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MONTREAL (AP) – Mike Thurman pitched too well to get upset about
missing a chance for his first complete game.
Thurman scattered five hits over eight innings, and Vladimir
Guerrero, Jose Vidro and Milton Bradley hit consecutive RBI doubles
as Montreal beat San Diego 3-1 Friday night.
"I felt strong," Thurman said. "I felt like I could have gone
another inning easily. I don't know what my pitch count was, but it
couldn't have been much more than 100."
He threw 104.
The Padres' Rickey Henderson scored his 2,199th run as he closes
in on Ty Cobb's record of 2,245.
Thurman (3-4) walked Henderson – his only walk of the game –
leading off the sixth. Henderson, the career walks leader with
2,077, stole second, advanced to third on Mark Kotsay's grounder to
first and scored on Ryan Klesko's RBI chopper.
"That's what he does," Thurman said. "He's made things happen
his whole career with leadoff walks, leadoff homers, stolen bases –
that's the type of player he is. You've got to give him credit,
being 42 years old and playing that type of game."
Thurman had allowed 13 runs over eight combined innings in his
last two starts. He never has thrown a complete game and hadn't
pitched eight innings since last July 31.
Ugueth Urbina pitched the ninth for his sixth save.
"If the score was a little different, if we were up a couple of
more runs, I'm sure I would have gone in and made an effort to get
the complete game," Thurman said. "But with Ugie out there in the
bullpen, closing games, that's what he's paid to do and I'll gladly
hand the ball over to him in those situations."
The Expos gave Thurman a 3-0 lead in the first.
"We finally put a couple of hits together, plus they were after
two outs," Vidro said. "That was all Thurman needed tonight."
Geoff Blum hit a one-out single off Kevin Jarvis (2-4). One out
later, Guerrero doubled to open the scoring, and Vidro's double
made it 2-0. Bradley followed with a high fly to center that landed
on top of the wall and rebounded into play.
"I don't think I could hit it much harder," Bradley said. "I
put everything I had into it and it still didn't go out. In
Colorado, it would have been way gone."
The Expos won for the fifth time in their last six games. Six of
Montreal's seven hits were doubles.
Orlando Cabrera doubled with one out in the fifth to extend his
career-best hitting streak to 11 games, Guerrero hit his second
double of the game in the sixth, and Blum doubled off reliever
Kevin Walker with one out in the eighth.
Jarvis allowed six hits and three runs in seven innings. He
struck out seven and walked one.
"The first inning I felt like I was ahead of some batters and I
didn't expand the strike zone," Jarvis said. "I threw some
pitches that were hittable when I really didn't have to, and they
did their job."
Game notes
San Diego put outfielder Santiago Perez on the 15-day
disabled list Friday because of a sprained right wrist. Shortstop
Chris Gomez's contract was purchased from Triple-A Portland, and
injured right-hander Carlton Loewer was moved from the 15-day
disabled list to the 60-day list. ... Montreal outrighted
left-hander Joey Eischen to Triple-A Ottawa on Friday. ... Cabrera,
who homered leading off a game for the first time in his career on
Thursday, is 15-for-49 (.306) with six doubles, two triples, one
homer and six RBI over the course of the streak.
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Minnesota 2
Detroit 18
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Boston 6
Kansas City 3
Toronto 9
Texas 3
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Chi. White Sox 2
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Florida 2
Colorado 1
Montreal 3
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