European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 29 sluggers Over and out Griffey rips or in return Soriano busts out of slump the associated press Ken Griffey appears to be Over his Chest and Alfon so Soriano is out of his Griffey returned to Cincinnatus lineup after missing three of the last four games with a Chest ailment and went 3for3 with a Homer and two Bis in the reds 112 Victory Over the Houston astros on tuesday it was the second Homer of the season for and 565th of his manager Jerry Narron said he thought the time off might have helped Griffey which he broke in the feel Griffey brushed off that All that stuff he but added that he had recovered from his Chest ailment and could finally breathe Griffey helped Branson Arroyo earn his first Victory this season after pitching Well All hed had five starts and four of them had been really Good and we haunt done anything for Griffey in just glad that we were Able to score some runs and let him go out there and enjoy something instead of us sit Ting there while Griffey Homer helped Arroyo Soriano first Homer of the season jump started the cubs who signed a Mil lion contract with Chicago As a free agent in the needed Only one at Bat in May to equal his rib total in april he was Cliff Floyd had a two run shot during a four run rally in the seventh inning that left Chicago leading Pittsburgh when the game was suspended be cause of after a delay of 2 18 min the game was suspended Gene Chicago cubs outfielder Alfonso Soriano 12 crosses Home plate after hitting a Lead off Homer off Pittsburgh pirates Pitcher Tony armas on the blast was Soriano first this he hit 46 in with the pirates about to Bat in the when play resumed Chicago tacked runs on in the eighth and ninth to win 86 despite Chris Duffy rib Dou ble in the Bottom of the cubs reliever Ronald Cherry 10 got the marlins mets 2 Josh will Ingham drove in a career High five runs and Florida played great defense to stifle Host new Ricky Nolasco 10 came off the disabled list to allow one run and six hits in five innings for the Willingham tripled with the bases loaded in the first inning against Mike Pelfrey 03 and hit a two run Homer off Aaron Heil Man in the eighth after the mets pulled within former mets Prospect Henry Owens pitched the ninth for his third David Wright had three including his first Home run for the Phillies braves 4 Cole Hamels bounced Back from a rough Start to pitch into the eighth inning and visiting Phila Delphia finally beat Hamels 31 fell behind 30 in the giving up a two run Homer to Chipper he Al Lowed Only four More hits the rest of the sending the Phillies to their first Victory Over Atlanta in five meetings this Jones homered adding a Solo shot in the eighth that finished off who went 7vs giving up five of his nine hits in the Tom Gordon pitched the ninth for his fifth it was another miserable Start for Atlanta Mark Redman who was knocked out during a four run second and might be in danger of losing his spot in the to his Era climbed to Brewers cardinals 2 Ben sheets 22 allowed two runs in six innings after leaving his last Start with a Groin and Tony Graffagnino capped a seven run sixth with a three run Homer for Host Braden Looper 32 and Louis were cruising with a 20 Lead in the but the Cardi playing in their second game since the death of reliever Josh blew the padres nationals 0 slump ing Rookie Kevin Kouzmanoff drove in a run with his first big league and Chris Young and Trevor Hoffman combined on a three hitter Host san Washington Shawn Hill 23 and Micah Bowie held the padres to four Kouzmanoff was batting just 8for73 before tripling off the out town scoreboard on the Brightfield Wall to bring in Mike Cameron with one out in the Sev Kouzmanoff then scored on a suicide squeeze by Oscar Rob dodgers diamondbacks 1 Pinch hitter Olmedo Saenz singled Home the winning run with two outs in the ninth inning and los Angeles snapped visiting Ari Zonas six game winning Brad Penny out pitched Livan Hernandez with six innings of three hit Ball in their first head Ohead Penny lowered his Era to Rockies giants 7 Matt hol Liday homered and hit a three run double after being moved from fifth to third in the and vis iting Colorado beat san fran Alberto Arias 10 threw scoreless innings of Relief to win his major league and Brian Fuentes earned his fifth Barry Bonds went ofor4 with a called strikeout As the giants six game Home winning Streak Russ Ortiz 22 lasted Only innings for san allow ing eight runs and nine april Riveras first month was one hed like to forget from Back Page last the Only no hitter was pitched by Florida Anibal and it didst take place until 6 the first in the major leagues since Randy Johnsons perfect game in May maybe All the pitching caught up to the Oakland designated hitter Mike Piazza said with a still some sluggers have defied the the Yankees Alex Rodriguez hit 14 tying the april record Albert Pujols set last Barry Bonds had mov ing within 14 of breaking Hank Aarons record of and Sammy Sosa hit seven in his comeback with moving within five of then there were forgettable Mariano Rivera had just one blew two and left the month with a despite rods the injury weak ened Yankees lost eight of their last nine games in the month and ended april at better than Only Colorado and Kansas that Start renewed speculation that manager Joe Torres Job might be in and while George Steinbrenner backed him the owner also said his million teams Start was clearly not in Daisuke Matsuzaka was overwhelming at wild at going 32 with a Era in his first month in the a Tim Hudson was Sharp for the Atlanta braves Hes 30 with a Era in six then there was the Colorado Rookie shortstop Troy Tulowitzki accomplished one of baseballs rarities sunday the 13th unassisted triple play in major league the season int made in one especially the first month of the Howard like everybody its not 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