Tuesday, April 21. 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 5
Ryan: Baseball striking out
The Associated Press
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. He sees scores better suited for football and games lasting 4/12 hours. He says the pitching is diluted and the umpiring inconsistent.
Nolan Ryan, the major leag
"I don't
think it's good for the game," he said. "What I would like to see is more consistent-type scores — 4-3 games. ... I don't think people want to go out there and sit through 4, 4 1/2-hour ball games."
Ryan, 51, who retired in 1993 from the Texas Rangers after becoming the only man to record 5,000 strikeouts, says he was somewhat perplexed by the pitching in today's game.
"Your athletes are bigger and stronger. But the one area you're not finding is many hard-throwing
pitchers," he told The Associated Press during a break from his role as a representative for Advil, which sponsored the PGA Seniors' Championship in Palm Beach Gardens.
"When I grew up, you played whatever season it was," he said. "Nowadays, kids play the same sport year-round. If that's the case, it would look like you'd be producing pitchers who decided they wanted to pitch. There'd be more strength."
But clearly, in Ryan's view, there is not. And there is no quick fix.
For starters, though, Ryan would put the mound back to where it was when he began pitching in the big leagues in 1968. And, as an admitted purist, he would eliminate the designated hitter. He also would put umpires under one umbrella group to increase consistency.
"I think if you'd just call the strike zone from what it is in the rule book that you would see pitching improve." he said.
Ryan has been busy in his five years of so-called retirement. He
owns a bank outside Houston, sits on the state's Parks and Wildlife Commission and has kept several celebrity endorsements. He has taken up golf, downhill skiing and owns a cattle ranch.
But, ves. the arm still works.
"I can still go out and throw, but it's the other things," he said, estimating his pitches would be in the 90s. "You know, you have an Achilles problem or something else happens, you sprain your elbow. You spend so much time rehabbing, it just wasn't productive time anvmore."
Ryan said he was disappointed by the dismantling of the Florida Marlins — who were held up as a model for expansion after winning a World Series in just five years — then quited for payroll reasons.
"I think I was as amazed by that as anyone," he said. "It shows how much the game has changed since I broke in. Economics drives things so much more now. Baseball has a tendency to take two steps forward and one backward."
Victory is sweet for Red Sox
The Associated Press
BOSTON --- Another late-inning comeback was a fitting ending to an incredible homestand by the Boston Red Sox.
Mv Vaughn drove in his third run of the game with a two-out single in the bottom of the 11th inning yesterday as the Red Sox came from behind for a 6-5 Patriots Day victory against the Cleveland Indians.
The win completed Boston's homestead at 9-1 and was the team's sixth victory in its last at-bat. Included were two extra-inning victories, three others in the bottom of the ninth and one on a go-ahead three-run homer in the eighth. During the stretch, the Red Sox hit 317, scored 55 runs and hit 16 homers.
"It certainly turned out to be an exciting homestand for us," said Jimy Williams, Boston manager.
With two out in the 11th inning, Jim Leyritz, who tied the game with a homer in the ninth, singled to left, and Damon Buford walked on four pitches against reliever Eric Plunk (1-1).
Vaughn, who weakly fouled off the first two pitches, then delivered his third hit of the game for the winning run.
The Indians threatened in the 10th inning, but Sandy Alomar, mired in a 2-for-34 slump, grounded out with runners at first and third and ended the inning.
A bigger concern for the Indians is the health of center fielder Kenny Lofton, who apparently caught a spike on the wet grass chasing Troy O'Leary's triple in the seventh. He has a strained left Achilles tendon and will undergo an MRI today, said manager Mike Hargrove.
Leyritz tied the score with a leadoff homer in the ninth, his fourth of the year.
The Indians had taken the lead in the seventh when David Justice, who homered earlier, broke a tie with an RBI double.
The Red Sox jumped in front
early against Cleveland starter Bartolo Colon. Darren Bragg, who had four hits on Sunday, hit a two-run homer in the second inning and then Vaughn added a 452-foot shot for his sixth homer of the season in the third for a 3-0 lead.
Manny Ramirez hit a two-run homer for the Indians in the fourth against Boston starter Butch Henry, making it 3-2. Then Vaughn delivered an RBI double in the fifth.
Trailing 4-2, the Indians rallied to grab the lead against Boston's bullpen. Justice homered off John Wasdin, cutting it to 4-3 in the sixth. Jim Thome's RBI single tied it in the seventh before Justice's run-scorring double off Steve Avery delivered Travis Fryman with the go-ahead run.
Henry, making his second start after opening the year on the DL with a strained left hamstring, left the game in the fifth with discomfort behind his left knee. He will undergo an MRI to look for possible cartilage or tendon damage, team physician Dr. Arthur Pappas said.
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