Yankees 5, Cubs 3

Yankees 5, Cubs 3
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By RICK GANO
AP Sports Writer
CHICAGO (AP) -- Sixty-five years later, the New York Yankees remain perfect at Wrigley Field.
Jason Giambi had three RBIs to back David Wells, and the Yankees beat the Chicago Cubs 5-3 Friday in their first game at Wrigley since the 1938 World Series.
Sammy Sosa's eight-game suspension for using a corked bat was the focus before the game, and then the Yankees took over.
Wrigley Field and the adjacent rooftops were jammed, and there was a loud contingent of New York fans chanting "Let's Go Yankees!" The crowd was announced at 39,359, the second-largest this season.
The Yankees had been to Wrigley on just two previous trips, going a combined 4-0 in the World Series in 1932 and 1938.
And how things have changed since the teams last played.
In that matchup 65 years ago, World Series seats were being sold in sets of three for $19.80. When Roger Clemens goes for his 300th victory Saturday, some seats are going for up to $400 on the resale market.
The Cubs have been back to just one World Series since, losing to the Detroit Tigers in 1945.
The Yankees? They've returned 28 times, winning 19.
Sosa was cheered loudly when he ran out to right field with a few boos were discernible as well.
Wells, who's never shy with an opinion on a variety of topics, said earlier this week that Sosa shouldn't be allowed to play in the series because of the corked bat.
But Sosa did because he immediately appealed the suspension announced Friday. He's hoping to have it reduced next week, still claiming that he mistakenly grabbed a batting practice bat with cork in it before it shattered Tuesday night.
Wells (8-2) allowed seven hits in 7 2-3 innings, including Ramon Martinez's two-run homer in the third and Corey Patterson's solo shot with two outs in the eighth. Mariano Rivera got three outs for his fifth save in six chances, striking out Hee Seop Choi to end the game with runners on second and third.
Sosa went 1-for-4 with two strikeouts and made a diving catch in the sixth inning, and still hasn't homered since May 1, a stretch that included a trip to the disabled list when he missed 17 games.
He brought the crowd to its feet in the sixth with a long drive to right that Raul Mondesi caught in front of the ivy on the warning track.
Giambi, struggling with his average, hit his 14th homer in the first, a two-run shot off Carlos Zambrano (5-5).
New York added three more in the third on Giambi's sacrifice fly and a two-run, bases-loaded single by Juan Rivera. Notes: Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer, who managed the Cubs to a division title in 1989, took out the lineup card before the game. The fans gave Zimmer a rousing reception on his way back to the dugout. "To this day, to me, that year was the biggest thrill I had in baseball. I love the place," Zimmer said. ... Wells doubled over Moises Alou in left in the fourth, chugging into second. It was the seventh hit of his career and first since June 5, 2000, with the Blue Jays against the Braves. ... The start of the game was delayed 1 hours, 25 minutes by rain. ... The Yankees have hit 90 homers in their first 60 games. ... Wells' only other appearance against the Cubs came on June 8, 2001, at then Comiskey Park in his only season with the White Sox. And it was the shortest start of his career. He was removed because of back spasms after facing five batters without recording an out.
Mets 3, Mariners 2
By BEN WALKER
AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Cliff Floyd and Jason Phillips homered as the New York Mets broke Seattle's nine-game winning streak, beating the Mariners 3-2 Friday night behind a fine pitching effort from rookie Jae Seo.
In the first meeting ever between the teams, the Mets ended Seattle's 13-game road winning string. The Mariners had posted the longest single-season road win streak in the majors since Detroit took 17 in a row in 1984.
Seo (3-2) held the Mariners to an unearned run until the eighth. Reliever David Weathers gave up Ben Davis' RBI groundout that made it 3-2 and retired pinch-hitter Edgar Martinez -- a DH relegated to the bench -- on a grounder to end the inning.
Seo also had a sacrifice bunt that set up Roger Cedeno's RBI grounder in the third.
Armando Benitez pitched the ninth for his 17th save in 21 chances.
Phillips, in the majors while catcher Mike Piazza is on the disabled list, opened the fifth with his second home run, a shot to straightaway center field off Ryan Franklin (4-4).
Floyd hit his 11th homer leading off the seventh, giving the Mets a 3-1 lead.
The Mariners tried to rally in the eighth as Mike Cameron opened with a single and Randy Winn hit his second double of the game. Weathers took over for Seo and preserved the lead.
Ichiro Suzuki singled on the first pitch of the game and the Mariners went on to load the bases with one out. Seo and the Mets got a bit lucky when Cameron lined into a double play.
The Mariners again loaded the bases in the second after an intentional walk to Suzuki with two outs. Carlos Guillen popped up to end the inning.
Franklin put down a sacrifice bunt in his first major league plate appearance, then sharply singled with two outs in the fourth. The ball was thrown out of play for Franklin to keep as a souvenir, and he soon came around to score his first run.
Suzuki reached on shortstop Joe McEwing's error and Guillen's single scored Franklin and made it 1-all.
Athletics 7, Phillies 4
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Miguel Tejada broke out of a slump by tying a career high with four hits and drove in three runs, and Barry Zito took a one-hitter into the sixth inning as the Athletics returned to Philadelphia for the first time since they left after the 1954 season with a 7-4 win over the Phillies on Friday.
The Philadelphia Athletics joined the American League in 1901. They moved to Kansas City in 1955 and went West to Oakland in 1968. The A's never played the Phillies before Friday.
Tejada, who had one hit in his last 15 at-bats, tied an Oakland record with three doubles. Eric Chavez drove in three runs for the A's.
Zito (7-4) picked up his first win since May 15 and improved to 54-21 in his career. His .720 winning percentage is best in major league history (minimum of 50 starts), moving ahead of former New York Yankee Spud Chandler (.717).
Zito gave up two runs and five hits in six-plus innings. He walked three and struck out three.
Keith Foulke pitched the ninth inning and gave up a home run to Placido Polanco and a RBI single to Jimmy Rollins.
Chavez drove in a run in each of his first three plate appearances, lifting his season total to 28.
His RBI groundout off Brett Myers (5-5) in the first gave the A's a 1-0 lead. He added a run-scoring single in the third and a sacrifice fly in the fifth.
Tejada singled home a run in the fifth to put Oakland up 5-0.
Philadelphia lost their fourth straight, and continued to struggle offensively. The Phillies have scored 16 runs in their last six games.
David Bell and Pat Burrell went a combined 0-for-9. Bell went 0-for-5 and has one hit in his last 37 at-bats over 12 games. Burrell has three hits in the same span.
Philadelphia loaded the bases with one out in the sixth. Bobby Abreu hit a sacrifice fly, then Zito ended the threat by striking out Burrell.
Oakland made several good plays in the field to thwart the Phillies.
Chavez completed a tough 5-3 double-play in the seventh, Tejada's diving catch robbed Rollins of a hit in the first and center fielder Chris Singleton's sliding catch denied Bell a hit in the third.
Myers allowed five runs on four hits in four-plus innings, raising his ERA to 3.21. He walked three and struck out two.
Notes: The Philadelphia A's won five World Series titles and five American League pennants. ... Oakland's Terry Francona took over the managing duties for Ken Macha, who was attending his daughter's high school graduation. Francona managed the Phillies for four seasons (1997-2000). Macha is scheduled to return to the club on Saturday. ... Oakland has the most interleague wins with 68. ... Philadelphia is 0-4 in interleague play this season, Oakland is 2-2. ... Mike Lieberthal extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a sixth-inning single.
Marlins 4, Angels 1
By TIM REYNOLDS
Associated Press Writer
MIAMI (AP) -- Ivan Rodriguez hit a three-run homer and Carl Pavano retired his final 18 batters as the Florida Marlins beat the Anaheim Angels 4-1 on Friday night.
Rodriguez's sixth-inning home run, which broke a 1-1 tie, was his seventh of the season and first in his last 16 games.
Pavano (5-6) pitched eight impressive innings, allowing only three hits while striking out six. He issued just one walk; it was intentional.
Jeff DaVanon, who had hit two home runs in each of his last three games, had two of Anaheim's four hits. DaVanon batted leadoff for the second time this season, after David Eckstein injured his left hand during warmups and was a late scratch from the lineup.
Florida won for the 10th time in 14 games. It was the second straight loss for Anaheim, which was trying to move two games over .500 for the first time since April 13.
Braden Looper pitched a scoreless ninth for his 11th save in 13 chances.
Kevin Appier (4-3), who lost for the first time in seven starts since April 14, allowed only three hits in seven innings, but two of the hits were home runs.
Appier cruised through the first five innings, allowing only one hit -- a solo homer by Alex Gonzalez in the third. The right-hander struck out Gonzalez and Pavano to open the sixth, but a walk to Juan Pierre and an infield single by Luis Castillo extended the inning.
Rodriguez, who entered the game hitting .357 lifetime against Appier, then connected on a 435-foot shot to straightaway center field.
Anaheim opened the scoring in the first when DaVanon, who singled on the first pitch of the game, scored on Tim Salmon's sacrifice fly. But the Angels got just two more hits against Pavano, who was pounded for nine hits and nine runs in 3 1-3 innings in his last start, June 1 against Cincinnati.
Notes: DaVanon went 2-for-4 and is hitting .462 (30-for-65) since May 15. ... Angels LF Garret Anderson, who hit five home runs in Anaheim's previous three games, grounded out to second in his first three at-bats. ... Gonzalez's home run extended his hitting streak to nine games. ... Marlins 1B Derrek Lee, who went 4-for-4 Tuesday, is hitless in nine at-bats since. He went 0-for-3. ... Attendance was 13,188.
Expos 13, Rangers 10
By JOSH DUBOW
AP Sports Writer
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Brian Schneider drove in a career-high five runs with a homer and a three-run double as the Montreal Expos sent the Texas Rangers to their season-high seventh straight loss, 13-10 Friday night.
Ron Calloway homered for the second straight game in place of the injured Vladimir Guerrero, and Livan Hernandez (5-4) pitched seven innings and hit a two-run single for the Expos.
After being held to 22 runs while losing eight of nine games, the Expos have broken out for 21 runs in two days, setting a season high Friday.
Both big offensive games came after Montreal lost Guerrero with a herniated disc in his back. The four-time All-Star was placed on the 15-day disabled list Friday.
A sellout crowd of 18,005 -- the second largest in the 14 games in San Juan -- came to watch local hero Juan Gonzalez. The fans got what they wanted when Gonzalez came up with the bases loaded in the first.
After a standing ovation, Gonzalez lined a ball off the top of the left-field wall to score two runs. Rafael Palmeiro was thrown out going to third on the play, leaving Gonzalez with a single.
Gonzalez a run-scoring groundout in the ninth, giving him 1,363 in his career -- two shy of Orlando Cepeda's record for Puerto Rican natives. And with two more games at cozy Hiram Bithorn Stadium, Gonzalez has a good chance to break the record in front of his home fans.
There have been 57 homers and an average of 12.2 runs in the first 14 games at the ballpark, where it's 399 feet to center, 315 to left and 313 to right.
The Expos answered Gonzalez's two-run single in a hurry. Endy Chavez, Orlando Cabrera and Jose Vidro opened the game with singles off Colby Lewis (4-4) to cut Texas' lead to 2-1.
Lewis retired the next two hitters before walking Calloway and Fernando Tatis, loading the bases.
Schneider then hit a hard grounder that went into the right-field corner for a bases-clearing double. Schneider went to third on the throw home and he tried to score when the relay got away from catcher Einar Diaz. But shortstop Alex Rodriguez hustled to retrieve the ball that was rolling toward the first-base dugout and threw him out.
After Mark Teixeira hit a solo homer in the second for Texas, walks did Lewis in again in the third. With two outs and a runner on third, he gave free passes to Tatis and Schneider. Hernandez made him pay, hitting a two-run single to make it 7-3.
Lewis allowed seven runs, seven hits and four walks in three innings, raising his ERA to 10.31 in his last nine outings.
Schneider's homer off Jay Powell followed another walk to Tatis and made the score 9-4 in the fifth.
Calloway's fifth homer of the season was the big blow in a four-run sixth against Reynaldo Garcia that made it 13-4
Hernandez allowed five runs and nine hits, but in this stadium that's not a bad night. He got help from his defense, too. Chavez made a long run to track down Diaz's drive to left-center in the fifth and then doubled Teixeira off first to end the inning.
Carl Everett added a solo homer for Texas in the eighth and Hank Blalock hit a two-run homer in a four-run ninth.
Notes: The Rangers traded OF Ruben Sierra to the Yankees for minor leaguer Marcus Thames. Texas called up Kevin Mench from Triple-A Oklahoma. Mench popped out as a pinch hitter with two on to end the fourth. ... This was the Rangers' second game in Puerto Rico. They lost 8-1 to Toronto on opening day in 2001. ... Hernandez had won just once in his previous five starts.
Brewers 9, Red Sox 3
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Richie Sexson hit his 19th home run, and Wes Helms and Royce Clayton also homered as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Boston Red Sox 9-3 Friday night for their season-high fourth straight win.
Boston starter Tim Wakefield left in the third inning after he was hit on the right ankle by a pitch from Wayne Franklin. Manny Ramirez homered for the Red Sox, who lost for the eighth time in 11 games and dropped 1 1/2 games behind the first-place New York Yankees in the AL East.
Wakefield, batting for the first time in interleague play this season, was carted off the field. X-rays revealed no fracture, just a bruise. He is listed as day-to-day.
The knuckleballer allowed three runs in the second on Helms' two-run homer and Clayton's solo shot. He struck out four and threw 28 pitches, 20 for strikes.
With the game tied at 3, Milwaukee broke it open with five runs in the sixth off reliever Hector Almonte, highlighted by Sexson's 435-foot homer to center.
Sexson is tied with Cincinnati's Adam Dunn for the major league lead with 19 homers.
Helms followed with a sacrifice fly. Keith Osik had a run-scoring single and pinch-hitter Brady Clark drove in two with a double.
Almonte (0-1) gave up five runs on six hits in 1 2-3 innings.
Geoff Jenkins' RBI single in the seventh made it 9-3.
Boston erased the Brewers' 3-2 lead and chased Franklin in the sixth.
Ramirez hit a two-out solo shot to tie it, and Franklin gave up a single and two walks to load the bases.
Jayson Durocher (2-0) took over and retired Doug Mirabelli on a popup to the catcher. He was the only batter Durocher faced.
Boston scored twice in the fifth.
Bill Mueller walked and scored on Trot Nixon's triple, and Nixon scored on first baseman Sexson's throwing error. Mirabelli popped out in foul territory near the seats and Sexson caught the ball with his back to home, turned and threw past the catcher as Nixon came down the line
Todd Walker went 0-for-3 with a walk for Boston, snapping his 20-game hitting streak.
It was the first time Milwaukee faced a knuckleball pitcher this season.
Notes: Milwaukee improved to 11-19 at Miller Park. ... It was the Brewers' first interleague game. The Red Sox are 2-2 against the NL this season. ... The Red Sox and Brewers last faced each other Sept. 14, 1997, before Milwaukee switched to the NL. ... Tony Cloninger, Boston's pitching coach, will go on indefinite medical leave to focus on treatments for bladder cancer.