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3 THE TEWNESSEAN Friday, July 30 1999 5C SPORTS: BASEBALL mariners 8, Royals 4 aeamt AB Ri nR 4 0 3 1 1 5 1 2 Zprttiry Jr dh-cf -ARodriguei Ihanei rf 0 1 "Lompkln 3 0 SO Avg. 0 .267 1 0 307 2 3)3 2 .294 0 .309 1 300 0 0 315 0 1 .250 2 728 iimmon tf i i PAbbolt 0 0 0 a-EAAarlinei ph 1 1 7:05 D.m.. at Memphis: 0 0 0 1 3 VUDTV ID RDavls 3b Totals 5 1 41 I IS American Conference Central Division Pet. GB Omaha (Royals) 61 41 .598 Alborque (Dodgers) 51 52 .495 10' ColSorings (Rockies) 49 51 .490 11 Iowa (Cubs) 49 54 .476 Eastern Division Pet GB Nashvle (Pirates) 64 38 .627 Oklahoma (Rangers) 58 46 .558 7 Memphis (Cards) 52 47 .525 lO'j N.Orleans (Astros) 41 62 398 23Vi Pacific Conference Southern Division AB Bl BB SO Avg. 4 0 2 0 0 2 3B Nashville will send Kane Davis (2-1, 5.00 ERA) against the Redbirds' Mike Busby (3-0, 5.06 ERA).

Saturday: At Las Vegas, 9:05 p.m. Sunday: At Las Vegas, 3::05 p.m. 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 2 112 1110 110 0 0 2 2 Xansai City Damon "Febles 2b Bellran cf ViSweeney lb Dve rf Randa 3b JeGiambi dh b-Pose ph RSanchez ss "JSeaHte 0 .270 1 .304 0 334 0 .312 0 329 1 .289 0 .220 0 299 0 .278 iVr fi1 I 11 1 AP I 0 Pet. Salt Lake (Twins) 53 48 .525 Fresno (Giants) 52 51 .505 Tucson (D'backs) 51 53 .490 Las Vegas (Padres) 45 58 .437 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 3 3 0 32 4 GB 2 i'i 9 GB Northern Division 021 202 001-1 15 0 Kansas City Expectant mothers enjoy 'Birth Night' LOWELL, Mass. A sellout crowd kicked with excitement last night as 30 pregnant women and their nervous husbands waited to see who would be the first to go into labor and win a year's supply of diapers.

In the latest and perhaps strangest twist on the old-time ballpark giveaway, the Class A Lowell Spinners Invited local expectant mothers for the first-ever "Birth Night." Women who registered were given free tickets to the game and the promise of prizes. None went into labor during the game, though the women did begin leaving midway through the game In varying degrees of discomfort. The first to deliver a baby will still win if she notifies the team. "Nobody's even warming up at this point," said Dr. Ed Li-pham, who had four paramedics and ambulances.

"You can't do it on command. It's a matter of waiting for nature to run Its course." Led by childbirth coach Linda Jezek, the full house of 5,000 and threatening to multiply at any minute joined the women in their breathing exercises. "All right, everybody take a nice big breath and blow it out," she said over the loudspeaker. "Remember: Think birth tonight," the PA announcer added, as the sound of a crying baby blared in the background. The team also sponsored contests to name the baby and guess the time of delivery.

"We heard there's someone that's overdue," said Lisa Armstrong, who's been having "mild contractions" all week. "It'll be a tight race." One man called owner Joann Weber as his wife began labor in the next room. -ASSOCIATED PRESS vv iw uw-1 Vancouver (A's) Pet. .577 .446 .430 Edmonton (Angels) 60 45 43 42 Tacoma (Mariners) 13' 15 16 Calgary (Marlins .420 big o-nomereo ror Abbott in the 9th. b-ground-M out for Spehr In the 9th.

LOB-Seattle 11, Kansas City 4. 2B-ARod-riguez (20), Mabry 01), JeGiambi (6). HR-EWrtinez (15) off Rusch; Dye (20) off Halama; MiSweenev 05) off ARodriguei (23) off Suppan; RDavis 1 1 (25), ARod-r rlguej 3 (62), EMartinez (54), RDavis 3 (48), JAiSweeney (73), Dye (78), JeGiambi 2 (IB). SB-BLHunter 2 (26), Griffey Jr (19). GIDP-; Lampkin, Febles 2.

J1 in position-Seattle 7 rry, Jr2' Rrisuez 2, Ibanez, Lampkln, RDavis); Kansas Cily 3 (Bellran, Pose 2). Runners moved up-Mabry. DP-Sealfle 3 (RDavis and DaBell), (DaBeH f1, Mary), (ARodriguez, DaBell and Ma-, bry); Kansas City 1 (RSanchez, Febles and rviuwewieVI. Paul Konerko of the Chicago White Sox watches his eighth inning homer leave the park against the New York Yankees. Konerko has 2 HRs in White Sox victory Halama WJJ-2 6 RER BB SONP ERA 4 4 2 2 78 3.65 0 0 0 2 46 3.38 0 0 5 3 Thursday's Games Fresno at Salt Lake Edmonton at Vancouver Iowa at Tucson Albuquerque at Tacoma Nashville at Memphis New Orleans at Las Vegas Calgary 6, Oklahoma 5, 10 innings Omaha at Colorado Springs, comp.

of susp. game Omaha at Colorado Springs Friday's Games Omaha at Colorado Springs Oklahoma at Calgary New Orleans at Las Vegas Nashville at Memphis Albuquerque at Tacoma Fresno at Salt Lake Iowa at Tucson Edmonton at Vancouver Saturday's Games Salt Lake at Vancouver Calgary at Omaha New Orleans al Memphis Nashville at Las Vegas Tacoma at Iowa Tucson at Fresno Albuquerque at Colorado Springs Oklahoma at Edmonton Sunday's Games Calgary at Omaha New Orleans at Memphis Nashville at Las Vegas Tacoma at Iowa Albuquerque at Colorado Springs Oklahoma at Edmonton Salt Lake al Vancouver Tucson at Fresno 1 1 rooott "Mesa Kanui fHv 1 IP RER BB SONP ERA Suppan 5-4 5i 11 'Morman Wi 2 Whisenant 1 1 1 4 6 103 4.12 0 0 1 1 28 3.48 0 0 0 1 15 5.51 1 1 i in dm 'Kuscn i innemea runners-scored-Morman 1-0. 1 IBB-off Suppan (Griffey Jr) 1. WP-Mesa- Umpires-Home, Culbreth; First, Eddings; 'Second, McClelland; Third, Meriwether. A 20,147 (40.625).

Rangers 3, Orioles 1 White Sox 5, Yankees 1 New York AB Bl BB SO Avg. Texas McLemore 2b IRodriguez Greer tf 0 1UL RPalmeiro dh Zelle 3b Stevens lb RKelly rf 0 .369 1 .290 2 338 1 .268 2 .294 0 .241 0 .250 1 .226 1 735 I Mateo cf Clayton ss Totals Termessean staff, wire reports MEMPHIS Chad Her-mansen's grand slam in the ninth inning helped Nashville beat Memphis 6-1 in the Pacific Coast League last night. The game was scoreless until the bottom of the sixth when David Hulse's RBI single gave Memphis a 1-0 lead. Nashville's Aramis Ramirez tied the game in the eighth with his 18th homer of the season. Then in the ninth, Kevin Polcovich drove in a run to break the tie and Hermansen homered for the final margin.

Matt Ryan (6-2) was the winner and Kevin Crafton (0-1) suffered the loss. Hermansen's 27th homer extended his hitting streak to eight games. He leads the PCL with 84 RBI. In his last eight games, Hermansen has six homers and 16 RBI. "He hasn't surprised anybody," Sounds Manager Trent Jewett said.

"The tremendous thing about Chad is he's not too impressed with what he's done." The Sounds increased their lead to 7 12 games over Oklahoma in the Eastern Division. "We pitched good and played good defense. I'd certainly like to crank it up earlier in the game, but I don't want to complain," jewett said. It was the second night in a row Hermansen had a big blow. On Wednesday, Herman-sen and Darryl Brinkley hit three-run homers the Sounds beat Memphis 154.

1 0 AB Bl BB SO Avg. 4 0 0 0 0 0 .275 4 12 10 1 .311 3 0 0 0 1 1 .277 3 0 0 0 1 0 .343 4 0 1 0 0 0 305 4 0 0 0 0 2 .282 4 1 1 1 0 0 311 3 0 0 0 0 0 .235 3 12 1 0 1 .252 32 3 6 3 2 5 AB Bl BB SO Avg. 3 0 0 0 1 0 .282 3 1 1 0 0 0 .277 0 0 0 0 1 0 .299 4 0 1 1 0 1 333 3 0 0 0 0 1 .278 3 0 0 0 0 1 335 3 0 0 0 0 0 306 3 0 1 0 0 0 330 2 0 0 0 1 1 .275 1 0 0 0 0 0 .200 1 0 0 0 0 1 302 26 I 3 I 3 5 28 1 Brosius 3b Jeter ss rf JeWilllams "TMarlinez lb CDavis dh ShSpencer If Soio 2b Girardl a-JPosada ph-c 1 Totals Chicago 1 Durham 2b Singleton cf 1 Thomas dh MOrdonez rf Konerko lb Simmons If Norton 3b Caruso ss Totals AB Bl BB SO Avg. 3 1 0 .295 Baltimore BvAnderson cf Bordick ss b-Conine ph Surhoff If Belle rf Balnes dh WClark lb Ripken 3b DeShlelds 2b Figga a-Amaral ph Totals Sounds 6, Redbirds 1 NASHVILLE MEMPHIS abrhbi abrhbi Brown rf 3110 Lariviere rf 4010 Hermansen cf 4 1 1 4 Polanco2b 4010 Ramirez 3b 4111 Liltlecf 4000 Brinkleylf 4010 Haas lb 3100 Laker 4000 Warner 3b 4000 Rvanp 1000 HulseH 4021 Robertson lb 4120 Ordazss 4010 Howard 2b 3030 Bieserc 2000 Polcovich ss 3111 Thompson 1000 VanPoppelp 2000 McDonald ph 1000 Wardph 1000 Craitonp 0000 1 .324 0 320 1 320 0 .303 1 .333 1 .223 1 .187 0 755 5 1 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 9 Associated Press CHICAGO John Snyder felt privileged to face the New York Yankees. He felt even better after beating them.

Paul Konerko hit a pair of solo home runs, leading Snyder and the Chicago White Sox over the New York Yankees 5-1 yesterday. The Yankees have lost two straight and three of their last 10. "Pitching against the best, it's an honor," Snyder said of the defending World Series champions. "Going against the Yankees, they have so much tradition and history it's nice to do what I did." Snyder (8-6) gave up one run and three hits in seven innings. He won for the first time since being called up Friday from Triple-A Charlotte, where he went 3-0 in three starts.

Keith Foulke got the last six outs for his fifth save. Rangers 3, Orioles 1 BALTIMORE Mike Morgan pitched six innings of three-hit ball in his 400th career start, and the Texas AL leaders THROUGH JULY 28 SLUGGING PERCENTAGE Green, Tor .641 Canseco, T.B. .622 Jaha, Oak .621 M. Ramirez, Clev .621 McGriff, T.B. .619 Griffey, Sea .617 Garciaparra, Bos .613 Jeter, NY .610 Palmeiro, Tex .606 Gonzalez, Tex J77 ON-BASE PERCENTAGE Fernandez, Tor .453 Jeter, NY .449 Palmeiro, Tex .435 Martinez, Sea 433 McGriff, T.B.

431 Williams, NY .430 R. Alomar, Clev .429 Thome, Clev .427 Anderson, Bait .422 Jaha, Oak .419 TOTAL BASES Green, Tor 241 Jeter, NY 236 Griffey, Sea 235 Surhoff, Bait 231 Ordonez, Chi 225 McGriff, T.B. 221 M. Ramirez, Clev 216 Palmeiro, Tex 2)4 Dye, KC 212 Bellran, KC 207 EARNED RUN AVERAGE P. Martinez, Bos 2.51 Cone, NY 2.71 Carpenter, Tor 3.45 Sirolka, Chi 3 47 Rosado, KC 3.69 Mussina, Ball 3.69 Radke, Minn 3.74 Mays, Minn 3 77 Suppan, KC 380 Parque, Chi 3.92 WONLOST P.

Martinez, Bos 15-3 Mussina, Bait 13-5 Hernandez, NY 12-t Nagy, Clev 12-6 Wells, Tor n-6 Cone, NY 10-4 Garcia, Sea 10-6 Sauveurp 0000 Barnes Texas 001 010 010-3 i 0 Baltimore 000 100 000-1 3 0 0000 31 1 1 Secristc 1100 Totals 34 6 10 6 Totals a-slruck out lor Figga in the 9th. b-walked Rangers hit three solo homers off Juan Guzman in a win over the Baltimore Orioles. Roberto Kelly, Royce Clayton and Ivan Rodriguez connected for the Rangers, whose 10th win in 11 games expanded their lead in the AL West to a season-high nine games. Texas is 12-2 since the All-Star break. Morgan (11-6) allowed one run, struck out two and walked two in taking over the team lead in wins.

Mariners 8, Royals 4 KANSAS CITY, Mo. Alex Rodriguez homered and John Halama won his eighth straight decision as the Seattle Mariners beat the Kansas City Royals. Rodriguez hit a two-run double off the top of the left-field fence in the sixth for a 7-4 lead.B Nashvle for Bordick in the 9th. 000 000 015-6 000 001 000-1 Memphis LOB Texas 4, Baltimore 2. 2B-RlDken DP-Memphls 1.

LOB Nashville 8. (22). 3B-Bordlck (3). HR-IRodriouez 08) off JGuzman; Clayton (5) off JGuzman; RKelly (5) off JGuzman. RBIs IRodriguez (59), RKelly Memphis 6.

2B Brinkley, Ordaz. HR-Her-mansen (27), Ramirez 118). SB-Brown 2, Haas. CS-Howard. SH-Poteovich, New York 001 000 000-1 5 1 Chicago 001 002 Ux-S 9 0 a-struck out for Girardl in the 8th.

O'NelB (5). LOB New York 3, Chicago 6. 2B-Brosius (18), BeWilliams (17), Norton (14), Caruso (9). 3B-Slmmons (2). HR-Ko-nerko 2 05) off Mendoza, Cone.

RBIs Jeter (74), Singleton (54), Thomas (62), Konerko 2 (38), Norton (31). SB-Durham 2 (21), Simmons (1). CS-Norton (3). S-Broslus. SF-Jeter.

GIDP O'Neill, Solo. Runners left In scoring position-New York 3 (O'Neill, BeWilliams, ShSpencer); Chicago 4 (Thomas, MOrdonez, MLJohnson 2). Runners moved up Jeter, TMarlinez. DP-Chicago 2 (Caruso and Konerko), (Durham, Caruso and Konerko). New York IP RER BB SONP ERA mi, uayion cjj, surnott m.

cs-RPalmeiro (2). S-Figga. GIDP-Bordick, Belle. Runners left in scor no oosl on Texas 2 (RPalmeiro 2). DP-Texas 2 McLemore.

Clayton and Stevens). (Clayton and Stevens). ip er bb so 6 5 112 6 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 3 Texas IP ER BB SONP ERA Nashvle Van Poppel Sauveur Rvan 6-2 Morgn 6 3 1 1 2 2 70 514 Venafro l'i Zimmerman 0 0 0 0 2 17 2.83 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.75 0 0 0 1 1 24 4 78 Wetleland 531 1 4 4 3 5 119 2.83 Cone 10-5 Mendoza Baltimore IP ER BB SO NP ERA Guzman L.5-9 7VS 6 3 3 2 3 117 4.18 Thompson 7 4 0 0 5 2 Craflon 0-1 Vh 5 6 6 0 0 Barnes 1 0 0 0 2 HBP-bv Craflon (Brown). Balk Crafton. 2:43.

1 1 1 1 0 0 11 4.57 IP ER BB SO NP ERA 7 3 1 1 1 5 87 5.54 2 2 0 0 0 3 27 2.58 Chicago Snyder W.8-6 5 WP-Cone. osco 0 0 0 0 1 6.85 imlenieckl 1 0 0 0 0 1 11 709 Umpires-Home. Shutock: First. Scott: Sec ond, Cousins; Third, Brinkman. Foster, Marty; First, Umpires Home, Kosc; Second, Morrison; Third, Hickox, 1-226.

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