Baseball Roundup: Thome Caps Victory With 500th Homer
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Jim Thomeâs 500th home run was a game-winner. He hit a two-run shot in the bottom of the ninth inning yesterday to give the Chicago White Sox a 9-7 victory against the Los Angeles Angels, becoming the 23rd player â and third this season â to reach 500 home runs.
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Joe Borchard's three-run homer capped a   six-run sixth inning as the Florida Marlins moved over the .500   mark for the first time this season with an 8-5 comeback win   over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday.
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Roy Oswalt combined with three   relievers for a five-hit shutout that helped the Houston Astros   maintain their late-season charge with 3-0 win against the   Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday.
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A couple of new Killer Bs have the Houston Astros one win away from ending 43 seasons of playoff failure. Carlos Beltran hit a two-run homer and Brandon Backe pitched six solid innings in his
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Maddux threw seven shutout innings for his 302nd career win, and Baker got his 1,000th victory as a manager in Chicagoâs 5-2 win over the Montreal Expos on Monday night.
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Eric Hinske had a bases-loaded triple and Dustin Pedroia hit a two-run double last night as host Bostonâs bats came alive in a 7-3 victory against the Texas Rangers.
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Chien-Ming Wang worked seven innings, riding a Bobby Abreu homer to beat Arizona and bring the Yankeesâ record to .500 for the first time since May 9.
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A four-pitch sequence in the fifth inning Friday night produced something the Mariners hadn&#39;t done in nearly eight years. Miguel Olivo hit a home run to left-center field.
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For a team that overcame an 11-31 start, a five-run deficit was nothing. The resilient Florida Marlins became the first team in major-league history to climb above .500 after being 20 games under, rallying Monday to beat reeling Arizona 8-5.
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The Florida Marlins started a big series against the San Francisco Giants with a big inning. Alex Gonzalez hit a three-run homer to cap a seven-run first inning, and Mike Lowell drove
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Mark Teixeira hit his 30th home run of the season Saturday to lead the Texas Rangers to their eighth straight win, 5-3 over the Kansas City Royals.
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Jeff Bagwell homered and drove in three runs, becoming the 29th player in major league history to both score and drive in 1,500 runs, and the Houston Astros rallied to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 on Saturday night.
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BOSTON - Down to their last three outs of the season, the Boston Red Sox rallied - against Mariano Rivera, the New York Yankees and decades of disappointment. Bill Mueller singled home the tying run off Rivera in the ninth inning and David Ortiz homered against Paul Quantrill in the 12th, leading Boston to a 6-4 victory over the Yankees on Sunday night that avoided a four-game sweep in the AL championship series...
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Tadahito Iguchi tied it with a two-out, two-run homer, and Jim Thome celebrated his return to the lineup with a go-ahead single as the Chicago White Sox scored three in the eighth Wednesday night and beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 5-4.
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Barry Zito outpitched Curt Schilling on a day the Boston ace became the 14th pitcher with 3,000 career strikeouts, Mark Ellis and Bobby Kielty each hit solo home runs and the Oakland Athletics beat the Red Sox 7-2 Wednesday to complete a three-game sweep.
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Frank Thomas will remember the day he hit his 500th homer &#151; for reaching the milestone and getting ejected. The Toronto slugger hit a three-run shot in the first inning of the Blue Jays' 8-5 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Thursday, becoming the 21st major leaguer to reach 500.
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Adam Jones led off the eighth inning with a pinch-hit solo homer and Yuniesky Betancourt singled home Charlton Jimerson with two outs in the ninth, giving the Seattle Mariners a 6-5 win over the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday night.