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06-09-2002, 05:12 PM
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BOSTON (AP) -- Junior Spivey hit an inside-the-park home run and the Arizona Diamondbacks completed a sweep of the team with the majors' best record Sunday with a 7-3 win over the Boston Red Sox.
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Luis Gonzalez, Damian Miller and Erubiel Durazo also hit solo homers, and Gonzalez and Mark Grace each doubled in a run.
Spivey hit a ball to left-center field in the seventh that bounced off the wall as center-fielder Johnny Damon crashed into it. Left fielder Brian Daubach raced to retrieve it and slipped. His throw was up the third-base line and Spivey missed the plate as he ran by it. But he went back to touch it for his eighth homer before catcher Jason Varitek could tag him.
The defending champion Diamondbacks improved to 39-23. The Red Sox, who lost the first two games 7-5 and 3-2, suffered their first three-game losing streak of the season and fell to 40-20, still better than any other team. They have lost five in a row at home.
They are just 15-14 at home overall.
For the second straight day, a Red Sox starter suffered his first loss. John Burkett dropped to 7-1 one day after Pedro Martinez fell to the same record. They were the last two unbeaten regular starters in the majors.
Rick Helling (6-5) allowed three runs, seven hits and one walk while striking four in 7 2-3 innings.
He and Burkett were in the Texas rotation in 1998 and 1999. While Burkett revived his career the past two seasons with Atlanta, Helling had ERAs of 4.48 and 5.17 with the Rangers.
Helling left after Daubach's two-run double in the eighth. Burkett left after 5 2-3 innings after giving up four runs, nine hits and two walks and striking out five.
Spivey's homer came off reliever Chris Haney with two outs in the seventh and made it 5-1.
Arizona went ahead 1-0 in the second on doubles by Spivey and Grace and made it 2-0 in the third on Gonzalez' leadoff homer, his 13th.
The Diamondbacks scored with no outs in the fifth on a single by David Dellucci, who went to third when the ball eluded right fielder Trot Nixon for an error, and a double by Gonzalez.
Boston made it 3-1 in the fifth against Helling, who allowed one hit in the first four innings. Varitek led off with a bunt single and took second on Tony Clark's single. Varitek moved to third on a flyout to center and scored on another fly to center by Lou Merloni.
Arizona got a run in the sixth when Tony Womack singled, stole second and scored on a single by Craig Counsell.
Game notes
Boston LF Manny Ramirez is ``on course'' in his rehabilitation from a broken finger suffered May 11, Red Sox spokesman Kevin Shea said. That should put him on target to return within two weeks. He originally was expected to miss 4-to-6 weeks. Ramirez was checked in Boston on Sunday by Dr. Bill Morgan, the team physician. A more extensive examination was planned for Monday. ... Spivey's inside-the-park homer was the first at Fenway Park since Nomar Garciaparra's on July 26, 1998 and the second in Arizona's five-year history. Womack hit the first one on July 21, 1999. ... Steve Finley's groundout in the second inning was the 7,000th at-bat of his career. ... RF Dellucci made his sixth start of the season. He began the game with five hits in nine at-bats against Burkett and went 2-for-3. He left the game for pinch hitter Jose Guillen when Haney relieved Burkett in the sixth.
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BOSTON (AP) -- Junior Spivey hit an inside-the-park home run and the Arizona Diamondbacks completed a sweep of the team with the majors' best record Sunday with a 7-3 win over the Boston Red Sox.
Gonzalez
Spivey
Luis Gonzalez, Damian Miller and Erubiel Durazo also hit solo homers, and Gonzalez and Mark Grace each doubled in a run.
Spivey hit a ball to left-center field in the seventh that bounced off the wall as center-fielder Johnny Damon crashed into it. Left fielder Brian Daubach raced to retrieve it and slipped. His throw was up the third-base line and Spivey missed the plate as he ran by it. But he went back to touch it for his eighth homer before catcher Jason Varitek could tag him.
The defending champion Diamondbacks improved to 39-23. The Red Sox, who lost the first two games 7-5 and 3-2, suffered their first three-game losing streak of the season and fell to 40-20, still better than any other team. They have lost five in a row at home.
They are just 15-14 at home overall.
For the second straight day, a Red Sox starter suffered his first loss. John Burkett dropped to 7-1 one day after Pedro Martinez fell to the same record. They were the last two unbeaten regular starters in the majors.
Rick Helling (6-5) allowed three runs, seven hits and one walk while striking four in 7 2-3 innings.
He and Burkett were in the Texas rotation in 1998 and 1999. While Burkett revived his career the past two seasons with Atlanta, Helling had ERAs of 4.48 and 5.17 with the Rangers.
Helling left after Daubach's two-run double in the eighth. Burkett left after 5 2-3 innings after giving up four runs, nine hits and two walks and striking out five.
Spivey's homer came off reliever Chris Haney with two outs in the seventh and made it 5-1.
Arizona went ahead 1-0 in the second on doubles by Spivey and Grace and made it 2-0 in the third on Gonzalez' leadoff homer, his 13th.
The Diamondbacks scored with no outs in the fifth on a single by David Dellucci, who went to third when the ball eluded right fielder Trot Nixon for an error, and a double by Gonzalez.
Boston made it 3-1 in the fifth against Helling, who allowed one hit in the first four innings. Varitek led off with a bunt single and took second on Tony Clark's single. Varitek moved to third on a flyout to center and scored on another fly to center by Lou Merloni.
Arizona got a run in the sixth when Tony Womack singled, stole second and scored on a single by Craig Counsell.
Game notes
Boston LF Manny Ramirez is ``on course'' in his rehabilitation from a broken finger suffered May 11, Red Sox spokesman Kevin Shea said. That should put him on target to return within two weeks. He originally was expected to miss 4-to-6 weeks. Ramirez was checked in Boston on Sunday by Dr. Bill Morgan, the team physician. A more extensive examination was planned for Monday. ... Spivey's inside-the-park homer was the first at Fenway Park since Nomar Garciaparra's on July 26, 1998 and the second in Arizona's five-year history. Womack hit the first one on July 21, 1999. ... Steve Finley's groundout in the second inning was the 7,000th at-bat of his career. ... RF Dellucci made his sixth start of the season. He began the game with five hits in nine at-bats against Burkett and went 2-for-3. He left the game for pinch hitter Jose Guillen when Haney relieved Burkett in the sixth.
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