RAIN JUST DELAYS YANKEES SWEEP : NEW YORK 4, TEXAS 0.Byline: Jaime Aron Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Darryl Strawberry  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. teammates to ``get 'em.'' Thanks to Shane Spencer Michael Shane Spencer (born February 20, 1972 in Key West, Florida) is a professional baseball outfielder. In Major League Baseball, he played a total of 538 games for the New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians, and New York Mets, compiling 438 hits, 59 home runs, and , they did - eventually. Inspired by a videotaped pep talk from their cancer-stricken slugger, the Yankees outlasted a rain delay of more than three hours to beat the Texas Rangers Texas Rangers, mounted fighting force organized (1835) during the Texas Revolution. During the republic they became established as the guardians of the Texas frontier, particularly against Native Americans. 4-0 early this morning for a three-game sweep of their AL division series. Spencer hit a three-run homer and Paul O'Neill Paul O'Neill may refer to:
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ahead. David Cone abbr. Central Daylight Time CDT Central Daylight Time CDT n abbr (US) (= Central Daylight Time) → hora de verano del centro; (BRIT . The game didn't resume until 11:24 p.m. and ended at 1:26 a.m. local time. More than two inches of rain fell during the three-hour, 16-minute holdup, which threatened to cause the first suspended game in postseason history. Plans had been made to resume the game, if halted, this afternoon. Only about 5,000 of the 49,950 fans remained and were as loud as the full house had been. The 3-0 start to the postseason enhances New York's claim to being one of baseball's greatest teams ever. The Yankees won an AL-record 114 games in the regular season and are eight victories from a second World Series championship in three years. New York plays the winner of the Boston-Cleveland series in the AL Championship Series, starting Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium. The Indians beat the Red Sox 4-3 Friday to take a 2-1 lead, and Game 4 is today. The Yankees held the AL's best-hitting team to only one run and 13 hits in the entire series, but were struggling themselves until scoring all four runs off Aaron Sele in the sixth inning. O'Neill hit a hanging curveball into the New York bullpen in left-center to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead with one out. Three batters later, Spencer added to his phenomenal story by smacking smack·ing adj. Brisk; vigorous; spanking: a smacking breeze. Noun 1. smacking - the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand slap, smack another hanging curve a few rows above the 14-foot-high fence in left. The shot gave the 26-year-old rookie nine homers and 24 RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in in his last 33 at-bats. He had a solo homer and scored another run in Game 2 after hitting three grand slams among his 10 homers in 67 regular-season at-bats. The success of the newcomer replaced the production void left by Strawberry, but his absence loomed large in the clubhouse a day after learning he has colon cancer colon cancer, cancer of any part of the colon (often called the large intestine). Colon cancer is the second most common cancer diagnosed in the United States. . Players sent Strawberry a good-luck video Thursday and he responded with one of his own Friday. The Yankees watched it before batting practice and took the field in a better mood, manager Joe Torre said. ``Go get 'em tonight guys. Get 'em,'' Strawberry said, pointing at the camera. Strawberry, who watched the game from his hospital bed, is scheduled to have surgery at this morning. The Yankees planned to fly back to New York by early this afternoon. Cone came into the game burdened by the news about Strawberry, also his teammate with the Mets from 1987-90, and the death Wednesday of Dan Quisenberry, another former teammate. But Cone proved he was locked in by striking out leadoff batter Tom Goodwin. He allowed only two hits, with neither runner getting past second. He struck out six and walked one. His dominance encapsulated the theme of the series: great pitching stops great hitting. Graeme Lloyd relieved Cone after the rain delay and retired one batter. Jeff Nelson and Mariano Rivera completed the combined three-hitter. The Rangers may have hit an AL-best .289 for the year, but they did nothing against the staff with the league's lowest ERA. The single run in 27 innings was easily Texas' worst of the year. The Rangers scored five runs in three games twice during the season and went 1-2 in each stretch. Rusty Greer, Juan Gonzalez, Will Clark and Ivan Rodriguez - the 3-4-5-6 hitters - were 4 for 44. Greer, Gonzalez and Clark each had more than 100 RBI in the season but were shut out by the Yankees. New York had some problems at the plate, too. AL batting champion Bernie Williams was 0 for 11 with four strikeouts and O'Neill's homer was the first RBI by one of the first first six hitters in the Yankees lineup. Spencer, O'Neill and Scott Brosius combined to drive in all eight New York runs in the series. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1--Color) Texas' Rusty Greer has his at bat - and the game - interrupted by rain. Pat Sullivan/Associated Press (2) Yankees' Bernie Williams strikes out in the second inning. Eric Gay/Associated Press |
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