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Page 14 • The Battalion Sports Thursday • October 12, Braves win with 4-run 12tli GATEi o Ex-Astro pitcher Mark Portugal took the loss for the Reds. PARTY Sponsored by: KBTX • 3 SmSnL FRITO LAY BEAT THE HELL OUTTA SMU! AGGIE BOWL WATCH REGISTER TO WIN! GRAND PRIZE AGGIE BOWL PACKAGE Includes: 2 Tickets, Transportation and Hotel Accomodations Drawing Each Thursday Prior to Game 2 Free Tickets to an Aggie Home Game An Aggie Tailgate Party $50 Kroger Gift Certificate Pepsi, Doritos & Lays Cooler Autogrpahed Football CINCINNATI (AP) — Add Javy Lopez to the Atlanta Braves’ roll call of last-inning heroes. Lopez hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning, capping yet another dramatic rally as the Braves beat the Cincinnati Reds 6-2 Wednesday night and took a 2-0 lead in the NL play offs. Atlanta’s second consecutive extra-inning win put the Reds in a near-impossible situation. No team has won the NL pen nant after losing the first two games of the championship se ries at home. “It’s a very uncomfortable feeling,” Reds manager Davey Johnson said. “We’ve got to score more runs. Our offense just hasn’t produced that many.” Three-time Cy Young Award winner Greg Maddux will start Game 3 at Atlanta on Friday night, opposed by David Wells. The Reds pulled out every offensive trick they could think up against starter John Smoltz, who has beaten them three times this season. They finally got him out of the game following the seventh with the score tied at 2. But the NL’s top extra-in ning club failed for the second consecutive night. Mark Portu gal, relegated to the bullpen for the playoffs, started the 10th by giving up a single to Mark Lemke, a walk to Fred McGriff and a single to David Justice, loading the bases. Portugal then bounced a breaking ball for a wild pitch with Ryan Klesko at bat to let in the go-ahead run, and Lopez followed Klesko with a first-pitch homer high off the left-field foul screen. The Braves, who had the league’s worst extra-inning record in the regular season at 3-9, jumped and hugged in the dugout while Lopez rounded the bases. Mark Wohlers pitched the ninth to close out the Braves’ fourth come-from-behind win in the playoffs. It was a particularlystf ning loss for Cincinnati was 10-3 in extra innings,b,.; in the league. The Reds bis scoring chances in the seven! eighth and ninth, and mately wasted perhapstbe most impressive rally oft! season. The Reds were flatandflai ing against Smoltz when tbs turned the game around'mi the resourcefulness that’st* come their trademark.! had a 2-0 lead and was ing on a streak of 12 conser. tive batters retired, leavingtli less-than-capacity crowd 43,257 restless. So what do the Reds do' They stop swinging and star bunting. Benito Santiago, with strikeouts in 45 career atb against Smoltz, caughtthi; baseman Chipper Jones ing back and bunted forasi: gle. Bret Boone, just 1-for career against Smoltz seven strikeouts, followedw another bunt single seemed to unsettle the p who fielded and threw wili; for an error that Santiagotai: third. Tli ( □ Fii ba Hershiser works magic again □ The Indians' pitcher increased his postsea son record to 6-0. SEATTLE (AP) — Orel Her shiser would have none of it. Not the Kingdome noise, not the fireworks set off after Ken Griffey Jr.’s home run, not the momentum the Seattle Mariners were starting to build. None of it was going to stop him from winning a game the Cleveland Indians ab solutely had to have. Hershiser maintained his perfect career record in the postseason, and Manny Ramirez homered twice and went 4-for-4, leading the Indi ans past Seattle 5-2 Wednes day night and tying the AL playoffs at 1 -all. Showing the form that once made him baseball’s best pitch er, the 37-year-old Hershiser allowed four hits in eight in nings and improved to 6-0 in playoff and World Series com petition. His only blemish came in the sixth inning when Grif fey tied a postseason record with his sixth home rn. While Ramirez showed what made him an All-Star at age 23, Carlos Baerga came through with the big hit Cleve land missed in the opener. His two-out, two-run single with the bases loaded broke a score less tie in the fifth and got everyone off the Indians’ bench, and team seemed to re lax after that. The best-of-7 series goes back to Jacobs Field for Game 3 Friday night. Mariners ace Randy Johnson, finally able to get some time off this week, starts on four days’ rest, op posed by Charles Nagy. Seattle is 28-3 this season in games Johnson starts. The Mariners also won the last time he pitched — in relief in Game 5 of the first-round play offs against New York. The Indians did not want to go home down 0-2, and thanks to Hershiser, they did not. Not even a crowd of 58,144, the sec ond-largest ever to see baseball at the Kingdome, could shake ol’ Orel. Hershiser, who blanked Boston for 7 1-3 innings in the first round of the playoffs, struck out seven and his lone walk was in tentional. Jose Mesa pitched the ninth, allowing Jay Buhn er's second home run of the postseason. Standing still on the mound, Hershiser merely focused in on catcher Sandy Alomar Jr., who would pat his chest protector as if to say, “Just you and me.” Even after giving up a home run, Hershiser already had a new ball back in his mitt and was at the rubber, almost ready to pitch, by the time Griffey touched home plate. None of Hershiser’s teammates had to come console, either, be cause they knew he’d been around big games before Griffey became the first.ll player to homer six times the postseason. Lenny Dyksl did it for Philadelphia in 11 and Bob Robertson did ills Pittsburgh in 1971. Hershiser was the the 1988 World Series, pitefe; Los Angeles to the champi onship. He went 3-0 inti postseason that year, asdi another pitcher in the Dodger rotation that October,!# Belcher. Belcher took the loss Mariners. Hit hard in twore lief appearances in the opemi round of the playoffs — hetai out his frustration by knockiri a television camera outofil operator’s hands — he lasted 2-3 innings. Belcher left after Ramin homered with two outs inti sixth, Paul Sorrento singlel and Sandy Alomar tripled foni 4-1 lead. Ramirez, who beg ,f the game l-for-16 in the pod season, homered leading offtk eighth against Bobby Ayala. For the first few innings,: seemed like fate may’ve befl on the Mariners’side. Griffey made a sliding calf to rob Eddie Murray of extn bases and second basenw Joey Cora made a diving cakl on Kenny Lofton’s liner. 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