Griffey in 6th place on HR list
Ken Griffey Jr. hit another milestone home run, and pitcher Bobby Livingston had the kind of day at the plate he'll one day tell his grandchildren about.
Griffey passed Frank Robinson for sixth place on the career home run list, and Livingston, a relatively unknown pitcher called up by Cincinnati before the game, went 4-for-4 with an RBI in the Reds' 10-3 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Monday night.
"That's no fun," Griffey said with a big grin. "It just takes me out of my pinch-hitting role. They'll call on him now."
Griffey's 24th homer, a three-run shot into the right-field seats at Turner Field, came off Atlanta reliever Oscar Villarreal in the second inning and gave the Reds a 5-0 lead.
With 587 homers, Griffey moved 15 behind Texas' Sammy Sosa for fifth place.
Cincinnati called up Livingston (2-0) from Triple-A Louisville, and the left-hander allowed eight hits, two runs and two walks in five innings. He struck out four.
With four singles, Livingston became the first Reds pitcher to go 4-for-4 since John Smiley, who had four RBI while pitching Cincinnati to a 12-3 victory at Montreal on June 7, 1993.
Jeff Kent and Matt Kemp hit three-run homers and host Los Angeles won its fifth straight.Brad Penny (11-1) became the first Dodger to begin a season 11-1 since Doug Rau in 1977.
David Wells (5-5) pitched six strong innings and Michael Barrett went 3-for-4 with three RBIs for host San Diego.
Aramis Ramirez lined a go-ahead two-run double off the wall in left with two outs in the eighth inning, and host Chicago rallied past slumping San Francisco.Nationals 4, Astros 3Dmitri Young hit a go-ahead, three-run homer and Washington handed Houston its seventh straight road loss.It was the NL-high 22nd homer allowed by Woody Williams (4-11) this season. It made a winner of reliever Saul Rivera (4-2), who pitched 1 1-3 scoreless innings and stranded two inherited runners.
Chris Duncan and Adam Kennedy homered for visiting St. Louis and Braden Looper (7-7) won for the first time in seven starts.Brewers 4, D'Backs 3Corey Hart and Ryan Braun homered and Dave Bush pitched six strong innings for host Milwaukee.Bush (8-7) gave up three runs and five hits in six-plus innings, including a leadoff homer to Chris Young. Hart answered with a leadoff homer off Micah Owings (5-5) in the bottom of the first.
Rookie Kason Gabbard threw a three-hitter and Boston scored all of its runs on three homers in a victory over the Kansas City.Making his fourth start in place of the injured Schilling, Gabbard (3-0) threw the first complete game of his career.
Alex Rodriguez, Hideki Matsui and Robinson Cano homered off Josh Towers (4-6) for the Yankees, who have won nine of 12 overall and four of five since the All-Star break. Andy Phillips' two-run single in the sixth gave New York a 6-4 lead. Mariano Rivera earned his third save in three days.
Paul Konerko hit a three-run homer to highlight Chicago's nine-run sixth inning, but Cleveland wiped out all but one run of an 11-2 deficit before Bobby Jenks earned his 25th save.Cleveland got a three-run homer from Franklin Gutierrez in the sixth, and then scored five times off four Chicago relievers in the eighth to climb within one.
Jerry Hairston and Marlon Byrd hit two-run doubles and Jamey Wright (3-2) pitched seven scoreless innings for Texas as Oakland lost its eighth straight. Sammy Sosa doubled and scored two runs for the Rangers, who won their second straight road game to move within 3Z\x games of the third-place A's.
Ichiro Suzuki, the designated hitter because of a bruised leg, had two hits and Horacio Ramirez (5-2) allowed five hits and two runs in seven innings in his first start since returning from a stint on the disabled list because of shoulder tendinitis.
