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DENVER -- Cory Luebke wasnt worried about throwing a no-hitter when he went to a 3-1 count on Mark Ellis in the sixth inning. Darcy Kuemper Jersey . One pitch later, no one else was worried about it, either. Ellis hit a two-run homer to break up Luebkes no-hit bid with two outs in the sixth, but the San Diego Padres cruised to an 8-2 win over the slumping Colorado Rockies on Monday night. "You see it but I cant say I thought about it a whole lot," Luebke said. "Its the sixth inning. Theres still a lot of game to go yet. Its not something you think about until the last inning." The Padres have never thrown a no-hitter in their 43-year history, though 19 times theyve held an opponent hitless into the eighth. The last time was July 9 when five pitchers kept the Los Angeles Dodgers hitless through 8 2-3 innings before Juan Uribe broke it up with a double. "I think you always (think about it) because you want it to happen for your guys," San Diego manager Bud Black said. "Youre always aware of it as you move deeper into the game. Weve seen it a number of times in the past." Luebke (6-9) tried to become the first pitcher in franchise history to accomplish the feat. He walked three and retired 12 straight at one point through five innings. He got Chris Nelson to line out to open the sixth before walking Eric Young Jr. Luebke momentarily preserved the no-hitter in the sixth when he slid to grab Dexter Fowlers slow roller near the mound and threw out the speedy outfielder at first for the second out of the inning. "I was definitely thinking this was his night," outfielder Cameron Maybin said. One batter later, Ellis ended the no-hit bid with his seventh homer to make it 8-2. It was Colorados only hit of the game. "A game like that, the only way you let a team back in is by putting guys on base yourself," Luebke said. "I just wanted to pound the zone." It wasnt a guarantee Luebke would finish the game had he kept the no-hitter going. Entering the sixth his pitch count was 86 and he finished the game with 119 pitches, a total due in large part to nine three-ball counts. "That would have been a tough decision," Black said. "There probably would have been a limit at some point." Luebke was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the eighth. He struck out a career-high nine. "You dont like to give credit to pitchers," Ellis said. "You might have to do it tonight." Ernesto Frieri pitched two hitless innings to finish the game. The Rockies have lost five straight and six of seven. Maybin and Aaron Cunningham homered and had two hits each, and Jason Bartlett also had two hits for San Diego, which has won three of four. Colorado shortstop Troy Tulowitzki (left hip), first baseman Todd Helton (back) and outfielder Carlos Gonzalez (right wrist) were out of the lineup. "We obviously dont have some of the best players out there," Ellis said. "But the guys that are out there are playing hard. Were just not winning a lot of games." The Padres jumped on Kevin Millwood (3-3) early. They took a 1-0 lead in the second on three straight singles and made it 3-0 in the third on RBI singles by Bartlett and Kyle Blanks. San Diego broke it open in the fourth and chased Millwood. Jeremy Hermida led off with a walk and scored on Cunninghams homer to left-centre, his second. One out later, Luebke singled to right and Maybin hit the first pitch he saw into the right-field bleachers for his ninth homer to make it 7-0. "I made a lot of hard outs the past week and a half, and it was nice to finally get some balls to find some gaps and hit the ball out of the park," Maybin said. Jim Miller relieved Millwood and got the final two outs of the inning. Millwood allowed seven runs -- six earned -- and nine hits. He struck out one. NOTES: Maybin is hitting .372 against the Rockies. Three of his nine home runs have come against Colorado. ... Tulowitzki has missed six straight games and eight of the past 10. Helton has missed six consecutive games and 12 of the past 14. Gonzalez missed his fourth game in a row. ... Padres INF Jesus Guzman (sore neck) was not in the lineup. ... The Padres will send RHP Matt Latos to the mound against Colorado RHP Jhoulys Chacin in the second game of the series Tuesday. Christian Folin Wild Jersey . -- Patrick Holland scored the shootout winner and Robert Mayer made 30 saves, as the Hamilton Bulldogs defeated the Lake Erie Monsters 3-2 in the American Hockey League on Friday.http://www.hockeywildshop.us/Customized/ . The Grizzlies were missing a bevy of players in the first meeting, and the Raptors were performing at a much higher level at that time compared to how they enter the rematch tonight in Memphis.LONDON -- Andy Murray will play his first competitive tennis match since September against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi next week. Mubadala World Tennis Championship organizers confirmed on Tuesday the Wimbledon champion, who has been sidelined since surgery for a back problem, would play at the hard-court event also featuring Rafaeel Nadal and Novak Djokovic. Jonas Brodin Wild Jersey. Murray says "coming back from injury is never easy and the lineup this year is so strong but its exactly the test I need to see where my game is at." On Sunday, Murray was voted the BBC sports personality of the year after becoming the first British man to win the Wimbledon singles in 77 years. Cheap Jerseys Wholesale JerseysWholesale Jerseys Cheap Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys China Wholesale Jerseys ' ' '

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