UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, October 12, 1995
3B
Hershiser stops Mariners' momentum
The Associated Press
SEATTLE — Orel Hershiser would have none of it.
Not the Kingdom noise, not the fireworks set off after Ken Griffey Jr.'s home run, not the momentum the Seattle Mariners were starting to build. None of it was going to stop him from winning a game the Cleveland Indians had to have
Hershiser maintained his perfect career record in the postseason, and Manny Ramirez homered twice and went 4-for-4, leading the Indians past Seattle 5-2 last night and tying the American League playoffs at 1-1.
Showing the form that once made him baseball's best pitcher, 37-year-old Hershiser allowed four hits in eight innings and improved to 6-0 in playoff and World Series competition. His only blemish came in the sixth inning when Griffey tied a postseason record with his sixth home run
While Ramirez showed what made him a 23-
year-old All-Star, Carlos Baerga came through with the big hit Cleveland missed in the opener. His two-out, two-run single with the bases loaded broke a scoreless tie in the fifth and got everyone off the Indians' bench.
the best-of-7 series goes back to Jacobs Fienn for game three tomorrow night. Mariners ace Randy Johnson, finally able to get some time off this week, starts on four days' rest, opposed by Charles Nagy.
Seattle is 28-3 this season in games Johnson starts. The Mariners also won the last time he pitched — in relief in game five of the first-round playoffs against New York.
Hershiser, who blanked Boston for 71/3 innings in the first round of the playoffs, struck out seven, and his lone walk was intentional. Jose Mesa
pitched the ninth, allowing Jay Buhner's second home run of the postseason.
Even after giving up a home run, Hershiser already had a new ball back in his mitt and was at the rubber, almost ready to pitch, by the time Griffey touched home plate.
For the first few innings, it seemed like fate was on the Mariners' side.
Griffey made a sliding catch to rob Eddie Murray of extra bases, and second baseman Joey Cora made a diving catch on Kenny Lofton's liner. In Tuesday night's opener, it was Cora who grabbed Jim Thome's hard ground to finish off rookie pitcher Bob Wolcott's escape from a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the first inning.
The fans, as always, did all they could to rally the Mariners. They stood every time a Seattle pitcher got two strikes on a batter and cheered every hard-hit ball by the Mariners but still saw their team lose for just the fourth time in 24 games.
Cincinnati loses to Atlanta in extra innings
The Associated Press
CINCINNATI — Add Javy Lopez to the Atlanta Braves' roll call of last-inning heroes.
Lopez hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning, capping yet another dramatic rally as the Braves beat the Cincinnati Reds 6-2 last night and took a 2-0 lead in the National League playoffs.
Atlanta's second consecutive extra-inning win put the Reds in a near-impossible situation. No team has won the NL pennant after losing the first two games of the championship series at home.
"It's a very uncomfortable feeling," Reds manager Davey Johnson said. "We've got to score more runs. Our offense just hasn't produced that many."
Three-time Cy Young Award winner Greg Maddux will start Game 3 tomorrow night in Atlanta, opposed by David Wells.
The Reds pulled out every offensive trick they could think of against starter John Smoltz, who has beaten them three times this season. They finally got him out of the game after the seventh with the score 2-2.
But the NL's top extra-inning club failed for the second consecutive night. Mark Portugal, relegated to the bullpen for the playoffs, started the 10th by giving up a single to Mark Lemke, a walk to Fred McGriff and a single to David Justice, loading the bases
Portugal then bounced a breaking ball with Ryan Klesko at bat to let in the goahead run, and Lopez followed Klesko with a first-pitch homer high off the left-field foul screen.
The Braves, who had the league's worst extra-inning record in the regular season at 3-9, jumped and hugged in the dugout while Lopez rounded the bases.
Mark Wohlers pitched the 10th to close out the Braves' fourth come-from-behind win in the playoffs.
It was a particularly stunning loss for Cincinnati, which was 10-3 in extra innings, best in the league.
The Reds blew scoring chances in the seventh, eighth and ninth, and ultimately wasted perhaps their most impressive rally of the season, leaving the less-than-capacity crowd of 43,257 restless.
Atlanta has now won six of eight at Rivorfront this season. The teams split their six games at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
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Mountain Biking Clinic
Living on Your Bike!!!
Guest Speaker Mike Combest owner of TERRAPLANE Bike Shop
October 12, 1995
Rm. 202 Robinson
7:00 pm
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Looking Back Looking Ahead
an address by
Charles E. Spahr
Charles E. Spahr, the retired chairman and chief executive officer of Standard Oil Company of Ohio, will be on campus to discuss his career and to encourage students to be optimistic about their futures in today's challenging work environment. His outstanding accomplishments include negotiating a merger with British Petroleum Co. Ltd. and his efforts to construct the Alaska oil pipeline that opened the North Slope oil reserves. Spahr graduated from KU in 1934 with a degree in civil engineering and was the major contributor to Spahr Engineering Library.
Friday, October 13, 1995
3 p.m.-5 p.m. 106 Green Hall
Students, faculty and staff are invited.
This free event is sponsored by Engineering Student Council