YANKS HALVE LEAD
HOME RUN SALVO BLISTERS MARLINS
BY LEE GANNON
SPORTSWRITER
MIAMI MORNING SUN
NEW YORK - IT WAS A FUN TIME IN THE BLEACHERS FRIDAY NIGHT AT YANKEE STADIUM AS EIGHT HOME RUNS WERE HIT.
THE DINGER DOWNPOUR ENDED IN FAVOR OF THE YANKEES AS NEW YORK POSTED A 6-4 WIN TO CHOP THE MARLINS WORLD SERIES LEAD TO TWO GAMES TO ONE
GAMES FOUR AND FIVE ARE IN NEW YORK,
IN THE NEW YORK SECOND, CHRISTINE DEKHI DROPPED A TWO=RUN BOMB AFTER TOBIAS BARBER HAD SINGLED - THEN IT BECAME SOLO HOME RUN NIGHT.
IN THE YANKEE THIRD, BYRON WILKES AND JOHNNY BASS BLASTED BACK-TO-BACK HOMERS TO LEFT AND DAVE McCLELLAN LATER ADDED ANOTHER SOLO SHOT, THIS ONE TO DEEP RIGHT TO MAKE IT 5-0
THE NEXT FRAME BROUGHT ANOTHER NY RUN HOME ON A FIELDER'S CHOICE FROM WILKES.
SHINGO SHINJO (2),, ALVIN PARKER AND GEOFFREY BATISTA ALL ADDED SOLO SHOTS FOR FLORIDA
MARLINS STARTER JONNY BLUM LASTED 2..2 INNINGS, GIVING UP 5 RUNS ON 6 HITS.
DANNY GONZALEZ (3-0) WENT 7 INNINGS, ALLOWING EIGHT HITS AND THREE RUNS.
GAME THREE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
MARLINS 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 12 0
YANKEES 0 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 9 0
GAME TWO
MIAMI - GEOFFREY BATISTA BOOSTED HIS PLAYOFF RBI TOTAL TO 14 BY DRIVING IN FOUR RUNS IN A GAME TWO THUMPING OF THE YANKEES WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
BATISTA UPPED HIS POSTSEASON HOME RUN COUNT TO FIVE WITH A PAIR OF BLASTS AS FLORIDA TOOK A 7-0 LEAD AFTER FOUR INNINGS, CRUISING TO THEIR SECOND STRAIGHT WIN WITH THE 7-2 PASTING OF NEW YORK.
GAME THREE IS FRIDAY NIGHT AT YANKEE STADIUM.
THE MARLINS POUNDED YANKEE STARTER JOHNNY SMITH FOR ALL 7 RUNS ON 9 HITS IN JUST 3.2 INNINGS. AARON CONNER ADDED A HOMER AND TWO RBI's AND PEDRO MORALES DOUBLED IN ANOTHER RUN, AS KEVIN BLACK ADVANCED TO 2-0 IN THE POSTSEASON, GOING 6.2 INNINGS.
GAME TWO 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
YANKEE 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 8 0
MARLINS 0 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 X 7 9 0
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