The World Series
Curtis comes through for Yanks
By Ben Walker
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — One to go.
Chad Curtis hit his second
home run leading off the 10th in
ning and the New York Yankees
beat Atlanta 6-5 Tuesday night to
move within one victory of an
other World Series sweep.
Just when everything seemed
to be going Atlanta’s way in game
3, the Yankees still found a way
to win.
Curtis homered in the fifth to
begin their comeback from a 5-1
deficit, and homers off Tom
Glavine by Tino Martinez and
Chuck Knoblauch, the latter off
right fielder Brian Jordan’s glove
in the eighth, tied it.
Then in the 10th, Curtis sent a
. 1-1 pitch from Mike Remlinger
far over the left-field fence for the
Yankees’ 11th straight World Se
ries victory. It was the first game
’’ ending homer in the Series since
Joe Carter’s Game 6 shot won it
all for Toronto in 1993.
“I have a tendency when I get
up there in that situation, I try to
hit a home run,” Curtis said. “So
I went up there and tried to hit it
up the middle and I hit a home
~ run.”
Curtis made his first ever start
in the Series and ended up as the
■* hero.
“Always somebody you don’t
expect,” Atlanta manager Bobby
Cox said. “You never know
where it’s going to come from.”
Roger Clemens, who joined the
Yankees this spring in hopes of
winning his first World Series
ring, gets a chance to close it out
in game 4 Wednesday night
against John Smoltz.
No team in baseball history has
overcome an 0-3 deficit in post
season play. The Yankees are try
ing to win their third World Se
ries in four years, a streak that
began when they beat Atlanta in
1996.
Mariano Rivera, Mr. Automat
ic in October, pitched two in
nings for the victory. He has not
allowed a run in his last 41 2-3
innings, and has a postseason
streak of 24 1-3 scoreless innings.
While Atlanta lost its seventh
straight Series game, the Yankees
moved within one victory of ty
ing the longest winning streak
ever. The record was set by their
Murderers’ Row teams of 1927,
1928 and 1932.
Until the Yankees turned from
singles hitters into the Bronx
Bombers, Atlanta was in com
plete control.
“It would have been nice to
have won tonight,” Cox said. “It
would have gotten us going real
good. This was a big one to lose
tonight.”
Glavine, scratched from his
game 1 start because of the flu,
fortified himself with a plate of
ravioli and pitched like a two
time Cy Young Award winner.
And Atlanta looked every bit like
the team that led the majors with
103 wins.
Bret Boone hit three doubles in
the first four innings against
Andy Pettitte and every Atlanta
batter had a hit by the fifth. By
then, it was 5-1 and the sellout
crowd of 56,794 was booing the
home team.
Boone could been seen hud
dling in the dugout with batting
cbach Don Baylor, checking out
what appeared to be hitting
charts. During Monday’s work
out, Baylor held an extended ses
sion of batting practice and
stressed patience at the plate and
emphasized hitting to the oppo
site field.
It all worked in the early going
for a team that hit .121 in die first
two games.
Then, though, the Yankees
flexed their muscles.
Curtis hit the 11th game-end
ing homer in the Series history,
and fifth in extra innings. It also
was the Yankees’ second such
shot in this postseason — Bernie
Williams did it to Boston in game
1 of the AL Championship Se
ries.
The Series win was the 11th in
a row for manager Joe Torre,
breaking the record set by Joe
McCarthy of the Yankees.
New York won in its 200th
World Series game — the Yan
kees are 120-79-1 overall, with
the St. Louis Cardinals’ total of
96 games ranking second.
Curtis hit New York’s first
home run of the Series, a solo
shot with two outs in the fifth.
Martinez made it 5-3 with a solo
drive in the seventh, and Glavine
dropped his head in disgust.
Joe Girardi opened the eighth
with a single and Knoblauch fol
lowed with a high drive to right
field. Jordan jumped at the wall
and the ball bounced out of his
glove and into the stands for a ty
ing home run.
‘‘I knew I hit it pretty good,”
Knoblauch said. “Jordan, who’s a
great outfielder, jumped and I
prayed, ‘Come on.’ I got a break.”.
Last October, Knoblauch
struck for a tying, three-run
homer in the seventh inning of
game 1 against San Diego’s
Donne Wall.
“We got beat with a pop to
right field,” Cox said.
Knoblauch’s homer brought
John Rocker running from the
bullpen, and Derek Jeter prompt
ly singled. Paul O’Neill tried to
sacrifice, but popped it up and
then committed a more costly
mistake.
With O’Neill standing at the
plate and shaking his head in
anger, Atlanta let the ball drop
and turned a double play.
Boone became the first player
to hit three doubles in a Series
game since Junior Gilliam for
Brooklyn in 1953. Frank Isbell
hit a record four for the Chicago
White Sox in 1906.
Mountaineer shares his tall tales
■ Jim Whittaker spoke Tuesday about his
exciting life as an adventurer and climber
By Inge McMillen
J lor the Emerald
Jim Whittaker, the first American to climb Mount
Everest, spoke Tuesday to an auditorium filled with
University students and interested community mem
bers.
“This was a wonderful crowd,” Whittaker said af
ter presenting his new book, “Life on the Edge,”
along with a breath-taking slide show of his moun
taineering efforts.
“Standing ovations! I don’t get many of those,” he
said.
Whittaker, a Northwest native and co-founder of
Recreation Equipment Inc. — better known as REI —
started his climbing career with the Boy Scouts be
fore he began leading expeditions on Mount Rainier
in Washington.
He shared his numerous mountaineering experi
ences with an ecstatic audience that filled Columbia
150.
In 1963, Whittaker became the first American to
ascend Mount Everest. In those days, he said, the
hike to get to the base of the mountain was 185 miles
long and took nearly a month of carrying 14 tons of
supplies.
These days, most teams fly into base camp.
He was the first American to ascend K2, the sec
ond tallest peak in the world, the mountain dividing
Pakistan from China. The biggest thrill on K2 is the
idea that, without moving, climbers can take a leak
in Pakistan and a dump in China, Whittaker said.
His was the first K2 expedition to include female
climbers.
In 1990, Whittaker initiated the “Peace Climb” on
11 He is a symbol of the American spirit and
that you can do everything you put your mind
to. He really showed us what climbing is like.
Ryan Stevens
junior J J
Mount Everest because he wanted to do “something
good for the Planet.”
A team of American, Chinese and Soviet climbers
summited in April, celebrating Earth Day by clean
ing up remnants of earlier expeditions on their de
scent. This expedition put 20 people on the summit,
including 15 mountaineers along with a few cooks
and organizers.
Whittaker was also the first to climb John F.
Kennedy Mountain in Canada, which is more than
14,000 feet tall. Whittaker completed the climb in
honor of Kennedy soon after his assassination. Sena
tor Robert Kennedy joined him on that expedition.
“He is a symbol of the American spirit and that
you can do everything you put your mind to,” junior
Ryan Stevens said. “He really showed us what climb
ing is like.”
Other students agreed.
“I think most people are here because [Whittaker]
stands for everything we want to achieve,” graduate
student Heather Baugus said.
Whittaker’s presentation is one in the UO Book
store’s series of featured authors this fall, UO Book
store representative Tom Gerald said.
Byron Ricks is the next scheduled outdoor author.
On Nov. 8, he will present “Homeland,” his recently
published book about kayaking.
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