European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 27 Haraz Washington nationals Pitcher Jerome Williams pitches against the Atlanta braves on Atlanta beat Washington swatting their Way out of slumps Furcal has 4 hits in three straight games Lees hrs lift astros the associated press Rafael Furcal has broken out of an Early season slump in a big Way and Carlos Lee is beginning to feel More comfortable after a slow Furcal continued his extraordinary offensive surge with four hits tuesday and the los Angeles Dodg ers beat Louis 97 to snap a 10game losing Streak to the Furcal has four hits in three straight games the first major leaguer to accomplish that feat since Marcus Giles did it for the Atlanta braves in Furcal played for the braves at that it was in i remember the dodgers switch hitting shortstop it was that pretty much tells the Story regard ing who has 14 hits in his last 16 a bats to raise his batting average from to i thank because its Unbe Furcal said with a Lee hit a Solo Home his second of the in the 10th inning off Jonathan Sanchez 11 to lift the Houston astros to a 65 win Over the san Francisco the giants rallied from a 30 deficit to take a 53 Lead into the Bottom of the eighth but Hunter Pence tied it with a two run drive off Armando Lee then won it with his ninth Home run of the season and the third Gam winning Homer of his Ca we know what we have in this club House is the ability to do a lot of damage and score a lot of Lee so we expect to score runs every Day and do Good every at Lee went scored four runs and finished with two Bis and Hunter Pence was 3for3 with three Bis for the who won for the ninth time in 13 Chad quails 41 pitched a scoreless 10th to get the Phillies Brewers 3 Carlos Ruiz hit a Solo Homer with two outs in the Bottom of the ninth to lift Brett Myers allowed Johnny Estradas tying Solo Homer in the ninth for his first blown but Ruiz connected off Der Rick Turnbow 12 for his first career Gam winning Myers 12 had converted his first four save opportunities since replacing injured closer Tom and haunt allowed a run since his first Relief the Phillies have won five of cubs mets 1 at new alarms Ramirez hit a grand slam and Carlos Zam Brano pitched eight Sharp innings for Chi Cliff Floyd had three hits and an rib in his first Start at Shea stadium since spend ing the previous four seasons with the and Chicago handed John Maine 51 his first loss of the Ramirez seventh career off Scott broke it open in a six run Zambrano 43 allowed six walked three and struck out braves nationals 2 Edgar Renteria hit two Home Tim Hudson allowed one run in seven and visiting Atlanta ended the Washington fou game win Ning Renteria went 3for5 As the visiting braves snapped a two game losing Atlanta has won six of its last Hudson 51 had a perfect game through innings and lowered his Era to Hudson gave up three walked one and struck out four before leaving for a Pinch hitter in the diamondbacks Rockies 0 arizonans Randy Johnson allowed one hit Over six innings and out pitched Host Colorado Jason for the second straight Johnson 12 looked like the big unit who won five by Young who underwent Back surgery last struck out nine and walked none in winning for the first time since his return to Arizona after two frustrating seasons with the new York Hirsh 24 allowed three earned runs and seven hits in eight marlins pirates 3 Dan Uggla drove in four runs while hitting two of visiting Florida four helping Sergio Mitre win for the first time in More than a Hanley Ramirez also homered while reaching base five times for which snapped a fou game losing Jere my Hermida hit a Solo shot As the marlins won for Only the fifth time in their last 18 games in streaking Griffey helps reds snap out of 4game skid the associated press san Diego the Cincinnati reds Are hoping one timely Homer will reverse their recent Ken Griffey hit a Lead off Homer in the 12th inning and the reds beat the san Diego padres 21 tuesday night to snap a fou game losing Griffey hit his eighth of the season and career Homer 571 off Heath Bell 02 on a full count who had never faced Bell has hit All of his Home inns this season in the last 18 the reds won for just the third time in 14 games and also broke a six game Road losing including four straight on this it was bound to Griffey said of the Streak busting you have to just keep the season Doest Stop be cause your David Weathers 12 pitched three perfect innings to get the win and finish off the Griffey big hit came after the padres tied it in the eighth on a balk by Cincin Natis Aaron who allowed just two walked four and struck out seven in nine it was a big win for no a rang we needed something to get us going in the right and hopefully this will do with runners on second and third in the Harang caught his spikes in the dirt As he was delivering a he attempted to throw the but lost his balance 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