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Game 1 - Dresden
at Hana Radke contained Juan and the Vaughns, but homers by Eddie Taubensee and Delino DeShields won it for Hana in twelve innings. Hana went ahead 3-1 in the seventh on Taubensee's blast, but the Blacks tied it in the 9th on McGwire's homer off Maddux. Each team had chances in the 10th and 11th, but DeShields greeted Reed in the bottom of the 12th, for which there was no comeback. 123 456 789 012 R H E Game 2 - Dresden
at Hana Millwood outpitched Glavine, striking out 10 and giving only 4 hits. After giving up solo runs in the first two innings, Blacks got a 4-2 lead on a Lofton single and a McGwire 2RHR and held that until Millwood was injured after walking Hamilton to start the 8th. Hana loaded the bases with none out, but Reed got Gonzalez to hit into a DP, scoring Hamilton, and Vaughn to fly out. In the 9th, infield hits by pinchhitters Alicea and Roberts brought up Hamilton with two outs, who doubled in two to win in dramatic fashion.
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Dresden Blacks had to come from behind twice, once on Nomar's 6th inning 2RHR, and then in the eighth on hits by McGwire and Bush. Storm had built their second lead on RBIs by Taubensee and Hamilton, both off lefty Rosado. In the tenth, lefty Peters allowed singles by two more lefties, bringing in Reed to face the righties. Juan popped to short, but Nomar had no chance on a DP on a slow ground ball by Greg Vaughn, as Hana took a 5-4 lead. Nomar flew to the warning track with one on to end the game.
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Dresden Blacks clung to a 1-0 lead when Greg Vaughn slapped a 6th inning two run homer. Gonzalez added an RBI double for an insurance run an inning later. Blacks didn't score again, with their best chance being in the 8th with 2nd&3rd, one out, but Eric Davis struck out and McGwire flied out to the wall in left.
123 456 789 R H E Hana sweeps Dresden in four. Blacks 0-8 against Hana lifetime in the playoffs, having been swept in 1995. Hana lost their first round series in the two years the Blacks won the series. MVP - Juan Gonzalez, although Acevedo a win, a save, and five key shutout innings, deserves mention as well
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Game 1 - Carolina at Rosehaven Al Leiter (18-6, 0-1) vs David Cone (19-6) Carolina drew first blood as Al Leiter pitched 7 strong innings and Jeromy Burnitz had a 5-3-4-4 day with a homer and double... and the game winning hit. R H E Game 2 - Carolina at Rosehaven The River Dogs may have Sosa, Piazza, and Rolen, but they also have Andy Fox, Greg Colbrunn, and Ozzie Guillen. The three of them combined for a clutch eighth inning run to tie the game at 5, then Mike Piazza homered in the 11th, as the River Dogs narrowly avoided going on the road two games down. Carolina trailed 4-0 when Carolina resorted to their favorite weapon, the grand slam, again by Jeromy Burnitz, who has 17 RBIs in the six playoff games to date.
123 456 789 01 R H E Game 3 - Rosehaven at Carolina
Valdes injured early,
but Wall and Belcher pitch well. Game goes 0-0 till the 6th and Canes go down 2-0, but tie it
in bottom of 6th, again go down 4-2 in top of 7th, but tie it 4-4 in
bottom of 7th. Canes take the lead in bottom of 8th on 2 out single from
Kent...Griffey clears the bases off Henry to make it 8-4, Osuna wiped up in the
9th. Canes up 2-1
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456 789 R H E Game 4 - Rosehaven at Carolina Almost everyone homered, often, and the Hurricanes endured a particularly ugly 5th inning, as the River Dogs administered an 18-8 beating. Dave Burba mopped up, allowing 7 more runs. Things could have been worse: in last year's playoffs, River Dogs won one by 20-0.
R H E Game 5 - Rosehaven at Carolina Leiter retired the first 13, including seven strikeouts. On the other hand, Cone had control problems. In the first, 3 walks and an RBI single by Burnitz plated one; in the third, Hurricanes patched together 4 around some singles, a costly error by Palmeiro, and a suicide squeeze by Leiter. Aside from Jeter's 2RHR in the 6th the River Dogs failed to get a runner past first. 123
456 789 R H E Game 6 - Carolina at Rosehaven Facing elimination, the River Dogs broke a 3-3 tie in the 7th on Scott Rolen's RBI single, then Sosa followed with a double off of Franco. Wall allowed a homer to the playing-out-of-his-head Jeromy Burnitz, his fifth of the series, but Wall then retired the side. Jeter drove in an insurance run in bottom of 8, and it turned out to be needed. Timlin retired the first 2 in the 9th, but Kent doubled and Griffey walked. Cordero pinchhit, and Timlin bobbled the game ending out, setting the stage again for Burnitz. Timlin pitched carefully, allowing a walk forcing in a run, but then got Damian Miller to end the game and force game 7.
123 456 789 R H E Game 7 - Carolina at Rosehaven First game 7 in any series in three years. Rookie Wood hitless through 5, with 8 strikeouts. Valdes hitless through 5 with no strikeouts and 4 walks. Carolina 6th: Roberto Petagine walks with one out, and gets doubled home by Greer. Griffey triples in a run, Kent singles in another. River Dogs got one back in the bottom of the inning, but wasted more when Javier was thrown out at third on one of the inning's four singles. In the CAR 7th, an unearned run scored on a sac fly, and Wood left after a walk and a single leading off the bottom of the seventh. Osuna then got Palmeiro and Fox, but Colbrunn singled to make it 4-2. That was the last gasp as Williams and Howry shared the final 6 outs.
123 456 789 R H E In the end, River Dogs just didn't hit when they needed to, and the pitching let them down too frequently (no quality starts in the first five games). MVP - Burnitz, with 5 HRs and 14 RBIs was the clear winner. Griffey finally had a decent series, after many poor ones.
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