CHICAGO SERIES White Sox win 5-2 brawl with Cubs

Kerry Wood held the Chisox to two runs in eight innings.
CHICAGO (AP) -- When the Cubs and White Sox finished yet another Chicagoland brawl, Dusty Baker and Jerry Manuel were able to resume their friendship.
Baker, the manager of the Cubs, crossed the field moments after his club's 5-2 victory over Manuel's White Sox and gave his counterpart a hug.
It was a rare moment of kindness in an otherwise spirited -- and occasionally ugly -- crosstown series that ended Sunday. Several skirmishes broke out in the upper deck late in the game.
At one point, a half-dozen cups of beer -- and at least one shoe -- went sailing through the air.
"I haven't seen that many fights since Dodgers-Giants in San Francisco," Baker said. "I even saw women fight."
Kerry Wood struck out seven and allowed two runs in eight innings for the Cubs, who dropped four of six to the White Sox the past two weekends.
Fans on Sosa
White Sox fans on the South Side gleefully took shots at Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa.
Sosa finished the series 2-for-12 with five strikeouts. Fans serenaded him with chants of "Corky, Corky!" and hoisted signs ridiculing the Cubs slugger for his recent corked-bat infraction.
"I've just got to deal with that. It's something that's been happening since we've come here," said Sosa, who played for the White Sox before being traded to the Cubs in 1992.
"It's over and we survived."
Wood (8-5) won for the fourth time in five starts after going all of May without a victory. It was his first win against the White Sox in six career starts. He gave up two runs on four hits in eight innings, pitching out of a bases-loaded jam in the seventh.
The hard-throwing right-hander walked two and struck out seven before 44,858 fans. Joe Borowski got the final two outs in his first appearance since blowing a save Thursday against Milwaukee.
Leading by three, Wood walked the leadoff batter in the seventh and gave up a single to Carlos Lee. After Jose Valentin flied out to deep right, Wood walked Aaron Rowand to load the bases with one out.
With White Sox fans expecting another late-inning rally, Wood struck out pinch-hitter Armando Rios with a nasty slider and got Willie Harris on a fly to right to end the threat.
"I had a pretty good slider," Wood said. "I kept throwing it and the guys kept swinging at it and chasing it."
The game featured two of baseball's most dominating pitchers this season in Wood and Esteban Loaiza, who entered with a major league-leading 1.99 ERA. Wood leads baseball with 143 strikeouts.