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THE BATTALION
Page 11
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Id. “For some reason, I’ve got that gut
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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. In addition to clouds and cool-
er-than-usual temperatures, high winds
forced a pregame parachute jump to be
canceled.
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