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Show Saturday, June 27, 2009 DAILY HERALD THE DAY IN BASEBALL "AMERICAN LEAGUE WL Star of the New York Yankees center fielder Brett Gardner was 5-for-6at the plate with a home run, two RBI, three runs and a stolen base. INTERLEAGUE Pct GB WC LI0 Str HomeAway 45 28 616 — — 73 WA 2540 20418 4 32 562 4 — 55 W-3 21-44 20-18 40 35 533 2 64 W-3 2413 16-22 41345475 173 WA 244 1720 CENTRAL 6 33,40 452 12 8 WL Pct GB 64 WH 227 113 WC LI0 Str HomeAway Detroit 4132-562 — — 73 LI 2H 1821 Minnesota 38 37 507 4 4 6-4 35 38.4796 6 «64 11 1820 1718 31 41 431 % 9% 37 Kansas City Cleveland WEST Texas Los Angeles W2 2415 L2 1422 1920 1221 worked seven dominant THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS innings and Minnesota got keyhits from Jason Kubel CHICAGO — Geovany Sotohit a three-run homer to back anothersolid start by Randy Wells and the Cubs brokea four- with two walks and is bat- ting 396 for the Twins, whoare 38-37 overall but 28 WH T7419 1425 gamelosing streak with WL Pct GB WC L10 Str HomeAway 0 2 356 — — 55 WS 2344 1B aihed Bradley of the had twohits and an RBI, Cubs wentafter the Gato- 39 32 549 % andPerkins (3-4), whose previous three careerat- 31-44 413 111 ae 5+ win over the White 1 73° W3 2045 19-17 rade coolerin the dugout O% 46 L3 14-23 top of the sixth, had an angry exchange with managerLou Piniella in Seattle 37 36 507.3% 473 LY NS 1621 Oakland 31 41 431-9 178 NATIONAL LEAGUE 11-5 in interleagueplay. Kubel and Cuddyer each bats werestrikeouts, contributed twosacrifices. after he flied out in the » Yankees 9, Mets 1: At New York,three errors the tunnel and was told to go home. Ryan Freel by Mets infielders led to a four-run second in- replaced him in rightfield WL Pct GB WC Li0 Str HomeAway 2 2h 5% L1 14 13 Philadelphia 37 34 521 — — 19 L3 1322 212 NewYork Florida Atlanta 37 35 514 % 33.37 SO) 1 34 39 466 46 64 46 2245 15:20 2020 1817 1720 1749 Washington 21 50 296 16 17% 55 L1 1325 825 CENTRAL Milwaukee ‘St. Louis Cincinnati L Pct GB WC L10 Str HomeAway 39 34 534 — — 55 W1 1916 2018 55 13 35 35 S00 Mh 4035 3 55 WI 21-13 35 4 46 17-17 18-20 SY 4-6 20-1314-26 37 533 486 — 3h % 21-1719-18 1422 Houston) «34-37 479 4 ah SS WD 1820 16:17 Pittsburgh 34 39 466 WEST L 5 W3 Pct GB WC L10 Str HomeAway LosAngeles 48 26 649 — — 64 W4 26102216 San Francisco 39 33 542 8 — 55 LH 24-1215-21 ‘San Diego 31 16 8 HWW 21-1510-26 Arizona 44 405 18 10 7 15-2615-18 38.35 S21 9% 1h 73 WA 41 43) 17152120 TODAY'S GAMES ae (Happ 4-ay) at Toronto (Milis 0-0), 11:07 a.m. linnesota (Slowey 10-2) at St. Louis (Wellemeyer 6-7), 11:10 a.m. etn (Wakefield 9-3) at Atlanta (J Vazquez 5-6), 2:10 p.m ibs (Dempster 4-5) at Chiae aesiene re Angels (Lackey rflBored 8), 2: Cincinnati (H. Bailey 0-0) at Cleveland (Ohka 0-1), 5: 08frim pore tere.1Voat Houston (F.Paleo 1-4), 5:05 p.m. KansasCity (Ch at Pittsburgh (Maholm 4-4), 5:05 p.m SanFrancisco (eho4-7) at Milwaukee (McClung 3-1), 6:05pm Washington (Martis 5-2) at Baltimore (Guthrie 5-7), 5:05 p. Florida (Voistad 5-7) at Tampa Bay (Niemann 6-4), 5:08 p.m. My. Yankees (A.Burnett 5-4) at N.Y. pen eae | -2), 5:10 p.m. Sen Gian Sonia 4-5) at Texas (Holland Colorado (De La Rosa 3-7) at Oakland ‘can$ 5), 7:05 p. Seattle (F Hernandez 7-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Milton 2-0), #10 pm owita Houston 5, Detroit 4 Texas 12, San Diego 2 Milwaukee 5, San Fran 1 Minnesota 3, St. Louts 1 LA. Angels 12, Arizona 3. Colorado 4, Oakland 2 ‘A. Dodgers 8, Seattle 2 marijuana at the World Baseball Classic, Soto hit a three-run homeroff Jose Contreras (2-7) in the ning, and Alex Rodriguez of the visiting Yankees added his 564th home run — PAUL BEATY/Associated Press Chicago Cubs’ Kosuke Fukudome steals second base against Chicago White Sox right, in the eighth inningon Friday Alexei Ramirez,left, and Chris Ge to pass Reggie Jackson on the careerlist. Fill-in leadoff batter Brett Gardner had a career-highfivehits, includinghis third home seventh to give the Cubs a 5-2 lead, Wells(2-3) won his sec- time, he allowed six hits, ondstraight start, allow- struck out six and didn't ing two runs andfive hits walk anyone. his fourth straight decision and Melvin Mora had four RBI for Baltimore. Aubrey Huff drove in seven innings. Jim Thomehit his 554th homerfor the White Sox and added a two-run doublein the eighth. Kevin Gregg earned his 12th save in 15 chances. D indians 9, Reds 2: At Cleveland, Jeremy Sowers pitched into the eighth inningforhis first win as astarter this season and Ryan Garko hit a two-run homer to lead Cleveland to its second win in 10 » Blue Jays 6, Phillies 1: At Toronto, Ricky Romero games. | held Philadelphiahitless for six innings and Aaron Hill hit a two-run double in Toronto's victory The rookie left-hander Sowers (2-5), who be- gan the season inTriple-A, allowed two runsandsix four gamesfor the Mar- triple. Rodriguez madeit 7-1 with a two-run shot in the eighth, 11th homer » Rangers 12, Padres2: au Arlington, Texas, Davi Murphy and Hank Bla National League » Brewers 5, Giants 1: At and Kevin Millwood won hisfifth straight decision at home. two runs for Milwaukee. this season. in three runs, and Nick Markakis, Adam Jones and Nolan Reimoldall had three hits for the Orioles, who used an eight-run sixth inningtoturn the gameintoarout Astros 5, Tigers 4: At Houston, Miguel Tejada had a double and drove in tworuns and Houston ock homered for Texas the Brewers, who had timore, The left-hander's third inning for the Astros’ first run and drove ) Twins 3, Cardinals 1: At St. Louis, Glen Perkins single for the Phillies, los- five shutout innings of onlyprevious win cameon | enth and Jayson Werth | followed with an infield y 25, when he worked | ers of 11-of-13, Romero relief as the Indiansover- in the winning run on a sacrificeflyin the eighth that followed Jeff Kep- camea 10-0deficit to beat pinger’s bases-loaded » Pirates 5, Royals 3 AtPittsburgh, Virgil win and Pittsburgh got » Rays 7, Marlins 3: At St. Petersburg, Fla., B.J Upton's three-run double snapped an eighth-inning tie for Tampa Bay likely power sources. Longoria and Carl Craw- scoreless innings against bythe Pirates after Thurs: day's game to make his the ALchampions ended homered for Boston. Beckett (9-3) has faced and four hits while strik- got Ryan Howardto hit TampaBay11-10 into a double play and John Mayberryto fly out tocentertofinish the inning, Vasquez wentsix innings Romero(5-3) allowed two hits, walked one and for his first major league inna at Cleveland, 11:05 a Pridelaa Yorota, 1107am Boston at Atlanta, 11:35 a.m, at 11:35 am. Washington at Battimore, 11:35 a.m Florida at Tampa Bay, 11:38 a.m. ChiCubs at ChiSox, 12:05 p.m Detroit Red Sox4, Braves 1 Minne: Coloradoat Oakiand, 208 pm, LA. Angels at Arizona, 2:10 p.m, Seattle at L.A. Dodgers, 2:10 p.m. NY. Yankees at NLY. Mets, 6:08 p.m. San Diego at Texas, 6:05 p.m. the Braves twice in the homeruns from three un: Vasquez (1-0), recalled At Atlanta, Josh Beckett threw seven more Atlanta and David Ortiz past seven days first start since Aug. 31 2007, allowed two runs and still hasn't given upa run. He threwafive-hit, no- ORIOLES 11 NATIONALS1 ingtonBay Batimore six games. It was only the secondloss in seven gamesfor the Giants. CUBS 5, WHITE SOX 4 Chicago (N) ‘Chicago (A) ab rhb mh hhh 4 enol Totals 365 chcope fmcags (a) Konerko "175 fomie a stne10 Meashington 010 38 000 Oo 000 — 11 Enitmore 85 Totals 3474 000 200 300 — 5 00 100 a0 — —Chicago(N} 2.08. (3), ford also drove in runs as Florida's five-game win- "80 ning streak. J.P. Howell (3-2), the fifth Tampa Bay pitcher, worked1 in- nings for the victory + Orioles 11, Nationals 1: At Baltimore, rookie Brad ered for the third timein Hanley Ramirez hom hits in six innings to win RED SOX 4, BRAVES 1 " BLUE JAYS 6 PHILLIES 1 Carlos Pena, Evan ing out seven. Bergesen allowedfour walk shutout at Fenway Park last weekend. This walk that madeit 44 lost five of their previous whogaveup nine runsin 2 Utleyleading off the sev- Tejadadoubled in the Slumpingshortstop J.J. Hardy homered for against WalterSilva(0-1), innings. It was Murphy's third homerineight games. wenteight in a win at Bal- Milwaukee, Yovani Gallardo outdueled Matt Cain and Ryan Braundrovein Murphy’s three-run homer put Texas up 6-1 snapped Detroit's sevengame winning streak gaveupa hit to Chase runof the season and a lins, hitting a solo shot that madeit 3-all in the seventh. hits in his longest outing since Sept. 9, when he struck out seven er 'S GAMES Creve8 Cinchnat 2 Pittsburgh §, Kansas City 3 Baltimore 11, Washington 1 Toronto 6, Philadelphia 1 NY. Yankoes 9, N.Y. Mets 1 Boston 4, Atianta 1 Tampa Bay 7, Florida 3 in the bottom half. Freshoff the revelation that he tested positive for A~29.015 (40.615 PIRATES 5, ROYALS 3 anaes ny Prtteburgh he eben ot Cea BREWERS5, GIANTS 1 MLB NOTES Hamels ejected for arguing TORONTO — Phillies left-hander Cole Hamels was ejected from Friday's game against the Blue Jays for arguing balls and strikes with plate umpire Carlson The ejection cameafter Hamels was removed for right-hander Chan Ho Park with two outs Brune 0 Tote 281 91 Totals 7 6108 Priindeiphie 000 000 001 3 Torante 0 130 07 — 6 a Wien 9) Morgan (2 7m ss accNe in the!fifth and the Phillies trailing 40. With manager Charlie Manuel and the rest of the Phillies infield at the mound, Carlson walked out to break up the conference and Manuel signaled to the bullpen. Hamels, winless in his last four starts, began arguing with Carlson as he walked alone to the dugout and wasejected just after crossing the YANKEES9, METS 1 Halladay ready for Monday return TORONTO — Blue Jays right-hander Roy Hal- RANGERS 12, PADRES 2 Tron Son Ope aeree iL Mo laday, out since June 12 with a mild grain strain, Tampa Bay after throwing a bullpen session Fri- day Friday's 54-pitch session was Halladay’s second this week. He also threwin the bullpen Tuesday Halladay (10-1) is tied with Minnesota's Kevin i LOS ANGELES — Seattle Mariners catcher righ| with a broken toe jariners activated the 33-year-old from i Dodgers. Johjima was batting 250 with three home runs and 10 RBI in 25 games before he brokehis left big toe on May 25 when Oakland's Adam Kennedy tit thedisabled it before Friday nights game at Lx aE i ye if Mariners activate C Johjima from DL Kenji Johjima has returned to the team after miss- sett Of Slowey for the major league lead in wins and has won seven straight decisions. His ERA of 2.53 is third lowest in the AL (Seem 7 9 Mace err ame twee fereise 4 ; a ‘ coe a cee Gomes #2 ‘ ‘ = Semery git te bats te te aes pene 2 teers te Fi owe ee s e ” 1) Dew oer « = declared himself ready to start Monday against slid into his foot serene "Oe cr bare ws 7% i 9 ASTROS5,TIGERS 4 ee arm oy Mate Sen se On foul line. He's the first Philadelphia player to be ejected this season. ing28 Tote 2372 Toume ow 1Tt Mionesots 200 001 000 : Steams 000 000 00 ' £_TYersen () 0 —Atrresta L09—Aarewnote 8. 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