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'The matchup everybody wanted'
World champions ready to play team with 116 wins
SEATTLE — With dazzling plays by Derek Jeter, bat wizardry by Ichiro Suzuki, late-inning drama and determined comebacks, the AL championship series emerged as a baseball fan's delight.
The Associated Press
dengue.
"I think a lot of people wanted to see this going into the postseason." Jeter said westerday.
"Seattle, obviously, has had a great season, the best record in the history of the American League," the Yankees' star shortstop said. "And now, we stand in their way of winning a championship. And they stand in our way of winning another one."
"I guess that's the way it was meant to be." Mariners manager Lou Piniella said.
The Seattle Mariners, the team that could not lose, against the New York Yankees, the team that wouldn't be beaten.
The Yankees will try to become the first team to win four straight
World Series crowns since Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle helped the Bronx Bombers do it a half-century ago
"If you're going to go to the World Series, you might as well go through New
York," said Seattle reliever Jeff Nelson, who spent the previous five seasons with the Yankees.
"At least someone is going to be in the World Series for the fourth year in a row — either them or me," Nelson said.
"Of course, if we were not playing the Yankees, I'd probably want the Yankees to win." Seattle DH Edgar Martinez said. "But we're playing the Yankees, and we want to win."
Jeter, who hit.444 against Oakland and made two sensational plays in the field, is sure that others would like to see the Yankees lose, too.
The Mariners tied a major league record by winning 116
games and broke New York's AL. mark of 114 in 1998.
"I guess when you think about it, we'd like to have kept that record," Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte said.
Pettittie will start the opener in the best-of-seven series tomorrow against Aaron Sele at Safeco Field.
"I think now when you see New York has come together, I think that the attitude or the impression that people have of New York has changed a little bit, but I don't think that the attitude toward the Yankees is going to change," he said. "I think you either love us or hate us."
Both teams are coming off stirring comebacks in the first round of the playoffs.
the Yankees became the first club ever to win a best-of-five series after losing the first two games at home.
New York rallied with three straight, startling victories over Oakland — capped by the tender scene late Monday night of manager Joe Torre patting Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's face as they walked off the field arm in arm.
It was a win that most everyone in a shaken city could savor, a triumph that resonated well beyond a place torn apart by terrorist attacks.
"It'll be a great series," Moyer said. "Is it what people have been waiting for? Well, you never know."
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman was more certain.
"It's the matchup that everybody wanted," he said.
A calm Johnson leads Diamondbacks to victory
The Associated Press
PHOENIX — With icy calm and magnificent heat, Randy Johnson buried his reputation as a postseason flop.
season hop. In a matchup of pitchers who together have seven Cy Young Awards and 457 victories, Johnson threw a three-hit masterpiece as the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Atlanta Braves 2-0 yesterday in Game 1 of the National League championship.
National League championship series.
Johnson struck out 11 and walked one, snapping his major league record seven-game losing streak in the postseason.
losing streak in the postseason. Chipper Jones, a longtime nemesis of Johnson, had two of Atlanta's hits and improved to 11-for-25 with six homers in his career of the Big Unit. Jones barely beat out a sharp line
drive off the glove of a leaping Matt Williams at third base with two outs in the first inning.
After that, Johnson retired 20 in a row before walking Bernard Gilkey on four pitches with one out in the eighth.
Johnson was one out away from pitching the eighth one-hitter in postseason history when Julio Franco and Jones singled and put runners at first and third — Atlanta's first runner to get into scoring position all game.
Johnson recovered and struck out Brian Jordan to end it.
Maddux was no slouch. He allowed just two runs and six hits in seven innings, but his effort was lost in the 6-foot-10 Johnson's shadow.
shadow. Johnson hadn't won in the playoffs since beating the Yankees twice in the 1995 AL division series for Seattle. He had lost his last seven decisions.
seven decisions. Usually a grimacing, shouting portrait of intensity, Johnson was a picture of gum-
chewing calm except for a few bursts of emotions.
tions. He had two eight-pitch innings and one seven-pitch innings, far out of character for a hurler whose pitch count normally soars above 100 long before the ninth inning.
Atlanta's closest calls in the first eight innings were a pair of long outs to right field by leadoff hitter Marcus Giles. Sanders caught the first just in front of the fence to lead off the game and the second in front of the yellow home run line atop the fence, ending the sixth.
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Arizona gave Johnson a rare early lead. Counsell singled with one out in the first inning, then Gonzalez reached safely when his grounder scooted under the glove of the second baseman Giles for an error.
Sanders, 7-for-17 in the postseason, lined a single up the middle, scoring Counsell and making it 1-0. The scorekeeper ruled it was an earned run.