Victrix Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 Det er ikke rart AoO blir litt forsinket... http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/20/sports/b...20yanks.html?hp Tar jeg ikke helt feil er det Curt på forsida også... www.nytimes.com Torgeir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobias Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 Man var ju tvungen att bli medlem för att läsa artikeln. Då jag inte har lust med det, finns det någon möjlighet att du kan kopiera in texten här istället? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victrix Posted October 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 Okay, her er teksten - Schilling and Nail-Biting... Enjoy! SERIES TIED, 3-3 Schilling and Nail-Biting: Red Sox Win Game 6 By TYLER KEPNER Published: October 20, 2004 he Yankees are one loss from sinking to an inglorious place in baseball history. Their fans beat them to it last night. A controversial call in the eighth inning of Game 6 of the American League Championship Series negated a Yankees run and brought bedlam to Yankee Stadium. The Boston Red Sox won, 4-2, and for part of the ninth inning, dozens of police officers in riot gear kneeled along the walls down the left- and right-field lines. With a chance to knock off the Red Sox and clinch their 40th pennant, the Yankees barely put up a fight. They managed only four hits and a run in seven innings against Curt Schilling, and now must play a Game 7 that had never seemed possible. On Sunday night, the Yankees were three outs from sweeping the Red Sox. Now, the series is tied. Until last night, no team in baseball history had recovered from a 3-0 deficit to pull even in a best-of-seven series. The Red Sox have done that, and now they will meet the Yankees tonight with a World Series berth on the line. The Yankees rallied in the eighth off Bronson Arroyo, who replaced Schilling to start the inning. He struck out Tony Clark, and a victory was five outs away. It was at this point last year that Pedro Martínez failed to hold a three-run lead, and the Yankees came back to win the pennant in Game 7. With his own three-run lead to protect, Arroyo gave up a double to Miguel Cairo and a single to Derek Jeter. It was 4-2, and Alex Rodriguez came up. Rodriguez, anemic all season in clutch situations, grounded weakly down the first-base line. Arroyo and the first baseman, Doug Mientkiewicz, came in for it. Arroyo grabbed it and scrambled after Rodriguez. He switched the ball from his bare hand to his glove, but it was a tenuous hold. As Arroyo applied the tag, Rodriguez raised his left arm and hacked the ball out of the glove, essentially forcing a fumble. The ball scooted down the right-field line and Jeter barreled in from first, seemingly bringing the Yankees within a run. The stadium pulsated, but the Red Sox howled. When the umpires gathered and reversed the call, it was instant chaos. Manager Joe Torre stormed from the dugout and the upper deck exploded, with baseballs and water bottles crashing onto the grass. Bob Sheppard, the stately public address announcer, pleaded with the fans to stop. They ignored him. It took 15 stadium workers to clear the mess, as Rodriguez argued with the umpires and Arroyo - the pitcher who plunked him in July, inciting a brawl - tossed with the infielders. When order was restored, he got Gary Sheffield to pop out, ending the inning. To be sure, a Major League Baseball security official directed nearly 40 helmeted police officers onto the field during a pitching change in the top of the ninth. Coming into the game, the Yankees and the Red Sox had met 50 times since the start of the 2003 season, with each team winning 25 games. The difference in runs scored between the teams? Two. The Boston marathons - Games 4 and 5 took a combined 26 innings and nearly 11 hours - depleted the bullpens of both teams, making it imperative for the starters to work deep into the game. In Jon Lieber, the Yankees seemed to have the perfect candidate. Schilling set down the first eight Yankees, his fastball reaching 94 miles an hour. His third pitch of the game was a 92 m.p.h. fastball, directed at the helmet of Rodriguez. It spun Rodriguez back and off the plate, and he eventually broke his bat on a line out. Jorge Posada's fly to right died at the wall in the second inning, Schilling arching his back until Trot Nixon made the catch. He was perfect through eight batters, until Cairo doubled off the warning track in left-center. But that scoring chance vanished when Jeter flied out. After failing to score in the second inning, the same Red Sox hitters tried again in the fourth. With two outs, Kevin Millar doubled into the left-field corner, hustling for second after shuffling out of the box. Varitek hit next, working an at-bat similar to Damon's in the first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinmon Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 Mailinator kanske kan vara något om du vill slippa registrera dig (eller ha en engångsadress öht)? Fast du måste ju fortfarande registrera dig förstås, men du slipper lämna ut din riktiga adress för att göra det. Fast i just det här fallet kanske du ännu hellre vill använda BugMeNot.com som ju är lite mer fokuserad mot enbart registrering... - Håkan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doomfarer Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 Boston (och Curt) vann semi-finalen och kommer nu att möta något annat lag i finalen som spelas i bäst av sju matcher. Bra eller dåligt för MMP, vem vet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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