4B the university daily kansan
wednesday, march 31, 2004
sports
Yankees drop opener to Devil Rays
The Associated Press
TOKYO — Fans in the Tokyo Dome seemed surprised. The ones back in New York must have been shocked.
On the other side of the world, playing when the rest of baseball was in bed, the New York Yankees looked lost.
KRT photograph by Kathy Kmonicek/Newday The Yankees' Derek Jeter, Joe Torre and Don Zimmer watched the sixth inning of game five of the World Series on October 23, 2003.
Jose Cruz Jr. hit a tying home run that sparked a comeback, Tino Martinez put away his former team with his 300th career homer and the lowly Tampa Bay Devil Rays roughed up Mike Mussina for an 8-3 victory yesterday over the Yankees in the major league season opener.
league season opener People back home got up in the middle of the night to see this?
"Hopefully, it's 5 a.m. and not many people were watching." Alex Rodriguez said, thinking of when the game began, New York time.
Hideki Matsui had the first hit of the major league season, a first-inning double in front of the fans who adore their home-grown hero, and he scored on Jason Giambi's two-run homer to left.
The team that dominates the AL East couldn't do much in the Far East, getting outhit 15-7 and playing sluggishly in the field.
Aside from that, the defending American League champions seemed jetlagged against the younger Devil Rays.
"We don't look like we're that alive, yet," said Mussina, who
hasn't slept well since making the 7,250-mile trip last week from Tampa, Fla. "We need a little life, and we just didn't have it."
and we just then thank you.
In the second opener played by major league teams in Japan, Mussina looked as if he would have rather been back home in Montoursville, Pa. Trying to become the 100th pitcher with 200 wins, he gave up a broken bat, two-run single to Toby Hall in the fourth, then let Cruz tie it 3-all in the sixth with his homer.
Martinez, Julio Lugo and Toby
Hall followed with consecutive doubles for a 5-3 lead and chased Mussina, who took the loss.
Paul Quantrill got three outs on three pitches to end the inning, but left after his fourth pitch, when Rodriguez banged into his right knee trying to field Rocco Baldelli's bunt single leading off the seventh.
ing on the screen.
Victor Zambrano got the win for the Devil Rays, who have finished last in all six seasons they've been in the majors. He allowed three runs and six hits in six innings.
After the game, New York's clubhouse was subdued. Special adviser Reggie Jackson thought about how owner George Steinbrenner, who did not make the trip, would react.
"He won't be happy," Jackson said in perhaps an understatement.
In the other clubhouse, Piniella mentioned that the players of the game were rewarded.
"They gave Lugo a check and Toby a check," he said. "Where's the check for the manager?"
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