Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday tv w©w Qfl©Cs April 6 2003 — B3 ftiw® M Deal again ONCDlNAIl (AP) — No mat- ter how hard he tried Ken Griffey Jr couldn’t stay healthy for more ‘r than a few games dislocated his Griffey right (boulder while trying to make a diving catch Saturday making a bad opening week a whole lot worse for Cincinnati Reds The center fielder isn’t expected back anytime soon “He’s definitely out for a significant amount of time” manager Bob Boone said “It’s not good” His latest nuyar injury occurred in foe eighth inning of a 7 loss to die Chicago Cubs As Griffey tolled on : & ry 9-- the ground in pain Saturday outfielder Adam Dunn heard a couple of fens at the new ballpark taunt him “The guy’s lying there hurting as bad as you could hurt and you get BtumdneoDleuD there veUme" Dunn said angrily “It’s a joke’’ After the shoulder was popped bade into place Griffey was taken to a hospital for tests to determine the extent of the damage found no break More tests were bang done to get an idea how badly the shoulder was hurt when he landed on it with the arm fully extended Griffey 33 has been repeatedly sidelined by injuries since he returned to his hometown team in a February 2000 trade He pulled a hamstring during X-ra- ys APpbolo Cincinnati Reds cenferfielder Ken Griffey Jr fies on the field hurt after going for Chicago Cubs' Paul Bate three-ru- n triple in the eighth bring At right Griffey elves for the baL He would dislocate his shoulder on the play and wil miss to significant amount of time' Reds manager Bob Boone said that first season — a sign of things to come He tore the samp hamstring white rounding third base in a spring training game in 2001 then trire a tendon in his right knee while running the bases only six games into lak season Griffey did a lot of work to build up his legs over foe winter and came put of spring training healthy He was gone again after landing hard as hie vainly tried to catch Paul Bako’s triple “You could see it was a different Junior tins year in spring training" outfielder Austin Kearns said “He was going about his business and having a good time out there" It was another moment for the Reds in their new ballpark where they’ve won only one of their first seven games including two exhibitions “We just have absolutely no bases-load- ed luck” starter Danny Graves said' “It seons like the baseball gods are against us right now I don’t know what we did to them Maybe they’re too impressed with the new stadium to help us out” The visitors keep winning at Great American Ball Park where foe home team has had only one big moment — Griffey’s opening-da- y double for foe first official hit A day after hitting his 500fo home run Chicago’s Sammy Sosa was with three walks Bako had a six RBIs for foe Cubs career-hig- h three on the triple as Griffey gothurt With the Cubs ahead 6-- 5 Griffey turned his back to the infield and tried to run down Bako’s drive with two outs Griffey stretched his right arm and dived but the ball eluded his outstretched gloved Griffey landed hard on his right side rolled over grabbed the shoulder and kicked his legs in pain Kansas City can’t be beat Phillies hand Baltimore wins in ninth Bugs first loss By The Associated then got foe count foil before throwing a pitch wide of foe plate Runelvys Hernandez allowed two hits in seven innings as the Kansas City Royals beat the Cleveland Indians 2--1 Saturday and became the first major league team to start 0 after a 100-los- s season Indians CC Sabafoia (0-1- ) hypercxtend-e- d his left elbow on a pitch in foe seventh inning He will return Sunday to Cleveland ' to have his arm examined Hernandez (2-beat the in foe White Sox Chicago Royals’ season opener a start he was awarded in a coin nSLeoguenB toss Against foe Indians he allowed one run struck out force and walked one He has a 069 ERA in 13 innings Jason Grimsley pitched perfect eighth and rookie Mike MacDougal finished the two-hittfor his third save in as tries Orioles 2 Red Sox 1 Chad Fox walked Tony Batista with the bases loaded and one out in the ninth inning lifting foe Baltimore Orioles over the Boston Red Sox The defeat snapped a four-gawinning streak for foe Red Sox who scored 42 runs in their first five games Baltimore hpd dropped force straight after winning on openingday B J Surhoff drew a one- and out walk from Fox (0-was replaced by pinch-nm-nMelvin Moca Jeff Conine then doubled and Jay Gibbons received an intentional walk to fill the bases Fox went to 34) on Batista Angels Halt hit a solo home run in foe first off Janod Washburn (0-and also made an athletic running catch in left on a line drive by David Eckstein in the second Washburn was hit by Mark Ellis’ line drive in the upper sea of his left aim with two outs in foe seventh The lefthander immediately left foe game and there was no word on foe extent of his injury Washburn sprained his left shoulder when he landed hard on it during a pitching drill at spring training and only made two exhibition starts Devi Rrys 6 Yankees 5 - A1 Martin singled over a drawn-i- n outfield with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning and foe Tunpa Bay Devil Rays overcame a huge blunder to hand the New York Yankees their first loss of the season The Devil Rays scored twice in the eighth to tie it then loaded foe bases in foe 3-- left-hand- er 0) 1) er 2) er u Jail vr Padres make it three in a row White Sox 7 Tigers 0 Mark Buehrie allowed force hits in eight innings and Frank Thomas Sandy Alomar Jr and Jose Valentin homered as foe Chicago Whit? Sox beat the 'winless Detroit Tigers Gametime temperature was 32 degrees foe coldest hone game for foe White Sox since they started recording temperatures in 1990 Athletics 4 Angels 2 Adam Piatt homered and doubled in a rare start and John Halama did not allow an earned run in 5 2-- 3 inningsas the Oakland Athletics defeated the Anaheim f Vt- By The Kevin Millwood left afta three -innings because a strained right 2-- ' AP photo Kansas City's Desi Relaford (12) is tagged out by Cleveland catcher Josh Bard as he tries to score from second on a double for the Rangers who broke a three-gam- e losing streak His sok) homer in the fifth an out after Rodriguez homered madeit6-- 2 It was the 44th multihoma game for Gonzalez foe first for the two-tiAL MVP since he hit two for Cleve- land on Sept 82001 Blue Jays 4 Trios 3 ninth when Carl Crawford singled Rocco Baldelli doubled and Aubrey Huff drew an intentional walk from Antonio Osuna (0-Martin lined Osuna’s first pitch ova the head of right fielder Raul Mondesi ending the Devil Rays’ five- -' game losing streak and denying the Yankees what would have been a club-recofifth straight win on the road to sfort a season 1) 11 rd Josh Phelps homered off Eddie Guardado with me out in the top of the 1 lfo inning to give the Toronto Blue Jays a victory ova Minnesota Rangers 8 Mariners 4 Juan Gonzalez homered twice and Atex Rodriguez and Hank Blalock also connected leading foe Texas Rangers ova the Seattle Maimers Gonzalez has 408 carta home runs arid moved past Duke Snida for 33rd on the all-tilist Gonzalez and Rodriguez each have force hone runs this season Gonzalez's force-ru- n first homer capped a four-tu-n ' - '3i Phelps who also homered in the Blue Jays’ 7-- 2 win on Fridiy salt an 0-- 1 pitch from Guardado (0-1- ) — the TWins’ All-St- ar into the seats in closa — left-cent- er field- - Kelvim Escobar pitched the bottom of the 1 lfo for his first save and Pete WaUrer picked up the victory (1-- 0) start r off-gua- rd -2 vrrlift - v tremendous” he said Thursday “but faaoightening before 'Vrearfy to go”: 'Cbne spent Thursday playing catch wants an bid on Atlanta to see pby&Lst night Thursday nobody pitdha V at KeySpan Park inBrooldyn home v'struggle" ‘JtlV“BWDvMponecarieiqp bf foe Mets’ minor league affiliate to What began as a whim at age 40 evwything He’s a guy that when he’s “cut the edge for tomorrow” He’ll becomes ft reality when Cone makes on foe mound he'll do whatever just his comeback start after sitting out a )' to get you out” he said “I expect avI officudly be added to foe He’ll face a fitting ppponeht Jtetfoom y AP photo Phillies' shortstop Jimmy Rollins leaps afte forcing out Pirates catcher Jason Kendall at second base 1- -3 0) —Trrmni — i ft 1) I day had won eight straight deci- sions since last July 16 Jesse Orosco who turns 46 later this month pitched a perfect ninth for a save The Dodgers lost their third straight game Mets 3 Expos er 1 Tom Glavine (1-allowing one run and five hits in 3 3 innings to get his fust win fa New York and singled to spark a three-ru- n rally He had been hit hard in Monday’s 15-- 2 season-openin- g loss to the Chicago Cubs Cliff Floyd another of the Mets big offseason pickups had three hits and an RBI to break out of a slump Armando Benitez got three outs fa his second save ' allowed Tony Armas Jr (1-three runs and six hits in five innings Giants 6 Brewers 5 Benito Santiago hit his third homer as San Francisco improved to 5-- 0 for the second straight season Milwaukee is 0-- 5 fa the first time since 1984 when it finished test in the AL East recorded his Kurt Ainsworth (1-second major league victory allowing three runs and six hits in six innings and Scott Eyre retired John Vbnda Wal on a popup with two on for his first save since 2001 with Ibronto Ainsworth’s Ben Sheets (0-teammate on the 2000 US Olympic team gave up five runs ' 1) 2-- k 1) 3-- all Marlins 1) 1) and seven hits in seven innings Ainsworth's otha win was also over Sheets last April 12 Astros 2 Cardinals 1 Brad Ausmus drove in the run for the second straight with a ninth-innin- g game single Richard Hidalgo's RBI double off Jeff Fassero (0-with twoouts in the ninth tied it us the Cardinals blew their first of three save chances without closer Jason Isring-hause- n still recovering from off: season shoulder surgery Pete Munro (14)) goi the last out in the eighth retiring pinch-hitlAlbert Pujols on a grounduut Billy Wagner finished for his first save Rockies 4 Diamondbacks 3 Preston Wilson hit an RBI double in the 10th inning off Miguel Batista (0-Randy Johnson held Colorado hitless until the fifth Jose Hernandez hit a solo homer and Jay Payton shot and Johnson had a two-ru- n departed aftef six innings with the score go-ahe- 1) innings ys si groin but Philadelphia sent Pittsburgh to its first loss 16-- 1 after a 4-- 0 start Jimmy Rollins' five hits and three RBIs Millwood one of Philadelphia's three key offseason acquisitions was injured in his fust home start His status wasn't immediately known Carlos Silva (1-relieved Mill- wood and pitched 2 3 scoreless innings Jeff D'Amico (0--1 ) gave up six runs — four earned — and eight hits in 4 innings in his Pirates debut Padres 3 Dodgers 0 Brian Lawrence pitched eight sharp innings and the San Diego Padres won their third in a row beating the Los Angeles Dodgers foiled a bid by Lawrence (1-Hideo Nomo (1-to earn his 100th career major league victory Nomo who shut out Arizona on opening 0) aX Cone came to spring training almost NEW YORK a fen V the Montreal Expos foe team he " ! 'v 19$9 favorite at Shea Stadium David Cone on a lark to see if anything was left in threw aperfect game against in : : his right arm Nowwith No 3 starta when 4 is sure to draw a huge ovation at Yankee Stadium walks return foe Cone’s he to mound Friday nightf caught at kastone of Pedro Astado out with tendihitis and ' Orlando Cabi: How foe N theteam bff to a 1- start that’s gotten Expos YorkM’croy some fens booing New York needs a era who popped up for foe final out treats him beyond that will depend ' f v more m his pitchfogrqert(nre than J1fo that prefect gama had no idea V'v ' ' ' ' Cone was set to face ftem ?’ V’-'V'- -& "I foihkTye surprised some peo- past reputation We y’-:“H- e his said before is? Cabren art?" “Receptions pte”Cone said “I' really feel like I’m thegameare Montreal (AP)--Alwa- Associated Press ‘ 17 Braves 1 Greg Maddux off to his worst start in 1 4 seasons was pounded for three homers and nine runs in only two innings as the Florida Marlins routed the Atlanta Braves The Marlins got 23 hits and lied a team record fa runs set on Sept 17 1995 against Colorado The loss was the mast lopsided for the Braves since a 17-- 1 defeat by Montreal on July-- 2000 Alex Gonzalez homered and drove in five runs with three hits ' Juan Pierre Ivan Rodriguez Dcrrek Lee Juan Encamacion and Todd Hollandsworth also had three hits fa Florida who went 0-- 3 at Maddux (0-2- ) the beginning of 1989 when he was with the Chicago Cubs gave lip eight hits and seven earned runs |