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CNN Live Saturday

Diamondbacks Host World Series Game Three

Aired November 03, 2001 - 17:25   ET

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LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Tonight the New York Yankees bring their come-from-behind Game 3 to two games lead (sic) against the Arizona Diamondbacks, and it's the Bronx bombers chance now to win the World Series for a fourth consecutive time. Diamondbacks are going to try to stop that, though.

CNN's Sports Illustrated's Mike Galanos is in Phoenix, where the Diamondbacks are hoping to even things up.

Hi, Mike.

MIKE GALANOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, I'll tell you the Arizona Diamondbacks so happy to be here after what happened in New York, especially in Games 4 and 5. The Yankees, they bring all the momentum and they bring their mayor, Rudy Giuliani. He will watch the game with victims' families of the World Trade Center attacks.

Mayor Giuliani was asked: Will you stick around Sunday if there's a Game 7? He said: There will not be a game on Sunday. Very confident his Yankees are going to claim their 27th World Series title.

Again, they have all the momentum, when you consider the incredible comeback in Games 4 and 5, those dramatic two-run homers with two outs in the ninth in both games. Now they find themselves with a three-two lead. But these Yankees still have quite a mountain to climb in the form of 6-foot 10-inch Randy Johnson.

The big unit already threw a three-hit shutout at the Yankees in Game 2, and Manager Bob Brenly hopes Randy Johnson can throw the game of his life and really overcome some of this Yankee mystique.

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JOE TORRE, YANKEE MANAGER: It seems like it's magic, there's no question. I can't give you any other reason, other than good relief pitching and a base hit here and there, because we certainly haven't wasted any base hits.

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ANDY PETTITTE, YANKEE PITCHER: We realize it's a pitching staff. We're not swinging the bats great right now. And -- but again, in the post-season it's always low-scoring games. And you got to go in thinking, you know, it's the best pitchers in the league and stuff throwing right now against each other. So, you got to go in thinking that, you know, a run, you know, two here and hopefully we can scratch something off Randy this time.

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BOB BRENLY, DIAMONDBACKS MANAGER: I choose to give the credit to the Yankee pitching staff. We've said it all throughout this post- season, that a lot of very good offensive ball clubs came into this post-season. And we've seen a lot of very good hitters shut down, and it's because of the pitching. That's why teams advance deep into the post-season, because they're able to make their pitches more consistently than the teams who aren't here.

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GALANOS: And we expect a great pitching match-up in Game 2. We mentioned Randy Johnson going against Andy Pettitte, who pitched great in Game 2 against Johnson, but he had a couple of mistakes. One of them, a three-run homer hit by Matt Williams.

So we're expecting one more time another run or two-run ballgame. It's going to be quite the dramatic scene here at Bank One Ballpark. That's going to wrap things up.

I'm Michael Galanos. Back to you.

HARRIS: All right, thanks Mike. It's hard to see how we can get better than this.

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