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Show DAILY HERALD Star of the day Cleveland's Ben Broussard drove in eight runs, four in a grand stam, as the indians beat the Boston Red Sox, 153. GAME .OF THE DAY NATIONAL LEAGUE Sox get rocked Rockiesroll Phillies THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Evenoutside of Coors Field, Garrett Atkins found out the ball travels far when it’s hit well. Atkins’tiebreaking two-run homerin the eighthinning helped the Colorado Rockies beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-3 on Thursday SOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND — BenBroussard was glad he didn't hear the fans calling his name. Broussard drovein a career-high eight runs and the Cleveland Indians beat the Boston Red Sox 15-3 Thursday night, handing Josh Becketthisfirst loss with his new team. “I didn’t hearit,” Broussard said about the fans’ chanting “Ben-ny, Ben-ny,” each time he came to bat after hitting his fourth career AaronCook pitched * seven strong innings and Brad Hawpe went3-for5 with a solo homer for Colorado, which improved to 7-3 on the road. grandslam in the first inning. “I Za CLEVELAND 15 BOSTON’ 3 waslockedin. It's probably good thatI didn’t hear them. I would have probably started to overswing. Instead, Broussard addeda solo homerand went 4-for-5 as Cleveland wonthefinal two games of a three-gameseries. Boston has MARK DUNCAN /Associated Press Cleveland Indians’ Jhonny Peralta, left, reaches first base safely as the throwgets MattHolliday started the eighth inning witha single off Ryan Franklin (1-2). Atkins thénhit a 1-2 lostfiveofits last seven. Beckett (3-1) gaveupsix hits:and eight earned -3 inningsin hisfirst loss since Aug. 28 whenhe was with the Florida Marlins. Broussard’s slam wasthefirst allowed by Beckett, in 638 career innings. “It was oneof those nights, just brutal, brutal, brutal,” Beckett said. Broussard opened thethird with a 421-foot shot downtheright-field line for his fourth homerof the awayfrom Boston Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis in the second inning. pitch off the brick batter's Santana snaps streak eye beyond the center- season and fifth career two-homer game. — Johan Santana struck out 10 in eightinningsto gethis first victory in the sloweststart of his career, leading the Minnesota Twins over the Kansas City Royals 7-3 on Thursday, The Twins opened up a 5-0 lead in the second Paul Byrd (3-2) g>ve up two runsoverfive in- nings for Clevele “Ben was unt —_vable,” Byrd said. “He sure made me feelc __ortable, giving mea four-run leadlike that. And the crowd chanting his name wasgreat. That wasreally cool.” MikeLowell had an RBI double and David Ortiz a pair of run-scoringsingles for the Red Sox. Broussard's two-run,bases-loadedsingle off Julian Tavarez in the sixth put Cleveland ahead 11-2 and gave Broussard a .368 (14-for-38) career average and 47 RBIs whenhitting with the bases loaded. AMERICANLEAGUE EAST WoL 139 119 «11:9 12 11 9 13 Boston NewYok Tonto Baltimore TampaBay CENTRAL Chicago Det Cleveland Minnesota Kansas City WEST LosAngeles Tee Oakland Seale Pct GB S81 — 550 1 «5501 522 112 409 4 WoL Pet GB 14-7 «667 — «13 9581112 12 10 545 212 9 12 429 5 5 15 250 812 LIO «55 64 SS 55 37 KANSAS CITY, Mo. Str Home Away Intr LDS. OD Wi 72 47 00 LT 63D WI 76 55 00 LI 43 S10 00 Str WI LN «WH WA Home 63 67 S57 610 intr 00 00 00 00 00 Away Intr 67 00 5400 55 (00 34 00 TODAY'S GAMES Tevas (Koronka 3-1) at Cleveland(Johnson 2-2), 5:05 p.m. Minnesota (Radke 2-2) at Detroit (Robertson 2-2), 5:05 Toronto (Halladay 2-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Wright Seattle (Meche 1-1) at Baltimore (Cabrera 1 Boston (Clement2-1) at Tampa Bay (Fossum 0- to the Twins, the Royals managed only seven runs. » Orioles 7, Blue Jays 5: Intheir last eight series worked seven stronginnings and BaltimoreOrioles beat Toronto to snap a four-gamelosingstreak. against their AL Central rivals, the Twins have wonsix andtied two. Shannon Stewart, Luis Castillo and Michael Cuddyer eachhadthree hits. Cuddyeralso hit his third homerun for Minnesota. Berroa’s homer was the Royals’ first in seven inning and Santana(13) cruised tohis sixth games. With 1! for the year, theystill have fewer straight decision over the Royals, who haven't beatentheleft-hander in than any other team in the majors. » Yankees 4, Devil Rays 1; At New York, Hideki Matsui hit a tiebreaking, almost two years. 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LaTroy Hawkins pitched the eighth and Chris Rayallowed three runsin the ninth before retiring Troy Glaus to end TWINS7, ROYALS 3 mY The Yankees bounced back from Wednesday's times — with noneof those runnersscoring. This time, they had three walks,andall three runners came around. Mariano Rivera, who allowed a pair of 10th-inning runs Wednesday, got three outsfor his third savein four chances. Kansas City. It was the Royals’ seventh earned run against the 2004 Cy Young winnerin his last sevenstarts and 47 1-3 innings against them. Mark Redman (0-1) lasted 1 2-3 inningsin his * third start since beginning the season on the TampaBaystarter Mark Hendrickson(1}) allowed fourhits and disabledlist with a knee injury. He was charged withfive runs andsix hits, with three walks and no strikeouts. In losing twoof three three runs in six innings. INDIANS 15, RED SOX 3 ‘BOSTON VELAND Yok1b Loretta 20 ORIOLES 7, BLUE JAYS 5 BALTIMORE Oakland (Haren 0-2) at Kansas City (Mays 0-2), 6: "Opa “Thad twostrikes, so I was looking for something to hit. He left it out over the middle ofthe plate and 1 was ableto hit it good,” Atkins said of his 430-foot drive. Pat Burrell had a tworun single for the Phillies, who fell to 5-10 at home. “They outplayed us,” Phillies manager Charlie Manuelsaid. “I've been sayingthatall year. It’s getting old.” Cook (2-3) allowed three runs — two earned —andsix hits. Ray King and Jose Mesa combined for a scoreless eighth and Brian Fuentes finished for his fourth save, extending his franchise record to 22 straight. “I get more confident and stronger as the game goes on,” Cook said. “I used my changeupquite a bit. They're oneof the mostaggressive teams we face. The road-warrior Rockies -— they were 395-628 which they walked 14 ered in the second for 5-3 lead. 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Phillies starter Jon Lieberallowed three runs andnine hits in sevenin- nings andfailed to win his first game. He's 04 witha 7.04 ERA. Lieberfinished 17-13 in his first season in Philadelphia, and was one of the league's best pitchers over the final month when he was 51 with a 2.06 ERA “I can onlyget better,” Liebersaid. Philadelphia’s bullpen had allowed just three earned runs in its previous 29 innings, before Franklin gave up Atkins’ homer. “T tried to quick-pitch him,” Franklin said. “! thoughtit was the right thingto do. All the times I've doneit, I think I gave up onehit. But he did a good jobgetting readyto hit the ball.” The Phillies took a 2-0 leadin the first inning: Chase Utley singled and Bobby Abreu doubled. Both scored on Burrell’'s liner downthe left-field line. Burrell.was out trying to stretch thesingle into a double. » Cardinals 6, Nationals2: AtSt. Louis, Sidney Ponson wonhis third straight start and Jim Edmonds hit a three-run homerin the first inning for the Cardinals. Scott Spiezio added a two-run doublein the seventh off Gary MaJewskiafter the lead had beenshaved to one for St. Louis, which has won sevenofeight. The Cardinals are 10-3 at new Busch Stadium,all of the games sellouts. Ponson (3-0)allowed tworuns andfivehits in 6 2-3 innings. Mike O'Connor(0-1) madehis majorleaguedebut for the Nationals. He . gave up three unearned runs andthree hits in five innings. CARDINALS 6 NATIONALS 2 WASHINGTON ST. Lous ach ab YANKEES4, DEVIL RAYS 1 NeW YORK Chicago White Sox (Garcia 3-1) at LA Angels {Weaver 12), 8:05p.m. SATURDAY’S GAMES THURSDAY'S RESULTS Minnesota 7, Kansas City 3 Cleveland 15, Boston 3 NY. 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We'rebeing consistent,” Selig said during the As- LA Dodgers (Seo 1 al foung 2~ ‘Arizona (Batista 2-0) at San Francisco (Schmidt THURSDAY'S RESULTS SATURDAY’S GAMES Colorado 6,Philadelphia 3 St. Louis 6, Washington 2 Houston at Cincinnati, 11:15 a.m. ‘Wash, at St. Louis, 12:15..m. eeoo razaam. Bonds,” the ESPN reality oy about the slugger’s Selig said the book tors annual meeting with league commissioners. “There's nothing toread into that.” Ruthis secondon the was among several factors that prompted him to launcha baseball investigation into steroids, headed by former Senate nae Leader George career homerun list, trail- Mitchel sociated Press Sports Edi- (Oswal NY. Mets (Martinez 4-0) at Atanta Colorado i 052) at Florida (Mitre 1-%) aeoe toe hohe ‘Bonds has been hobbled * by bad knees, and missed mostoflast season. “He's had a remarkable career. Whatever happens, happens,”Selig said. “We're going tolet nature takeits course. Commissioners don't sit around andsay, I hope tlthis guy breaksit or n¢ Selig said he hadread “Gameof Shadow: butnot seen “Bonds on ing Aaron'stotal of 755. WhenAaron broke Ruth’s record in 1974, commissioner Bowie Kuhn was not in attendance. Kuhn's absencerankled many, including Aaron. Thereis no timetable affected at all by the grandjury” looking into whether Bonds commit- ted perjury. Rays’ prospect suspended THEASSOCIATED PRESS ST. PETERSBURG,Fla. — Top Tampa Bayprospect Delmon Young was suspended indefinitely by the International League on Thursday,a day after throwing bat that hit a recommen umpire in the onthe Devil Rays orga-_ man, Tampa Bay’s team’s executive vice presidentof baseball operations. The 20-year-old Young, brotherof Detroit star Dmitri Young and considered one of the best players iinthe minors,was following a called third strike in the Durham Bulls’ Triple-A game at Pawtucket, R.L timeleaving the batter's box, the umpire tossed him.Y then fli his bat underhandandit sailed end overend,striking the urhpire. The umpire, whose name was not released, did not appear injured and remained in game. “T sincerely regret my actions in the gameyesterday,” Young said in a statement released by the office of his agent, Arn Tellem: “Regrettably, inthe Lae of ge Houston Gncnnati Stlous Chicago Mitwaukee Pittsburgh the ition my em« tions got the better of oe “Mybehavior was completely unacceptable. I wanteveryone to know that I recognizethatit is never right to throw a bat and I certainly never intended for the bat to make contact with the umpire. Nevertheless, I owe an apology to my team, the fans and mostimportantly to the umpire,for the incident. I am sorry.” Regular minor league umpires are on strike this season.Fill-ins umps most of them with college ‘or high school experience — havebeen working in their place. Minor league teams are not releasing ° the names of the replacements., \ “It’s an unfortunate incident and there should be no place for actions like that in the game of baseball,” the umpire said ina statement released by Pawtucket. After the game, Durham manager John T: |