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...State Department spokesperson and Red Sox fan Nicholas Burns in a media briefing yesterday, issuing a tongue-in-cheek denouncement of Clemens' recent signing with the Toronto Blue Jays. Clemens' new three-year, $24.75 million contract makes him the highest paid pitcher in history...
...goat: sure-handed Atlanta center fielder Marquis Grissom dropping a fly ball to set up the only run of Game 5. There were the nightly chess matches in Atlanta between Torre and Braves skipper Bobby Cox, each ending in mate for Torre. There was drama on the field--the pitcher's duel between probable Cy Young Award winners Andy Pettitte and John Smoltz--and off the field--Frank Torre getting a new heart on the off day before Game 6. There was the quiet goodbye to Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, a ballpark distinguished not by architecture but by its history...
DIED. BOB GRIM, 66, former Yankee pitcher and last American League rookie to win 20 games in a season; in Shawnee, Kansas. Grim, who pitched in two World Series, suffered a heart attack after throwing snowballs with neighborhood children, his family said...
Bunning, a former major-league baseball pitcher who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this summer, has represented the Fourth for the past 10 years, but says he never takes any opponent for granted. He supports economic development in northern Kentucky, and has a reputation for being responsive to his constituents...
...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 Wohlers. And with two outs in the tenth, Steve Avery intentionally walked Bernie Williams...