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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1995)
Reds victorious despite terrible play ■ NL PLAYOFFS. Reds take 2-0 lead over the Dodgers I .OS ANGM.FS (AIM The Cincinnati Reds took advantage of (Giveaway Night at Dodger Stadium Thu Reds, handed scoring i hatu es and runs all evening, lient the Los Angelos Dodgers r> 4 Wednesday to lake a ,!-<) lead in their Nl. playoff series Uric Karros homered twn e for the Dodgers, who outhit Ciiu.in nati 14-6. But t<os Angeles could not overcome a knv error, a botched pitchout and three walks that led to the eventual winning run The Dodgers also lost right fielder Raul Mondesi, ejected after the seventh inning Karros hit a two-run homer with one out in the ninth, mak ing it 5-4 But Jeff Brantley retired Tim Wallnch and Delino DeShields for a save Cincinnati’s first two runs, on it homer by Reggie Sanders, were set up by a throwing error by shortstop Chad Fonville Then, with the score 2-2. a wide throw by catcher Mike Piazza on a pitchout led to another run. The Reds added two more in the ninth on only one hit. a two out RBI single In Mariano Dun can, who scored an inning earlier on 1-arkin's hit The rest of the best-of-5 series is in Cincinnati, starting with Game 3 Friday night, llideo Nomo (13-6. 2.54 FRA) will pitch for the Dodgers against Nstitul leigae PUyills Reds vs Dodgers ■ Series: Cincinnati foods Los Angeles 2-0 ■ Last night: Reds beat the Dodgers in Los Angetes S-4 ■ Highlight: Ere Karros betted two home runs to lead Cincinnati past the Dodgers in the National League playoffs ■ Next game: Friday emerald David Wells (ft-5. 1 59 ERA) The game was played tiefure a paid crowd of 40.051 - about 10,000 below a sellout A crowd of 44.199 attended Tuesday night's game: won by the Reds 7 This game was one of missed opportunities for the Dodger*, they had 1-1 fills four by Fonville and stranded 11 run ners, eight of them in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings I’iaz m. mm ond in the NI. with i l*tt> average, finished 0 for-5 Thev also missed Mondesi o(ti< ted by plate umpire Bob Davidson after the seventh inning Mondesi was the on deck hitter when DeShields fouled out with the fxises loaded to end the inning, and was tossed for apparently making remarks to Davidson Duncan singled with one out in the eighth off loser Antonio Osuna With lairkin was batting. Duncan stole Mcund on an 0-2 pitch, (mating Piazza's wide throw lairkm followed by loop ing a single down the right -field line The Reds romhmwi throe walks, thnm steals and Duncan's single to score twice in the ninth Mark lewis had an Kill grounder Dave Hurba. the second of four (ant innati pits hers, earned the victory with one st oreless inning of relief Dodgers starter Ismael Valdes retired the first 11 batters before Ron ('hint reached second with two outs in the fourth on a w ild throw by Fonville Sanders made the Dodgers pay for the mistake w ith a home run to center for a M lead Fonville look over at shortstop in the last month for All-Star lose Offerman. who made ir> errors The Dodgers lied it tn .1 hurry us harms hit John Smiley's se< mu) [ii!i h . 11 th<- III'!!.'in hit If over tin* fence in center, t lose to where Namiers' hall went out I he Dodgers hilil taken a I t) lead in the first on a leadoff sin gle by Brett Butler, a *a«.rifi< •• by Fonville and n two-out double by Karros The Dodgers didn't sc ore in the fifth, sixth and seventh despite getting a total o! teven flits ana a walk in the three innings Atlanta comes back again, holds lead ■ NL PLAYOFFS: Atlanta steals another game from Colorado DENVER (AP) — l.eave it to the Atlanta Braves to find the most obscure heroes Remember Francisco Cabrera, whose pinch-hit, two-out single in the ninth sent the Braves to their second straight World Series in !<>»»;>' Meet rookie Mike Vlordei ,ii National league Playetfs Braves vs Rockies ■ Series: Atlanta leads Colorado 2-0 ■ Last night: The Braves beal the Rockies in the Mile High City 7-4 ■ Highlight: Mike Mordecat became the second Atlanta rookie in two days to win the game tor his team by driving in the go-ahead run during the top ot the ninth inning, leading the Braves to their second consecutive come-from-behind victory in this season's National League playoffs. ■ Nest game: Friday EMERALD Mordhi ai, who had only 75 at hats this season, knocked in the go-ahead run with a two-out single in the ninth Wed ties day night, helping rally the Braves past the Colorado Roc: kies 74 and sending Atlanta home with a 2 0 lead in their NI. playoff series Asked about Murder id's rel ative anonymi ty. Braves manager Bobby Cox said, All of our players know who Moray is Ho works hard, he knows who he's going to far o flu clutched it in." Mordecai. whose hit off Darren Holmes t ame on a 3-0 count, said he was surprised fie was given the green light ' Hut Bohbv knows 1 can hit tfie fastball, and fie s going to give me a chance to swing the bat in that situation." said Mordecai He had a pair of game-winning, last at-bat hits this season, including one against Colorado on Aug. 13, also off Holmes For the Braves, it was another great escape against the Rockies. For the second straight game. Atlanta couldn't put away the Rockies until the ninth. The latest hit of theatrics came courtesy of Mordecai and I-red McCriff, whitw R1U single tmd tlm score in the ninth The Rixlms compounded their troubles by making an I'rrur that brought in two more runs On Tuesday night, the Bravos won 'i-4. with tho Kim kins loading tho bases in thn ninth and foriml to use a pile her to pinch hit in thoir final at-bah "Our pitching has kept us in these games." Cos said ' Tommy Glavino i an t pitch any bettor than he did tonight He made only one bad pitch harry Walker's three rim humor and Andres Galarraga's KHi single had given Colorado a -t t lead going to the ninth Wednesday night, over coming a pair of solo homers by Marquis Grissom, who increased his series total to three But Chipper Jones led off the ninth by slicing a double down tho left held line off hurt is Ijeskmu Mike Munoz then gave up a hloop single to Mi Grif(. which si ored Jones David Justn e filed out. and Darren Holmes struck out Javy Lopez. Mike Devere uix then singled to < enter, with Mi Grill taking sei ond. and Mordei ai batting lor pitcher Alejandro Pena — lined a single lu center to drive home the go-ahead run Mordecai took second on the throw home Rafael Bulliard then hit a routine grounder to sei ond, but hrn Young's throw to first was low and wide, letting in two more runs. rena got the win tor the set.on<1 straight night, and Mark Wohlers pitched a one-hit ninth for his second save of the series Munoz was the loser for the Rockies in the playoffs in just their third sea son. It was tin* second straight blown save for the Rot kies in as many games, Leskanic having given up Jones winning homer in the ninth Tuesday nigh! The Rockies had 15 blown saves during the season “The disheartening thing is we should be 2-0 going to Atlanta.“ Rockies manager Don Baylor said "We kind of gave in to Mordecai at TO We've beaten ourselves the last three years against the Braves. It seems like every time we kick a (tall, they come back to fwat us " Game .1 is on Friday night. John Smoltz (12-7) is scheduled to pitch for the Braves against Bill Swift (9-3). “We haven't had much success against them here or there, but vve know we can play with them,” Baylor said. Kearney: Paying $19.95 for T. V.? What a joke ■ Continued from Page 11 to wntt h the Ducks beat the Heavers senseless Unless, that is, mv cable operator dwMi'l carry that game For example, when lh«> Ducks played UCLA earlier this year and the game was covered regionally on ABC. everyone I knew watched what has turned out to fie the most ext ding game of the season thus far That is. everyone but my one lut ky friend who hap pened to be out of town Sure, the game may not have liet-n hroodt ast on AMC in the Midwest, but as it stood, it wasn't available for pay per view in the immediate area either But since it was offered in some nearby areas, my friend was plain out of lut k Whit h brings me to last weekend's failed one-on-one Taco Bell million dollar matt h up Im»iwim’ii Shaquille O'Neal and Hakeem Oliiju won, the epitome of patbetu. t able programming Not only did Taco Hell and pav-pttr-view promoters con jure up the idea to have two oversized, rather slow iMikot hall players face off onv-on one {which 1 really don I find all that entertaining), hut they hyped it up with a St million winner taka’ all prize (whit h. considering they are already millionaires, I don’t find entertaining at all) In essence, the (.able com patties wanted 50,000 sports fans, at $10.05 a head (the price of the pay-per-view event) to pay for O'Neal and Otapiwon to try and shoot jump shuts (Hakeem would win), drittlde (again. 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