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Sosa goes for 600 against the Cubs

Jun 19, 2007 - 1:38 PM Chicago Cubs (31-37) at Texas (26-43), 8:35 pm EDT

ARLINGTON, Texas (Ticker) - Sammy Sosa has a chance to make history against the club with which he had his greatest success.

Sosa aims for his 600th career homer Tuesday when the Chicago Cubs face the Texas Rangers.

Sosa was unceremoniously traded by the Cubs to the Baltimore Orioles after the 2004 season. After an unsuccessful 2005 campaign, Sosa was out of baseball for all of 2006 before the Rangers gave him another chance this season.

Most of his historic homers came as a member of Chicago, including over 60 three times in 1998, 1999 and 2001. But on Tuesday he'll have a chance to become just the fifth player in major league history get to 600 career homers and join Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Babe Ruth and Willie Mays.

Trying to stop Sosa will be Sean Marshall (3-2, 2.12 ERA). The 24-year-old lefthander has yet to allow more than two runs in any of his five starts this season, and has won each of his last three.

He never faced Sosa.

Countering for the Rangers will be Robinson Tejeda (5-7, 6.49). The veteran righthander is 1-4 over his last five outings with a 10.48 ERA. Opponents are batting .351 off him over that stretch.

Chicago is coming off an eight-game stretch (4-4) in which it have failed to score more than four runs in any of the games.








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    FINAL
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
    - - - - - - - - - - - -
    CHICAGO CUBS 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 5 11 0
    TEXAS 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 4 5 1 (FINAL)

    BATTERIES: CHN - SEAN MARSHALL, CARLOS MARMOL (5TH), BOBBY HOWRY (8TH), RYAN
    DEMPSTER (9TH) AND MICHAEL BARRETT
    TEX - ROBINSON TEJEDA, JOAQUIN BENOIT (6TH), RON MAHAY
    (7TH) A

    Jun 19 11:31 PM
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    Cubs vs. RangersJun 19 11:17 PM


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    AT TEXAS - SCORING UPDATE
    DOUBLE BY DERREK LEE SCORED MIKE FONTENOT.
    SITUATION: 1 RUN IN, D LEE ON SECOND, 2 OUT
    CURRENT SCORE: CHICAGO CUBS 5
    TEXAS 4 TOP, 6TH
    DUE UP FOR CHICAGO CUBS: C FLOYD (.313, 1-FOR-3)

    Cubs vs. RangersJun 19 10:35 PM


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    AT TEXAS - SCORING UPDATE
    TWO-RUN HOME RUN BY IAN KINSLER (13) TO LEFT WITH 0 OUT IN
    THE 5TH OFF SEAN MARSHALL SCORED KENNY LOFTON.
    CURRENT SCORE: CHICAGO CUBS 4, TEXAS 4
    DUE UP FOR TEXAS: M YOUNG (.285, 0-FOR-2)

    Cubs vs. RangersJun 19 10:13 PM


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    AT TEXAS - SCORING UPDATE
    BASES LOADED WALK TO ALFONSO SORIANO SCORED MICHAEL
    BARRETT.
    SITUATION: 2 RUNS IN, A SORIANO ON FIRST, M FONTENOT ON SECOND, J
    JONES ON THIRD, 2 OUT
    CURRENT SCORE: CHICAGO CUBS 4
    TEXAS 2 TOP, 4TH
    DUE UP FOR CHICAGO CUBS: F PIE (.252, 1-FOR-2, 2 RBI)

    Cubs vs. RangersJun 19 9:45 PM


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    AT TEXAS - SCORING UPDATE
    SACRIFICE FLY BY MARK DEROSA SCORED CLIFF FLOYD.
    SITUATION: 1 RUN IN, M BARRETT ON FIRST, 1 OUT
    CURRENT SCORE: CHICAGO CUBS 3
    TEXAS 2 TOP, 4TH
    DUE UP FOR CHICAGO CUBS: J JONES (.234, 0-FOR-1)

    Cubs vs. RangersJun 19 9:34 PM


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    AT TEXAS - SCORING UPDATE
    SOLO HOME RUN BY BRAD WILKERSON (7) TO RIGHT WITH 0 OUT IN
    THE 3RD OFF SEAN MARSHALL.
    CURRENT SCORE: CHICAGO CUBS 2, TEXAS 2
    DUE UP FOR TEXAS: T METCALF (.235, 1 HR, 4 RBI)

    Cubs vs. RangersJun 19 9:18 PM


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    AT TEXAS - SCORING UPDATE
    TRIPLE BY FELIX PIE SCORED MIKE FONTENOT AND ALFONSO
    SORIANO.
    SITUATION: 2 RUNS IN, F PIE ON THIRD, 2 OUT
    CURRENT SCORE: CHICAGO CUBS 2
    TEXAS 1 TOP, 3RD
    DUE UP FOR CHICAGO CUBS: D LEE (.343, 0-FOR-1)

    Cubs vs. RangersJun 19 9:13 PM
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    Cubs vs. RangersJun 19 8:50 PM


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    AT TEXAS - SCORING UPDATE
    SOLO HOME RUN BY IAN KINSLER (12) TO LEFT WITH 1 OUT IN THE
    1ST OFF SEAN MARSHALL.
    CURRENT SCORE: CHICAGO CUBS 0, TEXAS 1
    DUE UP FOR TEXAS: M YOUNG (.287, 4 HR, 40 RBI)

    Cubs vs. RangersJun 19 8:47 PM

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