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Party Want Ads rds running 5 days, ifyoun ced $1,000 or less (price« This rate applies only to «J Ivertisers offering personal® ile. Guaranteed results ofyi| 3 days at no charge. IfitemdT ser must call before 1 p.nu| is scheduled to end top ional insertions at nocria|| made if your ad is c SPORTS iiy, April 4, 2000 THE BATTALION Page 11 angers victorious on opening day MOTORCYCLE riki KZ550 A' 1 lags current jus he first player to ' ssso/ob-o. call fort jlner in his first two Boats as a Ranger, idal an RRI single 'fel showed some RLINGTON (AP) — Gabe Kapler t wasting any time making Texas [igers fans forget Juan Gonzalez. Kapler became ghthawk 450cc. Newbreaks.ne i 764-0182. atana for sale. Good corxffc J 1240 after 5pm. cc, black with wmdshieM 51,850 268-7550. i 600R run Jo b o. Ca great, D+D pipe, m Chris al 691-82! lipng defense and iggressive baserun- plg in leading Texas ifcr the Chicago KAPLER _Bite Sox 10-4 in Monday’s opener. XT600, on/otiroad,6K-miies. AL MVP lean Rodriguez chipped in Bfiih two homers and five I'lBls, and MUSIC Biny Rogers was superb in his return . advanced. Private to his original team, giving manager /irginia 696-9525. pinny Oates and the largest regular-sea- ded lor melodic/ aggressive bamB crowd in Rangers history even more .*■691-8707 ^emMsons to smile. PETS Cals. Dogs. >|t e r- 775-5755. ihocolate, black & yeto 9)773-0012 - Lexington “This was one of those days where a lot of things went right for us,” Oates Id. “For some reason, I’ve got that gut Bling that we’re going to be a little bit Bter than most people think. And we Blue-eyed. REAL ESTATE i carport, large ter Alford & Company ■Ire today. J Kapler was a big reason for it, going 3- 1-4 with three RBls, three runs and thou- Jgiids of new fans won over in his first pme replacing Gonzalez in right field. I He received standing ovations from the folks in right field when he came out lowing each of his homers and drew ihs and aahs throughout the stadium for two strong throws. Fittingly, he made a running catch for the game’s last out. “I think today was huge,” said Kapler, acquired in the November trade that sent Gonzalez, a two-time AL MVP, to Detroit. “It’s a really big deal for me.” Kapler has been known mostly as a muscular guy with a lot of skills but only some appearances on the cover of fitness magazines to show for it. He hit .245 for the Tigers last year in his first big-league season. Although the Rangers aren’t expect ing him to put up Gonzalez-like num bers, Kapler had Gonzalez-like power show by hitting a solo homer off loser Mike Sirotka in the second inning and another on the next pitch he saw two in nings later. But Kapler was most proud of his third at-bat, when he was down in the count 1 -2 and drilled an outside pitch up the middle to drive in another run. “That felt good because 1 knew they were pitching me away because they thought they could get me out,” he said. “It didn't work out that way.” He came around to score on a goofy play where he ran through a stop sign from third-base coach Jerry Narron, but jarred the ball from the catcher's mitt. Kapler didn’t realize it, though, and ran past home plate, going back only after on- deck hitter Royce Clayton told him to. “I got a really good break and was sure I was going to score easily,” Kapler said. “1 apologized to Jerry because to me it makes the third-base coach not look so good. I know that’s not going to hap pen again.” Rogers kept the ball down, coaxing most of his outs on ground balls — in cluding four double plays — as he won his first game for his original team fol lowing a four-year absence. Rogers allowed one run in eight in nings to earn his 19th straight home vic tory, the third-longest streak in history. It was a nice start for the lefty, whose final 1999 performance for the New York Mets saw him walk home the winning run against Atlanta in the clinching Game 6 of the NLCS. “I don’t feel I was as sharp as I want ed to be, but I got ground balls when 1 needed them,” Rogers said. “It’s a great feeling to be back here.” Chicago got its first run on a double play groundout by Mark Johnson in the second, then didn’t have another runner past first until the seventh. The White Sox scored three times off three reliev ers in the ninth. “We lost to a veteran big-league starter who really changed speeds well and worked in and out and kept hitters off balance,” said Chicago’s Frank Thomas. “It was the seventh inning be fore we knew it.” Rodriguez hit a three-run homer in the third inning that put Texas up 4-1. His two-run shot in the fifth started a four- run rally that really broke the game open. Nothing seemed to go right for Chicago. Third baseman Craig Wilson, who beat out hot-hitting Greg Norton because of his glove, set up Texas’ four-run fifth by booting a likely double play grounder and made another error on a routine ball in the seventh. Sirotka walked the leadoff hitter and went downhill from there, allowing sev en runs — six earned — in 4 1 -3 innings. He gave up four homers, two more than ever before, walked two and hit a batter. “When I made bad pitches, they did n’t miss them,” Sirotka said. The opener drew 49,332 fans, more than 2,000 more than last July 4, and fea tured former Presi dent George Bush throwing out the first pitch. They also saw the Rangers debut new blue alternate jerseys. About the only things that didn’t go great for Texas were the weather and the bullpen. 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