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expected to miss 12 to 18 months. Taillon began feeling pain in his elbow with
two weeks remaining in spring training after being assigned by the Pirates to
their minor league camp. Doctors prescribed two weeks of rest, but Taillon again
felt pain when he tried to throw again. The Pirates also said right-handed
reliever Vin Mazzaro accepted his outright assignment on Wednesday. He is
expected to join Triple-A Indianapolis in the coming days.
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was hitting .160, had nearly three times as many strikeouts as hits and was
dropped to seventh in the batting order.RECIFE, Brazil - With his team down to
10 men for nearly an hour, Keylor Navas made sure Costa Ricas last line of
defence held firm. The goalkeeper came through with a string of stops in
regulation and extra time and then made the only save in a penalty shootout to
send Costa Rica through to the World Cup quarterfinals on Sunday with a win over
Greece. After Navas dived to his right to push out the effort by Theofanis
Gekas, Costa Rica defender Michael Umana scored the decisive spot kick for a 5-3
win in the shootout, sending the team sprinting down the pitch to embrace its
goalkeeper. The game had finished 1-1 following extra time, after Greece
equalized in second-half injury time. "It was only a dream for us, a dream that
became a reality," Navas said. "A dream that was dreamt by an entire country."
Costa Rica will play one of the tournament favourites the Netherlands in the
quarterfinals on Saturday in a surprising appearance in the last eight for the
small country that has a quarter of the population of Brazils biggest city and
which hardly anyone picked to even make it past the group stage. "To the entire
people in Costa Rica, those at home and out on the streets, this is for you,"
Costa Ricas Colombian coach Jorge Luis Pinto said. "This is a people that love
football and they deserve it. ... We will continue fighting. We will go on. We
see beautiful things." The victory also delighted the majority of the just over
41,000 fans in Recife as the Brazilian locals shouted for Costa Rica throughout
the game and often broke out into chants of "Ole, Ole, Ole, Ole, Ticos!" — using
the common nickname for Costa Ricans. Greece was often booed. Costa Rica went
ahead in the 52nd minute with a coolly taken goal by captain Bryan Ruiz, but the
game changed when Oscar Duarte clumsily lunged at Greeces Jose Holebas in the
66th and was sent off with a second yellow card. Pouring forward, the Greeks did
beat Navas in injury time when defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos smashed in a
rebound to make the teams numerical advantage eventually pay. Yet Navas kept
denying the Greeks through extra time and then, crucially, when he dived, threw
up a hand and pushed GGekas spot-kick away at the end.
Brett Favre Falcons Jersey. "Obviously he has to be congratulated," Greece coach Fernando Santos said of Costa Ricas keeper.
"If it werent for (him), the results would have been different." Santos was sent
to the stands by Australian referee Ben Williams just before the penalties and
said he watched the shootout on a television inside the stadium. "Sadness," he
said of Greeces elimination and his last game in charge of the team. "Definitely
sadness. Not much (else) goes through your mind at that time." The red card for
Duarte changed the game — which Costa Rica had slowly begun to control — and
Greece surged forward for most of the remainder of the match. But, with the
exception of Papastathopoulos goal, they just couldnt get past Navas as shot
after shot was blocked. Greece had 13 shots on target to Costa Ricas two. Navas
smothered a volley from Dimitris Salpingidis from point-blank range in the first
half. After the equalizer, he threw himself high to tip over a header from
substitute Konstantinos Mitroglou that would have surely been the winner in the
dying seconds of regulation time. He then made three crucial stops in extra
time, when Costas Katsouranis, Lazaros Christodoulopoulos and Mitroglou were all
denied. During the shootout, the Costa Rican squad knelt in a line. They then
burst onto their feet to race over to Navas and smother him in a huddle when
Umanas shot hit the net and Costa Rica made the last eight at the World Cup. "We
will not stay on the quarterfinals," coach Pinto said. "Rest assured that we
will not get eliminated there." ___ Lineups: Costa Rica: Keylor Navas; Giancarlo
Gonzalez, Michael Umana, Oscar Duarte, Junior Diaz, Cristian Gamboa (Johnny
Acosta, 77); Celso Borges, Christian Bolanos (Randall Brenes, 83), Yeltsin
Tejeda (Jose Cubero, 66); Joel Campbell, Bryan Ruiz. Greece: Orestis Karnezis;
Kostas Manolas, Vasileios Torosidis, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Jose Holebas;
Andreas Samaris (Konstantinos Mitroglou, 58), Lazaros Christodoulopoulos,
Giorgos Karagounis, Giannis Maniatis (Costas Katsouranis, 78); Georgios Samaras,
Dimitris Salpingidis (Theofanis Gekas, 69).
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