Show '' r " ' 11 v )'r-- V ' ' i j : x i The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday July 22 2002 — All Supported Finley wins Oc ? vr- By The Associated Press Braves 2 Phillies four-tim- 8-- X‘ East-leadi- ’ Reds 9 Mets Peavy started the scoring with a two-ru-n doud double Nevin added a ble and Ron Gant hit an RBI double bases-loade- Peavy (2-nearly gave away the lead when hie allowed five runs in the third inning But the rookie managed to last five innings for his second straight victory Peavy allowed five tuns — four earned— an four hits Trevor Hoffman pitched the ninth for his 23rd save in 24 chances San Diego nearly squandered leads of 6-- 0 3 and 11-- 6 before finally holding off-thfirst-plaDiamondbacks 6) 6) ce 1 ' cisco - with a homer - three doubles and five RBIs for the Indians The 20 hits Indians finished with a season-hig- h Einar Diaz doubles three by including Chris Magruder and Omar Yizquel led off the game with consecutive home runs the first time the Indians have started with two straight shots ! Graig Nettles and Vhda Pinson aid i June 19’ I97I against Detroit Angels 7 Mariners 5 Jarrod Washburn wen his 12th consecutive ' decision and Garret Anderson drove in the go- Anaheim second as double ahead runwith his e sweep of Seattle at Edicompleted a son International Field : ' The Angels swept the AL Mariners for die foist time since June 8 1998' at Edison FiekL Anaheim moved within a ' " Seattie y game of first-acWashburn (12-gave up five runs on eight hits in seven innings struck out four and walked one The five earned runs equaled Washburn’s total in ' his five previous starts "v' Tim Salmon’s sacrifice fly off reliever jpff Nelson (1-tied the game at 3 in the seventh j Anderson followed by doubfing into die right- -' j " three-gam- West-leadi- '’V'? mol e 2) ' - 2) A I’ - bany f hit by a Kansas City's Raul Ibafiez Cleveland hurler Heath Murray with the bases loaded in the 10th inning Sunday " field corner sewing Darin Erstad whio had singled to give Anaheim a 5 lead Yankees 9 Red Sox 8 Jason Giambi led off the bottom of the ninth inningwith an excuse-m- e singleright fielder Hot Nixqn’s error let the tying run score and ' walk that Jorge Posada drew a win over Boston at Yankee a gave New ' York ' 'Stadium Yankees Starter Jeff Weaver tied a team record by giving up five home riins — two each to Nomar Garciapaira and Manny Ramirez — as the Red Sox rallied to take an 7 lead g But Giambi began the ninth with a single toward third base against an overshifted defense Ennque Wilson then scored when Bemie Williams ’ ground tingle ' rolled right through Nixon third and Robin Williams went all the way to Vienture and Raul Mondesi were walked intention- ally to lorid thq bases Boston manager Grady Lit- 6-- bases-load- ed 8-- check-swin- Pinch-runn- er : : : the ninth Bob Howry (1-got the win and Antonio Osuna worked the ninth for his sixth save' in one-ru- n enabling Chicago to improve to 6-season this games Twins 4 Tigers 2 David Ortiz homered for the fourth time in three games and Minnesota completed a three-gamsweep at Comerica Park defeating : 2) 17 : - : : r i ( ’ 1 - ‘ best-cas- v-- " AP photo pitch from V-- Questec did not return a tele- phone message left Sunday its office in Deer ark NY v ' I pleted a three-gaseries at Los ’? 7 Ahgeles "I won’t knbwany more : Bonds’ strained right hamstring - until was Monday twnday Jj Giants trained Sfan Conte said and although he ufasn’t in tiie San ' Francisco Giants’ starting lineup '! Bonds who hurt hinjtself Friday he foot batting practice did Smne night haj improved more than he thought he would r Kght jogging and rode a stationary 'vL1 Vltseemsfo be getting down to oe round of batting pracfofovon$ little spot in foe back of his three balls over tiie cen ter-leg above his knee” Conte said “He will begetting aaMRItompr- field fence at Dodger Stadium - tow’ “I’m all riht” he said in the e see-When asked die clubhouse befme the Giants com- - L03 ANGELES (AP) it V: : e Detroit g Twins won their fifth in The AL a row Detroit lost its sixth straight game Eric Milton (12-gave up two riins and seven hits jn seven innings Eddie Guardado pitched a scoreless ninth for his 32nd save Rangers 7 Oakland 3 nin with Ivan Rodriguez drove in the a single in the l2th as the Rangers survived three straight innings of peril before rallying for a 3 victory over the Oakland Athletics Gabe Kapler had a two-ru-n single and Alex n burst in Rodriguez hit an RBI triple in a the 12th as the Rangers escaped the Coliseum with just their second victory since the Central-leadin- 7) ! go-ahe- ad bases-load- ed 7-- five-ru- All-St- ar 'v' break '' The final score made it look easy but the 16 runner left on base by the A’s — including nine in die final four innings suggested otherwise - - Bonds’ hiamstrmg Keeps him out of action ' Yvt'i ng 16-1- ‘ k - four-gam- AtnericanlLeague - n ninth-innin- ' ’ I RIP on A 12 White Sox 8 Orioles ? g Chicago took advantage of three errors including two by Chris Singleton to score two unearned runs and beat Baltimore at Camden ' e Yards and snap a losing streak The White Sox gothomers from Ray Durham Jose Valentin and Tony Graffanino but the deci- tive runs came courtesy of Baltimore miscues in - (0-- 2) - See The Devil Rays had dropped seven straight overall and 15 of 16 They have the worst record ' in the majors at 30-6- 6 Ibafiez drove in five runs' giving him 33 RBIs in 22 games After a two-ru- n triple and his homer he was plunked with two outs by Heath Murray to end it Milton Bradley went 1- -3 10-ga- 13-ga- 13-1- um- NL-Ieadi- ng 3-- homer in the Raul Ibafiez hit a tying two-ru-n ninth inning dim was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the 10th to give die Kansas City Royals a wild 2 victory in 10 innings over die Cleveland Indians Sunday at Kauffman Stadi that the company manufacturing equipment used to evaluate them remove a reference saying umps ! support the system In a telephone conference call Sunday 43 major league umps told ' the officers of their union fire World Umpires Association to made the demand on QuesteC Inc A screen on the company’s Web site says of umpires and the system: “In general they support it!” “We wouldn’t dare say everyone loves it at this point but from what ' we have seen the umpiring com- munity as a whole agrees this information has a lot of potential value and they want to work with it to see what can be teamed" The WUAfiled a grievance 'against owners Friday over the ays- -' tan and union lawyer Larry Gitv son said umpires think it cannot properly evaluate pitches especially breaking balls “Te technology has never been adequately explainedfoiunpires or r our legal and technical consul- tants ” umpires John Hirschbeck Joe Brinkman and Tim Welke said in a letter to the company they v released Sunday “Questec Inc has' not answered questions from the WUA and the office of the com- missioner of baseball has refused to provide requested information which refusal led to theWUA’slat- est grievance ‘Even if the Questec system were more accurate there remain legitimate questions as to whether this device belongs in rmyorleagtie baseball Like last year’s ’pitch count’ gimmick Questec intajeqts an extraneous demeatinto die game and pressures umpires to compete with the machine rather 'i thad giving their fiill attention to calling the game as they see it ' :V unfold before diem? After the WUAfiled a grievance last yeti baseball officials stopped using pitch counts as ah evaluation ' Larry Walker homered and scored twice and Brent Butler added a solo homer as Colorado completed a three-gam- e sweep of Milwaukee at Coots Field with an RBI and a Walked went walk to raise his batting aver338 to age Jason Jennings (10-3- ) allowed three runs and six hits in 3 innings to become Colorado’s first winner tie played a five-ma- n infield but it didn’t matter as Ugueth Urbina (0-5- ) walked Posada on a 2 pitch " Devil Rays 7 Blue Jays 5 Jorge Sosa earned his first major league victory and stopped Tampa Bay’s road losing streak leading the Devil Rays over Toronto at SkyDome Tampa Bay’s road skid was the longest since Philadelphia dropped 14 in a row on the road in 1997 The Devil Rays’ previous win away from Tropicana Field came' on June 18 at San Fran- - By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Major league baseball umpires demanded Rockies 6 Brewers 4 0) Angels comeback give hurler 12th consecutive victory r 8-- hero in tight KC triumph Umps file DhaiDiez : ( go-ahe- 8-- AP photo line In the second (lining of 1 5) 3) (1-- ng Barry Larkin and Brandon Larson hit solo homers and Kelly Stinnett drove in three runs as Cincinnati salvaged die final game of a three-gam- e series at Cinergy Field The Mets had scored 76 runs in the past 11 games winning eight of them to move into a tie with Cincinnati for third place in the NL wild card race But they reverted to their first-ha- lf form at the plate failing to generate much and two against Elmer Dessens (7-relievers Dessens allowed four hits jn seven scoreless innings to run his scoreless streak to 17 innings Cubs 3 Astros 2 Mark Bellhom and Fred McGriff home- red and Alex Gonzalez drove in the run with a double against Tim as Chicago beat Houston at Redding (3-Wrigley Field Jeff Fassero (4-- pitched one inning of ' relief for the victory for the Cubs who have won seven of 10 and are 4 since Bruce Kimm took over as interim manager July 3 NationaliLeague Cardinals 8 Pirates 4 Chuck Finley won his NL debut by get- ting the offensive support he seldom got in Cleveland with Albert Pujols homering and driving in four runs in St Louis’ victory over Pittsburgh at PNC Park wasn’t dazzling in his first Finley NL start following 17 seasons in the AL lead before leaving 'giving back a three-ru- n after allowing four runs three earned in six innings After being dealt Friday Finley said he was looking forward to exactly what he saw Sunday — a lot of runs Finley got an average of only 29 runs of support over his last 1 Kevin Millwood pitched eight strong innings Gary Sheffield homered and Atlanta completed a three-gam- e sweep over Philadelphia at Veterans Stadium Millwood (9-didn't allow a hit until Marlon Anderson led off the sixth with a line drive single to right He gave up four hits one run and struck out five to win his fifth straight decision Tim Spooneybarger got two outs for his first career save The NL Braves have won five straight games and 23 of 29 6) 11-- double down the right-fiel- d San Diego's Phi Nevin follows the flight of his three-ru- n the Padres’ game against the Arizona Diamondbacks Sunday at Qualcomm Stadium ' 13 Indians starts The San Diego Padres ended Randy Johnson’s dominance against them getting double from Phil Nevin a two-ru-n a three-ru- n double from pitcher Jake Peavy and e Cy Young eight runs against the winner in an 9 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday who had been 0 with a Johnson(13-4- ) 1 57 ERA against the Padres allowed six walks in eight hits and a season-hig- h five innings — his shortest outing of the year It was die Big Unit’s fust loss in 13 regular season games against the Padres San Diego which tied its season high in runs scored six in the second with the help from three walks by Johnson - L debut NL y V s i: v 7 v - K ' a 1 nario for Bonds Conte replied: “He could 'play by Wednesday br: Thursday If you would give me ' that I would take it” " Bond turns 38 on Wednesday Bonds strained his hamstring Phasing &ic Karrps’ leadoff triple field in the 11th to V inning Friday night Bothered by sore hamstrings since spring trainingBonds r remained on the ground for a few 'minutes before’ slowly limpipg off foefield ' Conte said he wouldn’t rulereit ' th& possibility of Bonds going on the I disabled list but tiiat seems unlikely- '!: considering the way he looked in ' batting practice left-cent- "'v:' m t 'rV k Uk V ‘ ' - In admtion Bonds has bounced' back much faster than fexpected fol- lowing previous injuries' Bonds who hit a record 73 ' homers last yeti' has 28 diis' season and 595 in his career to rank fourth' list on the 0 a V I ' ' I 4 ’ : A- 'X : V a '! ! all-ti- ’vV' V f f' - |