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Friday, Oct. 3 Atlanta (Smoltz 15-12) at Houston (Reynolds...
Somewhere, George Brett and John Smoltz are smiling about Harvard's win. It's about time Goliath...
Florida is awesome, but Alanta's starting pitching will get them by because Brown, Leiter, and Fernandez can't all be amazing at once. John Smoltz, Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine can. Braves in five...
...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 of great post-season games. The Series also put the World in World Series, presenting Atlanta...
...baseball, money. But both have spent that money well. The Braves, feeling that you can never have too many good starting pitchers, have seemingly cornered the market with a rotation that consists of two Cy Young winners (Greg Maddux, and Tom Glavine), this year's probable winner (John Smoltz) and the man who was the number one pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates for most of this year, Denny Neagle. The Yankees, meanwhile, are thin in the starting rotation (manager Joe Torre is considering using a three-man rotation of David Cone, Andy Pettitte, and Jimmy Key) but have perhaps...