European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page so stars and stripes june 2007 Sosa misses in first game against cubs by Stephen Hawkins the associated press Texas slam Sammy swung hard against his old and playing against the Chicago cubs for the first time in his Ca with cameras flashing on every pitch to the Sosa was ofor4 with three strikeouts tuesday night in Texas 54 he remained one Home run shy of becoming the fifth member of the 600homer i dont worry about my main focus is me and the pitch Sosa today is ill come Back tomorrow ready to go whose Only Homer in the past 21 games was a grand slam Friday in has two More chances against the cubs to join Hank Barry babe Ruth and Willie Mays in the Sosa elite he has 11 homers in 61 games this season for Derrek in the cubs lineup after Appeal ing his five game was 2for5 with an rib double in the sixth in Ning off Joaquin Benoit 22 that made it Sosa hit 545 homers with the cubs from he was the 1998 no map and a seven time Chicago was the Only team that in his 18th major league had never faced As an and based on his hard he was excited about the Chance to face his old in an aggressive in not a Guy that going to go out there and swing like a Sosa Sosa struck out swinging in the first then took a called third strike in the third after a Cou ple of hard Sosa struck out swinging again in the fifth and flew out to left Well Short of the Wall in the eighth prompting Many fans to head to the i thought he was taking nor Mal swings at pitches he thought he rangers manager Ron Washington the cubs played at rangers Ballpark in Arlington for the first and Many in the announced crowd of wore Chicago Jer Seys and cheered for the visitors and Carlos Marmol 20 struck out the first four batters he faced and five of nine in three perfect in Ryan Dempster struck out the Side in the ninth for his 16th save in 18 completing five witless innings by the cubs our starter didst pitch but our bullpen saved cubs manager Lou Piniella Ian Kinsler hit two homers and Brad Wilkerson also homered to account for All the rangers Mike part of the february 2005 Trade that sent Sosa to was 2for3 with a walk and scored twice for the cubs the second run after his Lead off single in the sixth and be fore Lees its Cool to be involved in a game like this after getting traded for its but in just Happy to be in the Fontenot i didst expect this Many cubs it seemed like there were More of them than Ranger Lee appealed the five game sus pension he got because of a Benc Clearing Brawl saturday at Wrigley Field after he was hit by a pitch thrown by san Diego Chris who has also appealed a five game Lee was hit in the forearm by a pitch from Young that appeared to be headed toward the first base mans Lee walked to had words with the then threw a Young swung Back and the benches Felix pie had a two run triple in the third to put the cubs up Alfonso who played in Texas in 2004 and Drew a base loaded walk with two outs in the fourth to make it Mark who had a career season for the rangers last year before signing a free agent Deal with the had a sacrifice Fly earlier in the sheets get Early go the distance baseball Roundup the associated press Johan Santana practically coasted through his first Complete game of the going the Dis Tance was a bit tougher for Ben but he was still going Strong at the Santana needed Only 92 pitches to earn his fourth career shutout and Lead the Minnesota twins to a 90 Victory Over the new York mets at Shea stadium on wednesday the two time by Young award winners first shutout in nearly two years was about As easy As it the twins staked him to a 50 Cushion in the second inning and the mets managed Only four base Santana 76 struck out just whiffing Paul up Duca for the first out in the Johan deserved and our offence needed Minnesota manager Ron Gardenhire they were swinging Early in the those Guys were up there taking their rips against him and that got him deeper and deeper in the sheets threw 118 but was still reaching 95 Mph on the radar gun in the ninth inning As he closed out the Milwaukee Brewers 62 Victory Over the slumping san Francisco giants at Miller like sheets 83 also got some Early runs with the Brewers scoring six against hard throwing Rookie Tim Lincecum 22 in the first two in this is what we expect from to come out and pitch games like Brewers manager Ned Yost you give him a six run Lead and youve got to Trust that Hes not giving it and Hes going to get you through this and Hes going to pitch nine and he did it perfect sheets allowed six hits in his 13th career Complete game and held Barry Bonds in the giants slugger went qfor3 with l the Atlanta journal Louie Turner Field grounds Crew members Squeegee water off the infield Tarp during a rain delay in tuesdays game Between the Atlanta braves and the Boston red sox in the rain passed and Boston won a walk and remained stuck on 748 Home seven shy of Hank Aarons career when you locate the you feel a lot better about your sheets i think a fast Ball located is the hardest pitch to Bonds walked in the second and swung ferociously through a third strike in the spin Ning 180 degrees after missing the 95 Mph that was but it was up and out of the strike zone so it was sheets id like to act like i meant to do the giants have lost a sea so High six straight and 18 of theres no one out there Happy with whats giants manager Bruce Bochy nobody has to Tell us we have to get our act in new Santana walked none and retired 15 of his final 16 batters in his sixth career com plete game and first since May at the struggling who have lost 12 of had As Many hits four As and starter Jorge Sosa allowed seven runs five earned and eight hits in 3va in when you play Sloppy de you dont give yourself a Chance to said new York third baseman David who had two with the big Santana challenged let us hit it to the big part of the Ball Phillies indians 6 at Cleve Philadelphia Kyle Hen Drick earned the Victory in his first major league Ryan Howard had an rib sin Gle in the homered into the second deck in the third off Jason Stanford 11 and added a two run double in the tigers nationals 1 at Sean Casey hit his first Home run of the season off Jason Simontacchi and de troit tied a season High with 17 hits to make a Winner of Chad Durbin dodgers Blue jays 1 at los Angeles Brad Penny 91 became the second nine game Winner in the National league while Dustin Mcgowan 33 allowed six runs in in his shortest career cardinals royals 1 at Brad Thompson 52 pitched seven Sharp innings in place of Kip who was told three hours before the game that he was being sent to the Chris duncans Homer off Scott Elarton 23 was his third in five red sox braves 0 at Atlan Josh Beckett 101 pitched six scoreless innings and had a run scoring David Ortiz homered in the fourth off Tim Hudson who lost for the fourth time in his last five marlins White sox 5 at Chi Dan Uggla homered off Matt Thornton 23 in the ninth and Florida rebounded after starter Dontrelle Willis was forced to leave with a tight left Armando Benitez 13 pitched one inning to get the astros Angels 5 at Ana Carlos Lee homered and drove in four and Jason Jennings 11 beat Bartolo Colon 63 and los Angeles for his first Victory in seven starts with hous pirates mariners 3 at seat Tom Gorzelanny 74 Al Lowed two runs in seven innings for his first Victory in More than Shawn Chacon struck out two for his first Miguel Batista 76 allowed four runs in reds athletics 2 at Oak Ken Griffey hit his 582nd career Home run and 19th of the season to Lead Cincinnati to its first regular season Victory in eight games against Homer Bailey 20 gave up two hits in seven innings to beat Chad Gaudin padres orioles 6 at san Jake Peavy 91 struck out seven in six and mar Cus Giles and Khalil Greene both homered off Steve Trachsel 55 As san Diego handed Baltimore its ninth straight diamondbacks Devil rays 8 at Chris Young hit a two run Homer off Al Reyes 11 for Ari Zonas first Victory in eight games against its 1998 expansion part Brandon Lyon 52 pitched the 10th for the