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Kansas City (Appier 3-0) at Cleveland (Clark 1-0), 7:05 p.m. Minnesota (Mahomes 0-0) at Chicago (Fernandez 0-1), 8:05 p.m. Texas (Pavlik 0-1) at Oakland (Darling 0-1), 10:05 p.m. Only games scheduled...
...Opening Day game developed into a pitching duel between Kevin Appier of the Royals and Mike Mussina of the Orioles. Because of the shortened spring training, though, they were allowed to go only so far. As soon as Mussina left after the fifth, the Royals rallied for three runs...
...Appier, meanwhile, carried a no-hitter into the seventh. But after he struck out Ripken for the second out, manager Bob Boone decided the rest of the season was more important than the rest of the game, and he brought in a reliever. All about the park, you could hear the debate rage over Boone's move. But then Harold Baines of the O's drove the ball deep to center, and everyone stopped to watch as Tom Goodwin made a sensational diving catch...
Alas, the no-hitter was lost in the eighth, but the fans still went home happy, albeit wet, after the Royals' 5-1 win. They were talking about Appier's stuff and Cal's streak and Goodwin's catch and the new grass. As Ripken says, smells like baseball...
Kansas City (Appier 2-0) at Minnesota (Hawkins...