Published: Sunday, October 1, 2006
McLeary effective for Bucs
The Pirates beat the Reds, 3-0.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Marty McLeary, a journeyman minor leaguer most of his career, pitched seven shutout innings in only his second major league start and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Cincinnati Reds 3-0 Saturday night to end an eight-game losing streak.
The Reds were mathematically eliminated from the NL Central race earlier in the day when the Cardinals beat the Brewers and they looked like it, doing nothing offensively against a 32-year-old right-hander pitching in only his eighth game in the majors.
Pirates infielder Freddy Sanchez went 0-for-4 to trim his lead in the NL batting race against Florida's Miguel Cabrera to three points.
Cabrera went 1-for-4 Saturday against Philadelphia.
The season ends Sunday.
The Pirates have had 24 batting champions, the most in the NL, but haven't had a champion since Bill Madlock won in 1983. Sanchez also needs two hits Sunday to join Jack Wilson (2004) as the only Pirates players to get 200 hits in a season since 1978.
Highly-effective
The 32-year-old McLeary (2-0) had pitched in only four previous major league games, with San Diego in 2004, before being called up by the Pirates late last month, yet had pitched effectively in both of his starts with an 0.75 ERA. He gave up four hits and one run in five innings Sunday during a 2-1 loss to San Diego.
McLeary didn't allow a runner past second base and worked out of his biggest jam by getting David Ross to ground out with runners on first and second and two outs in the fourth.
Matt Capps, who leads major league rookies with 84 appearances, followed McLeary by pitching a scoreless eighth that was interrupted by a 14-minute rain delay.
Salomon Torres finished up with a perfect ninth for his 11th save in 14 opportunities.
CINCINNATI PITTSBURGH
ab r h bi ab r h bi
Dnorfia cf 3 0 1 0 Duffy cf 4 0 1 0
Httberg 1b 4 0 1 0 JWlson ss 3 0 0 0
EEcrcn 3b 4 0 2 0 FSnchz 2b 4 0 0 0
Dunn lf 3 0 0 0 Bay lf 4 1 2 0
Ross c 4 0 1 0 Doumit 1b 2 2 0 0
Hlndsw rf 4 0 0 0 STorres p 0 0 0 0
JCastro ss 3 0 1 0 Palino c 4 0 1 1
Olmedo 2b 3 0 0 0 Nady rf 3 0 2 0
Arroyo p 2 0 0 0 JBtsta 3b 2 0 1 2
Wise ph 1 0 0 0 McLery p 3 0 0 0
Coffey p 0 0 0 0 Capps p 0 0 0 0
Randa 1b 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 6 0 Totals 29 3 7 3
Cincinnati 000 000 000 — 0
Pittsburgh 010 002 00x — 3
DP—Cincinnati 1, Pittsburgh 2. LOB—Cincinnati 6, Pittsburgh 6. 2B—Paulino (19). SB—EEncarnacion (6). CS—Nady (3).
IP H R ER BB SO
Cincinnati
Arroyo L,14-11 7 7 3 3 3 3
Coffey 1 0 0 0 0 1
Pittsburgh
McLeary W,2-0 7 5 0 0 2 3
Capps 1 1 0 0 0 1
STorres S,11 1 0 0 0 0 2
HBP—by Arroyo (Doumit). Umpires—Home, Jerry Layne; First, Bob Davidson; Second, Mark Wegner; Third, Marvin Hudson. T—2:04. A—35,514.
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