| Show 2B Thursday May 20 1 999 Standard-Examine- r Phillies’ Brantley fails to close out Expos American League rallying in the ninth off Marlins closer Matt Mantei ) to hand 11th Florida its team-recor- d straight loss at home Sammy Sosa singled with one out in the ninth One out later Rodriguez hit his fifth homer to right-centto give the Cubs their fifth win in six games and their first series on the sweep in a three-gam- e road since July 1995 at Philadelphia Press The Associated (0-1- MONTREAL - Closer Jeff Brantley couldn’t close out the Boston 6 New York 0 Anaheim 5 Baltimore 4 Detroit 7 Toronto 3 Cleveland 13 Chicago 7 Kansas City 14 Oakland 3 Seattle 7 Minnesota 0 Today's games (Times MDT) New York (Hernandez at Boston 5:05 pm (Portugal Anaheim (Belcher at Baltimore (Johnson 505 pm Montreal Expos single Ryan McGuire's two-ru- n in the ninth tied the game and Rondell White drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly as the Expos scored four runs off Brantley to beat the Phillies 10-- 9 Wednesday night “It’s nice to win first and foremost but there is some satisfaction when you look at the box score tomorrow and know that you contributed in helping the team win” McGuire said With the Expos trailing 6 d James Mouton drew a RYAN REMIORZThd Associated Press walk off Brantley (1-and McGuire singled to left to tie the SUP AMD SHOE: Montreal Expos’ Rondsll White slides home safely ahead of game at 9 and advance Mouton to the catch and tag by Phillies’ catcher Mike Lieberthal Philadelphia third White followed with a fly to center to score Mouton as Brantley Walton of the Chicago Cubs also failed for the first time in seven hit in 30 straight games in 1989 save opportunities became the 12th player in major league history to have a hitting 12 Rockies 24 Reds streak end at 30 games At Denver Jeffrey Hammonds Braves 7 Pirates 3 had his first career three-homAt Atlanta Brian Jordan hit a game and Sean Casey added two Giants 8 Diamondbacks 3 six RBIs homers and a career-hig- h g grand slam off a tiring At San Francisco Luis as Cincinnati beat Colorado to Gonzalez went as Atlanta Cordova Francisco with three road sweep strikeouts series the three-gam- e complete a three-gam- e swept his streak ending hitting over the Rockies allowed three Tom Glavine (3-at 30 games and the Giants moved The outburst was Cincinnati’s runs and five hits in seven innings back into a tie atop the National d for the Braves who won their biggest since scoring a West with Arizona 26 runs against the Boston Braves League fourth in a row Kent hit a tiebreaking hoJeff on June 4 1911 mer leading off the sixth off Andy Cubs 8 Marlins 7 The Reds who won their fifth Benes (2-and Rich Aurilia added At Miami Henry Rodriguez hit straight scored in six of the first a two-ru- n shot two batters later as seven innings batted around four the Giants avoided a two-ru- n homer in the ninth ingetting swept times and matched a his second homer of the ning seby Arizona in the three-gam- e team record with 28 hits game to spoil John Boles’ surprise ries Cincinnati also had 28 hits vs Gonzalez who had the longest return as Florida manager The Cubs blew a 0 lead before Philadelphia on May 13 1902 NL hitting streak since Jerome Oakland (Oouist at Kansas City 605 pm (Supoan Only games scheduled Fndav's games Toronto at Boston 505 Pm Texas at Baltimore 505 pm Anaheim at Tampa Bay 505 pm Detroit at Cleveland 505 P m New vork at Chicago 605 Pm Oakland at Minnesota 605 pm Seattle at Kansas City 605 Pm er Dodgers 5 Astros 2 At Los Angeles the Dodgers got exactly what they needed from baseball’s first $100 million man g Kevin Brown held Houston to one run and four hits over eight innings as the Dodgers beat the Astros to snap a three-gam- e losing streak walked two and Brown (5-struck out eight before being relieved by Jeff Shaw to start the ninth inning Brown threw 111 pitches hard-hittin- 9-- bases-load-e- 2) National League Atlanta New York Philadelphia Padres 7 Cardinals 6 At San Diego Dave Magadan’s n double capped a four-ru-n ninth-innin- g rally aided by five walks giving the Padres a win With the Cardinals leading 3 reliever Scott Radinsky walked pinch-hitte- r John Vander Wal to open the inning Ricky Bottalico (1-came on and walked the next two batters before uncorking a wild pitch that scored Vander Wal Bottalico then walked Reggie Sanders to load the bases a second time before Rick Croushore relieved and allowed Tony Gwynn’s sacrifice fly making it 5 Croushore walked Phil Nevin on a 2 pitch and Magadan followed with a line shot two-ru- er Montreal Florida sixth-innin- Houston Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh Milwaukee 6-- 1) team-recor- Arizona San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Colorado game was a win Wednesday's results Atlanta 7 Pittsburgh 3 Cincinnati 24 Colorado 12 San Francisco 8 Arizona 3 Milwaukee at New York ppd ram Chicago 8 Florida 7 Montreal 10 Philadelphia 9 Los Angeles S Houston 2 'Z San Diego 7 St Louis 6 Today's games (Times MDT) Milwaukee (Abbott 4 and Woodard v at New York (Leiter and Yoshii 2 240 pm St Louis (Bottenfield at San Diego 305 Pm (Hitchcock at Florida Pittsburgh (Benson box scores AL 505 pm (Trachsel (Meadows Chicago (Maddux at Atlanta 5:40 pm Arizona (Johnson 705 pm at Colorado (Kile toy at Los Angeles Houston (Hampton 8 10 Pm (Park Only games scheduled Friday's games Milwaukee at Montreal S05 pm Pittsburgh at Florida 505 P m Philadelphia at New York 5:10 pm Chicago at Atlanta 540 Pm Arizona at Colorado 705 p m Cincinnati at San Diego 805 pm St Louis at Los Angeies 810 pm Houston at San Francisco 835 Pm Emergency starter shuts down Yankees The Associated Press BOSTON - The Boston Red Sox are playing so well that even an emergency starter gets an easy win The fact that it came against the struggling New York Yankees made it easier Brian Rose recalled from Pawtucket of the International League earlier in the day allowed six hits in seven innings as the Red Sox won 0 Wednesday night “Hopefully I’m going to be a piece of the puzzle that helps these guys win a championship” Rose said The Yankees won it last year but are now mired in a slump Their worst eight-gam- e stretch last season was 6 as they lost just 48 games all year “We were a little spoiled last year” said New York manager Joe Torre who is 0--2 since returning from a absence following surgery for prostate cancer “It’s more frustration We didn’t have any serious malfunctions” Jason Varitek provided the offense for Boston going with two homers as Boston won for the 11th time in 13 games to increase RED SOX 6 YANKEES 0 Texas abrhbi abrhbi 0 2 0 T Goodwin cf 50 11 2 2 Ahcea 2b 3 10 0 4 12 0 12 2 Greer If 4 12 2 c 112 Rodnguez 5 D Martinez Canseco dh - rf 3 5 McGrrff ID Ledesma 3b 5 5 0 Sorrento If Cairo 2b D'Feicec Stocker ss 4 12 R 0 4 0 0 0 Totals 3 110 4 0 0 0 316116 Palmeiro Stevens lb R Keflvrf Darensford s$ McLemoreoh Sha ve ss Totals 4 0 10 3 10 0 Tampa Bay Texas Zeiie (2) Bav 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 New York Boston 1 97 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David Justice Jim Thome and' Manny Ramirez each drove in two runs for the Indians who the White Sox 39-1- 6 and outhit them 3 in the series out-scor- 48-2- Royals 14 Athletics 3 3) -7 RER H to defeat the Orioles Randy Velarde homered for the when Angels who were trailing after eight innings Anehiem trailed 3 before coming back in the ninth against Mike Timlin (1-who blew his third save opportunity in nine tries Troy Glaus hit a one-osingle and Orlando Palmeiro singled before Matt Walbeck struck out Sheets then hit a liner to center to put the Angels ahead 4-- 6-- 3 2 2 3 dh Zeile 3b 3-- 5-- RANGERS 7 DEVIL RAYS 6 Tamp 6-- league-leadin- 16th home run for g Tampa Bay Angels 5 Orioles 4 At Baltimore Andy Sheets doubled in two runs with two outs in the ninth inning as Anaheim rallied At Kansas City Mo Chad Kreuter drove in five runs spoiling Tom Candiotti’s bid for his 150th victory and the Royals beat Oakland to win their first home series of the year The loss was the second straight but just the fourth in 15 games for the A’s and dropped them one game behind Texas in the AL West ut Tigers 7 Blue Jays 3 At Toronto Juan Encamacion hit a tiebreaking three-ru- n homer in the seventh inning one of three Detroit homers off struggling David Wells Bobby Higginson added a two-ru- n shot and Dean Palmer hit a solo homer off Wells (4-who has lost his last three starts Mariners 7 Twins 0 At Seattle Ken Griffey Jr hit his fifth home run in six games and Jeff Fassero pitched eight shutout innings to lead the Mariners past Minnesota Alex Rodriguez hit two homers to help Seattle sweep its first series of the season and win its fourth game in a row The Twins lost their sixth st straight and fell to an 4) Indians 13 White Sox 7 At Chicago Richie Sexson drove in a career-hig- h five runs with his second career grand slam and an RBI single as Cleveland used an it attack to complete a three-gam- e sweep 18-h- AL-wor- 13-2- 7 TIGERS 7 BLUE JAYS 3 J Valentin c Wilson E- -E 26 -- (7) Chicago 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