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Vikings' Asher Allen retires at age 24
ST. LOUIS, April 17 (UPI) -- Felipe Lopez accounted for all the St. Louis runs with a seventh-inning grand slam homer Friday, giving St. Louis a 4-3 triumph over the New York Mets.
The Cardinals won for the third time in four games, getting a very shaky fourth save of the season from Ryan Franklin.
Oliver Perez took a shutout and a one-run lead into the seventh, but was replaced by Fernando Nieve (0-1) after giving up a leadoff single to David Freese. Nieve then hit Skip Schumaker with a pitch and walked pinch-hitter Matt Holliday to load the bases.
That brought up Lopez, who hit a 2-1 pitch from Nieve over the wall in left.
St. Louis still had a 4-1 lead going into the ninth, but Franklin gave up an RBI single to Frank Catalanotto and a run-scoring ground out to Jose Reyes before finally getting Luis Castillo on a grounder to end the game.
Chris Carpenter (2-0) picked up the victory, giving up an unearned run on four hits in seven innings while striking out 10.
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BOSTON, June 1 (UPI) --
A team effort led by Kevin Garnett overcame a one-man show by LeBron James Friday and the Boston Celtics held on to defeat Miami 101-91.
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LOS ANGELES, June 1 (UPI) --
Dick Beals, known as the voice of Gumby and Speedy Alka-Seltzer, died at Vista Gardens Memory Care in Vista, Calif., his friend told the Los Angeles Times.
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MIAMI, June 1 (UPI) --
U.S. weather forecasters say the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be about average, despite the rare late-May landfall of Beryl.
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UPI horoscopes for Saturday, June 2, 2012.
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