DIAMONDBACKS-MARLINS
McCarthy throws shutout for 1st victory of year
Diamondbacks 1, Marlins 0
MIAMI (AP) - Brandon McCarthy pitched a three-hit complete-game shutout for his first win since being struck in the head by a line drive last season in the Arizona Diamondbacks' 1-0 victory over the Miami Marlins on Saturday night.
Gerardo Parra led off the game with a home run for Arizona, which has won four in a row while dealing the Marlins a season-long 7-game losing streak.
McCarthy (1-3) struck out five and walked two while throwing 68 of 99 pitches for strikes in his third career shutout, first since Sept. 3, 2011, against Seattle.
MARLINS
Koehler sharp in 1-0 loss to Arizona
Diamondbacks 1, Marlins 0
MIAMI (AP) - Miami's Tom Koehler allowed a home run on his first pitch and very little else against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
And that was enough to make him a tough-luck loser on Saturday.
Gerardo Parra led off the game with a home run and Brandon McCarthy pitched a three-hitter for Arizona in a 1-0 win over the Miami Marlins.
Making his third career start, Koehler limited the Diamondbacks to one run and three hits over six innings. He struck out seven and walked two.
McCarthy pitched a three-hitter for his first win since being struck in the head by a line drive last season, helping the Diamondbacks to their fourth consecutive win while dealing the Marlins a season-long 7-game losing streak.
BBN--DODGERS-UPTON ADVICE
Ex-D-back Upton gives advice to teammates, who then homered for win over Dodgers
ATLANTA (AP) - Kenley Jansen insisted he made the pitch he wanted to Evan Gattis, even though it landed over the left-field wall.
Jansen was unable to hold an eighth-inning lead, as he gave up back-to-back homers by Gattis and Andrelton Simmons in the Los Angeles Dodgers' 3-1 loss to the Atlanta Braves on Saturday night.
While Jansen was warming up, Gattis and Simmons listened to advice from teammate Justin Upton, who frequently faced Jansen while with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Gattis said Upton's advice was to avoid Jansen's cutters that appeared to be bound for the middle of the plate, because they would break off the plate. Gattis said Upton's instruction was to wait on a pitch "starting at you, or it looks like it's starting at you. That's going to be the one that you want."
Gattis fouled off two cutters before hitting the line-drive homer.
ARIZONA-STOUDAMIRE
Stoudamire returns to Arizona
PHOENIX (AP) -_ Damon Stoudamire was 1 of most popular players in Arizona history, an electrifying, high-scoring guard with a cool nickname.
Now Mighty Mouse is headed back to the desert.
Stoudamire has been hired as an assistant coach under Sean Miller, a move that's sure to be a big hit with 1 of college basketball's most fervid fan bases.
A 5-foot-10 guard, Stoudamire was 1 of the most dynamic players in Arizona history, winning 101 games from 1991-95. He helped lead the Wildcats to the 1994 Final Four and was the next season was a consensus All-American, Pac-10 player of the year and a finalist for the Wooden Award.
He went on to play 13 seasons four NBA teams after being selected with the No. 7 overall draft pick by the Toronto Raptors in 1995.
Stoudamire worked the past two years as an assistant to Josh Pastner at Memphis after spending two seasons as an assistant for the Memphis Grizzlies. He also served as director of player development for Rice under Ben Braun in 2008-09 after retiring as a player.
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