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01	November 2018

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ATLANTA (AP) � Sean Newcomb is fighting for a spot in the rotation for the Atlanta Braves� hopeful march to the postseason.The way he�s been going recently at home Shohei Ohtani Jersey , Newcomb is leaving doubt that he can handle the job.�It�s just more a mentality,� he said. �I�ve got to go out there and get right after guys and not worry about too much about what�s going on as far as what�s working and what�s not.�Bryce Harper and Anthony Rendon hit two-run homers, 19-year-old rookie Juan Soto added an RBI single in the ninth inning and the Washington Nationals beat the Braves 6-4 on Sunday.Atlanta maintained a 6½-games lead in the NL East over second-place Philadelphia but has lost two straight following a season-best, six-game winning streak. The Braves are 38-36 at home, where they have lost eight of their last 11.Tanner Roark (9-15) allowed two runs and five hits in 5 1/3 innings, and Sean Doolittle pitched a perfect ninth for his 24th save in 25 chances.Newcomb (12-9) made 31 pitches in the first and allowed five runs and six hits in three innings. He has lost four of five home starts since coming within one strike of a no-hitter against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Atlanta on July 29, and he has an 11.32 home ERA over that span.�I wasn�t commanding the fastball, so it was hard to get everything else going,� Newcomb said. �You could tell they were laying off pitches, waiting on their pitch to kind of do something with.�Washington built a 3-0 lead in the first when Harper hit his 34th homer and Ryan Zimmerman�s grounded into a run-scoring forceout. Rendon hit his 20th homer in the third to make it 5-0; he has reached safely in 25 straight games.Soto singled in the first to extend his on-base streak to 21 straight games, tying Mickey Mantle in 1951 for the second-longest by a teenager behind Mel Ott�s 22 in 1928. Soto is batting .357 during a 10-game hitting streak.�He�s been a blessing for us all year long,� Nationals manager Dave Martinez said. �Just watching him play, he�s just out there having fun and playing the game the right way.�Atlanta closed to 5-4 on two-run homers by Tyler Flowers in the fourth and by Charlie Culberson in the eighth against Greg Holland.Roark�s streak of 27 2/3 consecutive innings without a walk ended in the third Brandon Phillips Jersey , and he struck out Freddie Freeman to strand two runners.Rendon dove to field a grounder at third in the fifth and jumped to throw off one leg to get pinch-hitter Preston Tucker at first. Late in the inning, center fielder Victor Robles ran hard to his left and chase down Ozzie Albies� liner at the wall.But it was the Nationals� offense that dominated the last two games. Harper just hopes Washington can stay in contention despite being 7½ games back of Atlanta.�It�s a bummer when we�re not winning ballgames,� Harper said. �That was the biggest thing on my mind. I�m not really worried about my numbers or anything like that because I am who I am. That sounds bad, but I am. Any given night I�m able to go out there and do some things for this team that are special, and I was able to do that again today.�TRAINER�S ROOMBraves 3B Johan Camargo missed his fourth straight game with left groin tightness, but manager Brian Snitker said he should be back in the lineup on Monday. � Atlanta RHP Arodys Vizcaino was not available after pitching a scoreless ninth inning Saturday, the former closer�s first appearance after he missed 55 games with right shoulder inflammation.UP NEXTRHP Erick Fedde (2-3, 5.12 ERA) will make his first career appearance against the Marlins when the Nationals begin a two-game series Monday at Miami. RHP Mike Foltynewicz (11-9, 2.66 ERA) will face 15-game winner Miles Mikolas when the Braves begin a three-game series against St. Louis. CLEVELAND � Hoping that second baseman Jason Kipnis might be emerging from his season-long slump, the Cleveland Indians will host the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night at Progressive Field in the first game of a three-game series.It�s a welcome return home for the Indians, who have played 13 of their last 16 games on the road. The last of those was a 12-5 win on Sunday at Kansas City, a victory that was sparked by a rare offensive outburst by Kipnis.The two-time All-Star, who has had a dreadful 2018 season Luis Valbuena Jersey , erupted for four hits, including a double, an inside-the-park home run and four RBIs.Article continues below ...Indians manager Terry Francona, who has stuck with Kipnis despite his season-long slump, is hopeful that his second baseman�s four-hit game is a sign of better things to come.�What a lift that would give us,� Francona said. �We�ve seen him do it, and he�s shown periods of it (this year). If he could get hot like that, it would help us so much.�Even with four hits Sunday, Kipnis is batting just .223 for the season and just .167 in his last 11 games. His average hasn�t been above .230 since April 1.Kipnis says he made some mechanical adjustments in his swing that he used for the first time Sunday.�It (the four-hit game) gives me a breath of fresh air,� he said. �I�m excited to see where it goes from here.�Kipnis may be catching a break Tuesday when he faces Twins left-hander Kyle Gibson, a pitcher Kipnis has done very well against during his career. Kipnis has a .419 career batting average vs. Gibson (13-for-31) with two doubles, a home run and 10 walks.Gibson (7-10, 3.63) has made 17 career starts against Cleveland and is 3-8 with a 5.28 ERA. His last start this year came Aug. 22 http://www.angelsfanproshop.com/authentic-chris-young-jersey , a 7-3 loss to the Chicago White Sox in which he pitched 4 2/3 innings and allowed seven runs (four earned) and seven hits, three of them home runs, with five strikeouts and four walks.Tuesday will be Gibson�s fifth start of the season against the Indians. In the first four, he was 1-2 with a 3.80 ERA.Gibson�s last start against Cleveland was a 10-0 loss on Aug. 6. In that game, he pitched five innings, allowing six earned runs (four earned) and seven hits with three strikeouts and three walks. He gave up two home runs, to Yonder Alonso and Brandon Guyer.Carlos Carrasco (15-7, 3.55) will start for Cleveland. Carrasco�s last start did not go well, a 10-4 loss to the Boston Red Sox on Aug. 22, in which he only pitched 3 2/3 innings, giving up six runs (five earned) and eight hits with six strikeouts and one walk.Tuesday will be Carrasco�s sixth start of the year against the Twins. It will also be his third start of the month vs. Minnesota. His last start against the Twins was a 3-2 loss on Aug. 7 in which he pitched 6 1/3 innings and gave up three runs and 10 hits with eight strikeouts and one walk.In 22 career appearances against Minnesota, Carrasco is 6-9 with a 4.00 ERA.Minnesota is the only team in the AL Central that Cleveland hasn�t dominated this year. The Indians are 8-8 vs. the Twins and 30-11 (.732) against the rest of the division.