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...ended with 3-2 Diamondbacks victory in Game 7. The D-Backs - after losing two games deep into the night in New York - won because they staged a late game rally of their own. They finally picked the Yankee lock, closer Mariano Rivera, with 2 runs in the 9th inning, the first time in 24 games that Rivera has blown a lead in the playoffs. A game-tying double by Tony Womack and bloop single to Luis Gonzalez delivered the championship to Phoenix...
...that was made of Seattle’s magical regular-season run, the Yankees sure disposed of the Mariners pretty quickly. Most Seattle fans were seeing the writing on the wall by about the third inning Monday night—maybe even sooner, if you consider Lou Piniella’s pea-brained decision to start Aaron Sele (0-6 lifetime in the postseason) over Freddy Garcia in a must-win game at The Stadium. What was he thinking...
...have never been Roger’s strong point (see: 5-6 record in 19 career playoff starts). This year has been no different. In three starts, he has three no-decisions. In two of those outings, he didn’t even make it out of the fourth inning. Sheesh...
It’s still okay, even though the Fenway faithful found themselves singing “New York, New York” during the seventh-inning stretch mere weeks ago. It’s still okay, despite the Yanks’ miraculous comeback against the Chokeland A’s Monday night, despite the way they “won one for the city” and the way their triumph temporarily displaced the anthrax scare on the front pages of New York City tabloids. It’s still okay, despite the way the Yankees have worn armbands...
...possible, putting the individual quest for history in second place to his team's struggle to get into the play-offs. And on Friday night, the San Francisco Giant slugger did his part, hitting not one but two home runs during the longest nine-inning game in major league baseball history (4 hr. 27 min.). The first of those blasts (photograph above) broke the record of 70 set to much fanfare just three years ago by the Cardinals' Mark McGwire. Bonds had already set a new record for walks (overtaking the one set by Babe Ruth in 1923) earlier...