INTERLEAGUE Lopez, Ramirez key Braves' rout of Baltimore

Wes Helms hit two home runs to lift Milwaukee past Minnesota, 8-1.
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ATLANTA -- Javy Lopez hit a pair of three-run homers, Horacio Ramirez won his fifth straight decision and the Atlanta Braves routed the Baltimore Orioles 10-2 Saturday night.
Lopez's first homer capped a five-run sixth inning, which wiped out Baltimore's 1-0 lead. The Atlanta catcher hit another in the eighth to put the game out of reach.
Lopez had his fifth two-homer game of the season and matched his career high with six RBIs, set April 17 against the Montreal Expos.
Pinch-hitter Matt Franco added a two-run homer in the eighth.
Ramirez (6-2) pitched six-hit ball for seven innings, allowing just one run. The rookie left-hander hasn't lost since April 11, going 5-0 with a 3.46 ERA in his last nine starts.
Baltimore starter Rodrigo Lopez (1-4) cruised through the first five innings, allowing just three hits. But it all fell apart in the sixth.
Gary Sheffield started the outburst with a broken-bat single, followed by a walk to Chipper Jones. Andruw Jones tied it up with a single to center, as Sheffield leaped high to avoid being struck by the liner before sprinting around to score.
Robert Fick, who tied a career high with five RBIs on Friday night, doubled into the right-field corner to give the Braves a 2-1 lead.
That brought up Javy Lopez, who had gone 10 days without a homer after hitting six in five games from June 5-11. He worked the count full, then connected with a breaking pitch that hung in his eyes, sending a 398-foot drive deep into the left-field seats.
Javy Lopez almost matched it in the eighth, hitting a 393-foot shot off Willis Roberts for his 21st homer of the season. Atlanta became the first team in the majors to have two players with 20 homers; Sheffield also has 21.
The Orioles played without Melvin Mora, the AL's leading hitter. He sat out after being struck on the right hand the previous night with a pitch from Greg Maddux.
Ramirez retired the first nine Baltimore hitters, then gave up his lone run in the fourth. Brian Roberts led off with a single and came all the way around to score on a double by David Segui.
Jeff Conine singled to put runners at first and third with one out, but Ramirez escaped the jam by striking out Jay Gibbons and Tony Batista.
BALTIMOREATLANTA
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DP--Baltimore 1. LOB--Baltimore 6, Atlanta 5. 2B--Segui (7), Furcal (16), Fick (14), Castilla (11). HR--Conine (8), JLopez 2 (21), MFranco (2). SB--AJones (2).
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Baltimore
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Atlanta
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WRoberts pitched to 5 batters in the 8th. Umpires--Home, Tim McClelland; First, Tony Randazzo; Second, Ted Barrett; Third, C.B. Bucknor. T--2:45. A--46,860.
Brewers 8, Twins 1
MILWAUKEE -- Wes Helms hit two home runs and drove in five runs, and John Vander Wal homered and had two RBIs for Milwaukee.
The Twins have lost five of six on their seven-game road trip. The Brewers have won the first two of the three-game series with Minnesota.
Helms, who now has 13 home runs, followed Vander Wal's leadoff homer in the fourth with his first home run. He added a three-run shot in the sixth for his first multihomer game this season and third of his career.
Wayne Franklin (3-5) pitched seven innings, allowing one run on five hits and three walks. He struck out two. He worked out of jams in the third and seventh when the Twins had two runners on with one out.
Danny Kolb and John Foster finished the five-hitter.
The Brewers, who won the series opener 3-2 in 10 innings Friday, struck quickly against Kyle Lohse (6-5), scoring two runs in the first inning. Eric Young and Scott Podsednik opened with singles and Geoff Jenkins walked to load the bases for Richie Sexson, who was moved to the cleanup spot for only the third time this season.
Sexson struck out but Vander Wal hit a broken-bat single to center to score Young and Helms had a sacrifice fly to score Podsednik, making it 2-0.
Corey Koskie led off the fourth with his 10th homer, only the second hit for the Twins, to cut the deficit in half. Koskie has 17 RBIs in his last 18 games.
Vander Wal led off the bottom half with his seventh homer, a 400-footer to right, and Helms followed with a 430-foot shot to center for a 4-1 lead.
Helms hit his three-run homer following a single by Sexson and a walk to Vander Wal in the sixth for a 7-1 lead.
His second homer also knocked out Lohse, who allowed seven runs, seven hits and two walks. He struck out four, all in the first two innings.
MINNESOTAMILWAUKEE
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Milwaukee20020301x--8
E--Rivas (7). LOB--Minnesota 8, Milwaukee 5. 2B--Kielty (8), Osik (5). HR--Koskie (10), Vander Wal (7), Helms 2 (13). S--Lohse. SF--Helms, KGinter.
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Minnesota
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Milwaukee
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Lohse pitched to 3 batters in the 6th. WP--Lohse. Umpires--Home, Alfonso Marquez; First, Rick Reed; Second, Tim Tschida; Third, Jeff Nelson. T--2:34. A--30,836.
Expos 8, Blue Jays 5
MONTREAL -- Orlando Cabrera's three-run homer capped a seven-run eighth inning and the Montreal Expos overcame a five-run deficit.
Trailing 5-1 in the eighth, Montreal tied it on Jose Macias' RBI grounder off Aquilino Lopez, Endy Chavez's two-run double and pinch hitter Brian Schneider's RBI grounder off Cliff Politte (1-5).
With two outs and runners at second and third, Cabrera connected off Politte for his 11th homer of the season to give Montreal its first lead of the game, setting off the loudest of several prolonged cheers in the inning from the Olympic Stadium crowd of 11,483.
Macias also hit a run-scoring single in the sixth as Montreal won for just the second time in nine games.
Luis Ayala (6-2) allowed one hit in the eighth and Rocky Biddle pitched the ninth for his 19th save.
Toronto, which ended a four-game winning streak, led 5-0 after scoring four in the fifth as Mark Hendrickson became the first Blue Jays pitcher ever to hit a home run to spark the outburst.
Hendrickson, a 6-foot-9 left-hander who played parts of four NBA seasons from 1996-2000, led off the inning with a drive over the wall in right center off Sun Woo Kim.
Vernon Wells extended his hitting streak to 12 games with a two-run shot later in the inning -- his fourth homer in three games -- to chase Kim.
Orlando Hudson tripled in consecutive innings, his second off reliever Julio Manon drove in catcher Tom Wilson from first to cap the rally.
TORONTOMONTREAL
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DP--Montreal 3. LOB--Toronto 9, Montreal 8. 2B--OCabrera (19), Vidro (20), Wilkerson (18), EnChavez (11). 3B--OHudson 2 (3). HR--Wells (18), Hendrickson (1), OCabrera (11). SB--Carroll (3). CS--Johnson (3).
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Toronto
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Tam1-300010
Lopez1-314420
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Montreal
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HBP--by Lopez (Barrett), by SKim (Johnson), by SKim (Wells). Umpires--Home, Joe West; First, Jeff Kellogg; Second, Lance Barksdale; Third, Paul Emmel. T--3:11. A--11,483.
Marlins 2, Devil Rays 0, 5 innings
MIAMI -- Rookie left-hander Dontrelle Willis won his sixth straight start, allowing only two hits as the Florida Marlins beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2-0 in a rain-shortened game Saturday night.
The teams finished only five innings. Tampa Bay sent pinch-hitter Jason Tyner to the plate to open the sixth inning as the rain intensified, but the delay was called after Willis' third pitch of the inning sailed to the backstop screen.
Willis motioned to home plate umpire Larry Vanover that the ball slipped from his hand. The game was called 1 hour, 52 minutes later.
Willis (7-1) struck out four, walked only one and lowered his ERA for the season to 2.38.
In his last six starts, his ERA is even more impressive -- 0.84. He's allowed four runs in 422/3 innings during his winning streak, and three of those four runs came June 11 at Milwaukee.
Jason Standridge (0-2) allowed five hits and two runs in five innings for the Devil Rays, who lost for the 13th time in their last 15 games.
TAMPA BAYFLORIDA
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No outs when winning run scored.
DP--Florida 1. LOB--Tampa Bay 2, Florida 3. 2B--JEncarnacion (15), DeLee (16). CS--Standridge (1), Pierre 2 (9).
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Tampa Bay
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Florida
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Umpires--Home, Larry Vanover; First, Jerry Meals; Second, Gary Darling; Third, Chris Guccione. T--1:19. A--15,397.