Hershiser Picks Up No. 200

Orel Hershiser’s first thoughts upon reaching the 200-win mark were of his wife, Jamie.

Hershiser reached the milestone Thursday night as the New York Mets hit a team-record six doubles in the second inning of their 7-4 victory over the Montreal Expos at Montreal.

“I’d like to dedicate something like this to my wife,” Hershiser said. “I think that she’s been through a lot and I think the girls really stay off to the side and out of the limelight, and they really do an awful lot of work for us to come out here and play as well as we do and take care of our families.”

Hershiser (10-7) became the 95th pitcher to win 200 games and the third active pitcher, behind Roger Clemens and Greg Maddux. He held the Expos to two runs and six hits in seven innings to win for the eighth time in his last 11 decisions. He also singled twice and stole third base on the front end of a double-steal in the seventh.

Hershiser, who is 200-140 in his career, has 101 wins since undergoing major reconstructive shoulder surgery that almost ended his career in 1990 when he was with the Dodgers.

The Mets’ six doubles in the second were one short of tying the 63-year-old major league record. The Boston Braves had seven doubles in the first inning of the first game of a doubleheader against St. Louis on Aug. 25, 1936.

St. Louis 6, Cincinnati 5--Mark McGwire added Cinergy Field to the list of stadiums where he has hit a home run, and Fernando Tatis homered twice.

McGwire hit a solo shot, his 33rd homer of the season and 490th of his career, with one out in the ninth. After Ray Lankford singled, Tatis homered to put the Cardinals ahead.

Cinergy Field, formerly Riverfront Stadium, was the only current stadium in which McGwire had played a regular-season game without hitting a home run.

San Diego 8, San Francisco 7--Ben Davis hit a three-run homer and had an RBI double as the Padres built an early six-run lead and held on at San Francisco.

Tony Gwynn, who had sat out 20 of the previous 22 games, had two hits--leaving him 15 short of 3,000.

Milwaukee 5, Philadelphia 0--Former Dodger Hideo Nomo pitched seven shutout innings and last-minute left-field starter Lou Collier drove in three runs at Milwaukee.

Nomo (9-2) gave up five hits and struck out five as he lowered his earned-run average to 3.66. He raised his batting average to .333 with two hits.

Chicago 5, Pittsburgh 3--Terry Mulholland (5-6) won at Chicago--his first victory in almost a month.

Atlanta 6, Florida 3--The Braves took advantage of four Marlin errors at Miami to end a losing streak at five.