Morning Box Score

By Matt Motyka in News on May 13, 2009 3:00PM

Cubs Beat Peavy, Padres
The Cubs made general manager Jim Hendry look good on Tuesday night when they beat once-prospective Cub Jake Peavy and the San Diego Padres, 6-2. The Padres jumped on Cubs starter Rich Harden early when in the first inning Adrian Gonzalez deposited one over the fence to give his team a 2-0 lead. Harden settled down immediately thereafter, allowing only two more hits through the next six innings. Peavy also turned in a quality start for San Diego, allowing six hits and three runs over six frames, but when the Cubs hit him, they hit him hard. Their six knocks included four doubles plus a two-run bomb from Milton Bradley that landed in the top tier of the center field bleachers and gave Chicago the tying and winning runs. Bobby Scales went yard for the Cubs as well, hitting his first major-league homer in the seventh inning off reliever Edwin Moreno. Offensive credit also goes to Kosuke Fukudome and Alfonso Soriano, who both went 3-for-5 at the plate with Soriano notching two RBIs. Aaron Heilman, Carlos Marmol and Kevin Gregg each pitched an effective inning of relief, keeping the Padres at bay while the offense built a respectable lead in the late goings. The Padres and Cubs will square off again today at 7:05.

Sox Swat Indians
The White Sox slugged their way to a 7-4 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday, scoring five of their seven runs via the long ball. Jim Thome teed off on Jeremy Sowers in the top of the first, putting Chicago in front 2-0. Jayson Nix added a solo shot in the third, but by the end of the fourth the Indians' had bounced back to lead 4-3. Thome wasn't finished, however, as he hit another two-run blast off Sowers in the fifth, chasing the Cleveland starter and plating the tying and go-ahead runs for Chicago. The White Sox then ended the suspense in the seventh when Corky Miller singled home two more to stretch Chicago's lead to three. All four of the Indians' runs came off Clayton Richard, who lasted only 3.1 innings in the stead of Jose Contreras. Fortunately for the Sox, the bullpen was stellar, allowing only four base runners over the remaining 5.2 innings. The White Sox will look to take the series from Cleveland later this morning when Mark Buerle squares off against Cliff Lee at 11:05.