MONDAY APRIL 14
"There's no doubt that we're going to build this program,but if we don't,you know not even Roy Williams can save me."
Kansas football coach Mark Mangino
MONDAY,APRIL 14,2003
Home teams succeed during weekend play
The Associated Press
Mariners4.Rangers3
SEATTLE — Bret Boone hit his second homer of the game in the 13th inning to give the Seattle Mariners a 4-3 victory over the Texas Rangers yesterday.
Alex Rodriguez had his fifth home run for the Rangers, and Todd Greene's solo shot tied it at 3 in the eighth.
Boone connected on a 2-0 pitch from reliever R.A. Dickey (0-1), bringing Seattle fans who stayed to watch the extra four innings to their feet. Boone also hit a solo shot in the seventh for his 15th career two-homer game.
John Mabry had a solo homer in the seventh as well to help the Mariners rally for a 3-2 lead.
Kazuhiro Sasaki (1-0) pitched the 13th for the victory.
Padres 6,Rockies 2
SAN DIEGO — Rondell White's two-run homer highlighted a four-run seventh inning and the San Diego Padres beat the Colorado Rockies 6-2 yesterday.
Mark Kotsay also drove in two runs for the Padres, who've won three of five overall.
White's homer, his third, came on a 2-1 hanging curveball from reliever Doug Jones.
Jaret Wright (1-1) pitched two scoreless innings for the victory and also doubled in the seventh, his first career extrabase hit.
With the score tied at 2, the Padres opened the seventh with a single by Ramon Vazquez and a double by Keith Lockhart to chase starter Aaron Cook (0-1). Vazquez scored on Kotsay's slow roller to second, and Lockhart scored on Ronnie Belliard's fielding error.
Diamondbacks 9. Brewers 3
White then homered to left-center for the final margin.
PHOENIX — Elmer Dessens became the first Arizona starter to win this year and rookie Robby Hammock drove in four runs with a homer and double as the Diamondbacks beat the Milwaukee Brewers 9-3 yesterday.
Arizona closer Matt Mantel is 2-0 after picking up victories in extra-inning games.
Dessens (1-1) accomplished in his third start what Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling couldn't, allowing seven hits and two runs in six 2-3 innings.
Dessens came out with two out in the seventh after Milwaukee loaded the bases. Mike Myers got cleanup hitter Geoff Jenkins to pop up to second.
Luis Gonzalez and Danny Bautista drove in two runs apiece for Arizona, and Steve Finley had an RBI single.
Hammock had a memorable debut at catcher, going 3-for-4.
He broke a 2-2 tie in the third with a three-run homer off Glendon Rusch (1-2).
Angels 8. Athletics2
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Anaheim Angels snapped Barry Zito's 10-game winning streak in convincing fashion yesterday, scoring in each of the first four innings and getting home runs from Tim Salmon and Troy Glaus in an 8-2 victory over the Oakland Athletics.
Eric Owens drove in two runs with his second tiebreaking, bases-loaded single in two days. Shawn Wooten also homered as the Angels swept the three-game series.
Ramon Ortiz (2-1) allowed two runs and four hits in six innings, striking out five and walking one. The only runs off the right-hander came on Terrence Long's two-run shot in the second.
Zito (2-1) lost for the first time in 12 regular season starts. He allowed seven runs, eight hits and four walks in five innings.
Scot Shields struck out five players in three one-hit innings for his first career save.
Cubs 4. Pirates 3
CHICAGO — Corey Patterson hit an RBI single and pinch-hitter Troy O'Leary had a sacrifice fly as the Chicago Cubs rallied in the eighth inning to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 yesterday.
Down 3-2, Sammy Sosa led off the Cubs' eighth with a double against Boehringer. One out later, Pirates manager Lloyd McClendon pulled Boehringer (0-1) after he had a 2-0 count to Hee Seop Choi.
Lefty Scott Sauerbeck relieved, and Cubs manager Dusty Baker sent up Eric Karros to bat for Choi. After Karros was intentionally walked, Patterson singled to tie it at 3.
Lenny Harris pinch-ran for Karros, Mark Bellhorn drew a walk to load the bases and Mike Williams relieved Sauerbeck. O'Leary followed with a fly ball for the go-ahead run.
Kyle Farnsworth (1-0) pitched a scoreless eighth, and Joe Borowski pitched a perfect ninth inning for his third save.
Red Sox 2, Orioles 0
BOSTON — Derek Lowe and Tim Wakefield combined on a six-hitter and Namar Garciaparra homered Sunday as the Boston Red Sox rebounded from a disastrous home opener with a 2-0 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.
A day after Pedro Martinez gave up 10 runs in the worst start of his career. Lowe (2-1) held Baltimore to two hits over the first six innings before running into trouble in the seventh. He escaped,
Lowe gave up five hits and a walk while striking out three. Wakefield pitched the last two innings for his first save.
thanks in part to an unassisted double
play by first baseman Shea Hillembrand.
Rodrigo Lopez (0-2) allowed two runs on five hits and a walk. He gave up Garciaparra's solo homer in the first and then shut Boston down until he was chased in the seventh.
Expos 2, Mets 1, 10 innings
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Orlando Cabrera hit a tying home run off Armando Benitez in the ninth inning and Jose Vidro had a game-winning shot leading off the 10th as the Montreal Expos won a hot one yesterday, 2-1 over the New York Mets.
The Mets lost their fifth in a row, and Benitez blew a save chance for the third time in eight days.
It was 136 degrees on the field when the game started. The Expos are 3-0 at their new part-time home.
Even with the wind blowing in, Cabrera hit Benitez's third pitch into the left-field bleachers. Montreal won it an inning later against Mike Stanton (0-2) when Vidro, one of the team's Puerto Rican stars, golfed Stanton's first pitch over the wall. The crowd responded with chants of "Vi-dro! Vi-dro!" and he was mobbed by teammates at home plate.
Rocky Biddle (1-0) pitched two innings of two-hit relief for the victory.
Phillies13, Reds1
CINCINNATI — The Philadelphia Phillies scored a team-record 13 runs in the fourth inning and beat the Cincinnati Reds 13-1 yesterday.
Ricky Ledee's three-run homer capped Philadelphia's outburst, which fell just two runs short of the National League record for runs in an inning.
The Phillies' 13 runs were aided by seven walks. Randy Wolf (2-0) was the beneficiary of all the offense. Wolf allowed four hits, walked one and struck out eight in six innings.
The major league mark is 17 runs, set by the Boston Red Sox against Detroit on June 18, 1953.
After facing just 11 batters through the first three innings, Ryan Dempster (1-1) faced 11 in the fourth alone. Bobby Abreu walked and scored twice, and Jim Thome singled and scored twice in the inning.
TORONTO — Matthew LeCroy hit a three-run homer and Michael Cuddyer had a solo shot as the Minnesota Twins completed a three-game sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays with a 9-3 victory yesterday.
Twins 9; Blue Jays 3
The Twins gained a measure of revenge against the Blue Jays, who sent them reeling toward a six-game losing streak with a three-game sweep at the Metrodome last weekend.
Christian Guzman went 3-for-4 and scored three times for the Twins, who had 24 runs in the series.
LeCroy's homer off Doug Linton in the eighth gave Minnesota a 9-3 lead.
Twins starter Joe Mays (2-1) gave up three runs and three hits in six-plus innings. He walked four and struck out two.
Minnesota took a 3-2 lead in the third against Mark Hendrickson (1-2) on Luis Rivas' RBI grounder, Guzman's RBI double and Corey Koskie's run-scoring single.
Devil Rays 2, Yankees 1
NEW YORK — Toby Hall delivered a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the ninth inning, lifting Tampa Bay to a 2-1 victory over New York yesterday and preventing the Yankees from the best start in the 100-year history of the franchise.
After Bernie Williams made it 1-all with an RBI single in the eighth, Marion Anderson opened the ninth with a single against reliever Juan Acevedo (0-1).
Damion Easley bunted and both runners were safe when catcher Jorge Posada mishandled the ball. A wild pitch advanced the runners, and Hall delivered the sacrifice fly.
New York's Roger Clemens worked seven innings, allowing seven hits. He struck out six and walked three.
Devil Rays starter Victor Zambrano stranded seven runners over the first five innings. He allowed three hits, walked six and struck out two, but reliever Lance Carter (3-0) got the victory.
MIAMI — Greg Maddux, off to the worst start in his career, earned his first victory of the season by pitching the Atlanta Braves past the Florida Marlins 7-1 yesterday.
Braves 7, Marlins 1
Vinny Castilla homered and drove in five runs as the Braves stopped Florida's four-game winning streak.
Maddux (1-5) gave up one run and two hits in six innings. The four-time Cy Young winner had lost his first three starts for the first time ever.
Pitching on three days' rest, Maddux walked none and struck out three. He threw 59 pitches, 40 for strikes.
John Smoltz pitched the final two innings for his third save, completing the combined four-hitter.
Castilla's three-run homer in the ninth off Vladimir Nunez broke it open for Atlanta.
Mark Redman (1-2) allowed four runs and eight hits in five innings.
POLL
What was former Kansas athletics
director Al Bohl's best move?
Firing football coach Terry Allen Beer before football games
His best is yet to come; moving out of Lawrence
LAST WEEK'S POLL RESULTS
Will Roy Williams fill the coaching vacancy at North Carolina?
2,299 votes were cast
No. He stayed last time; he will stay this time. 1,186 votes for 52 percent
He will consider it after the tour ment excitement dies down. 356 votes for 15 percent
Yes. Nick and Kirk are gone; so is
Roy, 727 votes for 32 percent
No. North Carolina won't pursue him after he said no last time. 30 votes for 1 percent
Kansas Athletics Calendar
TOMORROW
WEDNESDAY
Baseball vs. Avila, 6 p.m. at Hoglund Ballpark
Kansas Relays, Memorial Stadium Softball vs. Arkansas, 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. at the Kansas softball field
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Kansas Relays, Memorial Stadium
Kansas Relays. Memorial Stadium Baseball at Oklahoma, 6:35 p.m. in Norman, Okla.
SATURDAY
Kansas Relays, Memorial Stadium Baseball at Oklahoma, 2 p.m. in Norman, OKla.
Softball at Texas, noon and 2 p.m. in Austin Texas
Rowing dual with Kansas State, in Manhattan
Tennis vs. Texas A&M, noon at the Robinson courts
Women's Golf at the Big 12 Conference Championships in Columbia, Mo.
SUNDAY
Baseball at Oklahoma, 1 p.m. in Norman,
Okla.
Women's Golf at the Big 12 Conference Championships in Columbia, Mo.
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KU should fire childish Roy Williams and rehire Ai Bohl.
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At Boht, take a speech class shortly after Munchausen.
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Roy, Roy, Roy, Roy, Roy, Roy, Roy.
I don't want to read anything else by that Ryan Greene kid. Bring on Doyle Murphy,
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I just wanted to say that if Roy Williams moves to North Carolina, so am I.
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Al Boht has really taken it upon himself to make himself look like a self-righteous, childish fool, and I am glad he's gone. I'd pick Roy over Al Boht any day. And what's with the talking in third person?
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I think it's a sad day when a criminal can blame a basketball coach for being fired.
Why is everyone so worried that Roy Williams is going to leave? That would go against every moral fiber that he believes in.
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So where can I get a bowl of crushed dove soup?
I'm watching Big Daddy right now, and I'm realizing at the beginning of the movie Adam Sandler has a Syracuse Orangemen shirt on, and I'm just thinking, I don't like this movie anymore.
Jonah Ballow, what is wrong with you? Kansas is not Kansas without Roy.
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Hey Ryan Greene, thanks for showing us that you don't have to be good at sports to write bad articles about sports. Thanks. You suck.
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