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Show DAILY HERALD Friday, May 26. 2006 The 1 BIAY GAME OF THE DAY C3 Star of the day BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE Nats beat Astros Beckett lights out Boston's Josh Beckett wins his fourth in a row with another solid outing against Tampa Bay WASHINGTON n 8-- 5 Jimmy Golen v k?; 1 . 4-- 1 (7-1- 3-- 0 ' ... Tigers 27 '8 Pet GB New York 26 .19' 5,78 Toronto 25 21 .543 2 Baltimore 22 26 ,458 6 12 Tampa Bay 21 27 .438 7 12 Str L10 - 600 ' .. streak is the second-Ion- gest ever for Kansas City, which lost 19 straight last season. The Royals are a major league-wors- t six-ru- 10-3- n 8-- n (2-7- consecutive batters over one stretch-Lopez- , who struck out four, ended a seven-gamlosing streak, the longest of his career. Chris Ray pitched 12-- ' 3 perfect innings for his 12th save in 12 chances. Brian Roberts doubled twice and scored two runs' split the four- game series. Ichiro Suzuki went to end his AL season-high hitting e Home W-- Away Intr 13-' W-- Detroit Pet 33 14 .702 14-- four-gam- 12 .5-- 15-- ; 3 W-- ,3-- 15 674 110 Str W-- 1 '31 23 23- .500 9 Minnesota .20. "26 .435 12 '. 12 - 12 W-- 64 12 0 Home 13-- Away Intr Mie'nt-kiewic- 20-- 7 consecutive home runs against Mike Maroth in the first inning as the Royals seized a 13-- 10 35 111 22 t wo -- 0 3 season-hig- i allowed, ) TAMPA BAY ab Jl0C SS ..rwtrd in :, Pet L Texas 24 23 .511 Oakian'd 22 25 468 GB Lid Str 46' Home W-- 2 Away Intr 13-- .1-- Seattle 22 27 .449 3 LosAngeles 19 28 .404 5 ' 4 0 OAKLAND 3 u 0 4 0 0 4 0 2 r 4 4 0 o Fus at Boston (Wells ), 5:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Kazimr at Detroit (Robertson 5:05 p.m. Cleveland .(Westbrook N Y. at Yankees (Mussina Kansas City (Elarton 5:05 p.m. at Sox 5:07 Toronto (Lilly (Garcia p.m. Chicago White at Texas (Koronka 6:05 p.m. Oakland (Blanton at Minnesota (Liriano 6:30 p.m. Seattle (Hernandez at L A, Angels (Gregg 8:05 p.m. Baltimore (Chen ,s 4''0 3! 4' 'h Swsnoi MIOose Kieltv rt TJJnsor ' 3 ot i i 4 2.'.3 3 f 3 0 o "4 '0 Totals SATURDAY'S GAMES Detroit 13, Kansas City Baltimore 2. Seattle 0 Boston 4. 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Tampa Bay 8 Boston THall i9l Youkilis Crawton! 2 i!9I SB 2 ab 5 i 5 3 001 BALTIMORE 8 13 8 ER first pitch to right field for a double. Royce Clayton followed with a bunt single, and cleanup n BAbreu Burrell Tnan:es2 ",'.6 "' Seay Zo"iayaW3-- ' ,0 Totals 5 .0- ORIOLES 12' R accidentally scratching his eye with some pine tar that was stuck to his batting glove: Soriano led off the. game by' hitting Pettit.te's n Vctrno LOB Kansas City CGuillen City 10 2B Brown2l'2i Berroa CS- 111 10 mm a 0 4 030 200 035 600 101 000 " 4 1 110 0 Bay Papeltmo 2' 2 40 . ' innings. ( luilfen recent ly missed five games with a hamstring injury! and he played only two innings Wednesday night after d Boston Beiken W 7i' 0. 0 2 0 .2 5. 4i 4 '4 2 ': i W 0 .5 '7 Bm, c Gmei on 3 Blanco 20. stairs on 4 '4 nines rt inoe 7c 5 2 3 s, '512'' 0 4 ' 0 2 Maoay NATIONAL LEAGUE 0 Bu'gus Millwood' Baue' Otsuta '0 2 3 9 3 5 .Harviup Orveila r b bl 5 4 Blown It 0 Gttono 30 0 Benoa O.Mofkw '0. 0 4' ,55 ' 12 0 rVa'o;n. 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Giaitanioo.s 8 111 4 'i '4 EBei'oai'7, 2 B11 r. .it) 000 000 010 Bay Waechter 4 7 Gat1, 'd Ft, 'inn r.t Costa rt' .8 RSnivs 4 '4 o.l if Detroit Kansas ') 000 wi'in.oo LOB ' ab r h bi 2 4 C 2 12 0 10 Abrl.'i; ss 35 ' ' B'3!35 0O0 0 4 3tvSs tt ' 2 5 2 130 005 ' 'f 0 7 4 m'ar.le Mooioi- r h bi 0 0 7 0 ' 0 oo - M"i'c- 2 030 ' Kansas City at Yankees, 2:05 p.m. ChiSox at Toronto, 2:07 p.m. ' Tampa Bay at Boston, 5:05 p.m. Cleveland at Detroit, 5:05 p.m. Seattle at Minnesota, 5:10 p.m. Oakland at Texas. 6:05 p.m. Baltimore at Angels, 8:05 p.m., .1o 3 4 710 36 Oakland Texas THURSDAY'S RESULTS 5 0 4 I' 9 Vn!"ws ft Vvona ss ii O'lf 'Panic 2: P.Sr'jr. 70 'Ihoii;; CG.I.en ss Hnnn:1n ab r h bi 0 'i'i, 20 Kolsay Crosby ECnav? 5 0 MRmr; If, 0 Nixon rt 0 Vantek r 0 2 5 0 owell rf r b bl 4 '40101 0 WPenart E Jingo ,4i LOB 'IS 28 JLuqo ,7) (1 ji MRamne; KANSAS CITY ab u' TEXAS ab TODAY'S GAMES If lo'etla 90IW IP DETROIT- ' Minute Maid Park.' One significant glitch for the Nationals was Tose 'Guillen's tight hamstring: which limited him to two right-hande- TIGERS 13, ROYALS 8 RANGERS 8 ATHLETICS 7 W-- lb r h bt '2 0 3 0 4 .4 Hurt 30 Wggntn 20 Norton 10 THall c ; 1 BOSTON n W e - RED SOX 4 DEVIL RAYS Tampa Boston and 10 h walked two.. lead. But Rodriguez's two-rutriple off Ambiorix Burgos with two outs in the eighth tied it at 8 and denied WEST Nevin's eighth homer, his first in May. was off A's closer Hast on Street ( who came on in the ninth. Totals (4-3- ruiis in seven Innings Seattle,. He struck out a 6-- 0 ' City streak.-- ' Gil Meche z hit 12 9 19-- W-- 7 3 e n 64 GB Chicago Cleveland Detroit scored eight runs in the final two innings to complete their first sweep in Kansas City. Thames also hit a two-ruhomer f or the Tigers, who have won 13 of their last 14 games. Tony Graffanino. Angel Berroa"ahd Doug - the Rangers. .departing in his shortest ', outing of the season. The Astros are laboring along to with hint They are road start their trip and have lost nine of their last 1 away from had an hitter Johnson ended his drought with an RBI adventure nearly every single through the right liming, but he was saved side of the infield. Zim-- : twice by Zimmerman mertrlan's' single drove in 1 he third baseman ranged to his left to start a double two more to cap the three-rurally. play to end a bases-loadeJose Vidro hit his three-ruthreat in the first and shot m the second. stabbed Preston Wilson's liner down the line to save ana .lmmerman aoueu a sacrifice fly in the third. a run in the fifth. in Armas, who was Ph'illies 5, Mets 3: At allowed four Chase Utley runs and a seasonrhigh had four hits. Brett Myers nine hits in 5 innings.. won for the first time in He was replaced, by Saul more than a month and Rivera, who threw four st raight balls in his maPhiladelphia avoided a three-gamdebut before league sweep, jor Bobby Abreu and Ryan getting out of a one-oHoward both homered jam by out and drove in two runs for Brad Ausmus striking the Phillies, who won for and getting Jason Lane to only the. second time in fly out to center. nine games. Jon Rauch then pitched . Tom Gordon got. his a dicey seventh. He al- first save since May 14. lowed a run and had the in and Utley went bases loaded' with none his first career four-hi- t out, but he struck out Adam Everett, got pinch-hitte- r game.1 Jose Reyes hit a three- Craig Biggio to run homer, a double and a pop up and induced Chris Burke into an inning-end-ui- g single for the Mets. groundout. Gary Myers ) went seven pitched a scoreless 'innings, allowing eight hits and striking out six. The eighth, and Chad Cordero r hadn't won in pitched the ninth for his five starts since April 23, seventh save. Andy Pettitte NATIONALS 8, ASTROS 5 struggling for the second WASHINGTON HOUSTON allowed start, straight ab r b bi ab r h bi t hree runs in the first. 3 0 hree in the second and 2.4 4 111 one in the third before 0 0 Armas, deficit. Rod Baraias hit a grand slam and Mark Teixeira also homered for k - the season. Rookie second baseman Ian Kinsler came oit the disabled list and homered twice as the Rangers overcame a seven-ru- I Orioles 2, Mariners 0: At Seattle, struggling Rodrigo Lopez allowed two hits in 7 dominant innings to lead the Orioles to the win. retired 18 ) Lopez Rodriguez hit a two-rutriple in the eighth to erase Kansas City's lead and a three-ruhomer in. Detroit's five- run ninth. Craig' Monroe, and who went Marcus Thames started the ninth with solo homers off Elmer Dessens CENTRAL L back-to-bac- 2-- Rangers 8, Athletics 7: At Arlington, Texas. Phil Nevin snapped an slump with a two-ou- t homer in the bottom oi the ninth inning and Texas handed Oakland its sixth straight loss. 13-- 8 . W l''i i t Bobby Keppel the win in his major league debut. the losing ., Boston , KC rally-sla- p KANSAS CITY, Mo. Ivan Rodriguez drove in five runs in the final two. innings and the Detroit Tigers rallied from a deficit to beat Kansas City Thursday, hand-- ' the their 13th Royals ing straight, loss. EAST L FROSCHAUER JOHN Baltimore Orioles catcher Javy Lopez, left and pitcher Chris Ray shake hands ujter a win over the Seattle Mariners m a baseball game, AMERICAN LEAGUE W -- " s- - ' ii'iiB ' 3 Kansas thrill 1 1 (0-3- .Jose Vidro hit a three-ru, homer and the Washington Nationals beat Hous-- , ton Thursday despite seven stolen bases by the Astros. Tony Armas won his fifth straight decision, Nick Johnson broke an slump, leadoff hitter Alfonso Soriano scored three runs, and nxikie Ryan Zimmerman had three RBIs. Except for the fact that they almost ran out of cat civ ers, everything seemed. .right for a Nationals team that has won five of six. seincluding ries against Baltimore and Houston, and is playing bv far its best baseball of . BOSTON Josh Beckett struck out seven in six shutout innings for his fourth consecutive win, and David Ortiz snapped out of a slump with two hits and an RBI on Thursday night to lead the Boston Red Sox to a victory over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Beckett ) coasted through 101 pitches, giving up four hits and a walk before leaving with a lead. Keith Foulke pitched a scoreBOSTON less .seventh and Mike Timlin ran TAMPA BAY into trouble before Jonathan Papel- bpn.got the last four outs for bs 16th save in 16 tries. Doug Waechter gave up three runs and hits with two walks and three strikeouts. The Red Sox helped him out by stranding 10 of the baserunners he allowed in 5 innings, and 15 in all. Carl Crawford cooled off just a little. A day after with five runs and four stolen bases, going the Devil Rays center fielder went stole two bases and made a diving catch to end the eighth. in the two previous games, both Ortiz was losses. to the Yankees. Manny Ramirez went With a walk after going with four homers and 10 RBIs in the ihree-garn- e series against New York. Kevin Ypukilis led off the first with a single, took second on a groundout and scored on Ortiz's single! In the third, Ortiz singled again and scored on Jason Varitek's base hit. Wily Mo Pena led off the sixth with a grounder that shortstop Julio Lugo fielded and threw over the head of first baseman Greg Norton for a single and an error. Pena took third on Alex Gonzalez's sacrifice ': the throw to first barely got him and scored bunt when Mark Loretta singled to chase Waechter. . Detroit's Ivan Rodriguez hit a triple and a home run with five RBI as the Tigers beat the Royals, 3'8. CCcrderoS7 ' BMyers, Gordon 157.3331 -2 58' A 51 365 24 733 ,46.3f'2- EAST ' W L Pet New York 28 18 .609 Philadelphia 24 22 .522 ' GB L10 Str 1 4 1 12-- 0 W-- 24 23 .511 4 12 3 W-- 29 .396 .10 4 W-- 14 31 .311 1312 7 W-- Pet '660 GB Florida Away Intr. 16-- 8 MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE BASEBALL ' Washington ,19 Atlanta Home 3 TCU beats BYU in championship semis CENTRAL w L St. Louis 31 16 Cincinnati 27 20 .574 .4 Houston 25 23 .521 6 .511 .391 L10 Str W-- 12 ' Milwaukee 24 23 Chicago 18 28 Pittsburgh 14 33 .298 17 W L Pet GB Arizona 27 19 .587 12 Away Intr 13-- 9 18-- 0 14-- 7 3 7 12 Home W-- 3 7 18-- 9 7 14 17-- 0 818 2 ' ,4-2- WEST ' L10 Str ' ? 12 LosAngeles 27 20 .574 Colorado 25 22 .532 2 12 San Diego 24 23 .511 3 12 San Francisco 24 2? .511 312 Home Away Intr 0 3 0 13-- 4 2 1 TODAY'S GAMES at Chicago Cubs (Zambrano 2:20 p.m. Atlanta (Hudson 4-at Pittsburgh (Snell ), 7:05 p.m. Houston (Buchholz 7:05 p.m. Milwaukee' (Capuano atPhiladelphia (Lidle at Washington (Hernandez 7:05 p.m. LA. Dodgers (Tomko at 7:10 Cincinnati (Milton 24); Arizona (Webb pun. at 7:35 Florida N!Y. Mets (Martinez 50) (Johnson pirn. at San Diego (Hensley ), 10:05 p.m. St. Louis (Suppan at San Francisco Colorado (Francis (Schmidt 10;15 p.rh. 'I' THURSDAY'S RESULTS SATURDAY'S GAMES Washington 8, Houston 5 Philadelphia 5, N.Y. Mets 3 Mets at Florida, 11:20 a.m. Atlanta at ChiCubs, 11 :20 a.m. L.A. Dodgers at Wash., 1 1 :20 a.m. St. Louis at San Diego, 2:05 p.m. Arizona at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m. Houston at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. Milwaukee at Philly, 5:05 p.m. Colorado at San Fran., 7:05 p.m. N.Y. ',' 6 W-- W-- 4--6 LAS VEGAS The TCU Horned Frogs continued their hot hitting as they pummeled the BYU Cougars 13-- in the winners " bracket of the Mountain West Tournament Thurs- day night at Earl E. Wilson , ' Stadium. TCU scored 13 runs on 19 hits and Brad Furnish turned in eight strong innings on the mound to lead the Frogs into the champi- onship game on Saturday. Jerid Buttell came off the bench and hit his first career horhe run in the eighth inning. Seven Frogs tallied multiple hits in the contest, while four others drove in at least two runs. The;Cougars4struckv first, plating two runs on two hits in the first inning, Seth Johnson drew a four-pitc- h walk to lead off the inning and Marcus Villezcas chopped a single , side down the third-bas- e to put two cn with nobody out. TCU starter Brad Furnish struck out the next two batters, but Kasey Ko drove a double to the gap in left field, clearing the bases, TCU cut the lead in half in the bottom of the inning, taking advantage of a BYU error. Steven Trout singled with one out to start the rally and moved to second on a base knock by Austin Adams. Matt Carpenter hit a routine ground ball to the shortstop Villeicas, who saw it go right through his legs, allowing Trout to race home with the Frogs first run of the game. Fyrn-'Tikept the Cougars in check, blanking them in the second and third innings, and the Frogs battled back to tie the game in the bottom of the third. Carpenter came up big.with two outs, lacing a ball down the right ' field line. Adams chugged around the bases, scoring all the way from first, after reaching on a fielder's choice. The Frog bats came alive in the fourth inning lead. as they took a Andrew Walker led off the inning with a base hit and moved to second, . whert Corey Steglich battled his way to a walk. Ryan Pack gave TCU the lead with a slash hit up ' 6-- 2 the middle. Bryan Kervin made it a 2 contest with a base hit to center and Trout drove in the third run of the inning with a double to the'gap in left ' field, Adams rounded out the scoring with a long double to center field. BYU picked up a run in the top of the sixth inning double down on a two-ou- t the left field line off the bat of Stetson Banks. Ko opened the inning with a single up the middle and 4-- moved to second on a two-ou- t walk to Casey Nelson, setting up Banks' double. Furnish got Johnson to ground out to Carpenter at third and a nice play at the other end by first baseman Chad Huffman ended the Cougar threat. doubles to open the bottom of the, sixth got the run back for the Frogs. Kervin led off the inning with his 15th double of the season and scored on Trout's third hit of the day, a double to deep right field. Huffman put the Frogs up 3 with his ,17th home run f the shot season, a two-ru- n over the scoreboard in left field. Another four-ruinning, this time in the bottom of the eighth put the gante out of reach. Huffman worked a lead-of- f walk and scored on Buttell's shot to right center. After Clayton Barnes retired Carpenter, Back-to-bac- k 9-- n Conlon and Walker singled and Pack walked to load the bases. Kervin drove in two more runs with his ' third hit of the night to ball game. make it a 13-- 3 Furnish improved to on the season with eight strong innings. He allowed just three runs on eight hits, struck out nine and walked four. Dillon Farish worked the ninth inning, allowing three runs (two earrted) on four hits. He .struck out the side around the four hits. Two more, gahies will be played before the Frogs 'will find out who they will meet in the championship game. UNLV and New Mexico played late Thursday with BYU awaiting the winner of that game for a Contest tonight for the ritfht tr crr rn Qof nprliu'o championship game. Thp Frncrc imnrnvpH tn 1 on the year and have won nine straight games. 8-- 5 37-2- |
