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Texas A&M SPORTS The Battalion
Wednesday, October?,I!
Atlanta takes NLCS opener over Bucs
THB ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — Atlanta's gam
ble with John Smoltz wasn't so
risky after all.
Smoltz, a right-hander who
struggled through September,
added to Pittsburgh's October
woes Tuesday night, pitching the
Braves to a 5-1 victory over the
Pirates in the first game of the
National League playoffs.
Smoltz held the heavy-hitting
Pirate lineup scoreless until Jose
Lind led off the eighth with a
home run to left field. That ended
Pittsburgh's postseason scoreless
streak at 29 innings, one shy of
the major league record.
Now the Pirates must come
from a game down if they are to
avoid becoming the first team
since the Philadelphia Phillies of
the late 1970s to win three con
secutive NL East titles without
advancing to the World Series.
Braves manager Bobby Cox
gambled perhaps the whole se
ries by starting Smoltz against
the predominantly left-handed-
hitting Pirates, and was reward
ed, Smoltz gave up just four hits
before Mike Stanton took over in
the ninth and gave up a two-out
double to Jeff King before strik
ing out Orlando Merced.
Smoltz, who shut out the Pi
rates 4-0 on six hits in Game 7
last fall, didn't allow a hit until
Lind's two-out infield single in
the fifth.
The NL strikeouts leader was
even more overpowering than he
was in beating Pittsburgh twice
last October. He struck out six
and allowed only one runner as
far as third base until Lind's sec
ond career playoff homer.
And Smoltz didn't shut down
just Barry Bonds, a leading con
tender for the NL Most Valuable
Player who's been anything but
Mr. October.
Bonds was 0 for 3 but had
plenty of company from the rest
of the Pirates, who have scored
all of two runs in their last four
playoff games against the Braves'
young guns of Smoltz, Steve Av
ery and Tom Glavine.
The Braves had no trouble
solving Doug Drabek, whose 1.16
post-season ERA entering the
game was the best of any current
pitcher with 30 or more innings.
Sid Bream, the former Pirate who
cried when he left the team two
years ago, scored the Braves' first
run and drove in the second and
Jeff Blauser hit a solo homer.
Drabek was hurt badly by
walks — and by Bream, one of
his closest friends when the two
were teammates.
Bream singled with one out in
the second for the game's first hit
and Damon Berryhill walked on
a 3-2 pitch one batter later. Mark
Lemke, Atlanta's unlikely offen
sive star of the '91 World Series
but a .226 hitter this season, hit a
hard grounder up the middle
that second baseman Lind
knocked down just to the right of
the bag.
The ball glanced off Lind's
glove and bounded about 10 feet
away into short center field,
prompting Bream — the Braves'
slowest runner — to run through
third base coach Jimy Williams'
stop sign. Lind was slow getting
to the ball and his throw to the
plate glanced off the pitcher's
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runner for an error that
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Edmiston's importance to the
Lady Aggies, who are seeking
their first NCAA Tournament
berth since 1986.
She is A&M's pick-me-up. She
is a fiery player who prods those
around her with her style of play
as well as her vocal barrages on
the court.
"It's really good to have a per
son like Elizabeth on the floor,"
junior setter Genny Wood said.
"If she's not doing as good as she
can, she's helping someone else
out (vocally).
"She's been a leader. Especial
ly this year, she's picked up her
play."
A&M head coach Al Givens
said, however, that for all of her
leadership qualities, she never for
gets that she is just one member of
the team.
"She is very much a team play
er," Givens said. "She knows that
it takes six players to succeed.
"She^s got an extremely com
petitive attitude. She hates to
lose."
Edmiston prefers to speak of
her role in a less-glowing manner,
even though she admits to having
been influenced by senior leader
ship when she was younger.
"When I came in as a freshman,
I looked up to Yvonne Van Brandt
a lot," Edmiston said of the holder
of seven SWC records. "But any
one can come in and have a lead
ership role. I just try hard to set a
DARRIN HILL/The Battnlion
Elizabeth Edmiston has been
one of the Lady Aggies’ top
cheerleaders as well as top
players.
good example."
Maybe the best example Ed
miston sets is in the classroom,
where the kinesiology major and
exercise technology specialist tru
ly shines. She ended last season
as a third-team Academic All-
American, and was the 1991-92
GTE/Texas A&M Female Scholar
Athlete of the Year.
Those kinds of awards do not
come cheaply, as Edmiston quick
ly admitted.
"That (classroom excellence) is
a burden you have to bear early
on," she said. "It's hard to see
your non-athlete friends run
around during the day playing
frisbee and things like that. You
just have to dedicate yourself."
It's difficult to be ahead in the
classroom as well as on the court,
and Givens said for Edmiston to
do both is an accomplishment.
"To me, it's amazing the way
she's excelled as an athlete and a
student," he said. "(To succeed)
like she has as a student, you have
to be great at time management."
But maybe unfortunately for
Givens, his brightest star will have
a wealth of time to manage after
the Lady Aggies wrap up their
season at the end of the semester.
That will be when the real test of
this year's upstart freshman
comes about, as the heir apparent
to Edmiston's job as offensive
power source will have to step
forward.
"I'll miss her for sure," Wood
said. "She's been the talker of the
team. She's been a leader."
"I'm just thankful she plays for
us," Givens said. "She's done a
lot for our program."
Edmiston is hopeful for A&M's
future, though, and is excited
about what A&M's kiddie corps
can do to expand on the founda
tion she helped build.
"We've got a good team that's
working hard," Edmiston said.
"They want to win. We take the
court expecting to win and not
playing to keep from losing.
"The freshmen are great. I've
really enjoyed the chance to play
with them."
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turnout would help the Lady kf
gies against Texas.
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portant to us, because they:
loud, and that played a bi[
our last victory over Texas,"sh
said.
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progress his team is making ani
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ting sharper.
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.146 playoff average for a man
expected to garner more than $6
million a year after becoming a
free agent after this season.
While Bonds could earn an
MVP award for his .311 average,
34 home runs, 103 runs batted in
and 39 stolen bases this season,
he is not going to win any new
fans for saying, "I carried this
team all year, so maybe they
should carry me through the
playoffs," on national television.
Reggie Jackson never asked
anyone to carry him anywhere,
and "Mr. October" is going to
ride that attitude all the way to
the Hall of Fame.
Bonds is a great player, as his
father Bobby was before him, but
he had better learn how to play
like a champion when it counts if
he ever wants to join the legends
at Cooperstown, much less make
it to the World Series.
Bonds has come to realize,
however, that if one puts up
numbers like his over the course
of a season, he will become a rich
man even if he bats 0-for-l,000 in
the playoffs.
Salary arbitration and huge
free agent contracts have led to a
truly perverse system.
For inspuration. Bonds needs
only to look across the field these
next few games at Atlanta third
baseman Terry Pendleton, who
has never done anything more
than play his hardest and keep
louth:"
his mouth shut.
Pendleton is also vying for the
MVP title and may earn it more
because of his attitude towards
the game than the numbers he
put up this season.
Bonds' difficulties would not
be so hard to forget if he conduct
ed himself with humility and
grace in the face of adversity, but
that is a trait lost among most of
today's young superstars, who
are easily dazzled by contracts
worth twenty times as much as
what the President of the United
States earns in a year.
I hope Bonds can start hitting
in this year's league champi
onship series to save himself fur
ther embarrassment and humilia
tion, and because I like the Pi
rates, and have since Roberlo
Clemente and Willie Stargell
were roaming the outfield scar
ing the daylights out of anyone
who saw them play.
And I like Barry Bonds and
wish him only the best, even if he
does suffer from a "me first'
mentality so inherent to this gen
eration.
Bonds, and other players like
him, just need to remember
something that one of their for-
bearers Willie Stargell once said,
"When the umpire walks out
there and dusts off the plate,be
yells 'play ball', not work ball,
and these new kids haven't
learned that yet."
So go ahead Barry, knock one
a mile, and play ball.
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