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Chicago 14,
Boston 6
l Greg Maddux hit a home run during the Cubs' win.
l Maddux also pitched 6 2/3 innings, and picked up the victory.
l The two teams combined for a season-high seven home runs. Neither team homered in the six games of the 1918 World Series that Boston won. CHICAGO - Greg Maddux had to be pushed out of the dugout to take a curtain call Friday after his first home run in more than six years.
But Derrek Lee insisted Maddux wasn't exactly humble about his unexpected power trip during the sixth inning of the Cubs' 14-6 romp over Boston, their first victory over the Red Sox since Game 5 of the 1918 World Series.
After Maddux left the game, Lee said the Cubs veteran went around asking hitters: ''Did you hit a home run today? Did you hit a home run today?''
''The worst thing is that we're going to hear about it all year,'' Lee said.
Aided by two home runs from Jeromy Burnitz and a 20-hit attack against Bronson Arroyo, John Halama and Alan Embree, Maddux cruised to his 310th career victory, tying Charley Radbourn for 18th place on baseball's career list.
Pitching in sweltering heat with the wind blowing out, Maddux allowed three runs on seven hits in 6 2/3 innings and left to a thunderous ovation from the crowd of 39,215.
''It feels good,'' Maddux said of the two standing ovations he received. ''It's special. You really appreciate it as a player.''
The Cubs moved to five games above .500 with their 11th victory in their last 16 games. Burnitz, Michael Barrett and Todd Hollandsworth drove in three runs apiece as everyone in the starting lineup, with the exception of Maddux, finished with at least two hits.
The two teams combined for a season-high seven home runs. Neither team homered in the six games of the 1918 World Series that Boston won.
Lee added an RBI double in the inning and Burnitz capped it off with his second homer as the Cubs produced their most runs since a 16-6 shellacking of Arizona on Opening Day at Bank One Ballpark.
Wrigley Field was buzzing at the outset of the series, with the park half-filled with traveling Red Sox fans who managed to find tickets for a game that had been sold out since March.
Barrett said it didn't feel any different than a normal series ''until we got on the field, the game started and you realized how many Red Sox fans were there. Whenever there are a lot of fans from one team in house, it kind of gets us going.''
The series has been the recipient of massive hype, and manager Dusty Baker said that for once, it was merited.
''Some of them are [overhyped], but this one isn't,'' Baker said. ''They haven't been here in forever, since 1918, and they never had been in this ballpark.
''There's a lot of history on both sides, a lot of different myths and superstitions and all kinds of stuff on both sides. I think it should be hyped.''
CHICAGO - Greg Maddux had to be pushed out of the dugout to take a curtain call Friday after his first home run in more than six years.
But Derrek Lee insisted Maddux wasn't exactly humble about his unexpected power trip during the sixth inning of the Cubs' 14-6 romp over Boston, their first victory over the Red Sox since Game 5 of the 1918 World Series.
After Maddux left the game, Lee said the Cubs' veteran went around asking hitters: ''Did you hit a home run today? Did you hit a home run today?''
''The worst thing is that we're going to hear about it all year,'' Lee said.
Aided by two home runs from Jeromy Burnitz and a 20-hit attack against Bronson Arroyo, John Halama and Alan Embree, Maddux cruised to his 310th career victory, tying Charley Radbourn for 18th place on baseball's career list.
Pitching in sweltering heat with the wind blowing out, Maddux allowed three runs on seven hits in 62/3 innings and left to a thunderous ovation from the crowd of 39,215.
''It feels good,'' Maddux said of the two standing ovations he received. ''It's special. You really appreciate it as a player.''
The Cubs moved to five games above .500 with their 11th victory in their last 16 games. Burnitz, Michael Barrett and Todd Hollandsworth drove in three runs apiece as everyone in the starting lineup, with the exception of Maddux, finished with at least two hits.
The two teams combined for a season-high seven home runs. Neither team homered in the six games of the 1918 World Series that Boston won.
''It was nice and loud, and I loved it when Maddux got his curtain call and walked off after he was done pitching,'' Burnitz said. ''A lot of noise. A lot of energy. It was fun today.''
Maddux hit a solo home run off Halama in the sixth, his first since May 30, 1999, which came off Dodgers right-hander Kevin Brown. It was also Maddux's first home run as a Cub since April 20, 1992, a span of 4,799 days, the longest time between homers for any player in Cubs history.
Lee added an RBI double in the inning and Burnitz capped it off with his second homer as the Cubs produced their most runs since a 16-6 shellacking of Arizona on Opening Day at Bank One Ballpark.
Wrigley Field was buzzing at the outset of the series, with the park half-filled with traveling Red Sox fans who managed to find tickets for a game that had been sold out since March.
Barrett said it didn't feel any different than a normal series ''until we got on the field, the game started and you realized how many Red Sox fans were there. Whenever there are a lot of fans from one team in house, it kind of gets us going.''
The series has been the recipient of massive hype, and manager Dusty Baker said that for once, it was merited.
''Some of them are (overhyped), but this one isn't,'' Baker said. ''They haven't been here in forever, since 1918, and they never had been in this ballpark.
''There's a lot of history on both sides, a lot of different myths and superstitions and all kinds of stuff on both sides. I think it should be hyped.''