SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Padres say minor league outfielder Donavan Tate has reported to extended spring training in Arizona.

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With seagulls circling like buzzards in extra innings at AT&T Park on Monday night, outfielder Will Venable kept the San Diego Padres hopes alive for a seventh straight victory .
Venable’s incredible diving catch on the warning track in center with his back to the infield — reminiscent of Jim Edmonds at his best — robbed Juan Perez of a certain game-ending hit and allowed the Padres more time to take the lead and beat the San Francisco Giants 5-3 in 13 innings. The look of disbelief and disappointment on Perez’s face, along with exasperation in the body language of Brandon Belt as he ran toward home, said it all. And then Giants manager Bruce Bochy , via MLB.com, said more:
“It was one of the best catches I’ve seen to save a game. It’s as simple as that. It’s a game-saving catch.”
Venable just shook the dirt out of his pants as he came off the field.
Pitchers bunting: Often, the act is cause for comedy or pain, but pitcher Andrew Cashner laid down a perfect bunt single with runners at the corners to put the Padres ahead in the 13th. The Padres had run out of players, manager Bud Black said, but Cashner is 5 for 18 this season at the plate.
“That was pretty cool,” Cashner said, beaming. “I’ve never had a game-winning RBI before.”

Even guys with big craniums make mistakes: Bochy said he messed up a double-switch after the Padres had taken the lead. Bochy had intended to bring in Buster Posey to lead off the bottom of the 13th, but mistakenly put him in the seventh hole. The Giants didn’t get to him.
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Braves 2, Mets 1 : Dillon Gee was two outs from closing a shutout, but Freddie Freeman said hang on a second:
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Phillies 5, Nationals 4 : A good teammate, Domonic Brown saved Jonathan Papelbon’s bacon with some two-out action .
Marlins 3, Diamondbacks 2 : Make that “Giancarlo Stanton 3, D-backs 2.” He hit two home runs and the Fish finished with three hits, and it was enough.
Tigers 5, Orioles 1 : Max Scherzer is 10-0 and “at the top of his game, pretty much,” manager Jim Leyland said. Baltimore’s run came on Chris Davis’ 24th home run.

Rangers 8, Athletics 7 : Not only is Texas’s six-game losing streak over, but the A’s got to change into their street clothes without raw sewage bubbling up from the bathroom drains. So everyone wins.
Reds 4, Pirates 1 : Zack Cozart hit one of the four solo homers for the Reds, who are 15 over .500.
Royals 2, Indians 1 : A winning run that scores on a wild pitch are tough to stomach. The pitch was in the dirt, but catcher Carlos Santana let it pass through the five-hole.
Cardinals 5, Cubs 2 : Very patient of Shelby Miller to wait out a rain delay of nearly two hours, though he left the game after five innings because of leg cramps. He forgot to water himself! After collecting two more hits, Yadier Molina leads the league in hitting at .355.
White Sox 4, Astros 2 : The ‘Stros were four innings away from pulling off a four-game sweep, but a four-run sixth saved the White Stockings.
Angels 11, Mariners 3 : Halos get 21 hits, Albert Pujols gets four of ‘em.
Blue Jays 2, Rockies 0 : Nice effort by Josh Johnson after taking extra time to let a blister heal.

”I messed up the double switch. I got distracted. I was out there arguing and I totally brain-cramped on that. Once I said it wrong, I was done. I knew that. That’s a first. I probably should have stepped back and thought a little bit. … Once I called it wrong I can’t take it back. Got distracted, you’re upset a little bit, that shouldn’t happen but it did.”
— Bruce Bochy

Dom Brown enjoys his first walkoff moment .

• After striking out 10 over 7 1/3 scoreless innings, Johnson lowered his ERA from 5.40 to 4.38.
• The Royals moved into second place in the AL Central after winning for the 11th time in 13 games.
• Dan Haren of the Nationals has a 6.22 ERA in seven starts since May 9.
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ATLANTA — Right-hander Julio Teheran bounced back from one of his worst starts of the season to throw six shutout innings and pitch the Atlanta Braves to a 3-0 win over the San Francisco Giants on Sunday.

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ATLANTA — Rookie right-hander Julio Teheran is assembling more evidence that he deserves a permanent place in the Atlanta Braves’ rotation.

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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Kyle Blanks was on his way back to the minor leagues ten days ago. Now it appears he’ll be sticking around for a while.

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Don’t let the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees see that wild photo above. It might bring back too many uncomfortable memories .
The photo actually comes from Thursday night when the Midland RockHounds — Double-A affiliate of the Oakland A’s — were taking on the San Antonio Missions — San Diego Padres affiliate — in a Texas League matchup. After five innings were complete, a nasty thunderstorm with heavy rain moved into the area and forced the game to be suspended with the score tied 2-2 ( San Antonio would win it 6-2 in 10 innings on Friday).
As you can clearly see, the storm brought with it some very dangerous lightning strikes that made it necessary to clear the stadium and move all 5,261 fans into a safer area. Thankfully, they were able to do so without incident, but we’re also kind of happy the person responsible for taking the photo (the RockHounds only credit the Midland Reporter-Telegram) held their position long enough to get the amazing photo.

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Whether they deserved to or not, the Arizona Diamondbacks definitely took the brunt of the suspensions handed down by Major League Baseball stemming from Tuesday’s brawl with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
In the immediate aftermath of that official announcement, several D-Backs, including injured players Brandon McCarthy, Daniel Hudson and Adam Eaton, took to Twitter to let their displeasure be known publicly , but perhaps the most interesting (and straight forward) comments came a little later from their catcher Miguel Montero.
Speaking to the media prior to Arizona’s 2-1 loss to the San Diego Padres on Friday night, Montero, who was fined for his role in the brawl, weighed in with his own confusion and anger over the suspensions — which include starting pitcher Ian Kennedy getting 10 games — and then he went a little further when describing his feelings on being Zack Greinke’s target for retaliation.
From Fox Sports Arizona:
Montero said he did not expect to be hit but also did not want to start anything afterward.
“The last thing I wanted to do was get suspended. I know he’s a little chicken(expletive). I didn’t want to fight,” Montero said of Greinke.

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Whether they deserved to or not, the Arizona Diamondbacks definitely took the brunt of the suspensions handed down by Major League Baseball stemming from Tuesday’s brawl with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
In the immediate aftermath of that official announcement, several D-Backs, including injured players Brandon McCarthy, Daniel Hudson and Adam Eaton, took to Twitter to let their displeasure be known publicly , but perhaps the most interesting (and straight forward) comments came a little later from their catcher Miguel Montero.
Speaking to the media prior to Arizona’s 2-1 loss to the San Diego Padres on Friday night, Montero, who was fined for his role in the brawl, weighed in with his own confusion and anger over the suspensions — which include starting pitcher Ian Kennedy getting 10 games — and then he went a little further when describing his feelings on being Zack Greinke’s target for retaliation.
From Fox Sports Arizona:
Montero said he did not expect to be hit but also did not want to start anything afterward.
“The last thing I wanted to do was get suspended. I know he’s a little chicken(expletive). I didn’t want to fight,” Montero said of Greinke.

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Friday night was a thrilling night for baseball in the state of Ohio.
We’ll start in Cincinnati where the Reds played host to the Milwaukee Brewers in a low-scoring division battle. Starting pitchers Bronson Arroyo and Kyle Lohse weren’t exactly dominant throughout — especially Arroyo, who allowed 12 hits in seven innings — but kept the opponents off the board and their teams in the game. That type of game would end up benefiting Milwaukee as they received a game-tying home run from Martin Maldonado in the eighth that ultimately sent us to our 111th extra-inning game this season .
Once there, a familiar hero emerged for the hometown Reds as outfielder Jay Bruce connected for his fifth career game-ending home run .
”I told somebody earlier it never gets old,” said Bruce, who has 11 homers. ”I hit homers, but walk-offs are completely different. They’re a little sweeter, especially this one because of yesterday.”
In case you’re wondering what yesterday means, the Reds dropped a tough one to Chicago Cubs in 14 innings at Wrigley Field on Thursday afternoon. A second straight gut punch would have been a lousy feeling, but Bruce made sure that didn’t happen with his latest walk-off. Reds win it 4-3 .
Meanwhile, in Cleveland: Not long before Bruce’s game-ending blast, fans at Progressive Field in Cleveland were also going crazy as their Indians pulled out a 2-1 win over the visiting Washington Nationals. Tied at one entering the bottom of the ninth, Drew Stubbs reached with a one out single. Michael Bourn followed with a single of his own, allowing Stubbs to advance to third. After Bourn stole second to take the double play out of order, Jason Kipnis pulled one hard on the ground that first baseman Adam LaRoche fielded cleanly and came up firing to home. It was a bang-bang play at the plate — literally and figuratively — but Stubbs, who was off immediately on contact, got in ahead of the tag.

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SAN DIEGO — Major League Baseball clearly showed a bias toward the Los Angeles Dodgers, members of the Arizona Diamondbacks said Friday, when it handed down suspensions resulting from Tuesday night’s bench-clearing brawl in L.A.

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