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Article: Yankees have history and El Duque on their side.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 16, 2000
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PHILADELPHIA _ If the Seattle Mariners are going to push what has become a riveting American League Championship Series to a seventh and deciding game, they will have to do what no team has done before _ beat Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez in a postseason game.
And what's the best way to do that?
"Well, pray a lot, for one," Seattle shortstop Alex Rodriguez said.
Needing just one win to clinch their 37th AL pennant, the New York Yankees will send Hernandez to the mound in Game 6 of the series Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium.
The Mariners, who trail the Yankees by three games to two, forced a sixth game by rallying for a 6-2 win Sunday ...