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Show The Salt Lake TribuneBASEBALL Saturday, May 22,1999 Atlanta Gets No Relief as Cubs Win 4th Straight in Last At-Bat THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — The Chica- ational League go Cubs are winning, but they can’t seem to get the 10 hits. Olerud’s two-run_homer and Piazza's shot madeit 3-0 in thethird, and the Mets Henry Rodriguez and Jeff added three more runs in Blauser hit two-run homers the fourth. in the ninth inning Friday Agbayani scored when night to give the Cubs their Ron Gant bobbled Herfifth straight victory, 8-4 shiser’s single to left, and over Atlanta Edgardo Alfonzo and It was also the Cubs’ Olerud hit consecutive RBI fourth consecutive victory doubles hang of it until the end. Gary Gaetti hit a grand slam in the first inning and in their last at-bat. All five wins have come on the road, the Cubs" long‘ winning streak away rom Wrigley Field since \ug. 20-24. 1992. when they 0 wonfive straight Gactti’s slam gave the 14-0 lead bit Auanta © back to tiei it seems like we live and by the long ball,” Chica- er Jim Riggleman ve beencriticized iontostation, ic three bases to- y had nothing with our searing ct of the matteris he last four nights in a row not only decided by st at-bat, but by home e said, guez broke a 4-4 tie r vier Houston drew a ik to openthe ninth from vin MeGlinchy. It was the ith homerunof the sea- 1 for Rodriguez. 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Coloradotied it in the second off Brian Anderson, who wasrecalled from Triple-AA Tueson on Thursday Dante Bichette and Helton singled, and Chris Sexton hit anRBI single to left Tampa Bay 22 20 00 91000 Wi 1 1091211 00 £11310 813 00 Willll 415 00 a L10 SitkHomeAway Intr NewYork Toronto Baltimore 2123 15 26 37 DST eT DIETZ SE OIE L-1 9-13. Chicago Detroit Minnesota | 15te 37 L10 55 6-4 4882 WEST Texas Oakland Seattle Anaheim 12- 00 L4 910 99 00 W-110-10 8-13, 00 W-l 6-15 8-12 StrkHome Away intr Lel 10-11 12-8 Ll 11-9 10-12 W512-12 89 00 Ll 89 11-14 poy ton 5, Toronto 2 Baltimore3, Texas 2 ‘Tampa Bay 10, Anal Detroit 9, Cleveland Today's ¢ Games ‘Toronto (Carpenter 3-3) at Boston (Wakefield 1-4), 11:05 am. 4-1), 11:05 a.m. wer 4-3) at Cleveland (Wright ( ‘Texas (Sele 3-4) at Baltimore (Guz man1-4), 11:35 a.m. Anaheim (Sparks1-4) atTampa Bsay (Alvarer 2-2), 4:35 p.m New York (Pettit t Chicago (Sirotka 1-5), 5:05 p.m Oakland (Rogers a Minnesot a (Radke £3), 605pan. Seattle (Cloude 3-1) at Kansas City (Fussell 0-1), 6: 05 p. National League WoL Pet GB 110 SirkHome Away _Intr ie 610 — 5 12147 119 00 % 18 571 1 64 WS 124 0-0 2 19s 3% 46 13 89 13-10 00 3 29 310 12% 55 W2618 7-11 00 2 28 Li PADRES5 REDS 4 Chicago St Louis Cincinnati 22 22 19 Milwaukee MARLINS 8 19 19 PIRATES 1 500 GB LAO 73 82 3 64 5 73 47 Ey 6 WL San Francisco 24 18 5 Arizona os Angeles 21 20 512 Cora, ©°"c0 zt winning streak of the San Diego season The Marlins wontwoin a rowfor the first time since last Sept. 26 ne Pirates lost their eighth straight on the road, and fifth consecutive gameoverall 17 23 6-17 610 StrkHome Away_Intr Ll 139 1 ¥ 97 1310 00 W-2 841 147 0-0 Ls 119813 Pet MIAMI — Livan Hernandez pitched a four-hitter and} Alex Gonzalez and Preston Wilson homered to give Florida its first two-game As Devil Rays Trip Up Angels 187 SB toe a4 7086 ‘00 tat 8 eed 38 eee peeres oulwi Pa) Sebavo toda sm oe tt woe” wees OTE ee 553 8LG8 Sed 133333 es 193383 ie tt 42g wares 22 3 eon Bigg hs ag4 soe aa wey eens Fos Saat ated etersro Sees Me Foe Patiineee REE SAN DIEGO — Tony Gwynn's hit parade was thrown off pace when he strainedhis left calf in the first inning of San Diego's win over Cincinnati, which snapped the Reds’ fivewinning streak ly Williams was the winner and Trevor Hoffman got his eighth save Brett Tomko left with a 22 17 5041 Canseco Homer Streak Hits 5 THEASSOCIATED PRESS ST. PET! TRG, Fila. _ The Tampa Bay Devil Rays aregetting everything they expected out of Jose Canseco — and more. The slugger homered for thefifth straight game, giving him the major league lead with 17, and also had a RBIdoubleinFriday night's 10-9 victory over the Ana heim Angels. The Devil Rays signed the 34-year-old Canseco to inject power into an anemic offensebutare also reaping the benefits of him hitting foraverage. A .237 hitter in 1998 when he hit a career-high 46 homers for Toronto, Canseco is hitting .304 t — the highest his average has been this late in a season since hewas at 301 onSept. 20, 1996. “T don't think about it. 1 rememberlast year whenI washitting .240,” hesaid of the strong start. “I hit a lot of balls hard that just didn’t go for hit Canseco’s solo shot off KenHill fueled a comeback from an early four-rundeficit and he, Kevin Stocker Martinez and John Flaherty all drove in two runs for the Devil Rays Canseco’s streak of five consecutive game with a homerun equals his carcer best. It's luck. really.” hesaid “I'm just putting a good swing on the bail. The bat speed and technique are pretty goodright now.” Stocker’s RBI single off Mike Magnantesnappeda7 7 tie in the fifth inning second run scored for a 9-7 lead when Stocker was 425 Friday's Games Florida8, Pittsburgh 1 ( Colorado 8, Arizona 7, 11 inn jew York 7. Philadelphia 5 n Diego 5, Cincinnati 4 Chicago8, Atlanta 4 StL Louis 10, Los Angeles 6 Milwaukee 5, Montreal 3. 11 inn. SanFrancisco 4, Houston 3 Today's Games Philadelphia (Byrd 5-2) at New York (BJ. Jones 3-2), 11:40 am Arizona (Daal 3-4) at Colorado (B M-Jones 1-2), 1:05 p.m. Houston (Holt 0-5) at San Francisco (Ortiz 5-2), 2:05 p.m. Milwaukee (Karl 5-1) at Montr Vazquez 1-3), 5:05 p.m. Pittsburgh(Ritchie 2-3) at Florid: Dempster 1-1), 5:05 pm Chicago (Tapani 3-1) at Atianta (M1 llwood 3-9). 510 pm caught stealing in a run. down betweenfirst andsec: ondbase. Rick White pitched perfect innings in relief of struggling starter Tony Saunders toget the victory “oer (7 { Totals 35.8407 Ss set Fawr aes cs os ci Bs GIANTS 4 ASTROS 3 FRANCISCO — er Mark Gardner hit thefirst homer of his 10year career. and Armando CARDINALS10 Rios had a tiebreaking RBI DODGERS 6 doublein the seventh as San LOS ANGELES — Ray Francisco beat Houston in a Lankford. homered. twice matchup ofdivision leaders Houston slugger Ken Caindo Tatis hit a solo BREWERS5 shot and Darren Braggtied miniti left the game in the EXPOS3,(11) a career high with four hits third inning after straining MONTREAL— RonBel as St. Louis beat Los his right calf while stealing secondbase. He grabbed his liardhit a two-run doublein areS leg as he neared the base in Acevedo 3-1) al 1ithas Milwaukeeover. cond ‘seenonehit overfivein. and slid around shortstop nings in his second start of Rich Aurilia’s tag to com. plete the steal but then comeback the season. Dave Nilsson hit a leadoff limped off the field into the double against Bobby Ayala clubhouse The Astros listed and pinch-hitter Rich him as day to day Becker walked. After Geoff Jenkins sacrificed, Belliard ‘4809 METS 7 PHILLIES 5 YEW YORK — Mike Pied a teamrecord by ng in his fourth ROCKIES 8 gameandOrel Her. ned his 193rd ca- lerud. who had drovein three j Piazza hit consecu D-BACKS 7 (11) DENVER — Larry Walk er homered in the 11th inning off John Frascatore. giving Colorado a victory over Arizona Pedro Astacio pitched seven strong innings in his iyer to homerin four bid for a fifthstraight win as tive games since the Rockies took a 7-4 lead milla in 1992. Four into the ninth. But the DiaMets have accom mondbacks tied it against ne runs in the third 1 became the first closer aine ‘ets Dave Veres when doubled to left-center field \gbayani singled Andy Fox doubled Luis seman Gonzalez hit an RBI single straight hits for and Matt Williams added a threeat-bats, giv His streak ended ¢ grounded out in the r allowed two d six hits in 6 2-3 in. te also singled and ed runas the Mets won r third in a row hn Franco got his 13th ton Loewer was {up by New York ye second time in a k He did not get vgh the fourth inning fore allowingsix runs and two-run homer. his 14th of the season With one out in the 1 Walker homered to right centeroff Frascatore Curtis Leskanic twoinnings to earn the w Walker. who extended his hitting streak to a care high 21 games, went 3-for-£ toraise his average to 43 highest in the major Todd Helton had four straight singles for the ockies. Gonzale: whose 30-gamehitting streak end. SP i mseSih eee 2 Sear it Geewali eet itlt Suetttt ar iis Bek Hl eee REP AEE REP A TIGERS9 tm wrast met second homer Poorsaws ase See Catalanotto's os rout game,a two-run shot aee ofin the the eighth inning off re ne liever Paul Shuey. helped wee tts tan over wen aaa Catalanotto hit a solo homer in the fourth and 4-for-4 for the Tig hoc rieft et went whoae win denied the indi eonatoraeStL Rapp pitched fo 1 baler in he 7th Cosi mer ic 4410 Det 4020 4000 Sutonph 0000 Mobry (3). DP—Seattie 4, ey Woowert” 4 Do004 ORIOLES 3 _ MARINERS 5 ROYALS 2 KAD CITY. Mo Jamie Moyer beat Kansas City for the second time in five days as Seattle topped the Royals for its fifth straight vietory Moyer. who pitched a complete game last Sunday in a 5-1 win overthe Royals went six innings this time and gaveupone run onsev en hits. He struck out four and walked noneto win third straight start Thecrowd of 29.547 was the third-largest of thesea sonin Kansas City and included a walk-upof 12.590 suggesting a growingexcite ment for team which had won fiveof six while setting a six-gamescoring record of on April 29 retroactive to the previous day because of a strained left hamstring. He hurt the hamstring and had to leaveafter two innings of his previous \d considering elbow acquired Rick Aguilera Minnesota Twins on Fri The Cubs sent minor league anders Kyle Lohse and Ja yanto the Twins in exchange r the 37-year-old Aguilera — the Twins’ all-time saves leader — d minor league left-hander tt Downs Beck flew to San Francisco for econd opinion Thursday on her to have surgery on two ne spurs and bone chips in his nt elbow Beck saved 51 games eason but has struggled all n The burly right-hander 4 with four blown saves and 4 ERA era was 3-1 with a 1.27 x saves in 17 games for start April 27 the Twinsthis season. He came to Minnesota from the New York verted to the role of closer in ance in nearly a month whenthe 1990, compiling 254 saves. He also ranks first in club history in start of Friday's game was de layed by rair games pitched with 490 Lohse, 20. comes to the Twins from the Cubs ( A teamin Daytona, and will report to Fort Myers in theClass A FloridaSta League. Ryan, 23, has beenplay ing in the Double A Southern League and will report to New Britian GWYNN COMES UP LAME SAN DIEGO — Tony Gwynn. who is 25 hits short of 3,000 ained his left calf coming outof batter's box in the first inning Friday night and had to be helped off thefield. Gwynn grimaced as YANKS ACTIVATE CLEMENS CHICAGO Roger Clemens was activatedfromthe 15-day dis abledlist Friday night before his Start against Sox the Chic White t ST PETERSBURG. Fla Wade Boggs resumed his quest for 3.000 careerhits Friday night when the Tampa Bay Devil Rays activated him from the 15-day he was > by a team trainer Pa dies Manager Bruce Bochy and several players came out to check mn the eight-time NL batting champion Boggs. sidelined since May 6 because of a teen eft ham. string. was ba with no homers and nine eBls when he went on the DL for justthe second time in his 18-year career ALOMAR HAS SURGERY CLEVELAND — Sandy Alo- marhad a bone chip the size of a lima bean removed from his left knee Friday and the Cleveland In- dians catcher is expected to be sidelined for at least a month. Alomar's surgery — the sev enth on his left knee — was per. formed at Lutheran Hospital by Dr. Lou Keppler, the team's or. thopedic surgeon. Keppler did a similar procedure on Alomar's left kneelast October after the In dians were eliminated from the win ans a chance for thebest 40 gamestartin their 99-year history. Dean Palmeradded a two run double in th Detroit. Twins uaded the bases with no outs when Todd Waiker doubled, Den ny Hocking bunted for sin- gle and Malt Law nw fenlionally alked Doug Jones (1-1) struck out Ron Coomer before Mientkiewiez. sing 2242 BOSTON — John Valen900 090 $09 00 cos tin’s two-run single capped a Setne oe four-run fifth inning and Pat Rapphad his most impressive start of the season,lead ing surging Boston to a win over Toronto The win was the 12th in 15 gamesfor the Red Sox, who moved into first place in the AL East earlier this week while taking two of three games from the New York Yankees Rapp. who had won just one of his previous seven starts and didn't make it past the fourth inning in four of them. gave up three hits in six-plus innings He YANKEESat walked three and struck out WHITESOX, rain seven, including the side in CHICAGO — The Rock the sixth et's return got rained out Roger Clemens will have to wait another day to get back in the New York Yan: kees’ rotation andtry for his AL-record 18th straight vietory Clemens, who pitched since April cause of a strained left ham string. was activated from the disabled list Friday be fore his scheduled start against the Chicago White Sox was rained out WARNING AL championshipseries According to a statement re- leased by the Indians, Keppler re loose bodies” from Alomar’s knee before making an 4.1999: ia moved disabledlist Clemens. si ting for an AL record 18th st ht victory. had to wait to make his first appear Metsin 1989 as starter, but con BOGGS ACTIVATED a ° RED SOX 5 BLUE JAYS 2 It was thefirst time in 11 NOTEBOOK 4 Frank BALTIMORE — Charles Johnson hit a three-run homerin the seventh inning andSidneyPonson pitched a six-hitter for his first career complete game as Baltimore defeated Texas. Rafael Palmeiro, returning to CamdenYardsforthe first timesince signing with the Rangers in December, homered onthefirst pitch he saw leading off the second inning. But that was about it for the Texas offense. Forthose that cheered I want to thank them because they supported me through y Palmeiro. said Forthose who booed I want to thank them too, because theycheered for me when I was here.” Ponson retired 13 straight batters before the ninth, when a walk, a double by Rusty Greer and an RBI TWINS 2 groundout produced a run. But Ponsonavoidedfurther ATHLETICS 7 (15) damagebystriking out PalMIN meiro andretiring Ivan Ro- Mientkiewicz driguez on fly ball the winning run with or in the15th in Teas saLnwors nesota beat Oa obrhbt FScodwni dt 40.0.0 BkAnderon six-gamelosingstr Nelomew 202 4110 Anos dh 58 runs BASEBALL Chicago — in need of a closer with g Rod Beck on the dis- \TLANTA Q RANGERS 2 games the Mariners. who lead the majors with 83 home runs. did not hit at oneout ofthe park wees cm Clemens was placed on the DL. . ‘SAT(40.825) Cubs Acquire Aguilera From Twinsto Bolster Bullpen With Beck on DL ASSOX ATED PRESS INDIANS 6 CLEVELAND — Detroit ‘Moran Geet 4010 surott dconaer #4001 Bete t SamerC401011+ Comete Rouen fete 3010 Desieor Sewers tb 3.000 Borkck ss Ceyon ss 3.010 Chtrsonc folds 31262 Tolls Toros 0 2ommore 00 E-Gofon (3) OF—lexas 3, Lo8—fen & 5 Grow (16) Clonnson(5) Cltrson (9, CS—Cioyon (2). Bete (3) Soto Hee eros wemgles 8 3 ny 9 pormowes 9 6 2225 = Scot, Ft Braman. 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