Cy Young award
■ 1 he Red Sux player is :
one of three pitchers to win
the award in both leagues.
NEW YORK (AP) - Pedro
Martinez became only the fourth pitch
er to win the American League Cy
Young award unanimously and joined
Gaylord Perry and Randy Johnson as
the only pitchers to win the honor in
each league.
Martinez, 23-4 with a 2.07 ERA for
the Boston Red Sox, received all 28
votes for 140 points in balloting by the
Baseball Writers’ Association of
America.
Baltimore’s Mike Mussina was
next, getting 16 seconds and six thirds
for 54 points, followed by New York
Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera with
27 points and Cleveland pitcher
Bartolo Colon with 14.
The only previous unanimous AL
winners were Denny McLain (1968),
Ron Guidry (1978) and Roger Clemens
(1986 and 1998).
Seven NL pitchers have won in a
shutout: Sandy Koufax (1963, 1965
and 1966), Bob Gibson (1968), Steve
Carlton (1972), Rick Sutcliffe (1984),
Dwight Gooden (1985), Orel Hershiser
(1988) and Greg Maddux (1994 and
1995).
He was the star of the All-Star game
at Fenway Park, fanning Barry Larkin,
Larry Walker and Sammy Sosa in the
first, then striking out McGwire and
Jeff Bagwell in the second around a
grounder by Matt Williams.
He followed with the worst start of
his career - nine runs and 12 hits in
three 2-3 innings against Florida. He
then went on the disabled list because of
a stiff right shoulder and didn’t start
again until Aug. 3.
“I went seven years without miss
ing a start,” he said then. “Hopefully, it
will be another seven before I miss
another one.”
He went 8-2 in the second half, fin
ishing with big leads in all the major
pitching categories. He had five wins
more than anyone else, and his ERA
was L 1-3 runs better than the second
best in the league, New York’s David
Cone, who finished at 3.44.
Martinez led the AL with 3 1/3
strikeouts. Anaheim’s Chuck Finley
was second with 200.
The ending of the season was disap
pointing. Martinez strained a back
muscle and left in the fourth inning of
Boston’s postseason opener, and
Cleveland rallied to win.
Martinez pitched six hitless innings
of relief in Game 5. He entered in the
fourth inning with the score 8-8, and the
Red Sox went on to win 12-8.
Then he sent the Yankees to their
only loss in 19 postseason games, beat
ing Clemens 12-1 in Game 3 of the AL
Pedro Martinez Stats
Record ERA Strikeouts
23-4 2.07 313
Championship Series. Martinez struck
out 12 in seven shutout innings, a
Boston record for the postseason.
“I don’t know if we would be in the
postseason without him,” pitching col
league Bret Saberhagen said. “He’s the
heart and soul of this team. You can’t
say enough about him.”
Martinez also is the co-favorite for
the AL MVP award with Cleveland’s
Manny Ramirez, who had 165 RBIs.
That award will be announced
Thursday.
Tauke to leave stronger through career with Nebraska
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about how upset she was at the medi
for not talking to her about how sh
felt about the whole deal - that sh
freaked when she opened up a sporl
page with a story about her usin
comments from Pettit and other play
ers about her - and she hadn’t eve
been interviewed.
She wasn’t afraid to say sh
thought Pettit hated her, that he
teammates hated her, that her parent
hated her and that she hated hersel
for being a failure because she wasn
setting the world on fire on the vol
leyball court for the first time sine
elementary school.
And now, she’s not afraid to sa
she was wrong about all of it.
“I took it pretty hard and took i
personally,” Tauke said. “It took
month for me to feel OK. I think I’r
a lot stronger person now.
“I learned a lot about society an
about sports. For so long, I put s<
much of my identity into my sports s
people would like me. Sports storie
you read are all about performance
That’s all people want to know aboi
- how good are you playing. If you’r
playing great, great. If you’re noi
then you don’t deserve to be recog
nized. People expect perfection out o
athletes, especially at Nebraska. M
God, we’re all 18, 19, 20 years ol
here.
“I’ve been thinking about that
' lot. People don’t realize we do s<
many more things. I visited firs
graders at a school, and they didn
care, didn’t know, I don’t play volley
ball anymore. They just thought
‘she’s so tall, she’s so smart.’ It mad
me feel good.’”
She’s not afraid of what her legac
is or what other people think of hei
And she’s not afraid to cry about an
of this.
' ing the steps of the last month
a Certainly, that’s understandable. As z
e broadcast journalism major, she
e understands what a perfect sports
s story is all about.
§ Before this season, she thoughi
" maybe her story would be one ol
n them, and she’ll be the first to tell yoi
this was not how the script was sup
e posed to end.
r The script was supposed to enc
s kind of like this: Tauke, who set the
f freshman record for block assists
3 (that Holmquist might just break) and
■ put together two more solid seasons
e behind All-American Megan Korvei
after that - was finally going to be the
Y go-to blocker.
Top that with her high-flying
3 emotion and a talented group oi
3 freshman, and you’ve got yourself a
1 veteran court leader of a national
title-contending team - one jubilani
1 hero going out with a bang and intc
3 the record books.
3 But the script took a wrong turn
s about halfway through the season, foi
: both Tauke and the team. Nebraska
3 lost more than it was used to. The
3 lineup got mixed up. Tauke was los
» ing her game and self-confidence.
“I kept asking myself why, why
f why? Why did I miss that block? Why
y can’t my shots go down? I wasn’i
1 missing before.”
Then, Pettit dropped the bomt
3 before the Oct. 6 Iowa State match -
3 Holmquist would be starting, sopho
3 more Jenny Kropp would be rotating
3 in and Tauke would be sitting. Thai
' was shocking news to Tauke, consid
» ering the coach hadn’t given her any
3 clear signs her “spot” was in jeop
ardy.
y “It was like if you were in a rela
• tionship with someone, and every
y thing seemed OK and neither person
said anything to the other person
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said. “Then all of a sudden they tell
you they cheated on you. I thought to
myself, ‘Where did I go wrong?’
“I don’t relate to him very well.
Since I was a freshman, I always
thought he hated me, that he thought
to himself, ‘Who is this annoying
freshman running around?’ I know
it’s not that way with everybody. A lot
of times, he doesn’t talk to me. A lot
of the reason I took it so hard was that
I thought everything was OK.”
Then came the period where
Tauke understandably grew mad.
Mad at Pettit for benching her. Mad at
Holmquist for beating her out. Mad at
the pFess for not approaching her.
Even mad at the press for the way
they wrote about Holmquist, how
they made it seem like Holmquist was
playing just because Tauke was strug
gling. Fact was, Holmquist is just
plain good, Tauke said.
But the shock finally went away,
as did Tauke’s frustration. She real
ized her parents were there for her,
and they are, at every game - home
and away.
She apologized -to Holmquist for
not being more supportive, that
Holmquist did nothing wrong. It
healed both of them and the team.
The best part of the recovery
process for Tauke has been under
standing how important she is to the
team despite not being on the court.
Just because she lost her “spot,” a
word she’s sick of hearing, didn’t
mean she lost her influence or com
petitiveness.
“I’ll just stand there and watch
and think to myself, ‘how is that
wimpy little girl on the other side of
the net beating our players,’” Tauke
said. “So I’m there to tell them ‘come
on, you’re better than this.’ I can do
this, so I know you can. It feels good
to help out that way, to give them con
I learned a lot about society and sports.For
so long, I put so much of my identity into
my sports so that people would like me.”
ToniaTauke
NU volleyball middle blocker
fidence.
“The win at Kansas State (a three
set victory on Sept. 22) was the mos
exciting game I’ve been a part o
here, and I didn’t play a single point,’
Tauke said. “I was so excited because
I knew I helped Mandy (Monson
attack. I helped Greichaly (Cepero
serve. When Nancy (Meendering) lis
tens to me and does what I said, i
makes me feel good she respects rm
knowledge.
“It’s something I wish people
would understand about (the behcl
players). We’re Oklahoma in practice
We’re Kansas State. We help (the
starters) win. If we go to the Fina
Four or win the national champi
onship, I will know that I was a bi^
part of this.”
So the world isn’t over for Tonii
Tauke. So she won’t set the record. Se
she won’t play that much, barring
injury or poor play from Holmquis
and Kropp.
Her parents don’t hate her, he;
teammates don’t hate her, she doesn’
hate herself. She wants to make i
painfully clear to everyone who read:
this column: she s OK!
But she’s still unsure what Petti
thinks of her. She’ll always wonder
She’s not as worried about it any
more. She’s sure that someday she’l
run into her former coach and jus
say, “What’s up, Coach P?” and all th(
tension and silence that plagued their
relationship will go away.
“He told us the other day that
maybe his flaw is that he wants every
one to be their best, and he wants it to
: happen in four years,” Tauke said,
i “What he realizes and what we’ll
I realize is it might not happen in four
years, but it will happen. We’ll be the
[ best at what we do. He’s glad he’s part
’ of that process. I won’t think of him in
a negative light when I’m gone. He
: taught me a lot. He pushed really^
i really, really hard - to my breaking
point. But because he did that/f"
: learned a lot about myself.”
I No, the script didn’t go as hopecF
or planned but, unlike before, Tauke
; can handle it. And after experiencing
this past month-and-a-half, Tauke
t said, for the rest of her life, she’ll be
» able to handle anything.
; “Who gets out of college like I
t will and say they feel like they can do
anything?” Tauke said. “I feel like
■ I’m 21 going on 35.1 feel older, more
t responsible, stronger, more confi
t dent. I know what I’m doing,
i “I’ll watch people on Oprah who
are 40 years old who don’t know
: where they are in life. That will never
be me. When you experience some
thing like Nebraska volleyball, you
l can look back and say, ‘I know I did it.
t I know what it’s like to shake in my
: boots.’”
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