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HOUSTON (AP) -- The Houston Astros still didn't beat Kerry Wood.
At least this time, he didn't beat them, either.
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Jeff Bagwell homered and doubled twice as the Astros spoiled
Wood's return from the disabled list by sending the Chicago Cubs to
their seventh straight loss, 10-7 Tuesday night.
"Moises (Alou) and I talked about the fact he's beaten us up
pretty bad and hopefully this was going to be our time to get to
him," Bagwell said. "He still had a great fastball. What he
didn't have was his location on his breaking ball.
"That's been the key to him dominating us in the past. It's
still not that easy to hit a guy throwing 96."
Rondell White homered twice and drove in four runs for the Cubs.
He went 4-for-5.
Alou hit a three-run homer in the seventh inning off Kyle
Farnsworth (1-7) that rallied the Astros from a 7-6 deficit. He
also had an RBI double in the third off Wood, sidelined since July
30 because of a strained muscle in his left rib cage.
Wood lasted four innings, giving up four runs on three hits and
four walks. He struck out eight and was pulled after throwing 95
pitches.
Wood is 2-0 against Houston. He struck out 20 Astros in beating
them with a one-hitter in his fifth major league start May 6, 1998.
"He has a lot of good stuff," Alou said. "He had his nasty
stuff even though he's just coming off the DL. I was kind of upset.
He was missing with his breaking pitch to the other guys and then
he threw me one right in there. That wasn't fair."
Roger Cedeno drew a leadoff walk from Wood in the first and
Bagwell hit his 39th homer to tie it at 2. Bagwell went 3-for-3.
"Every night's a battle," Bagwell said. "Baseball and hitting
never come easy. I'm just out there night after night trying to
help us win."
To protect his left side, Wood batted left-handed for the first
time in his major league career. He flied out in his only at-bat.
"He was right at 100 pitches," Cubs manager Don Baylor said.
"The first batter of the game sealed his fate, he threw 12 pitches
to him. He never really found his groove. It's about what I
expected. He's been off for a while."
Houston trailed by a run in the seventh when Julio Lugo walked
and Bagwell doubled off Kyle Farnsworth (1-7). After Richard
Hidalgo struck out, Alou hit his 24th home run.
Tim Bogar hit a solo home run in the Houston eighth.
Marc Valdes (4-4) pitched the seventh inning for the victory.
Jose Cabrera worked 1 1/3 innings for his first major league save.
White hit his first homer since being traded from Montreal to
the Cubs on July 31, connecting for a two-run shot in the first off
Brian Powell.
White had a solo homer in the third and an RBI single in the
fifth. It was the seventh two-homer game of his career and first
since he did it June 16 against the Cubs.
"I came in and hit early today," White said. "I'm trying to
get as much work as I can and it helped me tonight. I'm still
working hard to get my timing back.
"It's fun to hit here. You can see the ball good and it carries
good. This is a good place to hit. I was staying back and seeing
the ball and they hung a couple of breaking balls to me."
Hidalgo's triple and a single by Mitch Meluskey lifted Houston
into a 6-all tie in the fifth. An RBI grounder by Gary Matthews Jr.
in the sixth put the Cubs ahead 7-6.
Ricky Gutierrez also homered for the Cubs.
Game notes
White's first-inning homer was his 12th of the season. ...
The six combined home runs raised the season total for Enron Field
to 216. There were 118 homers hit last season in the Astrodome.
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