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THE BATTALION
Victories in Sydne
USA baseball team wins big, U.S. wrest
defeats Cuba for Olympic gold
SYDNEY (AP) — It took a rag
tag band of minor leaguers to bring
down a dynasty and finally bring
home the gold for America.
Led by Hall of Lamer Tom La-
sorda, a collection of draft picks and
major-league misfits beat mighty
Cuba 4-0 on Wednesday for the
United States’ first Olympic gold
medal in baseball.
The team known as the Big Red
Machine got only three hits off Ben
Sheets, then had to stand and watch in
disbelief while he and his teammates
rolled in the dirt as
part of their joy
ous celebration.
The long-
awaited matchup
of baseball archri
vals was remark
ably free of the
dust-ups and dis
putes that have
colored virtually
all of the other
games they have
played through
the years when
Cuba won the
<i<ir
They come out
and try to intimi
date you. That's
not our game.
...We just come
out and beat you.”
fingertips of Sheets, an unflappable
right-hander who got 16 ground-ball
,outs in the first eight innings, setting
up a pulsating ninth.
He got Cuba’s first two hitters
swinging — Luis Ulacia threw his
helmet at the side of his dugout after
going down for the second out.
When Neill made a sliding catch
of Yasser Gomez’s fly in left field for
the final out. Sheets fell to his knees
and raised his arm in celebration as
players streamed toward him for a
huddle on the mound.
Soon, they
piled up near the
dirt at third and
Lasorda — wear
ing a U.S. flag
over his left
shoulder, hugged
his coaches while
the players took a
victory lap.
“I can’t be
lieve how great I
feel!” Lasorda
shouted as he ran
off the field.
The Cubans
pins down
top medal
— Adam Everett
Team USA shortstop
only other baseball gold medals at
the 1992 and 1996 Olympics.
Also unlike those other games,
this time the United States won —
and won convincingly.
“They come out and try to intim
idate you,” Everett said. “That’s not
our game. We don’t come out and
play that way. We just come out and
beat you.”
They found all sorts of dramatic
ways to win: two walk-off homers
and an eighth-inning grand slam.
Their only loss was 6-1 to Cuba on
Saturday, a game remembered for
angry exchanges and cleared bench
es.
There were no dust-ups this time,
no late-inning dramatics. Right from
the start, it was no contest.
Mike Neill hit a first-inning
homer as the Americans cranked it
up early instead of late. Ernie Young
— at the center of Saturday’s bench
clearing inning — more than got
even with a bases-loaded single.
Catcher Pat Borders, who was
spiked at home in that first game,
also had an RBI double as an ex
quisite payback.
Those hits put the upset on the
sat in their dugout, knowing their dy
nasty was done.
The best team in international
baseball had its 21-game winning
streak snapped with a loss to the
Netherlands during the tournament,
then had its hold on the gold broken
by its biggest rival.
The long-awaited matchup had
the trappings of a seventh World Se
ries game — and all the finality.
Llashhulbs twinkled around the sta
dium as the U.S. team stood on the
first base line and the Cubans as
sembled along the other one for
pregame introductions.
Lasorda, who wanted to beat
Cuba for the exiles in Llorida,
walked over and shook the hand of
manager Servio Borges in front of
the plate.
Moments later, the Americans
spilled out of the dugout after Neill’s
tension-breaking homer in thje first -
his second big homer of the tourna
ment. He also won the opener
against Japan with a game-ending
homer in the 13th. His two-out solo
homer on Wednesday came off Pe
dro Luis Lazo, a closer who got a
surprise start in the big game.
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proved Alexander Karelini
perfect — and won a gold®
virtually nobody in the
thought he could win<
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major title to his name, net
world medalist, ended Kate
string of three Olympic gold m:
mid the Russian’s 13-year
streak by winning the Olymp,
per heavyweight wrestlin
medal 1-0 on Wednesday.
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him? About 10 minutes ago,"Ci |
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can. 1 think I can.’ But it wasn
til it was over that I knew Icon
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