Today's Sports-Thursday, July 30 2009

PHOENIX (AP) - JUSTIN UPTON HOMERED AND DROVE IN THREE RUNS AND CHRIS SNYDER ADDED A SOLO SHOT AS THE ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS DEFEATED THE PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES 4-0 LAST NIGHT. THE PHILLIES LOST FOR ONLY THE SIXTH TIME IN 25 GAMES THIS MONTH AND SAW THEIR NL EAST LEAD DROP TO 6 GAMES. THEY OPEN UP A SERIES AGAINST THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS TONIGHT.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - LOOKING FOR A TOP STARTER TO BOLSTER THEIR SO-SO ROTATION, THE PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES ACQUIRED REIGNING AL CY YOUNG AWARD WINNER CLIFF LEE FROM THE INDIANS. THE DEFENDING WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS ARE SENDING CLEVELAND FOUR MINOR LEAGUE PROSPECTS FOR LEE AND OUTFIELDER BEN FRANCISCO. THE DEAL IS PENDING MEDICAL REVIEWS.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - RANDY WINN LINED AN RBI SINGLE DOWN THE FIRST-BASE LINE WITH TWO OUTS IN THE 10TH INNING AND THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS BEAT THE PITTSBURGH PIRATES 1-0 YESTERDAY FOR A THREE-GAME SWEEP. THE PIRATES LOST THEIR FIFTH STRAIGHT TO FINISH A 1-7 ROAD TRIP. THE PIRATES ARE OFF TODAY AND START A WEEKEND SERIES AGAINST THE NATIONALS TOMORROW.

SEATTLE (AP) - THE SEATTLE MARINERS HAVE ACQUIRED SHORTSTOP JACK WILSON AND PITCHER IAN SNELL FROM THE PITTSBURGH PIRATES FOR SHORTSTOP RONNY CEDENO, TRIPLE-A CATCHER JEFF CLEMENT AND THREE MINOR LEAGUE PITCHERS. PITTSBURGH ALSO GETS MINOR LEAGUE RIGHT-HANDED PITCHERS NATHAN ADCOCK, BRETT LORIN AND AARON PRIBANIC.

BETHLEHEM, PA. (AP) - NEW EAGLES DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR SEAN MCDERMOTT SAYS HE'S STILL LOOKING FOR A "BOOK OF SORCERY" THAT HIS MENTOR JIM JOHNSON LEFT BEHIND. JOHNSON DIED TUESDAY AT THE AGE OF 68 AFTER A LONG BATTLE WITH CANCER. MCDERMOTT SAYS WITH THE RESULTS JOHNSON GOT, THERE MUST BE A "BOOK OF POTIONS AND MAGIC" SOMEWHERE AROUND.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - PITTSBURGH STEELERS TIGHT END HEATH MILLER HAS AGREED TO A SIX-YEAR CONTRACT THAT RUNS THROUGH THE 2014 SEASON. MILLER, ONE OF THE TOP BLOCKERS AMONG NFL TIGHT ENDS, HAD ONE SEASON REMAINING ON THE FIVE-YEAR CONTRACT HE SIGNED AFTER BEING PITTSBURGH'S FIRST-ROUND DRAFT PICK IN 2005.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - ELTON BRAND IS READY TO GIVE THE PHILADELPHIA 76ERS WHAT THEY PAID FOR. THE OFTEN-INJURED POWER FORWARD BELIEVES HE CAN RETURN TO FORM AND BE THE DOUBLE-DOUBLE PRESENCE IN THE POST THAT EARNED HIM TWO ALL-STAR BERTHS AND AN $80
MILLION CONTRACT FROM THE SIXERS. HE IS PREPARING FOR TRAINING CAMP WHICH STARTS IN LATE SEPTEMBER.


AMERICAN LEAGUE

Final L.A. Angels 9 Cleveland 3
Final Seattle 3 Toronto 2
Final Baltimore 7 Kansas City 3
Final N-Y Yankees 6 Tampa Bay 2
Final Oakland 8 Boston 6
Final Detroit 13 Texas 5
Final Minnesota 3 Chi White Sox 2


NATIONAL LEAGUE

Final Chi Cubs 12 Houston 0
Final San Francisco 1 Pittsburgh 0, 10 Innings
Final Florida 6 Atlanta 3
Final San Diego 7 Cincinnati 1
Final Milwaukee 7 Washington 5
Final St. Louis 3 L.A. Dodgers 2, 15 Innings
Final Arizona 4 Philadelphia 0

Colorado at N-Y Mets (7:10 p.m., postponed, )