Cubs Extend Win Streak to 11

Kerry Wood is surprisingly nonchalant, considering his Chicago Cubs have won 11 games in a row for the first time in more than three decades.

“That’s just the way it’s going for us lately. We’re playing good baseball and we’re going to keep it up,” Wood said after leading the Cubs over the Brewers, 4-3, Friday night at Milwaukee.

Wood struck out 10 and hit a two-run single. Chicago has followed an eight-game losing streak by posting its longest winning streak since April 14-27, 1970--also 11 games.

The game was played before a Miller Park record crowd of 42,392, about half of them Chicago fans.

Wood (4-4) gave up two runs and five hits in 6 1/3 innings to win his third game in a row.

The Cubs took a 1-0 lead in the second inning on Rondell White’s seventh homer. Ricky Gutierrez’s run batted in single in the third made the score 2-0.

Matt Stairs led off the fourth with a double. Two outs later, Gary Matthews Jr. walked. Haynes then intentionally walked Joe Girardi, but the strategy backfired when Wood singled up the middle for his first two RBIs of the season.

The Brewers pulled within 4-2 in the fifth on a two-run home run by Raul Casanova.

Arizona 4, San Diego 2--Curt Schilling became baseball’s first nine-game winner at Phoenix, helping the Diamondbacks win their seventh in a row.

Schilling (9-1) gave up two runs and nine hits in seven innings.

Ben Davis, who was roundly booed for breaking up Schilling’s perfect-game bid last week with a bunt in the eighth inning, was two for three with a double against Schilling.

Luis Gonzalez hit his 21st home run, but first since May 17, for the Diamondbacks.

San Francisco 11, Colorado 7--Barry Bonds hit his 29th home run and drew three walks at Denver as the Giants ended a three-game losing streak.

Bonds, who had a major-league record 17 home runs in May, hit a two-run shot in the third inning off Shawn Chacon (3-2) for his 14th in his last 15 games. His 29 home runs in 54 games is the fastest start in major league history.

Atlanta 5, Pittsburgh 1--Chipper Jones homered and tripled before leaving because of a thumb injury at at Pittsburgh.

Todd Ritchie (0-7) became the first Pirate pitcher to start a season with seven consecutive losses since Jose DeLeon did it in 1985 en route to a 2-19 record.

Jones’ X-rays were negative.

Philadelphia 13, Montreal 2--Johnny Estrada, Bobby Abreu and Scott Rolen each drove in three runs at Montreal to lead the Phillies to their fifth win in a row.

New York 11, Florida 5--Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Robin Ventura and Rey Ordonez drove in two runs apiece at Miami as the Mets ended a four-game losing streak.

Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 1--Michael Tucker, in a nine-for-58 slump, had a pair of RBI singles, driving home the tiebreaking run off Darryl Kile (7-4) in the eighth inning at St. Louis as the Reds ended a losing streak at four.