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iO 0 1: TV highlights NHL: Bruins-Maple Leafs 7:30 p.m., NESN NFL: Colts-Steelers 9p.m.,Ch.5 Listings: D15 Scoreboard D15 The Boston Globe; Monday, October 2 1,2002 No kidding, he just gets better Heavenly win for the Angels Bob Ryan ANAHEIM, Ca- lif. A songwriter "ws-N 4 namnl Fichpr Twn al nn HRc endinS a thrilling, si e-saw 1 WU OdHIlUIl niXb Game2andeveningtheWoildSe- help tie the Series ries fl aU No active major leaguer had gone longer than Salmon 1,388 By Gordon Edes games without reaching playing globe staff in the postseason until this fall. He ai long ago informed s4 us of a startling I ANAHEIM, Calif. blasted Felix Rodriguez's offering If you've been paying any attention at all to the baseball postseason, you know the lad in question had to be Anaheim's electrifying Francisco Rodriguez, the slender reliever who does not dismiss enemy batters so much as vaporize them. As soon as he entered the game with the score tied at 9-all in the sixth, you knew it was over, that he would humiliate the Giants' batters and that the Angels would score a run, or two.

You didnt know that Tim Salmon would cap a four-hit ballgame with a thundering two-out, two-run shot in the eighth to give the Angels an RYAN, Page D4 Lf A wmcn a unicago fer'V a man was actually Patience finally to give the Angels then- Series win. I paid off for long- Much of the credit belonged to oppn rlanrine-with his wife. I can now go him one better. I have seen a World Series game in which a 20-year-old Venezuelan with a shade over one month's major league experience LA TJ suffering Angels outfielder Tim Francisco Rodriguez. The 20-year-Salmon.

old rookie pitched three perfect in-Salmon hit his second homer nings and got the victory, boosting of the game, a tiebreaking, two- his record to 5-0 in the postseason, run blast with two away in the Until the Angels drew even in eighth, boosting Anaheim past the the sixth, a guy who sold Christ-San Francisco Giants, 11-10, last WORLD SERIES, Page D4 REUTERS PHOTO ilr. enters and says hello to the foe by Tim Salmon admires his eighth-inning homer his second home run of the game that lifted the Angels in Game 2. throwing 12 consecutive strikes. -r i t. .1111111 1 lllllllllliltllllllltllllllllitlMliriltllJIIII Illllllltlllllllltlttlllllllllltllll llltlllllllllltllllllltllllllllllllllltlllllltlMIIIIMIIItllllillllllltlllllllliriltlltllllllitlllltllirlltlllllllllllllll Illlllllllllllllltlllllllllltlll tlllllllllllltllllMIIIllllltll 0 Out of this wo 1 7 ,..4 GLOBE STAFF PHOTOJIM DAVIS Carlos Ruiz (left) gets ready to celebrate as keeper Adin Brown and a bevy of Revolution fans look on helplessly while Ruiz's shot rolls into the net, giving the Galaxy the MLS Cup.

Jackie MacMullan Ruiz's OT goal lifts Galaxy past Revolution for title III U. i nl' t'-I! i 'i, i (i i Despite loss, team won hearts By Frank Dell'Apa GLOBE STAFF The ending was painfully abrupt. 1 For two months sr. FOXBOR-OUGH The Los Angeles now, the New Eng- S3 i 1 land Revolution, our normally pro- 1 1 vincial sports world, have put Revolution, who had not lost at Gillette Stadium since Aug. 18.

Ruiz's finish, though, left no doubt, as he one-timed a shot with his left foot from just inside the penalty area, the ball skipping into the far right side of the net. "If you are going to lose, it might as well be on a great play like that," Revolution midfielder Steve Ralston said. "But to be that close, and almost win the championship, this feels worse than last year. Maybe it will feel different when we look back on it in a couple of days. It's really disappointing to lose with that kind of a MLS CUP, Page DIO They dispatched the Chicago Fire and the Columbus Crew in the postseason.

They scratched their way to the one-game, winner-take-all MLS Cup final yesterday afternoon at Gillette Stadium. Even though their opponent, the Los Angeles Galaxy, was in the title match for the fourth time, and the Revolution had never even had a sniff of the championship, somehow, this band of fearless com- petitors convinced everyone they were going to pull it off. "If soccer were a little bigger in this country," said Revolution de-MacMULLAN, Page DU Galaxy spoiled the Revolution's storybook season in the seventh MLS Cup final yesterday. Justice and symmetry were reflected in the result, with the league's best team succeeding and the league's Most Valuable Player, Carlos Ruiz, scoring in the 23d minute of overtime for the 1-0 victory. The deciding play, a swift counterattack, disappointed a record crowd of 61,316 and shocked the their heads down and plowed through the meat of the Major League Soccer order.

A team that was once in danger of missing the playoffs blossomed under interim coach Steve Nicol, and suddenly forgot how to lose. They ran the table on the final six games of their regular season. GLOBE STAFF PHOTOJIM DAVIS it 7JU3 Revolution owner Robert Kraft consoles keeper Adin Brown following the heartbreaking MLS Cup final. i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II I II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Ill 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II tl 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 It 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 XI) Us. HEAD OF THE CHARLES Inside wot FootballMonday US women extend stay at head of rowing class By John Powers GLOBE STAFF "We didn't win by a large margin, but we won," said coach Tom Terhaar, iff Fine start Thomas, the Bruins' 28-year-old bw rookie goaltender, got chance in NHL and made most of it 02 Family plan Patriots tight end Daniel Graham has big ideas for next week's game against Denver.

D7 On the Web: boston.comsports wfj Ms Detroit 23 Baltimore 17 Chicago 20 Jacksonville 10 Buffalo 23 Cleveland 34 Miami 10 Houston 17 Atlanta 30 San Diego 27 Carolina 0 Oakland 21 NY Jets 20 Green Bay 30 Minnesota 7 Washington 9 St. Louis 37 Philadelphia 20 Seattle 20 Tampa Bay 10 Denver 37 Arizona 9 Kansas City 01 34 Dallas ul 6 New Orleans 35 Complete NFL San Francisco 27 coverage, D6-8 13 They hadn't rowed a serious stroke after his boat held off the Canadians by since they won their startling gold four seconds to join the US males in a medal at last month's world rowing consecutive star-spangled sweep of the championships in Spain. Two of them marquee had pressing business elsewhere. But For the men, who won for an eighth the US women's eight turned the Head straight time, the biggest challenge of the Charles regatta into a victory lap was getting to the starting line on time yesterday, extending their endless after 2-man Garrett Klugh broke his summer into autumn. head of the charlbp, Page D12 GLOBE STAFF PHOIODAVID KAMERMAN Michigan's crew drew a crowd as it passed the John W.

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