European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 42 stars and stripes sunday april 22 2007 red sox beat re hot despite two More homers by Alex Rodriguez Boston prevails in series opener Over yanks the associated press manager Teny fran Cona was thinking about going out to talk to reliever Hideki Okajima in the ninth in Ning before Alex Rodriguezs at Bat Rodriguez had already homered twice to join Mike Schmidt As the fastest to reach a dozen in baseball history Masai Takahaski a member of the train ing staff who serves As translator started writing out some things to say before Francona realized it was pointless Masai was writing out this Guys a really Good hitter Francona said with a laugh i think he knows that the Best thing we could do was stay out of the Way Okajima got Rodriguez to line out to Sec Ond and then struck out Kevin Thompson to preserve the red sons 76 Victory Fri Day night Over the new York Yankees Rodriguez who has hit safely in All 15 games this year and homered in four straight also leads the majors with 30 Bis and 65 total bases you run out of words and superlatives of what Hes into right now new York manager Joe Torre said Coco Crisp tied the game with a two run triple and then scored the winning run on Alex Coras Blooper during a five run eighth inning Crisp was already in the highlights after toppling into the Boston bullpen in Pursuit of Rodriguezs second Homer of the game a three run shot in the fifth that gave the Yankees a 52 Lead Mariano Rivera 12 allowed two runs on three hits striking out one in two thirds of an inning the Yankees closer haunt pitched since Marco Scutaro hit a three run Homer with two outs in the ninth off him for Oakland on sunday in always going to be shocked Only be cause of what he is and his track record Torre said it hurts we had Good Momen Tum going and it looked like we were beat ing a Good Pitcher tonight cd Drew had three hits for Boston which trailed 52 before David Ortiz led off the eighth with a double and Manny Ramirez walked Drew moved the runners up and Mike Lowell singled to make it 63 and bring in Rivera Jason Varitek who bit a two run Homer in the fourth singled to make it 64 then Crisp tripled Down the Brightfield line to tie it with the infield in Cora listed a Blooper Over shortstop Derek jeters head to the Back of the infield dirt driving in the godhead run indians 4 Devil rays 3 Travis Hafner hit a two run Homer and drove in the godhead run with a ninth Janing single for visiting Cleveland Andy Marte doubled and Grady Sizemore walked to open the ninth off Juan Salas Al Reyes re placed Salas and struck out David Dellucci before Hamer singled to Center orioles 5 Blue jays 4 Nick Markakis singled in the winning run in the ninth to Cap Host Baltimore rally Melvin Mora walked to Load the bases before Markakis singled through the drawn up infield White sox 5 tigers 4 Darin Erst ads tiebreak no single in the seventh lifted visit ing Chicago Juan Uribe and Takahito Ign Chi homered for the White sox and helped Nick Masset 10 earn his first major league Victory athletics 16 rangers 4 Rookie Travis Buck hit his first Homer and drove in five runs As visiting Oakland won its fourth straight Buck added a three run double Charles Boston Center fielder Coco Crisp goes Over the Wall in a vain attempt to catch Alex Rodriguezs three run Homer in the fifth inning Friday night Rodriguez hit two homers giving him 12 for the season but Boston Hung on to beat the new York Yankees 76 and Bobby Crosby doubled in two runs Dur ing an eight run second inning the As chased rangers starter Brandon Mccar thy 13 after he gave up four runs royals 11 twins 7 Mark Grudzielanek Home run keyed a five run fifth that carried Host Kansas City Mike Sweeney and Reggie Sanders also homered for Kansas City Odalis Perez 12 went five innings giving up four runs and seven hits Angels 8 mariners 4 Virginia tech alumnus Joe Saunders 20 wore a Homes Cap while scattering seven hits in six score less innings in Host los Angeles Victory Vladimir Guerrero Back after missing two games with a bruised right wrist hit a Solo Homer and went 3for5 for astros lets play two has different meaning the associated press Milwaukee forget the first seven innings these Days the Houston astros Are making the final two count Craig biggies first grand slam in 13 years came with one out in the ninth and Houston beat the Milwaukee Brewers 65 Friday night for its fifth straight Victory on thursday night Houston scored five runs in the eighth and one in the ninth to beat Cincinnati 86 the night before the astros scored five in the eighth and one in the ninth for a 72 Victory Over the reds you just get the feeling on the Bench that somethings going to work manager Phil Garner said of the astros lat game heroics on Friday night the runs Al most didst come had biggies shot travelled 6 inches fewer Cen Ter fielder Bill Hall said he would have had it Hall tried a leaping grab and came up just Short look ing up in the sky in disbelief i took a Good route to it and i just tried to jump and catch it Hall said i just missed it by 6 inches or maybe even a Little less than that biggies third career grand slam was his 2945th hit if s not something that i do a lot thais for sure Biggio said i was just trying to get the Ball up in the air a Little bit and definitely got the Bonus out of it it was just one of those crazy games Chris Burke led off the Bottom of the ninth with a bunt single off Matt Wise Adam Everett walked on four pitches while try ing to sacrifice Burke Over Brad Ausmus also tried a Sacri fice bunt but Catcher Johnny Estrada throw out Burke at third loading the bases with no outs reliever Greg Aquino struck out Pinch hitter Mike Lamb before biggies slam into the Brewers bullpen in left Cen Ter Field he threw me a breaking Ball and i was Able to just get it far enough Biggio said it was almost All for naught former closer Brad Lidge walked Tony Gwynn and Rickie weeks to begin the ninth and after a strikeout Prince fielder homered Down the right Field line to Cut the Lead to 65 Lidge then got Hall to ground out before Estrada hit a double to the Gap the astros brought in Trever Miller to face Pinch hitter Corey Hart who was intentionally walked then went to Chad quails who got Pinch hitter Gabe Gross to ground out for his first save Rick White 10 pitched two scoreless innings for the Victory cardinals 2 cubs 1 Braden Looper allowed five hits in seven innings Preston Wilson hit a Long two run Homer in the seventh and visiting St Louis snapped a fou game losing Streak in just his fourth major league Start former closer Looper 31 out pitched Ted Lilly Jason Isringhausen worked the ninth for his fourth save braves 7 mets 3 at new York Tim Hudson was stingy Over eight innings and Chipper Jones hit a two run Homer for at Lanta Kelly Johnson also had two hits As the braves moved into first in the no East by winning the opener of the weekend series Between the top two teams in the division Hudson 30 allowed five hits and walked two the mets Mike Pelfrey 01 lasted five innings allowing four runs and six hits reds 2 Phi hates 1 Scott Hatteberg tied it with a two out Solo Homer in the ninth and bran Don Phillips singled with the bases loaded in the 10th inning for Host Cincinnati one out away from closing out a combined on hitter Tom Gor Don 01 gave up Hatteberg Homer on a be thigh 31 pitch the closers first blown save in two chances in the 10th Gordon walked Javier Valentin with one out in the 10th Ryan Freel Fol Lowed with a single and Adam Dunn walked nationals 6 marlins 5 Chris Snelling singled off first baseman Mike Jacobs Glove to drive in Ryan Church from Sec Ond in the 14th inning for visiting Washington Church singled to right off Lee Gardner to Lead off the 14th and stole second on Snellings two out single second baseman Jason Wood quickly retrieved the Ball off Jacobs Glove and fired Home but Church Slid in safely when Matt Treanor Han dle the throw padres 11 Rockies 1 Adrian Gonzalez homered and matched a career High with four Bis and Chris Young continued his Mas Tery of Host Colorado Young whose loss sunday at los Angeles snapped his major league record tying Mark of 25 straight starts on the Road without a defeat stopped the Rockies bats just like he did last year when he won both of his starts in Denver Hes 40 with a 265 Era against Colorado Young allowed four hits All sin Gles and a run in seven innings giants 4 diamondbacks 2 Russ Ortiz 21 pitched seven innings to win his second straight Start and also singled to help Host san Francisco beat his former team Barry Bonds went 2for4 with a single and double for his second Multi hit game of the Yea to raise his batting average from 306 to 325 Doug Davis 12 gave up three runs in the first and took the loss for Arizona dodgers 10 pirates 2 Randy Wolf struck out 10 hit a two run double that highlighted a six run third inning and Host los Angeles 125 improved on the Best record in the majors Luis Gonzalez Nomar Garcia Arra and Andre Ethier had two Bis each for the no West Lead ing dodgers whole won eight of 10
