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Smith says blunder
was 'my mistake'
By The Associated Press madc mistake of not looking
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) assumed that the ball would be
Lonnte Smith, whose basenin- hi, on ^ d ?
mng mistake in the seventh f ,eft fldder Dan Ghd.
eame mav have cost his Atlanta
Braves a run ? and possibly den and center fielder Kirby
the World Series ? admits he Puckett were sprinting despwas
faked out by the Minnesota erately toward Pendleton's long
Twins' infield. drive.
Smith refused to talk to the "Before I had a chance to
media immediately after Sunday look back, I saw the two infielnight's
1-0, 10-inning loss to ders trying to glove something,"
the Minnesota Twins. But he Smith said,
told a Philadelphia Inquirer col- "Then I looked up and I hapumnist
it was "my mistake" pened to see Gladden running
when he failed to score from toward the outfield (fence), and
first on Terry Pendleton's long I saw Kirby, and then I noticed
eighth-inning double. the ball almost as it hit, and af"On
the ball Terry hit, if I'd ter I saw they weren't going to
taken the time to take one look, catch it, I started running as
that could have been the differ- hard has I could," Smith told
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chic, ouuui iuiu uic niquuci. me newspaper.
.. Evidently, they all seem to "You know, if I saw the ball
think if I had picked the ball off the bat, there's a good
up... chance I could have scored. But
"It happened. My mistake." I didn't see it. I didn't take that
Smith, who was running on look in. That's my mistake."
the pitch, said he didn't look It was still second-and-third
toward the plate as Pendleton with none out when Ron Gant
swung, but saw second baseman hit a dribbler to first base.
Chuck Knoblauch appear to Smith stayed at third,
field a grounder and throw to "I was told to let it go
shortstop Greg Gagne. through" before breaking for
It was all a fake ? the ball home, he said. "And if it's a
was sailing toward the left- high chopper, it was my own
center wall. Smith stopped after decision. Since it wasn't a high
rounding second, then realized chopper, and my momentum
where the ball was and resumed wasn't going forward, and since
running. But the delay forced we had two good hitters coming
him to stop at third. up there, I decided to play it
"Evidently, what nobody safe."
realizes, I was going with the After an intentional walk to
pitch on a delayed steal," Smith David Justice, Sid Bream hit
said. "I got about halfway and I into an inning-ending double
heard the sound of the bat. I play.
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erased setback after setback, won
he West and the hearts of a citv if
lot a nation.
After nine grueling days, they
ivon the National League for the
irst time ever in Atlanta. Then
;ame the Fall Classic; the ultimate
;oal. After dropping the first two
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