No Pedro, no problem: Red Sox drop Mariners
By Bob Finmgan
The Seattle Times
BOSTON — It is one thing to lose
to Pedro the Great. It is another to
lose to one of his underlings.
But on a New England day that
was as dazzling as Saturday was
dreary, it was not the who of the out
come but the how.
On the surface, it appeared Seat
tle lost, 3-2, to the Boston Red Sox
on Sunday because Luis Ugueto
was thrown out to end the game on
an attempted steal of second base.
Hardly. When a club lives by the
running game, sometimes it loses
with it.
“We play that way,” Seattle man
ager Lou Piniella said. “If we hadn’t
played that way, we wouldn’t be in
first place.”
In fact, the Mariners lost because
the Red Sox slid two extra-base
hits inside the first-base bag, lead
ing to a run in the first and two
runs in the third.
The Mariners lost because they
went 2-for-10 with men in scoring
position early against John Burkett,
who’s no Martinez on the mound
but got the win.
The Mariners lost because Tony
Clark, no Baryshnikov on defense,
made two superb defensive plays,
the biggest a rally-gutting dive-left
on Jeff Cirillo’s ball with the bases
loaded in the second.
The Mariners lost because the Red
Sox came up correct on two pitches
to Ruben Sierra in the ninth, with
Ugueto running for Cirillo, who had
drawn a two-out walk.
On the first pitch, Boston closer
Ugeth Urbina threw the slugger a
first-pitch changeup, which he
slammed far out to right field-foul.
“I thought he’d throw a first-pitch
fastball there,” Sierra said, with a
rueful smile. “If he throws a first
pitch fastball there and I hit it well
well, it goes for a home run.”
On the second pitch, Ugueto
went for second and catcher Jason
Varitek threw him out—barely.
Later, Sierra had a quiet word for
Ugueto, who had stolen successful
ly all four times previously.
“I told him not to let that bother
him,” Sierra said of the conversa
tion he had with Ugueto in the club
house. “I told him the pitch was a
96 mph fastball and it was up high, a
perfect ball for the catcher to make a
throw. He almost stole the base any
way, don’t let it stop him.”
It may not have been the only les
son of the day. After the Red Sox, who
had scored their run in the first on a
wild pitch, got two-out hits from No
mar Garciaparra and Brian Daubach
to overcome Seattle’s 2-1 lead in the
third, Piniella went to the mound.
The Seattle loss closed a home
home stretch in which by far the
two best road clubs in baseball each
lost twice in the other team’s park.
When the 3-3 split in the two se
ries was brought up to him, Piniella,
whose ace pitcher, Freddy Garcia,
had been unable to provide a win to
make it a 4-2 trip, retorted:
“You guys (in the media) make so
much of a damn series early in the
year. They’re on the damn schedule,
so you play them, April series, May
series, June series. Let’s wait to the end
of the year and see what happens. ”
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continued from page 9
Holliday ran a half-second per
sonal best in his event, and his effort
typified the effort of many Oregon
athletes who stepped beyond their
potential at the conference finale.
Holliday ran a 50.73, where his pre
vious best had been 51.29. His time
was an NCAA automatic-qualifier.
“1 just concentrated on my race
and didn’t stress and let it come
out,” Holliday said. “You can’t ask
for much more that a win for the
team and an NCAA provisional
mark in the process.”
On Saturday, the Ducks got a
surprise Pac-10 championship
from javelin thrower Nick Bakke,
who had been ranked 12th in the
conference heading into the meet.
Bakke launched a throw that was
more than 20 feet longer than his
season best and an NCAA provi
sional qualifier to win the confer
ence crown. His toss made up for
the loss of the injured John
Stiegeler, who won the Pac-10 ti
tle this past year.
“I knew we needed the points, so
I came in focused on scoring and
not the place,” Bakke said. “I
hadn’t competed since the Oregon
Invitational, and coach (Bill Law
son) wanted us to shut the arm
down so we could try to get it as
healthy as possible. I was more con
cerned with helping the team.”
Duck hammer thrower Adam
Kriz also threw a personal best in
his event, though his improve
ment wasn’t as dramatic as
Bakke’s. Kriz improved by 3 feet
and easily took the conference ti
tle by more than 10 feet.
“I was really nervous coming in,”
Kriz said, “So I took a different ap
proach during the competition and
forced myself to sit down and try to
relax, and that seemed to make a
big difference.”
Oregon’s fifth individual title
came courtesy of decathlete Billy
Pappas, who won the multi-event
title May 12.
While the Ducks got 50 points
from the champions, the rest of
their points came from the support
ing cast of runners-up and top-5
finishers. Micah Harris came per
haps the closest of any Duck to
winning his event. The senior fin
ished second in the 110 hurdles by
0.01 seconds.
In the triple jump, Foluso Akin
radewo finished second to top
seeded USC jumper Julian Kapek.
Sophomore Trevor Woods finished
fourth in the pole vault Saturday,
though his jump would have been
good enough for second if he’d had
fewer misses than the second- and
third-place finishers.
Sophomore Jason Hartmann had
an impressive showing in the star
studded 10,000. He finished sec
ond to Stanford’s Jonathon Riley.
The Cardinal accumulated most
of their points in the distance
events. Stars like Riley and Gabe
Jennings led Stanford to 88 total
points in the four events between
1,500 and 10,000 meters, includ
ing 56 combined points in the
5,000 and 10,000.
USC finished third with 103
1/2 points, while Arizona State
and Arizona rounded out the top
five. UCLA was the biggest sur
prise of the meet. Expected to fin
ish near the top and possibly even
contend for the team title, the
Bruins finished sixth overall with
91 1/2 points.
The Ducks will spend the next
two weeks preparing for the NCAA
Championships. Several Oregon
athletes, including Bakke, sit on the
edge of the NCAA qualifying list.
When conference meets conclude
this week, those athletes will find
out whether or not they are headed
to Baton Rouge, La., for the national
meet starting May 29.
E-mail sports reporter Peter Hockaday
atpeterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
Simon Kimata won the 800-meter conference title Sunday in Pullman.
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