Los Angeles Times

Leake’s streak

- —Houston Mitchell

With his 11-strikeout, no-walk outing against San Diego on Monday, St. Louis’ Mike Leake joined Bob Gibson as the only Cardinals pitchers with consecutiv­e starts with at least 10 strikeouts and no walks . . . . In 65 career starts with the Marlins, Jose Fernandez has struck out 14 or more batters four times. In 3,685 starts made by other Marlins pitchers, they have struck 14 or more four times . . . . Billy Hamilton had 153 stolen bases through 357 games. By comparison, Rickey Henderson had 189 steals, Vince Coleman had 256, Tim Raines had 199 and Lou Brock had 60 . . . . According to several reports, Yoenis Cespedes has asked the Mets to move him from center field to left as soon as possible . . . . Taking a page from the movie “Major League,” the Cleveland Indians made a ceremonial sacrifice to help appease the baseball gods and help slumping catcher Yan Gomes. The next day, Gomes suffered a shoulder injury and is out at least four weeks . . . . Yankees reliever Aroldis Chapman said that even if the team trades him, as is rumored, he would love to sign with them as a free agent after the season . . . . Atlanta Braves General Manager John Coppolella told the Braves radio network that the team will not trade starting pitcher Julio Teheran, one of the bigger names thought to be on the block before the deadline. “We need to get back to winning games. Julio is a big part of that. We aren’t going to trade Julio.” Teheran left Friday’s start in the fifth inning because of an injury . . . . Albert Pujols of the Angels has 54 multi-homer games in his career, tied with Frank Robinson and Manny Ramirez for 10th all time. The all-time leader is Babe Ruth ,with72 .... Jeurys Familia of the Mets has converted 49 consecutiv­e save chances, tied with John Axford for the fourthlong­est streak in history. Eric Gagne has the record, 84, set with the Dodgers from 2002-04.

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