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Three-time National League Cy Young award winner Greg Maddux will take the mound for Atlanta tonight as the Braves try to close out the World Series. Atlanta edged Cleveland 5-2 Wednesday night to take a 3-1 lead in the best of seven series. To win tonight, Maddux will have to beat Orel Hershiser, the Cleveland ace who, until he lost 3-2 to Maddux in the first game of the Series, had a perfect 7-0 post season record. Key for Cleveland: offensive production from someone else besides centerfielder Kenny Lofton. Despite leading the American league...
...haven't won a world championship since 1918; the joke turned juggernaut Cleveland Indians; the Seattle Mariners and/or the California Angels, both of whom are strangers to the World Series; and perhaps the Yankees. The National League will have the pleasure of the company of pitcher Greg Maddux and the Atlanta Braves; the return of Cincinnati's Big Red Machine; and a choice of two of these three: the three-year-old Colorado Rockies, the Los Angeles Dodgers (Nomo, no less) and the Houston Astros. Had Major League Baseball retained the old two-division setup in each league, with...
...touched down, of course, and everyone was eager to see the Dodgers' Japanese rookie with the outrageous windup and the diabolical fork ball. But while Nomo was tailed by 150 Japanese journalists and almost as many American ones, a bookish-looking Atlanta Brave went largely unnoticed, even though Greg Maddux is the best pitcher of this generation. That's partly the failing of the baseball media, but then Major League Baseball has never done much to promote its players for fear it might drive up salaries. So instead of Greg Maddux ads, we get WELCOME TO THE SHOW...
...Maddux was at the All-Star Game despite the fact that he wouldn't be able to pitch because of a groin pull, and so were Ken Griffey Jr., Matt Williams and Ozzie Smith, All-Stars whose disabling injuries have further diminished the game this year. "For the fans to punch my name out, I had to be here," said Griffey. Not every player is as sentimental about the game. Darren Daulton and Lenny Dykstra of the Phillies blew off the Monday workout without telling anyone...
Colorado (Swift 1-0) at Atlanta (Maddux...