European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition 31 aces get trumped Yankees Blue jays Halladay Are roughed up the associated press Chinming Wang was hit hard in his first Start since taking a perfect game into the eighth the Boston red sox had an easy time against Roy Brandon Mccarthy limited the new York Yankees to one run i svs innings and Pinch hitter Vic Tor Diaz hit his first career grand leading the Texas rangers to a 142 Victory Over Wang and the a 19game Winner last gave up seven runs and 11 hits in 6vs last he began with perfect innings against seat against the Wang walked the games first hitter and gave up a run and two hits in the first i know you have to live up to but you certainly  expect another perfect Yankees manager Joe Torre Tim Wakefield pitched seven innings and Kevin Youkilis had three including a Home and two Bis to Lead the red sox to their seventh Victory in eight 80 Over Halladay and the Toronto Blue Boston also got off to a fast Start As Youkilis doubled in the first and later scored on David Ortiz the red sox then blew the game open with a six run sending 10 men to the plate and stringing together six consecutive Mike Lowell homered for the third straight game a three run shot and Youkilis and Manny Ramirez sandwiched rib singles around a run scoring double by were just playing Good base u low611 Baltimore Jay Gibbons slams into the Wall As he attempts to catch a were were play Fly Ball off the Bat of Tampa Bays who got a double on the my were clicking right second inning drive to the orioles beat the Devil rays Gail Roundup at Halladay 42 gave up eight seven and 11 hits in five a lot of Guys in Here Are press ing right including said who allowed a sea so High nine runs in his previous these things kind of take on a life of their youve just got to focus on your Wakefield 43 gave up three struck out five and walked lowering his Era to an Albest Hes definitely throwing the Ball Catcher Doug Mirabelli Hes going out there every Day and giving us a Chance to at new Mark Teixeira had four including three Dou and three Bis for the rang who scored 10 runs Over the seventh and eighth innings against Wang Luis Vizcaino and Sean Henn to break open the Mccarthy who yielded five or More runs in each of his previous three allowed five hits and threw a season High 104 the Only run he gave up was Melky cabreras tying Homer in the athletics royals 3 Dan Johnson and Jack Cust each Hom ered Danny Putnam hit his first major league Home run and Eric Chavez also connected for visiting Johnson went 4for4 with two driving in four runs and scoring Chavez had four Bis and Shannon Stewart had four Oakland Joe Kennedy 12 did not allow a hit until Billy but lers two out single in the White sox twins 0 Jose Contreras 33 pitched a five hit Ter for his second career shutout and visiting Chicago won its fourth in five Ryan Sweeney and Pablo Ozuna hit rib singles for the White the twins Carlos Silva 23 Al Lowed three runs and six hits in six Angels indians 0 Kelvim Escobar pitched a seven hitter and Gary Matthews hit a three run Homer in the third inning for Host los Escobar 41 struck out nine and walked none to win his third straight Start and help the Angels to their a leading 14th Home Jeremy Sowers 03 gave up six runs and nine hits in five innings for tigers mariners 3 Manglio Ordonez and Brandon Inge Hom ered against struggling Seattle starter Jeff Weaver 06 and Host Detroit won for the ninth time in 10 a former gave up six runs in five innings and has lost each of his six starts this sea Justin Verlander 31 allowed two runs and nine hits in 5va innings for orioles Devil rays 6 Kevin Millar homered and drove in four runs and Corey Patterson had three hits and three Bis for Host Daniel Cabrera 33 allowed six runs and eight hits in six improving to 40 in eight career starts against Tampa Elijah Dukes and Upton homered for the Devil and Casey Fossum 23 gave up eight runs five earned and nine hits in Griffey climbs Homer Chart the associated press now that Hes Ken Griffey has started to move up the career Homer list Griffey hit his 569th career Homer a two run shot that tied him for ninth on the Ca reer list and helped the Cincin Nati reds finally beat the hous ton astros Griffey tied Rafael Palmeiro and moved within four of har Mon the 37yearold outfielder has been on a tear since moving Back into his accustomed third spot in the batting Griffey has hit safely in seven of eight with four of his six he missed most of Spring train ing after breaking his left hand in the injury wound up helping him As a i  recommend it As a Way to learn but when you break your you dont want to be swinging at too Many pitches Griffey it Hurt the first three weeks of Spring look at How i took batting the first couple of i didst swing at very Many Houston won the first three games of the series and was 50 at Cincinnati this Cincinnati pulled ahead 70 after three innings against Matt Albers Adam Dunn hit a three run his sixth in the last 11 and added a triple and a coming up one sin Gle Short of hitting for the marlins dodgers 0 Josh Willingham hit a three run Homer off Derek Lowe with one out in the Bottom of the ninth to win it for Lowe 34 took a four hitter into the but Hanley Ramirez walked leading and third baseman Wilson be Emit was charged with an error when he failed to come up with a Miguel Cabrera advanced the runners by tapping out to Willingham then hit the first pitch Over the score Board for his sixth Home Sergio Mitre pitched eight innings for allowing three hits and three Taylor tank Ersley 20 pitched a perfect ninth to Complete a braves padres 3 Kelly Johnson came through with a base loaded double in the sixth for Host David Wells Hung a breaking Ball to Johnson with the bases loaded in the and Johnson lined it into the Brightfield Corner to make it Wells 12 surrendered seven hits and walked four in in Tim Hudson 41 yielded two runs and nine hits in six Rafael Soriano pitched a perfect ninth for his fifth pirates cubs 4 at Pittsburgh Jason Bay homered and drove in three runs against Carlos Bay hit a two run double in the first and led off the fifth with his fifth Zambrano 33 gave up four earned runs and seven hits in six he struck out six and walked Al Cincinnatus Ryan free gets a fateful of dirt As he steals third during the second inning thursday against Cincinnati won Paul Maholm 24 allowed four runs and seven hits in 7vs in Salomon Torres pitched the ninth for his Lith Rockies giants 3 Aaron Cook held Barry Bonds to a Dou ble in three a bats and knocked in a run with a sacrifice bunt for Host Troy Tulowitzki hit a two run double off Noah Lowry 43 in the third inning and scored from second base when shortstop Omar Vazquel threw wildly past third after Fielding Matt Holli Days the Rockies made it 40 in the fourth when Cook sacrificed a runner Home with a first baseman Ryan Klesko fielded it and threw to first for the second out inning instead of Home for a play at the Cook 21 allowed three earned runs on six hits and four walks without a strikeout in six in he cruised until the when san Francisco got All its runs on two out rib singles by Ray Benji Molina and Fred