CHICAGO -- Nearly a year after throwing a no-hitter at Wrigley Field, Cole Hamels was masterful again in his return to the famed ballpark.Hamels pitched eight dominant innings, and the Texas Rangers stopped a four-game slide by topping the Chicago Cubs 4-1 Sunday in a matchup of division leaders.I got 10 days of rest. You get a whole week of rest, I guess that helps, Hamels said. I know its the second half, want to start off right. This is now the go time.Hamels (10-2) struck out his first six batters. He fanned seven overall and gave up just an unearned run on four hits.The fastball, the cutter allowed him to get to the changeup today, and he was really exceptional, Rangers manager Jeff Banister said.Last summer, the lefty threw a no-hitter and struck out 13 at Wrigley in his final start for Philadelphia. He was then traded to the Rangers.Ive always enjoyed coming to Wrigley Field, Hamels said. Growing up as a kid watching it on WGN, its just a great ballpark to come play at. The fans are great here. Im just going out enjoying the moment.Sam Dyson struck out three in the ninth for his 19th save in 21 chances.Ian Desmond homered and Robinson Chirinos drove in two runs as Texas avoided a three-game sweep. The Cubs had won three in a row.John Lackey (7-6) allowed four runs and six hits in eight innings as his winless streak reached seven starts on a warm afternoon with the wind blowing out. He is 14-16 in 41 starts against Texas, the team hes faced most often in his career.The story really today was Cole. He pitched really well, Lackey said. We werent able to do anything against him. I was honestly pretty happy about the way I threw the ball. Threw eight innings and definitely not a good day to pitch.Hamels fanned the side in the first two innings.I was able to execute pretty well, Hamels said. Sometimes things just work enough to miss the barrels. If you can go out and really establish the strike zone early, they cant get as comfortable.The streak ended when Matt Szczur popped out and Albert Almora Jr. reached on third baseman Adrian Beltres error in the third. Javier Baez doubled home a run.Elvis Andrus RBI single and Chirinos sacrifice fly put the Rangers ahead in the second. Almora made a leaping catch in center field to rob Chirinos of extra bases.Chirinos hit an RBI double after Lackey walked the first two batters in the fourth.Desmond led off the eighth with his 16th home run.The Cubs got back-to-back singles to start the bottom of the seventh before a double play and groundout ended the rally.Cole did exactly what we needed today, and we got hits when they counted and we were able to get the win, first baseman Prince Fielder said. Good defense, great win all around.We needed it really bad. Weve been struggling as a team.TRAINERS ROOMRangers: OF Shin-Soo Choo (back) was out of the lineup for a third straight game, but Banister said the team isnt considering putting him on the disabled list just yet. It still seems to bother him when hes throwing, Banister said. . RHP Kyle Lohse (strained oblique) threw a pain-free bullpen session Saturday. Banister expects him to start Tuesday at the Angels.DRAMALackey argued with home plate umpire Cory Blaser after the top of the sixth before right fielder Jason Heyward got between them. Cubs manager Joe Maddon then addressed Blaser. Lackey declined to go into details of the chat.Theyre talking about Christmas cards for next year, Maddon joked. Just let John vent a little bit. Hes fine.UP NEXTRangers: RHP A.J. 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In more than a century of competing in the Davis Cup, Britain have only ever overturned such a deficit twice: against Germany in 1930 and when playing Russia in 2013.By comparison, Britain have been champions on many more occasions -- they have won 10 titles, though there was an uncommonly long wait between the ninth and 10th titles with that 79-year stretch from 1936 to 2015.If Andy Murrays Britain are to reach a second successive final -- to play France or Croatia in November -- they are going to have to flip another tie. Having trailed 0-2 after the opening day of this semifinal against Del Potros Argentina, Andy and Jamie Murray needed to win Saturdays doubles rubber to avoid elimination, but having done that, it still leaves Sundays singles rubbers.While Murray ought to win the first of those -- whether he plays Guido Pella or an understudy -- theres much less certainty about whether Britain could also take a decisive fifth rubber given that Del Potro is scheduled to be playing that match.Over the summer, the 2009 US Open champion has re-established himself in the tennis elite by winning a silver medal at the Olympics and making the quarterfinals at Flushing Meadows, and he played some astonishing tennis on Friday to defeat Andy Murray in a match that spanned five sets, five hours and dozens of emotions.But Del Potro cant be in the best physical shape as, rather than resting after Fridays adventures, he chose to play in Saturdays doubles match, which meant he was out on the match court for a further three hours. Thats nine sets and eight hours so far, while Evans, should he be selected, would be fresh.There is the intriguing possibility thaat Del Potro wont appear for the singles, after he made these remarks after the doubles: I have to be smart.dddddddddddd I want to play for more years, not just for more match.Despite those comments, it would be astonishing if he didnt feature if the tie is still alive in the fifth rubber. Should Del Potro not play on Sunday, the decision for him to appear in the doubles would look even more absurd. The doubles match was the best possible scenario for Britain -- they won, and tired Del Potro out.Theres quite the difference in height between Del Potro and Evans: 9 inches. But Evans, who is 5 feet 9, certainly wouldnt be intimidated by the thought of having to play Del Potro, who is 6-6.These past few months have seen Evans play some of the best tennis of his life, with a run to the third round of Wimbledon, and also the same stage of the US Open, where he came within a point of beating Stan Wawrinka, the eventual champion, before losing in five. Del Potro, by contrast, lost his match with Wawrinka -- which came in the last eight -- in four sets.Also note how it was Evans who won the decisive fifth rubber against Russia in Coventry three years ago, though plainly theres a difference between playing Evgeny Donskoy in the Euro-African Zone and trying to take down Del Potro, a former Grand Slam champion, when theres a place in the Davis Cup final on the line.Maybe Leon Smith, the British captain, will stick with his original nomination of Edmund. After all, Edmund was the one who supplied a couple of singles victories in the quarterfinal victory over Serbia in Belgrade (while Murray was there, he was a noncombatant, with the tie coming the weekend after he had won Wimbledon).Like Evans, Edmund had an encouraging US Open, where he beat Richard Gasquet and John Isner on the way to the fourth round, where he was stopped by Novak Djokovic.Cheap JerseysChina NFL JerseysCheap NBA Jerseys [url=http://www.jerseysnhlfromcs