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...Pitching prevailed in this Series, and the Diamondback All Star duo, Schilling and Johnson, accounted for the four wins, besting the best rotation in the American League: Andy Pettitte (0-2), Roger Clemens (0-0), Mike Mussina (0-0), and Orlando Hernandez (0-0). And, had manager Bob Brenly not given Schilling the hook too early in Game 3, a seventh game might not have been necessary...
...down despite pitching on three days rest for the second time. His opponent, Yankee ace Roger Clemens, matched him frame for frame into the 7th inning. The D-Backs punched a run home in the 6th; the Yanks matched it in the top of the 7th. But when manager Bob Brenly elected to let Schilling hit in the 8th, it looked like a decision that could be second guessed for the rest of the century, especially when Alfonso Soriano reached him for a home run to give the Yankees a 2-1 lead. But the other co-MVP, Randy Johnson...
...came Wednesday, or as the D-Backs will remember it, Fright Night. The scintillating Schilling, pitching on only three days? rest, served the Yanks his Phoenix early-bird special: large portions of unhittable pitches. But with the D-Backs up 3-1 in the middle of the 8th, manager Bob Brenly made what soon became a historic decision. He lifted Schilling so he would have something left for a possible Game 7. Maybe Brenly had a premonition. In came Byung-Kyun Kim, a 22-year-old submarine-style reliever with a kimchee-hot fastball. Kim whiffed three straight Yanks...
...Billy Bob Thornton...
...stuff, even poetry is just selling like crazy. People are so hungry for information that they’re snatching up anything [that] can shed light on the ethos over there.” Sales of such literature are also up at the Harvard Book Store, though as bookseller Bob Rainey acknowledged, “Among our clientele, there’s really always been an interest [in Middle Eastern affairs]; we didn’t really have to order many books specially.” At both stores, popular titles included Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong...