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november 2001 s p o r t s Playoff Recap Cassidy Cobbs The Arizona Diamondbacks congratulate themselves on winning the Series. Division Series: St. Louis Cardinals vs. Arizona Diamondbacks Great pitching for both teams made it excit ing, but Curt Schilling edged Matt Morris and the D-Backs won in 5 games. Atlanta Braves vs. Houston Astros The Braves silenced critics by sweeping the best team in the NL in three games. Tom Glavine shut out the ‘Stros in Game 2 by a score of 1-0. Oakland Athletics vs. New York Yankees The Yankees sum moned their usual October magic to win the series after being down 2 games to none. Some of this may have had to do with the fact that Oakland cleanup hitter Jermaine Dye broke his tibia in Game 4, but the Yanks won in 5. Cassidy Cobbs E veryone in the world of baseball will remember October 5. On that date, in 2001, Barry Bonds knocked numbers 71 and 72 out to break Mark McGwire’s single season home run record. It is a fabulous record and will undoubtedly be tough to re-break. However, in the excitement of Barry’s achievement, many other important happenings around the majors were woefully undercovered and overlooked. Perhaps the most intrigu ing thing about this day and night was the fact that all four playoff berths in the National League were clinched. The Arizona Diamondbacks pulled a win to clinch the National League West. Despite Bond’s home runs, the Giants lost to the L.A. Dodgers, eliminating them from the running. With San Francisco out, the St. Louis Cardinals and Houston Astros were both assured a berth, and their final series would determine not who went to postseason, but who went as the National League Central Champions and who went as the National League Wild Card team. Most remarkable, however, was that the Atlanta Braves completed a 20-3 blowout of the Florida Marlins to clinch their tenth straight division title. That feat is unparalleled in any pro fessional sport. On a more personal level, the title makes pitchers Tom Glavine and John Smoltz the only two players to ever win ten straight divisions for the same team. Over in the American league, the four playoff teams (Seattle, New York, Cleveland, Oakland) had already clinched their spots, but that hadn’t slowed them down. The Seattle Mariners won their 115th game to sur pass the Yankees for the American League single sea son wins record, second only to the 1906 Chicago Cubs (they tied the Cubs the next day). Wild Card Oakland won their 100th game, becoming only the 9th team in Major League history to win that many games and be in second place in their division. The Cleveland Indians played in the shortest AL game of the season at 1 hour and 57 min Cleveland Indians vs. Seattle Mariners The underdog Indians gave Seattle a tougher series than was expected. The Tribe fought into Game 5, but ultimately the 116-game winning Mariners won out 3- 2. Championship Series: Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Atlanta Braves Arizona outpitched Atlanta. In Game 4, the Braves committed four errors in one inning. One was by Maddux himself, an 11-time Gold Glove winner (His response? “It was embarrass ing.’’). The Diamondbacks took the series in 5 games. Seattle Mariners vs. New York Yankees New York carried their momentum from the division series over, and held back the winningest team in baseball to dominate the series in 5 games. To Mariner fans: Don’t worry. The 1906 Cubs didn’t win a World Series. The 1907 Cubs did. World Series: New York Yankees vs. Arizona Diamondbacks Will go down as one of the best World Series ever played. Four games were decided by one run. NY tied two consecutive games with ninth-inning, two-out, two- run homers. After the two Yankee comebacks. Game 7 could not have been scripted better. Curt Schilling pitched 7 1/3 innings and gave up two runs. Johnson (yes, Randy, the Game 6 winner) pitched 1 1/3 shutout innings. Roger Clemens pitched 7 innings and gave up a sole run. The Diamondbacks entered the bottom of the ninth trailing 2-1 and facing Mariano Rivera, the best closer in baseball. But Arizona refused to die, and a key throwing error by Rivera punctuated by three hits from Mark Grace, Tony Womack (game-tying hit) and Luis Gonzalez (game-winning hit) gave the D-Backs the two runs they needed to bring home the state’s first profes sional sports championship. Lost in the Shuffle; the Other Records of October 5 The Stentorian IS now utes. Besides Barry, three other Major Leaguers distin guished themselves on the playing field the night of October 11th. Oriole great Cal Ripken, Jr. played in his 3000th career game. He is only the seventh player in baseball history to do so. Corey Koskie, of the Minnesota Twins, became the first third baseman in American League history to hit 25 home runs, steal 25 bases, and drive in 100 runs in a single season. And in a dra matic fashion, Atlanta third baseman Chipper Jones hit a grand slam to bring his RBI total to 101 for the year and to become the first of his posi tion to drive in 100 runs for six consecutive seasons. Baseball is a fantas tic sport, leaving much room for both individual and team honors. But in the real scheme of things, which should have gotten more coverage: an indi vidual record-breaker whose team was eliminated from the “second season” or a team performing a great feat as a group of individuals? It’s up to you to decide, but I’d have to go with the team. on the web! Read current and past issues, as well as articles that have never been in print! Contact the editors and share your views. WWW. ncssm. edu/stentorian stentorian north Carolina school of science & mathematics 1219 broad street, durham, nc 27705 Editors-in-Chlef: Kitty Fromson & Igor Gorodezky Advisor: John Woodmansee News Editor: Michael Mueller Features Editors: Alex Dadok & Lisa Turner Interim Sports Editor; Cassidy Cobbs Opinions Editor: Alec Gibson Layout Editors: Annafrancesca Fuchs Photography Editor: Jamie Shin Website Editor: Annafiancesca Fuchs Columnist: James Phillips Cartoonist: Ashley Perryman Staff Writers; Cassidy Brown, Ana Caldera, Brandon Carroll, Heather Carroll, Cassidy Cobbs, Emily Currin, Anna Goldstein, Henry Hdbert, Jessica Jean Hudgens, Samia llias. Crystal Jeon, Shauna Jin, Dawn Nelson, Stephanie Poole, Daniel Silverman, Paul Smith, Elysa Wan Layout: Samia llias. Dawn Nelson, Brian Sweeney Photographers: Robert Bouvatte, Angela Kilby, Dhruti Patel, Neal Patel, Caroline Wong
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