Show v J Standard-Examin- er Saturday August aBSBSKanaaa 9B 2001 4 Rolen ignites Phillies’ hopes Red-h- ot Te 1 1 Sweeney Royals give ‘slugfest’ new meaning Associated Press PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Phillies have found one way to fire up Scott Rolen - put him in a pennant race Philadelphia’s star third baseman doubled twice tripled and drove in three nms and Pat Burrell hit a grand slam as the Phillies defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 5 on Friday night solo homer off Baldwin (1-It was Rollins’ 10th homer of the season and second in as many days Burrell continued his torrid hitting with the bases loaded when he is hitting 500 with three homers and 33 RBIs for his career “I always feel comfortable with the bases loaded” Burrell said “You know you’re Philadelphia snapped a losing streak against going to get a pitch to hit A the Dodgers that dated to last pitcher doesn’t want to be too season The win coupled with cute with anything especially Atlanta’s loss to Arizona at moved the Phillies within a Diamondbacks 7 Braves game of the Braves in the Na- 0: At Atlanta Curt Schilling pitched seven scoreless innings to become tional League East first winner and Rolen criticized by Phil- baseball's Arizona beat the Braves lies’ senior adviser Dallas overpowered the Schilling Green on Monday also made Braves allowing only one runner to reach second base before Javy Lopez two clutch plays at third and DeRosa led off the eighth base In his last 10 games he with Mark consecutive singles (ll-for-2- e 7-- 3-- 7-- 0 (17-5- ) The Associated Press Los Angeles’ Eric Karros scores ahead of the tag from is hitting 351 with With the loss Atlanta's lead in the Philadelphia catcher Johnny Estrada during Friday’s game five homers 10 runs scored NL East shrunk to one game and 13 RBIs Cardinals 7 Mets 6 10 Padres 3 Pirates 2: At Pitts- was pushed back three days because When asked if Green’s innings: At New York Craig Paof inflammation m his Rickey Henderson hit a homer for San Diego on the night the Pirates honored newly in- quette hit a sacrifice fly to score Kerry Robinson with the negative comments had inspired him up Rolen had a stern answer “Absolutely not” he said “Negativity doesn’t light a fire under me I’ve got a job to do and I take a lot of pride Henderson’s homer and Larry Walker three-rushot for the Rockies who have scored 30 runs m their last two games Colorado matched its franchise high for runs in a road game - they n homer n fol- Brewers 5 Expos 1: Astacio two-err- Gomez (10) to have Weaver move the resin bag from a distracting spot on the mound Replays showed that Weaver said something to Sweeney and turned his back Sweeney threw his batting helmet at the pitcher and rushed the mound Sweeney is regarded as one of the more players in baseball while the Weaver worked as a security guard at an April taping of the “Jerry Springer Show” At Montreal Jeromy Burmtz homered allowed five hits and two runs m 7 13 innings in his second game for Houston since being acquired from Colorado His start nine games but the Reds couldn't inovercome Castro's first ning in his career (5-7- twice and Ruben Quevedo struck out 11 to lead Milwaukee a career-higover the Expos Burmtz hit a solo shot off Mike Thurman (6-8- ) in the fifth After Mark Loretta homered with two outs in the seventh Burmtz hit his 24th homer of the season to put the Brewers up 5-- 0 Burmtz has 14 multihomer games in his career including four this season Vladimir Guerrero struck out with the bases loaded against Curtis Leskanic to end the game Quevedo (1-acquired from the Chicago Cubs on July 30 pitched six scoreless innings in his second start for the Brewers Astros 7 Marlins 2: At Miami Pedro Astacio earned his first win for Houston and Vinny Castilla had four hits including his 15th homer and drove in three runs to lead the Astros past Florida also scored 16 in Atlanta on Aug 12 1995 The 16 runs were a season high hoKen Griffey Jr hit a two-ru- n mer extending his hitting streak to 3-- two-ru- lowed pitcher Brian Tollberg's lead-of- f single in the fifth inning and was his 2973rd career hit The run was his 2227th 19 shy of Ty Cobb's e Record Henderson may be 42 but hasn't played like against Pittsburgh going (438) this Friday and season as the Padres have won three of four from the Pirates Tollberg (6-got the victory Trevor Hoffman earned his 28th save of the season and 299th of his career n also hit a and Craig Biggio had four of the Astros’ 15 hits Houston has won eight of its past 10 games and three m a row to climb 15 games above 500 a season-higJohn- - Mabry homered for Florida ducted Hall of Earner Bill Mazeroski Rockies 16 Reds 7: At Cincinnati shortstop Juan Castro threw two balls into the Reds’ dugout dursixth inning ing Colorado's six-ru- n helping the Rockies pull away with a Jose Ortiz went three-ru- right triceps Jeff Bagwell hit his 29th homer burgh run in the 10th inning as St Louis rallied from a five-ru- n deficit to defeat the Mets ) Dave Veres the fourth of five Cardinals pitchers worked two relief for the win innings of one-hi- t and Steve Kline got his seventh save in doing it “We’re in the middle of a pennant race now I’ve never been in this situation before It’s exciting and it’s time to lay it all on the line A lot of people didn’t believe we would be in this situation” Since the break Rolen is hitting 317 with four homers and 21 RBIs in 28 games and his overall average has improved to 289 Jimmy Rollins broke up a 3 game in the fifth with a i KANSAS CITY Mo -Sweeney said he charged Mike Sweeney turned into a after Weaver called him pro-real slugger Friday night Sweeney delivered a hard fane names “It’s something I’ve never hit of an entirely different kind charging the mound done before and it's someand throwing Jeff Weaver to thing I’m not proud of But I the ground before the De- had to do it" Sweeney said even "Weaver is a talented young troit right-hande- r threw a pitch to him as the pitcher but I’d like to see Kansas City Royals beat the him respect the game more” Detroit manager Phil Gar-- " Tigers 3 Numerous punches were ner called it “the most vi- -' thrown as the benches and cious thing I’ve ever seen” “It was without provocabullpens cleared in the sixth detion as if that makes a difinning After a lay Sweeney Royals pitch- ference but I don’t think ing coach A1 Nipper and De- Weaver said anything to troit bench coach Doug Sweeney Sweeney charges Mansolino were ejected the mound when Weaver "I wish that it never haphad his back to him and pened But in the same fires his helmet then probreath he called me out” ceeds to knock him out of Sweeney said "Fve always the game been taught to respect the “That’s a pretty good phigame and play the game losophy A guy has a pretty hard I thought he crossed good game going so you just the line tonight” run out and knock him out The problems began as of the game" he said Sweeney got ready to bat Devil Rays 4 Twins 2: with two outs and a runner At St Petersburg Ha Paul Wilson ) on second base He asked pitched six scoreless innings' and Chris Gomez hit a rare Tampa plate umpire Mike Fichter 10-- six-gam- i The Associated Press mild-mannere- d -Bay homer in a win over Minnesota with the majors' Tampa Bay worst-recorhas won eight at 39-7of its last 15 games against first-- " place teams The Twins fell to r break A since the Gomez went including a solo homer in the sixth inning with two RBIs His homer was just the‘J second by Tampa Bay in the past 12 games Rangers 7 Indians 2: AoV Arlington Texas Doug Davis al-- i j lowed six hits over eight innings and Gabe Kapler homered as Texas j beat Cleveland Davis ) i escaped a bases-load- ed jam in the second inning without allowing a run and went on to his first win since July 20 J 4 j- (4) (1) Chicago LieberW15-- 5 HBP-- 9 8 4 3 3 Es'es (McGrlff) by Estes by (Gutierrez) 54 A -- 40 529 T- -2 (39059) 7 BRAVES 0 HBP-- Mays (Hall) by T — 229 (44 445) ROYALS 7 TIGERS 3 (6) Seattle Olerud Bell Wilson D- East Division Kansas P- City 5 2B ltran (18) - 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