Monday 12,1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 5
Baseball
Royals beat White Sox for sweep
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Jeff King, Mike Sweeney and Joe Randa hit solo home runs to back Kevin Appier and lead the Kansas City Royals in a win against Chicago 3-1 yesterday for their first sweep at the White Sox in six years.
Appier (1-1) gave up four hits in six-plus innings, allowing a home run to Frank Thomas. Appier, who lost to Boston 5-3 in the season opener, struck out four and walked two, leaving after Chris Singleton's leadoff single in the seventh.
Jeff Montgomery pitched the ninth for his first save, completing a five-hitter and giving the Royals a three-game winning streak. Kansas
City had not swept a series at Chicago since May 25-27, 1993.
James Baldwin (1-1) gave up three
runs, eight hits and three walks in 6-2 3 innings and struck out three.
Randa hit his second homer of the season in the first, but Thomas tied the game when he led off the fourth with his second home run. Thomas, who hit below .300 last year for the first time in his career, is 12-for-19 (.632) this season.
King and Sweeney hit consecutive homers with two outs in the sixth. It was King's first and Sweeney's second.
Clemens helps Yankees win fourth straight
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Roger Clemens didn't take long to make New York Yankees fans forget David Wells.
The Rocket, whose trade to New York was criticized by many Yankees fans, allowed three hits in 7/2 3 innings and struck out eight to win his first game in pinstripe, 5 against the Detroit Tigers on Saturday.
Chili Davis and Scott Brosius homered for the second straight day, and Derek Jeter had a two-run triple in support of Clemens, who won his 16th
straight decision, one short of the American League record. The win was the fourth straight for the World Series champions following an opening loss at Oak-
Gross at Oak land.
Clemens (1-0)
was traded
from Toronto to New York in
February for Wells, Graeme
Clemens, who pitched 13 seasons for the rival Boston Red Sox before signing with Toronto after the 1996 season, won the crowd over quickly in his first appearance for New York in Yankee Stadium.
The crowd of 42,058, the largest second-day crowd since the remodeled Yankee Stadium opened in 1996, gave Clemens a standing ovation when he left with two outets in the eighth. Jeff Nelson finished with hitless relief
inicate a bench-clearing situation when he hit Brosius in the back. After the game, the Yankees complained that Clemens got away with more than other pitchers could.
Clemens got a no-decision in his last start at Yankee Stadium for Toronto, helping
Bobby Higginson was the only Tiger to get to Clemens, going 2-for-2 with two hard doubles to right and a walk.
On Saturday, there were no such complaints.
The Yankees got on the board against Brian Moehler (1-1) in the second inning on Davis' opposite-field home. It was his third home run of the year, equaling last season's total.
Cardinals lose to Reds despite McGwire homer
ST. LOUIS — Just like on opening day, a Mark McGwire home run did not do much for the St. Louis Cardinals.
The Associated Press
The 70-home run hitter connected in the first inning for his first home run in 15 atbats, but Jason Bere did not encounter many more problems and led the Cincinnati Reds to a 4-2 victory yesterday.
Barry Larkin homered for Cincinnati, which has 12 home runs in six games, and Hal Morris and Greg Vaughn had key hits in a three-rush sixth innning.
Bere (1-0) allowed two runs and eight hits in 6 1/3 innings, and Danny Graves finished with a two-hit relief for his first
save, ending the game by retiring McGwire on a foul out with one on base in the ninth.
The Reds avoided disaster in the eighth
The Reds avoided dis-
inning for the first
time all season as
Graves worked a per-
fect inning. In all four
of the Reds' losses,
their opponent scored
the go-ahead run in the eighth; twice the games were tied and twice the Reds led.
McGwire, who homered only once against the Reds last year, got his second of the season when he hit a first-pitch fastball from Bere over the left-field wall with two outs and none in the first. He'd been
3-for-14 with four walks, two strikeouts and one RBI since connecting off Milwaukee's David Weathers in a 10-8 loss Monday night.
Fernando Tatis was 0-for-4 and is 0-for-10 with six strikeouts since hitting his third homer on Thursday. He took a called third strike from Danny Graves with the bases loaded and two out in the seventh.
Bere singled off Donovan Osborne (0-1) leading off the sixth inning for his third hit in four at-bats this season. Bere scored on Morris' double, and Mike Cameron also scored from first when left field Joe McEwing misplayed the ball in the corner for an error. Vaughn followed with an RBI single for a 4-2 lead.
Pirates defeat Chicago 9-6, take weekend series
PITTSBURGH — Brant Brown gave the Chicago Cubs another bad memory. For at least one at-bat, Sammy Sosa also had them remembering 1998.
The Associated Press
Brown, who dropped the fly ball that cost the Cubs a key September game last season, had three extra base-hits and drove in three runs as the Pittsburgh Pirates swept Chicago by winning 9-6 yesterday.
Sosa hit his first homer of the season for the Cubs, a 441-foot solo shot off Mike Williams in the ninth. It was the first hit of the three-game series for Sosa, who is batting only .095 (2-for-21).
"Was it a relief? I have to say yes," said Sosa, who hit 66 homers last season and led the majors with 12 this spring. "In spring training, everything was there, the season started, and they've been pitching me a little bit different."
"I got the first one out of the way, let's play ball now."
Sosa also started slowly last season, homering only once in 10 games before hitting 65 in the Cubs' final 153 games.
The Pirates are off to a fast 4-2 start, mainly because of the contributions of new additions such as Brown; Brian Giles, who homered Sunday, and Ed Sprague, who beat the Cubs with a grand slam Saturday.
Brown had a two-run double in a four-run Pirates first inning off Steve Trachsel (0-2), an RBI triple following Kevin Young's double in the third and a double in the seventh.
Brown was traded for pitcher Jon Lieber during the offseason.
"I tried not to put too much emphasis on these games," said Brown, who struck out in all three at-bats Friday in his first game against his old team.
"The first night I was jittery and anxious," he said. "I just had to go out and play. That's the nature of the business
now, some players play against two or three teams they used to play for."
Brown insists he has no animosity toward the Cubs.
"They gave me a chance to come here and play every day," said Brown, who is batting. 333. "When I was talking to
some of the guys Friday, they congratulated me on getting the chance to play here. I still like the guys over there they were like my family — but I
have to go about my business over here."
Pirates starter Jason Schmidt (2-0), limited to three spring starts by a groin injury, gave up two runs on six hits over six innings but was lifted after 108 pitches. He has yielded just three runs while winning his first two starts.
Sosa was 0-for-2 with two strikeouts and a walk against Schmidt.
"It's power pitcher against power hitter," Schmidt said. "It's a matchup that every power pitcher likes. It's power against power."
Chris Peters followed by giving up Benito Santiago's two-run homer in the eighth, ending a streak of 11 consecutive scoreless innings by Pirates relievers.
Glenallen Hill, a last-minute lineup replacement for Henry Rodriguez, had a career-high five hits for the Cubs, including a solo homer in the ninth. Rodriguez has a pulled rib cage muscle and probably will sit out the Cubs' home opener today.
Young and Al Martin also singled in runs as the Pirates took a 4-0 lead in the first. Giles added a two-run homer
— only his second off a left-hander in the majors — and Freddy Garcia had an RBI double in a three-run seventh against reliever Dan Serafini.
The Cubs finished 2-4 on their first road trip of the season and went winless in a three-game series in Pittsburgh for the first time since 1990.
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