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SCOREBOARD

Saturday, Aug. 1

Houston at St. Louis (7:10 p.m. EDT). The Astros send 10-game winner Wandy Rodriguez up against Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter (9-3) in a matchup of NL Central rivals.

STARS

Friday

-Cliff Lee, Phillies, pitched a four-hitter, carrying a no-hit bid into the sixth inning and even added two hits with the bat, and Philadelphia beat San Francisco 5-1.

-Matt Holliday, Cardinals, had four hits for the second time in his eight games with St. Louis in a 4-3 victory over Houston.

-David Price, Rays, allowed one run over seven innings to help Tampa Bay beat Kansas City 8-2.

-Carlos Quentin, White Sox, homered and had a go-ahead RBI double as Chicago beat the New York Yankees 10-5.

-Jason Schmidt, Dodgers, gave up one hit in six innings for his longest start in more than two years as Los Angeles beat Atlanta 5-0.

-Steve Pearce and Lastings Milledge, Pirates, Peace hit his first homer of the season and Milledge had two RBI singles in his Pittsburgh debut as the Pirates snapped a five-game losing streak with a 5-4 win over the Nationals.

SENT PACKING

Jake Peavy said yes to the Chicago White Sox, and Victor Martinez will take aim at the Green Monster. Roy Halladay, however, stayed put in Toronto. Highlighting a flurry of deals finished just before the trade deadline, Peavy was shipped out of San Diego on Friday while Martinez went from the rebuilding Cleveland Indians to a contender in Boston. Scott Rolen, Jarrod Washburn, Orlando Cabrera and Nick Johnson were other notable players on the move as teams stocked up for the stretch drive during a busy day that featured 11 trades.

SUPER START

Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday was 4 for 4 and had an RBI single in the fourth, duplicating his four-hit game in Philadelphia a week ago in his St. Louis debut. He is batting .586 (17 for 29) with a homer and eight RBIs since joining the Cardinals in a trade from Oakland. He is the first Cardinal to hit in his first eight games with the team since Roger Maris in 1967, and he is the first Cardinal since 1954 to reach base safely two or more times in his first eight games.

SETBACK

David Ortiz homered for the second straight game after he it was reported Thursday that he and former teammate Manny Ramirez were among the 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs six years ago. Ortiz hit a two-run shot in the Red Sox 6-5 victory over Baltimore.

REHABBING

Pedro Martinez allowed five runs - four earned - and three hits in five innings of a rehab start for the Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the Philadelphia Phillies' top minor league affiliate. Using a fastball that reached 93 mph on the stadium radar gun and an effective changeup, Martinez breezed through four innings against the Columbus Clippers, allowing only one run. He then gave up four more in a 35-pitch fifth.

STRONG SCHIMDT

Jason Schmidt, making only his third start of the season, gave up just one run in six innings in his longest start in more than two years. His ERA dropped from 7.88 to 4.50 with the strong start against the Braves, who the Dodgers beat 5-0. Schmidt walked five and struck out three. The right-hander missed 2008 after surgery on June 20, 2007 repaired a torn labrum and a frayed biceps tendon in his right shoulder.

RALLY MONKEY RETURN

The Los Angeles Angels recorded their major league-leading 34th comeback victory, 11-5 over the Minnesota Twins. The Angels, who have come from behind in 13 of their past 18 victories, had six hits and two walks against three Minnesota relievers before making an out in the 11th. As a result, the Angels improved to 12-3 since the All-Star break and they completed July with a 19-7 record, averaging 7.1 runs per game.

RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY

The Rangers and Mariners sat thru a rain delay of 2 hours, 18 minutes in the seventh inning. The whole game itself took less to complete in actual playing time finishing eight minutes quicker than the stoppage.

SPEAKING

"It's tough because I'm leaving my house. This was my house. It's really tough.''- Indians catcher Victor Martinez on learning he'd been traded to Boston. The 30-year old Martinez spent his entire career with Cleveland after being signed by the Indians when he was 17.

SEASONS

Aug. 1

1906 - Harry McIntire of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitched 10 2-3 innings of no-hit ball before Claude Ritchey of Pittsburgh singled. McIntire weakened in the 13th and lost 1-0 to the Pirates on an unearned run, finishing with a four-hitter.

1941 - New York Yankees pitcher Lefty Gomez walked 11 St. Louis batters in a 9-0 victory to set a major league record for walks in a shutout.

1962 - Bill Monbouquette of the Boston Red Sox pitched a no-hitter to beat the White Sox 1-0 at Chicago.

1970 - Willie Stargell of Pittsburgh hit three doubles and two home runs to power the Pirates to a 20-10 rout of the Braves in Atlanta.

1972 - Nate Colbert of the San Diego Padres drove in 13 runs in a doubleheader with five home runs and two singles. San Diego beat the Atlanta Braves in both games, by scores of 9-0 and 11-7.

1977 - Willie McCovey of the San Francisco Giants hit two home runs, including his 18th career grand slam for a total that still leads the National League.

1978 - Pete Rose went 0-for-4 against Atlanta pitchers Larry McWilliams and Gene Garber to end his 44-game hitting streak as the Braves defeated the Cincinnati Reds 16-4.

1986 - Bert Blyleven threw a two-hitter and struck out 15 to become the 10th major league pitcher with 3,000 career strikeouts as he led the Minnesota Twins to a 10-1 victory over the Oakland A's.

1994 - Baltimore's Cal Ripken became the second major leaguer to play 2,000 straight games as the Orioles beat Minnesota 1-0.

1998 - Switch-hitter Tony Clark set an AL record by homering from both sides of the plate for the third time this year as the Detroit Tigers defeated Tampa Bay 8-0.

2005 - Rafael Palmeiro was suspended 10 days following a positive test for steroids, less than five months after the Baltimore Orioles' first baseman emphatically told Congress: "I have never used steroids. Period.''

2006 - Carlos Guillen hit for the cycle in Detroit's 10-4 victory over Tampa Bay.

Today's Birthday: Adam Jones 24.

Aug. 2

1906 - The "Hitless Wonder'' Chicago White Sox began their AL record 19-game winning streak with a 3-0 win over Boston. The record would be tied by the 1947 New York Yankees.

1907 - Walter Johnson made his major league debut with the Washington Senators and lost 3-2 to the Detroit Tigers. The first hit he yielded was a bunt single by Ty Cobb. The Tigers beat "The Big Train'' 7-6 exactly 20 years later on Walter Johnson Day in the nation's capital.

1933 - Mickey Cochrane of the Philadelphia A's hit for the cycle in a 16-3 win over the New York Yankees.

1938 - The Brooklyn Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals used a yellow baseball in the first game of a doubleheader as an experiment. The two teams went back to the white ball in the second game as the Dodgers swept the doubleheader 6-2 and 9-3.

1959 - Bill Bruton of Milwaukee hit three triples, including two with the bases-loaded, to lead the Braves to an 11-5 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in the nightcap of a doubleheader.

1979 - New York Yankees captain Thurman Munson died in the crash of his private plane while practicing takeoffs and landings at the Canton, Ohio, airport.

1987 - Kevin Seitzer went 6-for-6, hit two homers and drove in seven runs to pace a 20-hit Kansas City attack as the Royals beat the Boston Red Sox 13-5 in 102-degree heat.

1987 - Eric Davis led off the bottom of the 11th inning with his 30th home run of the season to give the Cincinnati Reds a 5-4 victory over the San Francisco Giants. Davis' homer made him the seventh - and earliest player in major league history - with 30 homers and 30 steals in the same season.

1998 - The Cuban national team claimed its 22nd gold medal at the World Baseball Championships, beating South Korea 7-1 and extending its winning streak at the event to 41 games since 1986.

2007 - Jermaine Dye homered twice and doubled twice, including a go-ahead drive that led the Chicago White Sox to a 13-9 victory over the New York Yankees. The White Sox and Yankees each scored eight runs in the second inning. It was the second time in major league history that both teams scored eight or more in an inning.

Today's birthdays: Huston Street 26; Grady Sizemore 27; Humberto Quintero 30; Matt Guerrier 31; Joe Dillon 34; Tim Wakefield 41.

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