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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Friday's Games

Philadelphia 3, San Diego 2, 12 innings

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Brad Lidge balked home the tying run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, forcing the Philadelphia Phillies to play three more innings before beating the NL West-leading San Diego Padres 3-2 Friday night on a perfect slide by Jimmy Rollins. Rollins doubled to the right-field wall off rookie Ernesto Frieri (0-1) leading off the 12th and came around to score on Placido Polanco's single to center. Luis Durango made a strong throw to catcher Yorvit Torrealba, but Rollins slid wide to avoid the tag and reached back with his left hand to touch the plate. Umpire James Hoye signaled safe as Rollins popped up and clapped his hands. Philadelphia, which had been swept in four home games by Houston, took a half-game lead over San Francisco in the wild-card race and pulled within two games of first-place Atlanta in the NL
East.

SAN DIEGO (AP) - The Philadelphia Phillies have placed right-handed reliever Danys Baez on the 15-day disabled list with back spasms. Taking his place on the roster is left-hander Antonio Bastardo, who was recalled from Triple-A Lehigh Valley. Baez is 3-3 with a 5.14 ERA in 45 appearances. Bastardo was recalled for the fourth time this season.

Milwaukee 7, Pittsburgh 2

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Alcides Escobar's triple highlighted a six-runseventh inning and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the PittsburghPirates 7-2 Friday night. James McDonald (2-4) was cruising along in his 10th major-leaguestart before the seventh. Escobar's triple on a misplayed ball by right fielder LastingsMilledge scored two to give Milwaukee its first lead of the game. Jonathan Lucroy followed with an RBI single. Joe Inglett, pinchhitting for Chris Narveson (10-7), singled for his major-leagueleading 19th pinch hit. Corey Hart doubled in a run. Ryan Braun then broke an 0 for 7slump with a two-run double.

St. Louis 4, Washington 2
Cincinnati 7, Chicago Cubs 1
N.Y. Mets 2, Houston 1
Florida 7, Atlanta 1
Milwaukee 7, Pittsburgh 2
L.A. Dodgers 6, Colorado 2
Arizona 6, San Francisco 0

Saturday's Games

Philadelphia (Blanton 5-6) at San Diego (Garland 13-8), 4:10 p.m.
St. Louis (Lohse 2-5) at Washington (L.Hernandez 8-9), 7:05 p.m.
Chicago Cubs (R.Wells 5-12) at Cincinnati (Arroyo 14-7), 7:10 p.m.
Florida (Nolasco 14-8) at Atlanta (T.Hudson 14-5), 7:10 p.m.
Houston (Myers 9-7) at N.Y. Mets (J.Santana 10-8), 7:10 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Duke 6-12) at Milwaukee (Capuano 2-2), 7:10 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 10-7) at Colorado (J.Chacin 6-9), 8:10 p.m.
Arizona (D.Hudson 3-1) at San Francisco (Zito 8-9), 9:05 p.m.

Sunday's Games

Chicago Cubs (Coleman 1-1) at Cincinnati (Volquez 3-2), 1:10 p.m.
Houston (Norris 6-7) at N.Y. Mets (Dickey 8-5), 1:10 p.m.
Florida (Jo.Johnson 11-5) at Atlanta (D.Lowe 11-12), 1:35 p.m.
St. Louis (Wainwright 17-8) at Washington (Lannan 5-6), 1:35 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Burres 2-3) at Milwaukee (Bush 6-11), 2:10 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Lilly 8-8) at Colorado (Hammel 8-7), 3:10 p.m.
Arizona (R.Lopez 5-12) at San Francisco (M.Cain 10-10), 4:05 p.m.
Philadelphia (Hamels 7-10) at San Diego (Richard 12-5), 4:05 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Friday's Games

Cleveland 15, Kansas City 4
Toronto 3, Detroit 2, 11 innings
Boston 3, Tampa Bay 1
Texas 7, Oakland 3
Chicago White Sox 9, N.Y. Yankees 4
Baltimore 3, L.A. Angels 1
Minnesota 6, Seattle 3

Saturday's Games

Detroit (Figaro 0-1) at Toronto (Morrow 9-6), 1:07 p.m.
Minnesota (Blackburn 7-8) at Seattle (Fister 4-9), 4:10 p.m.
Kansas City (Greinke 8-11) at Cleveland (J.Gomez 3-2), 7:05 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 17-5) at Chicago White Sox (Danks 12-8), 7:05 p.m.
Boston (C.Buchholz 15-5) at Tampa Bay (Garza 13-7), 7:10 p.m.
Oakland (Braden 8-9) at Texas (Harden 5-4), 8:05 p.m.
Baltimore (Millwood 2-14) at L.A. Angels (Kazmir 8-11), 9:05 p.m.

Sunday's Games

Kansas City (Chen 8-7) at Cleveland (Carmona 11-12), 1:05 p.m.
Detroit (Porcello 6-11) at Toronto (Rzepczynski 1-2), 1:07 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Nova 0-0) at Chicago White Sox (Floyd 9-10), 2:05 p.m.
Oakland (G.Gonzalez 11-8) at Texas (C.Lewis 9-10), 3:05 p.m.
Baltimore (Guthrie 7-13) at L.A. Angels (Jer.Weaver 11-9), 3:35 p.m.
Minnesota (Pavano 15-9) at Seattle (French 2-4), 4:10 p.m.
Boston (Lackey 12-7) at Tampa Bay (J.Shields 12-11), 8:05 p.m.

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE

Philadelphia 20, Kansas City 17

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Mike Kafka's 18-yard pass to Riley Cooper in the closing seconds boosted the Philadelphia Eagles past Kansas City 20-17 on Friday night, making Todd Haley 0-7 in preseason games as the Chiefs' head coach. The Chiefs' offense got off to a horrendous start and the man who's attempting to replace Philadelphia quarterback Donovan McNabb sputtered most of his time on the field. Chiefs rookie linebacker Cameron Sheffield was immobilized and
had to be taken away on a cart after a helmet-to-helmet tackle on Mike Bell left him motionless on the field. The Chiefs said only that he had a neck injury and was being further evaluated. Kafka, a rookie out of Northwestern, led the Philadelphia reserves on an 8-play, 80-yard drive against the Chiefs backups to pull out the win.

Atlanta 16 Miami 6
Washington 16 N-Y Jets 11
New Orleans 36 San Diego 21