Tuesday, April 25, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section B·Page 3
Major League Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
East Division
| | W | L | Pct | GB | L10 | Str | Home | Away | Intr |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| New York | 12 | 6 | .667 | — | z-7-3 | L-1 | 5-1 | 7-5 | 0-0 |
| Baltimore | 11 | 7 | .611 | 1 | 4-6 | L-2 | 7-1 | 4-6 | 0-0 |
| Boston | 9 | 7 | .563 | 2 | z-7-3 | L-1 | 5-2 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
| Toronto | 9 | 11 | .450 | 4 | 5-5 | L-1 | 7-7 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| Tampa Bay | 7 | 11 | .389 | 5 | 5-5 | W-2 | 3-6 | 4-5 | 0-0 |
Central Division
| | W | L | Pct | GB | L10 | Str | Home | Away | Intr |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Chicago | 13 | 6 | .684 | — | 7-3 | W-6 | 7-2 | 6-4 | 0-0 |
| Cleveland | 9 | 6 | .600 | 2 | z-6-4 | W-1 | 2-4 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| Minnesota | 10 | 11 | .476 | 4 | z-7-3 | W-2 | 6-4 | 4-7 | 0-0 |
| Kansas City | **8** | **12** | .400 | **5** | z-1-9 | **L-9** | **6-1** | **2-11** | **0-0** |
| Detroit | 4 | 13 | .235 | 8 | 2-8 | L-7 | 3-5 | 1-8 | 0-0 |
West Division
| | W | L | Pct | GB | L10 | Str | Home | Away | Intr |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Seattle | 11 | 6 | .647 | — | z-7-3 | W-3 | 7-2 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| Anaheim | 9 | 10 | .474 | 3 | 4-6 | L-2 | 5-4 | 4-6 | 0-0 |
| Oakland | 8 | 11 | .421 | 4 | 5-5 | W-1 | 4-8 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| Texas | 8 | 11 | .421 | 4 | z-4-6 | W-1 | 6-8 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
SCOREBOARD American League Minnesota 7, N.Y. Yankees 3 Chicago White Sox 8, Baltimore 2 Texas 5, Boston 4 Cleveland at Seattle, (n) Toronto at Oakland, (n) Detroit at Anaheim, (n) National League Colorado at St. Louis, ppd., rain N.Y. Mets 1, Los Angeles 0 Florida 3, Philadelphia 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
East Division
| | W | L | Pct | GB | L10 | Str | Home | Away | Intr |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Atlanta | 12 | 6 | .667 | — | 8-2 | W7 | 10-2 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| New York | 13 | 7 | .650 | — | z-9-1 | W8 | 9-4 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| Florida | 13 | 8 | .619 | .5 | 7-3 | W3 | 9-5 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| Montreal | 10 | 8 | .556 | 2 | 5-5 | W1 | 8-5 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| Philadelphia | 6 | 12 | .333 | 6 | 2-8 | L3 | 3-2 | 3-10 | 0-0 |
Central Division
| | W | L | Pct | GB | L10 | Str | Home | Away | Intr |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| St. Louis | 12 | 7 | .632 | — | 5-5 | W1 | 9-3 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| Cincinnati | 8 | 10 | .444 | 3 | 4-6 | L3 | 5-6 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| Milwaukee | 7 | 11 | .389 | 4 | z-3-7 | L1 | 3-3 | 4-8 | 0-0 |
| Houston | 6 | 11 | .353 | 5 | 3-7 | L3 | 2-7 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| Pittsburgh | 6 | 12 | .333 | 5 | z-3-7 | L4 | 4-5 | 2-7 | 0-0 |
| Chicago | 7 | 14 | .333 | 6 | 2-8 | L3 | 4-4 | 3-10 | 0-0 |
West Division
| | W | L | Pct | GB | L10 | Str | Home | Away | Intr |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Arizona | 12 | 7 | .632 | — | z-6-4 | L3 | 8-5 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| Los Angeles | 11 | 7 | .611 | .5 | z-6-4 | L1 | 2-3 | 9-4 | 0-0 |
| San Diego | 10 | 9 | .526 | 2 | 5-5 | W3 | 4-3 | 6-6 | 0-0 |
| Colorado | 10 | 10 | .500 | 2 | z-5-5 | L1 | 5-2 | 5-8 | 0-0 |
| San Francisco | 7 | 11 | .389 | 4 | 4-6 | W3 | 0-5 | 7-6 | 0-0 |
. z-first game was a win
NL CAPSULES
Mets 1. Dodgers 0
NEW YORK — Matt Franco snapped a scoreless tie with an RBI infield single in the bottom of the ninth inning Monday, lifting the streaking New York Mets to their eighth straight victory, 1-0 against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
It is the longest winning streak for the Mets since they took nine in a row in May 1988. New York has won 10 of 11 overall.
Robin Ventura led off the ninth with a double off Terry Adams (1-1) and was lifted for pinch-runner Melvin Mora. Jon Nunnally walked and Jay Payton grounded to shortstop Kevin Elster, who flinched to third.
But Adrian Beltre's foot was off the bag when he caught Elster's soft, backhand toss, and he tried to tag Mora, who was called safe by third-base umpire Gerry Davis. Dodgers manager Davey Johnson immediately argued the call and was ejected by Davis.
After a forceout at the plate, Franco, who entered in a seventh-inning double switch, hit a bouncer off Adams' glove that deflected behind the mound. Nunnally scored without a play.
The teams got a sunny and pleasant afternoon to make up an April 9 game snowed out at Shea Stadium.
The Dodgers sandwiched the onegame stop between a weekend series in Cincinnati and a trip to Atlanta.
Marlins 3. Phillies 1
MIAMI — Preston Wilson hit a two-run homer in the first inning and Alex Fernandez made it stand up, pitching the Florida Marlins past the Philadelphia Phillies.
The Marlins have won seven of nine. The Phillies, who won the series opener before dropping the last three, wrapped an 16 road trin.
Fernandez (3-2) gave up seven hits in 7 2-3 innings, his longest outing of the season. He struck out three and walked two.
Antonio Alfonseca pitched the ninth and earned his eighth save in nine chances.
Mark Kotsay led the Marlins first with a single and Wilson hit an opposite-field homer to right against Randy Wolf (1-2).
Cardinals, Rockies rained out ST. LOUIS — Rain postponement of yesterday's game between the St. Louis Cardinals and Colorado Rockies.
Umpires waited 1 hour, 34 minutes, before calling it.
The game will be made up Aug. 10,
a scheduled off day for both teams.
The Rockies will play at Denver against Pittsburgh Aug. 9, St. Louis Aug. 10, then go on to Montreal Aug. 11. The Cardinals conclude a series against Florida Aug. 9, then
begin a six-game road trip at Milwaukee Aug. 11.
AL CAPSULES
White Sox 8. Orioles 2
CHICAGO — Cal Eldred pitched a two-hitter, retiring 26 of the final 27 batters, as the surprising Chicago White Sox kept rolling last night, beating the Baltimore Orioles 8-2 for their sixth straight victory.
Rookie Josh Paul hit his first major league homer, a three-run shot in the second against Mike Mussina (0 2), who failed for the fifth straight start to get his first victory.
Eldred, plagued by arm problems for several years and acquired in an off-season trade, got his first victory since last Sept. 1 when he beat the Dodgers while with Milwaukee.
His overpowering, 11-strikeout performance yesterday night came in his first complete game since May 1997 when he defeated the White Sox while with the Brewers.
Eldred (1-0), who won only two games last season, walked lead off hitter Brady Anderson and then gave up an RBI double to Delino DeShields before retiring 14 straight.
Rangers 5; Red Sox 3
ARLINGTON, Texas — Rafael Palmeiro homered twice and Luis Alicea hit a two-run tiebreaking single as the Texas Rangers beat the Red Sox 5-4 last night in
Boston's first game in five days.
Palmeiro hit a two-run shot in the third inning and added a solo blast in the seventh for the 23rd two-homer game of his career. Palmeiro's 369 homers he with Ralph Kiner for 47th on the career list, two behind Gil Hodges.
With two outs in the sixth and the game tied at 2, Mike Lamm singled off reliever Tim Wakefield (1-1) and Royce Clayton walked. Alicea lined a single in front of center fielder Carl Everett, scoring both runners, who were running on the pitch.
The Red Sox played for the first time after getting rained out for four straight days, including an entire weekend series at home against Cleveland.
Rangers starter Kenny Rogers (2) 3 allowed two runs and six hits in seven innings. He struck out two and walked two.
Twins 7, Yankees 3
NEW YORK — Eric Milton and four relievers allowed five hits and the Minnesota Twins defeated the New York Yankees 7-3 yesterday for their sixth victory in the last seven games.
Jacque Jones, who lost a fly ball in the sun setting up a two-run Yankees game-tying rally in the sixth, opened the seventh with a double off Roger Clemens (1-2) and scored the go-ahead run when Matt LeCroy doubled down the leftfield
line. LeCroy moved to third on an infield out and scored on Todd Walker's sacrifice fly.
Then the Twins added two more runs in the ninth.
Milton (2.0) struck out seven and walked two before turning the game against to Minnesota's bullein in the seventh.
The Twins jumped to a 3-0 lead in the first inning when Clemens walked Walker and Cristian Guzman before Matt Lawton's single loaded the bases.
Walker scored on Ron Coomer's infield out and Butch Huskey's two-out single to left scored Guzman and Lawton.
- The Associated Press
Today's Matchups
American League
All Times CDT
Mini. (Bengam 1:0) at N.Y. (Mendosa 2:1), 6:05 p.M.
Bos. (P.Martinez 3:0) at Tex. (Helling 2:0), 7:05
T. B. (Martinez 1:1) at K. C. (Suzuki 0-0), 7:05
Bai, (Rap 2.0) on Chi, (Sroka 2.1), 7:05
Clev, (Nagy 2.2) on Sea, (Halama 1.0), 9:05
Tor, (Halladay 2.2) on Ash, (Hudson 1.2), 9:05
Det, (Nomi 1.4) on Bay, (Bottenfield 1.2), 9:05
Col. (Bonavon 0-1) at Mon. (Pavano 2,0) 6:05 p.m.
Rt. (Art Johnson 4,0) at Phil. (Brock 0,2) 6:05
San Fran. (Estes 0,1) at Flo. (Dempster 1,2) 6:05
San Diego (Hitchcock 0,2) at Ritie (Pitcher 1,0) 6:05
Cin. (Bell 1:1) at N, Y. Leiter 1:0, 6:10.
L. A. (Brown 1:0) at AI. (Glavine 3:0, 6:40)
Chi. (Dowski 1:0) at Hou. (Reindrops 3:0, 7:05)
Mil. (Bere 2:1) at St. Louis (Kile 3:1, 7:10)
The Associated Press
Cardinals, Rockies rematch delayed until August
ST. LOUIS — Maybe it was just as well for St. Louis catcher Eli Marrero that yesterday's game against Colorado was rained out.
Marrero and Cardinals manager Tony La Russa were fuming about a veiled threat made by Colorado pitcher Scott Karl following Sunday's game, won by the Cardinals 6-3 in a rain-shortened 6/1 innings.
Any chance of retribution was washed away by light but persistent rains yesterday. The game will be made up Aug. 10.
Karl was upset because Marrero took a 2-2 pitch on the elbow in the
"If he wants to get hit so badly,
I'm sure somebody else out there
second inning, loading the bases for a two out grand slam by Placido Polanco. Karl and manager Buddy Bell argued that Marrero didn't try to get out of the way.
will accommodate him," Karl said. "As long as major league baseball lets people stand up there guarded like tanks, what can you do about it?"
Those comments didn't sit well
with La Russa or Marrero.
"What's he supposed to do?" La Russa said. "The ball was in off the plate. The ones you have a problem with is the guy who just stands there and doesn't make any attempt to move or he actually leans in. Tell him (Karl) to get the ball with a little more command."
Marrero told a Denver Post reporter that the pitch appeared to be a strike.
"Maybe I leaned out a little too much," he said after yesterday's game was called off. "If he (Karl) has got something to say, he can come over here and say it to me. He doesn't have to go out and take
"If he (Scott Karl) has got something to say,he can come over here and say it to me. He doesn't have to go out and take cheap shots at me."
Eli Marrero
Cardinals catcher
cheap shots at me."
Umpires waited 1 hour and 44 minutes after the scheduled start before calling off the game. About
an hour later, the rain stopped, but the outfield was drenched from more than 24 straight hours of rain.
The Aug. 10 makeup date was a scheduled off-day for both teams. The Rockies will play in Denver against Pittsburgh Aug. 9, play in St. Louis, then go on to Montreal Aug. 11. The Cardinals conclude a series against Florida Aug. 9, then begin a six-game road trip in Milwaukee Aug. 11.
The Cardinals' quirky early-season schedule would have had them concluding the season series against the Rockies yesterday. Though 12-7 overall, St. Louis is just 2-5 against Colorado.
BOX SCORES
Minnesota 300 000 202-7 6 0
New York 100 002 202-7 6 0
Milton, Hawkins (T, TEMILT) (C, Carrson) (G,
Guardio II and Lencyy, Clements, Starrion) (T, Nelson
Gordon) (T, TEMILT) (C, Carrson) (T, Nelson
Gordon) (T, TEMILT) (C, Carrson) (T, Nelson
Boston 000 200 020—4
Texas 002 002 10x—5
Baltimore 100 001 000-2 2 2 0
Chicago 100 001 000-2 2 2 0
Tampa Bay 100 001 000-2 2 2 0
Miami (7) McLeavy (1) and Chelmston
Eldred and Paul, W - Eldred 1, L - Mussana 0.2
Hrs - H篮, Cochiseion (6) J - Javaver
J - Javaver
Boston 060 200 620-4
Texas 002 102 10-5
Boston St. Louis 92-8
Toronto St. Louis 3, Dauphin
(Curtis) 4, HR-C窟廷 (6), IPRainbow (8),
SB-Sirte (C), Kesley (C), S-Lamb (1).
Los Angeles 000 000 0000--0 3 0
New York 000 000 0001--1 8 0
Dreffort, Adams (7) and Huntley, Mathems, Cook (6), Wendell (7), Benitez (1), Piazza. — W
Philadelphia 000 001 000—1 7 0
Florida 200 001 10x—3 7 0
Wilson, Lloyd (8), Afforezza (9) and Redmond
-W-Afforezza (10), Wall 9.3 (11), Afforezza (12)
-W-Afforezza (13), Wall 9.4 (14), Afforezza (15)
-W-Afforezza (16), Wall 9.7 (17), Afforezza (18)
373, Lawton, Minnesota, 370
Jadain, Jamboree, Minnesota, 282, Bibtatone, Toronto, 210
Beilliam, New York, 201, EMartinez, Seattle, 21;
Fulmer, Toronto, 20; Iridjhurgui, Texas, 20;
Batesville, Tennessee, 20; Bataction, Toronto, 8; Dye, Kansas City, 8; Bcblegdo, Bataction, Toronto, 8; Dye, Kansas City, 8; Seattle, Ontario, HOME RUNS - 6; Dye, Kansas City, 8; Bpatrane, Toronto, 8; Dye, Kansas City, 8; MJSweenney, Lake City, 7; Iguam, Texas, 8
MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS AMERICAN LEAGUE
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BATTING - Erstad, Anahain, 442; Seattle, Seattle, 359; Tampa Bay, Florida, 359; Fort Lauderdale, 379; Cleveland, Boston,
PITCHING (3 Descriptions) - Schoeneveld, Anaheim,
30. 1,000; 30. 760; Otemanuze, New York, 4. 000;
30. 2,500; 30. 900; 30. 800; 30. 300; 30. 300;
PITMARTINEz, Boston, 30. 0, 1,000; 1,27; Nelson,
30. 0, 1,000; 30. 720; Carrion, Minnesota, 30. 1,
1,000; 30. 900; 30. 800; 30. 300;
STRIKEIDEN - P-MARTIN, Boston, 32;
O'Herdoner, New York, 30; Clemens, New York,
28; Muskina, Baltimore, 25; CFinken, Cleveland,
25; Suppan, Kansas City, 44; Erlid, Chicago, 23
BATTING - Vuccerro, 439; Owens, Sara
Dio, 403; DeBeil, New York, 395; Reese,
Cincinnati, 382; Edmonds, St. Louis, 379,
186; Crawford, St. Louis, 379.
RBI - Tai, St. Louis, 25; Vuccerro, Monte-
ri, 26; Helton, Colorado, 22; Lowell, Florida,
19; Galantra, Atlanta, 19; Kent, San Francisco, 18;
Owens, San Francisco, 18.
DOUBLES - Cimillo, Colorado; 9; Ocaberna, Montreal;
8; Afonso, New York; 8; Piazza, New York;
Brogna, Philadelphia; 8; L Gonzalez, Arizona;
8; Pittsburgh, Texas; 7; SDGreen, Los Angeles;
RBWite, Montreal; 7; Zelle, San Francisco;
HOME RUNS - Bonds, San Francisco; 8; Jenkins,
Miwaukee; 7; GUerville, Montreal; 7; Andrews,
Lakewood; 7; Fieldwell, Los Angeles;
7; Galapagos, Alaska; 7.
PITCHING (3 Decisions) -- Jimenez, Colorado, 30
1. 1,000; 3,100; Sanchez, Florida, 3. 0, 1,000; 4, 811;
Arizona, 4. 0, 1,000; 76; Cook, New York, 30,
1. 3,18; Glenn, Atlanta, 3. 0, 1,000; 2,57;
Arizona, 4. 0, 1,000
STREKEDUKE -RD-Johnson, Arizona, 42; Dempster Florida, 28; GMAUD, Atlanta, 27; Hitchcock, San Diego, 26; ACBENes, St. Louis, 25; Clement, San Diego, 24; Farnsworth, Chicago, 23.
Sunday Double anything for single price
Monday $1.75 Domestic bottles
Tuesday $4 Lite Pitchers
Wednesday $3.50 All Absolut doubles
Thursday $3.50 Stoll Vodka doubles
Friday $2 Mexican beers
Saturday $3.50 Captain Morgan doubles