Sunday, May 30, 2004
Rob Mackowiak and Jason Kendall powered a 16-hit attack for Pittsburgh.
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Rob Mackowiak hit a go-ahead, three-run homer and two-run double for a career-high five RBIs to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates over the struggling Chicago Cubs 10-7 Saturday night.
Jason Kendall was 4-for-5, extending his hitting streak to 15 games. He is hitting .388 (26-for-67) over that span.
Pittsburgh had 16 hits and improved to 23-22, moving above .500 this late in a season for the first time since Aug. 15, 1999 (59-58).
Aramis Ramirez had four RBIs for Chicago, which has lost five straight for the first time since Sept. 22-27, 2002.
Mackowiak's fourth-inning homer helped overcome a 5-1 deficit. He has three homers in two days and eight in May, including seven in his last 13 games.
Pirates starter Josh Fogg (3-4) allowed five runs and seven hits in six innings. Chicago's Sergio Mitre (2-4) lasted only 3 2-3 innings, giving up six runs and 10 hits.
Ramirez and Derrek Lee hit two-run homers in the first, but Jack Wilson had an RBI single in the second. Todd Walker's RBI double made it 5-1 in the fourth.
Pittsburgh went ahead with five runs in the bottom half on Wilson's RBI single, Jack Wilson's run-scoring double and Mackowiak's homer.
Randall Simon's RBI single off Michael Wuertz and Tike Redman's sacrifice fly made it 8-5 in the sixth, and Mackowiak drove in two runs with his double.
Ramirez hit a solo homer in the eighth off John Grabow and an RBI single in the ninth against Jose Mesa. With the bases loaded, Todd Hollandsworth grounded into a game-ending double play.
Notes
The dugouts and bullpens emptied briefly in the bottom of the second. Mitre hit batters in each of the first two innings. After Bobby Hill was hit in the second, he left the batter's box, and flipped his bat over his head, barely missing C Michael Barrett. On a force play at second base, Hill slid hard into SS Ramon Martinez and, as the players walked away from each other, Martinez said something. Hill then walked back toward him. Calm was quickly restored, however. ... Fireworks night drew 37,806 in Pittsburgh's second home sellout this season, the first since opening day.
CHICAGOPITTSBURGH
abrhbiabrhbi
TWalkr 2b3111Kendall c5140
Beltran p0000JWilsn ss6122
Dubois ph1000Ward rf4220
Barrett c4130CWilsn lf3331
Alou lf5020Mckwk 3b4225
ARmrz 3b5234Simon 1b4031
Hlndsw rf5000Grabow p0000
DeLee 1b4112Mesa p0000
CPttson cf4010Hill 2b2000
REMtiz ss3110Gnzalez p0000
Wuertz p0000Mdows p0000
Macias 2b1000Bay lf1000
Mitre p2000TRdmn cf3101
JAdrsn p0000Fogg p2000
ROrdnz ss1100ANunez 2b1000
Totals387127Totals35101610
Chicago400100011--7
Pittsburgh01050220x--10
E--Alou (1), Gonzalez (1). DP--Chicago 1, Pittsburgh 1. LOB--Chicago 7, Pittsburgh 13. 2B--TWalker (9), Kendall 2 (8), Ward (5), CWilson (15), Mackowiak (7). 3B--CPatterson (2). HR--ARamirez (11), DeLee (5), Mackowiak (11). SB--Kendall (5), CWilson (2). CS--TRedman (3). S--Fogg, ANunez. SF--TRedman.
IPHRERBBSO
Chicago
Mitre L,2-43 2-3106621
JAnderson1 2-322201
Wuertz1 1-332220
Beltran1 1-310010
Pittsburgh
Fogg W,3-4675523
Gonzalez1-300000
Meadows2-300000
Grabow121101
Mesa131110
HBP--by JAnderson (Mackowiak), by Mitre (Hill), by JAnderson (CWilson), by Mitre (CWilson). Umpires--Home, Gary Cederstrom; First, Jack Samuels; Second, Tim Welke; Third, Jim Reynolds. T--3:12. A--37,806.
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