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...Game 7, the Yanks needed shovels at the plate, because they spent most of their time against Schilling digging out of 0-2 and 1-2 holes. Their attempts at first ball hitting (Schilling throws first ball strikes 70% of the time) were feeble...
...third inning. His replacement, Jay Witasick, could not get an out west of the Mississippi. The B-Backs hit doubles to right, scorched singles to left, and up the middle. Johnson, who looks like a licorice stick holding a pretzel rod when he?s at the plate, directed a single to right, making the score 7-0. The D- Backs now had a cadence going. Single, double, single, double. Torre had already conceded the game, leaving the miserable Witasick in to face an Arizona team that was very intent on exorcizing the demons that possessed them in earlier...
...gave up a single and a double, leaving runners at second and third. Third baseman Matt Williams grounded out and the Yanks walked Damian Miller to get to Johnson, who complied with a bouncer to Brosius. Normally a solid fielder, Brosius?s throw pulled catcher Posada off the plate, killing any chances for an inning-ending double play. Womack singled to plate two, and then Bautista did the same as Johnson lumbered around to score...
...between the Diamondbacks and the Giants. Randy Johnson was on the mound for the ’Backs, and he threw a fastball that never made it to catcher Rod Barajas’ mitt. Instead, it collided with a dove that just happened to be swooping down past home plate at the time. There was an explosion of feathers and what was left of the bird landed somewhere behind home plate...
...Bush was getting impatient. Then came another question: How could he possibly leave the U.S. Wednesday to take a scheduled trip to China? Bush clenched his jaw. "Well, Mrs. Bush and I want to encourage Americans to go out shopping," he said. "And I broke a plate last week...