MINNEAPOLIS - Ex-White Sox slugger Jim Thome (TOH'-mee) haunted hisformer team last night, hitting a two-run home run in the bottom ofthe 10th to give the Minnesota Twins their fifth straight win, 7-6over the Chisox. That stretches the Twins' lead to four games overChicago atop the AL Central.
NEW YORK (AP) - New York Yankees southpaw Andy Pettitte willback off his rehabilitation program of throwing from a moundbecause tests showed his left groin has not improved. An MRI showeda "small persistent strain of the left groin" and the Yanks saythat Pettitte, who has an 11-and-2 record, will not throw off amound for a week.
NEW YORK (AP) - Ralph Branca says he will miss Bobby Thomson,the man immortalized with his "Shot Heard 'Round the World" in1951, who died Monday night at his home in Savannah, Ga., at 86.Branca, then with the Brooklyn Dodgers, served up the famed homerun to Thomson that sent the New York Giants into the 1951 WorldSeries.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Tiger Woods' caddy Steve Williamssays his job is not in jeopardy. Williams tells New Zealand radiothere is no possibility his 11-year association with Woods is aboutto end, despite media speculation and Woods' continuing struggle toreturn to golf dominance.
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) - Brett Favre (farv) is back inMinnesota, right on schedule. For the second straight year, the40-year-old quarterback who spends his summers on the verge ofretirement was driven to Vikings headquarters yesterday, raisingexpectations that Favre is returning for a 20th NFL campaign.
