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Monday's Baseball Results
By Julie Smith

The New York Yankees achieved last Monday their fourth victory in a row and eight in nine games after winning the game against the Seattle Mariners 4 - 2. New York remains a half-game behind Boston who occupies the first place in the American League Eastern Division.

During the Yankees game, Jason Giambi hit his 28th homerun of the season, Chien-Ming Wang picked up his 10th win giving up two runs on seven hits and a pair of walks. Mariano Rivera recorded his 401st career save. Miguel Cairo's two-run single highlighted a three-run second inning and the New York's center fielder Johnny Damon went 3-for-4 with a run driven in for the Yankees.

For Seattle Mariners Raul Ibanez accomplished a run batted in (RBI) and scored a run. Kenji Johjima scored a couple of hits and an RBI. The Mariners have lost nine of their last eleven games. Jarrod Washburn, who is winless in his last six starts, was disappointed with the loss, after yielding four runs on nine hits in 6 1/3 innings.

The Red Sox (55-36) beat the Kansas City Royals 5-4 at Fenway Park on Monday after trailing 4-0 in the seventh inning. Doug Mirabelli hit a three-run homer for the Red Sox. This is just the second victory for the Red Sox in the past six games.

Toronto Blue Jays player Vernon Wells hit a grand slam in a nine-run fourth

inning as Toronto defeated Texas 10-1 last Monday.

Baltimore beat Oakland 5-3, Minnesota downed Tampa Bay 6-3 and the Los Angeles Angels won over Cleveland 10-5. In other games Atlanta Braves beat St. Louis 15-3 ending the Cardinals' seven-game winning streak. Brian McCann hit a grand slam and Wilson Betemit went 4-for-6 with a homer and five runs batted in for Atlanta, who has won a season-best six straight games.

Atlanta Braves is in second place in the National League East, 11 1/2 games behind the first-place New York Mets, who were off yesterday.

Chipper Jones had three singles for the Braves. This is the first time in 15 games he didn't have an extra-base hit. His streak of 14 games with a double, triple or homer had tied the MLB record established by Pittsburgh's Paul Waner in 1927.

Results in other National League games are: Florida topped Washington 4-2, Pittsburgh beat Colorado 3-1, Arizona defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-3, the Philadelphia Phillies dropped to third after an 8-6 loss to the San Diego Padres and Milwaukee won over San Francisco 10-1.