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SCOREBOARD
Friday, June 29
L.A. Angels at Baltimore (7:05 p.m. EDT). Kelvim Escobar goes for win No. 10.
STARS
Wednesday
-Damian Miller, Brewers, hit a game-ending three-run homer in the 11th inning to lift Milwaukee over Houston 6-3.
-Jose Lopez, Mariners, drove in the winning run in the 11th inning to help Seattle edge Boston 2-1.
-Xavier Nady and Ryan Doumit, Pirates, hit back-to-back home runs in the 10th inning to push Pittsburgh past Florida 7-5.
-Jack Cust, Athletics, had a career-high five RBIs in Oakland’s 13-7 win over Cleveland.
-Erik Bedard, Orioles, struck out eight and gave up two hits in seven innings to lead Baltimore past the New York Yankees 4-0.
-Brandon Webb, Diamondbacks, pitched seven innings in Arizona’s 2-0 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
100 FOR HOWARD
Phillies slugger Ryan Howard hit his 100th homer in his 325th game, a 9-6 loss to Cincinnati on Wednesday, becoming the fastest player to reach that total in major league history, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The 505-foot drive off Reds starter Aaron Harang was the longest in the four-year history of Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park.
ROAD TO 300
Tom Glavine earned his 297th career win, pitching one-hit ball for six innings in a rain-shortened shutout to lead the New York Mets past St. Louis 2-0 on Wednesday.
HOT ROYALS
Kansas City defeated the Los Angeles Angels 1-0 on Wednesday and has now won four straight for the first time since July 4-7 last year. With a record of 14-11 so far in June the Royals are assured of a winning month for the first time since July 2003.
STREAKS
The Chicago Cubs beat Colorado 6-4 on Wednesday to extend their longest winning streak in two years to six games. … Delmon Young extended his hitting streak to 12 games, matching a career-high, in Tampa Bay’s 5-3 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
SNAPPED
Roger Clemens’ run of 200 consecutive starts with at least one strikeout ended when he failed to strike out a batter in the New York Yankees’ 4-0 loss to Baltimore on Wednesday. … Kansas City completed a sweep of the Los Angeles Angels with a 1-0 win, stopping a string of a franchise record-tying nine consecutive series wins for the Angels. … So Taguchi had his career-best 18-game hitting streak snapped in St. Louis’ 2-0 loss to the New York Mets.
SPEAKING
“I guess the question would be, ‘How ’bout those bats?’ If a team was ever due to break out, it was our team.” – Atlanta manager Bobby Cox, on his team’s season-high 22 hits in a 13-0 pounding of Washington on Wednesday. The Braves managed just one run during five straight home losses to Detroit and Boston last week.
SEASONS
June 29
1916 – The Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds played a nine-inning game with just one baseball.
1923 – Brooklyn’s Jacques Fournier went 6-for-6 with a home run, two doubles and three singles as the Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 14-5.
1937 – Chicago Cubs first baseman Rip Collins played an entire game without a putout or an assist.
1941 – In a doubleheader against the Washington Senators, New York’s Joe DiMaggio tied and then broke the AL record of hitting safely in 41 consecutive games. DiMaggio doubled in four at-bats in the opener and singled in five at-bats in the nightcap to break the record set by George Sisler of the St. Louis Browns in 1922.
1968 – Detroit’s Jim Northrup hit his third grand slam in a week as the Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 5-2.
1990 – Dave Stewart of the Oakland A’s pitched the first of two no-hitters on this day, beating the Toronto Blue Jays 5-0 at the SkyDome. Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Dodgers duplicated Stewart’s feat by throwing a 6-0 no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals. It was the first time in major league history that two no-hitters were pitched in both leagues on the same day.
1995 – The Dodgers’ Hideo Nomo struck out 13 Colorado Rockies in a 3-0 victory, giving him 50 strikeouts in four games. That broke the Los Angeles record of 49 over four games, accomplished three times by Sandy Koufax, the last 30 years earlier.
2003 – Eric Byrnes hit for the cycle and matched a franchise record with five hits as Oakland beat San Francisco 5-2.
2004 – Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks became the fourth pitcher to record 4,000 strikeouts when he struck out San Diego’s Jeff Cirillo in the eighth inning of the Padres’ 3-2 win.