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Catalans Dragons head coach Laurent Frayssinous insists climbing to second place in Super League will not affect the team’s “humble” approach to matches. The Dragons recorded their fifth win in succession and fourth on the road this season by thrashing Hull Kingston Rovers 40-0 at the KC Lightstream Stadium on Thursday.They are now just two points adrift of league leaders Warrington Wolves, having won seven of their 10 fixtures so far this year. Frayssinous told Sky Sports: We have looked good since the pre-season, but we dont want to see too far. We want to keep on building, keep on staying humble.We all know the Super League season is very hard and long, so we dont want to be worried about that [the league table] and we want to keep on performing on the field.Catalans ran in seven tries against Hull KR, but Frayssinous was particularly pleased with the shutout. Catalans Dragons Glenn Stewart talks through his performance against Hull KR at the touchscreen He added: At the moment, what is good for us and what we can be proud of is our defence the last few weeks.Maybe today we come at the point of a very good defence. In the past, Catalans Dragons have been playing good footy but not consistent enough in defence, so we will keep on working hard on that. Highlights of Catalans Dragons away win at Hull KR in Super League Catalans flew back to France immediately after the win, but they will be back in England to face St Helens next Thursday.Frayssinous said: We just played out fifth game in 18 days and three travels. We have got a good squad and depth in our squad, and we know what type of team we will face next Thursday. It will be a tough trip and we want to do our best next week. Hull KR head coach James Webster reflects on the defeat to Catalans Dragons Hull KR head coach James Webster lavished praise on Catalans but felt injuries and a congested fixture schedule had taken their toll on his team.He said: That was as good a performance as Ive seen this year in Super League from Catalans. Take the first 10 minutes out of the game, when we couldnt get a foothold on it, and we struggled from thereon in.We have had a tough month - Easter can do that to you - and we werent able to rotate our squad. We were well and truly past our best this week and we need to regroup. Also See: Catalans run riot over Rovers Catalans fixtures Wolves v Saints battles Rugby league set of six Custom Ozzie Smith Jersey . The Browns coaching search remains incomplete. Authentic Custom Padres Jersey . -- Cam Newton pranced into the end zone, placed his hands over his chest and did his familiar Superman pose. http://www.custompadresjersey.com/ . 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NEW YORK -- Chris Archer is already over 200 strikeouts this season and is getting close to 200 innings.Yet whether he likes it or not, hes got another number thats drawing even more attention -- 18 losses.Archer pitched well until Jacoby Ellsbury and Gary Sanchez tagged him for back-to-back home runs in the sixth inning Saturday that doomed the Tampa Bay Rays to a 5-1 loss to the New York Yankees.An All-Star last year, Archer (8-18) tied the Tampa Bay record for losses in a season set by Tanyon Sturtze in 2002.Baseballs a funny game. I threw a hundred pitches and there were definitely way more than three pitches that I didnt execute, but those three pitches were the ones that they capitalized on, he said.Archer leads the majors in the losses this season -- James Shields, who has lost 17 with the Padres and White Sox, pitched Saturday night.Archer fanned six and tops the AL with 217 strikeouts. Nolan Ryan is the only AL pitcher to ever lead the league in losses and strikeouts, doing it in 1976 with the Angels.Ever since I started playing baseball professionally, I never evaluated myself based off win-loss, he said.Archers unsightly record comes despite a 4.05 ERA. Hes pitched extremely well at home and struggled on the road.Archer has thrown 182 1/3 innings this season. Before the game, Rays manager Kevin Cash said he would keep Archer in the rotation if he neared 20 losses.Thats how Archer wants it.I would like to continue to throw the ball well and get as deep as I can into the game and whatever happens after that happens, as far as statistically, Archer said.Sanchez homered and almost hit another while Tampa Bay was trying to intentionally walk him, leading Masahiro Tanaka and the hard-charging Yankees to their season-best seventh straight win.The Yankees closed within three games of AL East-leading Boston, their closest to the lead since mid-April, and are one game back for the second wild-card spot.Tanaka (13-4) struck out 10 and took a shutout into the eighth inning.It was scoreless in the sixth when Brett Gardner led off with a single, Ellsbury homered and Sanchez followed with a long drive.In the eighth, after Ellsburys double put runners on second and third with no outs, the Rays seemed set to walk Sanchez.dddddddddddd Catcher Bobby Wilson moved wide as reliever Enny Romero lobbed in his first pitch at 52 mph, but the ball drifted close to the plate and Sanchez socked it to the warning track for a sacrifice fly.From the dugout, Cash seemed to say, What happened?As far as the eighth inning is concerned, Im not really going to talk about it other than to say its embarrassing, Cash said postgame. Thats embarrassing, but were not going to talk about it any farther than that.Sanchez connected for the second straight day, giving the 23-year-old rookie 13 home runs in 125 at-bats this season.Tanaka won his sixth straight decision, giving up five hits and walking none. He left in the eighth after Bobby Wilson homered with one out and Logan Forsythe was hit by a pitch.Ellsbury tagged a familiar target when he lined his eighth home run, a shot into the right-center field seats. Ellsbury is 19 for 34 (.559) with two homers against Archer, the most hits by anyone off the right-hander.NICKEDRays SS Nick Franklin was hit in the foot by a pitch from Adam Warren in the eighth. Franklin got looked at by the trainer and stayed in the game.I think hes OK. He had the foot pad, shin pad all over him, but the ball found a part on the leather, Cash said.TRAINERS ROOMRays: Brad Miller was at 1B, a day after he was the DH while recuperating from being hit by a pitch in the right elbow. ... 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