M’s never trail in four-game sweep of Tuvins
MINNEAPOLIS — When Lou
Piniella looks at the Minnesota
Twins, he sees a lot of the Seattle
Mariners.
"Both teams have about the same
ingredients: athleticism, defense
and good pitching," the Mariners
manager said after Seattle won 3-2
Monday to complete a four-game
sweep. "They were all very compet
itive games, and we were fortunate
to come out on top.”
Seattle never trailed during the
series, outscoring the Twins 19-8 in
the matchup of division leaders.
But Piniella noted that in the four
games, the teams combined for just
three home runs.
"That shows the type of teams
that Seattle and Minnesota have,
and how much they resemble each
other," he said. "There are a lot of
the same components."
Minnesota dropped into second
place in the AL Central, two per
centage points behind Cleveland
after the Indians beat the White
Sox 2-0 Monday night. The Twins
led by five games at the All-Star
break but have lost nine of 12
since.
"It just wasn't meant to be," Twins
manager Tom Kelly said. "They out
played us for four days. They out
pitched us and did everything just
a little bit better than we did."
Jamie Moyer (10-5) allowed both
runs and seven hits in 6 2/3 innings
with seven strikeouts. Kazuhiro
Sasaki got four straight outs for his
major league-leading 33rd save in
37 chances, completing the
Mariners' 5-1 road trip.
Brad Radke (10-7) lost his third
consecutive start, giving up all
three runs — one was unearned —
and nine hits in eight innings and
striking out seven.
"There's a lot of baseball left, so
we can't hang our heads," Radke
said. "The next two months are cru
cial, not just the next road trip.
Every game is important."
Seattle, which has the best record
in the major leagues at 72-27, went
ahead in the first when Mark
McLemore tripled and scored on
Bret Boone's sacrifice fly.
"When you’re able to hit the ball
in the gap, you can take those extra
bases," Moyer said of McLemore’s
triple. "The ball moves a little bit
faster on turf, and we've got some of
those guys who can find holes.
That's a big plus for us because we
can thrive in any environment.”
Ichiro Suzuki singled and stole
second in the third inning, then
scored on a two-base throwing er
ror by Radke.
"We just did a really good job of
manufacturing some runs today,"
Seattle's John Olerud said. "Neither
team has really big home-run hit
ters, so we both showed what you
can do with good starters, defense
and running the bases."
Chad Allen hit an RBI single in
the third, but Suzuki made it 3-1
with a run-scoring single in the
fifth.
David Ortiz homered in the sixth
inning, his seventh of the season
and first since coming off the dis
abled list last week.
Allen doubled with one out in
the eighth and tried to score on
Corey Koskie’s single to center but
was thrown out at the plate by
Charles Gipson. Piniella had put
Gipson into the game in the eighth.
"To be able to make that throw in
that situation was amazing," Suzuki
said.
Game notes:
Seattle's A1 Martin had a second
inning double to extend his season
best hitting streak to eight games.
Martin had a career-best 20
game streak in 1999, when he was
with the Pirates ... The Twins
have not won a season series
against the Mariners since 1992 ...
With 31,220 at Monday's game,
the four-game series drew 146,249
— the Metrodome's highest audi
ence for a four-game series since
August 1993.
The Associated Press
Clemens moves past Seaver into fourth on career strikeout list
NEW YORK — Roger Clemens
clearly recalls those days in 1986
when he sat beside Tom Seaver on
the Boston bench, trying to absorb
everything the aging ace taught him
about pitching.
Now, Clemens is no longer next
to Seaver. The Rocket is ahead of
him.
Clemens moved past Seaver into
fourth place on the career strikeouts
list, winning his 10th straight deci
sion as the New York Yankees beat
the Toronto Blue Jays 7-2 Monday
night.
"Tom Seaver is just a tremendous
name and a tremendous pitcher and
a tremendous person," Clemens
said. "He was a teammate, and in the
short time he was, I was able to learn
a lot from him. In that aspect, it was
nice."
Clemens (14-1) tied Arizona's
Curt Schilling for most wins in the
majors. His 274th victory put him
ahead of former Yankees Hall of
Famer Red Ruffing for 27th place.
"Just longevity," the 38-year-old
Clemens said. "That's what you
have to have when you're chasing
down guys so rich in history."
Tino Martinez, Paul O'Neill, Jorge
Posada and Shane Spencer all
homered for New York. For the sec
ond straight day against Toronto,
the Yankees tied a season high for
homers.
Jose Cruz Jr. and Alex Gonzalez
homered for the Toronto runs.
Clemens is unbeaten in 11 starts,
and his winning streak is the longest
by a Yankees pitcher since Jimmy
Key won 11 in a row in 1994.
Clemens improved to 9-0 at Yan
kee Stadium, drawing standing ova
tions when he passed Seaver — an
inning after most of the 38,573 fans
thought he'd done it — and again
when he left after 6 2/3 innings.
The Rocket caught Luis Lopez
looking at a fastball leading off the
fifth inning for his sixth strikeout of
the game and No. 3,641 lifetime,
one more than Seaver.
"I've only seen him on TV," Lopez
said. "He's a Hall of Fame pitcher,
and I can see why."
"It's OK, though," Lopez said.
"There are 4,000-some odd other
guys with me."
The ball was taken out of play,
and Clemens backed off the rubber
to wave his glove and tip his cap to a
standing ovation.
Manager Joe Torre and coaches
Mel Stottlemyre and Don Zimmer
applauded in the dugout, and
Clemens saluted them. The accom
plishment also was posted on the
scoreboard.
"It was so loud. Doing it here in
front of this crowd in this uniform,
with so much tradition, really
makes it special," he said.
When the inning ended, Posada
and infielders Scott Brosius and Al
fonso Soriano shook Clemens' hand
before he got to the dugout.
An inning earlier, it looked like
Clemens had passed Seaver when
Cruz swung at a 2-2 splitter in the
dirt. Posada tagged Cruz and threw
the ball to Brosius at third base as
music commemorating the mark be
gan to play.
But plate umpire Charlie Reliford
rushed out, indicating a foul tip,
and Cruz eventually grounded out.
"I knew about it. I knew it was
coming," he said. "I just wanted to
stay locked in."
Clemens struck out eight and fin
ished the night with 3,643.
Next up on the strikeout list for
Clemens is Bert Blyleven, third with
3,701.
Nolan Ryan holds the career
record with 5,714 and Steve Carlton
is second with 4,136.
Seaver spent the end of 1986, his
final year in the majors, playing for
the Red Sox.
Clemens, who won the first of his
five Cy Young Awards that season,
made sure to study Seaver every
chance he got.
Clemens watched how the future
first-ballot Hall of Famer fired up
his fastball in key situations, and
talked to him about it.
"I was able to take some things
Tom told me on the bench," he said.
Clemens still can look ahead to
him in another, bigger category —
Seaver finished with 311 victories.
"I thought it was remarkable
when Nolan Ryan and Steve Carl
ton pitched into their 40s," Torre
said. "Roger hasn't had to back off."
Steve Parris (4-6) endured anoth
er tough night at Yankee Stadium.
In his only other game against New
York, he was tagged for seven runs
in 11/3 innings.
This outing wasn't much better
from the start. Chuck Knoblauch led
off with a double, moved up on a
wild pitch and scored on Derek
Jeter's groundout.
Martinez hit his 250th career
homer, a shot into the upper deck in
right field, Posada followed with a
double and O'Neill homered.
A day earlier against Toronto,
Martinez and O'Neill hit upper
deck shots in the same inning.
Posada homered in the fourth and
Spencer hit his first home run since
June 27, a two-run drive in the sev
enth.
Game notes:
New York opened a 1 1/2-game
lead over idle Boston in the AL
East. ... Toronto RF Raul Mondesi
was a late scratch because of flu
like symptoms. ... Next up for
Clemens on the career wins list is
current Yankees announcer Jim
Kaat at 283— The Yankees passed
the 2 million mark in home atten
dance in their 50th date. ... Cruz
made a superb diving catch in cen
ter against Knoblauch.
The Associated Press
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