Today in Major League Baseball

STARS

Monday

&#149 Bengie Molina , Giants, homered twice in the fifth inning and had five RBI to lead San Francisco to a 9-4 win over New York.

&#149 Brad Penny , Dodgers, struck out a career-high 14 and allowed five hits in seven scoreless innings, and Los Angeles beat Florida, 6-1.

&#149 Chris Capuano , Brewers, struck out a season-high nine in eight-plus innings for his fifth win of the year, and Milwaukee defeated Washington, 3-0.

&#149 Adrian Beltre , Mariners, hit a tiebreaking homer off Mariano Rivera in the ninth inning, and Seattle edged the Yankees, 3-2.

SPEAKING

"Have you seen Roy pitch• I wouldn't be surprised if he's 19-1 against anybody. He's the best in the game, as far as I'm concerned."-- Houston slugger Lance Berkman, on teammate Roy Oswalt improving to 19-1 for his career against Cincinnati. Oswalt gave up two runs in seven innings for his fifth win of the year, and the Astros topped the Reds, 5-4.

SEASONS

May 9

1901 -- Earl Moore of the Cleveland Indians pitched nine hitless innings against the Chicago White Sox before giving up two hits in the 10th to lose, 4-2.

1937 -- Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds went 6 for 6 in a 21-10 rout of the Phillies in Philadelphia.

1961 -- Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles hit consecutive grand slams in the first and second innings of a 13-5 rout of Minnesota.

1973 -- Johnny Bench of the Cincinnati Reds hit three home runs off Philadelphia's Steve Carlton for the second time in his career, in a 9-7 victory. Bench drove in seven runs.

1984 -- The Chicago White Sox and Milwaukee Brewers played for eight hours and six minutes. After playing 17 innings the previous day, the teams met again before a regularly scheduled game, making the total 34 innings for two days. Harold Baines homered off Chuck Porter with one out in the bottom of the 25th for a 7-6 victory. Tom Seaver won both games for the White Sox.

1987 -- Baltimore's Eddie Murray became the first major leaguer to hit home runs from both sides of the plate in consecutive games, as the Orioles beat the Chicago White Sox, 15-6, at Comiskey Park.

2006 -- Tampa Bay prospect Delmon Young was suspended for 50 games without pay by the International League for throwing a bat that hit a replacement umpire in the chest. IL president Randy Mobley said he believed the suspension was the longest in the league's 123-year history. The suspension is retroactive to April 27, the day after Young tossed his bat in a Triple-A game while playing for Durham.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS

Brandon Webb 28; Aaron Harang 29; Tony Gwynn 47.

-- The Associated Press