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Thursday • October 5, 1995 Sports Yankees take 2-0 lead Page 11 • The Battalion Braves □ jim Leyritz's two-run homer ended the game in the 15th inning. NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Leyritz got his revenge against the Seattle Mariners. Leyritz hit a two-run homer in the 15th inning Wednesday night, ending the longest game in AL playoff history and giving the New York Yankees a 7-5 vic tory and a 2-0 lead in the best- of-5 series. Leyritz, who vowed retalia tion after he was hit in the face by Seattle’s Randy Johnson on May 31, was hit again in this game after Ruben Sierra and Don Mattingly connected for consecutive home runs in the sixth inning. He got even by homering on a 3J pitch from Tim Belcher with one out after a walk to Pat Kel ly- Ken Griffey hit his third home run of the series, tying an AL playoff record, for a 5-4 in the 12th. Sierra tied it with a two-out double, with the poten tial winning run thrown out at the plate. Belcher, who pitched 2 2-3 in nings, was expected to start □ The Indians^ pitcher increased his record to 5-0 in postseason play. CLEVELAND (AP) — Orel Hershiser and the playoffs are still a perfect mix. Making his first postseason appearance since he won the clinching game of the 1988 World Series, Hershiser gave up three hits in 7 1-3 scoreless in nings as the Cleveland Indians beat Boston 4-0 Wednesday night for a 2-0 lead in the AL playoffs. Eddie Murray homered and Omar Vizquel doubled home two runs for the Indians, who need only, one,more win ip the best-of- 5 series. It continues Friday in Boston, with the Red Sox send ing knuckleball pitcher Tim Wakefield against Cleveland’s Charles Nagy. The 37-year-old Hershiser boosted his record to 5-0 with a save and a 1.52 ERA in nine ca- Game 3 at the Kingdome if the Mariners had won. Instead, Johnson will pitch Friday on three days’ rest for the second time this week. The game lasted 5 hours, 13 minutes, and ended in a light mist — the longest game by time in postseason history. The previous longest AL play off game — both in time and in- nings — came Tuesday night when Cleveland beat Boston 5-4 in 5:01. Rookie Mariano Rivera pitched two-hit ball for 3 1-3 scoreless innings for the win, striking out five. It looked like Seattle would win after Griffey’s homer off John Wetteland, but the Yan kees tied it in the 12th when Sierra came within a couple of feet of matching Griffey. With runners on first and sec ond and two outs. Sierra doubled off the top of the wall in left off Belcher. Pinch-runner Jorge Posada scored, but Bernie Williams was thrown out at the plate on a perfect relay throw to send the game into the 13th. Griffey, who homered twice in Game 1, tied the record for home runs in an AL playoff series set by George Brett (twice) and Jose Canseco. reer postseason appearances, eight of them starts. He was the MVP of both the NL playoffs and the World Series for Los Angeles in 1988. The Red Sox lost their 12th consecutive postseason game dating back to Bill Buckner’s in famous error in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, a string that was extended by a heartbreaking 5-4, 13-inning loss in Tuesday night’s series opener. Mo Vaughn and Jose Canseco, the third and fourth hitters in Boston’s lineup, have gone a combined 0-for-20 with seven strikeouts in the two games. Hershiser, signed by the Indi ans as a free agent in April part ly because of his big-game expe rience, gave up three singles, walked two and set a Cleveland postseason record with seven strikeouts. Julian Tavarez and Paul As- senmacher each got one out in the eighth inning, and Jose Mesa got the last three outs. knock off Rockies □A three-run ninth gave Atlanta a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five series. DENVER (AP) — Yet again, the Atlanta Braves made a great escape against the Col orado Rockies. For the second straight game, the Braves could not put away the Rockies until the ninth inning, winning 7-4 Wednesday night and going home with a 2-0 lead in the NL playoff series. The latest bit of theatrics came courtesy of Fred McGriff and Mike Mordecai, who hit RBI singles in the ninth for At lanta. The Rockies compounded their troubles by allowing two more runs on an error. On Tuesday night, the Braves won 5-4, with the Rock ies loading the bases in the ninth and forced to use a pitch er to pinch-hit in their final at- bat. Larry Walker’s three-run homer and Andres Galarraga’s RBI single had given Colorado a 4-3 lead going to the ninth Wednesday night, overcoming a pair of solo homers by Mar quis Grissom, who increased his series total to three. But Chipper Jones led off the inning by slicing a double down the left-field line off Cur tis Leskanic. Mike Munoz then gave up a bloop single to McGriff, which scored Jones. David Justice flied out and Darren Holmes struck out Javy Lopez. Mike Devereaux then sin gled to center, with McGriff taking second, and Mordecai — batting for pitcher Alejan dro Pena — lined a single to center to drive home the go- ahead run. Mordecai took second on the throw home. Rafael Belliard then hit a routine grounder to second, but.Eris Young’s th^ow to first was low.and wide. Pena got the win for the sec ond straight night, and Mark Wohlers pitched a one-hit ninth for his second save of the series. Munoz was the loser for the Rockies, in the playoffs in just their third season. Hershiser baffles Sox Dodgers give away more hits than gifts □ The Reds defeated Los Angeles 5-4 to take a 2-0 series lead. LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds took advantage of Giveaway Night at Dodger Stadium. The Reds, handed scoring chances and runs all evening, beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5- 4 Wednesday to take a 2-0 lead in their NL playoff series. Eric Karros homered twice for the Dodgers, who outhit Cincin nati 14-6. But Los Angeles could not overcome a key error, a botched pitchout and three walks that led to the eventual winning run. The Dodgers also lost right fielder Raul Mondesi, ejected after the seventh inning. Karros hit a two-run homer with one out in the ninth, mak ing it 5-4. But Jeff Brantley re tired Tim Wallach and Delino DeShields for a save. Cincinnati’s first two runs, on a homer by Reggie Sanders, were set up by a throwing error by shortstop Chad Fonville. Then, with the score 2-2, a wide throw by catcher Mike Piazza on a pitchout led to another run. The Reds added two more in the ninth on only one hit, a two- out RBI single by Mariano Dun can, who scored an inning earli er on Larkin’s hit. The rest of the best-of-5 series is in Cincinnati, starting with Game 3 Friday night. Hideo Nomo (13-6, 2.54 ERA) will pitch for the Dodgers against David Wells (6-5, 3.59 ERA). The game was played before a paid crowd of 46,051 — about 10,000 below a sellout. A crowd of 44,199 attended Tuesday night’s game, won by the Reds 7-2. This game was one of missed opportunities for the Dodgers. They had 14 hits — four by Fonville — and stranded 11 run ners, eight of them in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings. Piaz za, second in the NL with a .346 average, finished 0-for-5. They also missed Mondesi, ejected by plate umpire Bob Davidson after the seventh in ning. Mondesi was the on-deck hitter when DeShields fouled out with the bases loaded to end the inning, and was tossed for ap parently mak ing remarks to Davidson. Duncan sin gled with one out in the eighth off loser Antonio Os- una. With Larkin was batting, Dun can stole sec ond on an 0-2 Johnson pitch, beating Piazza’s wide throw. Larkin fol lowed by looping a single down the right-field line. The Reds combined three walks, three steals and Duncan’s single to score twice in the ninth. 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