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In the end, no one will really
know what effect pitching ace
Roger Clemens’
ejection from
Wednesday’s 3-1
Oakland win had
on the Boston Richard
Red Sox. When
the two-time Cy Tijerina
Young award
winner got the HHH888H
boot in tne
second inning,
the A’s were ahead 1-0 with two men on
base.
Clemens, pitching on just three days
of rest and suffering from shoulder
tendinitis, was throwing hard. The Red
Sox eventually did score the run that
would have tied the game in the ninth
inning had Clemens gotten out of the jam
in the second.
Reliever Tom Bolton and the rest of
the Red Sox bullpen did what was asked
of them. They kept Boston in the game.
It was the Red Sox offense, or lack
thereof, that should be blamed.
With two outs, Bolton came in and
surrendered a two-run double to Mike
Gallego. Both runs were credited to
Clemens, who spent an inning or two
sipping Gatorade in the Red Sox dugout,
shaking his head.
Clemens had plenty of reasons to be
confused. His ejection by home plate
umpire Terry Cooney was absurd, no
matter what Clemens muttered from the
mound. American League rules say you
can’t argue balls and strikes with an
umpire. The only thing is, everyone
does.
AL umpire Don Denkinger told CBS
that umpires will let a pitcher question
balls and strikes, but won’t let him get
personal in his complaints. Fine. But I
say Cooney’s decision still was wrong.
You don’t eject a Roger Clemens from
Game 4 of the AL Championship Series.
See Tijerina/Page 11
No. 12 Tech trips Lady Ags
A’s eliminate Sox,
Clemens on way
to AL pennant
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — First the um
pires got rid of Roger Clemens, then the
rest was easy for Dave Stewart and the Oak
land Athletics. They swept the Boston Red
Sox for the American League pennant and
their third straight trip to the World Series.
Stewart followed up his first-game hero
ics with an even better effort. He beat Bos
ton 3-1 Wednesday and won for the eighth
straight time in head-to-head matchups
with Clemens.
The only real question in Game 4 was
how long Clemens could hold off Oakland.
Pushing his tender shoulder on three days’
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hnlng/Page 11
A&M’s Amy Cumings dives for a spiked ball in the Lady Aggies’ loss to Texas Tech Wednesday night.
By SCOTT WUDEL
Of The Battalion Staff
The Lady Aggies gave 12th-ranked
Texas Tech all it could handle Wednesday
night at G. Rollie White Coliseum.
The A&M volleyball team forced the Red
Raiders to four long games on the way to
their second conference loss, 10-15, 15-11,
15-17, 10-15.
The loss drops A&M’s conference record
to 7-12, 1-2 in Southwest Conference play.
The nationally ranked Red Raiders im
proved their record to 18-1,2-1.
A&M coach A1 Givens was pleased with
the competitive play of the Lady Aggies
against a team of Texas Tech’s caliber.
“Tech’s a good ball club, they’re not 18-1
because they’re bad,” Givens said.
“But I think we showed that we’re a good
team. And we’ve made progress. We’re
moving in the right direction.”
He says it didn’t take long for his team to
rise to the occasion in the match.
“We started out a little bit not wanting to
make mistakes, because they are a pretty
good ball control team,” he said.
“Once we realized that if we put a litde
pressure on them, they could make mis
takes as well,” he said
“Then I think we raised it to another lev
el.”
Both teams started the match tentatively,
but the Lady Aggies were a bit slower. A&M
was down 7-2 before its “mad-dog” defense
started coming alive. Seniors Amy Cumings
and Krista Hierholzer led an Aggie defense
that crawled back to take the lead 8-7 in the
first game.
The two teams dueled it out from that
point on before the Red Raiders were
handed the game on four straight A&M er
rors that gave the last four points to the
Raiders.
If there could be a time of possession sta
tistic in volleyball, it would have showed an
even amount for each team in the match.
Neither team could get a long scoring rally
going, as the teams traded endless numbers
See Lady Ags/Page 12
rest to the bewilderment of much of Bos
ton, the answer was not long at all.
In the ultimate sign of Boston’s failure
and frustration, Clemens was ejected in the
second inning for arguing balls and strikes
with umpire Terry Cooney, triggering a
wild scene that left water coolers, players
and coaches strewn across the field.
The Red Sox were already down 1-0 at
that point and without the lone hope, they
were helpless. Especially against the take-
advantage A’s, and it showed when Mike
Gallego met Tom Bolton with a two-run
double that sent Oakland to its 10th straight
victory in the postseason. /
These mighty A’s became the first team
in 71 years to win a postseason series with
out hitting a home run, but it didn’t matter.
They became the first team to reach the
World Series three straight times since the
1976-78 New York Yankees.
The Athletics will begin defense of their
World Series championship Tuesday night
in either Cincinnati or Pittsburgh.
Boston, meanwhile, lost its 10th straight
game in the postseason and extended its re
cord of consecutive playoff defeats tcf eight.
The Athletics, the winningest team in
baseball this year, swept Boston from the
1988 playoffs and won last year’s World Se
ries in four straight. Oakland’s fans also are
accustomed to such success: By the final in
ning, a procession of about 100 green-and-
gold clad fans carrying brooms marched
around the Coliseum stands shouting
“Sweep! Sweep! Sweep!”
Stewart, who held Boston to one run on
See A’s/Page 11
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