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Show Thursday, September 1, 2005 DAILY HERALD THE DAY IN BASEB Star of the day Dodgers’ Derek Lowe pitched a complete gameonehitter, giving up no runs and striking out seven as the Dodgers shut out the Cubs 7-0. NATIONAL LEAGUE GAMEOF THE DAY AMERICAN LEAGUE Bigwin for SOx ‘Tribe slips in race CLEVELAND — Ivan Rodriguez homered to break an eighth-inning tie. Mike Maroth Eictet sevenstronginnings, and BOSTON — Kevin Millar stayed in Boston's lineup through suas and struggles an more =liners than the statisticians could ibly count the Detroit Tigers beat Cleveland 4-3 Wednesday Now, Boston’s faith in as quick~aa first baseman maybe paying off. Millar, the man who made “Cowboy Up”the team’s catchphrase,up andhit two homers Wednesdaynight to help the Red Sox rally from big deficit for the second consecutive game and est the Tampa Bay Devil Rays champions in wins.“I am fortunate to bepitching on thenels dayswhenthey have beenscoringall those ru Millar hit 43 homeruns in the previous two seasons but had hit only one since a two-homer gameon June 4. Still a popular playerin the clubhouse,the outspoken and sometimes goofyfirst baseman had beenlosing fans at Fenway Parkeversince. “It's too late for all that,” he said, challenging the fans to get behind him. “I'm not going anywhere.” Millar is batting .272 with seven homers and 45 RBIs for the year, and thoughthe team wentout and gotJohn Olerudtohelp outatfirst base, Millar still sees most of the at-bats. Before homering last week, he went 182 at-bats withouthitting one. ‘AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST Str W4 U1 L1 Home Away Intr 43193435 126 4424 3033 11-7 36283038 8:10 28 W-1 33-35 62 70 470 151/2 CENTRAL q Cleveland Minnesota DetroitKansas City WEST Oakland Los Angeles Teas Seattle 29-35 8-10 13 37321847345 WoL Pt GB 80 51 611 — 74 59 5567 70 63 526 11 367-485. 16 1/2 43 88 328 37 10 Str 55 LI 73 1 55 LY 55 Wl 46 W1 L Pt GB 75-56 «S73 — 73 58 557 2 6 69 M8112 56 7542719 L10 Str Home Away intr 73 WI 39263630 108 37 LS 37-29 36-29 126 73 WA 38302639 9.9 46 WA 3235 24-40 108 Home Away Intr 37278328 126 3332 41.27 153 36293434 8-10 3233 3134 99 26401748 «99 TODAY'S GAME! S NY. Yankees(Jar Wright 4-2) at Seattle (Pineiro 5-9), 2:35 pm. Tampa Bay (Waecher 8-8) at Boston Arroyo 10-9, :05pm. Baltimore (Penn 2-2) at Toronto (McGowan 1-2), 5:07 p. Detroit (J Johnson 7-10) at Chicago White SoxCae9-7), 6:05 p.m Texas (Rogers 11 -7) at KansasCity (Howell 1-4) Oakland(Kennedy 7-8) at L.A. Angels(E. ears iO) 805 p.m. WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS Texas 9, Chicago White Sox 2 Kansas City 1, Minnesota 0 Boston 7, Tampa Bay 6 Detroit 4, Cleveland 3 Baltimore 7; Toronto 0 Yankees at Seattle, late Oakland at Angels, late FRIDAY’S GAMES Baltimore at Boston, 5:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at Toronto,5:07 p.m, Detroit at ChiSox, 6:05 p.m, Cleveland at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m. Texas at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m. Yankeesat Oakland, 8:05 p.m Seattle at LA. Angels, 8:05 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST 69 63. .! 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Lowe (9-13) gave up an infield single leading off thefirst to Jerry Hairston Jr., who beat a bouncer to third without a throw FRIDAY'’S GAMES ‘ChiCubs at Pittsburgh, at Colorado, scored on a wild throw in the ninth to help Washingtonspilt a doubleheader, Phillies 8, Mets 2: At New York, Chase Utley hit two of Philadelphia's four hom- ers off Pedro Martinez, » Giants 5, Rockies 3: At San Fransisco, Moises Alouhitthefirst of San Francisco's four solo homeruns. » Padres 9, Diamondbacks 5: At'San Diego, Ben and Brett Myerspitched sevenstronginnings to help keepthe Phillies on topin the NL wild-card from Mike Edwards. race. Johnsonhit his first career homer,a three-run drive, and San Diego beatArizonato enter September with a 500 record. » Cardinals 10, Marlins 5: » Brewers 6, Pirates 5: At Milwaukee,Rookie Prince Fielderhit a two-run, D Astros-10, Reds 0: At Houston, AndyPettitte limited Cincinnatito four hits in seven innings and Brad Ausmus drovein four runs for Houston. 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Mark | Teixeira walked and scored on Hank Blalock's single; and Sorianohit his 32nd homerto chase Hernandez(8-7), who lost his fourth straight decision, matchinghis career high. Yankees,butlost for the Dellucci, Adrian Gonzalez and Rod Barajas also completed a 19-8 August. Rodriguez hit thefirst pitchof the inning from wholead the majors with 218. Chicagolost three of four in Texas and finished card leading NewYork third time in 13 games and Rafael Betancourt(2-3) for his 13th homeras the Tigers wonfor the second timein seven games. Maroth (12-12) improvedto 4-1 in six starts in August. Theleft-hander allowed only one walk overhislast 2-3 innings. He gaveup two runs and three hits, striking out six Marothis 6-0 witha 2.28 ERAinhislast seven starts against Cleveland overtwo seasons. Craig Dingman worked the eighth. Fernando Rodneypitched homeredfor the Rangers, August at 12-16. It was thefirst losing month of the season for the White Sox, who have'the best record in the AL at 80-51. Kameron Loe (74) gave up tworunsandfourhits insix innings. D Royals 1, Twins 0: At KansasCity, Emil Brown singled to score Denny Hocking with oneout in the ninth. and Minnesota set a Twins’ record by getting 13hits in a shut- out. Minnesota hit into four double plays and the ninth, allowing Victor Martinez’s RBI double before getting pinch-hitter Ben Brous- had runners thrown ont at third and home. seventh save breaking the mark of 12 RBIs in the last 10 games. previous record forhits sard to groundout with a manonthirdforhis Martinez droveinall three Cleveland runs. He has Casey Blake doubled to It w. Iso a Royals’ record for mosthits lowedin a shutout, 10 which had been done four times. The Twins’ openthe Clevelandeighth, in a shutout was 12 ina 1-0loss to the California ond on aneasyfly ball to Angels in 1975. Hocking singled off Matt Guer- but was doubledoff sec- left by Grady Sizemore to kill a potential Indians rier (0-3)leading off the ninth, and reached second whenthird baseman TerryTiffee misplayed » Orioles 7, Blue Jays 0: a grounder by Chip Am- comeback. AtToronto, Bruce Chen. and Chris Ray combined on atwo-hitter to help Baltimore end a five-game losing streak. Miguel Tejada, Jay. Gibbons andEric Byrnes homeredfor the Orioles, wholost 10 of their previous I] gamesand held a brief team meeting before the game. Chen(11-8) allowed onlyAaronHill's infield singletofirst in the second inning and Corey Koskie's single to center in the eighth. Chen struck out seven and walkedone in eight innings. Gustavo Chacin(10-8) was the loser. bres. Terry Mulholland relieved and struck out Matt Stairs. before Brown. groundedasinglejust inside the bagat third. ROYALS1, TWINS 0 ‘miunesoTa awsascry aberh Totals 33 013.0 Minnesota 900000 Kansas City 000 » Rangers 9, White Sox 2: At Arlington, Tex, Michael Young and ‘Minnesota inning against Orlando Kansas City AlfonsoSorianohit tworun homersin the sixth Hernandez. and the Texas Rangersbeat the Chicago HBP: TIGERS 4, INDIANS 3 DETROIT ‘CLEVELAND abr hb aber hb RANGERS 9 WHITE SOX 2 ccHicaGo TEXAS i ab rnb Totals Biake 1 37 410 4 Totals 32.363 200 000 020 — 4 200 000 001 — 3 abr hbi Totals 3226 Total 9 Chicago oor 001 000 — 2, Texas 100 005 0x — 5 F i SnDh (Eaton 9-3) at Milwaukee (Helling 1-the Cinchnat arang 9-11) at Houston (Oswalt 15-1 WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS Lowe blanks Cubbies in win century and only second WL Pt GB L10 Boston 77:54 588 — 73° NewYork 74 57 565 3 73 Toronto 6666-500 1112 37 Tampa Bay 55 79 410 2312 46 Chicago Cubsfirst basemanDerrek Lee (25) looks for a throw. eee said Wakefield (14-10), who leads the World Series JEFF ROBERTSON /Associated Press Los Angeles Dodgers’Jeff Kent, bottom,is safe as he dives towardfirst for a single as 2: g= cs David Ortiz also homered — hisfifth in five games —and Tim Wakefield settled downafter allowing three homersin the first three innings to fall behind 5Lilt yaaon's 38th come-from-behind victory, and it cameonenightafter it rallied from a 5-0 deficit to winin the bottom oftheninth. “Youhate to put your team down that much early, but I can’t say enough aboutouroffense,” ‘ cossusueuucanB! 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