Sosa’s Hr Record Helps Newest Cub

Sammy Sosa became the first Cubs player to homer twice in an inning and Amaury Telemaco was impressive in his major league debut, leading Chicago over the Houston Astros 13-1 Thursday at Chicago.

Sosa homered off Jeff Tabaka leading off the seventh and capped the eight-run inning with a two-run homer off Jim Dougherty. Sosa has six homers in his last six games and raised his season total to 15.

Telemaco, a 22-year-old right-hander, was recalled from Triple-A Iowa on Tuesday. He allowed one hit in seven shutout innings - a Jeff Bagwell single with two outs in the sixth - struck out six and walked four. He didn’t allow a runner to reach third.

Astros starter Doug Drabek (1-3) gave up five runs - four earned - and seven hits in four innings.

Leo Gomez hit a three-run homer in the first following singles by Luis Gonzalez and Scott Servais.

Scott Servais hit a two-run homer in the seventh and Mark Grace hit a three-run double.

Derek Bell homered in the ninth for Houston.

Mets 6, Padres 3

San Diego

Pete Harnisch, playing while appealing an eight-game suspension for fighting, pitched seven strong innings to help New York snap a four-game losing streak.

Harnisch (3-2), suspended by N.L. president Len Coleman on Tuesday for his part in last Sunday’s brawl between the Mets and Chicago Cubs, held the Padres to five hits and one earned run. The right-hander remains eligible to play pending a hearing before Coleman.

Dodgers 8, Phillies 2

Los Angeles

Raul Mondesi drove in three runs and Ismael Valdes (4-2) pitched six solid innings to lead Los Angeles over Philadelphia.

American League

Brewers 3, White Sox 2

Milwaukee

John Jaha’s solo homer in the eighth lifted Milwaukee over Chicago.

Chicago’s Tony Phillips, who arrived at the ballpark just before game time and was scratched from the starting lineup, was roundly booed when he pinch hit in the ninth.

Phillips drew a leadoff walk, but was picked off by reliever Mike Fetters. Phillips argued the call with umpire Chuck Meriweather and had to be restrained by first base coach Ron Jackson.

Indians 8, Tigers 3

Cleveland

Albert Belle, earlier in the day ordered by A.L. president Gene Budig to get counseling, hit two homers and drove in five runs to power Cleveland over Detroit.

Belle, who leads the league with 16 homers and has hit in a career-high 17 straight games, was told to undergo counseling and to perform community service following an investigation of an April 6 incident in which he threw a baseball that hit a photographer during a workout.

Twins 4, Blue Jays 1

Minneapolis

Marty Cordova, Denny Hocking and Chuck Knoblauch had RBI doubles and Brad Radke (4-5) stopped his five-game losing streak, pitching Minnesota past Toronto.