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Show T I J Monday. August 20, 2007 i The Day AMERICAN LEAGUE a DAILY HERALD Star of the day Baseball Minnesota starter Mian Santana came within three strikeouts of the major league record in the Twins' win over the Rangers. Santana pitched eight innings, allowed two hits and fanned 17. 1- -0 AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST W L M GB lofton W 50 .597. NcraYort 70 54 .565 Rmnto O SO 12 Mtimm 57 65 .467 Wipib 47 . Hama Road kit 55 4023 U . 4 3 W-- l 4 1012 M W-- t 16 55 3524 2528 22612 76 110 Str .4-- 6 1 ' t .W-- 34-2- 7 2530108 106. 24-3- $ 28-3- MINNEAPOLIS 1 Santana finished with CENTRAL W L Ocwbnd Pet Gl - 68 55 553 67 57 540 MinneoU' 62 61 Kansas 55 66 447 13 55 $4 69 439 M 9 1 1 1 44 504 6 9 l W-- 11-- 7 28-3- 3 a franchise-recor- d 17 . strikeouts in eight innings Jonny Gomes opened to lead the Minnesota the 12th with a double off Rafael Perez (0-1-) and Twins past the Texas scored on Guzmans hit to Rangers Sunday. center. Guzman had been Santana's 17 strikeouts called up from Triple-were the most in the Durham before the game. majors since Ben Shects faimed 18 in Milwaukees 9 Athletics 6, Royals 1: At 1 win over Atlanta on Oakland, Calif ., Lenny May 16, 2004, accord- - .. DiNardo allowed five ing to the Elias Sports Bureau. He broke the hits in eight, innings and Oakland avoided being Minnesota record of 15, accomplished four times swept by Kansas City at the last by Bert Bly- -. home for the first time in almost two decades. (even on Aug. 1, 1986, DiNardo (86) won his against Oakland.- third straiglx start and Santana ( 13-- retired fifth consecutive decision, the first 12 batters he faced before Sammy and Marco Scutaro and ' Sosa led off the fifth with Dan Johnson each horn- a single to ered for Oakland, Sosa also doubled with I Mariners 11, White Sox ' two outs in the seventh ' 5: At Seattle, Jose Guillen for Texas only other hit homered and drove in the against five runs to help the Mariners finish off a sweep of I Angels 3, Red Sox 1: At Boston, Joe Saunders. Chicago. took a shutout into the Adrian BeKre added a solo shot in the first, and eighth inning and the Angels gained a split of everyone in the Mariners e the series be--. lineup except for Raul tween the the two teams Ibanez and Jose Lopez had at least one hit by the with the best records in time Chicago starter Jon baseball..:, In his 26th major Garland was pulled with two outs in.the third. league start. Saunders (7-scattered, six hits and ATHLETICS 6, ROYALS 1 allowed just two runners MMSMCITV to reach second base in IM tk rkM1 7 Yt innings. 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Marion Anderson also had a tworun double off reBever Jon Rauch (M). 2534 510 : WEST W L Arizona , Pet 437 San Diego 66 57 loi Angeles, Colorado . 64 60 ,516 SanFrandsce GB 71, 54 .561 . 4 110 Str 7-LI .54 W-- 1 Homo Road tart 3723 3529 3441 57 59 3028 510 9 l 612 54 63 60 512 7. 46.1-- 1 3523 2537 158 8 54 70 1351612.55 W4 510 W-- 34-3- 2 27-3-2 . 27-3- . TODAY'S GAMES San Frandaco (Orttz 2-- at Florida (Mitra ). 11:05 a.m. St Louta (Pfnairo 2-- at Chicago Cuba (Ulty 13-5-), 12:20 p.m. at CMmaa (OumatraR 51), 5:10 5m. Atlanta (T.Hudaon 14-at Houston (Jmningi 58), 6:05 p.m.. Washington (Ridding 2-7-at Colorado (Jimonez ), 7:05 pm. . Pittsburgh (Morris at Arizona (Davis 7.40 pm. IHwaukM (GxXanfo 4-- . . SUNDAY'S RESULTS Manta 6, Arizona 2 San Francisco 6, Florida 5 N.Y.Mata5WaiNngton2 Pimtiurgh 8. Philadelphia 4 Cincinnati 7, Milwaukaa 6 San Diego 5, Houston 3 ' LADoagari4,Coiorado3 Louis at ChCuba, ppd-- - - TUESDAY'S GAMES 1A at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m. San Diogo at N.Y. Mats, 5:10 p.m. Atlanta at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m. . Washington at Houston, 6:05 p.m. Florida at St Louis, 8:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at Colorado, 7:05 p.m. Milwaukao at Arizona, 740 p.m. CNCutw at SanftanH 8:15 pjn. I Giants 6, Martin At 5: " xu c MLB NOTES 2 2 1 ' ; m . 0 4 110 1 2 May II Titati 1 0 1010 1000 20 404 p I pma 0 0 0 1 2 ' u Fata (21). mm iM (IX II Ilk 0 JM0UMI4 MM Guillen said. John Smoltz passes Phil Niekro to set Braves strikeout record John Smoltz passed Phil Niekra to become the Braves strikeout leader on Sunday, fanning Arizonas Mark Reynolds fat the third inning for his 2,913th career strikeout. Smoltz began the day four behind the mark Niekro set with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves. He struck out Reynolds in the first inning, Justin Upton and pitcher Yusmeire Petit in the second and Conor Jackson in the third to tie , the mark. Smoltz struck out Reynolds again to end the third inning. 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He earned the 342nd win of his brilliant career, tying Tim Keefe for ninth on the e list. 9 HOUSTON 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 Rkklwa 4 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 ftrnivi 0 OOOdmli 0 0Q0 0 0 0 SmbA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Retro . to go in that direction. Dye's extension includes a $12 million mutual ; clause for 2008 option tor 2010 and a full clause to six teams for 2009. and a ; ;. Williams said he hasn't been given parameters i of a 2008 budget. But he revealed that fan sup- ; port attendance, sponsorships and advertising ! sales indicate the Sax could attempt to land a mar--; queefree agent this .That could mean ta ted for center fielder, such . . 'as Minnesotas TorH Huntar. . With (Mari) liwhria's signature and JDs sig- -. nature, we are going to show the fans in Chicago we are going to go for it in 2008," manager Ozzia . . PADRES 5, ASTROS 3 mu I 0 0 0 khfiic 0 00 low 11 0 0 1 JKMIfk 0 1 0SMDP : ATLANTA 4 OOOPwl 0 extension SEATTLE By signing right fielder Jermaina Dya to a twoyear, $22 million extension Saturday, White Sax general manager Kan Williams made it clear his sights ire set on returning to champion- ' shipcaliber status as quickly as possible. "As I've always said, IH let you know when were in a rebuilding mode, Williams said. Now is not the time for that We still have far too many pieces that I consider championship pieces for us - UIIMWRH 0 0 0 FwcUm 0 0 0 Pamd 2 1 0 Knuprt White Sox give Dye two-ye-ar - Miami, Guillermo Rodri- guez, Ryan Klesko and Rajai Davis all sored after a trio of Florida DODGERS 4, ROCKIES 3 . 3-- . innings. I Mats 7, Brewers C: At . Milwaukee, Finch-hitte- r Javier Valentinfbases-loadetworun double in. the eighth inning helped Cincinnati Send the Brewers to their sixth loss in seven games. Valentin hit a 2 pitch from Scott Unebrink (4- -' field 4) to the wall, scoring Jeff Gonine and Edwin Encaraacion , to give the Reds their first lead in the game. Cincinnati trailed SO " after three innings, but Adam Dunn and Bran-do- n Phillips homered as the Reds rallied to tie the score only to ' fall behind again on J.J. Hardys Soto home run to lead off the seventh. ,. . left-hand- .:. I Reds . 59 Rockies 3: At Los Angeles, Ramon Martinez hit a two-rusingle in the eighth inning and fin-- . .' ished with three RBI and Los Angeles tods two of three from Colorado. Todd Helton gave the Rockies a 2 lead in the eighth with a two-ruhomer deep into the right- ' field pavilion. 3-- ' Washington ' . . . r. n 6-- 2 Gl , go-ahe- . Teixeira drove in four runs with two homers ... and John Smoltz became, the Braves' strikeout leader as Atlanta beat the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday. Smottz. 40, passed Phil Niekro as the Braves v franchise strikeout lead-:.- .' er He set a season high ' with 12 strikeouts while giving up five hits, three walks and two runs in eight innings. , Yunel Escobar added a homer as the Braves scored six runs on seven V. hits each far extra bases in the first four :. EAST 55 -- . MNHEtNNWIIMENhma . I Dodgers 4, ning, lifting the Giants past the Marlins. Ray Durham hit his .i ' 10th home run and Kevin Frandsen added his third for San Francisco, which has won four ATLANTA?-Mar- k NATIONAL LEAGUE Pet 9) mwin TUESDAY'S GAMES Qavaland at DatroR, 5:05 p.m. Taxaa at Baltimora, 5:05 p.m. Oakland at Toronto, 5:07 p.m. . Boston at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m: Saattta at Mimaiota, 6:10 pm. Kanaaa City at CNSox, 6:11 p.m. N.Y. at LA Angela, 8:05 p.m. . . . Arizona Diamondbacks third baseman Jeff Cirffla togs . W k . . TODAY'S GAMES Ttxaa (Padua 3-- a! Baltknoia (D.Cadran 512), 5:05 p.m. Ortdand (Blanton 10-at Toronto (Marcum 104, 5:07 pjn. . 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