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NOTEBOOK


Loss of Teixeira forces Yankees to alter lineup


First baseman


will miss remainder of postseason


FROM NEWS SERVICES AND STAFF REPORTS


The loss of first basemanMark


Teixeira to a strained hamstring forced the New York Yankees to makearostermove—addingutili- ty infielderEduardoNunez—and to alter their lineup for Game 5 of the American League Champion- shipSeries. Teixeirawillmiss the rest of the


postseason, nomatter howfar the Yankees go. In his place, Lance Berkman played first base on Wednesday, while second base- man Robinson Cano moved into Teixeira’s regularNo. 3 spot in the Yankees’ lineup. The Yankees got another scare


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WashingtonNationals top draft pick BryceHarper takes batting practice prior to his much- anticipated first game in the Arizona Fall League.He was in the lineup for last night's game.


in the fourth inning Wednesday, when Berkman slipped and fell hard on his back while chasing a foulpopnear theYankees’dugout. Berkman rolled over on his stom- ach, but after a few moments


COLLEGE FOOTBALL


Navy refuses to be crippled by injuries


With multiple starters sidelined, Mids adapt with two wins in a row


BY GENEWANG The Navy football team be-


gins almost every game it plays at a disadvantage on several fronts. Rarely are the Midship- men able to match division I-A opponents in size, strength or speed. Perhaps once in a gener- ation do they produce an NFL prospect, and the pool of play- ers from which they recruit pales in scope to that of most other schools. So when there’s an injury to a


Navy player, it’s almost always significant, with the potential to be debilitating.Nowconsider how dire circumstances could be if multiple starters were missing. Such misfortune has befallen


the Midshipmen recently, yet they have managed to string together their twomost riveting performances so far, reviving a season that was headed in the wrong direction following a dis- heartening loss to Air Force on the first Saturday of this month. “I couldn’t be more proud of


them,” Coach Ken Niumatalolo said. “The thing about it is, guys just step up when somebody goes down. In football or in sports, the next guy has got to step up, and guys have been doing well that way.” Saturday’s 28-21 come-from-


behind victory over Southern Methodist at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium was illustrative of that mentality. The Midshipmen (4-2) had five starters unavailable for that game — including right tackle Matt Molloy, safety Emmett Merchant and nose guard Shane Bothel, all seniors — yet still were able to rally despite trailing by 14 at halftime. Those three also missed


Navy’s 28-27 win over Wake Forest in which quarterback Ricky Dobbs completed a six- yard touchdown to wide receiv- er Greg Jones with 26 seconds to play for the winning points. Senior fullback Vince Murray hurt his left knee during the first half of that game and sat out the rest of the way.His knee remained sore last week, keep- ing him out against the Mus- tangs, as well. ReplacingMurray was junior


Alexander Teich, who started six games last season before an ankle injury allowedMurray to secure the job for good and enter this year as the incum- bent. Teich played mostly as a kick returner for the first four games this season, then got 10 carries for 43 yards against Wake Forest.He also scored the first touchdown of his career on a six-yard reception. Getting a full workload


against SMU, Teich amassed 95 yards and two touchdowns on 21 carries for the best perfor- mance of his college career. His second touchdown came on a


Some serious community service Virginia linebacker Grywatch donates stem cells in effort to save anonymous recipient’s life BY STEVE YANDA


charlottesville — Every morning of his childhood, Trevor Grywatch’s mother greeted him with the same question:Whatare you going to do today that’s not about you, Trevor? On Oct. 11, Grywatch — now a


junior walk-on for the Virginia football team — could have an- swered: I’m going to help save a man’s life. That was the day the 20-year-


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“I couldn’t be more proud of them,” saidNavy CoachKen Niumatalolo of his 4-2Mids, who faceNotre Dame next.


four-yard run with 1 minute 38 seconds remaining to put Navy ahead to stay. “Anybody who’s a competitor


in any phase of the game, they want to be on the field,” Teich said. “For me, I was injured, and I couldn’t be on the field [at the end of last year]. Vince was doing a phenomenal job, and he earned the spot. There’s no rea- son he shouldn’t have been the starter at that point in time. So for me, all I could do was pre- pare every week like I was going to be the starter next week and just keep working hard, and eventually you’re going to get your time.” Teich could be headed for a


second straight start on Satur- day, when Navy plays Notre Dame (4-3) at New Meadow- lands Stadium in East Ruther- ford,N.J.Murray, who is second on the team in rushing with 283 yards, did some light running on Monday, and Niumatalolo said after practice he consid- ered him questionable. Also questionable is Mer-


chant, who has missed the past two games with a concussion. Sophomore De’Von Richardson has filled in admirably, drawing praise from defensive coordina- tor Buddy Green as an “unsung hero.” The prognosis remains murky for Bothel, who is nurs- ing turf toe in his right foot and appears out for at least several more games. Molloy’s football career is


over afterhesuffered hissecond concussion this season in the loss to Air Force. Molloy had started all but one game at right tackle last year after taking over the position halfway through his sophomore season. Junior Ryan Basford has started at right tackle the past two games and four times this season. “It’s been tough all season.


There’s been a lot of injuries, especially for the senior class,” said left tackle Jeff Battipaglia, who has started 33 consecutive games. “It’s tough watchingmy classmates go out, but at the same time we’ve got younger guys stepping up and playing well for us and making big plays, and that’s what’s really great about this team. It’s tough for us when guys go down, and youfeel for them, but other guys are right there ready to step up.” wangg@washpost.com


old Ashburn native entered the Virginia Commonwealth Univer- sityMedical Center in Richmond and spent six hours having stem cells stripped from his blood so that they could be packaged and flown to an undisclosed location in the United States. There, a 60-year-old male with acute my- eloid leukemia waited for 12 ounces of Grywatch’s identical antigens, the only remedy that potentially could sustain him. “It kind of felt like another community service project, in a sense,” Grywatch said. “Not to minimize how serious it was for the recipient or anything, but on my side of it, it was a way that I could helpsomebodyout thatwas in need of assistance.” Grywatch was empathetic not


just for the recipient, but also for the recipient’s family, the ones who had to helplessly stand by as a relative confronted an un- known future. Five years ago, Grywatch felt those same emo- tions when his mother, Patty, dis- covered she had skin cancer. She underwent tissue-saving surgery to remove the melanoma from her faceandis in remission today. But being forced to acknowl-


edge his mother’s mortality had a lasting impact on Grywatch and, upon learning he was a perfect genetic tissue-type match for a man with cancer, it made his decision that much easier. “I think what it opened him up


to is that life is valuable, life is precious,”PattyGrywatch said. “It has its twists and turns. When kids are young, you don’t think about the possibility of losing someone. [Trevor and his young- er sister, Tricia] hadn’t even lost a grandparent. That was the first scare they had of someone that close. . . . Givingsomething that is naturally in your body just seems so simple when you’ve been raised with that kind of mentali- ty.”


When Grywatch called his


mother during the third week of August to inform her he was going to go through with the transfusion procedure, there was no hesitation in his voice. “Mom,” he said, “how can I not


do this?”


‘Divine intervention’ While at a dermatologist’s ap- pointment for her daughter in 2005, Patty Grywatch was taken in for testing after a doctor didn’t like the look of a freckle on her face. The test results revealed Patty had skin cancer, which, she said, can “be a death sentence, or you can be fortunate that they found it early, and they did. They found it early.”


opportunity to save someone’s life. When you can do that and give back of yourself to give to someone else, there’s nothing more special than to save some- one’s life.”


A plea to play When she got to a computer


the night of Trevor’s procedure, Patty Grywatch sent an e-mail to London and Vincent Brown, Vir- ginia’s linebackers coach. “Dear Coach London and


Coach Brown,” she wrote. “My son, Trevor Grywatch, UVA foot- ball player #50 (OLB), would ab- solutely be embarrassed that I wrote an email to you both.How- ever, as a mother . . . ” She thanked London for en-


couraging Virginia’s players to help people signupfor theNMDP registry and to register them- selves. She also thanked London for sharing with his players the story of his own experience sav- ing the life of his daughter, Ticynn, through bone marrow donation, as well as for allowing Trevor to be a part of the Virginia football team, “which was always his dream,” as a walk-on. And then she made a plea to


Brown. She knew Trevor wanted to return to practice as soon as possible, but his blood platelets were low following the procedure and he would not be cleared to participate in contact drills for at least a fewmore days. “I am sure you will see him in


the gym doing cardio, as he is already chomping at the bit to get back to practice, that his is nor- malcy and of course he wants to beable to dress out thisweekend,” Patty wrote. “His 80 year old grandparents (my parents) are coming to see the game.” Her parents never had gotten a


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After registering with theNationalMarrow Donor Program, Trevor Grywatch turned out to be an identicalmatch for a 60-year-old man.


Six hours of surgery were re-


quired to slowly remove layers of the sand dollar-size melanoma from her face. So Patty has plenty of firsthand


experience from which to draw when she calls the confluence of events “divine intervention.” In 2003, a football coach


named Mike London donated bonemarrowto save the life of his daughter, who had a rare blood disorder. Seven years later, Lon- don took over the program at Virginia. In April, the team – which by then included a walk-on outside linebacker named Trevor Grywatch–heldatesting driveon campus to enter people into the NationalMarrow Donor Program registry. Grywatch — who never had


donated blood or tissue samples before—was one of many Virgin- ia football players who signed up for the registry, took a cheek swab and went on with his day. Four months later, he discovered he was an exact match. Two months after that, his stem cells were transfused into someone else’s body. “When you sign up originally,


you never really think about this being a possibility,” Grywatch said. “The odds are against the recipients to find identical matches. The fact that I was was so shocking to me at first.” TheNMDPrequires that recip-


ients remain anonymous — even to their donors—for the first year following a transfusion, so Gry- watch knows only that his stem cells went to a 60-year-old male with acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive form of cancer that starts inside the bone marrow. Roughly 70 percent of patients


in need of a bone marrow or stem cell transplant do not have a matching donor in their family, and therefore rely on a national registry that consists of more than 8 million potential donors, according to information provid- ed by aNMDPspokesperson. “It’s so heart-warming to start


a process, get the guys involved with it, and then you have one of your own that goes through it,” London said. “He probably was like the other guys that were like: ‘Oh, Coach. Why do we gotta do this?’ But we did it, and the outcome of it is that he had an


chance to see her brother, Max McGee, play when he was a free safety on theNorth Carolina foot- ball team from 1975 to 1980 be- cause her father was stationed overseas in the military. Virginia was to play the Tar Heels that Saturday. “They are however, coming to


cheer UVA on, not UNC!!” Patty wrote. “Please consider letting Trevor dress out, even if his con- tact practices are delayed due to the (stem cell) donation, that wouldmeanthe world tohimand his grandparents.” Grywatch was on the field in


full uniform Saturday during Vir- ginia’s 44-10 loss to North Caroli- na. He has been getting platelet and white blood cell counts ad- ministered daily, and he returned to practiceWednesday. As for the donor who now shares a part of him, Grywatch said he cannot wait to meet the person, whoever it may be. “Hopefully they’re doing all


right and living their life out to the fullest and stuff like that,” Grywatch said. “It’s tough to put in perspective at this time, but I know it means a lot, obviously, to his family, to him personally, and it means a lot to me and my family, just to be able to help and share something that really wasn’t a sacrifice on my part at all.”


yandas@washpost.com


stooduponhisownandremained inthe game.


Cruz leaves game Rangers left fielderNelsonCruz


leftWednesday’s game in the fifth inning after experiencing tight- ness in his left hamstring, and he was replaced by David Murphy. Although the Rangers are listing Cruz’s statusasday-to-day, thereis some concern, because it is the samehamstringthat forcedhimto the disabled list on two separate occasions this season. —Dave Sheinin


Lilly stayswithDodgers Pitcher Ted Lilly passed on the


opportunity to test the free agent market, signing a three-year, $33 million deal on Tuesday to return to theLosAngelesDodgers. “I thought thiswasareallygood


opportunity forme and the future looks really good,” he said on a conference call after completing a physical. Whileajudgeconsidersaruling


in owner FrankMcCourt’s divorce trial,GeneralManagerNedCollet- ti saidMcCourt has given him an undisclosed payroll figure for the


2011 season and “it’s up from a year ago.” “I’d still like to addmore start-


ing pitching and a bullpen armor two and some position players,” Colletti said. He liked the way Lilly helped


stabilize the Dodgers’ rotation af- ter the pitcher was acquired in a deal with the Chicago Cubs at the tradedeadline.


Mets interviewBrown Dana Brown is the latest candi-


date to interview with the New YorkMets about their vacant gen- eralmanagerposition. Brown, formerly the Washing-


tonNationals’ scoutingdirector, is a special assistant to TorontoBlue JaysGeneralManagerAlexAntho- poulos.TheMets sayBrown spent Wednesday at Citi Field meeting with Chief Operating Officer Jeff Wilpon, assistant generalmanag- er JohnRicco and other club exec- utives. Sandy Alderson, former presi-


dent of theOakland Athletics and CEO of the San Diego Padres, will complete his interview with Wil- ponandRicco onThursday. —AssociatedPress


THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2010


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