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...standards of this remarkable Series, it could have been another interleague game in May. Curt Schilling, the Series co-MVP, mowed the punchless Yankees down despite pitching on three days rest for the second time. His opponent, Yankee ace Roger Clemens, matched him frame for frame into the 7th inning. The D-Backs punched a run home in the 6th; the Yanks matched it in the top of the 7th. But when manager Bob Brenly elected to let Schilling hit in the 8th, it looked like a decision that could be second guessed for the rest of the century, especially...
...failed to win two of them. That?s because the Yanks pulled a couple of miracles out of their pockets to leave New York on a three-game win streak. On Wednesday and Thursday in the Bronx they had conjured pinstripe sorcery on successive, sensational evenings to snatch extra inning victories in games that the Diamondbacks were within an out of claiming. On Wednesday, Tino Martinez hit a two-run homer in the 9th with two out to tie it, and Derek Jeter won it in the 10th with as cheap a homer as you can hit in Babe...
...South Bronx was never more secure. No so the D-Backs, who threw journeyman pitcher Brian Anderson, who seemed like the red meat the Yankees had been craving. But they could only eke out a 2-1 win, riding the arms of their ace Roger Clemens and their late-inning lock, closer Mariano Rivera...
...Maybe the Yankee ghosts finally got through security. Rivera mowed the D-Backs down in the top of the 10th. Then Kim, pitching in his third inning, got two easy outs to start the bottom half. Up stepped shortstop Derek Jeter. The Kalamazoo Clipper, who was hitting all of .067 for the series, fell behind 0-2. He got the count up to 3-2, fouled a couple of pitches off and then took a Kim delivery to the short porch in right field. He rounded the bases at 12:04 a.m. with the second and decisive homer. Double shots...
...double, leaving runners at second and third. Third baseman Matt Williams grounded out and the Yanks walked Damian Miller to get to Johnson, who complied with a bouncer to Brosius. Normally a solid fielder, Brosius?s throw pulled catcher Posada off the plate, killing any chances for an inning-ending double play. Womack singled to plate two, and then Bautista did the same as Johnson lumbered around to score...