European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page 31 Biggio closes on Milestone double in 10th snaps tie Texas increases career hit total to by Stephen Hawkins the associated press Texas Craig Biggio got another Milestone hit in his quest for this one put Ting the Houston astros ahead to biggies career hit was a tie breaking rib double in the 10th helping the astros to a wild 129 Victory Over the Texas rangers on sunday night As hous ton avoided a Biggio finished 3for5 with a moving the 41yearold Sec Ond baseman within four hits of becoming the 27th player to reach the double was the 658th of his sixth on the career list and most by a right handed in not going to sugarcoat that was a pretty special one right Biggio it was a big run for us right to come Back like we there Are a lot of the astros have a three game series at Milwaukee before re turning for an 11game Home stand in where Biggio has spent his entire 20season Ca the team has made it Clear that biggies hit wont come on the even in the other major league Park in fans were chanting Biggio when he came to in excited about the fans cheering for its i love Biggio to win this Way was pretty after the astros bullpen blew another save allowing six runs in the eighth and ninth innings biggies hustling on out double scored Morgan who led off the 10th with a single off Wilson Biggio came Home on a single by Lance Berkman to make it that was the ultimate of win Ning manager Phil Garner the Good news is our of sense stepped up and did a super Job and pulled it out for Dan Wheeler 14 pitched two allowing three Home runs in a Span of seven Chad quails pitched the 10th for his second save in four astros Rookie Center fielder Hunter Pence finished his first big league series in his Home town going 4for6 with a he scored four including the last one for Houston on a Houston relievers have blown 13 of 25 save this time by giving up four runs in the eighth inning after Rookie starter Chris Sampson scattered five hits and allowed three Sampson left with a 73 Lead after Rick White allowed singles to the Only two batters he faced to pm Houston Craig Biggio doubles in the godhead run in the 10th inning of the astros 129 Victory Over the Texas rangers on sunday Start the eighth before the closer again with Brad Lidge on the disabled struck out Michael Sammy Sosa then hit a two run single and Frank a hit a two run Homer to tie the game after Mark Lorettas two run double in the ninth put Houston Wheeler gave up a Homer to Pinch hitter Marlon Byrd on the first pitch in the Bottom of the then Ian Kinsler tied it with a two out his 14th of the we fought hard and got Back in it More than rangers manager Ron Washington that the Way it goes some Pence led off the ninth with a double off Eric the rang ers closer who allowed Only one run his first 21 Pence leads All no rookies with a average 73for207 and 35 Bis in 50 games since being called up april he has eight he was one of my favorite play ers to watch in High school and col Pence said of i had to put my fan sense aside and con its always fun when you especially at the Ballpark where i watched so Many games As a braves put up More zeroes tigers by Charles Odum the associated press Atlanta Andrew Miller and the de troit tigers certainly enjoyed inter league Miller combined with Chad Durbin for a six hit and the tigers beat the slump ing Atlanta braves 50 sunday night for their seventh straight All on the Road against National league the Al Centra leading tigers finished 144 in inter league tying the los Ange Les Angels for the Best Mark in the dont ask me How that Detroit manager Jim Leyland last year we were 153 and this year 144 that pretty its not like we had some easy sched ule to go Leyland noted the tigers no opponents included firs place the new York mets and defending world series Champion the tigers caught the reeling at the perfect the braves 3838 have lost five including four by to fall to for the first time this the braves have been outscored 271 in the five their longest losing Streak of the i would say were having a hard time get Ting it braves manager Bobby Cox youd like to say its All the pitching weve been which has been outstand but you would think with just percentages youd score More than one run in five Miller who was pitching for North Carolina in the College world series a year called his Quick Rise to the major leagues a wild Leyland called Miller a work in i like what i Leyland in not going to get carried away by he did a Good added Leyland people talk about taking it to the next i want him to creep and crawl a Little theres no pressure on him at Miller has faced Only no teams in his four the 22yearold Lethander was lifted after walking Andrew Jones to open the seventh As Leyland continues to closely watch his pitch Miller gave up four walked two and struck out two while throwing 88 Chad who lost his spot in the Rota Tion despite a 63 finished up to earn his first career heres a kid that says what can i do for the team Leyland said of when you have that kind of attitude that a Good he didst do anything to pitch his Way out of the he was hopefully a beneficiary of the i dont want to say he was a the tigers plan to keep the sixth pick of the 2006 in their rotation when Nate Robertson comes off the disabled list on the Only noise from the braves this week end was a Short lived spat Between two of the teams Pitcher John Smoltz and third baseman Chipper Jones each said Sun Day that a misunderstanding played out in the Media was resolved during a meeting with Jones was lfor4 and made a diving catch of a line drive by Brandon Inge in the third in Chuck James 67 allowed just two hits in the first five but left the game after Al lowing Detroit first five hitters to reach base in the Omar Infante led off with a bunt single and moved to second when James hit Placido Polanco with a Gary Sheffield single to Center drove in Infante for a 10 and Manglio Ordonez added another single to Load the following a visit from pitching coach Roger James walked Carlos Guillen to Force in a Ivan Rodriguez hit reliever Pete Moylan first pitch to left for a two run Moylan struck out Pinch hitter Curtis Granderson with the bases loaded to end the James gave up five hits and four runs in five he struck out four and walked its just not going Well for us right James things Are not going our you have to just push through the braves Are 411 in inter league it will be Good to get Back to National league second baseman Kelly weve seen some Tough Arizona Back in first place after Victory Over orioles by Andrew Bagnato the associated press Phoenix the Arizona diamondbacks spent Little time Cele Brating their 83 Victory Over Baltimore on which gave them sole Possession of first place in the no West for the first time since april that because they open a fou game series on monday night with the los Angeles Dodg who knocked them off their Perch nearly two months Well look at the standings to Morrow and were in first but theres a lot of baseball Arizona manager Bob Melvin feel Good about where we Are right but keep our nose to the Grindstone each at Bat and each Stephen Drew and Chad Tracy homered and Eric Byrnes drove in two runs As the diamondbacks won for the seventh time in nine the coupled with Diego 42 loss to gave Arizona a on game Lead Over the the diamondbacks have a lv2game Edge Over the Dodg the last time the Diamond backs had sole Possession of first place was after a 91 Victory Over the dodgers on april Arizona dropped its next five its not starting Pitcher Doug Davis its too Early to worry about losing first its going to come Down to september arizonans 44 victories Are the most in the but the diamondbacks Arent bragging about it with 86 games were going to keep said who hit a Solo shot in the eighth inning for his fifth theres a lot of games weve got to keep pushing and Good things will the diamondbacks have built their record by punishing weak teams especially a team they beat five times in wbk games the past two on the diamondbacks built an Early Lead and coasted be Hind Davis who allowed two runs and 10 hits in he walked two and struck out who is hitting also singled in a run As he won for Only the third time in 11 i feel like in being More effective in the strike especially Early in the Davis Brian Roberts homered had four hits for the Rob erts went 7for13 with five two triples and two homers in the three game Melvin Mora hit his Lith a Solo shot to the Home bullpen in left Field in the the last in the Al split a six game trip to san Diego and they Are 33 since firing manager Sam Perlozzo on and played All three games in Arizona without Short Stop Miguel who is on the disabled list with a wrist