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sunday, april 11, 2010
HOCKEY
What makes
Ovechkin run?
Caps’ star isn’t slowing on or off ice. A1 Also: Team awaits its first-round foe. D7
Harris proves quite a catch
Versatile National makes spectacular snag to save 4-3 win over Mets
by Adam Kilgore
new york — Willie Harris may occupy any number of places on a baseball field, and with two outs in the ninth inning Saturday he stood in left field, five or six paces closer to the foul line than usual. He had started on the bench, entered at third base and shifted to the outfield. The Washington Nationals led by a
run. Their best player sat in the club- house, watching on television. The fast- est man in baseball stood on third base, representing the tying run. As Rod Bara- jas dug into the batter’s box, Harris thought, “You better not hit that ball to me.”
One pitch later, Harris snared Baj-
aras’s sinking liner about a foot from the turf while sliding on his chest, a miracu- lous catch that hushed 33,044 stunned fans at Citi Field and saved the Nation- als’ 4-3 victory over the New York Mets. Sometimes an infielder, often the start- ing right fielder, always a part of his team’s soul, Harris had bailed out closer Matt Capps and lifted the Nationals to their second victory of the season.
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SOCCER
D.C. is on board,
not in win column
United ends its goal drought but falls, 3-2, to the expansion Philadelphia Union. D2
PRO BASKETBALL
Wizards fade
in 4th vs. Hawks
Playoff-bound Atlanta rallies past Washington, 105-95. D7
The view from the top
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England’s Lee Westwood, the co-leader after 36 holes, heads into Sunday with the advantage all to himself as he seeks his first major title. Lurking just behind . . .
Westwood doesn’t wobble after Mickelson’s hard charge
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. . . is Phil Mickelson, who became just the third golfer in Masters history to record back-to-back eagles. Mickelson stands just one shot back, but in third place . . .
Woods rallies late, and Couples remains in the hunt
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Willy Taveras drove in all four of the Nationals’ runs in their second win.
a major issue
TRACEE HAMILTON
A minicamp becomes
eventually require 3-D glasses and a box of popcorn. Shanahan, the new Redskins coach, expects Haynesworth to show up at Redskins Park on Friday for a voluntary minicamp. Haynesworth, the newish Redskins defensive lineman, has indicated that he won’t. And because this isn’t like a Supreme Court vacancy —this is important — the whole town is talking.
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Shanahan did not like the fact that
Haynesworth would not come to Redskins Park for voluntary workouts and instead chose to work out on his own. Haynesworth did not like the fact that Shanahan decided to institute a 3-4 defense, effectively moving him to nose tackle, a position he is perhaps too talented to play, during those times when he is on the field. These problems might have been
solvable at one point — maybe over beers with President Obama at the White House? But the Redskins have attempted to trade Haynesworth and his gigantic salary and are still trying. The
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ike Shanahan and Albert Haynesworth are engaged in a Clash of the Titans that may
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. . . is Tiger Woods, who grinded his way to a 2-under-par 70 and is tied with playing partner K.J Choi. Woods made three consecutive birdies on the back nine.
by Barry Svrluga
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here is almost no sorting out what happened here Satur- day afternoon. The Masters that played out was all the Masters can be, worthy of
long chats on the porch, a beverage in hand, good friends all around, trading where-were-you-when anecdotes. The lead characters played their roles dra- matically, with feeling. If Sunday in any way resembles Saturday, get out the de- fibrillators. They’ll be needed. Distill the tournament to this, for
now, but know there is much more: Englishman Lee Westwood, who has neither led a major championship after three rounds nor won one, shot a 68, is 12 under par, and carries a one-shot ad- vantage to bed and then to breakfast. His closest competitor is Phil Mick- elson, who has won this tournament twice but never experienced the kind of jump-in-the-middle-of-the-fairway mo- ments he did Saturday afternoon,
The leaders
1. Lee Westwood -12 (67-69-68 — 204) 2. Phil Mickelson -11 (67-71-67 — 205) 3. K.J. Choi
3. Tiger Woods
-8 (67-71-70 — 208) -8 (68-70-70 — 208)
5. Fred Couples -7 (66-75-68 — 209) 6. Hunter Mahan -6 (71-71-68 — 210) 6. Ricky Barnes 6. Ian Poulter 9. Y.E. Yang
-6 (68-70-72 — 210) -6 (68-68-74 — 210) -5 (67-72-72 — 211)
9. Anthony Kim -5 (68-70-73 — 211)
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something that happens when one makes back-to-back eagles — on the back nine — en route to 67. And Tiger Woods — the leading
man’s leading man, complete with the flaws most complex characters have — is next on the board. “I fought my swing all day,” Woods said, which is how he ended up with seven birdies and five bogeys, a tumultuous 70. Still, the re- sult of that fight is that he’s in the fight, four back and tied with the quiet, resil- ient K.J. Choi.
“I love this tournament more than
any other,” Mickelson said. He will get few arguments from any of the witness- es.
“It was probably one of those great
days in golf,” Westwood said. To begin the sorting out: When West- wood stood on the 11th tee, he held a four-shot lead over Ian Poulter, his countryman, his playing partner, and the man with whom he shared the lead at the midway point of the tournament. If, at that point, there was a chore to do in the yard or an errand to run down
the street, it seemed to be the time. Westwood was blowing away the field. But if that chore took 45 minutes, too
bad. The essence of this unthinkable Saturday at the Masters had come and gone. “It happens here,” Mickelson said.
“We have seen some strange things happen over the years.” Through 10, Westwood was playing
marvelously, three birdies without a bo- gey. The odds of him becoming a bare- ly-in-view target on Sunday seemed better than someone catching him. At 36, he is properly seasoned, and calm. “I’m proud of myself all week, really,”
Westwood said. “I’ve not hardly hit any poor shots.” Yet he didn’t need to play poorly for the tournament to turn. Mickelson, who teed off half an hour before West- wood, attacked. His first eagle was of the conventional sort, at the par-5 13th, where he ran in a 10-footer to get to 9 under. No worries for Westwood then.
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