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Thursday • October 12,
Braves win with 4-run 12tli
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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.
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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.
Tuesday night’s opener, it ws
Cora who grabbed Jim Thome'
hard groun der to finish ol
rookie pitcher Bob Wolcott’sei
cape from a bases-loaded, nt
out jam in the first inning.
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