NL Wrap: Sosa Belts Two Homers as Cubs Pound Pirates
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Sammy Sosa belted a pair of home runs, including his first grand slam in more than two years, as the Chicago Cubs pounded the Pittsburgh Pirates 13-5 in National League at Wrigley Field on Wednesday.
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Aramis Ramirez hit his second three-run homer of the game right after a costly Pittsburgh error to help the Chicago Cubs beat the Pirates 13-8 on a wild and windy Friday, strengthening their hold on first place in the NL Central. The Cubs, who began the day with a 1 1/2-game lead over Milwaukee, hit four homers and withstood a shaky start from Jason Marquis to send the Pirates to their seventh straight loss.
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PITTSBURGH - Carlos Zambrano pitched 7 1-3 shutout innings to outduel Oliver Perez and beat Pittsburgh for the fifth straight time this season, carrying the Chicago Cubs to a tense, 1-0 victory over the Pirates on Wednesday night.    Sammy Sosa preserved the Cubs' sixth shutout with a sprawling, belly-flop catch of Ty Wigginton's bases-loaded, two-out line drive to right field in the eighth...
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Sammy Sosa becomes the fifth player to reach 600 home runs in the Rangers' 7-3 win over the Cubs on Wednesday.
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Sammy Sosa and Nomar Garciaparra each hit one of Chicago's season-high six homers, and the Cubs ended Houston's four-game winning streak Friday night with a 9-2 victory over the Astros.
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wild pitch by Pirates reliever Salomon Torres scored the go-ahead run in the 10th inning, and Aramis Ramirez&#39;s two-run homer helped the Chicago Cubs to a 5-4 victory in Pittsburgh last night.
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Ted Lilly won his fourth straight start, Aramis Ramirez had four RBIs and Alfonso Soriano hit a three-run homer Saturday as the surging Chicago Cubs roughed up Roy Oswalt in a 9-3 victory over the Houston Astros.
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Greg Maddux reached the 15-win plateau for a record 17th straight season and also drove in two runs in the second inning to power the Chicago Cubs to a 6-3 victory over the host Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League Thursday.
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Chicago slugger Sammy Sosa was fined $87,400 Wednesday for leaving the ballpark while the Cubs were playing the Atlanta Braves in the season finale.
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Alfonso Soriano hits two of Chicago's four homers and the Cubs continue their late-season power display, increasing their NL Central lead in the process.
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Scott Rolen's second error of the game allowed the go-ahead run to score in the 10th inning, and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 on Thursday night.
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Derrek Lee&#39;s 10th-inning single scored Mark Grudzielanek with the winning run, clinching the red-hot Chicago Cubs a 2-1 victory over the host New York Mets in the National League Friday.
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Rick Ankiel homered twice and drove in seven runs as the St Louis Cardinals pounded the Pittsburgh Pirates 16-4 on Thursday.
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PITTSBURGH The Chicago Cubs pulled out a 5-to-4 win at Pittsburgh on Salomon Torres&#39; wild pitch in the tenth inning. Corey Patterson led off the tenth with a double before scoring the go-ahead run in the Cubs&#39; tenth victory in 13 games.
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CHICAGO -- Sammy Sosa appears to have found his swing, and the timing couldn&#39;t be better for the Chicago Cubs. Sosa hit his first grand slam in more than two years, and also had a solo homer as the Cubs hit
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Ty Wigginton hit a two-run homer and Oliver Perez pitched 6 2-3 strong innings, helping the Pittsburgh Pirates stop a seven-game road losing streak with a 6-1 victory over
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Freddy Sanchez had two hits while becoming the Pittsburgh Pirates' first National League batting champion in 23 years, and Xavier Nady's third hit of the game drove in the only run in a 1-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday.