WASHINGTON -- Stephen Strasburg and Max Scherzer may headline the Nationals
starting rotation, but Tanner Roark is proving to be pretty reliable.
Wholesale
Basketball Jerseys .Roark and the Washington bullpen outdueled
Madison Bumgarner as the Nationals beat the San Francisco Giants 1-0 Sunday in a
matchup of NL division leaders.Roark (12-6) gave up five hits in seven innings
and won for the sixth time in his last seven decisions. The right-hander has
thrown at least seven shutout innings a league-best seven times.Hes not amazing
us anymore, manager Dusty Baker said. Weve kind of come to expect it.Bumgarner
(10-7) lost despite allowing just two hits, including Wilson Ramos 18th home run
in the seventh inning.Pitching opposite the Giants ace, Roark knew he couldnt
afford too many mistakes.Hes always aggressive, Roark said of Bumgarner. Hes one
of the top pitchers in the game, so going against that gives me an extra boost.
I want to go out there and do the same and not get beat.Ramos homer came after
Roark escaped a jam in the seventh. With runners on second and third, center
fielder Ben Revere made a spectacular, over-the-shoulder catch to rob Brandon
Belt of extra bases.It was Roarks 105th and final pitch of the afternoon.Tanner,
he pitched one heck of a game, Revere said. He was just hitting spots, getting
key outs and hes pitching well. He pitched a heck of a game. He was definitely
the player of the game in my book. I was just trying to help him out the best I
can.The crowd of 32,790 at Nationals Park saluted Revere with a standing ovation
as he ran off the field.Ben saved the game, Baker said. That was a Willie Mays
catch right there. Boy, that was big.Shawn Kelly retired the Giants in order in
the eighth and Mark Melancon pitched the ninth for his 31st save. Melancon
converted his first save opportunity since he was acquired in a trade with the
Pittsburgh Pirates on July 30.Roark escaped multiple jams, working around five
hits and three walks, striking out five.Bumgarner struck out seven and walked
two. He was coming off one the worst starts of his career, allowing 10 hits and
eight runs in five innings against Philadelphia.I knew hed pitch well today,
Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. Thats who he is. What a terrific job. I knew
that he would bounce back and throw a beauty and he did.Bumgarner retired 11 of
the first 12 batters and didnt allow a hit until Anthony Rendons two-out double
in the fourth. The Giants ace is winless in five starts since the All-Star
break.All I can do is come out and put us in a good spot and keep us in the game
and hope that things go our way, he said. It hasnt since the break, but thats
just the way it goes. I cant worry about that, or its just going to dig a deeper
hole.With the win, the Nationals took the season series over the Giants four
games to three, giving them the tiebreaker should the teams finish with the same
record at the end of the regular season.ON-BASE STREAKINGNationals left fielder
Jayson Werth extended his on-base streak to a career-best 38 straight games,
drawing a four-pitch walk in the first inning. His string is the longest in the
majors this season.TRAINERS ROOMGiants: RF Hunter Pence struck out as a
pinch-hitter in the ninth. He didnt start after bouncing a foul ball off his
face Saturday. Pence underwent a CT scan after Saturdays game, which showed no
fracture to the orbital socket. ... LHP Josh Osich (forearm strain) is expected
to make a rehab appearance with Double-A Richmond on Monday. Osich (1-2, 4.25)
last pitched July 23.Nationals: RF Bryce Harper didnt play, a day after leaving
a game with neck stiffness. Chris Heisey replaced Harper in right field.UP
NEXTGiants: RHP Johnny Cueto (13-3) takes the mound to begin a three-game series
in Miami. Cueto has lost his last two decisions and is winless in his last four
starts overall. The Giants will face RHP Jose Fernandez (12-6), who is 26-2
lifetime at Marlins Park.Nationals: After a day off Monday, Washington opens a
two-game interleague series at home against Cleveland. Scherzer (11-6) is 3-0 in
his last four starts, having thrown at least seven innings in each outing.
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superstar and former champion Serena Williams, Australian Open titlist Victoria
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winners Wednesday at the French Open. The sizzling-hot 2002 French Open winner
Williams won her 26th straight match on tour by lambasting French wild card
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players win two more matches this week. The 31-year-old reigning Wimbledon and
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10 years. Her third-round opponent will be Romanian Sorana Cirstea. The
third-seeded former No. 1 Azarenka finally played her first-round match and
handled Russian Elena Vesnina 6-1, 6-4 on the famed red clay at Roland Garros,
while the fourth-seeded Radwanska looked good in her second-rounder by pasting
American Mallory Burdette 6-3, 6-2. Rain wreaked havoc on the schedule Tuesday,
as it took four days to complete round one. "I felt like Im one of the last ones
to start," Azarenka said. "It was a long wait, but I think performance-wise it
was a good match." The reigning two-time Aussie Open champ will face German
Annika Beck in round two. Radwanska, meanwhile, has never advanced beyond the
fourth round in Paris and was a third-round upset victim here a year ago. She
couldve faced her sister, Urszula, in the next round if the younger sibling, who
knocked out Venus Williams in the first round, beat German Dinah Pfizenmaier on
Day 4. Her German counterpart, however, prevailed in 6-3, 6-3 fashion and will
next face the older Radwanska. Fifth-seeded 2012 French Open runner-up Sara
Errani won her eighth match in nine tries at Roland Garros by throttling Russian
Yulia Putintseva 6-1, 6-1. The gritty Italian lost to Maria Sharapova in last
years French finale and will meet German Sabine Lisicki in her next outing.
Seventh-seeded former Wimbledon champion and 2012 French Open semifinalist Petra
Kvitova outlasted Frenchwoman Aravane Rezai 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 to reach the second
round, while eighth-seeded German Angelique Kerber landed in the third round
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early last month and has now lost before the quarterfinals in Paris six times in
seven trips. Former French Open winner Ana Ivanovic moved on, as the 14th-seeded
former No. 1 star whipped Frances Mathilde Johansson 6-2, 6-2. The Serbian
Ivanovic captured the French title in 2008 and was the 2007 runner-up.
Fifteenth-seeded Italian Roberta Vinci held off Kazakhstans Galina Voskoboeva
6-4, 4-6, 6-2, while Czech Petra Cetkovska ousted 19th-seeded Russian Anastasia
Pavlyuchenkova 7-5, 2-6, 6-4, 20th-seeded Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro came
back to beat American Shelby Rogers 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, and a 26th- seeded Cirstea
subdued Swede Johanna Larsson 6-1, 6-4 in the round of 64. Some other
second-round results saw 29th-seeded American Varvara Lepchenko get past
Ukrainian Elina Svitolina 7-6 (7-5), 6-1, a 32nd-seeded Lisicki drill Spaniard
Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor 6-4, 6-0, former French Open champ Svetlana Kuznetsova
come back to best Slovak Magdalena Rybarikova 1-6, 6-2, 6-2, and 19-year-old
Puerto Rican Monica Puig drive out 18-year-old American Madison Keys 6-4, 7-6
(7-2). The Russian veteran Kuznetsova titled here in 2009 and was the Roland
Garros runner-up in 2006. In other opening-round play involving seeds, No. 12
Maria Kirilenko of Russia rolled past fellow countrywoman Nina Bratchikova 6-0,
6-1, in-form Estonian Kaia Kanepi took out No. 23 Czech Klara Zakopalova 7-6
(7-3), 6-2, and American Jamie Hampton doused No. 25 Czech Lucie Safarova 7-6
(7-5), 3-6, 9-7. Kanepi has now won six straight matches, including her
clay-court title last week in Brussels. Hampton was one of 10 American women to
win first-round matches this week. Additional opening-round wins came for the
aforementioned Beck, Swiss Stefanie Voegele, Aussie Ashleigh Barty, last weeks
Brussels runner-up Peng Shuai of China, and Slovak Anna Schmiedlova. The second
round is scheduled to conclude on Thursday, including matches for the
second-seeded and defending champion Sharapova and Azarenka. The former world
No. 1 Sharapova will battle rising Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, while Azarenka
will meet Beck. Thursdays schedule will also feature sixth-seeded Aussie Open
runner-up and former French Open champion Li Na, Kvitova, ninth-seeded former
U.S. Open champion and former French Open finalist Sam Stosur, and 17th-seeded
American Sloane Stephens. Li will tangle with American Bethanie Mattek-Sands,
while Stephens will be