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Wednesday. May 5, 1999
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Cubs defeat Rockies late in ninth
CHICAGO — Mickey Morandini's shallow ninth-inning fly fell in for a game-winning single yesterday as the Chicago Cubs blew a six-run lead, then rallied twice and beat the Colorado Rockies 13-12 on a wild and windy day at Wriele Field.
The Associated Press
Chicago struggles for win at windy Wrigley Field
The Cubs hit five homers but trailed 12-11 entering the bottom of the ninth after Colorado's Darryl Hamilton hit an RBI single in the top of the inning off Rod Beck (2-2).
Jose Hernandez walked off Jerry DiPoto (0-1) in the ninth and scored on Tyler Houston's RBI double to right center. Lance Johnson grounded out with Houston moving to third, and Morandini's fly into shallow right center fell in front of
career grand slam, a solo shot by Gary Gaetti and two-run homer by Jose Hernandez, all against Darryl Kile.
Colorado prince-hitter Aig game-tying three-run homer in the seventh, and Walker doubled in two runs in a three-run eighth as the Rockies took an 11-8 lead.
The Cubs, who once led 8-2, trailed 11-8 heading into the bottom of the eighth but tied it on Sammy Sosa's two-run homer, his fifth of the season, and a solo shot by Henry Rodriguez off Chuck McElroy.
But,with a strong wind,no lead was safe.
Chicago jumped ahead behind Mark Grace's first
But Echevarria got the Rockies even with his three-run homer against Felix Heredia in the
Colorado pinch-hitter Angel Echevarria hit a
Rodriguez earlier hit an RBI double, making it 8-2 in the fifth and finishing Kile, who gave up six hits and eight runs — but just four earned — in his 4-1-3 innings.
the Rockies got three back in the sixth on Hamilton's two-run double and a run-scoring single by Mike Lansing that drove out rookie Kyle Farnsworth, who allowed nine hits and five runs in 5:23.
Walker had a first-inning single and then raced home when Dante Bichette dropped a fly ball double behind first that Sosa had trouble picking up as it went over the bullpen pitcher's mound.
seventh, his third homer and all as a pinch-hitter. Castilla singled, and Todd Helton walked against Rodney Myers before Echevarria connected.
Chicago loaded the bases in the bottom half of the seventh before McElroy struck out pinch-hitter Jeff Blauer.
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ESPN sues baseball about broadcast rights
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NEW YORK—ESPN's 10th season of baseball could be its last because of a conflict with NFL games.
ESPN sued major-league baseball in federal court yesterday to try to prevent termination of the network's regular-season contract, which has three years to run.
For the second straight season, baseball is refusing to allow the network to switch three Sunday night games in September to ESPN2 and run NFL games on the bigger-audience ESPN.
"Baseball has attempted to extort hundreds of million of dollars of economic concessions as the 'price' for its consent," ESPN said in a 30-page complaint.
Paul Beeston, the chief aide to commissioner Bud Selig, sent ESPN a letter April 21 saying the sport was terminating its $88 million-a-year deal with the network after this season.
ESPN asked for an injunction preventing baseball from ending the deal, an unspecified amount of money and a declaratory judgment forcing baseball to grant permission to switch the three telecasts.
The case was assigned to U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin.
In a statement released yesterday Beeston said baseball "regrets that it was forced to terminate its contract with ESPN at the end of the season. We have had a good relationship with ESPN throughout this decade, and we still cling to hopes that it will continue into the next."
ESPN wants to make the switch to accommodate its $4.8 billion deal with the NFL. ESPN is available to about 76.2 million homes, while ESPN2 is available in 64.5 million.
Last year, baseball officials blocked the switch and, amid threats of legal action by both sides, the broadcast rights were turned back to the teams involved. ESPN said baseball demanded about $30 million in financial concessions as a condition for giving its approval.
Viewers wound up missing Cal Ripken end his record consecutive games streak and one of Mark McGwire's contests as he chased and passed Roger Maris' home run record.
When ESPN and baseball turned their attention to the matter in January, the network said the sport asked for an additional $350 million for 1999-2002 plus a two-year extension at an annual threefold increase
compared to the rights fee agreed to in 2002.
"We are talking about nine hours of programming in the course of the almost 500 hours of dedicated MLB coverage we provide each year." said ESPN president George Bodenheimer. "It's outrageous for baseball to attempt to terminate its agreement with ESPN."
According to ESPN, the contract states that up to 10 baseball games each season can be pre-empted for "events of significant interest".
However, baseball claims that ESPN is prohibited from pre-empting a game without its approval.
That condition cannot be "unreasonably withheld," but baseball officials were unwilling to grant permission last year because they refused to take a back seat for the NFL during pennant races.
ESPN said baseball agreed to move games to ESPN2 in the past it did so last May to accommodate the NHL playoffs and will do it again for the NHL playoffs on June 2.
The cable network also said the sport has allowed games to be moved for World Cup soccer, U.S. Open and U.S. Senior Open golf, the College World Series and a Busch auto race.
But baseball wouldn't allow it last September — ESPN's first year with the entire NFL Sunday night package.
"Now, they are willing to put the entire relationship at risk over three games that are the lowest rated every single year," said Dick Glover, ESPN's executive vice president of programming.
September baseball games on ESPN averaged a 1.7 rating in 1997, about a quarter of the NFL's average in the same time slots last year. A cable rating point equals 994,000 homes.
ESPN's deal, worth about $88 million a year, was originally slated for 1996-2000. The regular-season contract was extended through 2002. Glover said baseball had offered to renegotiate the deal for about $250 million a season.
The dispute doesn't affect a separate four-year postseason contract, which runs through 2000.
This year's conflicting games are scheduled for Sept. 12, 19 and 26, and two involve the team owned by Selig's family — the Milwaukee Brewers. The games are Milwaukee at Colorado, San Francisco at San Diego and Houston at Milwaukee.
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