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PHOENIX (AP) -- Matt Williams, Steve Finley and Luis Gonzalez
homered to end Arizona's power outage, and the Diamondbacks
salvaged a series split by beating the St. Louis Cardinals 4-0
Thursday night.
|  | | Armando Reynoso blanked the Cards over seven innings and got support in the form of three D-Backs home runs. |
Armando Reynoso (4-4) pitched seven strong innings for the win
and handled the Mark McGwire-less Cardinals with ease. He allowed
just four hits and struck out four before he was lifted for a pinch
hitter.
Andy Benes (4-3), facing his former team for the first time,
allowed six hits in 6 1/3 innings. But three of those hits were
solo shots by Arizona's most consistent sluggers.
After Reynoso hit Fernando Vina with one out in the third, he
retired the next 11 batters before giving up back-to-back singles
to Jim Edmonds and Ray Lankford in the seventh.
Reynoso got out of the jam by getting Craig Paquette to fly out,
and J.D. Drew to hit into a fielder's choice at second.
Kelly Stinnett's RBI single in the seventh made it 4-0 and
chased Benes.
The Diamondbacks hit just four homers in the first nine games of
their 10-game homestand, and had gone four games without one.
But the Diamondbacks, who lost the first two of the four-game
series, made up for their power drought Thursday night.
Williams led off the second with his first homer in seven games,
dating to last Sept. 27, against Colorado's Luther Hackney.
Williams broke his right foot in spring training and was on the
disabled list until May 23.
Finley hit his 19th -- giving him an NL-leading 52 RBI -- with
two outs in the fourth, and Gonzalez drove a 434-foot shot into the
right-field bleachers in the sixth.
McGwire, who hit his major league-leading 21st homer off Randy
Johnson Wednesday night, was rested for the 10th game of a 16-day
stretch in which the Cardinals play a game each day.
Vicente Padilla pitched the eighth, and Matt Mantei got the
final three outs.
Game notes
Benes is 12-16 at Bank One Ballpark, where he threw the
first pitch as Arizona's starter in its 1998 inaugural season. ...
Williams' homer was the 335th of his career. ... Hand specialist
Don Sheridan performed arthroscopic surgery to repair torn
cartilage in Arizona 1B Erubiel Durazo's right wrist Thursday. The
rehabilitation is expected to take at least a month. ... The
Cardinals ended May in first place for the first time since 1992.
... McGwire's solo homer Wednesday night was St. Louis' 100th of
the year in its 52nd game, setting an NL record. The 1956
Cincinnati Reds set the previous record (64) for number of games
needed to reach 100.
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