Wood, Cubs Win Powerful Matchup

The Chicago Cubs and Kerry Wood won a matchup of division leaders and right-handed power pitchers Tuesday night with a 6-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks and Curt Schilling.

Rondell White, last week’s National League player of the week, drove in three runs with a solo homer in the third and two-run single with two outs in the ninth. White is 14 for 27 with five home runs and 10 runs batted in in his last seven games.

Neither Wood nor Schilling made it past the sixth inning.

Wood (6-4) left after throwing 110 pitches in 5 2/3 innings but still won his fifth decision in a row. He allowed two runs and five hits, walked five and struck out six.

Schilling (10-2) gave up three runs and seven hits in six innings before leaving for pinch-hitter Danny Bautista in the sixth. It was the first time Schilling had gone fewer than seven innings in his 14 starts this season.

A group of umpires who backed Richie Phillips are suing the new union and the commissioner’s office in an effort to avoid paying dues to the group that beat them in an organizing election last year.

“My clients are challenging the fees that they are being charged by the new union,” Pat Campbell, a lawyer for Phillips’ Major League Umpires Assn., said Tuesday. “What they allege is that there are inappropriate items being charged.”

The labor contract negotiated last year by the new union--the World Umpires Assn.--and baseball requires all umpires to pay fees to WUA, whether they are members or not.

Arizona closer Matt Mantei has a torn ligament in his right elbow and will undergo a further examination next week to determine if surgery will be required.

Mantei has been on the disabled list since April 25 with what was thought to be a capsule sprain and stretched nerve in the elbow.

Texas traded catcher Doug Mirabelli to Boston for right-handed pitcher Justin Duchscherer. Mirabelli hit .102 with two homers and four RBIs in 49 at-bats for the Rangers. . . . Pittsburgh put left-hander Terry Mulholland (fractured finger) on the 15-day disabled list and recalled infielder Jack Wilson from triple-A Nashville.