European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page 37 Lowells big hits lift red sox yanks learn Clemens not ready for scheduled Start the associated press Boston Mike Lowell dished out the big hits with his body and his Lowell homered to Start a red sox comeback and also flattened two Yankees in a pair of base path collisions on saturday As Boston beat new York first base Man Doug Mientkiewicz was taken from the Field on a cart after banging his head on Low Ells hip while trying to one hop a bad throw from shortstop Derek that was like a football Boston manager Terry Francona i think every body leaves these games just men tally and physically just a lot of hard the Yankees scored four in the sixth inning to take a 53 but Boston tied it in the Bottom half on Bac Toback homers by Low Ell and Jason Jeter Hom ered in the seventh to give new York another Lead before commit Ting errors on consecutive plays during Bostons five run the red sox loaded the bases with nobody out against Scott Proctor 03 before Lowell hit a grounder to Robinson Cano flipped to Sec Ond for the but Jeter spun around and threw in the Mientkiewicz tried to backhand the throw on the Outfield Side of the bag but As his momentum pulled him into the Low Ell ran through the base and sent Roundup Mientkiewicz the Ball bounced off his Glove and into foul territory As Manny Ramirez scampered Home with the second and godhead it seemed like every time we they scored some Jeter and i didst help Mientkiewicz remained on the ground for several minutes while the Yankees medical staff attended to testing his vision and his reaction Lowell stood nearby in obvious Mientki a defensive replacement who gloved the final out in bos tons 2004 world series was helped into a Golf cart and taken to Massachusetts general Hospital for precautionary i feel bad for you dont want anything like that to Hap said who played against Mientkiewicz in High school and worked out with him in the he knows me Well i wanted to say but they were being so Dustin Pedroia had three hits for Boston for the second consecutive and Hideki Okajima 10 retired All four batters he faced for his first major league Kevin who came in with a 23game hitting was the Only red sox starter who didst get a hit he Drew a walk in the eighth to end the help int coming any time soon Pitcher Forsire Roger Cle mens was scratched from Mon Days Start against Chicago be cause of Groin its not Clear when the seven time by Young who signed for a prorated will make his 2007 red sox fans taunted the Yan Kees in the ninth with a chant of where is Roger a night after Lowell took a pitch off his left wrist one of five hit batters in the game he had three hits and four he was also involved in a Little base path payback in the fourth when he slammed his right shoulder and a Little bit of his Elbow into Cano in an attempt to break up a double Cano bounced the Ball to first As he fell to the just getting Varitek at i never had a problem with him Cano today he threw his royals Devil rays 4 at Emil Brown hit a three run Odalis Perez won for the first time since late april and Kansas City won for the eighth time in its last 10 Road Brown hit his second Homer of the season during a four run Elise Boston red sox baserunner Mike Lowell 25 is tagged out As he runs into new York Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano still turned the double play on Jason Varitek grounder but he was not thrilled with Lowells saying he threw an Boston won fourth that put the royals ahead tigers indians 5 Ivan Rodriguez and Manglio Ordonez had four hits each and visiting Detroit beat Cleveland for the first time in six meetings this Ordonez hit a two run Homer in the third in his second four hit game of the Rodriguezs fifth inning double broke a 44 he added a two run single in a three run sixth that featured two Cleveland Angels orioles 4 at Ana Mike Napoli hit a two run Joe Saunders pitched Well in an emergency Start for the ailing Bartolo Colon and los Angeles won for the seventh time in nine Saunders 30 allowed two runs and four hits in six striking out none and walking mariners rangers 4 Jose Guillen started a three run rally with a Solo Homer and Miguel Batista won Bis third straight Deci Sion for Host Ichiro Suzuki went ofor4 for the mariners and never got the Ball out of the ending his club record 25game hitting Batista 64 carried a shutout and a 50 Lead into the behind pirates overcome Sloppy base running the associated press Pittsburgh the Pitts Burgh pirates ran themselves into out after out with some of the worst base running with Ian Snell on the How it hardly Snell Shook off a run of subpar starts to limit the dodgers to one run Over eight innings and the pirates overcame an other bad night of baser running blunders to beat los Ange Les 31 on saturday three pirates runners were thrown out at Home plate on consecutive plays and Pitts Burgh  score a runner from second base on a double for the second night in a but Snell 54 made up for the mis takes with his strongest Start in More than a allowing six hits and working out of a major Jam in the Snell looked stronger As the game went striking out Wilson Betemit and Juan Pierre in the seventh to strand runners on Sec Ond and he walked Rafael Furcal to Start the then re tired the final three batters he i said to myself if i strike out the next i can get out of the seventh inning and that Gene Pittsburgh pirates baserunner Freddy Sanchez bears Down on los Angeles dodgers Catcher Mike Lieberthal on Sanchez was out at Home one of three pirates runners to be thrown out at Home in the Pittsburgh survived the blunders and won what i Snell i Felt and i mixed a lot of pitch smelts pitching in the seventh was a Given How the pirates May have run themselves out of two runs the inning Adam Laroche and Ronny Paulino mowed Nadys eighth Homer with but Laroche held at third As right fielder Andre Ethier narrowly missed catching Paulinoo drive to the right Field Laroche was thrown out at the plate following a rundown on Jack Wilsons grounder to with Snell at the the dodgers pitched out on Succes Sive the pirates attempted a squeeze on the second allowing Lieberthal to tag out Paulino on the aborted Snell then struck astros cardinals 3 Carlos Lee hit a Homer and had three Bis and Rookie Hunter Pence drove in two runs to Lead Host Adam Everett and Luke Scott also homered to help the astros to their second Victory in 13 Phillies giants 2 Cole Hamels pitched his second com plete game and became the nos first eight game Winner and Host Philadelphia ended a losing relying on a Sharp fastball and his trademark Hamels 82 allowed two runs and five striking out five without a the Phillies had lost four straight at Home after sweeping a three game series in Atlanta to move a season est two games Over Kevin Frandsen homered and Barry Bonds was 2for4 and dropped a Fly Ball in left Bonds remains stuck on 746 Ca reer 10 shy of breaking Hank Aarons padres nationals 3 Justin Germano won his fourth consecutive Rob Bowen drove in a career High four runs and visiting san Diego cruised past washing Germano 40 is unbeaten in five starts since being called up from triple Portland to replace the injured Clay Hensley in the padres Germano will stay in the who was out with a strained right was activated from the 15day disabled list Friday and optioned to Khalil Greene matched a sea son High with four hits and Paul Mcanulty homered for the a marlins Brewers 2 Josh Willingham and Miguel Cabrera hit two run homers for visiting Miguel Cabrera went 2fpr4 with a two run Homer in the sixth for the who lost the first two games of this tied at 22 in the Han Ley Ramirez singled to drive in Dan Uggla from second after Cabrera popped up to the Willingham hit his eighth Homer of the season into the Loftfield seats off reliever Jose Capellan Rockies reds 1 at Jeff Francis allowed five hits Over seven innings and Todd Helton hit a two run Homer to help Colo Rado end a three game losing Francis 54 struck out six and walked one in winning his third straight in his past six 4 he is 40 with a Rockies pitchers struck out Ken Griffey three the first time this year Griffey has struck out three times in a Brian Fuentes picked up his 16th save in 17