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MONTREAL (AP) -- The Montreal Expos finally solved Curt
Schilling.
Orlando Cabrera and Michael Barrett each had three hits and
three RBI as the Expos rallied to beat Schilling and the Arizona
Diamondbacks 9-5 Monday night.
Schilling had pitched eight straight complete games against the
Expos.
"He's a tough one," Barrett said. "He's such a gamer. He goes
out there and pitches great. He's going to give you an opportunity
to win."
Schilling (10-9) got off to a good start, retiring the first 13
batters before Montreal caught up to him.
Trailing 3-2, the Expos scored four times in the seventh inning
to take a 6-3 lead. Cabrera and Barrett doubled during the rally.
"I was happy to see that we fought, and fought hard," Barrett
said. "Good things happen when you do that and winning the
ballgame tonight was a good feeling because we fought hard."
Schilling allowed nine hits and six runs in seven innings. He
struck out seven and walked one.
"I've always felt very comfortable pitching in this ballpark,"
Schilling said. "I had chances to make pitches. I had a lot of
opportunities to make pitches and get us out of that inning and I
didn't make them."
The Diamondbacks lost for the sixth time in seven games.
Montreal won for the second time in its last three games at Olympic
Stadium after losing nine straight at home.
Mike Thurman (4-4) allowed six hits and three runs -- two earned
-- in seven innings. Anthony Telford got six outs for his third
save.
After Tony Womack's RBI triple put Arizona ahead 3-2 in the
seventh, the Expos came back in the bottom half.
Vladimir Guerrero walked and Geoff Blum singled with one out.
Cabrera doubled to center, just out of the reach of Steve Finley's
leaping attempt at the wall, to score Guerrero with the tying run.
Barrett followed with a drive to right that Danny Bautista
couldn't hold on to for a double, scoring Blum. Cabrera held at
third.
Pinch-hitter Wilton Guerrero hit an RBI single and Peter
Bergeron added a sacrifice fly to make it 6-3.
"(Schilling) looked good," Thurman said. "When I came out of
the game, I knew I was gone after the seventh, and I didn't feel
really good about us having a chance to come back and get a win.
Nothing against our guys, but I know Schilling's history and he
really has a tendency to turn it up a notch in the later innings."
Arizona closed within a run in the eighth on Finley's RBI double
off reliever Steve Kline and Bautista's RBI grounder.
Montreal scored three times in the eighth off reliever Mike
Morgan on Cabrera's two-run single and Barrett's RBI single.
Bautista, who drove in three runs, gave Arizona a 2-0 lead with
an RBI single in the second and a run-scoring grounder in the
fourth.
The Expos did not have a runner until Lee Stevens doubled down
the left-field line with one out in the fifth. Blum followed with a
bad-hop single past first baseman Greg Colbrunn that made it 2-1.
With the game tied at 2 in the seventh, Damian Miller hit a
one-out single and advanced to second on Schilling's sacrifice.
Womack followed with a line drive to the gap in right-center for
his league-leading 11th triple.
Vladimir Guerrero made an outstanding running catch to save a
run from scoring in the second.
With Jay Bell on first and one out, Guerrero raced into the
right-field corner to catch a sinking liner by Luis Gonzalez that
appeared to be a sure extra-base hit.
Bell, who hadn't broken stride as he approached third base,
merely continued directly into the Diamondbacks' dugout, reaching
it before the relay throw doubled him off first.
"I saw it the whole way and I thought it was a sure double,"
Thurman said. "I know there's no other right fielder in the league
that gets to that ball. It was pretty impressive, the speed that he
had to catch up with that."
Game notes
Schilling is 13-9 lifetime against the Expos. ...
Schilling's last complete game against Montreal was a 5-2 win at
Bank One Ballpark on Aug. 7. ... The Diamondbacks are 2-5 against
Montreal this season. ... Guerrero has 10 assists.
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