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Matt Garza's marathon first inning and the steamy conditions led to one short outing for the right-hander.Garza gave up a pair of two-run homers in the first and the Chicago Cubs went on to a 7-3 loss to the Atlanta Braves on Thursday night.Jason Heyward, Brian McCann, Freddie Freeman and Juan Francisco connected for Atlanta, which salvaged a split of the four-game series.Garza (4-7), who could be one of the top starters on the market ahead of this month's trade deadline, allowed five runs and five hits in four innings. He struck out six and walked three while throwing 94 pitches.Geovany Soto homered for Chicago.Francisco capped the Braves' long first inning with a 16-pitch at-bat, fouling off pitch after pitch until he finally bounced out to first base."A couple pitches hit out of the ballpark and then the 16-pitch at-bat to Francisco kind of killed the whole outing, really," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said."It was too bad. Once again, it looked like he had pretty good stuff, but the fou...
SEATTLE (AP) — Matt Garza became the American League's first five-game winner, Evan Longoria had the go-ahead hit in the eighth inning off Cliff Lee and the Tampa Ba...
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) — Matt Garza pitched seven strong innings and was bolstered by a strong offensive effort as the Tampa Bay Rays defeated a Pittsburgh Pirate...
The Chicago Cubs have a tentative trade in place to obtain right-hander Matt Garza from the Tampa Bay Rays, according to two people familiar with the negotiations. T...
Right-hander Matt Garza , who could be the Cubs opening-day pitcher after being acquired in a trade from Tampa Bay last week, agreed to a $5.95 million, one-year con...
If the Arizona Diamondbacks were counting on duplicating last season's second-half run, they're not off to a very good start.Darwin Barney homered and Matt Garza thr...
and another gem that was spoiled by an umpire.By now, San Francisco Giants broadcaster Mike Krukow and others around baseball are beginning to expect a piece of pitc...
CHICAGO (AP) — Ron Washington tried to warn rookie pitcher Nick Tepesch about Scott Feldman's bat.Feldman threw seven scoreless innings against his former team and a...
When Matt Garza exited his last start, the Cubs were on their way to a 12th straight defeat.Chicago has begun to turn it around and Garza hopes to keep that trend go...
Lack of offensive support doomed Matt Garza to a third straight loss last time out. The Cubs right-hander hasn't needed much help when facing the Brewers this season...
Following yet another outstanding start at home, Matt Garza hopes to carry that success out onto the road this evening when the Chicago Cubs continue a three-game se...
Matt Garza will try to bounce back from his worst start of the season today and help the Cubs snap an 11-game losing streak when they conclude a three-game series ag...
Neil Walker just kept coming around third and with a hard slide he capped a two-run rally in the ninth inning against Cubs closer Carlos Marmol that sent the Pittsbu...
Darwin Barney homered and Matt Garza threw seven shutout innings to lift the Chicago Cubs to a three-game sweep of the Arizona Diamondbacks with a 3-1 win Sunday.Bar...
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) — Matt Garza pitched three scoreless innings and Fernando Perez hit a two-out RBI single in the 10th to give the Tampa Bay Rays a 4-3 victo...
Matt Garza pitched three-hit ball for 8 2-3 innings, and the Chicago Cubs sent Zack Greinke to his worst beating in 1½ years in an 8-0 victory over the Milwaukee Bre...
Matt Garza became the third starting pitcher on the Chicago Cubs ' disabled list when he was shelved Tuesday with right elbow stiffness.Garza was scratched from his ...
Sheriff's detectives say that an American League Championship ring belonging to Chicago Cubs pitcher Matt Garza has been stolen from his California home.The Fresno B...
Matt Garza's home games this season will be out in the elements instead of under a roof. He'll be pitching in a new league where there's no designated hitter.And aft...
Matt Garza helped Tampa Bay go from the cellar of the AL East to the World Series two years ago and then led the Rays to another division title last season.Now he's ...