreaking sacrifice fly to Nick Maton, before the Mets built their winning rally in similarly piecemeal fashion against Hector Neris (1-5).

Pinch-hitter Trevor Blankenhorn led off the bottom of the ninth with a grounder that Rhys Hoskins misplayed for an error. Billy McKinney drew a pinch-hit walk before Kevin Pillar loaded the bases with an infield single. Luis Guillorme walked on a 3-2 pitch to force home Blankenhorn, and one out later Conforto drove home the winning run.

Cardinals 3, Pirates 1

Paul DeJong and Paul Goldschmidt hit long solo home runs to power St. Louis past visiting Pittsburgh.

The Cardinals snapped their five-game losing streak while winning for just the seventh time in their past 25 games. Meanwhile the Pirates lost their 12th road game in their past 14 tries.

Winning pitcher Adam Wainwright (6-5) allowed one run on six hits in six innings. He struck out eight batters and walked only one. Colin Moran had two hits for Pittsburgh.

Blue Jays 12, Orioles 4

Randal Grichuk hit a three-run home run and had four RBIs, Teoscar Hernandez added a solo homer and three RBIs and Toronto defeated visiting Baltimore at Buffalo.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. added a two-run blast for the Blue Jays, who have won two of the first three games of the four-game series. Bo Bichette had three of Toronto’s 15 hits with an RBI double.

Blue Jays left-hander Hyun Jin Ryu (7-4) allowed four runs, seven hits and two walks in 6 2/3 innings. Cedric Mullins and Pedro Severino each had a pair of RBIs for Baltimore.

Rays 13, Angels 3

A career-best four hits and two RBIs from Ji-Man Choi helped pace Tampa Bay to a 13-3 victory against host Los Angeles.

The Rays totaled 15 hits, with Manuel Margot and Mike Zunino each knocking in home runs. Tampa Bay scored 11 straight runs after briefly falling behind 3-2 in the third.

Rookie Shane McClanahan (3-2) logged a career-high six innings and had a strong outing, allowing three runs on four hits while striking out seven and walking two. Anthony Rendon had two RBIs for the Angels.

Brewers 10, Rockies 4

Christian Yelich’s two-run homer highlighted the six-run eighth inning that broke open a tie game and sent surging Milwaukee to a fourth straight win with a victory over visiting Colorado.

In a 4-4 game, Milwaukee loaded the bases with nobody out. Omar Narvaez followed with a go-ahead sacrifice fly and Luis Urias’ two-run single through the drawn-in infield made it 7-4. Yelich then belted his fifth homer of the season to right-center field and Willy Adames later delivered an RBI double.

Brad Boxberger (3-2) got the win with an inning of scoreless relief, giving up no hits with two walks and two strikeouts. Carlos Estevez (2-1) took the loss and allowed four runs on two hits and a walk, retiring just one batter in the eighth.

Reds 4, Braves 1

Jesse Winker homered for the first time in nearly three weeks and Luis Castillo (3-10) threw seven shutout innings as Cincinnati beat visiting Atlanta.

With the wind gusting out to left, Winker crushed an Ian Anderson fastball 435 feet to the seats in right-center for a 1-0 Cincinnati lead in the first. It was Winker’s team-leading 18th homer and first since his three-homer game June 6 at St. Louis.

Winker, who made a diving attempt for a Ronald Acuna Jr. double in the third, left the game after five innings due to a right hip contusion. Guillermo Heredia and William Contreras each had two hits for the Braves.

Rangers 8, Royals 0

Kyle Gibson (6-0) pitched seven innings of two-hit ball and struck out 10 as host Texas beat Kansas City in Arlington as Joey Gallo paced the Rangers offense, finishing the day 2-for-3 with two home runs and five RBIs.

The Rangers assured themselves of their first series win since sweeping Houston on May 21-23, and go for the sweep of the Royals on Sunday.

Kansas City went with a bullpen game with Kyle Zimmer opening up and throwing 22 pitches (two walks, two strikeouts) in the first before turning the game over to Kris Bubic (2-3) for the second. Bubic hit the first batter he faced and gave up three runs while only recording two outs before being pulled.

Mariners, White Sox (suspended)

Host Chicago’s game with Seattle was suspended in the bottom of the third inning and will resume play Sunday.

The game will resume with the first batter of the bottom of the third and the score tied at 0-0. The suspended game will be a nine-inning game but Sunday’s scheduled game between Chicago and Seattle will be a seven-inning contest.

Jose Abreu had the only hit of the game — a second-inning single — when the game entered a rain delay. Luis Torrens and Taylor Trammell both walked for Seattle in the top of the third. Lance Lynn and Logan Gilbert were the starting pitchers for the game.

Indians-Twins (postponed)

The game between Minnesota and visiting Cleveland was postponed due to rain in the area.

Saturday’s contest will be made up as part of a split doubleheader on Sept. 14, with the first game scheduled for 2:10 p.m. ET and the nightcap expected to begin at 7:40 p.m.

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Mets Stay Hot With Blowout of Matt Harvey and the Orioles

Mets Stay Hot With Blowout of Matt Harvey and the Orioles

BALTIMORE — After a blowout win fueled largely by role players, Mets Manager Luis Rojas took stock of his division-leading team. “You couldn’t be any more proud,” he said. “Every single guy that’s put on the Mets’ uni has just helped us along the way.” Kevin Pillar and Billy McKinney each homered twice, and the Mets beat Matt Harvey decisively for the second time this season, routing the…

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Mets Stay Hot With Blowout of Matt Harvey and the Orioles

Mets Stay Hot With Blowout of Matt Harvey and the Orioles

BALTIMORE — After a blowout win fueled largely by role players, Mets Manager Luis Rojas took stock of his division-leading team. “You couldn’t be any more proud,” he said. “Every single guy that’s put on the Mets’ uni has just helped us along the way.” Kevin Pillar and Billy McKinney each homered twice, and the Mets beat Matt Harvey decisively for the second time this season, routing the…

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MLB roundup: Ohtani shrugs off surgery talk, homers twice

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MLB roundup: Ohtani shrugs off surgery talk, homers twice

Just a few hours after it was recommended to Shohei Ohtani that he have Tommy John surgery, the two-way player homered twice, singled twice and led the Los Angeles Angels to a 9-3 victory over the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night in Arlington, Texas.

Sep 5, 2018; Arlington, TX, USA; Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani (17) rounds the bases after hitting a home run in the fifth inning against the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Park in Arlington. Mandatory Credit: Tim Heitman-USA TODAY Sports

An MRI exam Wednesday morning revealed new damage to the ulnar collateral ligament in Ohtani’s right elbow, and the club would like the 24-year-old right-hander to have surgery that likely would keep him off a major league mound until the 2020 season. Ohtani, who hasn’t yet decided whether he’ll have the surgery, is not affected by the injury when he hits, and Wednesday’s game was a perfect example.

He walked in the first inning, had an infield single in the third, homered to lead off the fifth, singled to lead off the seventh and hit a two-run homer in the eighth while batting third in the Angels’ lineup as the designated hitter. His home runs were Nos. 17 and 18 for the season, tied for the most by a Japanese-born rookie in the majors (Kenji Johjima in 2006).

Ohtani scored four runs, drove in three and had a stolen base.

Rockies 5, Giants 3

Trevor Story produced the first three-homer game of his career, and surging Colorado beat San Francisco in Denver to complete a three-game sweep.

Story’s big night off starter Andrew Suarez (6-10) helped the Rockies earn their fifth straight win and increase their lead in the National League West to 1 1/2 games over the Los Angeles Dodgers and two games over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Story’s second home run, hit in the fourth inning, went an estimated 505 feet, according to Statcast. It is the longest home run in franchise history and the longest since Statcast began measuring home run distances in 2015. It was also the longest homer hit at Coors Field in its 24-year history.

Mets 7, Dodgers 3

Zack Wheeler pitched seven strong innings, and Wilmer Flores drove in two runs as New York cruised to victory at Los Angeles.

Wheeler (10-7) gave up three runs on three hits with nine strikeouts, ending his streak of holding opponents to two earned runs or fewer at eight consecutive outings. Wheeler had held his last four opponents to one earned run or none.

Max Muncy hit a two-run home run for the Dodgers, his 32nd of the season. Los Angeles lost for just the third time in its past 12 games but fell for the second time in three games.

Red Sox 9, Braves 8

Brandon Phillips hit a two-out, two-run home run in the top of the ninth inning in his Boston debut, allowing the American League East leaders to complete a three-game sweep at Atlanta.

After rallying from a 7-1 deficit with a six-run top of the eighth, only to fall behind again by virtue of a Freddie Freeman home run in the bottom of the inning, the Red Sox flipped things again in the ninth after Andrew Benintendi drew a one-out walk from A.J. Minter, the Braves’ sixth pitcher. Minter (4-3) got a second out but then served up Phillips’ first home run of the season in just his fifth major league plate appearance.

Craig Kimbrel worked around a two-out walk in the last of the ninth to register his 38th save. Teams had been 0-487 this season when down by six or more runs entering the eighth inning before the Red Sox’s rally.

Athletics 8, Yankees 2

Oakland celebrated the induction of its first class of its Hall of Fame with a four-run first inning that led to a victory over visiting New York.

The win was the second in three games against the Yankees for the A’s, who moved within 3 1/2 games in the race for the first wild-card spot in the American League and the home-field advantage in the single-elimination playoff game.

Luis Severino (17-7) lasted just 2 2/3 innings for the Yankees, who lost for the sixth time in their past 10 games.

Astros 9, Twins 1

Alex Bregman homered for the fourth time in five games, and Houston completed a three-game home sweep of Minnesota.

Bregman, who had his streak of consecutive games with a homer snapped at three on Tuesday despite hitting three doubles in the that game, knocked in five runs Wednesday. He smashed a two-run homer to left field with two outs in the third inning, and he added a three-run double in the eighth.

Houston’s Jose Altuve snapped an 0-for-19 skid with an RBI double in the sixth that scored George Springer, who went 3-for-5 with three runs. The Astros extended their winning streak to five games and capped a 10-game homestand at 7-3.

Cubs 6, Brewers 4

Daniel Murphy and Kyle Schwarber hit home runs, and Ben Zobrist added two RBIs to back left-hander Jose Quintana as Chicago avoided a three-game sweep with a win at Milwaukee.

The second-place Brewers fell four games behind the Cubs in the National League Central, but they are still clinging to the top spot in the NL wild-card race by a half-game over St. Louis.

Milwaukee put its first two runners on in the ninth against Cubs reliever Pedro Strop, but he came back to get a flyout, a forceout and a strikeout to notch his 12th save. Quintana (12-9) pitched around a few trouble spots to go 6 2/3 innings, allowing two runs on five hits.

Cardinals 7, Nationals 6

Matt Adams homered twice, including a three-run shot in the first inning, and drove in four runs as St. Louis edged host Washington.

St. Louis’ offensive power helped starter Miles Mikolas (14-4) on a night when the Nationals cut an early 7-1 deficit to just one — but the Cardinals held on. Mikolas gave up four runs and scattered 12 hits through 6 2/3 innings.

Carlos Martinez took care of the final two innings and earned his first save this season since being converted into a reliever down the stretch.

Marlins 2, Phillies 1

Rookie Sandy Alcantara earned his second win in his second major league start, pitching seven scoreless innings and leading Miami to victory over visiting Philadelphia.

Rookie Austin Dean supported Alcantara (2-0) by driving in both of Miami’s runs.

The Phillies failed to take advantage of the last-place Marlins in the three-game series, losing twice. Philadelphia, in second place in the National League East, sits three games behind the Atlanta Braves.

Indians 3, Royals 1

Corey Kluber allowed a run on just two hits to become the first 18-game winner in the major leagues, and Edwin Encarnacion’s fifth-inning RBI groundout produced the deciding run as Cleveland fended off visiting Kansas City.

Kluber struck out 10 and walked just one in 6 2/3 innings, leaving with a runner at first base in the seventh. Oliver Perez struck out the Royals’ Brian Goodwin to end the inning.

Cody Allen struck out two batters in a perfect eighth inning, and Brad Hand struck out the side in the ninth to earn his 32nd save and give the Indians the rubber game of the three-game series.

Mariners 5, Orioles 2

Mike Leake didn’t allow an earned run in six innings, and Seattle hit three solo home runs to defeat visiting Baltimore.

Mitch Haniger, Nelson Cruz and Denard Span homered for Seattle, which took two of three games in the series. Edwin Diaz earned his 53rd save of the season.

Leake (9-9) allowed two unearned runs on seven hits. He didn’t walk a batter and struck out four. Leake won for the first time in 12 starts dating to late June. He was 0-5 during that stretch.

Pirates 3, Reds 2

Colin Moran hit an RBI double, and Gregory Polanco and Francisco Cervelli each drove in a run with a single as host Pittsburgh topped Cincinnati to complete a three-game series sweep.

The Pirates improved to 12-4 against the Reds this season.

Pittsburgh starter Jameson Taillon (12-9) extended his streak of starts with three earned runs allowed or fewer to 18, even though he wasn’t at his sharpest. He gave up one run and eight hits in five innings, with six strikeouts and no walks.

Blue Jays 10, Rays 3

Aledmys Diaz hit a three-run home run in a seven-run first inning, and Toronto went on to defeat visiting Tampa Bay to avoid a three-game series sweep.

Billy McKinney added a solo homer for the Blue Jays, and Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Devon Travis and Kendrys Morales each had three hits and an RBI.

Kevin Kiermaier homered twice for the Rays.

Tigers 10, White Sox 2

Ronny Rodriguez and JaCoby Jones hit back-to-back homers during a six-run fourth inning, and Detroit battered host Chicago.

The game was interrupted by a 28-minute rain delay in the second inning and a 33-minute delay in the fifth.

Mikie Mahtook also homered during the big inning, and Jeimer Candelario had a solo shot along with two other hits while scoring twice. Jim Adduci and Nicholas Castellanos contributed three hits apiece and combined for three runs and two RBIs for the Tigers.

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MLB roundup: Holliday HR sparks Rockies past Cards

DJ LeMahieu and Nolan Arenado had two hits each in Colorado’s eight-run eighth inning, Matt Holliday homered and the Rockies pounded the St. Louis Cardinals 9-1 in Denver on Saturday night.

Aug 25, 2018; Denver, CO, USA; Colorado Rockies outfielder Matt Holliday (7) connects for a solo home run in the seventh inning against the St. Louis Cardinals at Coors Field. Mandatory Credit: Russell Lansford-USA TODAY Sports

Carlos Gonzalez had three hits, including a tiebreaking double in the eighth, and reliever Adam Ottavino (6-2) got the win despite giving up a run to tie the game 1-1 in the top of the eighth.

The Cardinals had their nine-game road winning streak snapped and saw the National League wild-card race tighten. The Rockies tied Arizona for first place in the NL West. Colorado is also tied with Milwaukee for the second wild-card spot a half-game behind St. Louis.

Pinch-hitting for German Marquez, who allowed just three hits in seven shutout innings, Holliday hit a solo homer in the seventh, his first for the Rockies since 2008. The 38-year-old is in his second stint with Colorado after being added to the roster earlier this week.

Mariners 4, Diamondbacks 3 (10 innings)

Denard Span hit a one-out homer in the 10th inning after Kyle Seager hit a two-out, two-run, game-tying double in the ninth as Seattle rallied at Arizona.

Span, who entered as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning, homered off Jake Diekman (1-2) to give Seattle its first series victory since a four-game sweep at Houston from Aug. 9-12.

Edwin Diaz recorded his major-league-leading 50th save by pitching out of trouble in the last of the 10th. Paul Goldschmidt and David Peralta singled to put runners on the corners, but Goldschmidt was thrown out at home on a grounder before Diaz recorded two flyouts to end it.

Pirates 9, Brewers 1

Adam Frazier hit a three-run home run to help visiting Pittsburgh end a four-game losing streak by pounding Milwaukee.

Gregory Polanco added a two-run single, Josh Harrison and Colin Moran an RBI double each and Sean Rodriguez an RBI single for Pittsburgh, which has scored 15 runs in splitting the first two games of this series after totaling seven runs total during a seven-game homestand.

Christian Yelich hit a solo homer for Milwaukee, which had won four of its previous five games. The Brewers fell 4 1/2 games behind the first-place Chicago Cubs in the National League Central.

Cubs 10, Reds 6

Daniel Murphy and Kyle Schwarber launched two-run home runs, and Javier Baez added a solo shot and drove in three runs overall as host Chicago battered Cincinnati.

Murphy, playing in his fourth game for the Cubs since being acquired from the Washington Nationals, homered to right-center field off Reds starter Luis Castillo. His eighth home run of the season capped a three-run second inning. It was also Murphy’s second home run in two days against the Reds.

It was the fourth straight win for the National League Central-leading Cubs, including the first three games of the series. The Reds have lost four in a row and five of six.

Dodgers 5, Padres 4 (12 innings)

Justin Turner hit a game-winning RBI double in the 12th inning immediately following a 20-minute power outage as Los Angeles edged visiting San Diego.

The Padres tied the game 4-4 in the ninth inning on a home run from Austin Hedges off Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen. It was the third consecutive game Jansen gave up either the game-tying or go-ahead home run since coming off the disabled list because of an irregular heartbeat.

Dodgers sluggers Manny Machado and Max Muncy each reached the 30-homer plateau. Clayton Kershaw gave up three runs (two earned) on seven hits with nine strikeouts. Los Angeles is 2 1/2 games back in the NL West.

Yankees 10, Orioles 3 (Game 1)

Aug 25, 2018; Denver, CO, USA; Colorado Rockies outfielder Matt Holliday (7) rounds the bases after connecting for a solo home run in the seventh inning against the St. Louis Cardinals at Coors Field. Mandatory Credit: Russell Lansford-USA TODAY Sports

Miguel Andujar, Brett Gardner, Gleyber Torres and Aaron Hicks all homered, and J.A. Happ kept host Baltimore quiet for six innings as New York cruised to victory in the first game of a day-night doubleheader.

Andujar hit a three-run homer during a four-run third inning that gave the Yankees control en route to their second straight win in this series. He finished the game 2-for-5 with four RBIs.

Giancarlo Stanton nearly hit his 300th career homer, but rookie center fielder Cedric Mullins made a leaping catch at the fence and robbed him in the sixth.

Yankees 5, Orioles 1 (Game 2)

Austin Romine homered while Aaron Hicks and Giancarlo Stanton each had RBI singles, and New York completed a doubleheader sweep at Baltimore.

New York starter Sonny Gray (10-8) has been inconsistent throughout much of this season but is 4-1 in five starts against the Orioles, giving some of his best performances. The right-hander allowed just three hits in 6 1/3 shutout innings, striking out seven.

The Yankees will go for a four-game series sweep on Sunday night. Baltimore now has lost seven consecutive games.

Rays 5, Red Sox 1

Tommy Pham homered, and Kevin Kiermaier tripled among two hits to score what proved to be the game-winning run and help lead Tampa Bay to its seventh straight victory with a win over visiting Boston.

Joey Wendle and Matt Duffy each had two hits and a walk, and Ji-Man Choi had an RBI triple for Tampa Bay, which has won the first two of the three-game series with the Red Sox.

Boston entered the weekend with a 14-series unbeaten streak (10-0-4), the team’s longest since 1972 (10-0-6). The Red Sox, who haven’t been swept in a series all year long and face Rays ace Blake Snell on Sunday, last lost a series on June 29-July 1 to the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium.

Blue Jays 8, Phillies 6

Aledmys Diaz hit a three-run double with two out in the bottom of the eighth inning, and Toronto came back to defeat visiting Philadelphia.

Toronto’s Kendrys Morales homered for the sixth game in a row, a two-run shot in the fourth inning, to equal the club record set in 2001 by Jose Cruz Jr. Morales has seven homers in the span.

Billy McKinney added a two-run blast in the seventh inning for the Blue Jays, who have won the first two games of the three-game series as part of a five-game winning streak.

Marlins 3, Braves 1

Wei-Yin Chen continued his home mastery, and Brian Anderson hit a pinch-hit, two-run home run to lead host Miami over Atlanta.

Chen (5-9) is 1-6 with a 9.35 ERA on the road this year. At home, however, he has been brilliant as he was once again this night, tossing six scoreless innings and striking out 10. He allowed six hits and two walks and lowered his home ERA to 1.86.

The Braves are 13-5 against the Marlins this year. But, after winning on Thursday, Atlanta has lost two straight in this four-game weekend series.

Mets 3, Nationals 0

Zack Wheeler pitched seven gritty innings for his career-high seventh straight win, and Amed Rosario homered in the sixth inning as New York dealt visiting Washington its third straight shutout loss.

Wheeler (9-6) allowed six hits and frequently used his defense to work out of jams. He is 7-0 with a 1.68 ERA in his last eight starts and picked up his latest win despite putting runners on in five of seven innings.

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The Nationals were shut out in three consecutive games for the first time since moving to Washington in 2005. The franchise last was shut out in three straight games April 13-15, 2004, when the Montreal Expos were blanked against the Marlins.

Astros 8, Angels 3

Marwin Gonzalez keyed a four-run eighth inning with a leadoff home run, and Houston extended its winning streak to four games with a win over Los Angeles at Angel Stadium.

Gonzalez slugged his 14th homer, and eighth this month, to end what had been a frustrating stretch for the Astros, who stranded runners at third base in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings.

Justin Verlander (13-8) carried a 26-inning scoreless streak at Angel Stadium into the fourth before Shohei Ohtani belted a two-run homer the opposite way to left-center field. Verlander allowed three runs on six hits and two walks with six strikeouts over six innings.

Athletics 6, Twins 2

Jonathan Lucroy hit the 13,000th home run in Oakland franchise history, a three-run shot that paved the way to a win over Minnesota at Minneapolis.

Right-hander Mike Fiers (10-6) remained unbeaten in four starts since joining the A’s earlier in the month, limiting the Twins to one run in 5 2/3 innings en route to Oakland’s second straight win after a loss in the series opener Thursday.

With the win, the A’s remained 1 1/2 games back in the American League West.

Royals 7, Indians 1

Ryan O’Hearn had three RBIs, including a tiebreaking two-run double, and Lucas Duda went 3-for-4 with a homer as Kansas City routed visiting Cleveland.

Right-hander Heath Fillmyer (2-1) allowed one run and three hits over six innings as the Royals notched back-to-back wins for the first time since victories on July 31 and Aug. 1.

Indians right-hander Corey Kluber (16-7) was tagged for five runs and nine hits over 5 1/3 innings to squash his attempt to become the first 17-game winner in the majors. The loss was the fourth in a row for Cleveland, matching a season worst that occurred twice earlier this season.

Giants 5, Rangers 3

Left-hander Andrew Suarez shut out Texas over seven innings, and Brandon Crawford capped a four-run first inning with a three-run home run to propel host San Francisco to victory.

On a day when star catcher Buster Posey was shut down for the rest of the season in order to have hip surgery, the Giants held on to win for only the third time in their last 10 games.

Suarez (5-9) limited the Rangers to three hits in seven innings. He walked three and struck out five.

White Sox 6, Tigers 1

Lucas Giolito pitched seven strong innings, and Kevan Smith blasted a two-run home run as Chicago rolled to victory at Detroit.

Giolito (10-9) recorded his third consecutive win and second against the Tigers this month. He limited them to one run on three hits while striking out six.

Smith’s homer was his first of the year. Matt Davidson and Yoan Moncada each had two hits, a run scored and an RBI for the White Sox, who have won two of three in the four-game series.

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New Yankees pitcher J.A. Happ has hand, foot and mouth disease

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NEW YORK — Newly acquired Yankees left-hander J.A. Happ was diagnosed Tuesday with hand, foot and mouth disease, the second pitcher on a New York team to be recently affected by the illness.

Hand, foot and mouth disease is an infectious illness that often affects young children. Mets star Noah Syndergaard currently is on the disabled list with the disease.

Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said the team’s doctors aren’t certain how Happ caught it. The 35-year-old was traded from Toronto to the Yankees last week for infielder Brandon Drury and outfielder Billy McKinney. Happ won his New York debut on Sunday, allowing one run over six innings to beat Kansas City.

Happ has had success in his career against Boston, and had been set to pitch Saturday against the AL East-leading Red Sox at Fenway Park. Cashman said Happ’s case appears to be mild, and that he still might be able to make that start.

Lance Lynn was acquired from Minnesota on Monday as a long reliever and insurance for the rotation.

“That’s not why we did any of that stuff but based on the deadline we’ll have more personnel available to use to pivot easier than maybe we would have,” Cashman said.

In addition, Luis Cessa was being limited to one inning Tuesday for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

“We have an elite bullpen with high-leverage, mostly one-inning guys. We have a starting rotation that doesn’t necessarily give you the amount of depth,” Cashman said.

New York started a stretch Tuesday in which it is scheduled for games on 20 consecutive days. Lynn likely will be inserted to give extra rest to others in the rotation, which includes Luis Severino, Masahiro Tanaka, CC Sabathia and Sonny Gray.

“As we play a lot of games in a row there may be some opportunities for him to start,” manager Aaron Boone said. “We see a lot of potentially significant roles for him moving forward.”

To create a spot for Lynn on the 13-man pitching staff, the Yankees traded long reliever Adam Warren to Seattle.

“I told Adam that it’s not easy to do the job I have to do,” Cashman said. “I’ve traded him twice now, and in both cases not wanting to trade him. I think sometimes with a decision like this you trade good people that are also good players and that makes it that much more difficult to do, but we felt evaluating things objectively this was in our best short-term interest — meaning as we approach August and September and October.”

Cashman said the Yankees “kicked the tires on a lot of different things” but didn’t find a bat for the right price to fill in while Aaron Judge and Gary Sanchez are on the disabled list.

Notes: OF Clint Frazier is dealing with a migraine issue, not a concussion, according to Cashman. The GM told teams inquiring he was not being considered for a trade. Boone said Frazier was at the team’s minor league complex in Tampa, Florida, and was dealing with “some fogginess.”

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