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Friday, July 3 Detroit at Minnesota (8:10 p.m. EDT). Kevin Slowey goes for his 11th win when the contending Twins host the AL Central-leading Tigers in the opener of a weekend series. Left-hander Lucas French is scheduled to make his first major league start for Detroit. STARS Thursday -Derrek Lee, Cubs, hit a grand slam and a three-run homer for a career-high seven RBIs, and Chicago opened an 11-game homestand by beating the Brewers 9-5. -Bobby Abreu, Angels, hit two home runs and Los Angeles beat the Orioles 5-2. - Todd Wellemeyer, Cardinals, rebounded from his shortest start of the season with 7 1-3 solid innings and St. Louis beat the Giants 5-2. -Geoff Blum, Astros, hit a three-run homer and finished with four RBIs as Houston beat San Diego 7-2. -Fernando Tatis, Mets, hit a two-run homer among his three hits and scored four times in New York's 9-8 victory over the Pirates in 10 innings. UN-BEE-LIEVABLE ld at Petco Park. A beekeeper was called to the downtown ballpark and sprayed a chair and a ballgirl's jacket that had attracted the bees. The swarm first appeared along the warning track. Later, fans were cleared out of several sections down the left-field line. FINDING THE PLATE Barry Zito threw 26 pitches before recording an out in the Giants' 5-2 loss to St. Louis. BONUS BABIES The St. Louis Cardinals gave a $3.1 million signing bonus to 16-year-old outfielder Wagner Mateo, considered to be among the top amateur free agents from Latin America. The New York Yankees on Thursday also gave a $3 million bonus to a 16-year-old Dominican prospect, catcher Gary Sanchez. HE LOVES KC The White Sox's Mark Buehrle improved to 20-8 against the Royals, allowing six hits and a run in 8 1-3 innings of a 4-1 win. TEXAS DIP Major League Baseball has loaned millions to Rangers owner Tom Hicks, Yahoo! reported. The league would not go into details about any borrowing, but said it was assisting Rangers owner Tom Hicks with the sale of the franchise. Yahoo!, citing a major league source, first reported that a loan was made to Hicks Sports Group and that the amount was believed to be for less than $15 million. A WIN IN NEW YORK losing streak against the Yankees. CITIZEN BAY Red Sox left fielder Jason Bay has long played America's pastime and will now be able to call himself an American. The 30-year-old player from Canada becomes a U.S. citizen in a ceremony at Boston's Faneuil Hall. SWING BATTER Russell Branyan struck out seven straight times in two nights before drawing a walk in the sixth inning of the Mariners' 8-4 win over the Yankees. STATS The Mets beat Pittsburgh 9-8 in 10 innings after trailing by five runs. The 5-0 deficit was the biggest overcome by the Mets for a win this season. ... Arizona lost - 3-2 to the Reds - for the 10th time in 12 games, falling a season-high 17 games under .500. ... Philadelphia has lost 12 of 15 and is only two games over .500. SPEAKING ``I kind of saw one or two floating around my head. Then I turned around and there was a wall. I started to walk in and tried to get Everth (Cabrera) to call time. ... It was a pretty thick wall of bees and I really didn't want a piece of it.'' - San Diego left fielder Kyle Blanks after the Padres game against the Astros was delayed 52 minutes by a swarm of bees. SEASONS July 3 1912 - Rube Marquard of the New York Giants raised his season record to 19-0 with a 2-1 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers. His winning streak ended five days later against the Chicago Cubs. 1939 - Johnny Mize of St. Louis hit two home runs, a triple and a double, leading the Cardinals to a 5-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs. 1947 - The Cleveland Indians purchased Larry Doby from the Newark Eagles of the Negro National League, making him the first black player in the American League. 1966 - Atlanta pitcher Tony Cloninger became the first National League player to hit two grand slams in one game. He added a single for nine RBIs in a 17-3 triumph over San Francisco. 1968 - Cleveland's Luis Tiant struck out 19, walked none in a six-hit 1-0, 10-inning triumph over Minnesota. 1970 - California's Clyde Wright threw 98 pitches to no-hit the Oakland A's 4-0 at Anaheim Stadium. 1973 - Jim Perry of the Detroit Tigers and brother Gaylord of the Cleveland Indians faced each other for the only time as opposing pitchers. Neither finished the game. Gaylord took the loss, 5-4. 2001 - D'Angelo Jimenez hit San Diego's fourth sacrifice fly of the game - tying the NL record - to lift the Padres over Colorado 6-5. Ryan Klesko, Wiki Gonzalez and Woody Williams also had sacrifice flies. 2002 - Cleveland Indians slugger Jim Thome homered in his seventh straight game, leaving him one shy of the major league record. Thome hit a solo shot off David Wells of the New York Yankees. 2006 - Manager Felipe Alou picked up his 1,000th career victory in San Francisco's 9-6 win over Colorado. 2007 - Brad Wilkerson hit three homers and had six RBIs to help Texas beat the Los Angeles Angels 8-3. Today's birthdays: Edinson Volquez 26; Logan Kensing 27; Dan Meyer 28; Juan Rivera 31. |
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