Show i i I I 1 v- -r r rr v-- r rtr - I t1 m !"! y II v mmmmmmmm v-- - - r r rv f 'r f - -- 9 9Tr' - i- r -- - r f ’r rv r rv The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday September 21 2000 — Page 17 By wrap up NL Central title The Associated Press Edmonds’ slam by homering on the next pitch from Chris Tha St Louis Cardinals became the first team to book their playoff tickets and the San Giants Francisco shouldn’t be too Car behind Jim Edmonds’ third-innigrand slam got the Cardinals’ clinching party off to an early start as St Louis won the NL Central with a 6 win over the Houston Astros on ng 11-- Wednesday night Holt York finally broke through with three homers at Turner Field Edgardo Alfonzo Todd Zeile and Mike Piazza hit solo shots as the Mets avoided a e sweep and won for die third time in their last just 23 games at Atlanta The Braves lead New York by four games in the NL East Atlanta’s magifr number for Lankford and (7-1- 5) Craig Paquette each homered twice as St Louis won for the eighth time in nine games Mark McGwire limited to 79 games by a revere case of three-gam- tendinitis in hi i right knee was at the center of die cele bration that will send him to the playoffs for die first time in eight years — although g probably in a 4-- 1- -0 “It’ll be tough’’ Giants manager Dusty Baker said “That last breath out of any- body is tough but this city is ready for it and this organization is ready for it” Ray Lankford followed role “This is what baseball is all seven Expos 4 Marlins 2 Vladimir Guerrero tied his club record with his 42nd homer and Javier Vazquez (11-bad 11 strikeouts for about’ McGwire shouted “This is what I’ve been trying to preach the last couple years It’s a team sport” The Astros who had three straight NL Central championships had their five-gawinning streak stopped Giants 4 Reds 2 Braids’ towering homer into 7) sixth-innin- celebratory night for the Snow drove in three runs to back Ortiz (13-11) who allowed two hits over 6 3 innings to improve to 1 with a 192 ERA in his last 10 starts Robb Nen pitched the ninth for his 38th save He has 2-- 8-- As Aaron Sele and the Seat- tle Mariners left Tropicana Field they already were looking ahead “I think right now every- body’s pretty pumped just to get on the plane and get to sleep’’ Sele said after Seattle beat Tampa Bay 4 Wednesday night for its eighth straight 3-- (3-1- Pacific Bell Park’s right-fiel- d wall was the high point of a JT By The Associated Press host Montreal Guerrero's g homer was his fifth in four games and the Expos’ third of the game off victory Reid Cornelius to tie By Thursday night though the team record of 172 homers ' the Mariners will have some- the mist and water beyond Giants The hompr tied Bonds with Lou Gehrig for 17th on the majors’ career list and brought a raucous ovation from the Giants’ fans to clash clinching its nfhtn straight division title remained at pinch-hittin- “You get the grand slam to start the game going and you just hope everybody else can follow " Edmonds said “You don’t want it to be close You want to get it over and relax” A sellout crowd at Busch Stadium saw the Cardinals win the division title for the first time since 1996 manager Tony La Russa’s first year with the team The Giants moved within one win of clinching the NL West title as Barry Bonds homered into McCovey Cove and Russ Ortiz threw six hitless innings in a 2 win over Cincinnati The Giants can win the division by beating Arizona on Thursday night The backs lost at Los Angeles Seattle A’s get 0) set in 1997 Pirates 7 Phillies ( Emil Brown and Adam Hyzdu homered in the 10th off Chris Brock (7-to lift Pittse sweep at burgh to a Veterans Stadium Brewers 3 Cubs 2 First baseman Mark Grace 8) AP photo Mark McGwire tosses his hat into the stands after the Cardinals defeated Houston to clinch the NL Central Division title Wednesday thrown 23 3 consecutive scoreless innings oyer 27 appearances ' 2-- e series The Dodgers moved ahead three-gam- of Arizona into second place Eric Karros hit a leadoff home run in the ninth off in the NL West and remained 3 12 games behind the Mets in the wild card race Kim (6-to give Los Angeles its second straight victory and a sweep of the Mets 6 Braves 3 Leiter (16-outpitched Tom Glavine (19-9- ) and New Dodgers Byung-Hyu- n 1- -0 1 Diamondbacks 0 6) A1 7) three-gam- misplayed Geoff Jenkins’ grounder for an error in the bottom of the 10th giving Milwaukee the win at home Padres 15 Rockies 11 Dave Magadan and Mike Darr each had four RBIs as San Diego scored a season-hig- h 13 runs thing else on their minds The AL West leaders take a three? game lead over Oakland into e the opener of a series against the A’s at Safeco Field “We're going to take it a game at a time" Sele said “It's a dichd for a reason” The Athletics also headed west after splitting a doubleheader in Baltimore losing 0 before coming back to win 0 Along with the division title the A’s are aiming at the wild card They trail Cleveland by a e for the spot “If we win the series no matter what we’ll be in great shape" Oakland manager Art four-gam- day-nig- ht 2-- 4-- half-gam‘ Howe said The Indians took over the wild card lead by sweeping a doubleheader at Boston 1 and 4 Tampa Bay’s loss was its 10th in a row the longest skid in the AL this year : 2-- 5-- Sele pitched six innings and improved to 6-- lifetime 0 against the Devil Rays Seattle finished its first undefeated road trip in team history going 64) at Baltimore and Tampa Bay Orioles 2 Athletics 0 1st game Athletics 4 Orioles 0 2nd game Shut down by Chock McEi- toy in the first game Oakland came back to salvage a split on homers by Eric Chavez Jeremy Giambi and Matt Stairs The opener was watched by approximately 2000 fans at Camden Yards It was a makeup of Tuesday night's rainout McElroy had made 603 relief appearances before making his first start in the majors The streak broke the record of Mike Stanton who pitched 552 times in relief before ting a start Indians 2 Red Sox 1 1st game Indians 5 Red Sox 4 get- 2nd game Cleveland moved back into the wild card lead beating Pedro Martinez in the opener doubleheader of a and completing a sweep at Fenway Park as Omar Vizquel day-nig- ht stole home Blue Jays 7 Yankees 2 Esteban Loaiza pitched seven strong innings and Toronto roughed up David Cone at Sky Dome The Blue Jays Won their third in a row and trail Cleveland by three games in the wild card race Dave Martinez tripled doubled and drove in three runs New York lost its fourth straight game and has been 8 in dropping outscored 57-1- six of seven The Yankees' magic number for clinching the AL East is seven over Toronto White So- - 13 Tigers 6 Paul Konerko homered doubled and drove in a career-hig- h five runs and Ray Durham hit a grand slam as Chicago won at Detroit The White Sox cut their magic number for winning the AL Central title to six over Cleveland Rangers 6 Twins 4 12 innings Rafael Palmeiro making what he believed was his first appearance ever as a pinch-runnscored the run on Ruben Sierra’s single in the 12th inning at the er WwiminailBtouni may hare bwn tafcmNofalsfyiBtdr8t or cotas avaiabto Ogden City Mafl (Hunting Not AvaHablc) l01 MVERDAIE SUPERSTORE 10M W Rherdale (East of MS) 001-19145- 43 99-9310 aid location! 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