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Show Thursday, September 8, 2005 DAILY 83 HERALD THE DAY IN BASEB GAMEOFTHE DAY Star of the day Cleveland's C.C. Sabathia threw a complete game fourhitter, only allowing one run while notgiving up a walk andstriking out 10 batters. : NATIONAL LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE Sox rally past L.A. Tribe stays hot in race Sheldon Ocker Gregg Zaun homered for the Blue Jays. who took two of three games to win Howard Ulman THEASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox are getting what they need from their starting pitchers: long outings and strong performances. him a chance to whack a ball over the wall at Com- Bronson Arroyo became the 6 3 “Youkindoffeed off each other,” said Arroyo(12- 9). “You're thinking about Wakefield goingninelast night. . I'm sitting down on the bench thinking the samething,trying to get deep in the game.” MikeTimlin got three outs for his seventh save, buta rotation battered by injuries to Schilling and WadeMiller andinconsistency earlier in the season is closely Ervin Santana (8-7) gaveupall six of Boston's runs. Ortiz, whose homerin the bottom ofthe ninth gave Bostona 3-2 win in Tuesday night’s series opener, tied the gamewithhis singlein thethird. AMERICAN LEAGUE Pct GB L10 594 — 82 565 4 64 496 1312 46 468 17172 46 414 25 46 Str W2 W+4 W+4 L1 L4 Home Away intr 4821 3435 126 45-25 33-35 11-7 37-31 3239810 3437-31-37 8410 3732 21-50 315 Pct GB L10 630 — 82 561 912 64 525 1412 55 460 23172 1-9 321 4212 28 Str WT W3 W-1 L7 L2 Home 43-27 3332 3932 32:36 2743 CENTRAL WoL 87°51 Cleveland 78 61 Minnesota 73 66 Detroit 63 74 Kansas City 44 93 Away intr 44-24 126 45-29 153 3434 810 31-38 99 1750 99 WEST los Angeles Oakland Texas Seattle WL 77 61 77 62 6 1 60 79 Pct GB 558 — S54 12 493 «9 432 1712 110 46 46 73 55 Str L2 WT Lt L4 Home 41-30 41-30 3830 33-36 Away Intr 3631 124 36-32 108 3141 99 27-43 10-8 TODAY'S GAMES Detroit (Robertson 6-12) at Cleveland (Millwood 7-11), 2:05 p.m. LA Angels(Byrd 10-9) at Boston (Clement 13-3), 5:05 p.m. Tampa Bay(Hendrickson8-7) at N.Y. Yankees (Wang 6-3), 5:05p.m. Kansas City (Howell 1-5) at Chicago White Sox (Garcia 12-7), 6:05 p.m. WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS Minnesota 8, Texas 6 Oakland. efeae i Boston6, Angels 3 Toronto 7,‘cater 4 Cleveland4, Detroit 1 N.Y. Yankees5, Tampa Bay 4 ChiSox 1, Kansas City 0 FRIDAY'S GAMES Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m. Minnesota at Cleveland, 5:05 p.m Kansas City at Detroit, 5:05 p.m. Toronto at Tampa Bay, ‘‘bpm, Oakland at Texas, 6:05 L'a Angels at Cisox 605 p.m. Baltimore at Seattle,8:05 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST WoL Atlanta 81 59 Florida 74 65 Philadelphia 73 67 Washington 72 68 New York 70 69 Pet GB 579 — 532 612 521 8 514.69 504 1012 110 73 55 37 55 28 Str W3 W2 L5 12 L3 Home 4824 41-31 4031 39:29 41-27 Away 33:35 33-34 33-36 33:39 29-42 Intr 78 105 78 126 5-10 CENTRAL Stlouis Houston Milwaukee Chicago Cincinnati Pittsburgh WoL 88 52 75 64 69 71 68-71 64 75 55 83 Pct GB 629 — 540 1212 493 19 48919172 460 2312 399 32 L10 64 73 55 7-3 3-7 1-9 Str L2 W3 W+41 ~W2 L4 16 Home 42-27 4624 37:31 33:36 3735 2742 AwayIntr 46-25 105 2940 78 3240 8&7 35-35 69 2740 78 2841 57 GB 110 — 55 5 82 612 55 612 55 12:73 Str L2 L1 W2 Wl WA Home 3732 3037 240 3334 3635 Away Intr 377-41 33-37 612 3437840 2942 5-13 2046 6-9 WEST WoL SanDiego 68 69 San Francisco63 74 Asitona 63 77 Los Angeles 62 76 Colorado 56 81 Pet 49 460 450 449 409 NICK WASS/Associated Press Florida Marlins starter Dontrelle Willis delivers a pitch against the Washington Nationals to becometheonly 20-gamewinnerin Marlins history Wednesday. D-Train rolls to 20th win Howard Fendrich routed the Cincinnati Reds THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 14-5 Wednesday. confounding,high-kick delivery. That flatbrimmed cap. That “Gee, this is fun!” smile. Now Dontrelle Willis can add “20-gamewinner” to his list of trademarks — just like his boyhood and Geoff Jenkinsalso homered for Milwaukee, whichscored its most runssince a 15-5 win over Arizona on Oct. 7, 2001. The Brewerstied their seasonhigh for home runs. Mark Mulder. Neifi Perez had an RBI double and Matt Murton BillyWagner with two » Braves4, Mets3, 10 in- giving Houstona three- nings: At Atlanta, Ryan Langerhans hit a two-out, ningsto help Florida beat the WashingtonNationals hit a three-run homeroff “I'm dumbfounded right pitched 5*\ scoreless innings, and Chicagobeat consecutive at-bats with twooutsin the second tor the Cubs. outsin the ninth inning, wild-card race. St. Louis, Greg Maddux arun-scoring single on D Astros8, Phillies 6: At chasing Houston in the NL » Cubs2, Cardinals 1: At Philadelphia, Craig Biggio idol, Dave Stewart. gamesweep. TheAstros wontheir 12th straight overthe Phillies, who losttheirfifth in arow. i Bobby Abreuhita ty- two-runsinglein the 10th inning and the Braves a five-rundeficit, taking advantage of a throwing error bypitcher Doug career. Brocail on a bunt to score » White Sox 1, Royals 0: At Chicago. Paul tworunsinthe sixth in- ning and beat the Texas Konerko homered for the fourth straight game. and the White Sox ex- slumping New York. Langerhans tied it in the ing two-run homerin the because of how my team- eighth andpinch-hitter ninth with an RBI double off Braden Looper(4-7), Phillies a short-lived lead with an RBIsingle. in the 10th with Shingo Takatsujust onepitch mates felt for me today. They werepulling for me,” said Willis, who got a celebratory beer poured on his head by closer Todd Jones. “I'm kindof breathtaken.It’s historic.It’s a beautiful thing, not only ShaneVictorino gave the » ondwvacks4, Pirates 2: At Pittsburgh, Brandon Webballowed two runs from escaping a basesloaded, no-outjam inherited from Looper. John Foster(4-1) got the win despite giving up Chris Woodward's pinch- had an RBIsingle to lead Arizona. Webb(12-11) gave up Brewers 14, Reds 5: At Cincinnati, rookie J.J. Hardyhit his first grand slam andset a career high with fourhits and six RBIs as the Milwaukee Brewers hadtheir best day at the platein four years and hit single in the top half of the 10th, which pushed sevenhits in handing the Pirates their 10th consecu- the Mets back ahead. But NewYorklost for the tive homeloss. Pittsburgh ninth time in 11 games. third inning. He has 36 homersand a 12-gamehitting streak. » Yankees5, Devil Rays4: At NewYork, Jason Giam- bihit a go-aheaa two-run homerwith two outs in 14 5 second gamein a row. On Tuesday. theytook a one-runleadintothe ninth beforelosing tothe Rangers 10-7. INDIANS4, TIGERS 1 CLEVELAND DerRott abe nb abr ny the eighth inning and the Yankees got a muchneeded victorya Zainst a surprising nemesis. 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So wereally try to monitor them At Oakland, Mark Kotsay and Eric Chavezhit two- erica Park It took anotherultra “You goeight innings, you are doing somethingreally well,” managerTerry Francona said. During Boston'slast five games, Arroyo and Matt Clementeach wenteight innings, and David Wells and Tim Wakefield pitched complete games. Curt Schilling was the only memberof the current, rotationto fall short ofeight inningsin his last start," but showed improvement in working6 ' innings in Monday's 5-3 loss to the Chicago White Sox. since mid-August » Athletics 8, Mariners 7 Eric Wedge didn't give fourth Bostonpitcherin five games topitch at least eight innings, and the Red Sox overcame a three-run deficit with the help of David Ortiz’s two-run single to beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-3 Wednesday night. 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