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Tuesday, April 17, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 5
Myers' hot hitting helps Orioles win
The Associated Press
BALTIMORE — Greg Myers has spent much of his career trying to get some playing time.
Now his manager is begging him to play every day.
Now his manager is begging him to play ever a day. Myers kept up his surprising hitting spree last night, driving in three runs with a homer and a two-run single as the Baltimore Orioles beat Tampa Bay 6-2.
Myers, a seldom-used backup catcher, is 6-for-11 with two homers and eight RBI during a three-gamespan. He hit 224 with three homers and 12 RBI in 43 games last season.
Making a third-straight start for the first time since May 1999, Myers gave Baltimore a 1-0 lead in the second inning with his second homer in two games. His two-run single capped a three-run seventh that put the Orioles up 5-1.
Myers has half of Baltimore's four homers this season.
Heddn't hit his first home run last year until May 18.
"I think we'll want to run Greg out there again tomorrow," said Orioles manager Mike Hargrove. "I made sure to ask him tonight if I was wearing him out."
Perhaps concerned about getting some rest, Myers bolted from the clubhouse before reporters arrived.
But his numbers say it all — in addition to leading the Orioles in batting average (467), homers (two) and RBI (eight), Myers' robust .867 slugging percentage is more than twice of any of his teammates with more than one at bat.
Felix Martinez and Greg Vaughn drove in runs for the Devil Rays, who were looking for their first series win of the year. The teams split the four games.
"This would have been a good night to get a win and go home feeling good about ourselves," said Tampa Bay catcher John Flaherty. "But we just didn't get anything going offensive."
The Devil Rays made it 1-1 in the fifth when Martinez singled in Flaherty, who reached on a two-out double. Baltimore regained the lead in its half when Jerry Hairston hit a leadoff single off Ryan Rupe (0-2), stole second and scored on a two-out single by Delino DeShields.
Baltimore took advantage of Ken Hill's wildness and pulled away in the seventh. Hill hit Hairston with a pitch and issued two straight walks, loading the bases, then pulled catcher Flaherty off the plate after fielding a grounder to the mound.
"I tried to get the ball out of my glove, then I rushed it," Hill said. "I've got to make that play." Come on!
Until Hairston stole second base in the fifth, the Devil Rays were the only team in the majors that had not allowed a steal.
- Orioles catcher Brook Fordyce was back in the lineup after missing successive starts for the first time since joining the team last July. Myers was the designated bitter.
Tampa Bay second baseman Bobby Smith, designated for assignment on April 9, accepted his outright assignment to Triple-A Durham.
Royals halt Twins' streak
Dye, Quinn hit home runs in win
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — Jermaine Dye and Mark Quinn hit two-run home runs as the Kansas City Royals stopped the Minnesota Twins' six-game winning streak, 5.8 lost night in the
last night in the Metrodome.
Kansas City, just 4-9 this season, has won three of four against the AL Central-leading Twins. Those are the only defs for Minnesota (9-3)
which leads the division by 3 1/2 games.
Dan Reilchert (1-1) gave up eight hits in 6 1/3 innings, and allowed
three runs, Roberto Hernandez pitched the ninth and picked up his third save in five chances — he has allowed runners in all six outings.
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Dye homered with two outs in the first against Joe Mays (2-1), driving in Carlos Beltran. After Beltran walked with one out in the third, Quinn hit his sixth home run and made it 4-0, extending his hitting streak to 12 games.
He pitched seven innings, allowing five hits and striking out five. Retiring 10 straight at one point, Mavs got 16 groundball outs.
But Mays finished strong as the Twins slowly crept back.
Corey Koskie had several slick pickups among his six assists at third base, and Doug Mientkiewicz made two brilliant plays at first base. He snared Beltran's grounder down the line in the fifth and nearly snagged a line drive by Raul Ibanez in the
sixth, scrambling back to the base in time to field Luis Rivas' throw from second.
Mientkiewicz hit his third homer on Reichert's first pitch of the fifth after Bobby Kielty drove in the Twins' first run with a fourth-inning single.
For the second time in the game, Jones hit a bloop double that Quinn lost in the Metrodome ceiling. Jones scored later in the seventh on a single by Tom Prince.
Kansas City added a run in the eighth off Hector Carrasco on Joe Randa's RBI single. Game notes
■ Guzman hit a sharp liner in the fifth inning that glanced off Reichert's shin and into shallow right field for a double. Guzman, who has had 13 of his 18 hits go for extra bases, tied a career-high by extending his hitting streak to 11 games
Red Sox outpitch Yankees
The Associated Press
BOSTON — The Red Sox rotation of Pedro Martinez and a bunch of other guys keeps outpitching the Yankees' big-name starters.
Bargain free agent Frank Castillo beat his big-bucks counterpart Mike Mussina yesterday as Boston topped New York 4-1 and took three of the four games in the opening series between the AL East rivals
"You can't say, 'we beat New York three games, it's over.' You've got to keep going," said n
You've got to keep going," said Boston outfieldier Manny Ramirez. "We're trying not to get a big head." Castillo (1-1) signed a $4.5 million, two-year contract, threw 65 pitches in six scoreless innings and retired 18 of his 20 batters, allowing only two singles.
Mussina (1-1), who got an $88.5 million, six-year, allowed
"You really don't think about how much Mussina made," Castillo said. "You're just competing against their lineup. If you make (good) pitches, you're going to get outs. I try to keep it simple."
three runs on eight hits in seven innings and struck out six. Neither starter walked a batter.
"it's one of those situations when it's been a tight series, and they've been pitching and hitting well," Mussina said.
The Red Sox didn't hit a home run in the series but outscored the Yankees 14-10, tying Toronto for first
place in the AL East at 9-4. New York is 8-5.
The teams meet again in New York in a three-game series starting Friday night.
Starters Paxton Crawford, Martinez and Hideo Nomo held an edge against New York's Orlando Hernandez, Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte in the first three games — a 3-2 Boston win, a 3-2 New York win and a 5-4 Boston victory. Martinez started Boston's only loss
Clemens, Pettitte and Mussina began the season trailing only Martinez and Randy Johnson for the best winning percentage among active pitchers.
Boston's strong pitching was more remarkable considering that the Yankees outscored Kansas City 30-14 in a three-game sweep of their previous series.
"When you look at all those names on their staff, they've got people who are capable of doing what they're doing," said New York manager Joe Torre. "Their pitchers deserve most of the credit."
Games notes
- The Yankees had just one hit in the first five innings for the second straight day
The Yankees played their seventh-straight game without Bernie Williams, who was in Puerto Rico with his ailing father.
■ Brosius has hit in all 13 games, the only player in the majors to hit safely in all his team's game this year.
■ The Red Sox set a record of 312,637 fans for their first 10 home games. They drew 33,373 Monday. The old record was 303,736 set in 1992.
The Yankees had just one hit in the first five innings for the second straight day.
MLB STANDINGS
American League East Division
W L Pct. GB
Toronto 9 4 .692 —
Boston 9 4 .692 —
New York 8 5 .615 1
Baltimore 6 7 .462 3
Tampa Bay 9 4 .308 5
Central Division
W L Pct. GB
Minnesota 9 3,750 —
Cleveland 5 6,455 1/2
Chicago 4 7,364 4/2
Detroit 4 7,364 4/2
Kansas City 4 9,308 5/2
West Division
W L Pct. GB
*Seattle 9 3.750 —
*Texas 7 6.538 2¹/₂
*Anaheim 6 500 3
*Oakland 2 10,167 7
*late game not included
Yesterday's scores
Kansas City 5, Minnesota 3
Boston 4, New York 1
Baltimore 6, Tampa Bay 2
Texas at Seattle, night
Oakland at Anaheim, night
Today's Games
Kansas City (Meadows 0-2,
9.00) at Minnesota (Romero
0-1, 13.50) 7:05 p.m.
Cleveland (Burpa 0-1, 7.84)
at Baltimore (Mercedes O-2,
10.12), 6:05 p.m.
Chicago (Biddle 1-0, 2.57) at
Detroit (Mlicki 0-1, 9.00),
6:05 p.m.
New York (Keisler 0-1, 8.10)
at Toronto (Loiza 2-0, 2.84)
6:05 n.m
Boston (Ohka 1-0, 4.50) at
Tampa Bay (Harper 0-1,
7.20) 6:15 p.m.
Oakland (Hudson 1-1, 5.28)
at Anaheim (Ortz 2-0, 2.51),
9:05 p.m.
Texas (Helling 0-2, 12.46) at Seattle (Moyer 1-0, 4.35), 9:05 p.m.
National League East Division
W L Pct, GB
Philadelphia 7 4.636
Montreal 7 6.539 1
Atlanta 7 7 .500 1^1/2
New York 5 8 .385 3
Florida 4 8 .333 1^1/2
Central Division
W L. Pct. GB
Chicago 8 4.667 —
Houston 8 5.615 ½/
Cincinnati 7 6.538 1 ½/
St. Louis 7 6.462 2 ½/
Milwaukee 6 7.462 2 ½/
Pittsburgh 6 7.385 3 ½/
West Division
W L Pct. Pct.
San Fran. 7 5 583-
Los Angeles 7 6 538+1
Colorado 6 6 500+
San Diego 6 6 5001
Arizona 6 8 3853
*late game not included
Yesterday's Games
Pittsburgh 3, Houston 0
New York 4, Montreal 3
Atlanta 4, Florida 3
Arizona 2, St. Louis 1
Philadelphia at Chicago,
postponed
Today's Games
Philadelphia (Telemaco 1-0,
4.50) at Chicago (Tavarez 2-
0, 7.3) 1:20 p.m.
Milwaukee (D'Amico 1-0,
4.38) at Cincinnati (Dessens
1-0, 3.27) 6:05 p.m.
Houston (Dotel 1-1, 4.91) at
Pittsburgh (Olivares 0-2,
8.18) 6:05 p.m.
Montreal (Thurman 1-1,
6.23) at New York (Rusch
0-4, 5.0) 6:10 p.m.
Florida (Nunez 0-1, 4.00) at
Atlanta (Burkett 0-1, 4.86)
6:35 p.m.
azona (Reynoso 0-2,
11.57) at St. Louis
(Hermanson 1-0, 6.75),
1:10 m.
Colorado (Astacio 1-1, 2.57)
at San Diego (Jones 0-1,
3.46), 9:05 p.m.
Los Angeles (Dreifort 1-1,
6.75) at San Francisco
(Estes 0-1, 7.20), 9:15 p.m.
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