Show in The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday April 20 2003 — B3 Benitez blows another game Expos sweep doubleheader with Reds By Thri Associated ' Press National League Armando Benitez Mew his fourth save chance this season allowing two runs in the ninth inning ofa 6-- 5 loss to fhe Florida Marlins on Saturday at Shea Stadium Luis Castillo hit a game-tyin- g RBI sinbeat and Ivan out a potengle Rodriguez tial double-pla- y grounder to drive m the run Benitez (0-- converted 33 of 37 chances in 2002 for the Mets Braden Looper (2-allowed a two-ru- n double in fte eighth that put New Yoik go-ahe- 3) last-pla- ce 0) ahead 5-- 4 Expos 8 Reds 7 1st game Expos 9 Reds 5 2nd game At San Juan Puerto Rico — Vladimir Guerrero homered and drove in five rims as Montreal completed a sweep of the : doubleheader and extended Cincinnati’s losing streak to five Javier struck out 1 1 as Montreal Vazquez (2-rolled to a 0 lead Brian Schneider homered twice in the - : day-nig- ht AP photo 1) New York closer Armando Benitez reacts during the ninth inning Saturday against Florida at Shea Stadum 9-- D-ba- opener including a leadoff shot in the 10th off Scott Williamson (2-Luis won his first major league Ayala (1-decision in the opener Jimmy Anderson lost the night game Austin Kearns was Cincinnati’s lone ' bright spot homering in both games to g give him a major eight The announced crowd of 10296 for the opener was the smallest for the Expos’ eight games so for in Puerto Rico Hie second game drew 13109 Diamondbacks 4 Cardinals 3 1) 0) (1-- 2) ' (1-- ng 0) Houston starter Wade Miller At St Louis Byung-Hyu- n Kim (1-won his first career game as a starter and Luis Gonzalez hit a tiebreaking two-ni- n homer in die fifth off Jason Simontacdri (0-1- ) Kim a converted closer who had a team-reco36 saves last year allowed three runs and five hits in a career-hig- h seven innings and Matt Mantei got six outs for his firstsave since April 16 2001 at St Louis rd ' Arizona swept by die Cardinals in the playoffs last fall had lost six straight in St Louis since winning Game 3 of the playoffs in 2001 Brewers 3 Astros 2 At Milwaukee pitcher Glendon Rusch pinch hitting because Milwaukee ran out of hitters on the bench blooped a bunt off Scott Linebrink (0-- 1 for a single in the 14th inning John Faster pitched two scoreless innings for the win game-win-ni- league-leadin- 3) nip Cardinals cks 10-- 1 against the Brewers allowed five hits in seven shutout innings Rockies 10 Padres 9 At Denver Ronnie Belliard drove in the winning run with a squeeze bunt that capped a three-ru- n ninthrinning rally off Brandon Villafuerte (0-who also allowed an RBI grounder to Bobby Estalella and a tying single to Chris Stynes 2) SeeNLonB7 Doaompon hang on to beat Orioles Devil Rays By The Associated Press American League De&i Relaford homered and Raul Ibanez had a two-ru-n third inning as single in a five-ru-n the Kansas City Royals beat visiting Detroit 2 Saturday to hand the Tigers their 15th loss in 16 games this season Angel Benoa had three hits and scored two runs for the Royals who improved to 0 at Kauffman Stadium this season and are the last remaining undefeated team at home in the majors Their 13-- 3 start is die best in club history after 16 games the Tigers are 4 against Kansas City this season and are off to this worst start in franchise history and the worst in baseball since in 1992 the Royals went Albie Lopez (3-- pitched five scoreless innings in place of starter Jeremy Affeldt who left after three innings with a blister Athletics 12 Rangers 2 At Oakland Mark Mulder pitched seven strong innings and Miguel Tejada and Scott Hatteberg homered as the Athletics defeated Texas Mulder (2-gave up two runs on five hits striking outfive and walking Jtwo Eric Chavez had three hits including a single that followed Tejada’s g homer that chased Ismael Valdes (2-Rafael Palmeiro and Carl Everett each home-re-d for Texas which lost its fourth straight road game Red Sox 7 Blue Jays 2 At Boston Trot Nixon and Todd Walker each drove in two runs during Boston’s five-ru- n third inning as the Red Sox won their sixth straight game Toronto has lost three straight games and nine of 10 The Blue Jays who mitered as the AL’s worst fielding team committed three errors that led to three unearned runs Derek Lowe (3-- gave Up two unearned runs and seven hits in five innings He escaped a pair of jams in die first four innings took the loss Tanyon Sturtze (2-' White Sox 12 Indians 3 At Chicago rookie Josh Stewart got his first major league win and D’Angelo Jimenez had four hits as die White Sox scored six unearned and runs in the first off Brian Anderson (2-9-- 7-- 0-- 16 0) 1) fourth-innin2) 1) bases-load- ed 1) 2) Ari- ST LOUIS (AP) zona Diamondbacks pitcher Curt Schilling underwent an appendectomy Saturday dur- ing the team’s game against the St Louis Cardinals but might miss only one start Schilling was in pain on Fri- day when the team arrived for the start of a three-gaseries and manager Bob Brenly said the pain was more acute on Saturday Cardinals team doc- tors recommended surgery me beat Cleveland Jimenez had two hits in die opening inning and drove in three runs Magglio Ordonez homered in the fourth and extended his hitting streak to 15 games longest in the AL this season Carlos Lee hit a three-ru- n homer in the eighth to close the scoring for Chicago Stewart who pitched out of a jam in the top of the first allowed five hits and two run in six innings as the White Sox won for the 11th time in 14 games Devil Rays 8 Orioles 7 At Baltimore Jorge Sosa allowed three hits in five innings to become the first Tampa Bay starting pitcher to win a game this season as the Devil Rays hung on to beat the Orioles Tampa Bay starters hadn't recorded a victory in the first 16 games That’s the deepest into the season since the 1992 Kansas City Royals who got their first win from a starting pitcher in their 18 th game The Devil Rays almost blew it allowing four runs in the ninth inning before holding on for (1-- (1-- 1) thqwn George Lombard Aubrey Huff and Damion Easley homered for the Devil Rays Rodrigo Lopez (0-- gave up seven runs and innings eight hits in 5 3) 1- -3 Yankees 4 Twins 2 At Minnesota Bemie Williams hit a two-ru-n homer and Raul Mondesi hit a solo shot as New York showed off more power pitched 7 Andy Petdtte (3-innings to run the rotation’s record to 12-- 0 — the longest seasop-openg streak in the last 50 years according to the Elias Sports Bureau New 14-- 3 York is off to a franchise-bestart The Yankees also beat the Twins for the 11th straight time over the past two seasons Minnesota 25-- 2 in that span Twins center fielder Torii Hunter gave the crowd of 36139 at least something to cheer with a double an RBI about by going g and an amazing catch 7 6 Mariners Angels At Anaheim Tim Salmon hit a tying single n in the ninth inning and an error by third Mark McLemore allowing the winning run to score as the Angels rallied past Seattle 1- -3 0) ni st ng homer-robbin- base-ma- “Obviously it was some- thing we couldn’t afford to put off for another couple days" Brenly said “The doctors that came over from the St Louis side recommended that they ' 1) do if right away “We thought about maybe even flying him back to Phoenix but they suggested against that” The Diamondbacks hesitated to characterize the operation as an emergency situation “I dog’t think it was rup- tured or burst” Brenly said “But it certainly looked like it was heading in that direction” A team spokesman charac- terized the operation as a “routine procedure” Schilling could be released from Bames-JewiHospital as soon as Sunday but likely won’t return to Arizona until Tuesday or Wednesday ' Schilling 36 has been run-nerup for the NL Cy Young sh AP photo hits a two-ru- n double against Detroit in the third inning Saturday at Kauffman Stadium The Tigers lost for the 15th time in 16 games Kansas City's Joe Randa award the last two seasons winning 45 games during that span He was 23-- 7 last year With 323 ERA with a This year he’s ERA 428 Schilling had been scheduled to pitch Wednesday at home against the Expo- sAll of the Diamondbacks starters had been set to get an extra day of rest before the surgery and now the remain- ing four in the rotation will work on regular rest 1- -2 Jeter takes grounders during rehab By The Associated Press disabled list with a strained right groin onfield strengthening had a workout He threw batting practice for the second time in four days on Friday Rivera could pitch in a minor league game Monday and rejoin die Yankees later in the week He started die season on the disabled list after getting hurt on his final pitch during a spring training game March 24 Reliever Steve Karsay on the disabled list with an injured right shoulder made 90 throws off flat ground and is slated ' fot his first bullpen session Monday ' Confirms demoted The Yankees sent pitcher Jose Contr- eras to Triple-- Columbus and recalled Randy Choate 40-min- Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter fielded easy groundexs for the first time Saturday increasing the onfield part nf hi rehahilita- tion program for a disktcried left shoulder Positioned on the grass in front of the infield dirt Jeter took 55 ground balls He’s still not allowed to catch the ball during throwing sessions but Jeter made 60 tosses for the second straight day Jeter is expected to be out at least All- e another three weeks The Star was injured in a collision with Toronto catcher Ken Huckaby in the Yankties’ season opener March 31 Closer Mariano Rivera on the i five-tim- 15-d- ay A left-hand- er Contreras who signed a $32 million contract this winter after a stel- with a 1080 lar career in Cuba was ERA in five appearances for the Yankees “I had a feeling it was coming” Con- treras said through an interpreter “Of course I’d like to be here with this team but unfortunately I don’t have the oppor- tunity right now to pitch consistently” New York managerJoe Torre talked all week about making the move that right-handwill give the more chances to pitch The Yankees’ starting rotation of Mike Mussina Roger Clemens David Wells Andy Pettitte and Jeff Weaver is thriv- ing tod there weren’t enough innings available to Contreras to keep him sharp four-ye-ar 1- -0 er Rangers’ Everett hit by cell phone OAKLAND Calif! (AP) — Texas right fielder Carl Everett was hit in the back of the head with a cell phone thrown by a fan in the Rangers’ 12-- 2 loss to the Oakland Athletics on Saturday The male fan was arrested according to A’s spokesman Jim Young and Everett said ' he planned to press Charges Everett was discussing it with an Oakland police officer after the game in the clubhouse “Luckily I was wearing a hat” Everett said “If it wasn’t for the hat I’d be cut back there That fan should be ashamed of himself” Everett was hit four days after umpire Laz Diaz was attacked by a fan at US Cellular field in Chicago during a White Sox-Roya- ls game “This is always happening in major league baseball and maybe now they’ll do something about it” Everett said “I’m going to be pressing charges Fans pointed him out and they arrested him It’s just ignorance and alcohol and probably too much of both That’s what causes this” An officer answering at the Oakland Police Department -patrol desk said he had no information on the arrest ' Everett complained to umpires before the start of the sixth inning that he had been hit “I tossed it over the fence” Everett said of the phone “We are all going to be heck-le- d in this game! That’s part of it But it’s wrong to throw stuff” Security was beefed up in the area and Oakland's Terrence Long picked something up and threw it back into the stands when he got out there inthe sixth “We have great fans here and there's no room for fans to throw things on the field” A's manager Ken Madia said “When I saw what was hap- pening I immediately pointed out our head of security to the home plate umpire" Seattle right fielder Ichiro Suzuki has been hit by coins tossed by Oakland fans See PHONE on B8 |