Today's Sports-Monday, September 7, 2009

HOUSTON (AP) - ROOKIE BUD NORRIS PITCHED SIX EFFICIENT INNINGS FOR HIS FIRST WIN IN A MONTH AND CARLOS LEE HAD A TWO-RUN SINGLE IN THE HOUSTON ASTROS' 4-3 WIN OVER PHILADELPHIA. JIMMY ROLLINS, BEN FRANCISCO AND JAYSON WERTH HOMERED FOR THE PHILLIES, WHO FINISH THEIR SERIES AT HOUSTON WITH THE LABOR DAY GAME.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - GARRETT JONES HIT A GAME-ENDING RBI SINGLE TO CAP A TWO-RUN RALLY IN THE NINTH INNING AND THE PITTSBURGH PIRATES BEAT THE ST. LOUIS CARDINALS 6-5 TO STOP A NINE-GAME SKID. THE PIRATES REMAIN AT HOME TO HOST THE CHICAGO CUBS.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - NO TEAM IN ANY OF THE FOUR MAJOR AMERICAN PRO TEAM SPORTS - MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL, THE NFL, NBA OR NFL - HAS HAD 17 CONSECUTIVE LOSING SEASONS. BUT THE PITTSBURGH PIRATES ARE CLOSE
TO THAT DUBIOUS DISTINCTION. IF THEY'D LOST TO ST. LOUIS ON SUNDAY,
THEY WOULD ALREADY BE THERE.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - ISAAC REDMAN, WHOSE GOAL-LINE RUNNING MADE HIM THE SURPRISE STANDOUT OF THE PITTSBURGH STEELERS' TRAINING CAMP, JOINED THE TEAM'S PRACTICE SQUAD AFTER CLEARING WAIVERS. REDMAN, A NON-DRAFTED RUNNING BACK FROM BOWIE STATE, SCORED THREE OF THE STEELERS' FIVE RUSHING TOUCHDOWNS.

PITTSBURGH (AP) - LINEBACKER JAMES HARRISON IS A PITTSBURGH STEELERS' DEFENSIVE CAPTAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS CAREER. HARRISON AND LINEBACKER JAMES FARRIOR WILL BE THE DEFENSIVE CAPTAINS, WHILE QUARTERBACK BEN ROETHLISBERGER AND WIDE RECEIVER HINES WARD RETURN AS THE OFFENSIVE CAPTAINS.

AMERICAN LEAGUE
Final Cleveland 3 Minnesota 1
Final Toronto 14 N-Y Yankees 8
Final Baltimore 7 Texas 0
Final Detroit 5 Tampa Bay 3
Final Boston 6 Chi White Sox 1
Final L.A. Angels 7 Kansas City 2
Final Oakland 5 Seattle 2

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final N-Y Mets 4 Chi Cubs 2
Final Cincinnati 4 Atlanta 2, 12 Innings
Final Washington 5 Florida 4
Final Pittsburgh 6 St. Louis 5
Final Houston 4 Philadelphia 3
Final Milwaukee 2 San Francisco 1, 12 Innings
Final Colorado 13 Arizona 5
Final San Diego 4 L.A. Dodgers 3

TOP-25 COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Final ( 8) Mississippi 45 Memphis 14