2 2 2 0 The Plain Dealer Breaking news: cleveland.com Saturday, September 13, 2008 THE BEST IN BASEBALL 1- CHUCK CROW I THE PLAIN DEALER Cliff Lee's teammates congratulate him after the Tribe ace won his 11th straight decision and 22nd of the season Friday night at Progressive Field. Red Sox 7, Pirates 10, AL leaders NL leaders Baseball history Blue Jays 0 Cardinals 2 (through Thursday) (through Thursday) 13 Tim Wakefield pitched eight Nate McLouth homered and Bradley, BATTING- Texas, Pedroia, Boston, Mauer, Pujols, BATTING St. Louis, Clones, Atlanta, 1925: Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance innings of shutout ball to had a career high five RBI to Minnesota, Ordonez, Colorado, Berkman, Holliday, Hous- threw a no-hitter against first the 4, bounce back from his shortest lead Pittsburgh to victory over troit, Kinsler, Texas, CGuzman, Washing- Philadelphia Phillies in the start in 15 years to help host visiting St. Louis. Huff, Baltimore, Youkilis, ton, CaLee, Houston, game of a doubleheader to give Boston stop its AL East slide into the ninth for the Boston, .313.
Winn, San Francisco, .314. 1932: The New York Yankees Paul Maholm (9-8) pitched the Dodgers a 10-1 win. with a victory over Toronto. inning RUNS- Pedroia, Boston, 112; RUNS -Ramirez, Florida, 112; beat Cleveland 9-3 and clinched Kevin Cash hit a three-run just the fourth time in 21 games. Kinsler, Texas, 102; Granderson, New Berkman, York, 105; Houston, 110; DWright, Beltran, New the American League pennant.
last -place Pirates, who won for homer, David Ortiz and Jed Low- Rookie Luis Cruz also had Detroit, 101; Markakis, Balti- Joe McCarthy became the first rie each drove in a pair of runs three hits more, 100; ARodriguez, New York, JReyes, Holliday, New Colorado, 100; manager to win flags in both and the Red Sox improved to collected 14 hits. Pirates, McLouth who fin- York, 99; BRoberts, Baltimore, McLouth, Pittsburgh, 99. leagues. for the 101; York, two games out in the AL East 98; Quentin, Chicago, 95. 1936: Bob Feller, 17, beat the behind Tampa Bay.
ished a single short of the cycle, RBI Texas, 124; DWright, RB1-Howard, New York, Philadelphia, 109; 129; Del- Philadelphia A's 5-2 on two hits. Toronto lost for just the sec- hitting a two run home run in Morneau, Detroit, Minnesota, 120; MiCa- Seat- gado, New York, 104; AdGonza-' The Cleveland youngster fanned ond time in 13 games, unable to the third, three-run double in brera, 116; Ibanez, lez, San Diego, 103; ArRamirez, 17 batters for an American muster anything against Wake- the fifth and a triple in the sixth. tle, 105; Huff, Baltimore, 103; Chicago, 103; Beltran, New York, League record. field (9-10), who was pulled St. Louis ab bi bb so Quentin, Chicago, 100; Youkilis, 102; Ludwick, St.
Louis, 101. 1971: Frank Robinson hit his avg. Boston, 100. without getting a chance for his Izturis ss 2 .247 HITS- Boston, 196; ISu- HITS- Reyes, New York, 184; 500th career home run off De- is first shutout since 1997. BRyan s5 .243 Pujols, St.
Louis, 171; DLee, Chi- troit's Fred Scherman. The Four days after lasting just Pujois Phelps 1b rf-1b .300 .361 tle, 176; Rios, Toronto, 174; cago, CGuzman, Washing- ninth-inning shot gave the Baltizuki, Seattle, 191; Ibanez, innings against Texas, the Miles Ludwick cf cf .294 .317 Morneau, Minnesota, 172; Ham- ton, 167; Winn, Berkman, Houston, 167; more header Orioles against a the split in a double'168; 43 42-year-old knuckleballer al- Johnson 0 1.000 ilton, Texas, 172; Huff, Balti- Theriot, Chicago, San 166; Francisco, DWright, 1978: The New York Tigers. Yankees lowed three hits and walked FLopez 3b .262 more, 171. New York, 166; Holliday, Colo- beat the Tigers 7-3 at Detroit to none while striking out four. LaRue Stavinoha If .238 .195 DOUBLES- Pedroia, Boston, 47; Tejada, Houston, 166.
move into sole possession of AKennedy ph .266 BRoberts, Baltimore, 47; Huff, DOUBLES- -Berkman, Houston, first place for the first time Toronto ab bi bb so avg. Pineiro .106 Baltimore, 47; Rios, Toronto, 44; Scutaro 2b 4 0 0 .267 Barton cf-rf .265 Markakis, Baltimore, 43. 45; Hart, Milwaukee, 43; after being 14 games out on July Wilkerson If 0 .215 Barden 2b .250 TRIPLES- Granderson, Detroit, McLouth, Pittsburgh, 42; Young, 19. Rios rf .298 Totals 30 13; Crawford, Tampa Bay, 10; Arizona, 41; DWright, New York, 1995: Alan Trammell and Lou VWells cf .299 Pittsburgh ab bi bb so avg. Rios, BRoberts, Balti- 40; Pujols, St.
Louis, 40; ArRamiOverbay 1b .279 Morgan If 0 .243 Toronto, rez, Chicago, 39. Whitaker, the middle infield of Mench dh .243 L.Cruz 2b 0 .304 more, Iwamura, Tampa Bay, the Detroit Tigers, set an AmeriBarajas .248 McLouth cf .281 Inglett, Toronto, Ellsbury, TRIPLES- Reyes, New York, 18; can League record when they Rolen 3b .249 AdLaRoche 1b .267 Boston, AJones, Baltimore, FLewis, San Francisco, 11; played in their game toMcDonald ss .217 Moss rf .227 SDrew, Arizona, 11; Rollins, PhilTotals 30 AnLaRoche 3b .165 ISuzuki, Seattle, 6. adelphia, Velez, San Fran- gether. Boston ab bb so avg, Chavez .267 HOME RUNS -Quentin, Chicago, 2004: Eric Chavez singled in the Crisp cf .289 Bixler ss .157 36; MiCabrera, Detroit, 33; ARo- cisco, Victorino, Philadelphia, winning run in the bottom of the Pedroia 2b .327 Maholm 2 2 0 .129 driguez, New York, 33; Dye, Chi- Phillips, RUNS Cincinnati, 7. Philadel- 10th inning, leading Oakland to Ortiz dh 0 .265 Totals 37 10 14 10 2 HOME -Howard, wild 1 Youkilis 1b .310 St.
Louis 000 000 002-2 71 31; Hamilton, phia, 43; Dunn, Arizona, 36; Del- in a game that was delayed in cago, 32; Sizemore, Cleveland, a 7-6 win over the Rangers Bay Lowell If 3b .293 .277 Pittsburgh 102 061 00x-10 14 0 Texas, 31; Huff, gado, New York, 35; Braun, MilBaltimore, 31; Thome, Chicago, waukee, 34; Ludwick, St. Louis, the ninth after Texas reliever Kotsay rf .240 (41), Barden Miles (1). (14), LOB: McLouth StL 5, Pit (43), 7. 28: AdLaRoche Pujols 31. Frank Francisco hurled a chair Cash .233 (29), Moss (8).
3B: McLouth (4). HR: STOLEN -Ellsbury, Bos- Florida, 32. Lowrie ss .282 BASES- 33; Louis, Jacobs, and hit two fans. Texas Pujols, St. 33; reliever Totals 33 7 8 6 McLouth (25), off Pineiro.
RBIs: MJohnson ton, 45; Upton, Tampa Bay, 42; STOLEN BASES- Taveras, Colo- Doug Brocail was screaming at Toronto 000 000 000-0 3 2 (1), McLouth 5 (89), AdLaRoche (68), Moss 2 Seattle, 41; Sizemore, 67; York, 49; a male fan and had to be re(17), Maholm 2 (3). SAC: Pineiro. SF: AdLa- rado, JReyes, New Boston 010 100 23x-7 8 0 Roche, Moss. GIDP: BRyan, Stavinoha. DP: Cleveland, 37; BRoberts, Balti- Rollins, Philadelphia, 42; Bourn, strained by his teammates and AI Rolen 2 (11).
LOB: Toronto 3, Boston 7. 2B: Pit 2. more, 37; Figgins, Los Angeles, Houston, 38; Pierre, An- bullpen coach Mark Connor. Mench (11), Rolen (25), Pedroia (48), Ortiz St. Louis ip er bb so era 31; CaGomez, Minnesota, 30; geles, 38; Kemp, Los Angeles, Francisco then tossed a chair at (25), Lowrie 2 (22).
HR: Cash (3), off Frasor. Pineiro, I 8 1 5.24 Rios, Toronto, 30. 33; Victorino, Philadelphia, 32. a fan in a lower box to the left RBIs: Ortiz 2 (75), Lowrie 2 (42), Cash 3 (14). Flores 2 4.97 SF: Lowrie.
Villone 5.09 PITCHING (15 Decisions) PITCHING (15 Decisions) -Lince- of the Rangers' bullpen along Toronto ip er bb so era Kinney 0.00 cum, San Francisco, 16-3, .842, A 90 Cl.Lee, Cleveland, 21-2, .913, the right-field line. The chair hit Purcey, 4 3 2 6 5.10 Jimenez 0 1 5.00 2.28; Matsuzaka, Boston, 16-2, 2.54; Volquez, Cincinnati, 16-5, a man in the head and broke a Frasor 2 3 3 2 0 4.24 Pittsburgh ip er bb so era .889, 2.97; Perkins, Minnesota, .762, 3.23; Webb, Arizona, 19-7, woman's nose. Boston ip er bb SO era Maholm, Sanchez 8 3 0 3.68 2.79 12-4, .750, 4.11; Lester, Boston, .731, 3.41; Zambrano, Chicago, 2006: Gary Matthews Jr. hit for Wakefield Delcarmen 00 0 0 0 4 0 3.92 Maholm, 9-8. Pineiro, 6-6.
Pineiro 14-5, .737, 3.23; ESantana, Los 13-5, .722, 3.58; Dempster, Chi- the cycle in his first four at-bats 1 0 0 0 3.59 Wakefield, 9-10. Purcey, 3-6. Inherited pitched to 4 batters in the 5th, Maholm Angeles, 15-6, .714, 3.36; Saun- cago, 15-6, .714, 3.02; Lohse, St. of Texas' 11-3 victory at Detroit. runners-scored: Frasor 1-0.
WP: Purcey. PB: pitched to 4 batters in the 9th. Inherited run- ders, Los Angeles, 15-7, .682, Louis, 13-6, .684, 3.80; Nolasco, Today's birthdays: Andy LaCash. Umps: H-Dana DeMuth; 1-Doug Ed- H-Gary ners-scored: Darling: Flores 1-1, 1-Paul RSanchez Emmel; 3-1. 2-James Umps: 3.64; GFloyd, Chicago, 15-7, .682, Florida, 14-7, .667, 3.56; Moyer, Roche 25; Rickie Weeks 26; 2:40.
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3.77. Philadelphia, 3.68. Daisuke Matsuzaka 28. LATE THURSDAY Marlins 2, Cubs 3, Padres 11, Rangers 6, Angels 7, Cardinals 2 Giants 3 Athletics 1 Mariners 4 Nationals 1 Chicago's Rich Harden San Diego's Adrian Gonzalez Hank Blalock homered, Chris Francisco Rodriguez got the Scott Olsen (7-10) got his worked six solid innings and homered twice and drove in Davis and Joaquin Arias each final three outs for his 57th save first win in 10 starts and Jorge Kerry Wood got Albert Pujols to four runs in a win over visiting drove in two runs, and Texas to tie Bobby Thigpen's majorCantu hit a record-setting home pop up with two men on for the San Francisco. beat host Oakland.
league record, and Los Angeles run as host Florida beat Wash- final out in a victory in St. Louis. Gonzalez reached career Dustin Nippert (3-4) matched beat Seattle in Anaheim, Calif. ington. Ryan Theriot, Derrek Lee and highs with 31 homers and 103 his career high with seven Thigpen set the record in Cantu's solo homer that tied Mike Fontenot had RBI for the RBI.
He joined Fred McGriff strikeouts in five strong innings, 1990 with the White Sox. the score at 1 in the fourth was Milwaukee in and Phil Nevin (2000- allowing four hits and one run Rodriguez got Ichiro Suzuki 1 his 25th of the season. The Mar- the NL Central by games 01) as the only players in fran- to win back-to-back starts for to ground into a double play, Cubs, who lead (1991-92) lins are the first team in major- with 16 to play after taking two chise history with consecutive the Rangers another impres- gave up a run-scoring single to league history to have of three, with two one-run deci- seasons of 30 homers and 100 sive outing in just his fourth Jeremy Reed and a single to fielders hit at least 25 homers. sions. The Cardinals remained RBI.
start of 2008. Adrian Beltre before finally endMike Jacobs (32), Dan Uggla games behind the Brewers Josh Geer (2-0) allowed nine Texas' Josh Hamilton left ing it on Raul Ibanez's broken1 (30), Hanley Ramirez (29) and for the NL wild card. hits and two runs in seven in- after the seventh with a bruised bat grounder to first. Cantu accounted for 116 of nings in his third big right foot. the Marlins' 188 homers this Chicago ab bi bb so avg.
Hamilton had three hits for Seattle ab bi bb so avg. season. ASoriano 2 the Rangers and has gone 16- Reed cf I .275 If .287 start. rf 0 .312 Theriot ss .309 San Fran. ab bi bb SO avg.
Beltre 3b .268 Vashington, ab bi bb SO avg, .354 DLee ArRamirez 16 3b 2 .292 .280 Winn If-cf 5 0 0 .314 tests. for-31 over his past nine con- Ibanez If .310 Dukes rf .274 Pie cf .231 Aurilia 3b 0 .286 MiYoung ss .280 RoJohnson pr .000 Boone 1b .255 Soto .288 Bowker ph .244 Hamilton cf .306 Valbuena 2b 2 .091 WHarris If .251 ReJohnson cf .305 Gillaspie ph .000 BBoggs If .230 Totals 36 Milledge cf .257 Marmol .000 BMolina 0000006 0 .289 JArias 2b 5 2 2 so 0 .250 Johjima .212 A Schrholtz rf 4 .433 JoLopez dh .292 CGuzman ss .312 DeRosa rf-2b 0 .285 Sandoval 1b .326 Betancourt 5s .273 Zmerman 3b .284 Fontenot 2b .298 Texas ab bi bb avg. LaHair 1b .248 Rowand cf .276 Nieves Harden .053 Velez 2b .241 MByrd If-cf .293 Los Angeles avg. .254 Montz .000 Totals 34 Cain .125 Blalock 1b .264 Anderson If .291 Langrhans ph .230 f*ckudome rf SOM .261 Vizquel ss .190 NCruz rf 1 .316 Matthws)r cf .234 Martis St. Louis ab bi bb avg, DRoberts If .229 Laird .288 Guerrero dh .300 Casto ph 00 .219 Schmaker cf 0 .305 CDavis 3b .271 Sandoval dh .000 4: Totals 1 5'.
6 Miles If .315 bi bb Teagarden dh .385 JRivera rf .230 Totals 37 Florida bi bb 50 avg. Pujols 1b .360 San Diego avg. Totals 6 14 Morales 1b .250 HRamirez ss .294 Ludwick rf .296 Venable cf 0 .333 Oakland ab bi bb so avg. Quinlan 3b .273 Baker .289 FLopez 3b .262 Giles rf 5 0 .304 RDavis cf .272 BWood sS .198 Rodriguez ss 5 .285 Cantu 3b-1b 0 .273 AKennedy 2b .267 .138 Cunngham If .273 Mathis .192 Jacobs 1b .246 LaRue .236 RSweeney rf .285 Rodriguez 2b .200 Ambres rf Lo Duca ph .241 Phelps ph .278 AGonzalez 1b .276 Cust dh .228 Totals 32 7 11 7 5 Willngham If .252 MJohnson Macias If .429 KSuzuki .287 Seattle 000 000 031-4 11 2 Uggla 2b .262 Headley 3b .260 CRoss cf .260 Wellmeyer .154 Hundley .235 DBarton 1b .215 Los Angeles 001 105 00x-7 11 0 Hermida rf .246 Stavinoha ph .216 Antonelli 2b .185 Baisley 3b .000 Johjima 2 (7). LOB: Sea 9, LA 6.
2B: JoloPenngton s5 .250 Olsen 00 0 .145 Looper ph .255 Geer .000 Patterson 2b .178 pez (36), BWood (4), Rodriguez (6). HR: 11 Helms 3b 0 .245 BRyan ph 0 .246 EGonzalez ph .274 Totals 30 1 4 1 4 10 (6), off JSpeier. RBIs: ISuzuki (40), Totals 28 2 3 13 Izturis ss 0 0 .249 Totals 40 11 17 11 4 6 0 Reed (25), JoLopez (80), YBetancourt (43), Washington 010 000 000-1 8 2 Totals 36 2 10 2 5 San Francisco 100 001 001- 3 10 0 Texas 032 010 000-6 14 GAnderson 3 (78), Guerrero (84), BWood (9), Florida 000 101 00x-2 41 Chicago 000 021 000-3 70 San Diego 501 000 14x-11 17 0 RDavis (1), Patterson (5). LOB: Tex 11, this (2). GIDP: YBetancourt, Rivera, 3.
Oakland 000 001 000-1 42 Mathis 2 (42). SB: Matthews Jr. (8). CS: MaE: CGuzman 2 (17), HRamirez (21). LOB: Was St.
Louis 000 002 000-2 10 1 LOB: SF 7, SD 9. 28: Velez (12), Venable (3), Oak 7. 2B: Hamilton (32), NCruz (3), CDavis Quinlan. DP: Sea 3, LA 2. 11, Flo 5.
2B: AHernandez (1). HR: Cantu Pujols (5), LOB: Chi 9, StL 10. 2B: ASoriano Rodriguez (10), Giles (35), (25), off Martis. RBIs: AHernandez (10), (25), DeRosa (27), Fontenot (20), Pujois (40), Velez (7). HR: EGonzalez (6), Cantu (79), SB: WHarris (11), Ramirez 2 BRyan (9).
RBI: Theriot (37), DLee (82), Fon- Macias (1), off Cain; AdGonzalez (33). GIDP: Nieves. DP: Flo 1. tenot (37), Pujols (100), FLopez (34). SAC: Misch, Cain, RBIs: Aurilla (47), Washington ip er bb so era Looper.
DP: StL 1. DRoberts (6), Giles 2 (56), Martis, 5 3 2.70 Chicago er bb so era (103), Macias 2 (3), Antonelli Manning 5.15 Harden, 2 1.65 2 (28). GIDP: Giles. DP: SF 1. Shell 1.80 Samardzija 0 1.96 San Fran.
ip er Hinckley 0 0.00 Marmol 2.66 Cain, 9 6 Florida er bb so era KWood, 0 3.45 Espineli Oisen, 4.31 St. Louis er bb so era Misch Gregg 3.68 Wellmeyr 3.63 Correia 5 Nelson 1.72 McClellan 3.73 San Diego ip er Lindstrom 0 0 0 0 3.44 Springer 2.36 Geer, 9 Olsen, 7-10. Martis, 0-2. Lindstrom Franklin 00 0 3.69 Meredith to (3). 3 batters Gregg in (2), the Nelson 6th.
(10). Inherited Martis runners- pitched Harden, 5-1. Wellemeyer, 12-7. 'Hensley KWood (30). Samardzija (2), Marmol (27), Geer, 2-0.
Cain, scored: Manning 2-0, Shell 2-0. WP: Olsen. IBB: off Marmol (AKennedy) 1. WP: Welle- ners-scored: Espineli 1-0. IBB: Umps: 2-Charlie H-Chad Reliford; Fairchild: 3-Brian 1-Greg 2:39.
Gibson; meyer. Umps: H-Mike Reilly; 1-Andy (Antonelll) 1. WP: Espineli. 12,121. Runge.
Fletcher: 2-Bob Davidson; 3-Alfonso Bucknor; 1-Joe West; 2-Ted Marquez. 3:06. 44,155. Hickox. 2:36.
30,497. Na. Na. Sports MLB For more on major league baseball, go to cleveland.com/mlb American League Team Pct. GB L10 Strk Home Away Chicago 81 65 .555 4-6 L-1 49-26 32-39 CENTRAL Detroit Cleveland Minnesota 80 70 72 76 74 66 .479 .493 .548 11 1 9 4-6 4-6 6-4 W-1 L-2 L-1 39-33 49-26 37-37 33-39 33-41 31-40 Kansas City 62 84 .425 19 5-5 L-1 33-41 29-43 Tampa Bay 87 57 .604 4-6 W-2 53-21 34-36 Boston 86 60 .589 2 7-3 W-1 50-21 36-39 EAST New Toronto York 79 77 69 68 .527 .537 11 5-5 8-2 L-1 L-1 40-31 43-29 36-39 37-38 Baltimore 65 80 .448 2-8 W-1 35-35 30-45 x-Los Angeles 89 57 .610 6-4 W-2 46-29 43-28 WEST Texas Oakland 72 67 79 75 .459 .490 22 4-6 6-4 L-1 W-1 36-36 36-36 31-43 36-39 Seattle 57 88 .393 5-5 L-1 31-43 26-45 x-clinched division TODAY'S GAMES K.Cc.
(Greinke 10-10, 3.70 and Tejeda 1-2, 4.19) at Cleveland (Carmona 8-6, 4.88 and Bullington 0-0, 0.00), 2, Toronto (Burnett 17-10, 4.31 and Litsch 11-8, 3.70) at Boston (Byrd 11-11, 4.39 and Colon 4-2, 4.09), 2, Tampa Bay (Shields 12-8, 3.64 and Garza 11-9, 3.55) at New York (Mussina 17-8, 3.48 and Ponson 8-5, 5.10), 2, Detroit (Rogers 9-13, 5.49 and Verlander 10-15, 4.78) at Chicago (Vazquez 11-13, 4.29 and Danks 10-8, 3.44), 2, Texas (McCarthy 1-1, 4.22) at Oakland (Outman 0-0, 6.23), 4:05 Minnesota (Perkins 12-4, 4.11 and Baker 8-4, 3.66) at Baltimore (Olson 9-7, 6.43 and D. Cabrera 8-9, 5.26), 2, Seattle (Feierabend 1-2, 5.53) at L.A. (Garland 13-8, 4.52), 9:05 FRIDAY'S GAMES THURSDAY'S GAMES Cleveland 12, Kansas City 5 Baltimore 6, Cleveland 3 Boston 7, Toronto 0 K.C. 3, Minnesota 2 (10) Tampa Bay at New York, ppd. Toronto 6, Chicago 4 Minnesota Baltimore, ppd.
Texas 6, Oakland 1 Detroit at Chicago, ppd. Los Angeles 7, Seattle 4 Texas at Oakland, 10:05 Seattle at Los Angeles, 10:05 National League Team Pct. GB L10 Strk Home Away New York 82 63 .566 7-3 W-3 44-27 38-36 Philadelphia 80 67 .544 3 5-5 W-1 41-31 39-36 Florida 75 72 .510 8 6-4 W-3 39-34 36-38 Atlanta 65 82 .442 18 6-4 W-3 41-34 24-48 Washington 56 91 .381 27 4-6 L-3 31-40 25-51 Chicago 88 58 .603 3-7 W-2 51-24 37-34 CENTRAL St. Houston Cincinnati Milwaukee Louis 80 83 78 66 69 67 80 64 .531 .565 .452 .544 22 6-4 9-1 4-6 3-7 W-6 L-1 L-3 L-1 38-36 40-34 44-31 43-29 28-44 38-35 37-38 39-33 Pittsburgh 61 86 .415 3-7 W-1 35-37 26-49 Los Angeles 75 71 .514 9-1 W-2 45-30 30-41 Arizona 71 74 .490 2-8 L-6 40-31 31-43 IS3M San Colorado Francisco 65 67 81 80 .456 .445 1 10 6-4 3-7 L-1 L-5 35-40 39-33 30-41 28-47 San Diego 57 90 .388 4-6 W-1 34-41 23-49 TODAY'S GAMES Atlanta (Hampton 2-2, 5.60 and J. Reyes 3-10, 5.26) at New York (J.Santana 13-7, 2.70 and P.Martinez 5-4, 5.44), 2, Milwaukee (Parra 10-7, 4.03) at Phila.
(Hamels 12-9, 3.12), 3:55 St. Louis (Wainwright 9-3, 2.85) at Pit. (Karstens 2-5, 4.46), 7:05 Wash. (Redding 10-8, 4.49) at Florida (Jo.Johnson 4-1, 3.33), 7:10 L.A. (Kershaw 3-5, 4.60) Colorado (De La Rosa 8-7, 5.30), 8:05 Cin.
(Volquez 16-5, 3.23) at Arizona (Ra.Johnson 10-9, 4.21), 8:10 S.F. (Lincecum 16-3, 2.54) at San Diego (Young 5-5, 4.48), 10:05 Chicago at Houston, hurricane FRIDAY'S GAMES THURSDAY'S GAMES Pittsburgh 10, St. Louis 2 Philadelphia 6, Milwaukee 3 Florida 2, Washington 1 Atlanta 8, Colorado 4 Atlanta at New York, ppd. Houston 6, Pittsburgh 0 Chicago at Houston, ppd. Chicago 3, St.
Louis 2 Milwaukee at ppd. San Diego 11, San Francisco 3 Los Angeles at Colorado, 9:05 Cincinnati at Arizona, 9:40 San Fran. at San Diego, 10:05 Tie maker With the Los Angeles Angels cruising along with a 7-0 lead after seven innings, Francisco Rodriguez was kicking back in the bullfiguring he wouldn't get his chance to tie a record. pert, Then Seattle rallied, and he got the final three outs in Thursday night's 7-4 win for his record-tying 57th save of the season. Bobby Thigpen set the mark while with the White Sox in 1990.
"I've got to give credit to my teammates and the guys behind me who make plays behind me," Rodriguez said. "I would be real, real selfish if I said I did this by myself. I have to give the credit to them because without them I wouldn't be able to do what I did today." Tiebreakers The White Sox won a coin flip with the Twins and would host Minnesota if the teams need to play a tiebreaker for the AL Central title. The Boston Red Sox would host Tampa Bay in a onegame tiebreaker for the AL East championship. Fenway Park also would be the site if Boston and Minnesota need to play for the AL wild card.
AL insider The Yankees Rays game was rained out, and they will try to get in a day-night doubleheader today, when more rain is possible. Rain forced the postponement of the White Sox-Tigers game. They will play a doubleheader today. Relentless rain postponed the Orioles Twins game, forcing the teams to play a doubleheader today. Red Sox right fielder J.D.
Drew left the team because of a death in the family and will miss the rest of the series against the Blue Jays. NL insider The Brewers- Phillies game was rained out and will be made up as part of a day-night doubleheader Sunday. The Diamondbacks sent pitcher Micah Owings to the Reds to complete the August trade for slugger Adam Dunn. Reds 2B Brandon Phillips had two pins inserted into his broken right index finger and will be evaluated in four to six weeks. Wild -card races at a glance AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE Pct GB Pct GB Boston 86 60 .589 Milwaukee 83 64 .565 Minnesota 80 66 .548 6 Houston 80 67 .544 3 Toronto 79 68 .537 Philadelphia 80 67 .544 New York 77 69 .527 9 St.
Louis 78 69 .531 Three up Three down Indians pitcher Cliff Lee im- Royals pitcher Gil Meche alproved to 22-2. He has a 2.36 lowed six runs in five innings. ERA. The Royals' Tony Pena Jr. a Red Sox pitcher Tim Wake- went 0-for-3 and is batting field allowed three hits in .163.
eight innings. The Blue Jays' John McDon- Pirates pitcher Paul Maholm ald went 0-for-3 and is batting hurled eight scoreless innings. .217. Information on this page compiled from Plain Dealer wire services. -r A .4 HI Antonelli (1).
3B: (19), Teagarden (3), Ravis (5), Cust (16). off Correia; HR: Blalock (6), off Braden. RBIs: JArias 2 2 (31), off (5), Blalock (21), CDavis 2 (45), Pennington Velez (25), (4). SB: Pennington (2), SF: Pennington. (1), EGonzalez Texas er bb 50 era AdGonzalez 4 Nippert, 7 6.20 Wright 0 4.83 bb SO era White 0 1 10.80 1 3 3.96 Francisco 1 0 0 2 3.38 4.61 Oakland er bb so era 5.94 Braden.
5 4.14 1. 5.68 Saarloos 4.30 bb so era Foulke 00 0 3.30 3.18 Gray 0 000 0 4.50 0 3.55 Nippert, 3-4. Braden, 5-4. Nippert 0 0 5.40 pitched to 2 'batters in the 6th, Braden Inherited run- pitched to 1 batter in the 5th. Inherited runoff Espineli ners scored: Wright 2-1.
WP: Nippert. Umps: Umps: H- Mike Everitt; 1-Mike DiMuro; 2-Tim Barrett; 3-Ed McClelland; 3-Angel. Campos. 2:46. 10,566.
Seattle ip er bb SO era Morrow, 1.64 SGreen 4.58 Thomas 0 9.00 Dickey 14 00 0 5.25 Los Angeles 05-: er bb so era MLowe 0 00 5.68 Weaver, 4.25 Bulger 3.97 JSpeier 5.40 Shields 2.72 FRodrigz 0 0 2.42 Weaver, Morrow, 2-3. FRodriguez (57). Thomas pitched to 2 batters in the 6th, Shields pitched to 2 batters in the 9th. Inherited runners-scored: Thomas 12-2. Dickey 2-1, Shields 1-0, FRodriguez 2-1, IBB: off Morrow (Guerrero) 1.
HBP: by Weaver 8 LO (Beltre). Umps: H-Eric Cooper; 1-Angel nandez; 2-Marty Foster; 3-Derryl Cousins. 3:01. 38,205..
