TUESDAY,APRIL2.2002
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 5B
Royals frosted by Minnesota
Twins' home runs, seventh-inning rally led to Kansas City loss
The Associated Press
KANSAS, CITY, Mo. — The Minnesota Twins needed only one swing to go deep.
Jacque Jones homered on the second pitch of the game, then hit a go-ahead three-run shot in the seventh inning as the Twins connected
five times yesterday in a season-opening 8-6 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
Twins, Minnesota, which sent Kansas City to its 14th loss in its last 17 openers, took a 3-0 lead, then fell behind 6-3 in the fifth when Neifi Perez and Carlos Beltran hit consecutive RBI trink.
David Ortiz, Brian Buchanan and Torii Hunter also homered for the
The Twins came back in the seventh against loser Cory Bailey.
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Buchanan and Rivas singles before Jones' three-run drive put the
Twins ahead 7-6. Brian Shouse walked Corey Koskie with the bases loaded later in the inning, forcing in another run.
J. C. Romero got the victory in relief with 2 2-3 hitless innings, and Eddie Guardado pitched the ninth for the save.
In the first inning, Jones took a strike before homering. Ortiz homeered two outs later and Buchanan connected, with one out in the third, off Suppan, who gave up four runs on seven hits in six innings.
Brad Radke, making his sixth opening day start, gave up six runs and eight hits in 4 1-3 innings.
Joe Randa's sacrifice fly produced Kansas City's first run in the second. Beltran's sacrifice fly and Mike Sweeney's two-run double put the Royals on top 4-3 in the third.
Notes: Pregame fireworks caused a brief fire on the grassy slope behind the center field wall. The fire was quickly extinguished. .. Royals manager Tony Muser, who had fans clamoring for his firing last season, got an ovation when introduced. .. The Twins are two victories away from making the series between the clubs dead-even at 238-238. .. The Twins were playing their first game without Tom Kelly as manager since Sept. 11, 1986.
Yankees lose in season opener
The Associated Press
BALTIMORE — If the Baltimore Orioles had played like this the past few years, Cal Ripken might have stuck around this season.
With the retired Ripken watching from a luxury suite, Tony Batista jolted Roger Clemens with a grand slam and Scott Erickson won his first outing in 20 months as the Orioles opened yesterday with a 10-3 victory over the
Clemens, coming off his record sixth Cy Young Award, gave up eight runs, walked five and threw two wild pitches all after
ne tried to field a hard grounder with his bare hand. Clemens was taken to a hospital for precautionary X-rays.
Jason Giambi, the centerpiece in the transformation of the four-time defending AL champions, went 1-for-4 with a walk as the Yankees started their 100th season.
Giambi, who left Oakland as a free agent to sign a $120 million, seventyear deal, grounded out with the bases loaded, ending the fifth with the Yankees trailing 5-1.
A crowd of 48,058, the largest ever for opening day at Camden Yards, cheered the Orioles — along with another Maryland team.
At night, Maryland played Indiana for the NCAA men's basketball championship.
Ripken, who played 21 seasons for the Orioles, also drew an ovation when he was shown on the scoreboard late in the game.
The longest cheer during the pregame ceremony was reserved for former Orioles manager Johnny Oates, undergoing treatment for a brain tumor.
Oates threw the ceremonial first pitch as the crowd, the Orioles and the Yankees cheered. Oates stood a few feet in front of the mound and delivered his pitch about a foot wide to bullnene coach Elrod Hendricks.
"My main thought was don't cry." Oates said.
Erickson (1-0), who sat out last season after elbow ligament replacement surgery, allowed three hits in six innings. He walked three of the first four batters he faced, leading to an unearned run in the first.
ButErickson settled down, escaped his only other jam in the fifth and earned his first victory since July 20, 2000.
Clemens (0-1) dropped to 5-3 in 12 opening day starts. He pitched 4 1/3 innings and allowed seven hits.
Manager Joe Torre left Clemens in the game for the fifth inning, but he lasted just five batters. Conine walked, Gibbons singled and Batista walked to load the bases, then Mora cleared them and ended Clemens' day with a three-run double.
The Yankees got two runs in the eighth on Derek Jeter's homer off reliever Rodrigo Lopez.
Pitcher leads Diamondbacks in opening day victory
PHOENIX—Somewhere in the desert, Randy Johnson must have discovered the Fountain of Youth.
The Associated Press
The Big Unit, winner of three Cy Young Awards in three seasons with Arizona, threw a six-hitter as the Diamondbacks opened defense of their World Series championship by beating the San Diego Padres 2-0 on yesterday.
With a fastball that topped out at 100 mph, the 38-year-old left-hander struck out eight and walked one, beating San Diego's Kevin Jarvis.
"You saw his velocity up on the board," San Diego's Phil Nevin said. "Obviously, he hasn't lost anything. He's not old. He's getting better with age."
"Overall, I feel extremely good about the way I pitched," Johnson said, "and the way everybody played."
Series against the New York Yankees. Then he watched from the dugout as Arizona rallied with two runs in the ninth, winning 3-2.
In a 30-minute pregame ceremony in front of a sellout crowd of 47,025, the World Series championship banner was unveiled high above right-center field.
A giant replica of the World Series championship trophy was on display in center field, and Luis Gonzalez's bloop single that drove in Jay Bell for the winning run in the ninth inning of Game 7 was shown on the giant screen.
Managing general partner Jerry Colangelo, whose decision to spend the young franchise deeply into debt brought the state of Arizona its first major sports championship, threw out the first pitch.
Although his strikeouts didn't mount as they often do. Johnson induced the Padres into one ground out after another and got his 31st career shutout and 80th complete game. Johnson, 5-0 in 10 opening-day starts, got his first shutout in an opener, throwing 127 pitches.
"He's a freak of nature," Grace said. "It's a tribute to the shape he's in and the drive he has. He may be another Nolan Ryan and pitch until he's 45 because he's better now than he ever has been."
His 126th pitch was clocked at 99 mph on the stadium radar gun. Manager Bob Brenlv said the team had the pitch at 101.
"If you can get stronger as the game progresses, a hitter doesn't really anticipate that," Johnson said. "He thinks that in the beginning or the middle of the game he's seen your best stuff."
Even though Johnson batted second in the eighth inning, Brenly resisted any idea of making a pitching change.
"The big guy was sniffing the barn," Brenly said. "He wanted to finish, so he went out and showed me why is he who he is. I mean, in the ninth inning after throwing all those pitches, he just rared back and blew balls by good major league hitters."
Jarvis allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings. He struck out four and walked none.
"He kept us in the game," manager Bruce Bochy said, "and gave his team a chance. That's what you want. We just happened to be going against a great pitcher who was on today. We got the effort we needed, we just fell short."
10ny Womack, who was 2-for-3 and reached base three times, singled with two outs in the third, then scored from first when Bautista doubled into the left-field gap. Jarvis retired the next 10 batters before Arizona made it 2-0 when Grace, batting cleanup, led off the seventh with a home run to right.
Arizona squandered an opportunity in the first inning when Womack led off with a single. Bautista, who replaced Reggie Sanders as Arizona's regular right fielder, followed with a chopped single over third, but was thrown out trying to take second on the play. Gonzalez was out at first on a check swing grounder, then Grace lined out to center, ending the threat.
Nevin had two hits, including a double, but was stranded at third in the second inning.
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