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Show Tuesday. October 6, IWK.THF. FLAVOR CCULES Clovolcnd vo. Sen Diogo vo. Atlanta Now York look at the best-of-- 7 American League championship series between the Cleveland Indians and New ALCS: Of A A York Yankees: Braves: took at the best-of-- 7 National League championship series between trie San Diego Padres and Atlanta Schedule (all garnet NBC): Game 1, today, at New York (6:07 p.m.); Game 2, Wednesday, at New York (2:07 p.m.); Game 3, Friday, at Cleveland (6:07 p.m); Game 4, Saturday, at Cleveland (5:07 p.m.); 5, Sunday, at Cleveland (2:07 p.m.); 6, Oct. 13, at New York (6:07 p.m.); 7, Oct. 14, at New York (6:07 p.m.). necessary. Schedule (all games Fox): Game 1, Wednesday, at Atlanta (6:15 p.m.); Game 2, Thursday, at Atlanta (6:15 p.m.); Game 3, Saturday, at San Diego (2:15 p.m.); Game 4, Sunday, at San Diego (5:45 5, Oct. 12, at p.m.); San Diego (6:10 p.m.); 6, Oct. 14. at Atlanta 7, Oct. (2:20 p.m); 15, at Atlanta (6:15 p.m.). necessary. x-- if x--if Season Series: won, Season Series: New York 7-- PROJECTED UNEUPS PROJECTED UNEUPS Regular season statistics Indians: Kenny Lofton cf (.282, 12 HRs, 64 54 RBIs, SBs), Omar Vizquel ss (.288, 2, 50, 37 SBs), Jim Thome dh (.293, 30, 85), Manny Ramirez rf (.294, 45, 145), David Justice If (.280, 21, 88), Travis Fryman 3b (.287, 28, 96), Richie Sexson lb (.310, 11, 35), Sandy Alomar c (.235, 6, 44), Joey Cora 2b (.276, 6, 32). Yankees: Chuck Knoblauch 2b (.265, 17 HRs, 64 RBIs, 30 SBs), Derek Jeter ss (.324, 19, 84, 30 SBs), Paul O'Neill rf (.317, 24, 116), Bernie Williams cf (.339, 26, 97) , Tino Martinez lb (.281, 28, 123), Chili Davis dh (.291, 3, 9) or Tim Raines dh (.290, 5, 47), Shane Spencer If (.373, 10, 27), Jorge Posada c (.268, 17, 63) or Joe Girardi c (.276, 3, 31), Scott Brosius 3b (.300, 19, 98) . PROJECTED ROTATIONS Indians: RH 4.72 Nagy Jaret Wright ERA), RH 3.76). (12-1- Charles RH 5.22), (15-1- Bartolo Colon (14-9- , RH Dwight Gooden 3.71), (8-6- , LH David Wells (18-4- , ERA), RH David Cone Yankees: 3.49 (20-7- , 3.55), LH Andy Pettitte , 4.24), RH Orlando "El (16-11- Duque" Hernandez (12-4- , 3.13). RELIEVERS Indians: RH Mike Jackson 1.55 (1-- 40 ERA, career-hig- h RH Paul Shuey (5-saves), 3.00), RH Steve Reed (2-6.66 after acquired from San Francisco), RH Dave Burba (15-14.11), RH Chad Ogea (&4, 5.61), LH Paul Assenmacher (2-3.26), LH Jim Poole (00, 5.14). Yankees: RH Mariano Rivera 0, (3-- 41 ERA, 36 saves in chances), RH Ramiro 1.91 Mendoza (10-2- , 3.25), LH Graeme Lloyd (3-- 1.67), LH Mike Stanton (4-5.47), RH Jeff Nelson (5-- 3.79), RH Hideki Irabu (13-9- , 4.06). MATCHUPS Indians: A sometimes edgy ... rivalry dating a Beat New York last year in half-centur- tense, five-gam- playoff in e first round. Alomar's homer off Rivera in Game 4 rescued Cleveland. Romped 11-- in June, d handing New York its eighth-innin- g 0 most-lopside- shutout loss in 10 0-years. ... Gooden is 3 in eight career postseason starts. He's never faced the Yankees, the team that did not want him after the 1997 season. Gooden pitched a for Yankees in '96. ... Lofton (.367) hit three home runs in seven games. He's a .358 lifetime hitter at Yankee Stadium. ... Thome homered Wee times, but struck out in ... Fryman 1J of 33 htt .364. ... Burba went 0-wfth a 6.16 ERA. ... Wright wjs 2--1 with a 3.66 ERA. ... Jackson had two saves and an 0.00 ERA in four games. Yankees: Beat Cleveland's AL in 1954. rapord of 111 wins Teams got testy in spring ..j training after Wright hit Luis Sejo with a fastball, breaking his left hand. ... Are 18--8 overall at Jacobs Field, best afoong Cleveland opponents. Split six games at the Jake thjs year. ... Spencer hit .727 with three home (8for-ll- ) no-hitt- 3 rujis. Atlanta won, 5--4. Regular season statistics Padres: Quilvio Veras 2b (.267, 6 HRs, 45 RBIs, 24 SBs), Steve Finley cf (.249, 14, 67), Tony Gwynn rf (.321, 16, 69), Ken Caminiti 3b (.252, 29. 82), Greg Vaughn If (.272, 50, 119), Wally Joyner lb (.298, 12, 80), Carlos Hernandez c (.262, 9, 52), Chris Gomez ss (.267, 4, 39), Andy Ashby p. Braves: Walt Weiss ss (.280, 0 HRs, 27 RBIs), Keith Lockhart 2b (.257. 9, 37), Chipper Jones 3b (.313, 34, 107), Andres Galarraga lb (.305, 44, 121), Ryan Klesko If (.274, 18, 70), Javy Lopez c (.284, 34, 106), Andruw Jones cf (.271, 31, 90), Michael Tucker (.244, 13, 46), John Smoltz p. PROJECTED ROTATIONS Padres: 3.34 RH Andy Ashby (17-9- , ERA), RH Kevin Brown (18-7- , 2.38). LH Sterling Hitchcock , 3.93), RH 4.27). Joey Hamilton (13-1Braves: RH John Smoltz (17- 3, 2.90 ERA), LH Tom Glavine (20-6- , 2.47), RH Greg Maddux (18-9- , 2.22), LH Denny 3.55). Neagle (16-11- , (9-7- RELIEVERS , RH Trevor Hoffman 1.48 ERA, 53 saves in 54 chances), LH Randy Myers (1-6.28 after acquired from Toronto), RH Brian Boehringer (5-4.36), RH Donne Wall (5- 4, 2.43), RH Dan Miceli (10-5- , 3.22), LH Mark Langston , 5.86). Braves: RH Kerry Ligtenberg (3-2.71 ERA, 30 saves), RH 2.75), LH Rudy Seanez (4-John Rocker (1-- 2.13), RH Kevin Millwood (17-8- , 4.08), , RH Dennis Martinez 4.45), LH Odalis Perez , (4-6- (4-6- (0-1- 4.22). MATCHUPS Padres: Brown did not give up a run in winning his lone start vs. Braves this year. He beat Atlanta twice last year in NLCS, putting Florida into the World Series. ... Ashby was 2-- 0 with a 1.80 ERA against Atlanta. Last year, trying for San Diego history, his bid vs. Braves was broken up by Kenny Lofton's leadoff single in ninth inning. ... Hoffman had three saves and an 0.00 ERA. ... Vaughn drove in eight runs. ... Manager Bruce Bochy started Georgia native Brown at Atlanta on three days' rest on Aug. 20 as a test to see if he could do it in the playoffs, and the responded with a 2-- win. ... The next day, another Georgia native, Hamilton, who lives in Atlanta in in the offseason, fell to 0-five starts in Atlanta. He gets a little too excited pitching at home. with Braves: Smoltz was a 4.73 ERA vs. Padres. He's 12-- 7 lifetime against them. ... Glavine was 1-including a two-hi- t shutout at San Diego in August. ... Galarraga hit four home runs. ... Chipper Jones, always a big postseason performer, batted .394 with two homers against San Diego. ... Neither Padres nor Atlanta ran much in their nine games. ... Braves have owned San Diego since 1991. Have won season series for eight 66-3straight years, going 0 Two ... overall. matchups that Atlanta hitters have dominatTucker vs. Brown and ed Galarraga vs. Ashby. first in no-hitt- e coaching her 1,000th match), although of course we know she's actually done more than that. She's really done a lot, and she's a great coach," Rogers said. "But what we were trying to do with this match is prepare for the weekend, and I don't think we really did that. It's kind of hard to get up so right-hand- Continued from Bl Byron Frisch said. Offensive lineman John Tait agreed: "These are terrible. If I had to choose one, I'd say Mountain West." Placing third was American West Conference (20 percent), though many of the players said it sounded too much like an airline. Last was the Great West Conference (17 percent). Much of the pessimism about the proposed names came when the players tried out the acronyms. MILLER'S ARM: Quarterback Drew Miller, who suffered a Grade 1 AC separation in this right (throwing) shoulder Saturday, expects to play against UNLV in four days. "I'll be ready to go this weekend," he said after run WAC Continued from Bl 0 5 2-- 0 the Aztecs by 56 yards and ran 20 more plays. In fact, SDSU was able to convert on just 2 of 10 third downs. What happened? Tulsa's turned the ball over nine times in the last two games, including three giveaways in the final 10 minutes against SDSU. Tulsa ranked 108th nation colon. "The Straw factor is part of it," Torre said. "He keeps giving orders to go out" and do it. He did it again yesterday." Given the Yankees' strength, Cougars. ing, Michaelis, who is second e in victories (782 entering the year) behind UCLA's Andy Banachoski (829 entering this season), did try to recall her first match as BYU head coach. "I don't know that I can remember the match exactly, but I know I had just graduated from BYU a year before, so I was coaching a lot of people I'd played with. They were my friends, and it was so much fun," she said. "And it's still fun." 3 8 9 "We substituted a lot and kind of seemed to lose concentration," Michaelis said. BYU quickly regained that soon after Utah, and they concentration in Game 4, end(Idaho State) played at a realing the match with a decisive ly slow pace. We kind of block from Rogers and Nina played down to their speed, Puikkonen. rather than playing at our Rogers led BYU with 14 own pace. But we'll be ready kills, while Melissa Layton added 10. Puikkonen had 10 this weekend." The Cougars blew ISU out block assists and Rogers seven. Michaelis became only the the first game, falling behind then reeling off 15 straight fourth coach in women's volleyball history and the third active points. NOTEBOOK Strawberry, recovering from surgery last weekend to remove a cancerous tumor from his coach to reach the 1,000-matcplateau. But the Cougar coach was more interested in talking about the chances of the 1998 team to win a national championship, about the only thing the 9-- Continued from Bl K AI H ning sprints with the team Monday. "We're going to get this offense going." Miller said the shoulder was f tweaked on a hit delivered by Fresno State's Frank Battle, which was pictured in Monday's Daily Herald. But he said the real damage was done on the first play of the second half, which ended touchdown up in a pass to tight end Carlos Nufio. "They brought everybody" he said. "I couldn't even step up in the pocket to throw. They brought the strong safety and I saw that he was unblocked, so I threw it off my back foot. "He got me from the backside and the way I fell, I jammed my shoulder." While the pain was minimal at first, it increased when the adrenaline and endorphins stopped pumping. BYtTs offense stood on the first-hal- 58-yar- d ally in turnover margin a season ago and appears to be maintaining that pace. "Sometimes you think it's from a lack of concentration," Tulsa coach Dave Rader told the Tulsa World. "I don't think that was the case this time. "I think it was a case of we were trying to make plays but we neglected to take care of the ball. "That's something we cannot ever forget." Things may not improve for Tulsa this week. h achieved Cougars haven't under Michaelis' tenure, than about her own accomplishments. However, with some promptall-tim- I he Associated Press it's almost overlooked that Cleveland is the defending AL champion, trying to win its third pennant in four seasons. "We're always the underdog. That doesn't matter. We have enjoyed being the underdog," said Cleveland's Sandy Alomar along with her coaching duties, isn't sure how long she'll go on. "Each year just kind of, melds into the next," she said. "The start of each season is., kind of a culmination of a process, of recruiting, spring it never practice, planning seems to end, so there never seems to be a stopping point. ". "It's kind of like (BYU foot-- " ball coach) La Veil Edwards' " ' says, as long as I'm enjoying it,' I'd like to keep doing it. And I'm" ( , . . enjoying it. "The administrative duties are fine, but I enjoy the coach-- " " ing more. The young people are so fun." It's great. just And Monday "officially"' wrapped up the 1,000th time' Michaelis has had that kind of ' fun. ment. "The hip socket came apart," Schechter said. "The femur came out of the hip socket. He had screws put in to repair the fracture site." Holmes, who is a junior, faces a year of rehabilitation. which were sandwiched around a blocked field goal Heshie Robertson returned for a touchdown. 'Then it got real stiff," Miller said. "It hurt, but it wasn't like I lost a lot of range of motion. But on film, I saw that it did hurt my mechanics." BROKEN HIP: Fresno State running back Carl Holmes seemed to be on his way to a touchdown in the fourth quarter Saturday night when he went down like he'd been shot. Holmes underwent surgery Sunday morning to repair his hip socket. Fresno State trainer Paul Schechter told The Daily Herald that Holmes suffered a fractured dislocation of his hip, a rare football injury which eventually forced Bo Jackson to have a hip replace The Hurricane will travel to Colorado State this week. Last season, the Rams whipped Tulsa 44-8- , after Tulsa turned the ball over on its first six possessions. Save up to $120.00 lot 20.00 Act will waive Clin up of your Insurance Deductible. Free Mobile Service ft Free Stele Safely Impaction. Call for Detail!. 2 GlaSS Act OpfcaAm 392-107- 2 373-872- 6 Free Checks MISSED FUMBLE: BYU ' players say the intense pain caused Holmes, who was in the ' clear when the injury occurred to fumble before he fell to the ' ground. Defensive end Hans Olsen fell on the ball. "The reason I didn't pick it up and run with it was because I didn't know ' ' which way to run," Olsen said. ' ' He's seen too many replays '" of a famous mistake by former Minnesota Viking defender Jim Marshall, who picked up a. fumble and ran to the wrong .. end zone. "I've seen that," Olsen said. , "Now I'm paranoid." BYU. 5 Women's Volleyball vs. SDSU & Hawaii TULSA ENCORE: Tulsa is four games into the WAC season and still waiting for its first field goal. Tulsa had one attempt blocked and returned for a touchdown. On another attempt, a botched hold was picked up by kicker Bryan Archibald, who threw an interception. 533-884- 4 member hUlU Free Checking Restrictions Apply 3670 North University Ave. Provo 377 - 4222 Limited Time St Lake wm fC ; It's so fun that Michaelis,'! who was recently named the women's athletic director to go ran 18 consecutive plays, t ( Jr. sideline while Fresno State AMERICAN BANK OF COMMERCE Jar II.LtNS o 9 Jjr W Yankee killer? Cleveland pitchers Jaret Wright, left, and Charles Nagy walk around the field Monday at Yankee Stadium. Wright will start Game 1 of the American League Championship Series tonight. .. The Bengals took leads of in Game 2 and 10-before the Cougars rallied to score the final seven points of the match for the win. BYU led 1 in Game 3, but Amanda Berg and Vanessa Lamborn helped ISU score six straight points to become only the third team all year to actually take a game from the 6-- MICHAELIS was 8 0 Padres: (4-2- five-gam- Page B3 " grudges and head hunting and twice more this season half the Indians' wins in their 11 games against the Yankees. Sojo says Wright deliberately hit him during spring training March 2, fracturing a bone in the his left hand and sidelining the infielder until April 27. "Jaret is not a head hunter, but to be effective, anybody has to throw inside," Indians manager Mike Hargrove said. "I don't think we should all get carried away in dragging out old grudges or new grudges. As far as I know, there is no bad blood between these two teams." In a way, that's true. After going 114-4during the regular season and sweeping Texas in the first round, the Yankees want to steamroll any and all opponents. Holding Texas to a .141 batting average in the first round wasn't luck, the way New York sees it. "It's tough to make a bad decision when you have the selves for losing to Cleveland in quality that I have," New York the first round last year, when manager Joe Torre said. New York was defending its '96 And now New York has rookWorld Series title. ie Shane Spencer, the hottest Wright beat the Yankees bitter in the game. And the twice in that series incentive to win for Darryl NEW YORK (AP) One inside pitch is all it may take to transform the AL championship series into a brawl. All the ingredients are there: Cleveland's upset win over New York last year, Jaret Wright's drilling of Luis Sojo last spring, the 114 wins by the Yankees, breaking the AL record set by the '54 Indians. So watch out for chin music. High heat could mean trouble. "You don't have to pitch up and in and head hunt," David Wells said Monday, a day before starting the opener against Cleveland's Jaret Wright. "Sometimes it can be personal through the course of the year. ... They are an aggressive team, and I think we are, too. It is something you just got to go out there and fight to the death. When you go out there and try to win ballgames, things can happen, guys get a little bit out of control at times." The Yankees have hunger in their eyes, still angry at them- DAILY H( R ALD, Provo, Utah Come celebrafe with Coach Elaine Michaelis her 1000th matchl |