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...Chiba Lotte Marines. Thursday: The Tigers lose again, 4-0, as Chunichi Dragons pitcher Kuo Yuan-tzu becomes only the fifth hurler in besuboru history to win 100 career games. Friday: The once mighty Giants lose, 1-0, to the fifth-ranked Yokohama Bay Stars, forcing a tight pennant race with the second-place Hiroshima Carp and third-place Dragons...
Marquis Grissom led the game off at 4:04 p.m., lining Kent Mercker's first pitch into the right-centerfield alley for a double. The Expos had taken the first two in this three-game series, and such a beginning boded fatally for whatever pennant prospects remained for the Braves...
...wants the strike to continue until the game cleanses itself, no matter how long that my take. There are other things to do, other games to see, and believe me, I don't miss baseball for the salaries, for the players and owners, not even so much for the pennant races or the record-breakers...
...since The Civil War (which set all-time viewing records when it was broadcast on pbs in September 1990) was carefully scheduled so that it would air in the sweet spot of the baseball season: on consecutive nights (with a two-day weekend break) starting Sept. 18, just as pennant fever was heating up but before the play-offs and World Series. Now, with a strike settlement seemingly as far off as ever, Baseball may well give fans their only trip to the ballpark this fall. "If the strike affects us," says Burns, "I think it's going to help...
This week Gladstone is having far more fun than O'Malley. Gladstone has a team in the thick of a hot pennant race. O'Malley has an empty park. "Minor league baseball is not a microcosm of the big leagues," says Gladstone. For that, fans should be eternally grateful...