Expos Pitcher Leads Hr Parade

Jim Bullinger took a one-hitter into the ninth inning and homered, and Rondell White hit two of Montreal’s six home runs Sunday as the Expos beat the San Diego Padres 9-3.

Vladimir Guerrero, Henry Rodriguez and Chris Widger also homered for Montreal, which is second only to Colorado in home runs in the N.L..

White went 4 for 5 and drove in four runs with the first two-homer game of his career.

Bullinger (2-4) allowed just Chris Gomez’s RBI double in the second before Ken Caminiti and Chris Jones hit consecutive home runs with one out in the ninth. Lee Smith relieved for the last two outs. Bullinger hit his fourth career homer and also singled.

Giants 2, Reds 1 (10) San Francisco

Glenallen Hill hit a two-run, two-out single in the 10th inning and Rod Beck won for the first time since August 1995 as San Francisco rallied.

Cincinnati had taken a 1-0 lead in the top of the inning when Barry Larkin’s grounder got past third baseman Bill Mueller for an error, allowing Deion Sanders to score from second.

Astros 1, Marlins 0 Houston

Darryl Kile pitched a four-hitter for his first shutout in four years.

Kile (2-2) struck out six and walked three for his first complete game of the season and first shutout since blanking Florida on Aug. 17, 1993. The Marlins had runners on first and second with two outs in the ninth, but Kile struck out Greg Zaun.

Dodgers 5, Cubs 2 Los Angeles

Mike Piazza hit a 430-foot homer for Los Angeles and tagged out Chicago’s Brian McRae on an attempted steal of home.

Chan Ho Park (2-1) allowed two runs and five hits in 6-2/3 innings. He drove in a run with a suicide-squeeze bunt and doubled for his first major league extra-base hit.

Park held the Cubs scoreless on two hits before Sammy Sosa homered in the sixth. Doubles by Ryne Sandberg and McRae in the seventh made it 5-2.

Rockies 9, Phillies 0 Denver

Roger Bailey scattered nine hits for only the second shutout by a Rockies pitcher at Coors Field, and Larry Walker drove in four runs to lead Colorado.

Bailey (4-1) struck out three and walked none, lowering his ERA to 1.72. The only other complete-game shutout for Colorado at Coors Field was by Mark Thompson against Florida last Aug. 6. Three opposing pitchers have thrown complete-game shutouts at the hitter-friendly ballpark.

Cardinals 8, Mets 2 New York

Todd Stottlemyre allowed three hits in eight innings and Tom Lampkin drove in three runs.

Ray Lankford and Willie McGee homered as the Cardinals salvaged the final game of the three-game series.

Stottlemyre (1-1), roughed up by San Francisco for six runs and eight hits in 3-2/3 innings of a no-decision in his previous start, allowed just two hits before Steve Beiser hit a bloop leadoff double in the eighth.

Braves 3, Pirates 1 Atlanta

Chipper Jones singled in one run for Atlanta and two more scored when Pittsburgh’s rookie right fielder Emil Brown dropped a fly ball.

Atlanta, which had lost the first two games of the series, scored all three runs with two outs in the third inning.

Clearing the bases

Cincinnati’s Reggie Sanders began a rehab assignment at Class AA Chattanooga. He has been on the disabled list since mid-April with a bulging disk in his back… . San Diego’s Rickey Henderson is in a 5-for-48 (.104) slump. He started Sunday after missing four games with a calf injury… . The Cubs lead the majors with 32 errors… . Chicago placed backup catcher Tyler Houston on the 15-day disabled list because of a fractured right hand, and recalled Mike Hubbard from Triple-A Iowa… . Cubs shortstop Shawon Dunston left the game in the fourth inning with back spasms.