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mike Mussina's shutout.
Since then, it's been a pinstriped parade through the playoffs, a push that put the Yankees in the World Series against Arizona starting Saturday night. The team that looked so old and feeble in losing the first two games to Oakland turned around and won seven of eight, becoming the first four-time pennant winner since the Yankees of 1960-64.
NEW YORK — Shane Spencer's throw was bouncing to nowhere, along with the New York Yankees' season. The dynasty was about to go down.
World Series awaits Yankees, again
"Sitting on the bench, I saw the ball go over the cutoff man's head," Andy Pettite said, "and I thought the run was going to score right there. And then Derek came out of nowhere."
Then, Derek Jeter appeared as if beamed from a spaceship, grabbing the ball and making his now-famous backflip to the plate.
"That," Pettitte said, "was the biggest lift for us."
The Associated Press
Like so many of these Yankees' moments, they seem like movie scripts, too perfect for reality.
The three-time defending World Series champions won three in a row against Oakland, ending the Athletics' 17-game
After batting .288 during the regular season, the Mariners hit .211 against the Yankees. New York, with its huge scouting budget, found the way to shut down Seattle.
"You can't give a team like that extra outs," Oakland pitcher Mark Mulder said.
An error by Oakland third baseman Eric Chavez allowed the go-ahead run to score in the final game of the division series and an error by Seattle third baseman David Bell led to four unearned runs that gave the Yankees a 4-0 lead Monday night.
While the Diamondbacks were understandably jubilant Sunday night after winning their first pennant, the Yankees were low key after their 38th, exchanging hugs in the clubhouse, where champagne was served in plastic cups as if in a catering hall instead of being sprayed. As reliever Mike Stanton said, winning pennants isn't an end, its just step No. 3 of the four-step process of capturing another Series title.
home winning streak, and advanced to the American League Championship Series against Seattle.
Then they made the mighty Mariners, the team that had tied the major league record of 116 regular-season wins, look like the Devil Rays, taking two games in Safeco Field, winning Game 4 on Alfonso Soriano's dramatic ninth-inning home run and then smoking Seattle 12-3 in Monday night's finale.
"They watched us all September," Piniella said. "They had hoards of them following our team. They would come in waves."
Dead dynasty?
Since 1996, when the Yankees won their first World Series since 1978, New York has given up 13 unearned runs. The Yankees' opponents have allowed 46.
And the while the Yankees were beating Seattle, the eyes of the Yankees' front office were on Arizona. Beating Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson will be a mighty task even for them
Ha!
"They have had so much success that they have got that confidence, and they seem to draw from it," said Mariners manager Lou Piniella, a two-time World Series winner with the Yankees. "They feel that they can win these type of games. I know when I played here in New York, we felt, as a team, as individuals, that we would win big games."
New York had beaten the regular season's most dominant teams, who had combined to win 218 games. Seattle was the first club in 53 years to lead the AL in batting average, fielding and ERA.
Out on the field, Torre turned from the dugout and gave Mayor Rudolph Giuliani a hug, like so many others exchanged in Yankee Stadium since 1996. Then, arm in arm, they walked toward the mound, looking like Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains in the final scene of Casablanca. Winning in the Bronx has produced many a "beautiful friendship."
Every day brought a different star. Paul O'Neill and Pettite in the opener, Scott Brosius in Game 3, Bernie Williams and Soriano in Game 4, Williams, David Justice, Pettitte, O'Neill and Tino Martinez in Game 5.
No New York player had more than five RBIs in the series.
That's the way the Yankees put together their run of four championships in five seasons, going 53-18 (.746) in postseason play. They've won 14 of 15 postseason series since Joe Torre took over as manager, including 11 in a row.
The Yankees will work out Wednesday, then fly to Phoenix on Thursday.
"You need 25 heroes." Jeter said.
Notes: It's unclear if Mike Mussina or Andy Pettitt will start Saturday's opener. Torre is expected to announce a decision Wednesday.
"You need 25 heroes," Jeter said. During the regular season, the Yankees were just sixth in the league in batting average and third in ERA. Every year they come together during their first 71/2 months together, forging bonds to pull for each other. And during the playoffs, they find a way to win — usually with the help of their opponent.
Giuliani will play host to a rally for the Yankees on Wednesday at City Hall Plaza.
Bob Knight, Texas Tech getting adjusted to new relationship, dynamics
The Associated Press
Maintaining it helps players cut down on mistakes, even ones as fleeting and seemingly undetectable to most fans as a player setting a slightly incorrect angle
LUBBOCK, Texas — The most important word in Bob Knight's coaching vocabulary is concentration.
on a screen the Texas Tech coach said Tuesday.
"W h a t we're trying to do is say that there's a hell of
a difference between doing it almost right and doing it right," Knight said. "The outcome of games, I think, are far more a result of mistakes than they are the result of great plays."
Occasionally, Knight recounted stories from his coaching years at Indiana and Army, using certain players and circumstances to highlight what he sees as challenges ahead for his Tech players.
"At this point, what I've been pleased with is effort," he said. "I think the players have given us a really good effort. I think that they have really tried to concentrate on what we want done."
Though he declined to discuss individual players "until we play," Knight praised what is going on during the team's practices.
Knight said an important part of practices is evaluating players' talents and skills and tweaking what has been ingrained for years.
"They have some habits of play, some good, some bad." Knight said. "Probably more bad than good. Now, we've got to change those habits."
No easy task.
"Getting them to quit doing something else and doing what we want done is the challenge and one of the more intriguing aspects of starting with a new team," Knight said. "We go from day to day and find out a little bit more about players and they go from day to day and, I think, find out a little bit more about what we want."
Fans will get a chance to see the Red Raiders squad in a scrimmage at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Tech arena. But don't expect to see any one group of five players stay on the floor for long. Knight will be mixing up it to see where the team's chemistry hums.
"I'm sure we'll have some trial and error with these kids," he said.
He isn't at all concerned about preseason polls that rank his Tech team 10th in the Big 12, and he's telling his players to pay little attention to what others see and attentio
Asked if he is excited about getting the team into action, Knight said, "I'll be excited if we play well."
"There's a very positive apprehension about how we're going to do," he said. "I mean, you're really looking forward to it and you're looking forward to taking these guys totally unacquainted with what you're doing and seeing them develop as a team. But then in the back of your mind you're saying, 'I wonder if we'll beat anybody.' That, to me, is what coaching is all about."
He characterized his overall outlook with hedged optimism.
Kansas City's injuries continue to plague the struggling team
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. The Kansas City Chiefs' list of injuries befits a team that has won only once in six games.
Already with a big hole in the offensive line when tackle Victor Riley went out last week, the Chiefs were dealing with another blow yesterday when defensive tackle John Browning was pronounced lost with a knee injury.
Also out is their best defensive back, Ray Crockett, and top kick returner, Dante Hall.
Coach Dick Vermeil said he was "99 percent sure" Browning was gone for the year. In his place will be Nate Hobgood-Chittick, a fourth-year man from North Carolina who will make his first start tomorrow night against Indianapolis.
"Nate played pretty well last week," Vermeil said. "He's very active. He's a guy who finishes every snap and he gets into plays sometimes just on his effort."
The Chiefs will probably declare Browning out for the year and bring in another defensive lineman.
"We'll bring in somebody and work with him for a while," Vermeil said. "I have a kid in mind right now."
Hall was given a long look at practice yesterday.
"I'm not 100 percent sure he'll be active or not," Vermeil said. "I don't want to get him going too soon and then reinjure the shoulder. He's probably 50-50."
Hobgood-Chittick will rotate with others.
"We'd like to ask him to play 40 snaps," Vermeil said.
Browning, who rarely has
"John Browning gets it done by example," said Hobgood-Chittick.
"You hate to start because of something like that. I'm not looking at this as different from any other week. I just get to go out there first."
much to say, had been playing well before hurting his knee in last week's 24-16 loss at Arizona.
The Chiefs (1-5) will be hosting the Colts (2-3) in a game that was moved to tomorrow night to avoid any possible conflict with the World Series in a Sunday night game.
It will be a fight between two slumping teams badly in need of a win. The Colts, expected by many to be one of the AFC's top teams, have lost three in a row. The Chiefs have beaten only Washington and are off to their first 1-5 start in a non-strike year since 1978.
Vermeil was hopeful of getting Hall back. The kick return specialist has been out for three weeks with a shoulder injury.
The Colts have won five in a row against Kansas City, including three straight at Arrowhead Stadium, where the Chiefs this year are 0-3.
"History won't have anything to do with this game," said Chiefs safety Jerome Woods. "You've got to go out and play every Sunday."
"A play or two here or there, we could easily have been 3-2 or 4-1. It's not like we've been getting blown out. I'm sure the Colts are thinking the same thing."
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