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CHICAGO -- Astros manager Brad Mills was pretty certain the review would go his way. Authentic City Royals Jersey . "When I saw it, the ball got mixed up somehow in the ivy," Mills said. "If the ball went over the fence and then came back, theres no way going to hit the ivy. Its an impossibility." Brett Myers benefited from a reversed homer call to beat the Cubs again and Clint Barmes had a two-run single to help the Houston Astros to a 3-2 victory over Chicago on Sunday. With Chicago down by a run in the eighth and Starlin Castro on first, Carlos Pena hit a drive to left that was initially ruled a two-run homer. The call was overturned after umpires reviewed video of the play. Pena was given a double and Castro was put on third base, then Marlon Byrd flied out to end the threat. The inning started off in strange fashion when Darwin Barneys medium-depth fly to right was missed by Brian Bogusevic in right field and rolled to the warning track. Barney reached third standing up on a three-base error. After Castro walked, pinch-hitter Aramis Ramirez hammered a drive to the right-field wall that Bogusevic tracked down with a nice running catch, scoring Barney. "Bogie lost that one ball in the lights, but he came back and made a great play on Ramirezs sac fly," Mills said. Myers struck out Bryan LaHair before Pena hit a flyball to left that was originally ruled a two-run homer after appearing to strike the wall behind the basket in front of the fence and bounce back onto the field. After Mills protested, the umpires reviewed video of the play and determined that Penas ball struck the front of the basket. Cubs manager Mike Quade ran onto the field to argue and was eventually ejected by third base umpire Marty Foster. Quade admitted that the umpires were correct in reversing the home run, but felt that Castro should have scored on the play. "Martys got the decision on whether its a home run or not, and hes also got the decision on where the runner is," Quade said. "Im sure they got the technique correct, I just wonder how you can see both things." Byrd flied out against reliever Mark Melancon to end the inning. "When you get a break, youve to be able to take advantage of it. Mark did a great job of doing it," Mills said. Meanwhile, as deliberations before and after the replay dragged on, the rain continued to fall and puddles began to form around the infield. The tarp was brought out and there was a rain delay of one hour seven minutes after the eighth. "That last inning before we got off the field and they pulled the tarp, it was starting to puddle up," Barmes said. "It wasnt very good. I definitely couldnt have seen us going any further." Once the game resumed, Melancon returned for the bottom of the ninth and struck out the Cubs in order for his 18th save. "(Melancon) wanted this," Mills said. "He threw the ball extremely outstanding." Myers (6-13) held Chicago to two runs -- one earned -- over 7 2-3 innings under a steady drizzle on a cool day at Wrigley Field. He improved to 13-3 lifetime against the Cubs. "I take it as another game really," Myers said. "I did have my major league debut here and I did grow up watching the Cubs and Braves a lot. I dont know, I dont think that has anything really to do with it. I think it has to do with going out there and trying to execute pitches." Myers outpitched Ryan Dempster (10-13), who overcame a shaky start to throw seven solid innings. Dempster, fromGibsons, B.C., held the Astros to two runs and seven hits but lost his season-high fifth straight decision. Coming off a 128-pitch, six-walk start in his previous outing, Dempster struggled through a 33-pitch first inning. Martinez hit an RBI single and Barmes singled home two runs in Houstons three-run opening frame. Dempster gave up three hits and walked two in the inning. "The two pitches they hit were both 0-2 pitches that were balls and they did a good job of putting the bat on the ball," Dempster said. "Its unfortunate because those runs right there were what ended up costing us the game." NOTES: Castro doubled to lead off Chicagos first, becoming the first Cubs shortstop to reach safely in 31 straight games since Woody English, who had streaks of 34 games in 1929 and a 32 games in 1930. ... DJ Lemahieus second-inning error gave the Cubs 127 miscues on the season, one more than last season and the teams most since they had 139 errors in 1999. Entering Sundays game, the Cubs have committed at least seven more errors than every other team in baseball. ... Casey Coleman will look to snap a five-game losing streak when he starts Chicagos series opener against Milwaukees Chris Narveson on Monday night. ... Houstons J.A. Happ try to avoid moving into a tie for the NL lead with 16 losses when he starts Mondays series opener in Cincinnati. Alex Gordon Authentic Jersey . Even the longest of tenures with the Twins, though, dont last forever. Versatile veteran Michael Cuddyer, voted by local beat writers as the teams most valuable player in 2011, is gone. He will be with the Colorado Rockies next season. Royals Jersey . Louis Blues remain at the top spot of the TSN.DENVER -- Toronto coach Dwane Casey wasnt ready to celebrate after the Raptors ended a decade-long drought in Denver. He was too upset about his teams lacklustre finish. DeMar DeRozan scored 19 points, Terrence Ross had 18 and Toronto, after opening a 25-point lead, settled for a 100-90 victory over the Nuggets on Friday night. "We will take the W, but it was not a quality finish," Casey said. "I let the players know I was disappointed in the close. You cant come in and feel like you have the game won with a 20-point lead. You have to continue to execute, be strong with the ball and continue to execute defensively if you want to be serious about winning in this league." Jonas Valanciunas and Kyle Lowry added 13 points apiece for the Raptors, who snapped a nine-game losing streak in the Mile High City dating to 2003. Still, Caseys postgame critique on his teams fourth-quarter play -- the Raptors were outscored 20-14 in the period -- outweighed any sense of relief over the end of the streak. "We have to finish a lot better," Lowry said. "This is the NBA. Teams are going to make a run. Were not going to be negative. We won the game. But we have to finish better than that." The Nuggets were dealing with their own problems. They announced during the game that guard Nate Robinson had season-ending surgery earlier Friday to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. Robinson was injured in a spill underneath the Nuggets basket during the first quarter of Wednesday nights loss to the Charlotte Bobcats. The Nuggets also were without leading scorer Ty Lawson, who missed his second consecutive game Friday with a left rotator cuff strain. "We dont want anybody to feel sorry for us and we wont feel sorry for ourselves," Nuggets coach Brian Shaw said. "We just have to continue to fight, stay positive, keep working and just be more fundamentally sound." J.J. Hickson and Evan Fournier led the Nuggets with 18 points apiece. Hickson also had 13 rebounds. Randy Foye, normally a shooting guard switched to the point in the absence of Lawson and Robinson, had 10 points and a career-high 16 assists. But he also committed eight of the Nuggets 26 turnovvers, which led to 29 points for Toronto. Greg Holland Jersey. "Randy played 43 minutes, Evan 38 minutes, and theyre not accustomed to playing that many minutes as well," Shaw said. "They started getting tired, then we started losing our fundamentals and throwing the ball all over the place. That was our biggest thing tonight." Hickson said it is also going to take some time for players to adjust to new, sometimes unfamiliar roles thrust on them by the backcourt injuries. "Its going to be a process," Hickson said. "I cant say its going to be a long process, because we dont have much time. It has to be a quick process. But I think once guys get adjusted and settled in, well be good." Toronto moved to a season high four games above .500 (25-21) and tied a franchise record with its 11th win in January. The Raptors also won 11 games in January 2002. Leading by seven at halftime, the Raptors put together an 11-2 run late in the third quarter to go up 84-68 with 2:46 left in the period. DeRozan ignited the surge by driving through traffic and putting in a reverse layup off the glass and helped keep it going by knocking down a pair of jumpers. By the start of the fourth quarter, the Raptors led by 16 points and 50 seconds later, Valanciunas dunked to stretch Torontos advantage to 90-70. After Timofey Mozgov scored on a turnaround jumper for Denver, Toronto reeled off seven straight points, including a 3-pointer by John Salmons for a 97-72 lead with 8:47 left. The Nuggets made a late push with a 14-2 run cutting it to 99-86 on a dunk by Kenneth Faried with 3:32 remaining. But Ross then blocked Fourniers driving layup attempt and after Valanciunas made one of two free throws, the Nuggets lost another possession on a turnover by Foye, failing to get the deficit under double digits. The Raptors turned a steal into a breakaway dunk by Ross for a 60-53 lead at halftime. The rim-rattling jam brought the Raptors bench to its feet. NOTES: Foye had 11 assists in the first half, most by a Nuggets player in a half since Steve Blake had 11 on Feb. 14, 2007. ... 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