PHOENIX (AP) — The Los Angeles Angels have placed Justin Upton on the 10-day disabled list with a cut on his left index finger
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Angels announced Upton’s move Tuesday prior to a game against the Arizona
Diamondbacks, retroactive to Sunday. The Angels called up outfielder Jabari
Blash from Triple-A Salt Lake to take Upton’s place on the active roster.“You
keep going,” Angels manager Mike Scioscia said Tuesday. “You’re certainly not
going to sit back and feel sorry for yourself, or no one’s going to feel sorry
for you.”Scioscia says Upton was injured Sunday night after getting the day off
when the Angels played at Texas. He’d hoped the cut had healed enough to allow
Upton to face his former team, the Diamondbacks, this week.Trout
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prospect Aaron Cox. CHICAGO — When Cole Hamels joined the Chicago Cubs earlier
this season, the veteran starter didn’t expect he would take on such a vital
role. But as the Cubs close in on what they hope is their third straight
National League Central Division title, Hamels could be a major reason why.
Coming off his worst start joining the Cubs, Hamels will attempt to keep Chicago
moving in the right direction when he takes the mound Monday against the
Pittsburgh Pirates at Wrigley Field.Hamels (9-10
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no-decisions in three straight starts before being roughed up in his last outing
against the Arizona Diamondbacks.Article continues below ...Now, with the Cubs
magic number at five to clinch the division title after a 6-1 victory over the
Chicago White Sox Sunday, Hamels hopes to rebound Monday against the Pirates.
Hamels is coming off a start in which he allowed seven runs and nine hits over
six innings as he surrendered more than three earned runs for the first time
since July 23 — his final start with the Texas Rangers. Hamels is 5-3 with a
2.49 ERA in 12 career starts against Pittsburgh.Despite taking two of three
games from the White Sox over the weekend, the Cubs realize that they still have
to take care of their business as they cling to a 2 1/2 game lead over the
Milwaukee Brewers with seven games to play.“Let’s not get too far ahead of
ourselves,” Cubs ace Jon Lester told reporters Saturday, according to the
Chicago Tribune. “We’re only 2 1/2 games ahead. We have a long way to go.”The
Cubs will attempt to keep their focus set on the Pirates
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Javier Baez says Chicago cannot become consumed by the teams chasing them.“We
know what we have,” Baez said Saturday, according to the Tribune. “We just have
to stay away from every other team. They have to pay attention to us, not us to
them. If we do that, we should be good.”The Pirates will travel to Chicago
having lost having officially been eliminated from playoff contention. Their
13-6 loss to the Brewers
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Pittsburgh had of seeing the season extend beyond the next week.Despite Sunday’s
loss, Pittsburgh has won six of their past eight games and could have an impact
on Chicago’s division title chances depending on how they next four days against
the Cubs play out.But impacting other teams’ title chances doesn’t diminish the
disappointment the Pirates feel after failing to miss the postseason for the
third straight season.“If we figure out how to win one game a month more, we’re
in a very different spot as we finish this season,” Pirates general manager Neal
Huntington told reporters before Sunday’s game, according to MLB.com. “If we win
two games a month more, we’re fighting for a division
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will take the mound for the Pirates on Monday having won four of his past six
starts.Taillon threw seven scoreless innings in his last outing against the
Kansas City Royals when he allowed just four hits and struck out 11. Taillon is
3-3 with a 4.35 ERA in seven career starts against the Cubs.
