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In games from Friday, July 5th, the Pittsburgh Pirates exploded late for 7 runs in their 9-2 win over hapless Giants. Cosairs improve to 37 and 40, good for fifth spot in the National League race, while the Polo Grounders are floundering in 7th place with a 26 and 51 mark. Milwaukee was trailing the equaly hapless Cubs 2-nil, but the Braves got a big two out hit from Henry Aaron in the bottom of the 8th, when Braves rallied with 3 runs to beat Bruins. Ernie Banks hit his league leading 24th homerun off of Bob Buhl, but Wrigleymen dropped their record to 21 and 51 and are in last place, twenty five and a half games behind Braves, who improved to 49-28. Cincinnati got 8 and two thirds strong innings from Joe Nuxhall, who got some help from Raul Sanchez in the combined shutout of the St. Louis Cardinals. The Redbirds are really a big disappointment so far with their 30 and 44 record and 6th place seeding. The Rhinelanders improved to 45 and 32 and are 4 games off the pace. In Brooklyn, the Dodgers bumped off the hot Phillies by the score of 10-5. The big blow was Roy Campanella's grand slam homerun. It was Campy's third homerun in two days and gives him nine so far this season. Danny McDevitt was just tough enough to hang on to the victory. Bums bombed Robin Roberts for all ten runs and all were earned. Quakers slip to 48-28, half game out of first, and Bums improve to only a game behind second place Phils.