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After getting off to a rough start this season, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Carlos Martinez figured out the problem -- his hair. Actually, his hair extensions. The silver braided ones. They were messing with his luck, so they had to go. So into the trash can they went. "I want to win a game," Martinez told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch via a translator on Monday night. "I just wanted to do something different." Said Cardinals manager Mike Matheny: "I think that's a good move." Martinez, who is slated to pitch Tuesday against the Milwaukee Brewers, is 0-3 with a 4.71 ERA and 39 strikeouts in 28 2/3 innings this season. Last season, he was 16-9 with a 3.04 ERA. Matheny told the Post-Dispatch that Continue to Article

May 02, 2017 8:36:am EST

Milwaukee's Travis Shaw and Jonathan Villar each hit a tape-measure home run as the Brewers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-5 in 10 innings in Major League Baseball on Monday night. Shaw's three-run shot off the Cardinals' South Korean reliever Seung Hwan Oh (0-2) traveled an estimated 451 feet and broke a 4-all tie with two outs in the top of the 10th. Villar's two-run drive in the third soared 450 feet to right-center and gave the Brewers a 2-0 lead. Continue to Article

May 02, 2017 2:41:am EST

Travis Shaw sat out Milwaukee's previous game with a sore hand. Shaw and Jonathan Villar each hit a tape-measure home run, and the Brewers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-5 in 10 innings Monday night. Shaw's three-run shot off Seung Hwan Oh (0-2) traveled an estimated 451 feet and broke a 4-all tie with two outs in the top of the 10th. Continue to Article

May 02, 2017 1:13:am EST

Joe Maddon thought Brett Anderson spent the first month of the 2017 season a little uneasy about his position with the defending world champion Cubs. Most of that, Maddon thought, was due to Anderson pressing in an effort to make sure he didn't let down his new team. As the calendar rolled over to May Monday night (though it didn't feel like it with the temperature at a soggy 49 degrees at first pitch after a rain delay lasting an hour and 25 minutes), Anderson is still in search of peace of mind. The veteran left-hander survived for just four outs, getting lit up for seven runs on seven hits and a walk as the Philadelphia Phillies (12-12) cruised to a 10-2 victory over the Cubs (13-12). The Continue to Article

May 01, 2017 7:53:pm EST