ANAHEIM, Calif. cheap nfl jerseys china wholesale . -- Garrett Richards pitched four-hit ball into the ninth inning of his sixth career start, Albert Pujols homered and made two stellar defensive plays, and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 2-0 Sunday for their 18th win in 24 games. Rookie Mike Trout ended a 1-for-20 slump with an RBI double in the seventh inning for the Angels, who posted their major league-best ninth shutout victory -- and their second in a row after Ervin Santanas one-hitter Saturday night. Richards (2-0) repeatedly escaped trouble in his third start of the season and the longest outing of his short career, striking out five and walking four. He left after walking Miguel Montero on four pitches to open the ninth, but Ernesto Frieri got three straight outs for his seventh save. Orange County native Ian Kennedy (5-7) allowed six hits over eight strong innings for the Diamondbacks, but his teammates havent scored in 21 consecutive innings. The surging Angels (36-31), who moved a season-high five games over .500, have won 12 of their last 13 interleague series. Los Angeles is easily the majors best interleague team since the start of 2007, going 70-32. After losing out to Jerome Williams for the fifth rotation spot out of spring training, Richards has capitalized on a chance to pitch regularly for the Angels while ace Jered Weaver recovers from lower back pain. The 2009 first-round pick went 0-2 in seven appearances last year, but has been largely outstanding in his current call-up, allowing just two earned runs in 21 innings. Kennedy, who grew up just south of Angel Stadium in Huntington Beach, bounced back impressively from a poor start against Texas, striking out six. A 21-game winner last season, he still has lost seven of his last nine starts. Pujols led off the fourth inning with his 10th homer of the season and the 455th of his career, hitting the bottom of the fake rock pile beyond centre field. The three-time NL MVP has the games best interleague batting average since 2001, but was hitless in the first two games against Arizona after an eight-game hitting streak that included seven multihit games. Pujols also made a sparkling defensive play in the fifth, gloving Josh Bells screaming grounder at his feet and completing a double play to erase another Arizona threat. Erick Aybar led off the seventh with a ground-rule double that Justin Upton lost in the sun in right field, but Arizona tagged him out at home on Peter Bourjos short grounder. Bourjos scored moments later when Trout connected for a double off the base of the left-field wall. Richards retired 10 straight between Pujols double-play turn and Willie Bloomquists two-out single in the eighth when Aybar couldnt handle the grounder. Jason Kubel added another single, but Pujols ended the inning by tracking down Uptons foul pop next to the Diamondbacks dugout, reaching far into the television camera well and bobbling the ball before controlling it. NOTES: Richards, from nearby Riverside, is the fourth Southern California native to pitch in the Angels rotation this season, along with Weaver, Dan Haren and C.J. Wilson. ... Kennedy became a father for the second time a week ago. ... Trout was the ALs co-player of the week last week, stirring more talk of an All-Star berth for the 20-year-old speedster. He then went hitless in his first 11 at-bats against Arizona. cheap nfl jerseys wholesale . The above paragraph could be rewritten, verbatim, with Marcus Stromans name in place of Romeros. After both men had disastrous outings in Tuesdays 18-4 mauling at the hands of the Tigers, its clear that neither is the best option to begin the season in Toronto. cheap nfl jerseys . 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From there, nine more sleds had a chance to catch Humphries, the reigning Olympic gold medallist -- and everyone fell short. Cathleen Martini and Christin Senkel were second for Germany in 2:17.14, 0.01 ahead of bronze medallists Fabienne Meyer and Tanja Mayer of Switzerland. No U.S. womens sled medaled, the first time this season thats happened. Jamie Gruebel and Emily Azevedo were second after the first heat, but finished fourth, one-tenth of a second away from the podium. "Heather pushed amazing today, and thats what kept us afloat," Humphries said. "She had confidence in me. I came back and tried to drive the very best run I could and it was good enough for today." That was part of a difficult day for the U.S. women, who had only one sled outside of the top 10 in World Cup competition all season entering Saturday -- and had two sleds finish in the bottom half of the field at St. Moritz. Elana Meyers struggled in her first run, then rebounded in her second run but still finished in only a tie for 12th with brakeman Aja Evans. Jazmine Fenlator and Katie Eberling were 17th for the Americans. Humphriess now has 1,237 points in the World Cup season standings, 29 more than Meyers and 43 better than Greubel. cheap nfl jerseys online. "Im frustrated," Greubel said. "We set a really high standard at the beginning of the season, so its hard not meeting that. Fourth is a pretty good place to be, but Im still disappointed." It was the next-to-last race before the Americans will choose the six women who will compete in the Sochi Olympics next month, with the drama there expected to be how the U.S. will decide which three push athletes to put on the roster. Summer Olympic veterans Lolo Jones and Lauryn Williams remain in contention for spots and are likely to be back in sleds next weekend at Igls, Austria. And for the U.S. men, the struggles in Europe continued in Saturdays two-man race. After winning all seven races in North America before the holiday break and the tour shifting to European tracks, USA-1 pilot Steven Holcomb managed only a fifth-place showing on Saturday. Holcomb teamed with brakeman Chris Fogt and finished 0.55 seconds off the winning pace set by Switzerlands Beat Hefti and Alex Baumann. Hefti piloted his way to a two-man win for the second straight weekend. Holcomb, however, remained atop the two-man overall points standings. Alexsandr Zubkov and Alexey Voevoda of Russia finished in second place, 0.18 seconds behind Hefti and Baumann. Francesco Friedrich and Jannis Baecker were third for Germany, one spot ahead of the Canadian sled of Lyndon Rush and Lascelles Brown. For the U.S. men, Nick Cunningham and Abe Morlu were 11th. Cory Butner and Andreas Drbal were 15th. 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