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MINNEAPOLIS -- Phil Hughes carved up a lineup for the second straight outing, and this time the New York Yankees actually gave him some run support to reward him for his efforts. Phil Esposito Rangers Jersey . Hughes appears to be finding himself on the mound of late, and it couldnt come at a better time for the Yankees with Hiroki Kuroda suddenly ailing. Robinson Cano homered for the third straight game and Hughes gave up one run on six hits in seven innings, lifting the New York Yankees to a 7-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night. Hughes (4-7) struck out three and walked two. "You want to keep that ball rolling," said Hughes, who gave up two runs in eight innings of a 2-0 loss to Kansas City last week. "Hopefully its the start of a good stretch I can roll off here." Kuroda left the Twin Cities to get an MRI on his left hip flexor. Manager Joe Girardi said the test came back clean, but Kuroda will miss his next scheduled start on Friday as a precaution. Ivan Nova will start in his place and Kuroda will be evaluated after that. "He was a little tender after the game Sunday," Girardi said. "Its good news. He said he felt better today, but we thought wed get it checked out." Kuroda is 7-6 with a rotation-leading 2.95 ERA this season. Cano followed up a two-homer performance Monday by going 2 for 4 with three RBIs and Alberto Gonzalez had two hits and three RBIs as well for the Yankees. New York has broken out for 17 runs in the first two games of the series to snap a five-game skid. Samuel Deduno (4-3) gave up three runs on five hits in six innings for the Twins. Brian Dozier had a two-run double in the ninth, but the Twins couldnt get much going against Hughes and lost for the eighth time in 11 games. Mariano Rivera got one out in the ninth for his 27th save. Hughes entered the outing with three straight losses, tying the longest skid of his career. But the Yankees did not give him a single run of support in his previous two starts. Without injured stars Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira and Curtis Granderson, the Yankees have struggled mightily to sustain any kind of offence. They made up for it on Tuesday. Cano is the only mainstay still standing, and hes starting to put this nameless lineup on his back. He has hit four homers in the last three games, the last one a 405-foot, three-run drive onto the veranda behind the right field bleachers that broke the game open in New Yorks four-run seventh inning. But it was the light-hitting Gonzalez who got the Yankees going. Starting at shortstop for the injured Jayson Nix, Gonzalez had not driven in a run since joining the Yankees from the Chicago Cubs. Gonzalez got on the board with a two-run double down the right field line in the fifth inning. Deduno then misplayed a slow roller up the first baseline from Ichiro Suzuki, bobbling the ball just before it was set to roll foul and allowing Gonzalez to score for a 3-1 lead. Gonzalez then made a superb play in the field, running on a dead sprint with his back to home plate and laying out at the last second to snare a shallow pop fly from Joe Mauer that would have dropped in for a bloop single. "I feel very happy, very pleased to finally get the opportunity to be able to support my team," Gonzalez said through an interpreter. "Finally, the moment I was waiting for." Mauer snapped an 0-for-18 skid with an RBI single in the third inning to get the Twins on top 1-0. The Twins had a golden chance to extend the lead in the fourth inning when they opened with runners on second and third and none out. But Hughes steadied himself, striking out Chris Parmelee and Aaron Hicks and getting Pedro Florimon to groundout to end the inning unscathed. "To get out of that inning it felt like it really swung the momentum in our favour just to get out of that inning without putting up a score and give our guys a chance to come back from that," Hughes said. Twins manager Ron Gardenhire agreed. "That took the wind out of our sails," he said. Hughes only allowed two baserunners the rest of the way to pick up just his second victory since May 10. NOTES: The Twins gave Rivera a retirement gift in a pregame ceremony: a rocking chair made in part from broken bats with the inscription, "Chair of Broken Dreams." Rivera smiled widely. "I was expecting someone to do something like that with broken bats, but that was, that was awesome," he said. "That was great. That was wonderful. Made me laugh a lot." ... Nix did not play because of a sore right hamstring. He is day to day. ... Gardenhire said he was going to give struggling RHP Jared Burton a breather from his setup man role. He said he would look to get Burton into some situations where there was less pressure to help him try to regain his confidence. ... The Yankees will send LHP CC Sabathia (8-6, 4.15) to the mound for Game 3 on Thursday against RHP P.J. Walters (2-4, 6.03). 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Set in Boston, taking place in the Wang Theater, the first major of the 2017 competitive Dota 2 season will host 16 teams vying for a $3 million prize pool and the first title win of the new year.Boston will do more than just break in the new year, though. Changes to the format, offseason roster swaps, and a shift of balance in the strong regions has skewed perceptions of the scene going into the major. Though its only been a few short months since The International, those months can feel a lot longer in Dota time, and a lot can change in that period.Whos poised to succeed, and whats changed the most since the grand finals in Seattle? For 16 teams set to play this weekend, heres some of the big storylines to watch.One shot, one opportunityOne of the most talked about changes heading into the Boston Major is the move to a single-elimination bracket. While a group stage will still determine the seeding for the main event bracket, teams will only have one life to live on the main stage, always one series from the next step or a quick exit.This benefits the logistics of the tournament; a single-elimination bracket means less games per day, so 12 hours or more watching Dota will be the exception rather than the norm. It will also likely have little change on the final outcome. Though Evil Geniuses at TI5 is the obvious answer, several voices in the community have already noted that more often than not, the team that comes into the grand finals from the upper bracket usually wins. A single-elimination bracket also frees the tournament up a little more for larger series, so best-of-one elimination matches will no longer be held in the first round.For teams in the middle of the pack though, single-elimination means a harder shot at earning a greater share of the prize pool. While the grand finals might still determine the best team, many squads that have fought up through the lower bracket to make a higher split will be snubbed by single-elims. Teams like Digital Chaos and Team NP have made a name for themselves, fighting through the lower bracket to earn the larger prize pool split and finish, and that opportunity will be lost with single-elimination in Boston.New teams, same playersThe offseason saw a great deal of changes among top rosters, with only Wings Gaming keeping its TI6 lineup together. Some of these are more obvious adjustments, like David MoonMeander Tan joining Digital Chaos, or prodigal son Artour Arteezy Babaev returning to Evil Geniuses. These are surface-level replacements, seeking to either fill a retired players spot (the latter) or switch out a player who wasnt clicking with team (the former).More significant are the major changes, like Evil Geniuses Peter pppd Dager moving into a management position, replaced by former OG support Andreas Cr1t- Nielsen. New York Rangers Hats. A TI-winning captain making way for a new EG was a huge move for the team, but so far it has been a clear fit, with Evil Geniuses taking a win at the MarsTV Dota 2 League 2016 Autumn finals and third place at The Summit 6. Nielsens former squad, OG, also made significant adjustments, though those cogs havent clicked quite yet. Rookie mid-laner Anathan ana Phams performance varies from match to match, and the team had erratic performances against the uppermost tier of teams.The most interesting shift has been in the new substitution rules, which allow teams to sub in players prior to the major, so long as they are not locked into a squad that has already qualified for Boston. MVP Phoenix used the new rule to bring back Lee Forev Sang-don to fill the one-role carry position, and Complexity was forced to utilize the sub rule after the sudden departure of Justin jk Rosselle. Whether these last minute changes will click or not remains to be seen.Changing of the guardIf you havent been watching Dota 2 since the grand finals of TI6 in September, the biggest surprise coming into the Boston Major will be how many recognizable teams are absent. Team Liquid, Team Secret, Alliance, Fnatic, Vici Gaming and Invictus Gaming all missed the mark for Boston, falling in the qualifiers.Its representative of a gradual shift in the scene, as smaller teams have begun to close the gap with established giants. If youve been on Dota blackout, you wont recognize squads like Virtus.Pro, despite its dominant first-place finish at the recent Summit. Team NP has made waves in North America, even taking series against EG and DC, and Team Faceless has looked strong against traditional Southeast Asian favorites like Fnatic and MVP Phoenix.More than likely, the team that wins Boston could be a first-time major winner. Though the upper-tier of teams like Wings, EG and OG still perform on a consistent basis, its just as likely that Team NP, EHOME, Virtus.Pro or Team Faceless could go home with the first major title of 2017. Many of these squads boast veteran players of the scene, from Daryl iceiceice Koh Pei Xiang and Jacky EternalEnVy Mao to the CIS all-star lineup of VP.There are no guarantees in Dota 2, and over the next week in Boston, there will be no surefire bets on winners. In a single-elimination bracket, with new squads looking to prove themselves and old guards adjusting to new lineups and playstyles, anything is possible. The first major of the 2017 season, and the last major held on patch 6.88, will start on Dec. 3, and likely set the tone for the season to come. Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic Wholesale Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys China NFL Cheap Jerseys ' ' '
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