Sosa Homers As Cubs Club Pirates 7-2
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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.
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Horacio Ramirez made his second start of the season a strong one, allowing seven hits and a run over seven innings Saturday to lead the Atlanta Braves to a 2-1 win over the free-falling Chicago Cubs.
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Alfonso Soriano hurts his former team again with two runs scored, and the Cubs continue their dominance over the Nationals with a 3-1 victory Tuesday night.
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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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Mark Grudzielanek hit two of Chicago&#39;s six home runs and Glendon Rusch pitched seven strong innings to lift the Chicago Cubs to a 9-2 pasting of the Astros in Houston on Friday.
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Dodgers castoff Brett Tomko pitches six solid innings, rookie Kevin Kouzmanoff delivers two more hits and the Padres win their season-high seventh in a row, 6-3 over the Pirates.
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Paul Wilson became Cincinnati's second 10-game winner in as many nights, and the Reds used a five-run first inning to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-4 on Saturday night.
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Sammy Sosa grabbed his 568th career homer and Aramis Ramirez followed up with another third-inning blast to guide the Chicago Cubs to an 8-3 win over the Houston Astros in the National League (NL) Thursday.
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While Mark McGwire avoids the spotlight and Barry Bonds closes in on 700 career home runs, Sammy Sosa struggles to remain the forceful player around whom the Cubs revolve.
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Pirates reliever Salomon Torres' wild pitch scored the go-ahead run in the 10th inning, and Aramis Ramirez's two-run homer helped the Chicago Cubs to a 5-4 victory over the Pittsburgh on Tuesday night.
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Sammy Sosa hit a grand slam and a solo shot, and the Chicago Cubs hit three straight home runs in the first inning Wednesday on their way to a 13-5 rout of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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Sammy Sosa's 600th homer resembled so many that came before &#151; except this time the Chicago Cubs were on the other side. Playing for the Texas Rangers after a year out of baseball, Sosa became the fifth member of the 600-homer club Wednesday night when he connected against his former team.
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The Chicago Cubs came out swinging &#151; and no, not at each other. Mark DeRosa hit a grand slam, Alfonso Soriano and Derrek Lee added solo homers, and the Cubs closed out a tumultuous weekend by beating the Atlanta Braves 10-1 on Sunday to snap a six-game losing streak.
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Sammy Sosa hit career home run No. 601, the first of three homers the Texas Rangers hit in an eight-run fifth inning outburst en route to a 11-3 victory over the Houston Astros on Friday night.
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The Chicago Cubs are not ignoring the fact that Sammy Sosa arrived late to last Sunday&#39;s season finale, and then left early. The club announced Wednesday the slugger will be fined a day&#39;s pay - or $87,400, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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Finally, the Pittsburgh Pirates walked off with a win. Freddy Sanchez led off the ninth inning with a home run and the Pirates rallied to end a 13-game losing streak, their longest since 1900, by beating the Chicago White Sox 7-6 Thursday.
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HOUSTON -- Sammy Sosa could have had one of his best offensive days in a while Sunday if not for a disputed scoring decision that riled Cubs hitting coach Gary Matthews.