Sosa, Cubs Edge Arizona

Mark Grace likes hitting with the game on the line.

Sammy Sosa hit his league-leading 20th homer and drove in four runs, and Grace had a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning as the Chicago Cubs beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-6 Monday night.

"Because we're a veteran ballclub, we look forward to those situations instead of back down from them," Grace said. "I've been in those situations probably 500 times, and I don't come through every time, but I always feel like I'm going to have a good at-bat."

Sosa, Grace and Mickey Morandini each had three hits as the Cubs handed Arizona only its third loss in 13 games.

Travis Lee hit a pair of two-run homers for Arizona, giving him four in his last four games.

With the score 6-all, Jose Hernandez tripled off Darren Holmes (3-3) leading off the ninth and Grace singled off Greg Swindell for his third hit of the game.

Terry Adams (2-1) pitched 1 1-3 hitless innings for the win, but wanted to share the credit with Scott Sanders, who came in with none out and two runners in the seventh inning. Against the 2-3-4 hitters, Sanders struck out Jay Bell and Luis Gonzalez and got Matt Williams to ground back to the mound.

"Scottie did a great job," Adams said. "I think that was a key to the ball game when Scottie got us out of a jam and gave us a chance to settle down."

Lee homered in the fourth off Kyle Farnsworth and the eighth off Felix Heredia, tying the score at 6.

"To tie the game was pretty good," said Lee, who had his third career multihomer game. "It's just too bad we didn't pull it off at the end."

Farnsworth allowed four runs and eight hits in five innings, giving up fourth-inning homers to Gonzalez and Lee. Diamondbacks starter Brian Anderson gave up six runs and eight hits in 4 1-3 innings.

"Sammy hi a 3-2 changeup. He's strong, and he hit it out," Anderson said. "I don't think I was struggling, but anything that can go wrong is going wrong for me."

Sosa's homer put the Cubs ahead in the fourth, but Arizona took a 3-2 lead in the bottom half on Gonzalez's leadoff homer and Lee's opposite-field drive, which followed Williams' first triple since May 17, 1998.

Chicago rallied for a 6-3 lead in the fifth on Grace's RBI single, Sosa's hit and Glenallen Hill's run-scoring single.

Gonzalez had an RBI single in the fifth after Tony Womack stretched a leadoff hit to right into a double.

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