Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Sports News

MLB: Chicago Cubs 10, LA Dodgers 8

(Boxscore)
|
|
 
  
Published: April 23, 2011 at 5:16 PM

CHICAGO, April 23 (UPI) -- Jeff Baker's two-run double in the eighth inning Saturday capped a comeback that saw the Chicago Cubs rally for a 10-8 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Cubs trailed 8-5 before erupting for five runs in the eighth, carrying them to the win and evening their three-game series with the Dodgers at one victory apiece.

Starlin Castro's two-run single off Matt Guerrier (1-1) pulled the Cubs to within 8-7, and the tying run came across on Darwin Barney's fielder's choice groundout. After Marlon Byrd fanned for the inning's first out, Aramis Ramriez singled, sending Barney to third.

Blake Hawksworth entered the game and Baker cracked an opposite-field line shot that rolled to the right-center field wall, scoring Ramirez and Barney with the go-ahead runs.

The rally made a winner of Jeff Samardzja (2-0) who tossed 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief, and Carlos Marmol gained his fifth save in the ninth.

Casey Blake, Andre Ethier and Rod Barajas all homered for Los Angeles.

Topics: Jeff Baker, Matt Guerrier, Starlin Castro
Recommended Stories
© 2011 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Linsanity The Daytona 500 Cheerleaders of 2012
Additional Sports News Stories
1 of 27
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
View Caption
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler
fark
British hotel sets world record for widest selection of gin. Now who's for jynnan tonnyx, gee-N-N-T'N-ix,...
Conservative Jewish leaders issue guidance on same-sex marriage ceremonies. W/ helpful pic of Jewish...
Photoshop theme: The elephant in the room
British Navy hopes no one notices they don't have a navy
Concerned about missing the only transfer of Venus for the next couple of hundred years? Your best...
If we can't bring a woolly mammoth back to life, why the hell are we screwing with all this DNA...