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MONTREAL (AP) -- Although they both came close to hitting for the
cycle, both Mike Lieberthal and Mickey Morandini would have been
hard-pressed to complete the achievement.
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Lieberthal needed a triple and Morandini a homer as the
Philadelphia Phillies collected 17 hits in beating the Montreal
Expos 13-6 on Friday night.
Morandini, who had a single, double and triple with three RBI, has yet to homer this season and thought Lieberthal had better odds than he did.
"This is a pretty big park for me," Morandini said. "I've got
to pull it down the line to go deep in this park. I think I have
one here in my career. I just want to go up there and make good
contact, hit line drives and get on base."
Lieberthal, who had a home run, double and single and scored
four runs, didn't necessarily agree with Morandini, though he
figured Olympic Stadium's deep dimensions gave him the best odds
for the cycle.
"This might be the only ballpark that I might be able to get a triple because of the way the wall curls around in the corner," Lieberthal said. "Maybe if I hit one down in the right-field corner and it curled around, that was my only chance."
Scott Rolen had a three-run homer and four RBI as the Phillies unleashed their hit barrage against five Expos pitchers.
David Coggin (1-0), who had never pitched above Double-A, won in
his major league debut. He allowed six runs -- five earned -- on
eight hits over six innings.
"It's exciting," Coggin said. "I'm still shaking now. I don't
know if I'm shaking more now than at the first pitch."
Rookie Pat Burrell chipped in with three RBI as the Phillies
won for the sixth time in their last eight games, including four of
five.
Lieberthal homered leading off the second, hit a two-out single
and scored Philadelphia's second run in the fourth, and doubled in
the Phillies' five-run fourth. He fouled out to the catcher leading
off the seventh and was hit by a pitch in the eighth.
"A couple of guys got on me for not going to third on the
double," Lieberthal said.
Rolen hit his 15th homer off Javier Vazquez (6-4) in the fifth
to ignite a five-run rally.
With the Phillies leading 2-1, Doug Glanville singled and Ron
Gant walked to begin the fifth. Bobby Abreu grounded to short to
force Gant before Rolen hit his homer.
Lieberthal doubled and Pat Burrell also doubled to make it 6-1
and chase Vazquez.
Morandini, who struck out in the second and doubled home
Lieberthal in fourth, followed with an RBI single off reliever
Felipe Lira to give Philadelphia a six-run lead.
Vazquez allowed nine hits and seven runs in 4 1/3 innings. He
struck out six and walked two.
"I left a lot of balls down the middle and they were hitting
doubles in the gap, and the home run by Rolen was a hanging
slider," Vazquez said. "My arm feels good, I think better than it
did at the beginning of the season. I'm just making a lot of
mistakes in the strike zone."
Montreal answered with five runs in the bottom half of the
fifth, including Rondell White's RBI single, Vladimir Guerrero's
two-run triple and Lee Stevens' run-scoring single.
Morandini drew a two-out walk in the seventh and scored from
first to make it 8-6 on Desi Relaford's RBI double, then capped
Philadelphia's five-run eighth, which included Rolen's RBI single
and Burrell's two-run single, with an RBI triple.
Game notes
Lieberthal has six career triples, none this season.
Morandini has not homered this season. ... Philadelphia scored a
season-high 15 runs and had a season-high 21 hits on May 4 against
Cincinnati. ... Guerrero has 44 extra-base hits this season,
including 17 doubles, seven triples, and 20 home runs.
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