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MONTREAL (AP) -- Jose Vidro is right at home at Olympic Stadium.
Vidro hit three straight doubles, and Vladimir Guerrero and
Peter Bergeron homered, leading Carl Pavano and the Montreal Expos
over the Arizona Diamondbacks 10-2 Wednesday night.
|  | | Expos pitcher Carl Pavano gave up two homers ... but only two other hits Wednesday. |
Vidro, who hit 45 doubles last season, has 16 so far this
season.
"I think we have the perfect ballpark to hit doubles," Vidro
said. "The turf helps a lot, balls between short and third in the
hole go all the way to the wall, and that helps."
The loss assured the Diamondbacks of their first road series
loss since last July. Arizona had gone 16-0-1 over its last 17 road
series.
The Expos scored in each of the first five innings and Vidro
tying a team record for doubles. Montreal won its third in a row,
including two straight against Arizona.
"It proves a lot," Vidro said. "Our players are getting more
experience now. We feel more comfortable and we're getting more
mature out there."
Pavano (4-1) pitched four-hit ball for eight innings. He gave up
Steve Finley's 14th homer leading off the second inning and Tony
Womack's fourth homer with two outs in the eighth.
"Pavano had good stuff for eight innings," Expos manager
Felipe Alou said. "Still, he had thrown 116 pitches, so we took
him out. We got some big hits and it was a good rest for the
bullpen. We haven't had an easy game for a while."
Pavano struck out a career-high eight and walked one.
Montreal got four straight hits off Armando Reynoso (2-4) to
start the first inning.
Bergeron singled and scored on Vidro's double. Rondell White
singled home Vidro, Guerrero doubled and Lee Stevens hit an RBI
grounder to make it 3-0.
"Some part was location and the other part was they were just
seeing it," Reynoso said. "They got good pitches and they saw
everything good. It's part of the game. They're good hitters."
After Finley homered, Vidro restored the Expos' three-run lead
in the bottom of the second with his second straight RBI double.
Guerrero hit his 12th homer in the third. Bergeron homered and
Vidro and White hit doubles in the fourth for a 7-1 lead.
Reynoso left the game after issuing Guerrero's major
league-leading 11th intentional walk following White's two-out
double. Reynoso allowed 10 hits and seven runs in just 3 2-3
innings.
"I kept hoping he'd find a step, and hold them at two, or hold
them here or there," Arizona manager Buck Showalter said. "But as
soon as you'd think he'd have an easy inning, he couldn't quite
finish it."
The Expos added three in the fifth off reliever Dan Plesac. Andy
Tracy singled and Chris Widger walked to lead off the inning.
Orlando Cabrera followed with a bloop single to center and both
Tracy and Widger scored when Finley's attempt to throw out Widger
advancing to second sailed across the infield and rolled along the
backstop.
Cabrera, who advanced to third on the play, scored Montreal's
10th run on a wild pitch by Plesac.
Game notes
Just 8,766 were on hand. ... Arizona 3B Matt Williams went
1-for-2 with a walk Tuesday night in his first rehabilitation start
start for Double-A El Paso. ... Expos closer Ugueth Urbina had one
bone chip removed from his right elbow Wednesday morning. Urbina
will follow a 4-6 week rehab program. ... Pavano struck out seven
in his previous start. ... Vidro became the 25th Expo to hit three
doubles in a game and first since Wilton Guerrero hit three doubles
last June 14 at St. Louis.
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