REPLACEMENT KILLER; PRATT HOMERS IN 10TH AS METS CLINCH SERIES : NEW YORK 4 ARIZONA 3.Byline: Rafael Hermoso New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. The ball seemed to hang in the air forever, long enough for the New York Mets
``Probably the longest second of the season,'' John Franco The freeze frame freeze frame a facility on an ultrasound machine which permits an image to be held on a screen. wasn't lost on Todd Pratt Todd Alan Pratt (b. February 9, 1967 in Bellevue, Nebraska) is a Major League Baseball catcher who is currently a free agent. He has primarily served as a back-up catcher for most of his career. Pratt was drafted during the 6th round of the 1985 Amateur Draft. . Mike Piazza's understudy stopped running a third of the way to second base, convinced that Arizona center Arizona Center is a shopping center and office complex located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Arizona Center was designed by the Rouse Company (on its festival marketplace model, which worked to great success in other cities) and opened in the fall of 1990 to great fanfare fielder Steve Finley Steven Allen Finley (born March 12 1965, in Union City, Tennessee) is a Major League Baseball center fielder who bats and throws left-handed. He currently is a free agent, and has been working out on a regular basis since his release, hopeful a call will come from a team looking had caught his fly ball. When Finley finally dropped his head and slapped his glove, Pratt began leaping around the bases. ``I wanted to cry,'' he said. With Piazza out with a thumb injury, Pratt's 10th-inning home run gave the Mets a 4-3 win over the Diamondbacks on Saturday and a victory in the NL Division Series, three games to one. The Mets open the National League Championship Series on Tuesday in Atlanta. After their last meeting, the Braves' Chipper Jones Larry Wayne "Chipper" Jones, Jr. (born April 24, 1972, in DeLand, Florida), is an American Major League baseball player. Although initially a shortstop, Chipper has spent most of his career as the starting third baseman for the Atlanta Braves. took swipes at Mets fans, saying that now they could go home and put on their Yankees clothes. ``I guess I'm the guy with the big mouth, but they're the guys playing against the ghosts,'' Bobby Valentine said as Rickey Henderson poured a bottle of champagne over the manager's head. ``We're dead, right?'' Valentine said. ``Our fans are supposed to change their gear aren't they, supposed to go buy new stuff and go rooting for football, aren't they, or rooting for the Yankees? You know, it's our fans that will be in their stands. I'll guarantee you that.'' With enough champagne on the ceiling to force maintenance workers to change the tiles on Saturday night, the Mets were drunk on emotions. As Pratt rounded the bases, Rey Ordonez ran onto the field, skipping into the air. Confetti flew out of the upper deck and the crowd 56,177 rose as Pratt was greeted by a mob of teammates at home. Pratt's celebration included snatching the ball from the man who retrieved it beyond the center-field wall. ``Some guy asked me for an autograph,'' Pratt said. ``I said, `Hell, I'll take it.' '' The intoxicating in·tox·i·cate v. in·tox·i·cat·ed, in·tox·i·cat·ing, in·tox·i·cates v.tr. 1. To stupefy or excite by the action of a chemical substance such as alcohol. 2. smell of champagne was unmistakable as soon as the clubhouse doors opened. ``What, more champagne? What's that for?'' Valentine said as he walked into the middle of the room, before pointing to Franco, who won a game for the first time in more than two years. ``I've got to get you.'' Franco, wearing his trademark orange Sanitation Department T-shirt in honor of his late father, turned around, raised his hands in surrender and said, ``You've got that right.'' Inside, Ordonez sprayed co-owner Fred Wilpon then stood back with his impish imp·ish adj. Of or befitting an imp; mischievous. imp  ish·ly adv.imp grin and waited for a reaction. Wilpon laughed and they hugged. After losing seven of nine meetings with Arizona this season, the Mets dispensed of the Diamondbacks in four games. The decisive game looked easy, at least for a while. Al Leiter was working on a two-hitter and 2-1 lead entering the eighth inning. With two outs, he walked pinch-hitter Turner Ward before Tony Womack reached on an infield single when his grounder went off Edgardo Alfonzo's glove. Valentine brought in Armando Benitez to face Jay Bell, but the second baseman doubled off the left-field wall to score the tying and go-ahead runs. Bell later tried scoring from second on Matt Williams' single to left, but Melvin Mora's throw was caught up the first-base line by Pratt, who dived back to the plate to tag Bell for the out. The Mets tied it in the bottom of the eighth after Tony Womack, who was moved from shortstop to right in a double switch, dropped John Olerud's fly ball. Edgardo Alfonzo, the lead runner, later scored on Roger Cedeno's sacrifice fly. The wacky inning included the ejection of third-base coach Cookie Rojas after a heated argument with left-field umpire Charlie Williams. CAPTION(S): 2 photos PHOTO (1 -- color) Mets understudy Todd Pratt, center, celebrates with teammates Rey Ordonez, left, and Luis Lopez after his game-winning homer in the 10th. Mark Lennihan/Associated Press (2) Todd Pratt said he ``wanted to cry'' after seeing his game-winning homer sail out. G. Paul Burnett/The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. 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