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SCOREBOARD

Wednesday, May 13

Chicago White Sox at Cleveland Indians (12:05 p.m. EDT). Chicago ace Mark Buehrle will look to remain unbeaten and win his sixth game of the season as he faces Cy Young winner Cliff Lee. Lee is just 1-5, but has allowed just seven total runs in his last five starts.

STARS

Monday

-Ryan Zimmerman, Nationals, extended his hitting streak to 29 games and went 4 for 5 with two homers for Washington in an 11-7 loss to San Francisco.

-Willy Taveras, Reds, matched a career high with five hits as Cincinnati routed Arizona 13-5.

-Derek Lowe, Braves, outlasted Johan Santana, giving up two runs and five hits in Atlanta's 8-3 victory over the Mets that snapped New York's seven-game winning streak.

-Randy Johnson, Giants, struck out nine for his 298th career victory as San Francisco topped Washington 11-7.

STANDING TALL

In the tallest pitching matchup in baseball history, 6-foot-10 Randy Johnson beat 6-9 Daniel Cabrera. The Big Unit and the towering Cabrera measure a combined 163 inches -- one more than the combined heights of Cabrera and Mark Hendrickson on Sept. 1, 2004, in the previous record-holding matchup, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

LACK OF SUPPORT

Johan Santana lowered his NL-best ERA to 0.78, but lost for the second time this season. The two-time Cy Young Award winner was pulled after 108 pitches with the score tied at 1. Somehow despite his minuscule ERA the Mets have lost three of his seven starts. The Mets have scored 15 runs in Santana's starts this year, 11 while he was on the mound. They have 139 runs in their other 24 games, an average of 5.79.

NEW ACE

Arizona infielder Josh Wilson pitched a scoreless ninth inning, becoming the fifth Diamondbacks position player to take the mound. Wilson, who also went one inning for Tampa Bay in 2007, kept his career ERA at 0.00.

SELLING OFF SEATS

New York City will receive $11.5 million from the Yankees in exchange for giving the team rights to sell off seats, signs and other memorabilia from their old ballpark. After two homestands at the new Yankee Stadium dominated by home runs and empty seats near the field, the Yankees and Steiner Collectibles scheduled a news conference for Tuesday to announce memorabilia sales and prices for the original Yankee Stadium, including sod and dirt plus bricks from Monument Park.

SIDELINED

Carlos Delgado was out of the Mets' lineup again with a recurring hip injury that has New York worried about the long-term health of its cleanup hitter. ... Atlanta's Chipper Jones sat out the Braves' win over the Mets with a stiff and swollen right elbow that he hurt on a swing Sunday.

SPEAKING

"I feel confident that I'll get back out there, but I'm just kind of realistic. I want to go back out there and pitch. I don't want to end my career with an injury. But you know what? If it doesn't work out, then believe me, I'll be perfectly fine. I'm not worried about that." -- Atlanta Braves pitcher Tom Glavine after a bullpen session. He's been sidelined since offseason operations on his left elbow and shoulder.

SEASONS

May 13

1911 -- Detroit's Ty Cobb hit his first grand slam. After six innings, the Tigers led the Red Sox, 10-1. Boston came back to win the game 13-11 in 10 innings.

1911 -- The New York Giants scored a major league record 10 runs before the St. Louis Cardinals retired the first batter in the first inning. Fred Merkle drove in six of the Giants' 13 runs in the first en route to a 19-5 rout. Rube Marquard of the Giants entered the game in the second inning and set a record for relievers with 14 strikeouts in his eight-inning appearance.

1923 -- Joe Sewell of the Cleveland Indians struck out twice in one game for the first time in his career. Washington Senator rookie Wally Warmoth was the pitcher. In a 14-year career, Sewell had only one other multiple strikeout game.

1942 -- Boston's Jim Tobin became the only pitcher in modern history to hit three home runs in one game. Tobin led the Braves to a 6-5 win over the Chicago Cubs. His fourth at-bat was a fly ball caught against the fence in left field.

1952 -- In an Appalachian League game, Ron Necciai of the Bristol Twins struck out 27 batters while pitching a 7-0 no-hitter against the Welch Miners.

1955 -- Mickey Mantle hit three home runs -- two left-handed and one right-handed -- as the Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers 5-2.

1958 -- Teammates Willie Mays and Darryl Spencer each had four long hits as San Francisco beat the Dodgers in Los Angeles 16-9. Mays had two homers, two triples, a single and four RBIs, and Spencer had two homers, a triple, a double and six RBIs for a combined 28 total bases.

1958 -- Stan Musial got his 3,000th hit with a pinch-double off Chicago's Moe Drabowsky at Wrigley Field. The Cardinals won 5-3.

1980 -- Ray Knight of Cincinnati hit two home runs in the fifth inning -- including a grand slam -- to lead the Reds to a 15-4 rout of the New York Mets.

1982 -- The Chicago Cubs won the 8,000th game in their history with a 5-0 victory over Houston at the Astrodome.

1989 -- Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins tied a major league record with four doubles against the Blue Jays. He became the 35th player to hit four doubles in a game, the first since Toronto's Damaso Garcia in 1986.

1993 -- George Brett hit his 300th career home run in the sixth inning of Kansas City's 7-3 victory over Cleveland. Brett joined Hank Aaron, Stan Musial, Carl Yastrzemski, Willie Mays and Al Kaline as the only players with at least 3,000 hits and 300 homers.

1998 -- The Atlanta Braves set an NL record and tied a major league mark by hitting home runs in 25 straight games, doing it when Ryan Klesko hit a two-run shot in the sixth inning against St. Louis.

2000 -- Todd Stottlemyre of Arizona earned his seventh victory of the season as the Diamondbacks beat the San Diego Padres 6-2. It was Todd's 136th career win. He and his father, Mel Stottlemyre, became the first father-son combination to record 300 wins.

2007 -- San Francisco rookie Fred Lewis hit for the cycle in a 15-2 win over Colorado, just four days after being called up from Triple-A Fresno.

Today's birthday: Barry Zito 31.

Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press

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