Sosa’s Big Blast Powers the Cubs

Sammy Sosa was probably the only person at Olympic Stadium who didn’t see how far his latest homer went.

Sosa and Fred McGriff hit consecutive homer and Kerry Wood pitched six scoreless innings Monday to lead the Cubs over the Expos, 6-4, at Montreal.

Sosa hit his sixth homer of the season in the fifth inning off Carl Pavano (1-2), a drive that struck a cable 120 feet above the left-field wall.

Sosa’s drive rose above the 160-foot-high concrete rim that surrounds Olympic Stadium before descending and striking midway up one of two cables from which hang a pair of speakers.

“I just hit it, trying to go out of the ballpark, not trying to hit a speaker. But what can you do?” Sosa said.

Moises Alou, who missed the first two weeks of the season because of a strained right calf, was 0 for 4 in his Cub debut.

San Diego 4, San Francisco 3--Phil Nevin homered leading off the bottom of the ninth inning at San Diego, giving the Padres their sixth win in seven games.

San Francisco starter Ryan Jensen, who began the game with 132/3 scoreless innings this season, had to leave after spraining his ankle in the first inning.

Barry Bonds, who left Sunday’s game against Milwaukee because of a strained right hamstring, missed a home run by about 15 feet, hitting a foul ball into the second deck in right field, and finished one for three with an intentional walk.

Arizona 14, St. Louis 5--Luis Gonzalez drove in four runs, and Damian Miller hit a three-run homer at Phoenix as the Diamondbacks won their fifth in a row.

The Diamondbacks scored six runs in the second and fourth to win handily in the first meeting between the teams since Arizona’s 2-1 victory in Game 5 of the NL division series last October.

Pittsburgh 6, Milwaukee 1--Adrian Brown drove in three runs as the Pirates beat the Brewers before the smallest crowd ever at Milwaukee’s Miller Park.

The game drew 14,090 to the retractable-roof stadium, which opened last year. The previous low was 23,311 on April 7 for the Brewers’ previous home game, the finale of a three-game series against Arizona.

Milwaukee dropped to 3-10 for the first time since 1972.