Baseball Roundup: Soriano gives Yankees 3-2 win
Published Sunday, April 15, 2001
BOSTON -- Rookie Alfonso Soriano stole the spotlight from Pedro Martinez and Roger Clemens with a ninth-inning solo homer that gave the New York Yankees a 3-2 win over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday.
The marquee matchup lost its luster when Clemens left after the sixth inning trailing 2-0 and Martinez departed after the seventh with the score 2-2. Soriano homered off Pete Schourek (0-1) leading off the ninth.
Tigers 1, Indians 0
DETROIT -- Steve Sparks (2-1) pitched a four-hitter to outduel Chuck Finley (1-2), who pitched a three-hitter. The game took just 2 hours, 3 minutes, the fastest at Comerica Park, which opened last year.
Detroit scored in the first when Roger Cedeno led off with an infield single, stole second, took third on a fly ball and scored on Bobby Higginson's sacrifice fly.
Blue Jays 5, Royals 4
TORONTO -- Carlos Delgado's RBI single capped Toronto's rally from a 4-1, ninth-inning deficit against Roberto Hernandez (0-2), who blew his second save chance. The Royals have blown 58 saves since the start of the 1999 season.
Shannon Stewart hit an RBI double and Alex Gonzalez hit a run-scoring grounder. After Raul Mondesi tied it with an RBI single, he stole second before Delgado, who also hit his sixth homer, blooped a single.
Orioles 6, Devil Rays 5
BALTIMORE -- John Bale (1-0) allowed one hit in 2 1-3 innings for his first major league victory as Baltimore scored a season-high six runs.
Ryan Kohlmeier allowed Randy Winn's leadoff pinch-hit homer in the ninth before getting three outs for his second save.
Rangers 9, Athletics 8
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Alex Rodriguez homered and had six RBIs, including the go-ahead run in the ninth inning, as Texas sent Oakland to its sixth straight loss.
With the score tied at 8, Rodriguez singled up the middle off Jim Mecir (0-3) to drive in Chad Curtis.
Twins 9, White Sox 4
MINNEAPOLIS -- Doug Mientkiewicz drove in a career-high five runs and Brad Radke became the majors' first three-game winner as Minnesota beat Chicago for its best start in 31 seasons.
Mientkiewicz's two-run homer off Chicago starter David Wells (1-2) in the fourth snapped a 3-3 tie. Cristian Guzman also homered for Minnesota, which improved to 8-2.
National League
Astros 7, Cardinals 4
ST. LOUIS -- Rick Ankiel walked five and struck out six in five innings as the St. Louis Cardinals lost to the Houston Astros, who got a pair of home runs from Chris Truby.
Ankiel (1-1) was pitching for the first time at Busch Stadium since he threw five wild pitches in one inning -- the most since 1890 -- in the NL division series last fall.
Scott Elarton (2-1) overcame early trouble, retiring 17 of 18 batters after allowing back-to-back home runs to Jim Edmonds and Bobby Bonilla with two outs in the first.
Reds 1, Mets 0
NEW YORK -- Cincinnati set the modern NL record by scoring in its 175th straight game as Chris Reitsma (2-0) allowed five hits in 7 1-3 innings.
The Reds, who broke a mark set by the 1992-93 Phillies, haven't been shut out since Oct. 4, 1999, when the Mets' Al Leiter did it in a one-game wild-card playoff.
Leiter (0-2), the only pitcher to shut out the Reds since May 1, 1999, allowed one run and six hits in eight innings Saturday.
Cubs 7, Pirates 6
CHICAGO -- Pinch-hitter Gary Matthews Jr. hit a go-ahead single in a four-run eighth as Chicago won its fourth straight.
Rondell White tied the score at 4 with a leadoff homer in the eighth off Jose Silva (1-1). After Matthews' hit, Scott Sauerbeck walked in a run and Sammy Sosa hit a sacrifice fly that made it 7-4.
Rockies 9, Diamondbacks 8
DENVER -- Jeff Cirillo's two-run homer off Byung-Hyun Kim (0-1) broke a seventh-inning tie as Colorado wasted a 5-0 lead and fell behind 7-5 before rallying.
Cirillo had three RBIs, and Todd Helton went 3-for-4 with a homer and two RBIs for the Rockies, who won for the second time in eight games.
Luis Gonzalez, the major league home run leader with nine, went 1-for-3 with two walks and a double after homering twice Friday night.
Expos 8, Marlins 2
MONTREAL -- Vladimir Guerrero hit his first homer of the season and added an RBI double, and Britt Reames pitched six strong innings to lead Montreal over Florida.
Guerrero, who has 124 homers in the last three seasons, connected off Matt Clement (1-1) in the fifth in his 36th at-bat of the season.
Phillies 2, Braves 1
ATLANTA -- Omar Daal, baseball's losingest pitcher last season, allowed only one run in six innings and Pat Burrell hit a tie-breaking homer to lead Philadelphia over Atlanta.
The Phillies have the early lead in the NL East, while Atlanta, with nine straight division titles, has yet to put together a winning streak.
Daal (1-0), coming off a 4-19 season, limited the Braves to six hits before giving way to the bullpen.
With the score tied at 1 in the sixth, Atlanta starter Kevin Millwood (0-2) got the first two outs. But Burrell hit a 1-0 fastball just inside the left-field foul pole for his first homer.
Brewers 11, Giants 6
MILWAUKEE -- Richie Sexson and Jeromy Burnitz hit back-to-back home runs to power Milwaukee past San Francisco.
Ron Belliard, Geoff Jenkins and Tyler Houston also homered for the Brewers.
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