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Still picking up the pieces left by the shattering 63-20 beatdown at Louisville, No. 13 Florida State (2-1) might have desired an easy place to land this week. The Seminoles wont get it.The Noles take on 3-0 South Florida, a team that has won 10 of its last 12 games since starting out 1/3 last year. The two teams meet Saturday (noon ET) at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.Coach Jimbo Fisher is anxious to see how his Seminoles come back after suffering the worst loss in his seven-year stint with the Noles against what he calls a very good South Florida team.Outstanding team, undefeated, averaging 50 points a game, playing really good on defense, Fisher said. Will be one heck of a challenge going down to their place.Be a very big test for us to see how we want to respond, how we want to react, who were going to be, who are we, and what are we going to do.The Bulls are coming off a 45-20 comeback win at Syracuse. USF ran off 28 unanswered points in the second quarter after they fell behind 17-0 after the first 15 minutes. Louisville had handled the Orange at the Carrier Dome 68-28 the week before trashing the Seminoles.Despite Florida States big loss, South Florida coach Willie Taggart sees this as the chance for his unranked Bulls to gain some national recognition and respect.I think it would be big for our program, Taggart said of a potential win. Thats something we as a program said we wanted to do. We want to earn respect.We dont want anyone to give it to us, we want to earn it, and its an opportunity for us to go out and do that this weekend.Taggart is in his fourth year with the Bulls and, just as he did in his previous stop at Western Kentucky, has increased the win total in each of his first three seasons. They won only two games in his first year in 2013 but doubled that to four in 2014.Last year they wound up with an 8-5 mark but won seven of their last nine games as the offense behind quarterback Quinton Flowers and running back Marlon Mack caught fire.Flowers finished last year completing just over 59 percent of his passes for about 177 yards a game with 22 touchdown tosses against eight interceptions. He also rushed for 991 yards, which was second on the team to Mack, who rushed for 1,381.This year, Flowers has completed only 54.7 percent of his passes but for 237 yards a game with seven touchdowns against only one pick. He also has run for 150 yards. Mack missed a game-and-a-half with a concussion but has rushed for 173 yards in his six quarters, averaging 9.6 yards per carry with three touchdowns.Wide receivers Rodney Adams and North Carolina State transfer Marquez Valdez-Scantiling have come up big in the receiving game with 11 and 10 receptions, respectively, for a combined 339 yards and three scores.The Bulls are looking to go 4-0 for the first time since they won their first four games to start off the 2011 campaign and are seeking their second win in the young series with the Seminoles.As an interesting side note, their 17-7 victory over the Seminoles in 2009 set in motion the process that led the legendary coach Bobby Bowdens exit from the program and Fishers move up to the top.Fishers Noles have won the two meetings since, outscoring the Bulls 64-31.Fisher is concerned about more recent history, however, like the debacle in Louisville. Florida State had never allowed 63 points in a game.Were very disappointed, and thats my fault, Fisher said We have to move on, but at the same time we have to look at those disappointments, own them and make some adjustments.Theres a lot of football left to play.One fact is in Fishers favor this week. In the past five years, his Noles are undefeated in games following a loss. Their last back-to-back defeats came in 2011, and the streak of 66 games without consecutive losses ranks second nationally only to Oregon (70). Air Max Pas Cher En Ligne . On June 12, just as the sun sets on the magnificent historical city of Sao Paulo the inventors, innovators and purveyors of “joga bonitowill” open their campaign. The opponent, Croatia and all its football might and will. As opposites do attract we are set for a corker of an opener. 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It was not one of the best games that Ive pitched. There were too many hits and its amazing they only had one run.Handed a three-run lead before he threw a pitch, Nova (2-0) has won both starts for the Pirates since they obtained him from New York at the Aug. 1 trade deadline. The right-hander scattered nine hits over 5 1/3 innings in his first outing against the Dodgers and improved to 9-6 overall this season.Theyre aggressive hitters and some of the balls they hit would have been out of an American League ballpark, Nova said.Los Angeles remained one game behind the first-place Giants in the NL West. San Francisco lost 5-2 to Baltimore.Pittsburgh opened a six-game West Coast swing and moved within a game of Miami for the second NL wild card.Nova twice struck out opposing pitcher Ross Stripling to end a rally. The new Pirates starter was replaced by Antonio Bastardo, who got the final two outs in the sixth. Felipe Rivero, Neftali Feliz, Juan Nicasio and Tony Watson followed and shut down the Dodgers.Watson came on with runners at the corners and retired Corey Seager for his fifth save.Dating to June 23, the Pirates bullpen has posted the lowest ERA (2.13) and best winning percentage 11-2 (.846) of any major league team.Everyone in the bullpen accepts their roles and pulls for one another, Bastardo said. It gives us confidence and were winning games.Stripling (3-4) started in place of Rich Hill, who remained on the disabled list with a middle finger blister on his pitching hand. After a rough first inning, Stripling retired 17 of 19 hitters but gave up five runs, including solo homers to McCutchen and Mercer.Those were probably the two worst pitches I made all night, Stripling said. They definitely punished me for them.McCutchen also made an outstanding, over-the-shoulder catch near the warning track in left-center in the second inning to take an extra-base hit away from Yasmani Grandal.McCutchen had a fantastic game. Im going to keep running him out there, Pittsburgh manager Clint Hurdle said.Los Angeles outfielder Josh Reddick robbed Josh Harrison of a home run when he reached over the low right-field wall to make a grab.Pittsburgh, which had lost eight of 10 road games, extendded its recent dominance of the Dodgers.dddddddddddd The Pirates have beaten Los Angeles in four of five games this season and improved their record to 14-4 against the Dodgers since the beginning of the 2014 season.Pittsburgh jumped on Stripling for four hits and three runs in the first. McCutchen and David Freese stroked RBI singles, and Mercers RBI fielders choice made it 3-0.Howie Kendricks two-out RBI single in the second cut the lead to 3-1. Kendrick finished with three hits.McCutchen continued his torrid hitting at Dodger Stadium with a third-inning solo shot, his 16th of the season. In his last seven games at Dodger Stadium, the slugger is 8 for 16 with four doubles and two home runs.I love Dodger Stadium and LA. Its Paradise, and the weather is always great, McCutchen said. When we come out here, I seem to get more down time and Im more relaxed.Mercer led off the seventh with his seventh homer of the season, upping Pittsburghs lead to 5-1.TRAINERS ROOMPirates: Pittsburgh C Francisco Cervelli is day to day after leaving Wednesdays game after four innings with left wrist discomfort. ... C Chris Stewart, on the DL since July 2 with left knee discomfort, is expected to begin a rehab assignment Friday with Double-A Altoona.Dodgers: LHP Clayton Kershaw, on the 60-day DL with a mild disk herniation, is scheduled to play catch Saturday. No target date has been set for his return. ... RHP Joe Blanton was reinstated from the bereavement list, and the Dodgers optioned LHP Luis Avilan to Triple-A Oklahoma City. ... The Dodgers plan to activate LHP Brett Anderson (herniated disk surgery) off the DL in time to start Sundays series finale.CHARLIE HUSTLEDodgers 2B Chase Utley has 409 plate appearances this season without grounding into a double play, the most of any big leaguer. According to STATS, only one Dodgers player has completed an entire season with more plate appearances and zero GIDPs (current manager Dave Roberts in 2003, with 440 plate appearances).UP NEXTPirates: RHP Gerrit Cole (7-7) pitches Saturday. His last time out, Cole gave up four hits and four runs in 5 2/3 innings and lost 7-3 to the Reds. He is 3-0 against the Dodgers in four career starts.Dodgers: RHP Brandon McCarthy (2-2) felt healthy during workouts this week and is expected to pitch Saturday. In his last outing, McCarthy went 3 2/3 innings, gave up two runs and walked five against Boston. ' ' '