WASHINGTON — Ryan Zimmerman has now done it eight times, and it never gets old.Watch the ball sail out of the park. Slap hands with the first base coach. Slap hands with the third base coach. Toss the helmet and jump into the pile of teammates waiting at home plate.For the eighth time in his seven-year big league career, the Washington Nationals third baseman ended the game with a home run. This time, it was a grand slam, hit with a full count and two outs in the bottom of the ninth against one of the best closers in the league.Zimmerman's line drive over the left field wall against Ryan Madson capped a six-run ninth Friday night, giving the Nationals an 8-4 win over the Philadelphia Phillies."It's the ultimate thing," said Zimmerman, who also got a Gatorade shower and whipped cream in the face, "because when you come around third, your teammates are waiting there."Washington was trailing 4-2 entering the ninth, but they sent eight men to the plate against Madson (3-2), who had previously blown only one save this season and hadn't allowed six runs in a game since becoming exclusively a relief pitcher in 2007.Zimmerman was 8-for-22 in his career with no homers and four RBIs against the Phillies' formidable closer, including 0-for-3 this year.That RBI total doubled in a hurry. The slam was Zimmerman's third in his career, and the second one to end a game."Just trying to get it out of the infield," Zimmerman said. "I guess you could say he's dominated me throughout the whole time. It's one of those at-bats where I don't know really how it happened, but I guess it happened."The pressure's on him, man. It's not on me. I'm, like, 0-for-whatever against him — I'm supposed to get out," he added. Dodgers 8, Rockies 2In Denver, Hiroki Kuroda pitched six strong innings for his first career win against Colorado, and Rod Barajas and Tony Gwynn hit home runs for Los Angeles.Kuroda (9-14) had entered 0-5 with a 5.81 ERA in nine previous starts against the Rockies in his four-year major league career. He allowed four hits and two runs with five strikeouts and three walks. Padres 4, Marlins 3In San Diego, Kyle Blanks hit a two-run homer and made a great catch in left to lift the Padres. Brewers 6, Mets 1In New York, Prince Fielder hit two RBI singles and streaking Milwaukee waited out a rain delay of nearly three hours before beating the Mets.Shaun Marcum pitched the Brewers to their 20th win in 23 games, giving them a season-high 7½-game lead in the NL Central. Braves 4, Diamondbacks 2In Atlanta, Derek Lowe combined with four relievers on a six-hitter and the Braves hit three homers in the matchup of NL playoff contenders. Astros 6, Giants 0In Houston, Wandy Rodriguez pitched eight innings and had a two-run single to lead the Astros to a win over San Francisco.The Giants have lost 15 of their last 21 games. Cubs 5, Cardinals 4 (10)In Chicago, Tyler Colvin's RBI single in the bottom of the 10th off Octavio Dotel lifted the Cubs to the victory.Geovany Soto led off the inning with a single off Dotel (0-2), advanced to second on Marlon Byrd's sacrifice bunt, and scored on Colvin's hit to center field just hours after Chicago fired general manager Jim Hendry. Reds 11, Pirates 8In Pittsburgh, Joey Votto hit his 21st homer of the season and later scored the game-winning run in the top of the ninth to lead Cincinnati.
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U.S. Bonds Converge With Japan in Biggest Rally Since 2008 - San Francisco Chronicle
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(Updates to show Treasuries fell in European trading in ninth paragraph.)Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. government bond yields are poised to converge with Japan's for the first time in almost two decades, sparking the biggest returns for investors in Treasuries since 2008 while raising concern that America may be stuck in a prolonged period of below-par economic growth."We are beginning to resemble Japan from an interest-rate policy standpoint as well as potentially an economic growth standpoint," Bill Gross, who runs the world's biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., said in a telephone interview Aug. 10. Investors are "fearful of low growth and are fleeing to high-quality sovereign paper at whatever yield."Treasuries soared last week after Standard & Poor's cut the U.S. credit rating from AAA, Europe's sovereign-debt crisis deepened and stock markets gyrated, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising or falling an average of 3.85 percent each day. The bond rally drove two-year Treasury yields down to a record low and within three basis points of similar-maturity Japanese debt, the smallest gap since 1992, data compiled by Bloomberg show.The outlook for the U.S. economy is so weak that the Federal Reserve took the unprecedented step last week of saying it will keep its benchmark interest rate at almost zero through mid-2013. That promises to bolster demand for Treasuries as the government sells bonds to finance a budget deficit that Congress forecasts will exceed $1 trillion for a third straight year.Estimates SlashedGlobal financial strains, government fiscal austerity and a lack of jobs led economists to slash their estimates for growth in gross domestic product in 2012 to 2.4 percent, from 3 percent in July, based on the median of 81 estimates in a Bloomberg News survey. Japan's government said last week the nation's GDP may expand 0.5 percent in the year started April 1.Even Gross, who is co-chief investment officer at Newport Beach, California-based Pimco, has been building his holdings of U.S. government debt since eliminating the securities from his $245.5 billion Total Return Fund in February, saying at the time that Treasuries "have little value" because of the nation's growing debt burden and inflation-adjusted yields below zero. The fund had 10 percent of its assets in U.S. debt last month.Treasuries have returned 6.73 percent this year on average, exceeding the 5.88 percent gain for all of 2010 and the most since they rallied 14 percent in 2008. That was the year the economy shrank 3.5 percent as the subprime-mortgage crisis deepened and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed.Yields TumbleThe yield on the benchmark two-year Treasury fell last week 10 basis points, or 0.1 percentage point, to 0.19 percent. Ten- year yields tumbled 30 basis points to 2.26 percent, the biggest drop since they tumbled 45 basis points in the period ended Dec. 19, 2008. The yield touched a record low 2.0346 percent.The 10-year yield climbed two basis points to 2.28 percent today as of 9:29 a.m. in London.Strategists are having a hard time adjusting their forecasts fast enough to keep up with the declines. A Bloomberg survey of 46 economists and strategists released Aug. 12 showed that they slashed their median 10-year yield estimate for the first quarter to 3.10 percent from 3.75 percent in July's poll."We may end up seeing the lows close to 1.5 percent before the cycle is over," said David Rosenberg, the chief economist at Gluskin Sheff & Associates in Toronto and the former chief North American economist at Merrill Lynch & Co. Rosenberg said early last month in a radio interview with Tom Keene on "Bloomberg Surveillance" that 10-year notes would "retest the lows in yields we had in 2008."Relative Yields
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(Updates to show Treasuries fell in European trading in ninth paragraph.)Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. government bond yields are poised to converge with Japan's for the first time in almost two decades, sparking the biggest returns for investors in Treasuries since 2008 while raising concern that America may be stuck in a prolonged period of below-par economic growth."We are beginning to resemble Japan from an interest-rate policy standpoint as well as potentially an economic growth standpoint," Bill Gross, who runs the world's biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., said in a telephone interview Aug. 10. Investors are "fearful of low growth and are fleeing to high-quality sovereign paper at whatever yield."Treasuries soared last week after Standard & Poor's cut the U.S. credit rating from AAA, Europe's sovereign-debt crisis deepened and stock markets gyrated, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising or falling an average of 3.85 percent each day. The bond rally drove two-year Treasury yields down to a record low and within three basis points of similar-maturity Japanese debt, the smallest gap since 1992, data compiled by Bloomberg show.The outlook for the U.S. economy is so weak that the Federal Reserve took the unprecedented step last week of saying it will keep its benchmark interest rate at almost zero through mid-2013. That promises to bolster demand for Treasuries as the government sells bonds to finance a budget deficit that Congress forecasts will exceed $1 trillion for a third straight year.Estimates SlashedGlobal financial strains, government fiscal austerity and a lack of jobs led economists to slash their estimates for growth in gross domestic product in 2012 to 2.4 percent, from 3 percent in July, based on the median of 81 estimates in a Bloomberg News survey. Japan's government said last week the nation's GDP may expand 0.5 percent in the year started April 1.Even Gross, who is co-chief investment officer at Newport Beach, California-based Pimco, has been building his holdings of U.S. government debt since eliminating the securities from his $245.5 billion Total Return Fund in February, saying at the time that Treasuries "have little value" because of the nation's growing debt burden and inflation-adjusted yields below zero. The fund had 10 percent of its assets in U.S. debt last month.Treasuries have returned 6.73 percent this year on average, exceeding the 5.88 percent gain for all of 2010 and the most since they rallied 14 percent in 2008. That was the year the economy shrank 3.5 percent as the subprime-mortgage crisis deepened and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed.Yields TumbleThe yield on the benchmark two-year Treasury fell last week 10 basis points, or 0.1 percentage point, to 0.19 percent. Ten- year yields tumbled 30 basis points to 2.26 percent, the biggest drop since they tumbled 45 basis points in the period ended Dec. 19, 2008. The yield touched a record low 2.0346 percent.The 10-year yield climbed two basis points to 2.28 percent today as of 9:29 a.m. in London.Strategists are having a hard time adjusting their forecasts fast enough to keep up with the declines. A Bloomberg survey of 46 economists and strategists released Aug. 12 showed that they slashed their median 10-year yield estimate for the first quarter to 3.10 percent from 3.75 percent in July's poll."We may end up seeing the lows close to 1.5 percent before the cycle is over," said David Rosenberg, the chief economist at Gluskin Sheff & Associates in Toronto and the former chief North American economist at Merrill Lynch & Co. Rosenberg said early last month in a radio interview with Tom Keene on "Bloomberg Surveillance" that 10-year notes would "retest the lows in yields we had in 2008."Relative Yields The reward for this Stienstra climb is a view that can give you a sense of rapture and a queasy stomach.
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