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Yankees, Bronx
pose problems
for Minnesota
The New York Yankees
and the house of horrors
await Minnesota on
Thursday in the playoffs
By Gordon Wittenmyer
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
NEW YORK — The Minnesota
Twins ruled the day on Tuesday.
But when their best-of-five playoff
series resumes with Game 2 against
the New York Yankees on Thursday
night, they will walk into a different
Yankee Stadium — a dramatically lit,
foreboding place where angry faces
scream from the shadows in the
chilled Bronx night.
More than any early afternoon
game in late September played in
front of a late-arriving crowd, Thurs
day night's game will give the Twins
the full impact of the Yankee Stadium
aura and mystique in the postseason.
A night game in October. The cold
white glare of the stadium lights. Fifty
thousand wrathful, obnoxious fans
looking for a beer, if not a fight.
Maybe even a ghost or two haunting
the corridors and power alleys of the
hallowed baseball grounds.
"We definitely felt that," Twins in
fielder Chris Gomez said of his 1998
San Diego Padres team that was
swept by the Yankees in the World
Series. "I'm not going to say it's in
timidating. But when we had our
game (Tuesday) changed to a day
game, I said that's fine."
Gomez said he and outfielder
Michael Cuddyer, who was on the
Twins' playoff roster last year, talked
on Tuesday about the less imposing
atmosphere for Game 1 than they had
expected. For Gomez, who experi
enced only the electrically charged
night games there in 98, the differ
ence is day and night.
"It's a big difference. I can't pin
point it. I can't tell you why," he said.
"We both were talking about how it
maybe didn't feel — not intense —
but maybe as playoff-like as it would."
If the change of game time doesn't
bring a harder edge to the natural men
ace of the place for the visiting team,
then the bad mood the Twins inflicted
on New York City with their 3-1 victory
in Game 1 almost certainly will.
"It's always Yankee Stadium. If the
sun's out or it's dark, it doesn't make
a difference," Twins first baseman
Doug Mientkiewicz said. "It's a great
atmosphere to play in. When you
come in here to play, you understand
you have to have, hopefully, a three
run lead in the ninth inning because
they're going to make a push. This
place is amazing."
And if the Twins escape New York
with a 2-0 series lead, they will know
they earned it.
"We know they're coming," Mien
tkiewicz said. "To win this, we have to
play two games probably above what
we're capable of doing, and we had to
do that against Oakland (to win a se
ries last year)."
Right-hander Brad Radke (14-10),
who earned recognition as a big
game pitcher last year with three
dominating playoff starts against
Oakland and Anaheim (2-0, 1.96
eamed-run average), starts on Thurs
day night for the TVins against 20
game winner Andy Pettitte.
That experience, along with the ear
ly lead in the series, should make a
difference for the Twins when the sun
goes down and the lights go up on
Thursday night. It already seems to
have created a more veteran, busi
nesslike demeanor in them than the
exuberant, almost wide-eyed response
to last year's playoffs.
"I think that comes with a little
more experience," Twins manager
Ron Gardenhire said. 'The guys are so
emotional out on the field. They took
some deep breaths and let out some
air (after the win). They understand
we've got to win two more games.
They do understand those things.
We've been there at least once."
And the fight for their lives in Sep
tember to get to the playoffs after a
disappointing first half of the season
has played a role.
"We've played only one game, and
the game went our way, and we
played pretty good," Gardenhire said.
"I don't know if relaxed is the word,
but our players are pretty confident."
So bring on the night. And whatev
er it brings with it.
"It'll be darker," Gardenhire said.
"But this is a hell of a place to play
whether it's day or night. Maybe it'll
be a different crowd. Maybe there are
a few more kids during the day...."
"A playoff game at Yankee Stadium
is a playoff game at Yankee Stadium,"
right fielder Jacque Jones said.
"They're going to be going crazy."
And in the crazy din of Thursday
night's must-win game for New York,
the Twins might find it hard to hear
themselves think, much less remem
ber Tuesday's victory.
"Right now it means nothing,"
Mientkiewicz said. "They're not going
to roll over and die. They've been
there before; down two games to
none against one of the best pitching
staffs in baseball."
The Yankees stormed back to beat
Oakland in the 2001 first-round series
after Oakland won the first two games
at Yankee Stadium.
(c) 2003, Saint Paul Pioneer Press
(St. Paul, Minn.). Distributed by Knight
Ridder/Tribune Information Services.
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