| Show 3C Tuesday May 9 2000 Rocker drops ball -- game BASEBALL I'OTES : Gonzalez puts talks on hold for now The Associated Press Dwight Gooden always liked pitching in New York mainly because he was always with the home team - The Associated Press The Associated Press John Rocker let the ball -and the game - simply slip out of his hands In a bizarre ending Rocker balked home The winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning Monday night and the Florida Marlins beat the Atlanta Braves DETROIT - Juan Gonzalez says contract talks with the Detroit Tigers are on hold for e now The American League MVP just wants to concentrate on lifting himself and the Tigers from slumps “I don’t want to talk about any contract” Gonzalez said Monday before the Tigers’ game with the Kansas City Royals “I want to concentrate on baseball” A day earlier following a 0 loss in Minnesota Gonzalez had given the impression that he wouldn’t negotiate again until the end of the season He has softened his stance considerably on that point “I don’t know when” Gonzalez said “Maybe before the game maybe after the game Maybe after two-tim- 3-- That changed Tuesday night All-St- ar ing er the season “Right now everything is quiet” That is mainly because both Gonzalez and the Tigers are in 9-- Velarde who has not played this season because of a knee injury was activated Monday by the Oakland Athletics Ariel Prieto who has not pitched since elbow surgery in 1998 was reSacramento called from Triple-To make room on Oakland's ros- Cubs sign Worrell release Ayala: The Chicago Cubs signed pitcher Tim Worrell to a minor league contract Monday and in five games since winning 15 in a row The Braves committed three errors gave up three unearned runs and wasted a fine performance by Maddux who 10 struck out a season-hig- h “We went for a long time catching a lot of breaks” Jones said “Now they’re going against us” on” Floyd said thing was going Florida’s Vladimir Nunez in danger of losing his spot in the rotation made his best start of the season and departed for a pinch hitter in the sixth with the “It’s always fun to beat the Braves” g It was the first balk in the NL since July 4 1993 right-hand- released reliever Bobby Ayala Worrell 32 was released by the Baltimore Onoies on May 1 game-endin- American League YANKEES 6 DEVIL RAYS 3 RANGERS 10 MARINERS 1 Texas Seat abrbbi Tampa Bay McLemore2b Javier If A Rodriguez ss Olerud lb E Martinez® Buhnerrf Lampkmc Da Bell 3b Cameron cf Totals abrhbi 110 010 40 00 G Wiliam cf Cairo 2b G Vaughn Canseco McGnfflb Castilla 3b Trammell rf DiFelicec 0 Martinez ph Stockerss S Cox ab Tat 3 4 4 4 12 1 120 40 10 4 0 2 1 0 1 2 0 10 0 0 3 0 00 10 0 0 3 34 3 021 Tampa Bay OOO HER H 2 41-- 000 000 10-0- E- -A Rodriguez (2) Lamb (3) DP Seattle 6 Texas Texas 7 (4) Mateo 2 (0) Lamb 2 (3) (5) JA McDonald (3) 2 LOB 000- -3 - PethtleWM 1 0 M RiveraS 12 Balk -- Pettitte 1 0 Paniagua 930 ANGELS 5 010 50 1 1 5 0 FuSmer® 9 Longct Velarde JaGiamhilb 5010 2 3 lb 808 088 30 118 4 2 T Batista 3 4 4121 Fletchere 4124 0 80 0 Wise M Cordova 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 4 0 20 0 000 AS Gonzalez ss 3 0 I 0 32 412 0 ToW ACastDoc 3) 514 5 Stairs Grieve Omstensonpr Tewdass Saenz Je Giambi rf RJ Hemandezc Chavez Tat 0M 201 020- -5 821 4M 00x— 4 Tarsal 1 LOB -B- altimore -Toronto Baltimore 3 DP 13 Toronto 7 (4) C Johnson 2 HR-T Batista (7) Bordkk (7) Fullmer (11) (9) Fletcher (6) 58 -- Amaral (4) M Cordova Anderson AS Gonzalez (1) Kansas C8y M SOI 8M 83- -8 8M IN 8M 88--1 Dstra E -- Femes (8) Reboulet (2) DP -- Kansas Oty 2 LOS -- Kansas City 5 Detroit 6 2B-- 2 'Kansas City 4 DetroH "N Y Yankees 6 Tampa Bay 3 TToronto 6 Baltimore 5 Texas M Seattle I 'Cleveland 3 Minnesota 2 (10) 'Anaheim 9 Oakland ( Today's games (Times MOT) -at Detroit Kansas City (Suzuki 0-- at NY Yankees ? 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for his eighth save Baltimore has lost five of six overall and 12 straight at Sky Dome ROCKIES 3 ASTROS 1 3 2 Tony Batista also homered for the Blue Jays who have hit 48 homers in 19 home games and are on pace to finish with 207 which would shatter the major league home record of 149 set by Colorado at Coors Field m 1996 eattle Calerada New York game was a win ¥ Blue Jays 6 Orioles 5: Damn Fletcher hit a grand slam in the fourth off Jason Johnson (0-2- ) that broke a 2-- 2 tie and Toronto won its 11th straight over Baltimore Rocker pitched to 1 better in the 9th WP-- V Nunez Bate -- Rocker T— 339 (35 521) HBP-- bv 42 10 4 8 81 5 8 81 5 2 3 1 -S- 3 5 rTampa Bay (Yen 535 pm (Cane 1 22X- -M hitting Johnny Damon's streak of 10 games with a leadofT hit in the first inning ended when he grounded out for the Royals Two outs when winning run scored E- -C Jones (5) Galarraga (3) Furcal 7 Florida 2 2B- -B Brown (5) SB-- A Jones (4) Kotsav P Wilson (4) (2) G Maddux Veras V Nunez Floyd (1) -Q SO BB abrhbi pm 3010 33150 3 BLUE JAYS 6 ORIOLES SOS (Mftckl 0-c Baltimore (Mussina Welts 505 pm 3013 3N Ml A -2- 5361 (57545) Sox I (111 400 0 4 120 30 0 0 3 East Division Encamacion ended his streak tops in the majors going hitless in five ts 1) Strikeouts -- P Martinez Boston 67 CFm-le- v Cleveland 47 Burba Cleveland 41 Clemens New York 41 0 Hernandez New York 39 Noma Detroit 38 Trachsel Tampa Bay 38 Saves-- M Rivera New York 12 Peraval Anaheim 9 Koch Toronto 8 D Lowe Boston 8 Karsay Cleveland 7 T B Jones Detroit 7 Oakland 5 i 1 Jose Sannago (3-pitched two perfect innings for the Royals Detroit's Juan Cuc-cinel- lo 800431 1 snapping Kansas City's e road losing streak Tony Clark hit a solo homer for Detroit Mike Sweeney hit a solo shot for the Royals The Giambis became the first brothers to homer in the same game since last Oct 2 when Vladimir and Wilton Guerrero connected for Montreal There was no definitive word from baseball on how many pairs of brothers have homered in the same game Among the others to do it were Hank and Tommie Aaron Cal and Billy Ripken and Billy and Tony Comgliaro Paul and Lloyd Waner Graig and Jim Nettles Rick and Wes Ferrell A1 and Tony Matty and Jesus Alou and Aaron and Bret Boone ¥ Rangers 10 Mariners 1: Rick allowed three hits in six Helling (4-shutout innings and Chad Curtis drove Toronto 7 R Alomar Cleveland 7 Pitching (5 Decisions) -- Baldwin Chicago 0 1000 297 Nelson New York 0 1000 150 P Martinez Boston 1 333 1 22 D Wells To833 282 Schoeneweis ronto Anaheim 1 1)00 1 800 399 0 Hernandez New York 1 800 8 74 Hell434 Bottakco Kansas City 1 1 Texas Boston 244 800 Fassero ing double in the Dye 1th off Doug tune-gam- five RBIs and Benjie Troy Glaus went Molma hit a sacrifice fly in the seventh the Angels' rally from an inning capping 3 deficit Tampa Bay Gooden L J Morris National League results 'Boston 3 Monday's Chicago White 4110 3010 Seattle 300 030 OOx- -4 Bay 3 New (3) York 2 LOB -- Tampa Bay 6 New York 1 (7) HR -- O'Neill (3) T Martinez (4) (3) (4) Bellinger (2) P abrhbi 4 2 2 Clayton ss 3 2 2 2 Alicea 2b I Rodriguez c 4 0 0 0 R Palmeiro® 4 10 1 Segui lb 4 130 Mateo cf Curtis If 4 2 3 1 Lamb 3b 3 122 McDonald rf Totals 33101410 0 0 4 0 0 0 40 0 4 00 0 4 0 Texas New York game was a win hit a two-ru-n Brocail (1-- Angels 9 Athletics 8: Brothers Jason and Jeremy Giambi homered for Oakland but Ajiaheim rallied at home behind Mo Vaughn's two home runs and Travis Lee and Andy Fox each drove in four runs as Arizona got 20 hits tying a team record for a nine-innin- g game Arizona led 15-- 4 after the fifth Cubs 12 Brewers 11 (10): Shane Andrews singled home the winning run in the bottom of the 10th and Chicago losing streak stopped its four-gam- e Sammy Sosa and Andrews each homered and drove in four runs Ricky Gutierrez Mark Grace and Enc Young also hit home runs for the Cubs Jeromy Bumitz hit two homers and Jose Hernandez also connected for Milwaukee The Brewers scored four times in the ninth to make it 11-tying it on two-ru- n pinch-hittCharlie Hayes' two-osingle Rockies 3 Astros 1 : Pedro Asta- cio struck out 10 and pitched a three-hittas Colorado won at Houston The Rockies had gone 22 innings without scoring tying a team record before Todd Helton hit a two-ru- n homer in the second Helton went “To win that way - holy cow” Marlins manager John Boles said “We’ll take it” Atlanta lost for the fourth time 2-- signment s ¥ Royals 4 Tigers 1: Jermaine 4-- er ter Infielder Adam Piatt was optioned to Sacramento and Ron Mahay was designated for as- the 10th for his seventh save 1) Baltimore two-wee- Athletics activate Velarde recall Prieto: Second baseman Randy (2-- Diamond-back- said “I’m just a bad player That’s the bottom line” Rocker making his first appearance at Pro Player Stadium k since his suspension for insensitive remarks was booed by Florida fans as he sprinted into the game Rocker intentionally walked pinch-hittMark Smith who moved to second on defensive indifference and Cliff Floyd came to the plate With the count 2 Floyd got ready for a pitch that never came “I saw everybody coming out of the dugout so I figured some- day’s game struck out the Ricardo Rincon only batter he faced - Corey Koskie looking - to end the ninth with runners at first and second Steve Karsay pitched 2-- “The only quote I’m giving is I’m a horrible player” Rocker Detroit got off to a start the worst record in the major leagues Gonzalez was hitting 227 going into Mon- ) Indians 3 Twins 2: Manny Ramirez hit an RBI single off Bob Wells (0-3- ) with two outs in the 10th as visiting Cleveland won its third straight following a six-galosing streak 2) field miserable slumps (1-- 2) too” 4-- single Brett Tomko allowed six runs and nine hits in six innings The Rangers have scored at least 10 runs m three of their last four games Tino Martinez hit a three-ru- n NO CATCH RULE: Los is to unable catcherTodd in the first and Clay Belhomer Angeles Dodgers Hundley come up with the ball as Arizona Diamondbacks’ Tony Womack scores in linger and Paul O’Neill homered in the fifth off Gooden (2-the first inning of their game in Phoenix on Monday pitching in New York for the score 2 He lowered his ERA first time since Sept 19 1997 when he was with the Yankees from 1048 to 917 Giants 6 Cardinals 4: Mark “Pitching here was very speMcGwire hit his 534th home run and tied cial" Gooden said Jimmie Foxx for ninth place on the caAt Yankee Stadium Gooden reer list but San Francisco beat SL Louis for its seventh win in a row gave up six runs and six hits in 4 Bobby Estalella homered twice and 13 innings when the Braves beat the Marlins drove in four runs at Pacific Bell Park ' allowed 3 Andy Pettitte (2-Atlanta Deion Sanders at Pat Hentgen lost his fourth straight start three runs and nine hits in 6 23 scored on rookie Matt Turner’s The Giants' streak of 26 scoreless inbalk with one out in the bottom nings ended when McGwire homered in innings as the Yankees won for the fifth He is two behind Mickey Manthe ninth time in 1 1 games Mariof the ninth tle for eighth place ano Rivera who blew his second That had been the last gameDiamondbacks 15 Dodgers 7: save chance Sunday against Baltiin the until balk Showalter Buck Arizona winning manager majors posted more s his 500th wm the pitched the ninth for his career and April 28 when Texas’ Jeff Zimmerman did it in a 3 loss at desert romped past Los Angeles in the 12th save ar ar two-ru-n pitching here as an opponent” said Gooden 102-4- 5 in home games for the Yankees and Mets “It was different walking out to the mound from the other side of the field But it was a good feel- 2 pinch-runn- in three runs at Arlington Royce Clayton led ofT the first with a triple and Texas went ahead for good with three runs highlighted by Curtis' when he made his first appearance as a visitor and was pounded in the Tampa Bay Devil Rays’ 6-- 3 loss to the Yankees “I was obviously very excited The Marlins had runners at second and third with two outs when Rocker got set on the rubber And then the ball dropped out of his glove to the ground By rule a balk Second base umpire Mike DiMuro signaled it and Danny Bautista trotted home “I think the umpires didn’t really want to call it but they couldn’t ignore it” Braves third baseman Chipper Jones said “It was a fluky thing" It was the first balk of Rockcareer and the er’s three-yefirst by a Braves pitcher this season Rocker and Braves manager Bobby Cox briefly spoke to DiMuro as the umpires left the 4-- All-St- Gooden finds Big Apple unfriendly to visitors QVeruX A Jones C Jones d Galarraga B Jordan rf Banda Fircalss Lunar c J Lopez c 6 Maddux Hubbard Remkngarp Joyner v 211 31 111 lit 400 30 lit 31 til 211 111 00 111 Wilson 9 8 11-- 3 1 1 1 12 2 00 Acevedo Weathers WickmanL-- 1 1 51 4110 LCsatNo Kotsav rt M Smith Floyd P 22-- 3 rht Estrada Bank d Lowel DLLuft in 4011 4011 41 40 AGonzdezM Bakoc 40 Bautista or V Nines p B Brown Almanza 2 Ueber 42-- 3 N 7 7 Br WMama 21-- 3 8 2 8 8 4 0 10 10 101 00 00 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