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CHICAGO (AP) -- Julian Tavarez had been fined for making anti-gay
remarks and served a suspension for his role in a spring training
brawl.
|  | | Chicago's Todd Hundley is congratulated by teammates Rondell White and Matt Stairs after his two-run homer in the fourth inning. |
All he wanted to do Saturday for the first time in a week was
put the controversies behind him and pitch for the Chicago Cubs.
When he left with a 4-1 lead, his teammates made sure there
would be no comeback by the Los Angeles Dodgers -- scoring 16 runs
in the seventh and eighth innings for a 20-1 victory.
It was the most lopsided defeat for the Dodgers since they came to
Los Angeles in 1958.
"What happened is, it was just 'Boom, boom, boom.' It was just
a snowball," Cubs second baseman Eric Young said.
"You get to the seventh and it's 4-1 and score 16 runs in two
innings. You don't know where it comes from sometimes," Cubs
manager Don Baylor said.
Sammy Sosa and Todd Hundley hit two-run homers in the fourth off
Darren Dreifort (1-2), and Chicago collected 12 of its 18 hits
against relievers Terry Adams and Jose Nunez in the seventh and
eighth innings.
"Today we got 18 hits, but we've been pretty much about
pitching and defense," said Sosa, whose 10th homer was the 396th
of his career, tying him with Cubs broadcaster Joe Carter for 35th
place in major league history.
"You're not going to do this every day but it happened today.
Everybody just got up there and hit the ball."
Tavarez, fined by the Cubs during the week for making comments
derogatory toward gays in San Francisco last week, allowed six hits
and a run over seven innings to drop his National League-best ERA to 1.49. He
also was making his first start since serving a five-game
suspension for his role in a spring training brawl.
Tavarez (3-1) walked two and had a career-high eight strikeouts,
escaping a predicament in the third when he fanned Eric Karros with
the bases loaded.
"The fans supported me the whole time and they gave me some
energy," said Tavarez, who would not answer questions about what
happened in San Francisco. He'd apologized earlier and drew a
strong rebuke from commissioner Bud Selig.
Chicago scored its most runs at Wrigley Field since June 3,
1987, in a 22-7 victory over Houston, and most in any game since a
26-7 victory over Colorado at Coors Field on Aug. 18, 1995.
"You don't want to make history like that," the Dodgers' Gary
Sheffield said. "They chipped away and then exploded."
The Dodgers, shut out 4-0 Friday, ended a 15-inning scoreless
streak in the sixth on Sheffield's double that just missed being a
homer, and a run-scoring single by Karros.
In the seventh, Young singled in a run, Bill Mueller had a
two-run, bases loaded single, Sosa added a run-scoring single, and
Rondell White a run-scoring double off Adams before pinch-hitter Julio
Zuleta connected for a three-run homer off Nunez.
The Cubs added eight runs in the eighth inning with some help -- the Dodgers made two errors, and Nunez walked in two runs,
including one pass to pitcher Courtney Duncan. Nunez threw 1 2/3
innings, giving up six hits and nine runs, five earned.
Nunez, a rookie who pitched in Class A last season, finally was
relieved and infielder Chris Donnels got the final out of the
eighth.
"I felt sorry for the kid who had to stay out there. You look
over your shoulder and there's nobody there (warming up)," Baylor
said.
"You don't like to see that happen to a young kid. I admire him
for saving our bullpen," Dodgers manager Jim Tracy said. "The
flood gates opened and we undid ourselves with a couple of
defensive plays.
"We'll get up tomorrow morning and we'll blow this one off."
Game notes
The previous most lopsided defeat by the Dodgers since coming
to Los Angeles, in 1958, was an 18-0 defeat against the Reds in
1965. ... The Dodgers have given up only 20 runs in a game once before
since the move. It also was against the Cubs, on May 20, 1967, a
game Chicago won 20-3. ... The Dodgers have lost two consecutive games
after winning seven of eight. ... Right-handed pitcher Chan Ho Park has no major
problems in his lower back, tests showed Saturday. Park left
the game Friday in pain after pitching six strong innings. Tracy said Park would not miss a start. ... Hundley's
homer was his fourth of the season and first with the Cubs at
Wrigley Field. The former member of the Mets and Dodgers hit 11 as
an opposing player at Wrigley. ... On a 55-degree day, there was an
announced crowd of 38,468, the largest of the season at Wrigley
Field. The wind, oddly enough, was not blowing out but across.
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