OCR Text |
Show The Salt Lake Tribune SPORTS Sunday, June 20, 1999 oS Hampton Shuts Down Expos to Win His Ortiz Comes Back | From Bench With Ninth Gameof Year THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON Mike Buzz’s Hottest Bat National League Hampton allowed two runs inseven innings and had two BY MICHAEL C, LEWIS THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE hits to lead the Houston As- ‘ros to a 5-2 victory overthe After being benched for a aonireal Expos on Saturday game by managerPhil Roof on account of a_ batting slumpandthe waningeffort that wasstarting to go with nig Hampton allowed seven hils and two walks to win his fourth straightstart. Heis 40 with 3.62 ERAin June. Hampton,who was 2-for-2 with a run scored,tripled to center to lead off the fifth. Hescored the Astros’ fourth run when Montreal third baseman Michael Barrett misplayed Craig Biggio's grounder foran error. Billy Wagner pitched the ninthfor his 17th save, j wee en 7 Here Hi mee tas} 1G ee Ba > a 9 ges cae 1Mahe eada iaecalaereo Fe mm tole are mem — op ttt 14ahhl eee gs bet cee Eaut coal a 4220 ae 4022 Guenez ss yaneicn ph 3000 2420 4000 foust 300 010 Otx—5 DIAMONDBACKS7 ATLANTA 3 PHOENIX — With 94 games left to play, Jay Bell tiedhis career high with his Ist home run as Arizona GIANTS 11 CUBS 5 day — with Roofhimself hit ritetia a ES f iF pitches to him. And boy,is Mark Redman glad about that Charlie Hayes and Doug Armed with a renewed sense of purpose, Ortiz Mirabelli added two RBIs each and Barry Bonds had an RBIsingle for the Giants, hed two two-run home ‘uns at Franklin Covey Field tolead the Buzz to a 7-2 vie- who won their fourth straight. The Cubs, wholeft the bases loaded twice, have lost nine of 10. tory over the Tacoma Rai- That snapped Ortiz out of his funk and made sure Redman will continue ee ony teas ons ewe PY te?S14 Tt ceie 11e sein2888 pero 949 bac,f Gaeremnr9 ea112 ieee 0107 soe 118 Geeorks meme 4104 038 eps'iiitis eae. Gott: : agacap. ome to enjoy his summer. The a Rios ae ary pe Thearon Hendraon/The Associated Press Chicago's Jeff Blauser gets the throw away Saturday afternoon, avoiding a hard slide from San Francisco's J.T. Snow in National Leagueaction. The Giantsrolled to an 11-5 victory. 2000 a het ren Garciaparra’s Homers §=0000 BMlonsp Roridc 3144 900 000 200— 2 (Rene Lwoker (16), (9 in eae LL LW ‘Deck Bot F222. A—47 057 (50.384), BREWERS 10 Cho Earn First Win BOSTON — Nomar Garciaparra went 3-for-3, including a solo homerand an RBI double, and Jin Ho Cho got his first major league win to lead the Boston Red Sox to a 7-4 victoryoverthe Texas Rangers on Saturday Jose Offerman stopped his worst slumpof the season, going 3-for-5 and driving in a run, and Mike Stanley added a solo home run as the Red Sox won for just the fifth time in their last 14 games Teas cornet 08708 cine Gout 4000 155) svoormnao oteman a $120 $341 Save frome Doband$432 4024 Wearehi040 40.00 Gonna Serre4 12032 1 Stayt 4009 re Sanayi 4444 wee 144) Satne 9000 4010 Meco 3049 Vomee’ Soon sft2000 ocd Melorem 000 Tome INeont a7 4270 4044 Woo 484 7186 Tero £30 oH 900 oy 100-4 Benoa cri 0, Ftc 1108-8 Mestecteet {H,: Gocopan Pte { men 0 Mom? 1197 49 12d tie Betis Venato 800000 fener 383 oo tara 155086 ‘oson outa wea age nidte 18 Sooo 00 crus Cho piedSA{baa n he{oo 7m 42 ruta | his 20th homer. ew vom S100 esang > ern P18 Bebo wit} 1413 Jota Meceor 3100 1043 face 9905 Boat” Komoc 3100 4021 fammon 4034 heap 9000 3908 Saray ferme 900 Vote i eight games of a 13-game homestand before victimizing Jason Isringhausen for 2A iiseienHf i j CARDINALS7 REDS 1 METS 6 CINCINNATI — Jose VaST. LOUIS — Mark lentin homered during Mil org,u fare Ti, Kose: McGwire ended a 32 at-bat waukee’s seven-runfirst inhome run drought with a ning and DaveNilssonlater three-run shotin the first in- hit his 100th career homer INDIANS 10 ning as St. Louis beat New York. McGwire had been 5-for30 with one RBI in thefirst TIGERS 1 DETROIT — John Jaha homered twice and rookie Tim Hudson pitched seven strong innings for his second straight win. Matt Stairs and Jason Giambi also homered for the A’s, who snapped a fourgame losing streak with only their third win in their last 16 road games Luis Polonia was 4-for-5 with two buntsingles for Detroit, which has lost four of ona cornu orreon corn mam S399 $349 Voorom $122 3080 ron honee 3094 ae Cormmnoto®5000 Soe 3534 tymGe, 2348 ay on 4323 Wear wiit? kaeoocuencn 1008 4040 Seely 5335 h $308 Chover 5000 Ocres 4420 Sadanacs8023 $43 ene Wom 14048 Toe 374404 ation 22 1 i413 ‘Detrod Ot 000 000— 4 Bana algal Fran th Seems achha? 1h ve 2) Serre » Neem Oatdond yen 7,ugas tk 143833 vic a feos jet th ds Bereon Riiiod ba Why ata Rowbtu} bohen tio NSir nr bs neg | Veh aeye urehore Sok sare Hear fa ack hI fart MARINERS6 for the Indians, who have scored 10 runs or more 13 times this season andare on paceto break the 1931 New York Yankees’ record for runs in a season drovein two runs. Tit TH iit Ge tH Ht 4 ESey RE 00 7 tis met pane = Samp Sxtoce p Wom on $33 ® 1000 ec 4333 300 , $318 18) o 9000 AD me My iyqi38 tom 7i 1 e1, ii Res i it TORONTO — Tony Fer nander had two RBI singles to raise his major league: leading average to 409 and Roy Halladay allowed just two hits over 6%innings. Fernandez, who went 2 for-4, got his 2,177th career hit to tie Julio Franco for most hits by a Dominican layer Halladay (5-3), starting for injured Chris Carpenter. didn't allow a hit until Car Jos Beltran ledoff the fourth with a sharp single to right 117221217 L15-20 L-113-2112-20 5-4 3.6 53 325224 5 55 L117-1618-16 46 W-121-1113-22 45 5-4 3843310-28 1614151523 36 Saturday’s Games New York 6, Anaheim 2 Boston 7, Texas 4 Cleveland 10, Seattle 6 Toronto 7, Kansas City 0 Oakland 13, Detroit 1 Tampa Bay 4, Minnesota 3 L Chicago 9 altimare 14 enleaey Today’s Games ‘Texas (Glynn 0-1) at Boston P._ Martinez 12-2), 11:05 a.m. Kansas City (Suppan 3-4) at Toronto (Wells 7-5),11:05 am Oakland (Haynes 4-6) at Detroit (Moehler 5-7), 11:05 am Anaheim (Belcher 4-6) at New York (Cone7-2), 11:35 rH 1 Baltimore (J Johnson 0-1) at Chicago (Baldwin 3-6), ‘TampaBay (Alvarez 2-5) at Minnesota (Milton 5 pam Seattle(Fr Rodriguez 2-0) at Cleveland (Jar, Wright 5-3), 6:05 p.m RAST W Atlanta National League L New York Philadelphia 35 ‘oft Lake ob rh bt iatomd $010 Neto unmings49623.1.00 Omid 4234 Wirec 3014 gomnd Ronin % 4010 444 figs 444 Coy 2000 Morextyes 11 | Tole 3279 440 000 000-2 102 exo Pet GB L10 SirkHomeAway intr 603 — 55 Li2-142013 54 544473 19:15 305 64 LlIGI7I9-14 6-3 6.3 406 13 55 L416211017 63 Florida $5317 28 1112271217 PetGB Li kHome Away Intr Houston 606 G4 W-221-1319-13 42 “| was getting mad whenI got a walk andeverything,” 46 said Ortiz. Cincinnati 531 Pittsburgh 515 Chicago ___ 33 32.508 St. Louis 3334 Milwaukee 29 ce 38 — 5 Ll 15-2019-10 4-5 5-5 L-220-1214-20 4-5 1-9 L415. 13 18-19 15 So on Saturday, “I was just thinking about the wayI “4% 46 13-18 20-16 4-5 lot of fun playing the game 6 4l — San Francisco 39 me = 7-3 W-l 30 565 2% 64 W-4 23-12 16-18 6-3 32:32 500) 7 7-3 W-2 Los Angeles 31 35 470 an 3-7Wal 17 SanDiego 27 38 415 14-17 3-6 42 Los Angeles 8, Philadelphia 1 oes 3 bene oe Oh ‘ ORIOLES 11 WHITE SOX 9 (11) Gop soe | L111) meegos Arizona 7, Aulants 3 San Diego 5, Pittsburgh 4 Nowy fone me field, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OMAHA, Neb. — Forall his trips to the College World Series, Miami Coach Jim Morris never had a na tionaltitle But Kevin Brown and Mi. chael Neu took care of tha andthejanitors in Coral Gables, Fla., won't be using this year's trophy to prop open the bathroom door. Brown homered in the second inning and hit a three-run double in Miami's five-run_ fifth, said. “I've thought about it thousands and thousands of times.” Morris has been asked time and again about that game, by everyone fromre. porters to professors to the diners at the civic luncheons in Miami ““T've got to admitit, some: times I had a very, very dif ficult time answering. | don'ts Rink tapos’ ween stands howdifficult it was to in Tt was crushing. Morris said. Brown made sure Morris wouldn't have to keep talk ing aboutit. ith Florida State leading 2-1, Marcus Nettles led off the fifth with a bloopsin gle to left, took second om a wild pitch and scored on Kris Clute’s single to right. BobbyHill singled up the middie and Clute wentto ird. Brian Scever ground ed to shortstop Brett Groves for the second out, but rath: in the championship game of the College World Series It was the third national championship for Miamibut thefirst for Morris, the only coach in NCAA history to bring his team to Omaha each of his first six seaso was a great winforall of us," Brown said. “Coach has been here the last six years. It's greatto finally get it out ofthe way. Since he arrived in Coral Gables, Morris has lived in the shadowofformer coac! i 3 Ron Fraser, who wontitles the next two batters, load! i} in 1982 and 1985. When the bases, Brown doub! uae Morris took over, he found a up the gap in right Neu, meanwi runner-up trophy holding opena bathroom door. iso has been 2 ShasSS wen hauntedfor three years by the memory of a ninth-inning homer by LSU's Warteman ag ren Morris, T WY Pony ,’ ; uid j | } =e BORE EET] ee me RETEST 4s taage fame 04 Vig dod dick hit a two-run homer in feretyLe fk foe the 11th inning as the Balti. more Orioles survived a “ ha hatay thotSaad shaky performance bytheir ton CHICAGO — Mike Bor. the For Long-Suffering Coach Houston 5, Montreal 2 Colorado 10, Florida 2 ‘oday'’s Games wm an err : 110) Repeat! iti} Beriett!! Gene Gave Bee ttt peac 111) Kas 05% Re" HH} ven nia Bae weulS ie $3 ies Eienquesfeente Peeteeae tee Weantoans = yo Ht ame Soneence et eee St it oko Se Pare thheebur e 4 et mm oer tom ee ts Se Ruiter ae fanhe th's a LA fe Roo, to Hurricanes Win CWSTitle Saturday's Games St. Louis 7, New York 6 coming that,” he said. “It worked." 16-13 16-19 3-3 12% 5-5 We2 19-16 8-22 PIONEER LEAGUE. South Don aL tae Ming te) dao Palerw) 31 Tho Bate Anges 13 3 watching everybody, don't be getting mad, Stuff like a: 24-9 17-18 4-2 Colorado Calgary at Colorado Springs Albuquerque at New Drleane usedto hit. I used to have a 433 2 603 no Col Springs Rockies) 35 31.536 Albuquerque (Dodgers) 32 36 47] 9 Towa (Cubs) 3038 HL 1 last place in the PCL's South Division, now at 30-35. 6% ween Arizona 63 Milwaukee (Abbott 1-6) at Cincinnati (Tomko 2-4), 11:15 am NEW YORK — Bernie 4-3) at St. Louis (Jimenez 3-7), 12:10 p.m Williams homered and dou- New York(D(Reed Smith 1.0) at Houston (Holt 0-6), 12:38 p.m bled twice, leading Hideki Montreal Florida (Dempster3-2) at Colorado (Bohanon8-3), 1:05 p.m. Irabu and the New York Pittsburgh (Ritchie 6-4) at San Diego(Clement2-7), 2:05 p.m. Yankees over Anaheim and Chicago (Lieber 6-2) at San Francisco(Brock 5-6), 2:08 p.m sending the Angels totheir Philadelphia (Ogea 3-5) at Los Angeles (Brown 7-4), 2:10 p.m. Atlanta (Glavine 4-7) at Arizona (R Johnson 9-2), 6:05 p.m, sixth straight loss Irabu allowed three hits in innings and Derek Jeter drove in two runs as bullpen to beat the Chicago DEVIL RAYS 4 New York handed Anaheim its longest losing streak W" '¢ Sox. TWINS 3 since a six-game skid last a 8 owcaoo MINNEAPOLIS — Jose July. imc tite » TIS% Canseco hit his major tioas $222 eo“om 7231 league-leading 27th homer puree ott | mt $912 and Wade Boggs had his Bao $122 Gwe 42% 1,000th career RBI as Tam Maen S112 doamnpn horde, cite Bay won has homeredin Damar2010 $000 PaCanseco oad O88 Doan 40t1 ont 7019 Komp 9809 13 consecutive series to tie faaee, 3839 Roger Maris for the second streak ever in the Boar 008 0 03 longest mere American League. Marrwonc 361 31109 tana ar *: Toto 44141244 focyene arte secs 4 om eet 2-44 $3 FR dtl ay t ny {. Ghcago 2 38 \ce-temro 38{ fararn2( 1) Clee iets City c y Hepulled out a nice win Brian Richardson and Mike Moriarty added solo homers in the seventh inning for the Buzz. Butit was Ortiz’s first blast, with one out in the sixth and the Buzz t , that allowed Omaha (Royal) CENTRAL ANGELS 2 rem were : gee Bee fee = 82 W-112-14 22-7 64 L-2161817-14 6.3 46 San Francisco 11, Chicago 5 Milwaukee10, Cincinnati 1 YANKEES 6 2 mer and Raul Mondesi each 44 ATHLETICS13 CLEVELAND — Roberto Alomar and Manny Ramirez hit back-to-back homers in Cleveland's five-run fourth inning and Dave Burba pitched seven solid innings. scored the tying run. 54 27 36 54 W-110-17 17-23 1-4) StrkHome Away Intr Weck‘Cugret. Thc Rooc. MierT-248 — 25.309 (51000, twYr13Nee 8 28 hang Patt) Seeakine1h 9chores [boo tee winawa th Agoora Abogg te Hollandsworth, Tripp Cro- GB WEST WL PetGB LAO SirkHomeAway Intr Texas 39°23 582 46 L-117-132215 45 See F283ye405 A SAN DIEGO — Dave Ma gadansingled in the winning run in the seventh inning and Tony Gwynn's rade continued slo ward 3,000 as San Diego won its second straight Gwynn singled for career hit No, 2,982 in the third and Pet Boston Toronto 32 Baltimore 30 Tampa Bay 27 ENTRAL W Detroit Kansas City 27 Minnesota 25 THOT LOS ANGELES, Cali Darren Dreifort pitched 644 strong ae and Todd Tocome ab rnb Sond $120 Goro Ramench 1800 forse 404% Seer 3040 Seay Jasonph 3000 1000 Chawrc 0000 Codenoc 44130 Monapont 4.00.0 Baers) 3004 Yoh 34272 Tecoma for me,” said Redman. foe! like he worked hard for nothing, Redinan had to maneuver out of trouble in each of the first four innings — in part se of shoddyfielding. He impressively kept the Rainiers from scoring in the fourth by getting a pop out anda strikeout after Dominyo Cedeno’s one-outtriple Il that, without his curveball working ‘Theonly thing that felt good was the fastball,” he said ‘The homers also made up for Ortiz’s throwingerror on a potential double play in the secondinning — one of three Buzz errors in the game — that allowed Tacoma’s Shawn Buhnerto give the Rainiers a 2-0 lead with a sacrificefly. But more importantly, signified to Roofthat hehad made his point to Ortiz by sitting him down and by havinga private chat long before the game on Satury J didn't think he'd really had his mind in the game,” said Roof. “I told him, You'vegot to redirect your thinking’ He's got to producefor his own benefit to get back to the big leagues, but he’s also got to producefor us to win.” Orliz has always felt like he belongs with the Minnesota ‘Twins and notthe Buzz, yet he had managed just ihreehits in his previous 19 at-bats, spanning five games. It had not helped that the Buzz have been in American League WoL Cleveland Chicago Wig DODGERS 8 PHILLIES 1 MAJOR LEAGUE REPORT Help Red Sox Rookie — 3 ae gee a gg noma $4 camo an ome th acenc fi" ernie. iit Res 10) Geer HUH ape’ 11 ittsare’ Gee tit Hit eae foeshi) Pee, 114 111) caeridi gee Been St Rear 1s! Remuill RE? ; ahi! Sewereet eeriemien Fane — re fee 1 ThE =e rane Li ee Today:Tacoma(Paul Abott, 4-0, 5.44) at Buzz (Shane Bowers, 2-0, 6.04), 2 p.m. 7.00 at the end of i 9000 Mrendhi 0 200 Bere san aon a ene wioeeine ae os clonmoh eicesn ee lacoma2 left-hander won his fourth 2 ince the start ». improved to 5-3 and earned-run avIt had been 3440 Autos: Paaao 0000 Mrcbetc 3232 2000 fenon 0000 1000 Esterp Embwep at-bats. iF: 2 Heie ting grounders and throwing three-run double, for San Francisco's third straight victory over Chicago. looperp ia 38.973 hour of extra batting and fielding practice on Satur- reer-high five RBIs, hitti a two-run snapped mistake-prone At- we, ithmtd ty sean sLamint lanta's four-game winning BaP hecdintnetcham streak HBP—by Myers (Mirctbed as Bell also had an RBI sin- senceee eas ele and scored three runs in (46510, the second of the threegame series between the ROCKIES 10 leaders in the NL West and Bast. Arizona's Luis Gonza- MARLINS 2 hit his 13th home run and DENVER — Todd Helton Omar Daalimproved to 4-0 becamethe third player in in his past six starts Colorado history to hit for the cycle, getting it in four Toto it, Buzz first baseman David Ortiz took more than an SAN FRANCISCO — Marvin Benard had a ca- Saturday: Salt Lake 7 Bi Highlight: Hector Carfasco eamsthe savein the of a Sears re 7 tree pected to abet * reela oekOe “It's a myback,” the Miami coach |