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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 12, 2001
Baseball
Royals get pummeled by Yankees
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY. Mo. — The New York Yankees played their entire season series against Kansas City short-handed. Not that the Royals even noticed.
Alfonso Soriano and Paul O'Neill each had three RBIs as the New York Yankees completed a sweep of the six-game season series against Kansas City with an 8-5 win yesterday.
After sweeping the Royals without All-Star Derek Jeter at the beginning of the season, the Yankees won three straight in Kansas City without All-Star Bernie Williams.
"I'm sure they're glad we're leaving," said Todd Williams (15), who pitched 2 2/3 innings of relief in the win. "But those guys are still tough. They came out of spring playing great and we
were just the opposite."
in any non-abbreviated season. The other time was 1998 when they were 10-0 against Kansas City.
Since 1997, the Yankees are 28-7 against the team
Royals
they met four times in the playoffs between 1976-80.
"For sure, it's not a level playing field," said Yankees manager Joe Torre.
Times and payrolls have changed since the late '70s. The Yankees, with a payroll of $109.8 million, outscored the Royals' $35.6 million lineup 46-19 in the
"You're facing four guys who have a chance to be No.1 starters on almost any team," said Royals third baseman Joe Randa. "There's a reason those guys make the money they do. They've been doing it year in and year out, most of them for about 10 years now. We're scratching hard to find ourselves, and we're close."
six games.
Royals manager Tony Muser, for the third game in a row, said he was "tired of complimenting those guys."
"They don't have Jeter in New York. Then they don't have Bernie Williams here," Muser said. "They're a team. They are a队."
Torre admitted such disparity is not good for fans.
"The thing that bothers me is the loyalty factor of fans." Torre
said. "When you see kids come through the farm system and you're not sure if you can pay them when they're really ready to provide dividends, that's the sad part because the fans get the short end."
Kansas City stranded 15 runners in the game, two short of its team record, and is off to a 2-7 start, its worst in eight years.
The Yankees took a 3-1 lead in the third when O'Neill hit a two-run homer off starter Brian Meadows (0-1). O'Neill also had an RBI single in the first.
Soriano had two singles, a double and a two-run homer in the three-run eighth.
Kansas City outfielder Mark Quinn, who has hit safely in eight-straight games, hit a solo homer in the fifth and drew the Royals to 5-4. Carlos Beltran hit a solo homer in the first inning.
W L Pct. GB
New York 7 2,778
Toronto 7 3,700 1/2
Boston 5 3,625 1/2
Baltimore 4 4,500 2/1
Tampa Bay 2 7,222 2
Major League Standings
American League East Division
Minnesota 6 2 .750 —
Chicago 4 4 .500 2
Detroit 3 5 .375 3
Cleveland 3 5 .375 3
Kansas City 2 7 .222 4 1/2
West Division
West Coast
*Seattle* 4 2 667 —
*Anaheim* 3 3 500 1
*Texas* 3 4 429 1
*Oakland* 2 4 333 2
*late game not included*
**Yesterday's scores**
N.Y. Yankees 8, Kansas City 5
Chicago White Sox 7, Cleveland 6
Baltimore 5, Boston 4
Tampa Bay 4, Toronto 3
Minnesota 12, Detroit 1
Texas at Anaheim, late
Seattle at Oakland, late
**Today's Games**
Kansas City (Suppan 1-1) at Toronto
(Michalak 1-0), 6:05 p.m.
Seattle (Moyer 0-1) at Oakland
(Hudson 1-0), 2:35 p.m.
Baltimore (Mercedes 0-1) at Boston
(Ohka 0-0), 5:05 p.m.
Cleveland (Colon 0-1) at Detroit (Holl 1-0), 6:05 p.m.
Texas (Helling 0-1) at Anaheim
(unannounced), 9:05 p.m.
National League East Division
W L Pct. GB
Philadelphia 6 2 .750 —
Montreal 6 3 .667 1/2
Atlanta 4 5 .444 1/2
New York 3 5 .375 3
Florida 2 6 .250 4
Houston 6 2 7.50 —
St. Louis 6 3 6.25 1
Chicago 5 4 5.56 1/1.2
Pittsburgh 4 4 5.00 2
Cincinnati 3 6 3.33 3/1.2
Wilmaweak 6 3 6.33 3/1.2
West Division
* San Francisco 5 2 .714
* Los Angeles 4 4 .500 1 1/2
* San Diego 3 4 .429 2
* Arizona 3 4 .429 2
Colorado 3 5 .375 2 1/2
- late game not included
**Yesterday's Games**
Chicago Cubs 4, Montreal 2
Houston 7, Milwaukee 1
Pittsburgh 6, Cincinnati 5
Atlanta 2, N.Y. Mets 0
St. Louis 3, Colorado 1
Los Angeles at Arizona, late
San Francisco at San Diego, late
Philadelphia at Florida, postponed
**Today's Games**
Colorado (Hampton 1-0) at St. Louis
(Hermanson 1-0), 12:10 p.m.
Houston (Dotel 1-0) at Milwaukee
(D'Amico 0-1), 1:05 p.m.
San Francisco (Hernandez 1-1) at
San Diego (Eaton 1-0), 4:05 p.m.
Cincinnati (Harnisch 0-1) at
Pittsburgh (Olivares 0-1), 6:05 p.m.
Atlanta (Burkett 0-1) at N.Y. Mets
(Rusch 0-0), 6:10 p.m.
Los Angeles (Ashby 1-0) at Arizona
(Reynoso 0-1), 7:35 p.m.
Eldred underwent elbow ligament replacement surgery in 1995 while with Milwaukee and his career has been a series of trips to the disabled list, mostly with elbow problems.
The Associated Press
he had the screw surgically implanted in his elbow to keep a stress fracture from recurring.
just hoping it was his neck."
After starting last season 10-2.
E l d r e d missed most of the second half. In
Semester.
"What you hope right now is tomorrow it's not up that much and maybe it's just a bump in the road and we can get over it," Eldred said after the White Sox completed a three-game sweep.
Sox squeak by Indians; pitcher re-injures elbow
After start-
He thought a five-inch screw implanted in his arm last fall was the answer after a career-full of injuries, surgeries and stress fractures. And during spring training, he felt fine.
CHICAGO — Cal Eldred felt a pain in his right elbow that was all too familiar.
But in just his second start of the season, in just the second inning of Chicago's 7-6 win yesterday against the Cleveland Indians, Eldred experienced pain he described as "intolerable."
Now his season — and perhaps his career — is in jeopardy again. He'll have a bone scan tomorrow to determine the extent of his latest injury.
Jose Valentin and Tony Graffanino homered and got the White Sox out to a 7-1 lead before Cleveland rallied.
Eldred lasted just two innings and gave up three hits and a run. His start yesterday had been moved back two days because of a sore neck.
to Wunsch and ended the threat, Keith Foulke pitched the ninth and recorded his third save.
"On the second to last pitch he looked my way and grimaced," said first baseman Paul Konerko. "He was in a lot of pain. I was
Juan Gonzalez hit a long two-run homer in the eighth off Antonio Osuna and made it 7-5. And after a double by Ellis Burks, reliever Kelly Wunsch gave up an RBI single to pinch-hitter Marty Cordova.
"I have no regrets about anything I have done," Eldred said.
Einar Diaz then grounded to Jose Valentin, who had just been switched from center field to third, and his throw to second went into right field for an error.
Cordova raced to third and Diaz to second. But Jolbert Cabrera popped out and Omar Vizquel hit back
"They've beaten us four out of five games so far," said Indians manager Charlie Manuel, who was ejected with two outs in the ninth for arguing with umpire Bruce Froemming after Roberto Alomar was called out on a foul-tipped third strike.
"We're just not playing good heads-up baseball right now," he said. "We're in one of those deals where we can't do much right. We have to play through it." Game notes
It was Chicago's first three-game sweep of the Indians at Comiskey Park since June 1995. The White Sox won three straight from Cleveland last season at Jacobs Field.
Indians centerfielder Kenny Lofton missed his sixth-straight game with a strained right calf and could be close to going on the disabled list. Manuel said he's still day-to-day.
White Sox pitcher James Baldwin, on the DL after off-season shoulder surgery, is scheduled to make two rehab starts for Triple-A Charlotte before joining Chicago's rotation.
The game was delayed by rain for 12 minutes between the top and bottom of the fifth inning.
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