THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY OCTOBER 16, 2007
NEWS
9A
MLB standings
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Friday, Oct. 12-Boston 10.
Cleveland 3
Boston vs. Cleveland
Saturday, Oct. 13—Cleveland 13. Boston 6.
Saturday, Oct 13 - Cleveland
13, Boston 6
Monday, Oct. 15 — Cleveland 4.
Boston 2
Tuesday, Oct. 16-Boston at Cleveland, 7:20 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 18—Boston at Cleveland, 7:20 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 20 —Cleveland at Boston, TRD if necessary.
Sunday, Oct. 21 -Cleveland at Boston, TBD, if necessary
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Thursday, Oct. 11 — Colorado 5
Arizona 1
Friday, Oct. 12 —Colorado 3,
Arizona 2
Sunday, Oct. 14 — Colorado 4,
Arizona 1
Monday, Oct. 15 —Arizona at Colorado, LATE
Wednesday, Oct. 17—Arizona at
Colorado, 737 p.m., if necessary
Friday, Oct. 19—Colorado at
Arizona, 7:37 p.m., if necessary Saturday, Oct. 20—Colorado at
Arizona, TBD, If necessary
A clean victory
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Spanish cyclist Caper Pereiro kisses the trophy in Madrid on Monday after he was given the winner's yellow jersey from the 2006 Tour de France Pereiro moved up from second to first place in the tour after the disqualification of American cyclist Flov Landis for a doping violation.
Cleveland takes lead in American League series
CLEVELAND - Not their best. Not even second best. Jake Westbrook, right at home in the Jake, was exactly what the Cleveland Indians needed.
Westbrook, an often overlooked third wheel in the rotation, kept Boston grounded for nearly seven innings Monday night, leading the Indians to a 4-2 win over the Red Sox and a 2-1 lead in the AL championship series.
The laid-back right-hander, who missed a big chunk of the season with an injury, doesn't possess the overpowering stuff of either C.C. Sabathia or Fausto Carmona — Cleveland's two aces who flopped badly in Games 1 and 2 at Fenway Park — or their stellar reputations.
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Backed by an early homer from Kenny Lofton, Westbrook took a shutout into the seventh inning.
But Westbrook does have a devastating sinkerball, and oh my, how it sunk the Red Sox.
The Red Sox couldn't do much until the seventh, when Jason Varitek hit a two-run homer.
Jensen Lewis relieved with a runner on and struck out rookie Dustin Pedroia to end the inning. Rafael Betancourt worked a perfect eighth and Joe Borowski, the AL saves leader, pitched a rare 1-2-3 ninth.
Lofton, with a baseball passport stamped by 11 teams over 17 seasons, handed Westbrook an early lead with a two-run homer in the second innning off Daisuke Matsuzaka. Cleveland added two more runs in the fifth against the high-priced Japanese import, whom the Red Sox invested more than $100 million in to pitch in games like this.
By comparison, Westbrook was a bargain at $33 million for the Indians, who locked him up in April for three more years before he had a chance to test the free-agent market after this season.
Westbrook then spent seven weeks on the disabled list with a side injury and didn't find his groove until August, when he went 4-1 with a 1.90 ERA. But even then, Westbrook, who lost to the Red Sox
Boston grounded into three double plays, two of them by David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez.
on July 23, wasn't expected to shut down Boston.
Westbrook was in complete control until J.D. Drew grounded a one-out single to center in the seventh. Varitek followed with a homer to center, bringing the Red Sox to 4-2.
The homer ended Boston's 13- inning scoreless streak, a drought that began in the sixth inning of Game 2 on Saturday night.
Lofton gave the Indians a 2-0 lead in the second with his seventh career postseason homer.
Westbrook struck out Coco Crisp but when Julio Lugo beat out an infield single, manager Eric Wedge pulled his gutty starter, who received a thunderous ovation from the towel-waving crowd of 44,402 as he jogged to the dugout.
The Red Sox ran themselves out of a potential scoring opportunity in the fourth.
Ryan Garko singled with one out, and with two down, Lofton, traded back for his third stint with the Indians in July, turned on Matsuzaka's first pitch and sent it on a low trajectory and barely over the right-field wall.
Ortiz ended an 0-for-8 drought
vs. Westbrook with an opposite-field double off the wall in left, but ran into a hard hit ball by Ramirez creating an unusual double play. The Red
Sox must be hoping that the October brilliance of Ortiz and Ramirez will return tomorrow to keep them in the series.
Women's golf, Price's "Give 'Em Five"
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Men's golf, The Prestige at PGA
West, all day, Palm Desert, Calif.
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WEDNESDAY
Women's golf, Price's "Give" Em Five" Intercollegiate, all day, Las Cruces, N.M.
Volleyball vs. Baylor, 7 p.m.
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THURSDAY
Women's tennis, ITA Central Region Championships, all day, Tulsa, Okla.
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Soccer at Colorado, 4 p.m.
Boulder, Colo.
Women's tennis, ITA Central Region Championships, all day.
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Women's tennis, ITA Central Region Championships, all day, Tulsa, Okla.
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Football at Colorado, 4:45 p.m.
Boulder, Colo.
Women's tennis, ITA Central Region Championships, all day, Tulsa, Okla.
Soccer at Texas, 1 p.m., Austin,
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