By The Associated Press

SCOREBOARD

Thursday, July 8

Tampa Bay at New York Yankees (7:05 p.m EDT). The surprising Devil Rays open a four-game series against the Yankees.

STARS

Wednesday

Josh Phelps, Blue Jays, homered twice, including a grand slam into the fifth deck at SkyDome, and drove in a career-high seven runs in Toronto's 12-4 victory over Seattle.

Kyle Lohse, Twins, threw Minnesota's team-record third straight complete-game shutout, leading the Twins to a 12-0 victory over Kansas City.

Kazuhisa Ishii, Dodgers, pitched a one-hitter in Los Angeles' 11-0 victory over Arizona.

Andruw Jones, Braves, went 4-for-4 with two homers and five RBI as Atlanta beat Montreal 14-2.

Mike Cameron, Mets, hit two home runs and drove in three runs to help New York rout Philadelphia 10-1.

BRAVE EFFORT

Andruw Jones and J.D. Drew had four hits each and both homered in the sixth inning of Atlanta's 14-2 victory over Montreal on Wednesday night in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Charles Thomas, Adam LaRoche and Rafael Furcal also homered as part of Atlanta's 17-hit attack. The Braves have won 10 of their last 13 games, improving to two games over .500 for the first time since April 28.

NEAR NO-NO

Kazuhisa Ishii pitched his first career one-hitter to help Los Angeles beat Arizona 11-0 on Wednesday night for its fifth straight victory. Ishii (10-4) retired his first 12 batters before giving up a leadoff walk in the fourth to Luis Gonzalez and a line single by Shea Hillenbrand. No one else reached base against Ishii, who went the distance for the second time in 72 starts.

SWEEP

Milwaukee completed a three-game sweep of the Cubs with a 4-0 victory Wednesday night. It was the Brewers' first sweep of Chicago since May 9-12, 2002, at Wrigley Field and their first sweep of the Cubs at home since Sept. 18-20, 2000, at County Stadium. Chicago won all seven games at Miller Park last year.

SERIES-LY RARE

The Tigers won a series against the Yankees for the first time in eight years, holding on to a 10-8 victory Wednesday. Detroit took two out of three to win its first series at New York since taking three of four in August 1996.

SPEAKING

"It's not a matter of overpowering anybody when you throw a one-hitter or a no-hitter. I've seen guys who aren't overpowering do that. Kaz Ishii is a quality pitcher and he knows the type of pitcher he is. He has been having great success against us." - Arizona's Shea Hillenbrand after Kazuhisa Ishii threw a one-hitter in Los Angeles' 11-0 victory Wednesday night.

SEASONS

July 8

1912 - Rube Marquard's 19-game winning streak was stopped when the New York Giants lost to the Chicago Cubs 7-2.

1935 - The AL extended its All-Star winning streak to three with a 4-1 victory at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium. The New York Yankees' Lefty Gomez went six innings, prompting the NL to have the rules changed so that no pitcher could throw more than three innings, unless extra innings.

1941 - Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox hit a three-run, two-out homer in the ninth to give the AL a 7-5 victory in the All-Star game at Detroit's Briggs Stadium. Up to that point, the NL's Arky Vaughn of the Pittsburgh Pirates was the star with two home runs, the first player to do so in All-Star play. Joe and Dom DiMaggio both played for the AL, marking the first time that brothers appeared in the same All-Star game.

1947 - Frank Shea became the first winning rookie pitcher in the first 14 years of All-Star play. The AL edged the NL 2-1 at Chicago's Wrigley Field.

1952 - The NL defeated the AL 3-2 in the first rain-shortened All-Star game. The five-inning contest, at Philadelphia's Shibe Park, featured home runs by Jackie Robinson and Hank Sauer of the NL.

1958 - The 25th anniversary All-Star game, at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium, went to the AL 4-3 in a game that had 13 singles. This was the first All-Star game in which neither team got an extra-base hit.

1970 - Jim Ray Hart of San Francisco hit for the cycle and became the first NL player in 59 years to drive in six runs in one inning (fifth) as the Giants beat Atlanta, 13-0.

1994 - Shortstop John Valentin made the 10th unassisted triple play in baseball history in the sixth inning, then led off the bottom of the inning with a homer to lead Boston to a 4-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners.

1997 - Cleveland catcher Sandy Alomar hit a two-run homer to give the American League a 3-1 victory over the National League in the All-Star game. Alomar, the first player to win the All-Star MVP in his own ballpark, broke the tie in the seventh inning off San Francisco's Shawn Estes.

2000 - Dwight Gooden and Roger Clemens shut down the Mets, giving the Yankees identical 4-2 victories in the first double-ballpark doubleheader in the majors since 1903. After the opener, many in the sellout crowd of 54,165 at Shea Stadium, immediately headed for Game 2, which drew 55,821 at Yankee Stadium.

2003 - Cleveland rookie Billy Traber pitched a one-hitter for his first complete game, beating the Yankees 4-0. Traber retired 27 of 28 batters, including 21 in a row after John Flaherty's single in the third inning.