Mets persevere,
claim 4-3 victory
NEW YORK — After a 15-in
ning classic, the New York Mets
are halfway to their most stunning
comeback of all.
Robin Ventura’s grand slam
turned-single drove home the
winning run and gave the New
York Mets a 4-3 victory over At
lanta in game 5 of the NL champi
onship series, the longest postsea
son contest in baseball history.
The 5-hour, 46-minute game
ended in total confusion, with
three runners crossing the plate
while Ventura was mobbed by his
teammates before he could get to
Second base. Workers pulled up
the bases, the umpires left the
field and not even the official
scorer knew what the final margin
was: 4-3,6-3 or 7-3.
Finally, about 10 minutes later,
they announced the official rul
ing: Ventura was credited with a
run-scoring single.
But the margin didn’t matter.
The Mets forced a game 6 in At
lanta on Tuesday night.
Atlanta still leads the best-of-7
series 3-2, but this was another
devastating blow after losing the
previous night 3-2 on John
Olerud’s two-out, two-run single
in the eighth inning.
Atlanta was three outs away
from reaching the World Series
for the first time since 1996 after
Keith Lockhart’s two-out, run
scoring triple in the top of the 15 th
broke a 2-2 tie — the first runs
scored in the game since the third.
But the Mets, who had to win
their final four games of the regu
lar season just to make the post
season, would not die.
The Associated Press
Victory moves Yanks
one away from Series
BOSTON — Taking advantage
of Buckner’s curse as much as the
Bambino’s, the New York Yan
kees moved within one victory of
their third trip to the World Series
in four seasons.
Pitcher Bret Saberhagen’s bun
gled throw allowed the go-ahead
run to score in the fourth inning,
and the Boston Red Sox made
three other errors before Ricky
Ledee’s ninth-inning grand slam
as New York won 9-2 Sunday
night for a 3-1 lead in the AL
Championship Series.
Without Pedro Martinez, who
threw seven shutout innings Sat
urday in Boston’s record 13-1
rout, the Red Sox went back to
their old, bumbling, ways.
With New York clinging to a 3-2
lead in the eighth, a second-base
umpire blew a key call for the sec
ond time in the best-of-7 series.
After a close call at first base
went against the Red Sox opening
the ninth, the game was stopped af
ter manager Jimy Williams was
ejected and fans then threw bottles
and other objects on the field, caus
ing the Yankees to go back to the
dugout while an announcement
was made of a possible forfeit.
Andy Pettitte allowed two runs
over 7 1-3 innings, improving to
2-0 in the postseason and again
showing why manager Joe Torre
insisted he not be traded.
The Yankees try to wrap up
their record 36th AL pennant on
Monday night, when Orlando
Hernandez pitches against
Boston’s Kent Mercker in a re
match of game 1 starters.
The Associated Press
Men
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bulk of the minutes at shooting
guard, and junior Flo Hartenstein
and sophomore Chris Christof
fersen appear to be the leading can
didates at center.
Jones averaged more than nine
points and three rebounds per
game as a highly regarded fresh
man last season, while Jackson sat
out the season in accordance with
NCAA rules after transferring from
Utah following the 1997-98 sea
son. The 6-foot-9 Hartenstein con
tributed almost four points and re
bounds per game last season,
while Christoffersen tallied nfearly
two points along with one rebound
per outing in a limited role.
A trio of junior-college transfers
is also expected to help off the
bench. Sophomore Anthony Nor
wood backs up Wright and also
play some shooting guard, 6-7 ju
nior forward Bryan Bracey pro
vides depth behind Smith and 6-8,
235-pound junior Julius Hicks
gives Kent bulk and athleticism at
the post positions.
Kent said he has been im
pressed by the manner in which
the newcomers, which also in
clude another junior-college trans
fer in sophomore guard Ben
Lindquist, have already meshed
with the veterans.
“I’ve never been around a bas
ketball team, with the exception of
maybe one or two of my teams at
Saint Mary’s, I guess, that has
started to gel and come together so
quickly as I have with this group
of guys,” said Kent, who spent six
seasons from 1991 to 1997 in
charge at Saint Mary’s.
Wright, who Kent points to in
tandem with Smith as the team’s
obvious leaders, sees a difference in
chemistry from last season’s team,
which was plagued by internal tur
moil that boiled over in the form of
four players leaving the program.
“Everything’s more crisp,”
Wright said. “It’s a lot different
this year.”
Jones, one of the team’s three
prominent Oregon natives along
with Jackson and Smith, shared
the same sentiments.
“We’re a lot closer team than we
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were last year,” Jones said.
Despite the tension, the Ducks
(19-13 overall, 8-10 Pac-10) did re
cover from a 2-8 start in the Pac-10
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After defeating California twice
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season to Xavier and fell one win
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Smith, who also led the team in
rebounding at nearly eight per
game last season, said the Ducks
want more than a return to the NIT.
“Last year, just getting to the
[NCAA] Tournament was a goal,”
Smith said. “To me, it’s not a ques
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