THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2007
SPORTS
MLB
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Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Chad Gaudin throws against Kansas City Royals' Mark Teahen during the third inning on Tuesday in Kansas City, Mo. The Royals lost 6-1.
Royals lose fourth straight game
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chad Gaudin struck out a career high eight and the Oakland Athletics defeated the Kansas City Royals 6-1 on Tuesday night.
Gaudin (2-1) pitched eight innings, holding the Royals to five hits and allowed just one hit after the fourth inning. He lowered his ERA to 2.18, third in the American League.
The A's, who won back-to-back games for the first time since April 23-24 at Baltimore, improved to 28-6 at Kauffman Stadium since the beginning of the 2000 season. The Royals have lost four straight and are 2-6 on the 10-game homestand, their longest of the season.
Eric Chavez, who was 2-for-23 in May, had three hits, including two doubles. Dan Johnson, Chris Snelling and Bobby Crosby each
had two hits for Oakland. Nick Swisher drove in two runs and leads the team with 17 RBI.
Jorge De La Rosa (3-3), who entered the game with an AL-best 0.82 home ERA, was roughed up for six runs — five earned — and 10 hits in 4 1/3 innings. His home ERA jumped to 2.39.
Mark Teahen had three hits for Kansas City.
Swisher scored the As first run in the second inning. An inning later, he stroked a single to right with two outs, scoring Mark Ellis and Chavez and giving the As a 3-1 lead.
Billy Butler dropped Mark Ellis' fly in the fourth, allowing Snelling to score an unearned run, upping the A's advantage to 4-1.
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Johnson and Crosby hit back-to-back doubles in the fifth to chase De La Rosa. Crosby advanced to third on a Jimmy Gobble balk and scored on Jason Kendall's sacrifice fly.
Teahen's triple to center in the third scored David DeJesus, who had singled, for the only Kansas City run.
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St. Louis Cardinals' So Taguchi, of Japan, celebrates with teammates Albert Pujols, Scott Rolen and David Eckstein after defeating the Colorado Rockies Tuesday in St. Louis. The Cardinals won the game, 4-1.
Cardinals rally to defeat Rockies
BY R.B. FALLSTROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS — Pinch hitter Scott Spiezie and Adam Kennedy drove in two runs each in a four-run seventh inning, giving the punchless St. Louis Cardinals their best offensive output in 10 games in a 4-1 victory against the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night.
Brad Thompson worked five strong innings in his second major league start. He stepped in for the injured Chris Carpenter, who underwent arthroscopic surgery to remove bone spurs from his elbow earlier Tuesday. The team's ace is expected to be out for at least three months.
The Cardinals raised their record to 6-11 at home. They totaled 15 runs in the previous nine games, twice getting shut out. Despite scoring in only three innings on the current six-game homestand, St. Louis is 3-2.
St. Louis' rally spoiled a dominant outing from the Rockies' Taylor Buchholz, who allowed four hits in
six scoreless innings while working on six days' rest. Buchholz entered with an 8.04 ERA and gave up 10 runs in 8/13 innings in his previous two starts.
Matt Holliday was 3-for-4 with his sixth home run and two doubles
for the rookies.
He's 14-for-29
(.483) with five
homers at a
New Busch Stadium,
which opened
last year.
K e l v i n
Jimenez (1-0)
allowed a walk
in 1 1/3 innings,
Ryan Franklin
worked the
eighth and Jason
Bautista, and Spiezio lined the first pitch from Alberto Arias down the right-field line to put the Cardinals ahead 2-1.
Kennedy followed with a two-run single against a drawn-in infield for a three-run cushion.
The Cardinals raised their record to 6-11 at home. They totaled 15 runs in the previous nine games, twice getting shut out.
Jim Edmonds, who entered in an 0-for-20 slump, singled for his third hit with one out of Denny Bautista (2-1) to start the rally. Yadier Molina singled and David Eckstein was hit by a pitch to load the bases, chasing
lserhauseus finished for his ninth save in 10 chances.
Thompson allowed a run and six hits in five innings, the longest outing of his major league career. The only damage was Holliday's homer in the third.
He worked around two hits and a walk in the second when left
fielder Chris Duncan threw out Brad Hawpe at the plate trying to score on Quarint Mantilla's single. Duncan also made the defensive play of the game, robbing Todd Helton of extra bases and an RBI in the sixth with a diving catch near the foul line in left.
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The San Francisco slugger connected on the first pitch from New York's Tom Glavine for a solo shot over the center-field wall with one out in the fourth, pulling the Giants within 4-1 on his 11th homer of the season. He rounded the bases as "745" flashed on the main scoreboard.
SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds hit his 745th career home run Tuesday night, moving within 10 of Hank Aaron's record 755.
The seven-time NL MVP tipped his hat as he walked out to his spot in left field in the top of the fifth to a standing ovation.
It was Bonds' fourth career homer off Glavine and the first in 10 years against the left-hander — since an inside-the-park homer April 23, 1997, at Candlestick Park when Glavine was with the Atlanta Braves.
The 42-year-old Bonds homered on May 8 for the first time in his career, leaving Aug. 5 and Sept. 30 as the only days in the regular season he has yet to hit one out.
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Goal within reach for Bonds
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San Francisco giants' Barry Bonds, right, barely misses on home run off the right field foul pole on a pitch from New York Mets Tom Glavine as Mets catcher Paul Lo Duca looks on in the second inning in San Francisco on Tuesday.