1. As fate would have it, he was due up in a key situation. 2. As Vaughn was due up next, White Sox manager Jerry Manuel pulled Navarro and brought in reliever Bill Simas. 3. Alberto Castillo, the light-hitting backup catcher, was due up. 4. But that was it for Lopez, who gave way to lefthander B.J. Ryan with the lefthand-hitting Brian Daubach due up. 5. But they still must have felt confident that, with the bottom half of the Yankee lineup due up, they would have time to squeeze out a run. 6. Hill left the game with one out in the seventh, the bases loaded and Anderson due up. 7. In the fifth, the Mariners had runners on first and second with none out and the heart of the lineup due up. 8. The Angels then teed off on Royals reliever Darrell May, a left-hander who was brought in to face the left-handed hitters due up. 9. The bottom three in the lineup due up. 10. The Angels had left-handed hitters Edmonds and Garret Anderson due up and the Yankees had left-hander Graeme Lloyd warming up. |