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ATLANTA (AP) -- Jose Vidro and Orlando Cabrera had career games
in making it one of the worst nights of the season for the Atlanta
Braves.
Vidro and Cabrera each hit two home runs and the Montreal Expos
pounded out 18 hits, routing Atlanta 17-1 Monday night.
Rookie Tony Armas Jr. (4-5) beat the Braves for the second time
in a week. The son of former major league outfielder Tony Armas
also got his first major league hit and RBI.
|  | | Orlando Cabrera, right, is congratulated by Expos teammate Wilton Guerrero after hitting a three-run home run in the fifth inning Monday. |
The switch-hitting Vidro homered from both sides of the plate
for the first time in his major league career. Cabrera drove in a
career-high five runs in his first two-homer game and Rondell White
added a three-run homer as the Expos stopped a four-game losing
streak.
"I did it in winter ball in 1996," Vidro said. "It's my first
time in the United States, though."
Vidro went 3-for-4 and raised his average to .371, second best
in the league to Colorado's Todd Helton. Vidro is among several
candidates to make the NL All-Star team at second base.
Vidro also walked twice and scored four times.
"I'm not going to think about it," he said. "My numbers are
pretty good, but if it doesn't happen, I'll just get ready for the
second half of the season."
Braves manager Bobby Cox, who will guide the NL team, will help
select the reserves. The All-Star game will be played next Tuesday
night at Turner Field.
"I'm glad I don't have to deal with that," said Montreal
manager Felipe Alou, of picking All-Stars at second base.
Craig Biggio of Houston, is the leading vote-getter despite an
off season and San Francisco's Jeff Kent leads the league in RBI.
New York's Edgar Alfonzo is also having an outstanding season.
"It's a logjam," Cox said. "I like Vidro a lot. We'll see."
The 17 runs were the most Atlanta had allowed since losing to
Baltimore 22-1 on June 13, 1999. The 18 hits against the Braves
were a season high.
Atlanta came out flat after an emotional four-game series in New
York between the two top teams in the NL East. The Braves split
that set, winning 10-2 Sunday.
"It was just a rough night for everybody," said Cox.
Terry Mulholland (8-8), who was 17-4 lifetime against the Expos
after winning in Montreal last Wednesday, lasted only 4 1/3
innings. He gave up nine runs -- seven earned -- and 10 hits.
Armas allowed one run and five hits in 6 1/3 innings. Last
Tuesday, he defeated Atlanta 6-4 and left after 5 1/3 innings
because of a blister on his right middle finger.
Vidro, whose career-high 14-game hitting streak ended Sunday,
hit a three-run homer from the right side in the third. He added a
solo homer, his 15th, from the left side in the ninth.
Cabrera, who went 4-for-5 and also scored four runs, capped a
six-run fifth inning with his seventh homer of the season. He hit a
two-run drive in the eighth off Dave Stevens.
Cabrera had never hit two home runs in a major-league game,
doing it six years ago in the winter league.
"That was the only time in my life I had done it until
tonight," he said. "I can't explain it. I guess I just got
lucky."
Cabrera's three-run shot came on the second pitch from Atlanta's
Ismael Villegas, who was making his major league debut.
White connected for his 11th homer off Villegas in the seventh
after Cabrera singled and Vidro drew a two-out walk.
Armas had been 0-for-12 as a hitter until his RBI single in the
fourth. He gave up a run-scoring single to Javy Lopez in the bottom
half.
Game
notes
Mulholland has allowed at least 10 hits in each of his last
four starts. ... Villegas was 0-3 with three saves and a 4.29 ERA
at Triple-A Richmond before being recalled Sunday. ... White's home
run over the left-field fence went 445 feet, the third longest ever
hit at Turner Field. Jeremy Burnitz of Milwaukee hit one 454 feet
on June 24, the longest. Former Brave Ryan Klesko's 449-foot drive
is the second longest.
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