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TUESDAY, APRIL 4. 2006
SPORTS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 9B
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St. Louis Cardinals Brad Thompson celebrates with Albert Pujols after they beat the Philadelphia Phillies 13-5 during the Phillies home open baseball game Monday in Philadelphia. Pujols hit two home runs during the game.
Cards beat Phillies 13-7 Rollins' streak rolls on
BY ROB MAADDI
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHILADELPHIA — By the time Jimmy Rollins extended his hitting streak to 37 games, only half the crowd had stayed to see it.
Rollins kept up his pursuit of Joe DjMaggio's major league record 56-game hitting streak with a double in the eighth inning, but it was the lone bright spot for the Philadelphia Phillies in their season opener Monday.
Albert Pujols homered twice, Scott Rolen hit a grand slam and the St. Louis Cardinals potent offense pounded out 17 hits in a 13-5 victory.
Chris Carpenter pitched five effective innings for the win.
though he wasn't as sharp as he was most of last season, when he went 21-5 and won the NL Cy Young Award. Carpenter allowed four runs and nine hits.
Rolen was 3-for-5 with fourRBIs, Pujols was 2-for-2 with fourRBIs and Aaron Miles had fourhits, including two doubles and a triple. Every Cardinals starter,including Carpenter, had a hit by the time St. Louis completed aneight-run fourth inning.
a bad day. The Phillie Phanatic's four-wheeler briefly stalled near the third baseline in the sixth inning, forcing the teams to wait a bit before starting play.
Pat Burrell and Ryan Howard homered for the Phillies, who ended up with their worst opening-day loss since the Brooklyn Dodgers' 12-3 victory in 1935.
It was so ugly in Philadelphia that even the mascot had
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Loser Jon Lieber picked up where he left off in spring training, giving up eight runs and nine hits in three 1-3 innings.
Lieber finished 17-13 in his first season in Philadelphia, and was one of the league's best pitchers over the final month when he was 5-1 with a 2.06 ERA in his last seven starts. But he allowed 12 runs and 19 hits in 10 innings in his last two starts this spring, and continued his struggles into his seventh opening day start.
No royal start for Kansas City
Royals center fielder David DeJesus climbs the wall only to watch the home run ball from Detroit Tigers Carlos Guillen. The Royals lost their opening day baseball game 3-1 at Kaufman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Monday.
Three home runs sink KC on opening day
BY STEVE BRISENDINE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kenny Rogers helped get Jim Leyland a win in his first game as the Detroit Tigers manager.
Carlos Guillen also homered for the Tigers, and Fernando Rodney got the save in his first game as closer in place of injured Todd Jones.
Rogers combined with two relievers on a four-hitter, Chris Shelton homered twice and the Tigers began the season with a 3-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Monday.
Leyland started his professional baseball career in 1964 as a minor league catcher for the Tigers.
Rogers left Texas after a stormy season in which he was suspended for 13 games after shoving two television cameramen.
The 41-year-old left-hander gave up one run and three hits in six innings, struck out five and walked none in his first opening-day victory since 2000.
He faced the minimum nine batters through the first three innings, with a double play wiping out Angel Berroa's third-inning infield single. RBI gave up a tying, two-out RBI single to Reggie Sanders in the fourth.
Joel Zumaya made his major league debut when he relieved Rogers to start the seventh, giving up a leadoff walk and Doug Mientkiewicz's two-out single, but he escaped when he got Berroa to ground into a force-
Rodney worked a hitless ninth for his 13th career save.
Jones, who returned to Detroit during the offseason, aggravated a hamstring injury last weekend and went on the disabled list.
Shelton hit two go-ahead solo homers off Scott Elarton, Shelton's first career multihomer game, and finished 3-for-4.
Shelton's drive into the left-field stands in the fourth put the Tigers up 1-0, and he lined a pitch from Elarton just above the fence and just inside the right-field foul pole with two outs in the sixth to make it 2-1.
Only a leaping grab by second baseman Mark Grudzielanek on Shelton's eighth-ingling liner kept him from going 4-for-4.
Guillen's solo homer in the eighth against Andrew Sisco gave Detroit a 3-1 lead.
Elarton, Cleveland's No. 5 starter a year ago, gave up two runs and seven hits in five 2-3 innings.
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