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DENVER (AP) — It was Jameson Taillon for Pittsburgh and Chad
Bettis for Colorado on Tuesday night at Coors Field.An intersection with special
significance.Taillon beat Bettis in a matchup of pitchers who battled testicular
cancer last
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Rockies.“I’m not going to sit here and say we’re best friends and we talk on the
phone all the time but we’ve both gone through something that is extremely
similar and we both go through something similar starting pitching in the major
leagues,” Taillon said. “There’s an understood bond there, something we’ll share
for life.”Taillon (9-8) allowed 10 hits in his second complete game of the
season. The 26-year-old right-hander struck out three and walked one, helping
the Pirates stop a three-game slide.He became the first visiting pitcher to toss
a nine-inning complete game in Denver since Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw shut out
the Rockies on July 2, 2013.“I’ve watched 1,300, 1,400 ballgames here, you don’t
see a lot of complete games,” said Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle, who managed
the Rockies over eight seasons. “He finished strong.”Taillon threw 107 pitches,
70 for strikes. He needed just 15 to get the final three outs in his second
career complete game.“You always hear closing out games is tough, weird things
happen in the ninth so I told myself it’s a 0-0
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let’s close out this inning,” Taillon said.Starling Marte hit a solo drive in
the first and Jordy Mercer connected for a three-run shot against Bettis (5-2)
with two out in the fourth. Josh Harrison capped Pittsburgh’s five-run fifth
with a two-run homer off Jake McGee.Bettis allowed nine runs and eight hits over
4 2/3 innings in his first start after missing five weeks with a blister on his
right middle finger.“The problem was those two walks in the fourth and the home
run by Mercer,” Bettis said. “It really came down to those three at-bats where I
didn’t really execute the pitches like I wanted to.”Taillon was diagnosed with
cancer last year and missed six weeks after surgery last May.Bettis was
diagnosed in November 2016. He was cleared to report to spring training before
tests revealed he had cancer in his lymph nodes and he underwent treatment. He
made his season debut on Aug. 14 and started nine games last year.Colorado made
it 10-2 on Carlos Gonzalez’s two-run double with one out in the
sixth.REMEMBERING DONTuesday marked the one-year anniversary of the death of
former Rockies manager Don Baylor. Baylor was Colorado’s first manager and held
that position for six seasons. He gave Hurdle his first job on a major league
staff.“I’m forever grateful,” Hurdle said. “There’s times during the season or
other times I’ll remember things he did or things he said that resonate, that
have meaning. There’s still enough people within the game that I’ll see from
time to time that we were connected. His spirit lives.”ARRIVALShortstop Adeiny
Hechavarria joined the Pirates in time for Tuesday’s win. His plane landed at
Denver International Airport at around 5 p.m. local time and made it to Coors
Field 25 minutes before the first pitch.He was acquired Monday in a trade with
Tampa Bay.CENTURY MARKRockies star Charlie Blackmon singled in the sixth inning
for his 1,000th career hit. He received a short standing ovation from the
crowd.TRAINER’S ROOMPirates: INF Sean Rodriguez was placed on the 10-day DL –
retroactive to Monday – with a strain to the left abdomen.UP NEXTPittsburgh
right-hander Chris Archer (3-5, 4.40 ERA) will make his second start since he
was acquired in a trade with the Rays. He will face Rockies right-hander German
Marquez (9-8, 4.70 ERA) in the series finale on Wednesday. GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP)
The last-place Arizona Coyotes are 7-2-1 in their last nine games, an
encouraging run book-ended by comeback victories over the Minnesota
Wild.”They’ve had a rough year, so when they get down it’s easy for them to go,
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ahead or tied, they start to believe, and they’ve got some good speed out
there.”Arizona turned on that speed in the second period Thursday and beat
Minnesota 5-3 to end the Wild’s five-game winning streak.While the Coyotes are
19-34-10 overall, they are 10-7-5 in their last 22 games. They opened the season
0-10-1.”I think they’re a lot better team than their record,” Boudreau
said.Richard Panik broke a tie midway through the third period with his first
goal for Arizona. Christian Dvorak, Jakob Chychrun, Kevin Connauton and Jordan
Martinook also scored, Max Domi had three assists, and Antti Raanta made 31
saves.”That is a learning experience,” Tocchet said. ”You are having a tough
start, don’t make it a tough 60 minutes. I thought the last 30 minutes some guys
really dug in there and started playing well.”Arizona also rallied to beat
Minnesota the last time they played, scoring the final four goals in a 4-3
overtime victory in St. Paul on Feb. 8.”Once they got they got that first goal,
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kind of did what they did last time to us. They’re a fast team.”Parise, Mikko
Koivu and Matt Cullen scored for the Wild, and Alex Stalock stopped 21
shots.Forty-nine seconds after Koivu tied it at 2 on a power play, Panik
one-timed Oliver Ekman-Larsson’s pass past Stalock’s glove from the right
faceoff circle for his first goal with the Coyotes.Connauton made it 4-2 with
7:56 to go, also beating Stalock to the glove side from the right faceoff
circle.Cullen cut it to one , poking the puck between Raanta’s legs with 6:47
left.Parise opened the scoring with 4:24 left in the first period, snapping a
wrist shot past Raanta’s glove off a slick passing play with Joel Eriksson Ek
and Nino Niederreiter. Parise has four goals in 25 games this season after
missing the first 39 because of a lower-back injury that required
surgery.Chychrun tied it with 2:32 left in the second period, five seconds after
Eriksson Ek was sent off for hooking. Chychrun found the puck in a scrum off a
faceoff and beat Stalock with a wrist shot to the short side. The 19-year-old
defenseman has two goals in 33 games this season.Dvorak gave the Coyotes the
lead at 4:32 of the third, banging a rebound past Stalock on his second
try.Koivu tied it on a power play at 7:20 of the third, two seconds after a
5-on-3 advantage ended.Martinook had an empty-net goal.NOTES: The Coyotes signed
junior forward Brayden Burke to a three-year, entry-level deal Thursday. The
21-year-old Burke has 31 goals and 81 assists in 59 games this season for Moose
Jaw in the Western Hockey League. Terms of the contract weren’t disclosed. …
Boudreau played for the Phoenix Roadrunners in the International Hockey League
in 1989-90. He had 41 goals and 68 assists in 82 games. … Arizona recalled C
Laurent Dauphin from Tucson of the American Hockey League. He didn’t play.UP
NEXTWild: At Colorado on Friday night.Coyotes: Host Ottawa on Saturday
night.—