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Doug Harrison has long believed Lopartega has the makings of a middle-distance mare and the trainer will stretch her beyond 1600m for just the second time at Flemington.Lopartega meets her last-start conqueror Hell Or Highwater again in Saturdays Hollywood Nails Handicap (1700m) when she steps up in distance from her last-start second over 1600m at Moonee Valley.She has always given us the indication she would make into a lovely 2000-metre horse, Harrison said.When you see her working, she just powers to the line.Lopartega, however, failed in her only test over further than 1600m in the Group One Australasian Oaks (2000m) in May when second last, but Harrison believes that is best forgotten.After a strong win at Bendigo over 1600m Harrison took Lopartega to the Oaks but said by the time she arrived in South Australia she had lightened off considerably.She ran accordingly, he said.She raced up there but just weakened out of it.Harrison has no set plans for Lopartega this campaign but hopes later in the season she can contest some black-type races for mares.I think there could be a good race in her along the way, he said.After running on for fifth in a benchmark-70 over 1200m at Pakenham first-up this campaign, Lopartega scored a narrow win at the same track over 1400m.Harrison said he was happy with how Lopartega ran on at Moonee Valley behind Hell Or Highwater and and liked how she rallied and wouldnt let third-placed Miles Of Krishan past her in the straight.Hell Or Highwater, Tavi Bay and Firebird Flyer are at $5 ahead of Lopartega and Domino Vitale at $6.Its an even field again with a few chances, Harrison said.But I think she will be thereabouts.Discount Air Max . -- If this was Aaron Gordons final home game at Arizona, and it almost certainly was, then he went out in style. 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Miikka Kiprusoff had just announced his retirement after a decade-long run in Calgary and it would be up to Berra and Ramo to fill the void.PITTSBURGH -- Ivan Nova has developed a pre-game ritual since coming to the Pittsburgh Pirates from the New York Yankees in a trade on Aug. 1.The right-hander walks up to right fielder Gregory Polanco in the dugout just before the first pitch and asks him to hit a home run.He hit two for me today, Nova said with a smile.Nova took a shutout into the ninth inning and finished with a six-hitter while Polanco hit two home runs to lead the Pirates to a 7-1 victory over the Houston Astros on Tuesday night.Nova (10-6) struck out six, walked one and threw 69 of his 98 pitches for strikes while improving to 3-0 in four starts with the Pirates.It was the fourth complete game of the right-handers seven-year career with the others coming in 2013.He was very efficient with his pitches, Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. He threw a lot of really good sinkers against a very good-hitting team with a lot of right-handed hitters and he locked them up with the ball away.His bid for his third career shutout ended when Alex Bregman and Jose Altuve led off the ninth with consecutive doubles.Pittsburgh snapped its four-game losing streak and stopped Houstons four-game winning streak. Both teams entered 3 1/2 games out of the second wild card in their respective leagues.Nova is doing his best to keep the Pirates hopes of a fourth consecutive postseason appearance alive after being traded for the first time in his career.You dont want to get traded, Nova said. This is not what I was looking for. Stuff like that happens, though. Im happy to be here. Its a good group of guys who want to win and Im trying to do the best I can to help them win.After the Pirates scored four runs in the first inning, Polanco hit solo shots in the third and fifth off Joe Musgrove and Tony Sipp to extend the lead to 6-0 and raise his season total to a team-high 19 homers.It was Polancos second two-home run game of his three-year career. The other was July 4 at St. Louis.The right fiielder hit a combined 19 homers in his first two seasons.dddddddddddd.I guess Im getting stronger, Polanco said. My swing is getting better, shorter and quicker. Experience, too. The more swings you take, the better you get every day.The Pirates opened the first inning with six straight hits off Musgrove (1-2). Matt Joyce and Andrew McCutchen hit consecutive RBI doubles then Polanco and rookie Josh Bell drove in runs with singles.Polanco had three of the Pirates 11 hits while driving in three runs and scoring three times. Joyce and Bell added two hits each.The Astros Marwin Gonzalez had three hits.Musgrove, a rookie making his fourth career start, was rocked for five runs and eight hits in four innings with two strikeouts and no walks. He has allowed a combined 13 runs in 9 1/3 innings while losing his last two starts.Hes learning, Astros manager A.J. Hinch said. Thats part of the nature of having young starters. Hes got to learn to battle himself through his first back-to-back games of adversity. He has pitches to do it. He has a ton of competitiveness in him.TRAINERS ROOMAstros: 3B Luis Valbuena will undergo surgery in the next few days to repair a torn tendon in his right hamstring. Out since July 27, Valbuena finishes the season hitting .260 with 13 home runs in 90 games. ... OF Preston Tucker (strained right shoulder) will begin a rehab assignment Wednesday at Double-A Corpus Christi. ... 3B/OF Yulieski Gurriel (right hamstring tightness) did not start for a second straight game after making his major league debut Sunday but is expected to be in the lineup Wednesday.UP NEXTAstros: RHP Collin McHugh (7-10, 4.99 ERA) starts the finale of the three-game series Wednesday. He is 0-4 with a 9.00 ERA in his last five starts.Pirates: RHP Gerrit Cole (7-8, 3.30) is 0-2 with a 6.48 ERA in his last three starts. ' ' '