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READING PHILLIES:

The Reading Phillies beat the Bowie Bayson 3 - 2, Tuesday night and will play again tonight at 7:05pm, with gates opening at 6:00pm.


PHILLIES-BRAVES - Tim Hudson pitched seven shutout innings anddrove in the go-ahead run as Atlanta downed Philadelphia 3-to-1. Hudson threw his best game in nearly two months, limiting thePhillies to six hits and two walks while striking out eight. Healso ended a scoreless tie with a suicide squeeze that scored MattDiaz, who tripled leading off the fifth. Diaz lifted a sacrifice fly in the seventh before Scott Thormandoubled home the Braves' final run later in the inning. The Phillies didn't score until David Dellucci's sacrifice fly. Cole Hamels pitched well enough to win, giving up a run and sixhits in six innings. Hamels dipped to 4-and-6. The Phillies finish their series at Atlanta this afternoon.

PIRATES-ASTROS - Craig Biggio homered and Brandon Backe pitchedseven strong innings to lead the Houston Astros to a 3-to-1 victoryover the Pittsburgh Pirates. Jose Castillo hit a sacrifice fly for the Pirates. Pittsburghhas lost five of its last seven and scored two runs or fewer infour of those losses. Pirates starter Paul Maholm allowed five hits, walked four andstruck out six in six innings, losing for the third time in sevenstarts. Maholm's strikeout total was his highest since he fanned sevenin San Francisco on June 11th. But he had control problems in thefirst inning, walking three Astros to load the bases. The Pirates remain at Houston to play again tonight.

Tuesday's major league scores
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Minnesota Twins 4 Detroit Tigers 2
L.A. Angels 5 Cleveland Indians 4
Baltimore Orioles 8 Toronto Blue Jays 4
Chicago White Sox 6 N.Y. Yankees 5, 11 innings
Kansas City Royals 6 Boston Red Sox 4
Oakland Athletics 7 Texas Rangers 6
Seattle Mariners 5 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1, 10 innings

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Florida Marlins 4 Washington Nationals 2
N.Y. Mets 3 San Diego Padres 2
Cincinnati Reds 10 St. Louis Cardinals 3
Atlanta Braves 3 Philadelphia Phillies 1
Chicago Cubs 6 Milwaukee Brewers 3
Houston Astros 3 Pittsburgh Pirates 1
Arizona Diamondbacks 5 San Francisco Giants 1
L.A. Dodgers 4 Colorado Rockies 2

Today's pitching probables and records (all times EDT)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Baltimore Orioles (Erik Bedard 12-7) at Toronto Blue Jays (RoyHalladay 13-3), 12:35 p.m.
Texas Rangers (Vicente Padilla 11-7) at Oakland Athletics (BarryZito 12-7), 3:35 p.m.
Tampa Bay Devil Rays (James Shields 4-5) at Seattle Mariners(Jarrod Washburn 5-11), 4:35 p.m.
Minnesota Twins (Johan Santana 12-5) at Detroit Tigers (JeremyBonderman 11-5), 7:05 p.m.
Los Angeles Angels (John Lackey 10-7) at Cleveland Indians (JakeWestbrook 8-7), 7:05 p.m.
New York Yankees (Randy Johnson 11-9) at Chicago White Sox (JonGarland 12-3), 8:05 p.m.
Boston Red Sox (Josh Beckett 13-6) at Kansas City Royals (MarkRedman 7-6), 8:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia Phillies (Randy Wolf 0-0) at Atlanta Braves (ChuckJames 4-3), 1:05 p.m.
Florida Marlins (Dontrelle Willis 7-8) at Washington Nationals(Ramon Ortiz 8-9), 7:05 p.m.
San Diego Padres (Clay Hensley 7-8) at New York Mets (PedroMartinez 8-4), 7:10 p.m.
St. Louis Cardinals (Chris Carpenter 10-6) at Cincinnati Reds(Aaron Harang 12-7), 7:10 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (Carlos Zambrano 12-4) at Milwaukee Brewers (DaveBush 7-8), 8:05 p.m.
Pittsburgh Pirates (Shawn Chacon 1-0) at Houston Astros (RoyOswalt 8-7), 8:05 p.m.
San Francisco Giants (Matt Morris 8-9) at Arizona Diamondbacks(Miguel Batista 9-5), 9:40 p.m.
Colorado Rockies (Jeff Francis 9-9) at Los Angeles Dodgers(Derek Lowe 9-7), 10:10 p.m.

RED BARRONS - Brian Mazone and Clay Condrey combined fora four-hit shutout for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons in a2-to-0 win over the Syracuse SkyChiefs. The series at Syracuse wraps up today.

M-L-S
Tuesday No games scheduled
Today
Kansas City at New England, 7:30 p.m.
Los Angeles at Houston, 8 p.m.
Real Salt Lake at Colorado, 9:30 p.m.

W-N-B-A
Tuesday's Scores
Charlotte 68 Houston 57
Washington 91 San Antonio 79
Connecticut 85 Chicago 59
Indiana 77 New York 44
Seattle 81 Detroit 79
Phoenix 99 Minnesota 68

Today
Sacramento at Los Angeles, 3:30 p.m.
Connecticut at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Shippensburg football player stricken, dies after drills:
- A freshman football player atShippensburg University is dead after becoming ill during practice. The deceased is 17-year-old Vince Bernardo, a freshman fromFlourtown and graduate of Plymouth Whitemarsh High School. Bernardo was a 6-foot-2, 270-pound freshman offensive lineman.He was among 106 football players participating in yesterday's early morning workout, the first official drill of theseason. The university says he was running 110-yard sprints when hestarted to struggle with the conditioning drills about 19 minutesinto the workout. He was taken to the training facility, where hiscondition worsened and an ambulance was called. He was gettingC-P-R when the ambulance got there.