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  Monday, Jul. 3 7:40pm ET
Vidro, Cabrera each go deep twice
 
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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
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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