Wednesday, October 18, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 7
Mets breeze past Cardinals 7-0
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The St. Louis Cardinals, front runners all season, are out of the postseason because they had to play catchup.
The New York Mets' three-run first inning in Monday night's game clinched the pennant in a 7-0 victory against the National League Central champions. In the opening inning of the five games, the Mets scored a total of 12 runs on 14 hits with six walks in the five games.
"It's important to get ahead, and they did it," said pitching coach Dave Duncan. "We didn't pitch well. It happens sometimes. It's too bad."
During the regular season, the first inning was the best for the Cardinals, who outscored their opponents 147-90. The trend continued in the division series, when they opened with a six-run first in game 1 against Gree Maddux.
But after outscoring the Braves 10-3 in the first during a three-game sweep, they managed only four runs in five games in the National League championship series. Thus, the springboard became a nightmare.
The Cardinals scored two runs in the first against Rick Reed in game 3, an eventual 8-2 victory that cut the Mets' series lead to 2-1.
In games 4 and 5, St. Louis allowed seven runs in the first.
Five of the first six Mets doubled in a four-run
first in game 4 against Kle, and six of the first seven Mets reached in the first inning of game 5 as New York took a 3-0 lead.
Hentgen blamed location.
"Unless you throw 100 mph,
it's always location." Hentgen
said. "I walked a lot of guys and had the count in hitters' favors. When you spot a guy like Mike Hampton three runs, it's tough."
The Cardinals made 10 errors in eight postseason games and didn't help themselves with more uncharacteristic fielding lapses.
Catcher Carlos Hernandez tried to catch Mets lead offitter hitter Timo Perez stealing and bounced his throw into center field. First baseman Will Clark dropped a double-play relay after second baseman
Fernando Vina mishandled Todd Zeile's grounder.
"We've been a good defensive team all year," Vina said. "That's the way the game is. Some days you make some tough errors, some days you play real well."
Two errors, one throwing and one fielding, by third baseman Fernando Tatis led to two insurance runs in the sixth inning of game 4, a 10-6 victory.
"I think they've proved the course of the season and the postseason we're a very good defensive club," manager Tony La Russa said. "I'll take our two guys up the middle with anybody."
The score was 60 after the Mets chased Hentgen in the fourth, and the hole seemed deeper given the Cardinals' season-long weakness against left-hand pitching. La Russa usually fields a lineup with five left-handed hitters and they were 17-23 against lefties with a 255 average, 21 points lower than their average against right-handers.
"In a short series, it comes down to pitching," said Mark McGwire, who grounded out in the ninth as a pinch hitter for Edmonds. "They shut us down."
Yankees win American League series
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — David Justice's home run soared toward the outfield bleachers, and New York will have its Subway Series.
Fighting off weeks of doubts, the New York Yankees followed the Mets into the World Series, rallying from a four-run deficit to beat the Seattle Mariners 9-7 last night and win the American League championship series 4-2.
Despite his worst October outing, Orlando Hernandez lasted seven innings and became the first pitcher ever to go 8-0 in postseason play.
With Seattle ahead 4-3 in the seventh inning, Justice lined a pitch from Arthur Rhodes into the right-field upper deck for a three-run homer. Paul O'Neill added a two-run single and Jose Vizcaino, whose infield single started the inning, hit a sacrifice fly for a 9-4 lead.
Alex Rodriguez, in perhaps his final game for the Mariners, homed leading off the eighth and Hernandez left after a walk.
Mariano Rivera relieved and allowed an RBI double to John Olerud, then a two-run double by
Mark McLemore that hit off first base bag as two more runs scored, ending his postseason scoreless streak at 33 1-3 innings over three years.
But Rivera held on in the ninth as the Yankees won their record 37th American League pennant and their third in a row.
Just 24 hours,38 minutes after
Just 24 hours, 36
Timo Perez
capture the final
out of the
National League
championship
series at Shea
Stadium, which is
about 8 miles
away, the final out of the Yankees' tense season ended when Edgar Martinez, 9-for-11 against Rivera in his career, grounded to shortstop with a runner on.
A half century after Willie, Mickey and the Duke dominated baseball, it will be Bernie, Benny and El Duque at Yankee Stadium starting Saturday night.
Seattle stormed to a 4-10 lead against the two-time defending World Series champions, getting consecutive RBI doubles from Alex Rodriguez and Martinez in the
first, and a two-run, upper-deck homer from light-hitting Carlos Guillen in the fourth.
But John Halama, a Brooklynite who blanked the Yankees for six innings in Game 2, was chased in the third, when Jorge Posada hit a two-run double and Paul O'Neill, fighting the biggest batting slump of his life, singled in a run on the next pitch.
Hernandez and Mariners reliever Brett Tomko both escaped jams in the middle innings, getting defensive help from their All-Star short-stops, Rodriguez for Seattle and Derek Jeter for New York.
And then the game turned in a 39-minute seventh inning — roughly the time it takes to go from Yankee Stadium to Shea, if the change of trains at Grand Central Terminal goes smoothly.
Tomko didn't allow a hit in two 2-3 innings, but he threw 51 pitches, a high amount for a reliever, and Jose Paniagua relieved to start the seventh.
Vizcaino, one of the seven players on the postseason roster the Yankees added during the season in an effort to stay on top, started the inning with a perfectly placed
single in the hole between first and second base.
Second baseman Mark McLemore got to it, but his throw from the right field grass was just a little too late.
Chuck Knoblauch sacrificed him to second and Jeter singled just between Rodriguez, his rival and pal who had four of Seattle's 10 hits, and Guillen at third.
Seattle manager Lou Pinelli,
who like Rodriguez may have
spent his final night in a Mariners
uniform, then brought in Rhodes.
In Game 2, the Yankees trailed 1-0 and been shut out for 21 innings when Justice doubled off Rhodes, sparking a seven-run eighth inning that gave New York a 7-1 win and tied the series.
In that game, umpires angered Justice by ruling he didn't check a swing on a 1-1 pitch.
This time, he got the call on a close 2-1 pitch.
Fans were on their feet, even Mayor Rudolph Giuliani applauding with his glove-covered hands. The upper deck swayed back and forth, and Justice sent the ball on an arc, a no-doubt homer from the moment he hit it.
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Tuesday -
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Sunday
October
October
Friday
2:30 pm Homecoming Parade along Jayhawk Boulevard. Following Parade Post Parade Party at the Union Plaza. 5 pm See KJHK announce the Parade winners, Union Plaza. 7:30 pm University Theatre presents Angels in America, Part I. 8 pm SUA presents Tim Reynolds at the Lied Center.
Saturday
7:30 pm University Theatre presents Angels in America, Part I.
TBA Jayhawk Football vs. Colorado.
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When: Thursday, October 26th and Friday, October 27th Go to www.careerservices.ukans.edu/0246/student to sign up for and interview
All interested students are invited to attend a general presentation on
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