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CHICAGO (AP) – Numbed by wintry weather, the Philadelphia
Phillies warmed up in the ninth inning Tuesday with a four-run
rally that cooled off the wild Chicago Cubs.
|  | | Pat Burrell follows through on a ninth-inning double that drove in Travis Lee and Scott Rolen. The Phillies beat the Cubs 6-3. |
"We didn't come here to play for four hours and freeze our
backsides off and not win a ball game," Scott Rolen said after a
6-3 Phillies victory ended the Cubs' five-game winning streak.
"The weather and the wind, I don't think I've played in
colder weather," said Pat Burrell, who hit a two-run, go-ahead double in
the ninth after Chicago closer Jeff Fassero walked the bases
loaded.
Burrell's drive sailed over Sammy Sosa's head in right.
"I thought Sammy was going to catch it. I was just trying to
get my legs going to run," said Burrell, now 9-for-13 with 22 RBI in his career with the bases loaded.
The game-time temperature was just 41 with a wind chill of 16
and a 28 mph northeasterly wind whipping from left field to right.
The game was played less than 24 hours after Monday night's series
opener was postponed by snow.
Several players and umpires wore hoods and ear warmers under
their baseball caps, Sosa sported a thick sweatshirt under his
jersey and a small crowd announced at 18,189 was huddled under
blankets and winter coats.
Fassero (0-1) had saved six games in as many opportunities and
not walked a batter in 7 1/3 innings this season.
But with Philadelphia behind 3-2, Travis Lee, Rolen and Mike
Lieberthal worked walks to load the bases with one out and Burrell
hit his drive to right.
"I was terrible with my control, just wild enough," Fassero
said.
"I wasn't missing by much. It was hard to throw the breaking
balls. It was cold. I had no grip on my slider or forkball."
Sosa said he was playing in when Burrell came up, hoping to cut
down a run.
"I was playing shallow, so I could make a play at the plate. He
just hit it over my head. The ball took off," Sosa said. "No
excuses."
Marlon Anderson followed with an RBI single through a drawn-in
infield and Jimmy Rollins greeted Manny Aybar with another
run-scoring single.
The Cubs loaded the bases with one out in the ninth against Jose
Mesa, before the right-hander struck out Todd Hundley and Ricky
Gutierrez for his fifth save.
Vicente Padilla (1-1) got the win by pitching a scoreless
eighth.
"It was so cold our guys were having trouble throwing strikes
out there and I said to Jose: 'Just get this last guy out,' " Phillies manager Larry Bowa said.
But the Phillies didn't have nearly as much trouble finding the
plate as the Cubs. Fassero's walks were three of the 11 allowed by
Chicago pitching.
"It was a tough day to play defense and to pitch," Cubs
manager Don Baylor said.
"The way the wind was blowing you couldn't tell where the ball
was going. ... But that's not what beat us."
Hundley, just 3-for-29 when he came to the plate, hit an RBI
single to give the Cubs a 3-2 lead in the seventh.
Julian Tavarez, who said he will begin serving a five-game
suspension Wednesday for his role in a spring training fight,
pitched six strong innings and gave the Cubs a 2-1 lead with an RBI
single in the fourth.
Philadelphia tied it in the sixth on two walks and Rollins'
two-out run-scoring single.
The Phillies were on the verge of a big first inning when Doug
Glanville led off with a single and stole second. Rolen's fly ball
into the right-field corner was initially ruled fair with Glanville
scoring and Rolen going to second.
But as the Cubs protested, the initial call was overruled and
changed to a foul ball. Bowa argued with second base umpire Ed
Montague, but Glanville was sent back to second and Rolen back to
the plate where he struck out. Abreu then doubled into the left-field corner to score Glanville and make it 1-0.
Game notes
Abreu plays his best at Wrigley Field. He's 21-for-56 there
lifetime with 17 RBI. ... A movie crew was at Wrigley filming part
of the movie "On the El" with several hundred fans bundled up in
the grandstands for part of one scene. ... Joey Fatone and Lance
Bass of 'N Sync sang "Take Me out to the Ballgame" during the
seventh-inning stretch. ... The teams play a doubleheader Wednesday
to make up Monday night's postponement. It will be their final
meeting of the season.
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