NATIONAL LEAGUE Sosa stays hot as Cubs topple Braves

Philadelphia won its fifth straight; San Francisco cruised past Arizona.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO -- Sammy Sosa homered to start a six-run fourth and Matt Clement pitched eight strong innings as the Chicago Cubs ended Atlanta's eight-game winning streak, beating the Braves 7-3 Saturday.
With one game left before the All-Star break, Sosa is on his biggest tear of the season.
Since returning June 18 from a seven-game suspension for using a corked bat, Sosa has a .344 average, 12 homers and 23 RBIs.
His high drive just dropped into the left-field basket at Wrigley Field, giving him 18 homers this season and seven hits in his last seven at-bats. He finished 2-for-4 after going 4-for-4 Friday with two homers.
Sosa has 517 homers, four shy of Willie McCovey and Ted Williams for 12th on the career list.
Clement (7-7) allowed three runs -- two earned -- and five hits, including Rafael Furcal's 13th homer in the third, as the Cubs avoided dropping below .500 for the first time all season. He walked none and struck out seven.
Joe Borowski worked a scoreless ninth to finish it.
ATLANTACHICAGO
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Furcal ss4122Grdzln 2b3221
DeRosa 2b4000REMtiz 3b3011
Shffield rf4000SSosa rf4122
CJones lf4010Alou lf4120
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Fick 1b4000ASGzlz ss4121
JLopez c4100JHrndz cf3112
Castilla 3b3120Brwski p0000
HRmrz p1000DMiller c4010
Grybsk p0000Clment p3000
MFrco ph1000Godwin cf0000
Bong p0000
RHrndz p0000
JuFrco ph1001
Hodges p0000
Totals34363Totals317117
Atlanta001000020--3
Chicago10060000x--7
E--REMartinez (6). DP--Atlanta 3. LOB--Atlanta 4, Chicago 4. 2B--Castilla (16), Grudzielanek 2 (27), ASGonzalez (25), JHernandez (7). 3B--REMartinez (1). HR--Furcal (13), SSosa (18). S--REMartinez.
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Atlanta
HRamirez L,8-33 2-397712
Gryboski1-310000
Bong210021
RHernandez100002
Hodges100002
Chicago
Clement W,7-7853207
Borowski110002
Umpires--Home, Bruce Froemming; First, Doug Eddings; Second, Ron Kulpa; Third, Mike Winters. T--2:37. A--39,980.
Phillies 4, Mets 2, 11 innings
NEW YORK -- Placido Polanco's sacrifice fly scored Jason Michaels with the go-ahead run as Philadelphia won its fifth straight.
Tyler Houston homered in his first game back from the disabled list and Jim Thome hit an RBI double for the Phillies. They added another run in the 11th on an error by New York shortstop Jose Reyes.
Rookie Jeff Duncan homered for the Mets, who have dropped six in a row since a three-game sweep in Cincinnati last weekend.
Michaels singled with one out in the 11th off John Franco, the fifth New York pitcher, and went to third on Marlon Byrd's single to left.
After Polanco's sacrifice fly, Franco (0-1) walked Thome. Bobby Abreu's grounder then went through Reyes' legs, allowing Byrd to score.
Jose Mesa (4-5) pitched two scoreless innings for the victory, escaping a two-on, one-out jam in the 10th.
PHILANEW YORK
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Planco 2b5131Duncan cf2111
Thome 1b4021Wggntn 3b4010
BAbreu rf6000Burnitz rf4000
Huston 3b3111TPerez lf2000
ToPerz 3b2000RGnzlz lf3011
Rollins ss5010JPhllps c1010
Burrell lf2000VWilsn c2000
Crmier p0000TClark 1b3000
Ledee ph1000McEwg 1b1010
Wndell p0000RSnchz 2b5000
Punto ph1000Seo p2000
Mesa p0000Wthers p0000
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Dckwrt p2000Cedeno ph1000
Mchels lf3110Benitez p0000
JBell ph1000
JoFrco p0000
Lloyd p0000
Glavine ph1000
Totals454133Totals37282
Philadelphia10000100002--4
New York10000001000--2
E--ToPerez (6), Reyes (7). DP--Philadelphia 2. LOB--Philadelphia 13, New York 10. 2B--Polanco (23), Thome 2 (18), Pratt (7), JPhillips (11). HR--Houston (2), Duncan (1). SB--Byrd (3), Polanco (10), Duncan (1). CS--JPhillips (1). S--Duncan 2. SF--Polanco.
IPHRERBBSO
Philadelphia
Duckworth5 1-351125
Cormier1 2-300010
Wendell221121
Mesa W,4-5210012
New York
Seo672224
Weathers1-320000
Stanton2-300001
Benitez210001
JoFranco L,0-11 2-332120
Lloyd1-300000
Balk--Cormier. Umpires--Home, Greg Gibson; First, Jerry Layne; Second, Dana DeMuth; Third, Marvin Hudson. T--4:05. A--33,452.
Giants 8, Diamondbacks 1
PHOENIX -- Barry Bonds and rookie Jerome Williams helped make Curt Schilling's comeback a miserable one.
Bonds tied a major league record with his 12th consecutive 30-homer season and Williams allowed two hits through six innings for San Francisco.
Ray Durham greeted Schilling with a home run on the second pitch of the game -- the first outing for Arizona's right-handed ace since he broke his right hand on May 30.
Bonds hit a mammoth 448-foot smash over the swimming pool in right-center with one out in the fourth, his major league-leading 30th home run of the season -- matching the mark set by Jimmie Foxx from 1929-40.
The San Francisco star has homered in five consecutive games and eight of his last nine, including a 432-foot drive off Arizona's Miguel Batista in Friday night's 10-7 victory.
He has 643 homers, 17 shy of Willie Mays for No. 3 on the career list.
Bonds also had a two-run, opposite-field double as San Francisco improved to 6-1 against Arizona this season and increased its NL West lead over the second-place Diamondbacks to six games.
Schilling (4-4) gave up five runs, four earned, on six hits in six innings.
SAN FRANARIZONA
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Snow 1b4111Kata 2b4000
Grssom cf5110LGnzlz lf3000
Bonds lf4223Hlnbrn 1b3000
JoCruz rf3100SFinley cf4110
Aurilia ss5000Cintron ss3010
Alfonzo 3b5011Vllrreal p0000
Trralba c3210Terrero rf0000
JeWms p1000Dllucci rf2010
Eyre p1000McCkn rf2000
FRdgez p0000MMyrs p0000
Nathan p0000Raggio p0000
Moeller c3000
Schllng p2000
Orpesa p0000
Baerga 1b2000
Totals35886Totals31131
San Francisco100112210--8
Arizona000010000--1
E--Snow (3), Schilling (2), Baerga (2). LOB--San Francisco 8, Arizona 9. 2B--Bonds (11), Alfonzo (14). HR--Durham (4), Bonds (30). S--JeWilliams 2.
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San Francisco
JeWilliams W,5-1621037
Eyre1 2-310024
FRodriguez1-300001
Nathan100001
Arizona
Schilling L,4-4665425
Oropesa022200
Villarreal201012
MMyers1-300000
Raggio2-300010
Oropesa pitched to 3 batters in the 7th. HBP--by FRodriguez (Terrero), by Oropesa (Snow), by Schilling (Bonds). WP--Eyre. Umpires--Home, Tony Randazzo; First, Ted Barrett; Second, C.B. Bucknor; Third, Tim McClelland. T--3:15. A--45,653.