Section B·Page 8
The University Daily Kansan
Monday, May 3, 1999
Baseball
Yankees rally late, beat Royals
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bernie Williams helped the New York Yankees overcome another poor effort by Hideki Trabu.
Williams hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the ninth inning as the Yankees rallied from a four-run deficit and beat Kansas City 9-8 Sunday, their 14th win in their last 15 games against the Royals.
Irabu, bumped from the rotation after owner George Steinbrenner called him a "fat ...
toad" late in spring training, made his first start of the season because Roger Clemens went on the disabled list with a strained left hamstring.
the disabled host with a ssl connection. Irabu was pounded for six runs and 11 hits in 4
New York, which has won nine of its last 11 overall, trailed 6-2, went ahead with a five-run sixth, then allowed Carlos Febles' RBI single in the seventh off Jason Grimsley (2-0).
1/3 innings, allowing home runs to Joe Randa, Johnny Damon and Larry Sutton. His ERA ballooned from 5.79 to 7.24.
Paul O'Neill, who tripled leading off the sixth, reached on infield single against Jose Santiago (1-2) starting the ninth, and Williams followed with just his second homer in 95 at-bats this season.
Mariano Rivera, New York's fifth pitcher, finished for his seventh save in eight chances, allowing a run by Febles, who was 3-for-5 with three RBIs.
Royals starter Kevin Appier up seven runs and nine hits in five-plus innings.
Rey Sanchez hit an RBI groundout in the bottom half after an error by Ricky Ledee in left, and Joe Randa tied it with a solo homer in the third.
Febles and Carlos Beltran hit run-scoring singles in the fourth, and Kansas City made it 6-2 in the fifth, chasing trabu on homers by Damon and Sutton — Sutton's second in two games.
New York's first six batters reached in the sixth. Williams drove in a run with an infield single, Posada chased Appier with an RBI single and Scott Brosius singled in a run off Terry Mathews, who then forced in the tying run when he hit Chuck Knoblauch with a pitch. Derek Jeter put New York ahead with a sacrifice fly.
After the Yankees lost Friday's series opener, Knoblauch said he thought Jeff Montgomery hit him on purpose in the ninth inning to retaliate for Dan Naulty hitting a pair of Royals in the late innings.
Gaetti helps Cubs sweep past Padres
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Gary Gaeti, whose struggles at the plate left him with a lower batting average than some
pitchers, hit a go-ahead, two-wr run single in the eighth inning Sunday that helped the Chicago Cubs in a win against
the San Diego Padres, 3-2.
The Padres have lost five straight games, their longest slide since losing five in a row from June 14-19 in 1997.
Felix Heredia blew Scott Sanders' three-hit, no-run effort when he gave up two runs and three hits in the eighth inning. But Gaetti was there to bail the Cubs out.
Sammy Sosa led off the eighth with a single and Mark Grace followed with a double. After Henry Rodriguez grounded out, San Diego manager Bruce Bochy
replaced Roberto Rivera with Brian Boehringer.
Bochy had Boehringer intentionally walk Jose Hernandez to load the bases for Gaetti, who came in hitting. 155. But the move backfired when Gaetti hit a hard single to left field, and Sosa scored with Grace close behind.
Eric Owens' throw from left made it to home in time, but Greg Myers went to tag Grace without having control of the ball. It glanced off his mitt, and Grace was safe with the go-ahead run.
Rodney Myers (2(0) pitched two-thirds of the inning for the victory, and Rod Beck pitched a perfect ninth for his sixth save in eight chances.
John Vander Wal singled to center and drove in Gwynn, and Joyner was safe at third when Gaetti couldn't make the throw in time. Joyner then scored on Myers' single to right for a 2-1 lead.
Heredia was yanked, and Myers got Phil Nevin to hit a high popup, ending the inning.
Cardinals slide past Expos in 10th inning
The Associated Press
MONTREAL — Fernando Tatis, who hit a three-run homer in the first inning, slid home with the winning run in the 10th as the St. Louis Cardinals edged the Montreal
Expos 8-7 yesterday.
Tatis opened the 10th with a single against Expos reliever Ugueth Urbina (2-3) and advanced to third
On Willie McGee's single to right.
McGee reached second on the throw.
Then Eli Marrero hit a routine
grounder to short but Tatis just beat
Michael Barrett's throw. McGee
then scored on Urbina's wild pitch.
Chris Widger homered for the Expos in the bottom of the 10th against winner Juan Acevedo (2-1), who blew his first save in four chances, allowing four runs in 11-3 innings. Scott Radinsky got the final two outs for his second save.
delivered a pinch hit home run.
The Cardinals jumped ahead early as Tatis homered for the second straight game and Ray Lankford had a two-run single. Tatis, who also homered in the first inning Saturday to spark the Cardinals' 19-hit attack, hit his ninth home run out of Miguel Batista with one out in the first.
Montreal had tied the game against Acevedo in the ninth when Wilton Guerrero singled, James Mouton walked and Jose Vidro
Mark McGwire was rested and did not start for the second time this season. McGwire, who came into the game in the 10th inning, has not homered in his last 10 games.
Cardinals starter Darren Oliver allowed two runs on seven hits in five-plus innings. He was relieved by Mike Busby after allowing Barrett's leadoff single in the sixth, the fourth time Oliver allowed a hit to lead off an inning.
Widger doubled home Barrett from first and Brad Fullmer added an RBI grounder to first, cutting the lead to 6-3.
J. D. Drew, who tied a Cardinals record by scoring five runs in Saturday's 16-5 victory, led off the game with a double. One out later, Lankford singled ahead of Tatis' drive into the left field bleachers.
Mets beat Giants in pitchers' duel
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Masato Yoshii claimed he did not feel any extra pressure with his spot in the rotation in leapdaddy. But after getting booed on his last start and Rick Reed about to come off the disabled list, the reality was otherwise.
Yoshii pitched six shutout innings before Dennis Cook became the National
League's first five-game winner when Ramon Martinez dropped an eighth-inning fly ball yesterday, which gave the New York Mets their fifth straight win, 2-0 against the San Francisco Giants.
"He made all the quality pitches in a pressure-filled game," Mets manager Bobby Valentine said after the Mets swept three games from the Glants for the first time since May 1977.
"He knew what was on the line. There was a big crowd that was ready to cut his head off, but he responded. I'm proud of him."
Yoshi, who had given up 14 runs in his previous 13 1-3 innings, added a slight change to his delivery this start.
The right-hander, on advice from manager Bobby Valentine, had been pitching from the first-base side of the rubber this season. After reviewing video from Yoshii's start Tuesday against the Padres, Valentine moved him back to the third-base side.
"Changing sides might have been part of it," Yoshii said through an interpreter. "But the bottom line was that I was able to throw strikes in the lower half of the strike zone."
The results, at least for one start, were positive. Yoshi allowed three hits and two walks in six innings. He did not get the
win because San Francisco's Kirk Rueter, who also entered the game in a pitching rut, matched Yoshi with seven shutout innings.
The Mets broke through with two outs and no one on in the eighth. Pinch-hitter Matt Franco singled off John Johnstone (3-1). Rickey Henderson then hit a high fly just past second base that bounced off the glove of Martinez, who entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the top of the eighth and took Rich Aurilia's place at shortstop in the bottom half.
"I tried to get to the point where I thought it was going to land." Martinez said. "But the wind moved it around a little bit."
The Giants threatened only twice against Yoshii. Stan Javier led off the fourth with a double. Jeff Kent followed with a grounder in the hole between shortstop and third that Rey Ordonez stopped for an infield single, holding Javier at second.
Yoshii then got J.T. Snow to ground into a 3-61 double play and Ellis Burks grounded out to Ordonez.
With two out in the sixth, Javier hit a line drive to left-center that Henderson misplayed for a triple. But Yoshii recovered to get Kent on a grounder and was lifted the next inning for a pinch-hitter after throwing just 68 pitches.
Rueter came in with worse numbers than Yoshii; a 10.12 ERA and 36 hits allowed in 18.23 innings. But he shut down the Mets for seven innings, giving up just three hits and not allowing a runner to reach second.
"It's a shame that you waste such a great pitching performance by Kirk Rueter because that was his greatest game of the year," Giants manager Dusty Baker said. "It's tough to lose like that, but we did lose."
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