THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006
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The San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds watches his solo home run against the San Diego Padres during the first inning of their baseball game Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2006, in San Diego.
Bonds ends homerless streak Giants' slugger now 31 home runs shy of Aaron's record
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Barry Bonds hit his 724th career home run Wednesday night, a solo shot leading off the second inning against San Diego's Chan Ho Park.
Bonds is now 31 shy of tying home run king Hank Aaron's record of 755. Bonds has 16 homers this season for the San Francisco Giants.
Park has allowed eight career homers to Bonds, tying him for the most with Greg Maddux, Terry Mulholland, Curt Schilling and John Smoltz.
The 42-year-old Bonds hadn't homered since Aug. 4 against Colorado.
The homer gave Bonds 1,903 RBIs, tying him for seventh on the career list with his godfather, Willie Mays.
Orioles 3. Yankees 2
It was Bonds' 84th homer and 208th RBI against San Diego, his most against any opponent.
His 44 homers in San Diego are his most in road city. It was fifth in three seasons at Petco Park.
Adam Loewen beat the Yankees for the second time in August, and four Baltimore relievers combined for shutout relief in a a 3-2 victory Wednesday night that stopped the Orioles' five-game losing streak.
New York's AL East lead over the second-place Red Sox was cut to two games. After playing the Orioles on Thursday, the Yankees head to Boston for a five-game series that opens with a day-night doubleheader Friday.
Making his 14th major league appearance, Loewen (3-4) threw a career-high 107 pitches, allowing two runs and four hits with five strikeouts in 5 2-3 innings. On Aug. 5, he yielded one hit over 6 1-3 innings during a 5-0 win over New York at Camden Yards.
Todd Williams, Tim Byrdak,
LaTroy Hawkins and Chris Ray finished,
with Ray getting six outs for his 28th save in 30 chances. The bullpen, which has the worst ERA in the American League, blew a two-run lead for Erik Bedard on Tuesday night in a 6-3 loss.
Baltimore built a 3-0 lead with runs in the first three innings against Cory Lidle (1-2).
Red Sox 6, Tigers 4
David Ortiz hit his major league-leading 42nd home run and David Wells pitched into the seventh, helping the Boston Red Sox avoid a sween.
Coco Crisp put the Red Sox on top with a two-run' double in the sixth for Boston. Ortiz hit a two-run shot off Justin Verlander (14-6) into the Red Sox bullpen in the fifth to give Boston a 3-1 lead. He also leads the majors in RBIs with 113.
Magglio Ordonez, and Brent Clevlen homered for the Tigers.
Wells (2-2), making his four start since coming off the disabled list July 31, gave up four runs on 10 hits with one walk and three strikeouts.
Craig Hansen got four outs and Jonathan Papelbon worked the ninth for his 32nd save in 37 chances.
Devil Rays 8, Blue Jays 3
James Shields threw six solid innings to stop his six-game losing streak and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays ended their seven-game skid.
Shields (5-6) allowed three runs — one earned — and four hits in his first win since June 21. He had been winnless in nine starts after winning four straight outings.
Damon Hollins hits his career-high 14th homer for the Devil Rays, who are 9-22 since the All-Star break.
Toronto got a solo home run from Bengie Molina. The Blue Jays are 7-3 since a season-worst seven-game losing streak.
Phillies 3, Mets 0
- Jonny Gomes and Jorge Cantu had consecutive RBI doubles before Hollins hit a two-run homer off Ted Lilly (10-11) to put the Devil Rays ahead 4-0 in the first.
Jon Lieber pitched his first shut-out in more than five years, Chris Coste hit a two-run homer and Philadelphia Phillies won their third straight over the New York Mets.
The Phillies thumped the Mets by a combined 24-4 score in the first two games of the series — hardly indicative of a team that trails NL East-leading New York by 12 games.
Lieber (5-9) was terrific, putting together his third straight solid start since an awful outing against Florida on the day of the trade deadline. He scattered five hits, walked none and struck out four for his second complete game this season and first shutout since May 24, 2001, with the Chicago Cubs.
Lieber threw 72 of his 101 pitches for strikes in a game that took just 2 hours, 3 minutes.
Tom Glavine (12-6) took the loss despite an effective seven-inning stint.
Brian Schneider padded Washington's lead with a three-run shot off reliever Ken Ray after two walks in the seventh, the catcher's first homer since July 9.
Nationals 9, Braves 6
Eight members of Washington's starting nine reached base against Smoltz (10-6), and the Nationals batted around in a four-run second inning. Zimmerman drove in one run with an infield single in that inning, and he hit a two-run shot in the fourth for his 16th homer.
Ryan Zimmerman homered and singled to raise his rookie-leading RBI total to 78, and the Washington Nationals handed John Smoltz his first loss in more than two months.
Washington starter Billy Traber (3-1) earned his second consecutive victory despite allowing five runs
Bronson Arroyo ended a 10-start winless slump and Edwin Encarnacion hit two of Cincinnati's five home runs, leading the Reds over St. Louis 7-2 Wednesday night and cutting the Cardinals' lead in the NL Central to 1/12 games.
Reds 7, Cardinals 2
— four earned — over 5 2-3 innings.
He gave up six hits and one walk and hit two batters.
All of the Reds' homers came in the first five innings. Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 24th to the Pete Rose for 20th place with 1,041 extra-base hits, and Rich Aurilia and Adam Dunn also
The Reds are 9-5 against the Cardinals headed into Thursday's series finale, also the final game between the teams this season.
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The Cardinals, who scored both of their runs on bases-loaded groundouts, are 26-31 against a division they dominated last year with a 51-29 record.
Arroyo (10-8), who represented the Reds at the All-Star Game, allowed one run on four hits in seven innings to win for the first time since June 19. He had been 0-5 with a 5.29 ERA during the drought, and gave up three homers in a loss to the Cardinals in his last start.
Arroyo twice got the' best of Albert Pujols, helping keep the Reds in charge. Pujols grounded into a double play in the first after Arroyo walked the first two batters, and grounded into a run-scoring fielder's choice with the bases loaded in the third to cut the Reds' lead to 4-1.
Encarnacion hit two homers for the second time in his career, and second time in five games. He homered well over the visitor's bullpen in left leading off the second against Anthony Reyes (4-6) for the game's first run, and hit a three-run homer in the third for a 4-1 lead.
Aurilia hit his 17th leading off the fourth, and Griffief and Dunn homed off Jorge Sosa in the fifth for a 7-1 cushion. The five-homer game is one off the Reds' season high.
Reyes, who made his 12th career start, endured his shortest outing. In 3 1/3 innings he allowed five runs on four hits, and gave up three of the homers.
Royals 10, White Sox 4
The defending World Series champions have lost two straight to the Royals, who have the worst record in the majors. Just before that, Chicago won five in a row including a three-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers, who own the best mark in the big leagues.
Mark Grudzielanek hit a three-run homer and finished with three hits only hours after agreeing to a contract extension, and Adam Bernero pitched six shutout innings to lead the Kansas City Royals past the Chicago White Sox 10-4 Wednesday night.
The White Sox trail Detroit by 61/2 games in the AL Central. Kansas City, which roughed up Jose Contreras, had lost five straight before beating the White Sox on consecutive nights.
Ryan Shealy also homered for the Royals, who won for just for the fifth time in 17 road games.
Alex Cintron hit a grand slam in the ninth for the White Sox, who set a franchise record with nine slams this season.
Bernero (1-0) won his first game as a starter in the majors since May 31, 2003. His last win came June 18, 2005, with the Braves in Cincinnati.
Bernero, making his second start of the season, held the White Sox to five hits. He struck out six and didn't allow a walk.
Defesus hit a two-run single in the eighth and Mark Teahen added an RBI double to give the Royals a 10-0 lead.
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