Cleveland defeats Chicago, 7-5

ASSOCIATED PRESS

MESA, Ariz. — Mark DeRosa and Kerry Wood each had an excellent day against their former team.

DeRosa homered his first two times up, doubled and hit a sacrifice fly to lead the Cleveland Indians over the Chicago Cubs 7-5 on Sunday.

Wood, the Cubs’ closer last season, had a solid outing for Cleveland. He worked a scoreless seventh inning, walking one and striking out one.

Grady Sizemore opened the first inning with a single for Cleveland. DeRosa hit the first pitch he saw from Lilly over the left-field wall.

In the third, DeRosa drove a 2-1 pitch halfway up the scoreboard beyond the left-field fence. It was his third homer of the spring.

The Cubs cut it to 3-2 in the third on a two-run homer by Milton Bradley, his fourth of the spring.

Cleveland scored one in the fifth against Ted Lilly and three in the seventh against reliever Chad Gaudin.

Lilly pitched five innings, giving up seven hits and four runs. He walked two and struck out eight. Indians starter Fausto Carmona worked six innings, giving up seven hits and three runs.

Yankees 9, Pirates 8

TAMPA, Fla. — A.J. Burnett, one of two key free-agent pitchers signed by the Yankees during the offseason, allowed seven runs and 10 hits over 41‚Ñ3 innings in New York’s win. The right-hander had given up two runs and seven hits in his previous 15 innings.

Pirates starter Zach Duke gave up eight runs and nine hits in 31‚Ñ3 innings. The left-hander, part of a Pirates rotation that includes opening-day starter Paul Maholm, Ian Snell and Ross Ohlendorf, had allowed just four runs over 192‚Ñ3 innings in six earlier outings.

“Obviously, the numbers aren’t real good today,” Duke said. “It was a battle every at-bat. The main thing is I got my work in and nothing’s hurt. Wipe this one out of the memory.”

New York general manager Brian Cashman said injured third baseman Alex Rodriguez could be ready to move his rehab program from Vail, Colo., to the Yankees’ spring training complex during the first week of April.

A-Rod, expected to be out until May, had right hip surgery in Colorado on March 9.

Ryan Doumit — a three-run shot — and Adam LaRoche — a solo drive — hit back-to-back homers against Burnett during a sixth-run fifth that tied it at 8.

Eric Hinske added a solo homer for the Pirates.