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NEW YORK - When Orioles right-hander Miguel Gonzalez takes the mound for Game 3 of the American League Division Series on Wednesday, , it will be the rookie's third start at Yankee Stadium. The 28-year-old Gonzalez, who signed as a minor-league free agent in February, has assembled impressive numbers in the Bronx, so getting the call from Orioles manager Buck Showalter to start the first game in New York had to be by design. In two starts, Gonzalez is 2-0 with a 2.63 ERA, allowing four earned runs and 10 hits over 13 2/3 innings.

On the field: The fans sitting in right field in Yankee Stadium are known as the loudest, most obnoxious and most obscene of any in baseball. They have a special affection for former Met Bobby Bonilla -- who grew up in the Bronx -- chanting lots of things that we can't print here. When the game was delayed briefly in the fourth inning, the fans focused their attention on Bonilla in right field, and he turned his back on them, crossed his arms and faced the right-field foul line.In the dugout: In the bottom of the ninth, Orioles manager Davey Johnson let right-handed-hitting Mike Devereaux bat against Yankees closer John Wetteland, who had struck out Devereaux to end Thursday's game.

NEW YORK - On Opening Day at Camden Yards, Oriolesstarter Jake Arrieta talked about setting the tone for the season with a quality start. A month later at Yankee Stadium, it was Arrieta continuing to follow the lead of his rotation-mates, throwing eight shutout innings in a 5-0 win over the New York Yankees in what has become an impressive and, frankly, unexpected run of starting pitching.    Surprising, apparently, to everyone but those wearing orange and black. “Those guys have great stuff and great ability,” said Orioles catcher Matt Wieters, whose fourth-inning homer gave his team all the offense it would need.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. -- They seem an unlikely pair -- the courtly Richmond lawyer who can stretch his vowels into next week and the Bronx native who bottles up New York intensity in a voice often so flat and low that the judge reminds him to speak up. These two, who met in January when a Virginia judge teamed them, are the lead defense lawyers for Lee Boyd Malvo, who is suspected of acting as the teen-age half of another seemingly unlikely duo -- the sniper...

Zoo is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as ''colloq. [The first three letters of Zoological taken as one syllable.] The Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park, London; also extended to similar collections of animals elsewhere.''The first collections of exotic animals of which we know were in ancient Egypt and China. In modern Europe, they were called menageries and belonged to potentates.During the French revolution, the mob looted the one at Versailles, eating some specimens and moving others to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.

A New York man being questioned at the BWI Amtrak station Wednesday tried to escape police as they searched his luggage for drugs, policesaid.Narcotics detectives seized 10 ounces of cocaine from the shoulder bag of Manuel Tensmendez, 23, of the Bronx, police said.Detectives began questioning Tensmendez at about 10 p.m., after he got off a train from New York. Police said Tensmendez gave the detectives permission to search his bag, but before they could begin, he began running toward the parking lot.The detectives caught up with Tensmendez and charged him with transporting cocaine into the stateand possession with intent to distribute.

Tell me, is there anything more irritating than people who are relentlessly cheerful in the morning?I'm talking about those people who begin each day with a broad smile and a gooey Richard Simmons-like perkiness no matter how ungodly the hour.I'm talking about those people who exhibit boundless energy and unfailing good humor without having to down 27 cups of strong coffee.God, I hate those people.I hate the holier-than-thou tone behind their good spirits. I hate the way they flaunt their cheerfulness at a time when others can barely put one foot in front of the other.

Earlier this month, assistant coach Luke Murray was traveling with Towson University's basketball team, psyching himself up for a win, when he got a text message from his dad. "I think you guys should all go bowling," the text read. "I think all you guys as a team should just go bowling. " While not practical advice, it was true to the spirit of Luke's father, Bill. Yes, that Bill Murray, the almost surrealistically wry, one-of-a-kind comedian and actor. And it was not necessarily a bad or whimsical idea.

"Seasonal" and "classic" are buzzwords nowadays in the cocktail world, denoting the use of fresh ingredients to revive old standards. Often, the trend falls flat; occasionally, though, it's wildly successful. It seems only fitting, then, that at Chazz: A Bronx Original, innovation comes as effortlessly as the restaurant's name implies, with the perfect pear cocktail, La Pera. The restaurant, a fairly new addition to Harbor East, specializes in coal-fired pizza and Italian-American fare.