导出博客文章MONTREAL -- It wont take long for the Montreal Impact to renew acquaintances
with Dennis Iapichino. The left back was signed by D.C. United on Thursday after
being waived by the Impact and will be available to face his former team when
the two clubs play tonight at Saputo Stadium. You can see all the action on TSN
beginning at 7pm et/4pm pt. "Yeah, sometimes football is strange but first of
all I want to wish the best of luck to Dennis because hes my teammate but also
my friend," Impact centre back Matteo Ferrari said. "Im happy for him that he
found another situation thats good for him because he needs to play and I think
he will be good in D.C." Jeb Brovsky agreed that it was a curious coincidence
that he may be facing his former teammate so soon after the 23-year-old Swiss
defender was let go. In a little over a year with the Impact, Iapichino played
16 MLS regular season games, including 12 as a starter. "Its always interesting
to see a guy in a different jersey," said Brovsky, who scored his first MLS goal
in the 3-1 loss in Washington on Aug. 3. "Obviously we hope for the best for him
as an individual and on and off the field I think we can only hope for his
success, but on Saturday were certainly not hoping for his success." Saturdays
match comes two weeks after league-worst D.C. defeated the Impact 3-1 at RFK
Stadium. The Impact have been struggling against everyone lately. A frustrating
2-1 loss in Chicago last Saturday left Montreal with just one win its last eight
MLS games. The Fire scored six minutes in before dropping the Impact into a 2-0
hole in the 23rd minute. "In Chicago we walked in the locker-room and everyone
was exceptionally frustrated, to say the least, because we knew that we were
probably the better team on the day," Brovsky said. "We wanted to get some goals
and its never going to be pretty but frustration is a good word for us right
now. But thats the great thing about this game. We get to come back on Saturday
and prove ourselves again." The Impact have lost three straight on the road,
beginning with a 4-0 thrashing by the New York Red Bulls on July 13. Montreal
has been outscored 9-2 during the three road losses. Brovsky wonders what
happened to the team that won a pair of West Coast road games on its way to a
4-0 start. "You know at the beginning of the year I think we had a bit of
nastiness," Brovsky said. "I think we had a bit of grit, especially coming down
the stretch, especially away from home. I thought in Portland and Seattle you
saw a team who was just willing to put their face in front of the ball and
really do anything they can to keep it out of the net. "Obviously we havent got
a couple of bounces in the past couple of weeks but I think you make your own
bounces and obviously away from home we havent been making our bounces lately.
We need to get back to that because we need to win some games on the road to get
into a good playoff spot so I think it just comes down to a willingness to go
the extra two or three feet." While success has eluded the Impact lately on the
road, coach Marco Schallibaums squad has been treading water throughout its last
four home games. Undefeated at 6-0-1 through their first seven games in
Montreal, the Impact have won once and tied twice at Saputo Stadium since June
29, when a 4-3 loss to Colorado sunk their perfect home record. The rematch
against D.C. United on home turf is timely in Schallibaums eyes. Washington went
13 games without a regular season Major League Soccer win over a three-month
stretch from mid-March to mid-June. Last in the Eastern Conference with a 3-16-4
mark for a league-worst 13 points, D.C. United has yet to win in 10 road games
this season, including seven losses and three draws. Curiously, Washington has
streaked through U.S. Open competition. D.C. United won 2-0 in its semi-final at
Chicago on Aug. 7 and will face Real Salt Lake in the final on Oct. 1. "Its
good. Its always important to have another chance," Schallibaum said. "We know
that theyre a team that had a good result against us and Chicago, but they lost
again in the championship so its our job to make this pressure, its our job to
score the first goal and its our job to win the game and get the three points."
The six days off between games this week were a welcome oasis for the Impact,
which has yet another busy stretch ahead with a CONCACAF Champions League game
in Guatemala on Wednesday. "We played three games in eight days so weve got guys
that have played a lot of minutes," midfielder Patrice Bernier said. "The rest
of this week has been concentrating on trying to elaborate a little bit more and
vary our game like we did in the second half in Chicago, where we opened up the
game. "That creates space for everybody and then we can find the right solutions
because we have a lot of guys with a lot of talent to find players and we have
to be able to do that and be unpredictable against our opponents. A lot of teams
have realized that going through the middle and blocking the middle and forcing
us to maybe force passes and then countering on our mistakes, now we have to
open the game and create as much space as we can for ourselves."
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reliever on the mound for a shutdown inning after the Rockies had just taken the
lead in the top of the sixth. But things didnt go as planned.Yasmany Tomas hit
his first career grand slam, and the Arizona Diamondbacks came back from a
three-run deficit after squandering a five-run cushion to beat Colorado 12-9 on
Monday night.Tomas homered off Jordan Lyles, and Arizona never looked back.We
wanted to go to him in the sixth because it was the teeth of their lineup and we
had just scored, Weiss said. I thought it was important to get a zero right
there.Brandon Drury had four hits for the Diamondbacks, including a solo homer
in the seventh.Lyles (4-5) got the first two outs of the sixth. Then he gave up
consecutive singles to Drury, Paul Goldschmidt and Welington Castillo before
Tomas connected.With Tomas, I tried to go down and away but I didnt make my
pitch, Lyles said. He put a good swing on it. It was just where I wanted to stay
away from, is where it ended up.I didnt do my job tonight. Up three runs, Ive
got to get out of that inning still with the lead and I didnt, he added.Mitch
Hanigers first major league home run also came in the Diamondbacks seventh.
Randall Delgado (4-1) was credited with the win despite retiring only one of the
four batters he faced in the sixth, and Daniel Hudson earned his third
save.Arizona, with 16 hits on Monday, has 10 or more in 12 consecutive games
against the Rockies. That makes the Diamondbacks the first NL team since the
1932 Brooklyn Dodgers to have a 12-game streak of 10-plus hits against a single
opponent in one season.Daniel Descalso homered and drove in three runs, and
Carlos Gonzalez doubled three times and added three RBI for the Rockies.
Colorados 15 hits included four for Gonzalez and three for Nolan Arenado and
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trailed 5-0 going into the fourth.Charlie and DJ (LeMahieu) have been getting on
base and doing their thing most of the year if not all year, Weiss said. When
they do that and Nolan and CarGo are swinging the bats, we will score some runs
like we did tonight. But youve got to keep them from scoring, too.Blackmon got
his 200th career extra-base hit. Gonzalez has a nine-game hitting streak at
Chase Field, and Descalso has homered in three of his last four games against
Arizona.Diamondbacks starter Shelby Miller helped himself with the bat, doubling
and scoring on a sacrifice that resulted in pitcher Tyler Andersons throwing
error in the fourth. But the Rockies drew even at 6 in the fifth on Gonzalezs
two-out, two-run double followed by a soft single by Raimel Tapia that scored
Gonzalez.That was all for Miller, who started strong by getting the first nine
outs in order but ended up allowing six runs on nine hits.Anderson yielded five
earned runs and nine hits in 4 1/3 innings, the second time in 17 starts this
season he failed to pitch five innings. He struck out seven and walked
two.JUMPING RIGHT INArizona native Will Claye, the triple jump silver medalist
at the Rio Olympics, attended the game and caught one of three pitching-machine
pop flies during a between-innings break.STREAKINGLeMahieu had two hits and
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fourth time this season. He has one win in those three previous
outings.Diamondbacks: LHP Robbie Ray (7-13) makes his seventh career start
against Colorado on Tuesday. ' ' '
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