Griffey passes Robinson with 587th homer
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Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 587th home run Monday night, passing Frank Robinson for sixth on the career list. Griffey's 24th homer, a three-run shot into the right-field seats at Turner Field, came off Atlanta reliever Oscar Villarreal in the second inning and gave the Reds a 5-0 lead.
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Barry Bonds hit his 700th home run Friday night, toppling another milestone and edging closer to Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron.
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Ken Griffey Jr. sure seems primed for a successful return trip to Seattle. Griffey hit his 582nd career home run and 19th of the season, leading the Cincinnati Reds to their first regular-season victory over the Oakland Athletics in eight tries with a 5-2 win Tuesday night.
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Ken Griffey Jr. belted his 586th career home run to tie Frank Robinson for sixth on the all-time list and help lead the Cincinnati Reds to an 8-1 mauling of the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday.
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Barry Bonds hit his 726th home run Tuesday night, pulling within 29 of Hank Aaron's career record.
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Carlos Guillen hit for the cycle and rookie Justin Verlander won his seventh consecutive decision to become the major leagues' first 14-game winner, leading the Detroit Tigers over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 10-4 on Tuesday night.
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Nomar Garciaparra&#039;s late-inning heroics stole the show again &amp;#151; this time from Barry Bonds. Garciaparra&#039;s tie-breaking, two-run homer in the eighth inning trumped Bonds&#039; 720th career home run and lifted the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 9-7 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Friday night.
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Andy Pettitte pitches the surging Houston Astros to their seventh straight victory, 7-4 over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night.
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Barry Bonds hit his 728th career homer Saturday, connecting in the fourth inning off Sean Marshall of the Chicago Cubs.
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Brian McCann, Andruw Jones and Jeff Francoeur homered to lead the Atlanta Braves to a 7-3 victory over the Washington Nationals on Wednesday night.
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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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Aubrey Huff's bases-loaded single highlighted Houston's wacky seventh-inning rally Wednesday, and the Astros avoided a sweep with a 7-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.
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CHICAGO - Sammy Sosa homered for the first time in more than two weeks and Derrek Lee drove in three runs to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 7-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday night.    Moises Alou and Neifi Perez also homered for the Cubs, who pulled within a half-game of idle San Francisco in the NL wild-card race...
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San Francisco Giants slugger  Barry Bonds hit his 700th career home run on Friday to join  Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth as the only major league players to  reach the milestone.
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The Chicago Cubs muscled their way to a 13-8 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates to remain clear in the National League Central Division race on Friday, Aramis Ramirez leading the assault with two three-run homers.
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Ronny Paulino hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the eighth inning and Jason Bay homered and drove in three runs to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 7-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday night.
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Craig Biggio homered and Andy Pettitte struck out five in seven solid innings as the Houston Astros completed a three-game sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers with a 5-3 win on Thursday night.