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Show TuesJrv GD Mark Whicker '98 Yankees look like the '50s Yankees NEW YORK The Padres assure us they won't quit. We accept that. We would like to know when they're planning to start. No World Series has ever ended after two games. But if nothing changes Tuesday night, this one will be remembered as the perfect vaccine for baseball fever. 0 Andy Ashby was mercifully removed after eight outs and hits, it meant the Padres' seven Series starters (1984 and 1998) had an ERA of 11.17. In "96 the Yankees their way through all sorts of underbrush. The year before, they had gagged a Division Series lead to Seattle. They hadn't won the Series in - 18 years. David Cone conquered an aneurysm. Graeme Lloyd was booed back to Australia, yet stood his ground. The Yankees were something they'd never been before and plucky ' hope warred with apprehension in the massive balconies of ' Yankee Stadium, before a pop-up landed in Charlie Hayes mitt, and a city exploded. This year? It might as well be 1952. The Masters was in Augusta, the Kentucky Derby 1 was in Louisville, and the World Series is here. The Yankees are on the October calendar again, ' as predictable as a fortune cookie, and the fans bask in the 10 hand-foug- 2-- ' 1 glow of suspicions confirmed. There is a familiarity here. The fans in the right-fielbleachers chant the name of Jet-eDer-e- k each player d r, Ber-ni-e J Will-iam- s, until that clap-clap-cl- play- er acknowledges by waving his glove. The ritual ends with radio man John Sterling. The fans still get mad, as they play-by-pla- - y did when Chuck Knoblauch forgot the ball in ALCS Game 2, i but that's part of the love. ' But what do you have to do to draw 3 million? The Yankees, winners of 114 regular-season games, didn't make it this year. They almost got to 2.95 million, easily a club record but not what George ' : Steinbrenner wanted. Obviously you need luxury boxes to be competitive. Steinbrenner wants them ' anyway, and a new stadium to end all stadiums around them, somewhere in east side Manhattan. Opponents of the plan arranged to put it on a ballot, where it would surely lose, but a court decision foiled that. The Bronx, clinging to the Yankees' heels for identity, has proposed a stadium renovation with neighborhood redevelopment and a new train station inside the ballpark. This sounds reasonable. The ballpark must be preserved at all costs, and this wouldn't demand all costs. Yankee Stadium is snide and rude and spontaneous and funny and communal. Of course it is; it grew up in New York. The Yankees are haunted not by how this season will end, but that it must. That . doesn't mean they're waiting on the Padres. city-wid- , - Hage B3 0 Mark Whicker U a sports columnist for The Orange County Register Cone's desire to make amends to Joe Torre for nearly blowing the AL pennant clincher last week against Cleveland and slugger Jim Thome. "I kind of felt like I let him down the other night when I gave up the grand slam to Thome,' Cone said Monday as the World Series switched to California. With the Yankees ahead of Cone walked Cleveland David Justice with the bases loaded. Thome then homered, and suddenly the clincher was no sure thing. "I trust him. I've been for trusting, but I can't help that Torre said. "He may be able to talk me into something, and he takes advantage of that trust at times, but I'll live with that because I know there are times that he'll say he's OK, and I want to believe him. But I think that also makes him say, 'Well, since I made that commitment, I've got to do this, and there's something he can call on that a lot of other people can't Cone, standing a few feet away in the interview room, took that as high praise. "I've been able to pitch my way into jams and pitch my way out it, but it caught up with me the other day," he said. "I hope that trust factor is still there tomorrow night. But that is the ultimate compliment any "f ' I --11 N Vy? CV '6k -- 4 lur.JiirlM JOHN BAZKMOKE ud MARK LtYMHAN The Associated Game 3 starters: The starters for Game 3 of the World Series will take different motivations to the mound tonight. San Diego's Sterling Hitchcock (left) will be looking to show up his former team. David Cone is seeking atonement after blowing a pennant-clinchinvictory against Cleveland last week. player can get from a manager." Even if San Diego wasn't in the trailing the Yankees Series, Hitchcock could be excused from having extra motivation. New York traded him to Seattle after the 1995 2-- 0 season. "It doesn't matter if we're playing the Bad News Bears right now, it's the World Series," he said, clearly stuffed up from sinus congestion caused by a cold. "As a kid, that's what you dream Puss York career was history. of." Hitchcock was for the Yankees in 1995, the first time he stayed in the majors for an entire season. But when the opportunity to obtain Tino Martinez came up, his New "I'm very thankful to the 14-1- 1 Yankees to give me an opportunity to play at this level," he said. "They gave me the ball and gave me a chance to go out and prove myself. 0 1 7 1?!? AIL luh second- 9-- : THE DAILY HfcRALQ, Piwo, -guessed Only two innings were . WS, 6-- required Sunday to illustrate why the Yankees are basically unpitchable. They played the other seven anyway, as kids went to bed on time and the rest of us finally pined for NBA exhibitions. It wound up and the Yankees took a Series lead the same one Atlanta held over the Yankees in "96. Yeah, stranger things have happened, but only in Roswell, N.M. San Diego upheld its only World Series tradition satirical starting pitching. When 2-- atom ft 20, SAN DIEGO (AP) David Cone wants to atone. Sterling Hitchcock just wants to pitch. Game 3 of the World Series has more subplots than a soap opera, and chief among them is " m QCs 'mb e Qualcomm field torn up by Chargers and Eagles SAN DIEGO (AP) The field at Qualcomm Stadium looked like a battleground Monday, with worn brown patches in the infield and right-cente- r field. The San Diego Chargers and Philadelphia Eagles played an NFL game Sunday, and in less than a day the stadium was converted back to baseball for Tuesday night's Game 3 of the World Series. Much of the infield grass was cut very low and soft, and it appeared some of the grass between the pitcher's mound and first base was either dead or close to it. Sections were muddy between home plate and the mound and between the mound and first. After the workouts, a machine rolled the grass in right field. FAMILY HEALTH UPDATE: San Diego slugger Greg Vaughn said his mother is in the intensive-carunit of a Sacramento hospital after experiencing chest pains following Saturday night's Cone, who played six years in the National League, has the most experience at the plate of the Yankees pitchers. He is (.152) in his career and joked that manager Joe Torre held him until Game 3 to get his bat in the lineup. Cone doesn't have a hit since 1992, but did drive in a run in interleague play against Atlanta this year. Pettitte is much less experienced at the plate and is hitless He has in four career been taking batting practice the past month, but is not confident about his skills at the plate. "Normal hitters have a tough time against their pitching, I don't know if I have a chance," Pettitte said. "All you can hope for is getting a bunt down when you need to. I hit about .350 in high school, but most of these guys hit at least .500." New York's best weapon at the plate is reliever Mike Stanton who is in his career. e World Series opener. "I told her, 'Don't watch anymore,' " Vaughn joked before the Padres worked out Monday. "Who knows? It might give me a heart attack, LOVING LEFTIES: If the Padres think the sight of a d will 1KV too." Vaughn said his mother underwent a quadruple bypass four years ago. He's dedicating the rest of the World Series to her. The father of New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte had bypass surgery last week in Houston. Pettitte rejoined the team in time for Game 1. DESIGNATED SITTER: With the World Series shifting to Qualcomm Stadium, the San Diego pitchers should finally get a breather in the New York lineup. With the designated hitter used in the first two games, the Yankees' No. 9 hitter Ricky and reached Ledee went base in seven of his eight plate appearances. That's quite a difference from what David Cone New York's and Andy Pettitte starting pitchers the next two games are likely to produce from the nine hole. starter spook the Yankees, think again. Sterling Hitchcock New will be the first York has faced since the next-to-laday of the regular season, when the Yankees beat Tampa But durBay's Terrell Wade ing the regular season, New York went 33-1- 1 against lefties with a gaudy .306 batting average. Hitchcock's start will likely force Ricky Ledee to the bench. Ledee had four hits in the first two games but manager Joe Torre will probably go with one d of his four options Chad field left in Curtis, Tim Raines, Shane Spencer or even designated hitter Chili Davis, who has been shagging flies the last few daya "At this point, I really do not know which way I am going," Torre said. "In all likelihood it won't be Ledee. He did play all season, against but I think with the number of s I have to choose from it will probably be one of left-hand- 3-- right-hande- rs right-hander- the right-handers- ." yruuu-j- t if J 'J MARK J. TERRILlThe Associated Press screams: A COAST TO COAST: The e flight from New York to San Diego was the longest World Series trip in 17 years. Not since the Dodgers and Yankees met in 1981, have there been teams from opposite coasts in the Series. This is the eighth time there has been a Series, with the Yankees involved in six of them. The East Coast team is The Yankees beat the Giants in 1962, lost to the Dodgers in 2,444-mil- coast-to-coa- st 4-- 1963 and 1981, and beat Los Angeles in 1977 and 1978. The 2,585-milflight in 1962 was the longest distance between two cities. e ODDS AND ENDS: If the Yankees come up with their first World Series sweep since 1950, they will end up with the fourth-bes- t overall record in modern history. New York's 125-7record (.714 winning percentage) would trail only the 1906 Cubs (.749), 1927 Yankees (.722), and 1909 Pirates (.717). ... Tuesday's game will be the first World Series game in California since Cincinnati beat Oakland in Game 4 of the 1990 Series. ... In seven Series games, San Diego's starters have failed to make it out of the third inning five times. They've allowed 24 earned runs in 19 3 innings, an 11.17 ERA. ... The first 10 times the Yankees took leads in the World Series, they went on to win. But they lost the last two times they won Games 1 and 2, to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1955 ) and to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1981 ... Overall, teams with 0 World Series leads have lost 10 of the last 12 Game 3s, with the 1989 Oakland Athletics and 1990 Cincinnati Reds the exceptions (each went on to sweep). Of the 29 times a team swept the first two games at home, 22 went on to win the Series. depart every four to five min- utes. The trolley is an option for World Series ticket holders seeking to avoid the traffic crush. Crews have removed seve eral concrete posts that crowds were bumping into as they moved from the stadium's Gate K to the elevated trolley station. The changes follow the injury of Teresa Mattson, who fell or was pushed amid 14,000 fans heading onto the trolley at the stadium on Oct. 3. She sustained a black eye, a broken wrist, a split Up and an injured knee. The Padres have offered her post-gam- 2-- 0 (4-3- (4-2- 2-- BYU. 18 Women's Soccer vs. UNLV & SDSU TIGHT SECURITY: City transit officials have a new game plan for crowd control for the World Series after a woman was hurt leaving a playoff game. San Diego Trolley officials will send 39 security guards to guide people in an orderly way from Qualcomm Stadium onto the red, four-ca- r trolley trains after the games. The trains will "55 Q LUNCHEON WedrtMday, October 21, 1998 11:30 A.M. 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