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ATLANTA: Wade Boggs drew a bases-loaded walk in the top half of the tenth inning and John Wetteland recorded the final two outs as the New York Yankees scraped out a 8-6 victory, evening the series at two. Things began poorly for New York. Starter Kenny Rogers folded 'em in just the third inning, and the Yankees, stymied early by Braves pitcher Denny Neagle, found themselves trailing 6-0 after five. But the Yankees got three in the sixth, and reserve catcher Jim Leyritz tied it in the eighth with a three-run homer off Braves closer Mark...
Remember how in sandlot baseball games sometimes nobody on your team could hit the ball, and you'd be behind by, say, 16 runs in the final inning? And yet, if you were the last kid to strike out, you were considered the one who lost the game? Well, that's how Jack Kemp felt after last Wednesday night's debate against Vice President Al Gore...
...coming through with a number of big hits. Catcher Javy Lopez also stepped up throughout the series, leading the Braves in RBIs. Even the pitchers got into the act. Tom Glavine, one of the game's best hitting pitchers, delivered a crushing a three-run triple in the first inning of last night's game...
...handling disputes with the Baltimore Orioles. After his sloppy handling of the Roberto Alomar spitting incident, he needed to quickly and decisively rule on the latest controversy, a Baltimore protest of a catch by a 12-year old fan that turned a probable out into a game-tying eighth-inning home run in a game the Yankees later won. Budig and baseball's executive council overruled a five-page written request from Orioles owner Peter Angelos that the play be ruled an out and the game be replayed from the eighth inning with the Orioles ahead 4-3. Back...
...Life, Hall establishes connections to these older books--the volume's first poem, "The Night of the Day," continues the story of his 1988 book The One Day, while the second, "The Thirteenth Inning," takes up the Schwitters premise. But the bulk of the book, and the bulk of what Hall read Tuesday, is the title poem, a long agglomeration of short, free-form, highly autobiographical segments. This is "confessional poetry" carried to an extreme--Hall writes exactly what has happened to him, from age 4 to last year, including precise names, dates and locations. The language is not much...