Sosa hits 600th HR against former team
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Sammy Sosa joined an elite club, hitting his 600th home run against his former team. Meanwhile, two younger sluggers hit key home runs to rally baseball's hottest teams to victories.
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Greg Maddux overcame a shaky start to post his 301st career win while Sammy Sosa hit his 566th career home run as the Chicago Cubs beat the Milwaukee Brewers 9-6 in Milwaukee Thursday.
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Chicago slugger Sammy Sosa was fined $87,400 Wednesday for leaving the ballpark while the Cubs were playing the Atlanta Braves in the season finale.
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The Seattle Mariners&#39; Ichiro Suzuki broke a long-standing Major League record with his 258th hit of the season, a third-inning single against the Texas Rangers on Friday.
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Sammy Sosa belted a pair of home runs, including his first grand slam in more than two years, as the Chicago Cubs pounded the Pittsburgh Pirates 13-5 in National League at Wrigley Field on Wednesday.
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I never thought I&#39;d say this, but I&#39;m ashamed to be a Sammy Sosa fan. Sosa&#39;s 2004 season was one of struggle. The 35-year-old missed 36 games with various injuries, including back spasms caused by a violent sneeze.
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Barry Bonds has become only the third baseball player in history to hit 700 home runs. The San Francisco slugger reached the milestone in the Giants&#39; home game against the San Diego Padres.
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SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Sammy Sosa arrived for spring training with the Texas Rangers early Friday morning, appearing to be in good shape and good spirits after a season out of the game.
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Alfonso Soriano will be paid $18 million annually in the final five years of his $136 million, eight-year contract with the Chicago Cubs, the fifth-richest contract in baseball history.
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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Sammy Sosa has a contract with the Texas Rangers and a chance to get back to the major leagues. Now the former slugger has to go to spring training and earn a spot on the roster.
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His countrymen celebrated Suzuki&#39;s record-breaking hit Saturday when the Seattle Mariners outfielder broke George Sisler&#39;s 84-year-old major league mark for hits in a season.
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Greg Maddux overcame a shaky start to  post his 301st career win while Sammy Sosa hit his 566th career  home run as the Chicago Cubs beat the Milwaukee Brewers 9-6 in  Milwaukee on Thursday.
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He had six hits and tied a major league record by scoring six times Thursday, helping the Kansas City Royals break a club mark for runs in a 26-5 rout of the Detroit Tigers in the first game of a doubleheader.
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Chicago, IL (Sports Network) - Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa has reportedly been fined $87,400, equal to his salary for one game, by the team for his decision to leave Sunday&#39;s season finale early.
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Jorge Sosa didn't know &#151; or care &#151; that the Detroit Tigers had not been shut out this year. "I didn't think about, I just tried to do my pitches," the 30-year-old journeyman from the Dominican Republic said through an interpreter, after holding the Tigers at bay over eight innings in the New York Mets' 3-0 win Friday night.
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Rookie Bobby Crosby sent the Athletics into the last weekend of 2004 with the biggest hit of Oakland&#39;s season. Suzuki got his 256th hit yesterday to move within one of George Sisler&#39;s record, but Crosby homered
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Sammy Sosa homered for the first time in more than two weeks and Derrek Lee drove in three runs to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 7-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday night.