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T A M y 4,199) IS ther sthat ack in dim- inot least- >the ver om r be dfor in- urs len an divid- il can 't carry . his e after ingac- dtted reen- r other been 1 jus- egan ouldbe i his oest story. S ainstthe without .inst the init. hem and •ong and laid. "To > way we !5-9) and ■ acconi' cally it's m, but it ling jus^ icludin? Cowboys rushing and his mage, nething e defen- vho will Ve’ve got f us.” ion will an, who allowing eking up }arrett, rs’ 42-31 Thanks- ; al with Tensive f course ying the ” Green a said. Wednesday • October 4, 1995 Sports Page 9 • The Battalion Braves edge Rockies Reds blast Dodgers □A ninth-inning home run by Chipper Jones won the game. DENVER (AP) — With two outs in the top of the ninth, Jones homered to right-center off Rockies closer Curtis Leskanic. Jones also homered in the sixth during a rally tt produced a 3-3 tie. Dwight Smith’s two-out, pinch-hit single in the eighth gave the Braves a 4-3 lead, but Colorado countered on Ellis Burks’RBI double in their half. Rockies reliever Mike Munoz retired the first two batters in the eighth but surrendered a sin gle to Ryan Klesko. Darren Holmes replaced Munoz and gave up a single to Javy Lopez. Smith, batting for Jeff Blauser, singled to right for a 4-3 lead Dante Bichette drew a leadoff walk off reliever Greg McMichael in the Rockies half. Walker sin gled to right, with Bichette tak ing third on right fielder David Justice’s bobble. Jones made a diving stop of Galarraga’s shot down the third base line and threw out Walker at second, with Bichette holding at third. Alejandro Pena then served up the RBI double to left center to Burks. Pena then struck out Jay hawk Owens and retired Ja son Bates on a fly. Maddux, the best pitcher in the majors who was 19-2 with a 1.63 ERA this season, wasn’t masterful. But he was artful in in escaping repeated jams thanks to 14 groundouts, includ ing four double plays. Maddux lasted seven innings, allowing nine hits and three runs. Colorado’s Kevin Ritz nursed a 3-1 lead into the sixth, when the Braves scored twice to tie. Vinny Castilla, a former Braves prospect, hit a two-run homer for the Rockies, while Marquis Grissom and Jones had solo homers for the Braves. Maddux’s greatest feat was escaping a bases-loaded, one-out predicament in the seventh. He got pinch-hitter John Vander Wal, who set a major league record with 28 pinch-hits this season, to hit a bouncer back to the mound. Maddux threw, home for one out, and Lopez’s relay to first cut down Vander Wal. A four-run first in ning set the tone in Cincinnati's 7-2 win. LOS ANGELES (AP) — The : Cincinnati Reds sent a quick message Tuesday night — their shaky play during the season’s final month, especial- : ly on natural grass, meant ; nothing. The Reds scored four runs ; in the first inning on a two- : run double by Hal Morris and a two-run homer by Benito | Santiago and beat the Los An- : geles Dodgers 7-2 in the open- ; er of their NL playoff series. Cincinnati had lost 10 in a row on grass and 18 of its last : 31 overall during the regular ; season, but the four-run rally ; with two outs in the first and ; the pitching of Pete Schourek i made those factors moot. Schourek, 2-0 with a. 1.13 : ERA against the Dodgers this : season, allowed only five hits ; in seven innings, walking I three and striking out five in ; his first career postseason game. He allowed only three baserunners in the first four innings and was pitching with a 7-0 lead when he finally al lowed a run in the sixth. The game was played before a paid crowd of 44,199 — well below a sellout. They didn’t have much- to cheer about by the time the Dodgers came to bat in the first. Ramon Martinez allowed one-out singles to Barry Larkin and Ron Gant to put runners on the comers before getting Reggie Sanders on a foul popup. Morris then sliced a 1-2 pitch into the left-center gap and Santiago followed by hitting a 2-1 pitch into the left field seats. Just like that, it was 4-0, and the Reds had all the runs they would need. The Reds extended their lead to 7-0 in the fifth. Sanders doubled, took third on a single by Morris —his third hit — and scored on a sacrifice fly by Santiago. Bret Boone followed with a double to knock out Martinez and Jeff Branson greeted reliever John Cum mings with a two-run double. 11 Yankees outslug Seattle Pena lifts Indians in 13 a New York overcame wo home runs by Ken Griffey Jr. NEW YORK (AP) — Don Mattingly and the New York Yankees would not be denied, despite the greatness of Ken Griffey Jr. The wild-card Yankees overcame Griffey’s two home runs and beat the Seattle Mariners 9-6 Tuesday night in their AL playoff opener. A standing, stomp ing crowd of 57,178, the largest at Yankee Stadium since it was remodeled for the 1976 season, saw David Cone pitch New York to a 1-0 lead in the best-of-5 series. Mattingly, playing in the postseason for the first time in his 14-year career, delivered an RBI single and a double. Playoff veterans Wade Boggs and Ruben Sierra both home- red and Bemie Williams dou bled home the go-ahead run Griffey during a four-run seventh in ning that made it 8-4. Griffey went 3-for-5, drove in three runs and scored three times for the Mariners, who ar rived at their New York hotel shortly before 4 a.m. EDT Tuesday. They were delayed because of Monday’s playoff win over California at the Kingdome, a victory that meant ace Randy Johnson will not be able to face the Yan kees until Game 3 at the earliest. Seattle scored twice in the ninth off John Wetteland before he re tired Jay Buhner and Mike Blowers with two runners on base to end the game. Griffey highlighted Seattle’s first postsea son game with a solo homer off the upper-deck facade in the fourth inning and a long, two- run homer in seventh that tied it 4-4. His performance was reminiscent of George Brett’s three home runs at Yankee Stadium for Kansas City in a 6-5 loss to New York in Game 3 of the 1978 AL playoffs. □ Cleveland and Boston played the longest game in postseason history. CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Indians carried their flair for the dramatic to the ex treme Tuesday night, winning their first postseason game in 41 years on ,Tony Pena’s homer with two outs in the 13th in ning, beating Boston 5-4. Pena, who spent four years with the Red Sox from 1990-93, drove a 3-0 pitch from Zane Smith just over the bleacher railing in left field. It ended the longest night game in postseason history. Three previous night games went 12 innings; the Mets and Astros played a 16-inning day game in the 1986 NLCS. It was the 10th time this season that the Indians ended a game with a home run. The Indians were 13-0 in ex tra innings this season. This latest victory gave them a 1-0 lead in the best-of-5 series. Pena, who had only five homers in the regular season, ended the game just after 2 a.m. local time — but most of the nation didn’t see it. The Baseball Network did not show the game in the majority of the country, although it was tele vised in Cleveland and New England. Boston lost its 11th consecu tive postseason game dating back to Bill Buckner’s infamous error in the 1986 World Series. The Red Sox were swept by Oakland in the ALCS in 1988 and ’90. The game went to extra in nings tied at 3, and the teams traded solo home runs in the 11th inning to extend it again. Boston’s Tim Naehring home- red off Jim Poole in the top half, and the Indians, tied it in the bottom half on Albert Belle’s leadoff homer against Rick Aguilera. The plot thickened when the Red Sox had the umpire confis cate Belle’s bat; Belle was sus pended for seven games last year for using a corked bat against the Chicago White Sox. Belle, who led the majors with 50 home runs this year, flexed his biceps muscle and pointed to it angrily after the Red Sox had his bat taken away. BASEBALL PLAYOFF BRACKET DIVISION SERIES (best-of-5) Oct. 3-8 CLEVELAND INDIANS BOSTON RED SOX ~~~ SEATTLE MARINERS NEW YORK YANKEES LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (best-of-7) Oct. 10-18 AMERICAN LEAGUE W\ WORLD SERIES (best-of-7) Oct. 21-29 LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (best-of-7) Oct. 10-18 NATIONAL LEAGUE DIVISION SERIES (best-of-5) Oct. 3-8 L.A. DODGERS CINCINNATI REDS ATLANTA BRAVES COLORADO ROCKIES urn Every Night at DoubleDaive’s AFTER 5PM $1.25 $3.25 It's here! Complete your education by studying abroad! Discover the opportunities at „ . 026 Geo. 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