Cardinals, Braves Play To Tie, Royals Blank Cubs

Jaime Garcia cruised through three innings before allowing four runs on four hits and the St. Louis Cardinals blew a three-run lead before playing to an 8-all tie with the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday.

"Those were three really good innings and the fourth was spring training," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "Besides that, he looked great. Maybe he got a little fatigued in the fourth, but he didn't say he did."

Kolten Wong and Jedd Gyorko both drove in runs as the Cardinals took a quick 3-0 lead off Braves starter Jhoulys Chacin, who gave up three runs on eight hits in three innings.

Royals 10, Cubs 0

Chris Young pitched four scoreless innings and Christian Colon snapped a 0-for-23 skid with his first two hits of the spring as the Kansas City Royals topped the Chicago Cubs 10-0 on Wednesday.

Young, who pitched out of a bases-loaded one-out jam in the fourth, allowed two hits, walked two and struck out five.

"The fastball command was really good, the slider command was pretty good," Young said. "It's my bread and butter, overall it was decent."

Colon, who had not had a hit since his go-ahead RBI single in the 12th inning of Game 5 of the World Series against the New York Mets, doubled in the fifth and singled in the seventh.

Brewers 5, White Sox 2

Ryan Braun had an RBI single in his first at-bat of the spring and scored in his second as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Chicago White Sox 5-2 on Wednesday.

Braun, who had off-season back surgery, followed a walk to Eric Young Jr. and a hit-and-run single by Jonathan Lucroy in the first inning with an opposite-field single to right field to drive in Young.

It was the first run allowed by Chicago's Carlos Rondon, who pitched seven scoreless innings and allowed only three hits in his first two starts. He allowed seven hits and four runs in 3 1/3 innings Wednesday.

Braun, who made a running catch in left field on a fly ball by Chicago's Adam Eaton to open the game, walked in the third inning and scored from first base with a slide at home on a double by Chris Carter. He left the game after three innings.

Wednesday, March 16 Scoreboard
    
Baltimore 9, Pittsburgh 3
            
St. Louis 8, Atlanta 8    
        
Detroit 7, Houston 3
        
Washington 4, Miami 2    
        
Los Angeles Angels 6, Cleveland 3            
    
Kansas City 10, Chicago Cubs 0
    
Milwaukee 5, Chicago White Sox 2            
    
Los Angeles Dodgers 7, Colorado 3            

Seattle 9, San Francisco 6
    
New York Yankees 2, Toronto 1            
    
Minnesota 9, Boston 4            
    
Arizona 10, Cincinnati 6    
        

Thursday, March 17 Schedule (All Times Central)

Baltimore at Boston, 11:05 a.m.

St. Louis at Detroit, 11:05 a.m.

Houston at Atlanta, 11:05 a.m.

Toronto at Houston, 11:05 a.m.

Atlanta at Washington, 11:05 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m.

New York at Pittsburgh, 11:05 a.m.

New York at Miami, 11:05 a.m.

Canada Jr National at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Seattle at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Cincinnati, 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Los Angeles 2:05 p.m.

Los Angeles at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

Arizona at Chicago, 5:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at Texas, 7:05 p.m.

San Francisco at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.