Show SPORTS The Salt Lake Tribune Caps' Win Leaves Penguins THE ASSOCIATED have never rallied from a playoff disadvantage in their 25- year history Lemieux who had three goals and three assists in Pittsburgh's 6- 4 victory in Game 3 didn't score until the Capitals had already bolted to a lead and the effect on the NHL's highest-scorinteam was predictable With their big gun unable to deliver goals the Penguins failed to convert seven minutes' worth of power plays in the first period enabling the Capitals to take a lead on goals by Todd Krygier Ciccarelli and Dimitri Khristich Rangers 3 Devils 0: At East Rutherford NJ goaltender Mike PRESS 3-- The Washington Capitals put the defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh within one game of elimination riding Dino Ciccarelli's four goals to a victory over the Penguins in the Patrick 7-- 2 Division semifinals Saturday 4-- night at Pittsburgh With goaltender Don Beaupre and Washington's defense negating NHL scoring leader Mario Lesemieux the Capitals took a ries lead and can finish off the Penguins on Monday night in Landover Md : The Capitals are on their n home ice and overall this against the Penguins who 3-- 5-- 8-- 2-- sea-io- 3-- Whalers 3 Canadiens 1: At Hart- ford Conn Yvon Corriveau and Randy Cunneyworth scored power-goals as the Whalers domMated the first two periods with heavy hitting and goalie Frank Pietrangelo made key saves Murray Craven scored an empty net goal with 19 seconds left to seal the win play third-perio- At Buffalo NY Ted Donato's second goal of the series 2:08 into overtime gave Bruins 5 Sabres 4 — BEACH MIAMI More d t rig17rter "I almost cried I any way it was a draw" Harris than 2000 fans paid up to $100 each to see Hollywood bad boy Mickey Rourke plod around the ring and duck into the night Saturday with a majority draw that left his opponent crying foul and much of the crowd in Miami Beach dissatisfied The boos weren't as loud as in Rourke's pro debut in Fort Lauderdale Fla last May but they could be heard after two of three judges said that Francisco Harris a mechanic from puck from the point to the front of the Buffalo net by Jan Erixon Paul Broten and Mike Gartner And that was more than enough for Richter on this night the Virgin Islands foughtt well enough to warrant a NEWS SERVICE KNIGHT-RIDDE- one-gam- goals third-perio- d Rourke Handed Controversial In His Second Venture Into Pro Boston a victory over the Buffalo Sabres giving the Bruins a 1 lead in the Adams Division semifinals Vladimir Ruzicka returning e abto the lineup after a sence set up Donato poking the 2 on 3-- 0 1 3 0 g 1 Game From Extinction 1 Richter returned to form and the New York Rangers came back to tie the New Jersey Devils in their Patrick Division series Richter the Game 3 loser with a subpar performance outdueled Chris Terreri this time to tie the series The teams will resume the series with Game 5 at Madison Square Garden on Monday night The only scores of Game 4 came 1 D3 Sunday April 26 1992 Rourke and his Freddie Roach stayed up inside the dressing the Miami Beach Center as dozens of and photographers waited "My sister punches harder than he does" said Harris 32 Asked which was Rourke's most effective punch Harris said "I can't think of one" 7 I I MAJOR LEAGUE REPORT M: Major League Baseball Standings All Times MDT ' 1 : 17 I " Dodges Pin Loss On Giving Righetti THE ASSOCIATED PRESS sacrifice fly with one out in the 10th inning gave the Los Angeles Dodgers a victory over Righetti and the San Francisco Giants on Saturday at Candlestick Park in San Francisco The Dodgers who blew a lead with Tom Candiotti pitching scored without the benefit of a hit in the 10th Darryl Strawberry and Eric Davis opened the inning with walks off Righetti ) After Juan Samuel sacrificed Mike Scioscia walked with the help of three pitch outs loading the bases Jeff Brantley replaced Righetti and Webster hit a fly ball to right "I felt fine" said Righetti who has a 675 earned run average in seven appearances "1 have no excuses I just didn't throw the ball over the plate" 7-- 6 - 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and the Athletics had 18 hits speed defense and slapping in rebounding from Friday's Sundays Games loss in which they blew a at Boston (Young and Hesketh and Witt Texas (Ryan singles in his four years Bal2 11 am lead The Al West timore's leadoff batter is secat Cleveland (Scudder and Navarro Milwaukee (Bosio of are 412 games ond in the majors with 18 11 am and Cook RBIs only one behind Fielddefending World Series at New York (Perez 11:30 am Baltimore (Mesa er He is already within nine champion Twins who are 9 at Detroit (King 11:30 am Chicago (Hibbard start RBIs of matching his career since a at Minnesota (Mahomes Oakland (Stewart noon The Associated Press 2 pm at California (Langston Seattle (De Lucia high for a season MINNESOTA OAKLAND 6 pm at Toronto (Morris Kansas City (Gubicza "The guys have been kidalto rhbI Pirates' Orlando Merced tries to warm up in frigabrAbl Games 2 0 Mack RHenderson 5000 Monday's id Wrigley Field before Pittsburgh cooled Cubs ding him calling him Lansford 3h 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the hit he always found it necessary to slide Had to slide Léved it Loved the dirt And he always beat the tag Even when he hit a ball completely out of the imaginary stadium — over the roof! — he'd slide into home If there was so much as a trace of light remaining I'd postpone dinner and join him Willie was always ready to drop his fanciful game for a real game of catch: "Dad! Lets have a catch!" We'd throw the ball back and forth back and forth until late springs twilight faded to black Neither of us wanted to stop It was sublime When Willie finally stepped to the pia! e for the first lime in the Tiny Tim division of Little League he looked over at his mother and me hanging on the fence and he smiled confident as could be that he'd not only be hitting the ball but he'd more than likely be hitting it a long long way — just as he did in those imaginary games We on the other hand were nervous wrecks I could never bring myself to have that little talk with Willie pointing out that baseball is a game where you tend to fail more often than you succeed Who could bear to dampen the unbounded confidence and enthusiasm? But! It has been half a century now since anyone hit safely in even four out of e 10 at bats over an entire season let alone hit safely half the time Maybe Willie would be the one to do it That's how fathers think I knew what Willie expected to do and feared he might be thinking that's what I expected of him too As he looked out at the pitcher I told myself I would not be disappointed if he didn't hit the ball It would be wrong — totally unreasonable! — to expect an 8- to hit the ball in his first at bat year-olAnd yet How we felt for him This was real life! Hardball! his first encounter with real major-leagu- d adversaries! A whole team out there in the field trying to make our little boy tryfail trying to destroy his ing to make him cry! The lovely game of baseball suddenly seemed terribly cruel The game Maybe Lenin was right about this whole thing you know? There were seven outfielders out there Count 'em In this league all the kids played all the time so there wouldn't be any hurt feelings Thirteen on a team: six infielders seven outfielders What about the hitter's feelings? couldn't get a hit against seven outfielders! I had the urge to run out on the field sweep up my little boy and take him home! Set him down gently among the dandelions in his own backyard where we could play catch and where he could go on hitting those imaginary home runs and trotting around the base paths to the forever cheers of adoring fans Instead here came the pitch the first real pitch of his life Strike one?! Give me a break! That ball was over his bead! God I hated that umpire I glanced at my wife to see how she was self-estee- dog-eat-do- g io k ---r--- 4 taking strike one She was glaring at the umpire an intense menacing look I hadn't seen since the time I happened upon a mother bear in the woods with her cubs No longer a figure of speech: My wife wanted to actually Kill the Umpire! Had the biological imperative to Kill the Umpire in order to protect her young The ump must have seen the "go ahead make my day" look she was giving him because the next pitch was in exactly the same place as the first and he called: "Ball one!" the one after that was "ball two" Fine fine OK A walk I'd forgotten that he could simwalk What a wonderful way out ply of this whole traumatic situation A beautiful solution really isn't it? A walk! No dishonor No hurt A walk's as good as a hit they say I've heard people say that haven't you? Takes a smart kid not 10 swing at bad pitches "Good eye" I shouted "Good eye" I have since shouted that 10000 times son I wanted my just on base first safely That baseball term "safe" suddenly took on a whole new depth of meaning The next pitch came floating slowly toward the plate looking pretty good as it t came closer like it just might be strike two when: Willie took a swing There was a "clink" the sound aluminum bat hitting of an the ball Hitting it! And there it went the ball beading to the right side a ground ball a fair ball headed in the general direction of the second baseman but maybe just to the right of the second baseman actually But so slowly Would it get to that space before the second baseman? It looked like a routine out really But wait! Adjust the thinking! This was not the TV game of the week And this was not Ryne Sandberg playing second base It was just some little kid who might well blow it Go ball go! The ball was going to make it just into the grass in right field Yes! We looked back at Willie still standing in the batter's box looking a bitt stunned and still innocent to the dangers posed by real adversaries in the field "Run!" I screamed "Run Willie!" shrieked his mother Willie shot a look at us "Run!" And fear in his eyes our little boy began to run I i 1Copynght 1992 Bill Geist This piece is esetrpted from Little Least' ConfitaPritial Macmillan l992) |