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The Cardinals won, 8-Louis Cardinals Yadier Molina hits . . 0. four-gam- (4-0- e : A g game-winnin- . half-gam- THURSDAY RESULTS SATURDAYS GAMES Oakland 8. Chicago Wlute Sox 5, 10 innings Detroit 8, N.Y.Yankees 5 LA. Angels 4, Toronto 3. : Kansas City 6, Texas 2- - . Baltimore at Toronto, 11:07 a.m. Detroit at NY. Yankees, 1:55 p.m. . L.A. Angels at Boston, 5:05 p.m. Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m. Texas at Minnesota, 5:10 p.m. Kansas City at Oakland, 7:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Seattle, . . THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MILWAUKEE within a half game of e Milwaukee in the NL CentraL . , Adam Wainwright gave up two hits in seven scoreless innings and ; Yadier Molina put on a rare power display with two homers as the St. Louis Cardinals complet- - , ed a crucial threegame sweep of the Brewers with an 0 victory, on ; Thursday.. Jt was the first career multihomer game for Molina, who came intoThurs-- " day's game with ony one home run this seasoa He drove in all three of the Cardinals runs through J. the first eight innings as Cardinals the third-plac- e closed to within 2 Vt games of the NL Central division lead tor the first time since 9 Giants R, Braves 3: At At- lanta, the Giants homered..: in each of the first four .. innings off Chuck James, scored in every inning until the eighth and went on to salvage the finale of series. ' a three-gam- e San Francisco jumped ahead quickly on Bengie Molina's threerun homer in the first. He hatted deanup in place of Barry Bomb, whogot the night off after hitting his 75Bth career : . NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST 8-- W New York 67- - PhAadetphia I' Pet 53 .558 5 64 56 .533 . 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W--l 2 . 0 910 24-3- 8 at Chicago Cubs (HNI ), 12:20 p.m. St. Louis (Looper 10-at Florida (Olsen ), 5:05 p.m: San Francisco (Zlto NY. Mete (Gtavbie 10-at Wuhington (Chico ), 5:05 p.m. A05 p.m. .PtiHly (Durbin 4-- 8 at Pittsburgh (Gorzelannrl at Atlanta (Cormier Qr2), 5:35 p.m. Arizona (Webb 12-at Milwaukee (Suppan ), 6:05 p.m: .Cincinnati (Arroyo ), 8:05 pjn. Houston (W.Wiiams 2) at San Diego (Ppavy at LA Dodgers (Stults ), 8:40 p.m. '.Colorado (Fogg 7-- : . g . 7-- . . 'San ' Francisco 9, Atlanta 3 .Colorado St Sail Dipgo. lets 'Houston it Dodgers, lata : SATURDAY'S GAMES St. Louis at ChiCutK1:55 p.m, Arizona t Atlanta, 5:05 p.m. . Cincy at Milwaukee, 5:05 p.m. ; ' et Florida. 5:05 p.m.. . San Fran, NY. Mete at Wesh., 5:05 . Phtnyat Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. Houston at San Diego, 8:05 p.m.' Cotorado et Dodbers, 8:10 p.m. . . CARDINALS 8, BREWERS 0 ST.UXXS :MLB NOTES - gets key to dty for 500th homer A-R- od ; 1 s . ' . . New York Yankee slugger ; ( NEW YORK was presented on TWsday with a Rodriguez Ajex 'key to the city in honor of his 500th home run. .. who just turned 32, hit the milestone homer against the Kansas City Royals on Aug. 4, 2 d, becoming the 22nd and youngest player to reach the mark. . He received a key to the city from Mayor Michael Bloomberg at Yankee Stadium before a game against the Detroit Tigers while teammates and manager Joe Torre looked on. It will be something I hold dear to me for the ; rest of my life Rodriguez said. on Mon-da- y The Yankees paid tribute to . before their game against the Baltimore ! 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He won - starts for the first time e and low- since ered his ERA to 2.68, the second-best mark in the American League. Oak- Dan land Haren has a. 2.54 ERA. C , Signed by Toronto in 1992, Escobar spent parts of seven seasons with the Blue Jays before signing contract with a free-agethe Angels following the . . .ni1lb S 0 0 10 0 1 4 120 4 112 0 000 I960 0 000 KhCNSb 0 0 Jacob, 1 . n . - I Diamondbacks 5, Mar-.-tins 4: At Miami.Livari.: Hernandez shook off a ' rough start to pitch seven innings, and the Arizona won for the 19lh time in , 24 games. Hernandez ) gave up three rims in the first, then allowed only one run over the next six innings. r The struck out none but walked only ' one, and he also had two hits and scored a run.1 . . . .;' 146302L CUBS 12. REDS Com 1 Motto Do bail 100 2 2 left-cente- r. . , - 030002 HmHoNCt I 9 0 g 1 VI ' 1 OOMtonN h 0 0 1 5 10 1 MCpbm. t0 114 4 Twrboa . 0 0 I T'S BurtiLOO T SI. Un 1 t (3b) Rota 1201, Oman. (111. 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But it just wasn't allowing him to be Nick John-IsoYouve got to have the hip in baseball" Johnson broke his right femur in a collision with right fielder Austin Kearns during a game 'against the New York Mets on Sept. 23, 2006. 000 2 4 4 10 Ktmt I Mb i 1 3 13gOMp ' Keys to the city are presented to distinguished people for outstanding civic contributions. Last week, the mayor presented a key to New York SMets pitcher Tom Glavine in honor of his 300th career win. d and Glavine are in lofty company. Past recipients of keys include the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul H and Mother Theresa. 4 t StLwU fSH 02 0 0 10 M SM 5 1 3 I SphiI 1 4 BTMpM S 0 1 1 fPdrib S 0 0 fl Sum 3b 0 0 0 0 JNbnX 4 1 t 0 Mm2S HoMiM 4 0 0 0 OHUId Ryan 3b DukmN,-4 0 1 0 DMiMfC 1 1 . 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Wainwright (11-9- ), in his ' off Pittsburgh's comeback first year, as a starter after from a fiverun deficit, and the Pirates avoided starting as a reliever durbeing swept at home by ing the Cardinals World' the Mets for the first time Series run last year, struck out a career-hig- h since 2001. eight while walking three.. Jason Bay had three singles and : hit Chia two-ru- n LaRoche , i Cubs 12, Reds 4: At homer to lead the Prates' . cago, Mark DeRosa went with four RBIs rally from, deficits of 54). and Chicago scored seven and With two outs, third times in the seventh to baseman David Wright win for just the fifth time : threw away Freddy ; .' inthe lak 15 games. .. added Jacque Jones ' DIAMONDBACKS 5 ' four htts for the Cuba, MARLINS 4 who are only two games above S00 but moved ' ; r bN , to rbN . 3-- 7 . . . . . I Phillies , . Str : Home Roaid bit: W2 . April 20. 1 ning-endin- . . . 8:05 p.m. Sanchez's potential in- - ; grounder for a twobase error. Sanchez then scored the goahead run when catchar Mike DiFelice droppedthe .. throw at the plate for an. error after LaRoche singled for his third hit. Bay and Jose Bautista followed g with singles. , first-plac- . . run for the A's, who won their fourth straight ; game. The White Sox lost their fifth in a row. '. Ruddy Lugo pitched a perfect 10th inning to . earn the win for Oakland. Lugo ) has allowed . just one earned run in . nine innings since being recalled from Triple-' ! Sacramento on Aug. 4.. : . Suzuki's hit qame after Mark Elks ; Cleveland.. tripled with one out off reliever Matt Thornton We've got a pretty (34), the fifth Chicago, good lineup, too, Detroit manager Jim Leyland pitcher. White Sax center fielder Jerry Owens tried said.' - '. ' Gary Sheffield finished to make a sliding catch btn the ball bounbed off with a pair of the grass and caromed walks in his return to off Owens' leg and into Yankee Stadium. The to .. former New York slugright. aUowing Ellis ' ger, traded to Detroit in ; take third. the offseason, was txxied . . Marco ScutaTO Was ' ' before each plate appear-- 1 "..(ptcntionallywalked be- -, ; ance hours after standtore pinchhitter Donnie' . seecom-out .. lined to ing by the critical Murphy ments he recently made ond. Suzuki t hen hit the about Torrei first pitch he saw from Thornton over the wall in I Angels A Blue Jays 3: - Piazza hit his first At Toronto, Kelvim Escor-- , triple bar shut down his former ! since Sept. 22, 2006 lead- team, Gary Matthews ing off the second, then . later added. a twoout, :. Jr. homered and the LoS two-ruhome run off ' Angeles Angels hekl on White Sox starter Javier to beat the Toronto Blue ' ' .. Vazquez in the fifth. - ... Jays. & 04RREN HAUCNAssociated Pres 11:05 a m, (1st) at Boston (Buchhoiz ), at Boston (Beckett 15-5- ), 5:05 p.m. (2nd) Angels (Santana ; Detroit (Robertson at N Y. Yankees .(Pettitte 9-5:05 p.m. at Toronto (Burnett ), Baltimore (G.Oison 5:07 p.m. ' at Tampa Bay (Jackson Cleveland (Byrd 10-5:10 p!m. Texas (Gabbard 5-at Minnesota (Silva 6:10 p.m. Kansas City (Bannister 8-- at Oakland (Meyer ). 8:05 p.m. 6-at Seattle (Batista ), 8:05 p.m. , ChiSox (Conderas (Lackey , ..: i 7 8 ... . r ; ...... i: 9 Athletics NEW YORK After rolling along for weeks,, the New York Yankees have suddenly hit a skid. Carlos GuiUen hit a first inning grand slam' off Mike Mussina, and Ivan Rodriguez also homered to help the Detroit. Tigers beat New York 65 on Thursday night for the Yankees' third straight loss after winning nine of 10. "I'm happy to say it seems very odd," New York manager Joe Torre said. "We still have a great deal of confidence." Justin Verlander held New York's powerful in check and the Tigers won the opener of series a key to move hack into.f irst place in the AL Central, e a ahead of idle bit 144 93 6 W7 in the ninth. 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