Tribe, Bucs pick up Saturday victories

Associated Press

CHICAGO

Austin Kearns had an RBI single in the fourth inning and scored on a balk, and Mitch Talbot pitched seven strong to help the Cleveland Indians beat the Chicago White Sox 3-1 on Saturday night.

For the second straight time this season, Talbot (7-4) outpitched White Sox starter Jake Peavy. Talbot allowed one run on six hits. He struck out five and walked three.

The rookie right-hander has won all three of his starts against the White Sox with a 1.57 ERA. Talbot held the White Sox to just two runs over seven innings in a win over Peavy on May 25. Talbot threw his first career complete game in a 6-2 home win over Chicago on April 16.

Russell Branyan added an RBI single off White Sox reliever Matt Thornton in the eighth inning for the Indians, 8-3 against the White Sox this season. The Indians are 13-30 against all other opponents.

Peavy (4-5) pitched seven innings and allowed two runs on six hits. He struck out three and walked one.

Chris Perez pitched a scoreless eighth inning and Kerry Wood pitched a perfect ninth for his fourth save in five opportunities.

The offensive woes continued for the White Sox, who were beat 10-1 by Justin Masterson and the Indians on Friday. Masterson snapped an 11-game losing streak.

Peavy was perfect through the first three innings, but was done in with a poor fourth inning. Trevor Crowe and Shin-Soo Choo hit back-to-back singles in the fourth. After a three hit game on Friday, Kearns followed with a RBI single to left. Juan Pierre had trouble picking up Kearns’ ball and Choo tried to take third, but was tagged out while sliding into third. Kearns ended up taking second on the throw. During Branyan’s at-bat, Peavy threw a wild pitch, allowing Kearns to move to third. Three pitches later, Peavy made a motion to the mound and stopped, resulting in a balk called by home plate umpire Lance Barksdale to score Kearns.

Pirates 6, Giants 3

PITTSBURGH

Andrew McCutchen had four hits, including a homer, and scored three runs to lead the Pirates over San Francisco.

Ryan Doumit also homered for the Pirates and had four RBIs, and Paul Maholm (4-4) allowed two runs over 61/3 innings to become the first Pirates starter to win a game in almost three weeks.

Pittsburgh has won three of four since snapping a five-game losing streak.

Andres Torres had three hits, a run and an RBI for San Francisco, which had won six of its previous eight.

Giants starter Todd Wellemeyer (3-5) was charged with six earned runs on nine hits with three walks and two strikeouts in three-plus innings, his shortest start this season.

Giants 6, Pirates 4

PITTSBURGH

Juan Uribe and Aubrey Huff each hit a two-run homer in a comeback sixth inning and San Francisco erased a four-run deficit to beat Pittsburgh. The start of the game was delayed nearly three hours by rain. Eli Whiteside added a solo home run as the Giants went deep three times against Zach Duke (3-6). Andrew McCutchen hit a two-run double in the second for the Bucs.