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M’s are wild about playoffs
By Ken Peters
The Associated Press
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Wild card or
division title, it didn’t seem to mat
ter a bit to the Seattle Mariners
amid their champagne-spraying
frenzy in the club house.
The Mariners clinched the AL
wild card spot and shut Cleveland
out of the playoffs Sunday, getting
home runs from Alex Rodriguez
and David Bell to beat Anaheim 5
2.
“It’s been a long time, and all the
emotion broke loose,” said Seattle
manager Lou Piniella, whose
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Mariners last were in the playoffs
in 1997.
“To go down to the last day, the
last pitch of the last game, makes it
especially rewarding,” added
Piniella, who at times looked as if
he were standing under a waterfall
as players gleefully dumped cham
pagne, beer, and the contents of
several ice chests on him.
“It’s awesome,” Seattle’s Jay Buh
ner said. “We definitely made it in
teresting. But at the same time, any
time you can get to the postseason,
that’s what it’s all about.”
Rodriguez, expected to become
baseball’s most expensive free
agent after the season, also was re
lieved the Mariners were headed to
the playoffs.
“It’s been a stressful situation the
last 10 days because we’ve been in
a position where we had to do a lit
tle scoreboard watching, and in the
position where we had to win,” the
Seattle shortstop said.
“I take my hat off to Cleveland
and Oakland. The A’s deserve to
have won the division, and Cleve
land really made it hard for us.
We’re very blessed to be in this po
sition.”
Victories by the Mariners and
Athletics, who beat Texas 3-0,
avoided any ties and several com
plex scenarios that could have in
volved one-game playoffs by any of
the three contending teams.
Also, the Athletics did not have
to play a makeup game Monday at
Tampa Bay because they already
held the tiebreaker over the
Mariners, going 9-4 against them.
The Mariners, who hadn’t been
M
2000 Major League
Baseball Playoffs
National League
Atlanta vs. St. Louis, Game 1: Tues
day at 10:07 a.m. (ESPN)
N.Y. Mets vs. San Francisco, Game 1:
Wednesday at 1:07 p.m. (ESPN)
American League
Seattle vs. Chicago, Game 1: Tuesday
at 1:07 p.m. (ESPN)
N.Y. Yankees vs. Oakland, Game 1:
Tuesday at 5:08 p.m. (NBC)
out of first place in the AL West
since June 28 until they fell one
half game back of Oakland last Fri
day, open the best-of-5 first round
at the Chicago White Sox on Tues
day.
The Mariners saw on the Ana
heim scoreboard before their game
started that Cleveland had won,
then late in the game against the
Angels that Oakland also had won.
“Before the first pitch, we knew
Cleveland had won, so that was
kind of a stressful situation for us
going against a great Anaheim
team,” said Rodriguez, whose solo
homer in the fourth was his 41st ol
the year.
Bell hit a tiebreaking solo homer
in the seventh and the Mariners got
strong pitching from starter Aaron
Sele, reliever Arthur Rhodes (5-8)
and Kazuhiro Sasaki.
Sasaki got his 37th save, breaking
the major league record for a rookie
set by Todd Worrell with St. Louis
in 1986.
Beavers crack Top-25
By Tara Burghart
The Associated Press
CORVALLIS — These are new
times for Oregon State.
No longer the dregs of the Pac
10, the Beavers are off to their first
4-0 start since 1957. They’re even
beating Southern California and
joining the Top 25, entering at No.
23.
“Tradition, doesn’t work any
more,” linebacker Nick Barnett
said after the 31-21 win over a
USC team ranked No. 8 at the time.
“This is just one step in the pro
gram. We’re not done yet.”
Last year, the Beavers had their
first winning season in 29 years,
then went to their first bowl since
1965.
On Saturday, they defeated USC
for the first time since 1967, end
ing their conference-record streak
of 26 losses to the Trojans.
“We proved we can play with
anybody, and it felt real good,”
said Oregon State’s Chad Johnson,
who had a TD catch.
Forty miles down the road, Ore
gon won its 18th in a row in
Autzen Stadium. The Ducks, who
have surged to No. 9, upset Wash
ington 23-16. Oregon is 2-0 in the
conference and 4-1 overall after a
close loss to Wisconsin.
Oregon State faces Washington
next week in Husky Stadium. The
Huskies dropped from No. 6 to No.
13 in the poll.
“They’re going to be prepared
for us. If USC wasn’t, then they
should have been, and I’m sure
UW will be,” Oregon State safety
Terrence Carroll said.
The Beavers jumped to a 14-0
lead before the Trojans tied it early
in the second quarter on an 80
yard fumble recovery.
With 1:18 to play, the Beavers
were up 24-21 and trying to eat the
clock. Then Ken Simonton ran 36
yards for his third touchdown. He
finished with 37 carries for 234
yards, the second-most in history
by one player against USC.
Simonton “is one of the best that
we will play against,” USC coach
Paul Hackett said. “I thought the
defense played hard, but obvious
ly, you can’t let a man run for 200
yards.”
Hackett blamed himself for not
getting a play in quick enough to
Carson Palmer in the third quarter
when the score was 14-14.
Palmer completed a touchdown
pass on fourth down to Antoine
Harris, but it was nullified for de
lay of game and the Trojans then
missed a field goal.
{ { The issue with the
game was the Trojan did
n’t make the plays that the
Trojans needed to make
when the game was on the
line:
Paul Hackett
USC coach
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“That would have made it 21
14, which would have been the
way to start the third quarter,”
Hackett said. “From that point on
in the game, the offense sputtered.
There were moments, but we
couldn’t put anything together.”
Hackett says his team simply
did not do what they had to do to
win.
“The issue with the game was
the Trojan didn’t make the plays
that the Trojans needed to make
when the game was on the line,”
Hackett said.
With Washington looming, Ore
gon State coach Dennis Erickson
plans to let his players and staff
celebrate a bit.
“We’ve got'the Huskies next
week and w^ know that,” he said.
“But we’re 4-0 and 1-0 in the Pac
10, and it’s been awhile.”