Guzman

On Monday, July 5, 2004, JOSHUA IAN ; beloved son of Michael and Rosalyn Guzman; brother of Michael, II, and Alysf Guzman; grandson of Cindy Toon. Memorial service will be held on Friday, July 9 at 1 P.M. at the Stallings Funeral Home, P.A., 3111 Mountain Road, Pasadena. Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the family.

Nationals: Two-time All-Star infielder Cristian Guzman, 32, is heading to the first-place Texas Rangers from the last-place Nationals in a deal that sends Double-A starting pitchers Ryan Tatusko and Tanner Roark to Washington. Guzman is hitting .282 with two homers and 25 RBIs in a utility role. Late Thursday night, Washington traded All-Star closer Matt Capps to the Minnesota Twins for top catching prospect Wilson Ramos and minor league left-hander Joe Testa. And there could be more: General manager Mike Rizzo is listening to offers for first baseman Adam Dunn, who entered Friday tied for second in the NL with 24homers.

TORONTO -- For a guy who was quoted as saying he doesn't like to pitch big games, Juan Guzman is doing a good job of dispelling that notion.Guzman wasn't the winning pitcher as Toronto beat Atlanta in Game 3 of the World Series last night, and came close to being the loser, but he gave the Blue Jays eight strong innings to set up the comeback victory.When it was over, however, Guzman was nowhere to be found -- and the most overlooked player in the game."I still believe Juan misunderstood the question," manager Cito Gaston said after the Blue Jays took a 2-1 Series lead.

Ian Desmond , 24, has beaten out incumbent Cristian Guzman for the Washington Nationals' starting shortstop job, manager Jim Riggleman said. Desmond, who made his Nationals debut as a September call-up, leads the team this spring with 14 RBIs. Guzman, 32, is a two-time All-Star with a .271 career average; he is owed $8 million in 2010, the last year of his contract. More Nationals: Washington optioned outfielder Justin Maxwell ( Maryland, Sherwood)

PHILADELPHIA -- He might be painful to watch. He might drive his manager crazy. But Juan Guzman is starting to look like the Juan Guzman of 1998, which is to say, a pitcher who would be desirable to a contender in a trade.Don't look now, but Guzman's 4-7 record and 4.31 earned-run average compare favorably with his 6-12 mark and 4.41 ERA when the Orioles acquired him for Triple A right-hander Nerio Rodriguez last July 31.Guzman was his usual self last night, throwing 125 pitches in six innings, pitching with men in scoring position five times, issuing seven walks.

MINNEAPOLIS -- It was supposed to be a war of nerves. The high decibel noise level of the Metrodome coupled with the home-field advantage against a raw rookie and a team not noted for late-season excellence.It was the kind of advantage the Minnesota Twins were banking on to take a 2-0 lead in the American League Championship Series across the border to Toronto's SkyDome.There were times when it appeared the Blue Jays were intent on having a team meeting at the pitcher's mound every inning.

Both starting pitchers will have the same game plan tonight, when the Orioles try to make it two in a row against the Toronto Blue Jays. The idea is a simple one -- keep the ball in the park.Orioles left-hander Jamie Moyer and Blue Jays right-hander Juan Guzman have both been tormented by the long ball during the early weeks of the season. Each has allowed eight home runs -- Moyer in 36 innings, Guzman in 43 -- to rank among the most generous in that department.Moyer (1-1, 5.50) will be making his first start in 11 days, having last appeared in a game in Seattle April 29, when he went seven innings without a decision in a 5-4 loss to the Mariners.

TORONTO -- Judging from comments of some of the principals involved, maybe the historic Game 3 of the 1992 World Series will end in a tie.The Toronto Blue Jays and Atlanta Braves, who split the first two decisions, tonight will be trying to gain an edge in the first World Series game ever played in Canada. Both teams may be overawed by the situation.The Blue Jays will pitch Juan Guzman, the winner in both the division- and pennant-clinching victories, against Atlanta lefthander Steve Avery.

TORONTO -- For a guy quoted as saying he doesn't like to pitch big games, Juan Guzman is doing a good job of dispelling that notion.Guzman wasn't the winning pitcher as Toronto beat Atlanta in Game 3 of the World Series last night, and came close to being the loser, but he gave the Blue Jays eight strong innings to set up the 3-2 comeback victory.When it was over, however, Guzman was nowhere to be found -- and the most overlooked player in the game."I still believe Juan misunderstood the question," manager Cito Gaston said after the Blue Jays took a 2-1 Series lead.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Toronto Blue Jays rookie Juan Guzman got to see last night how crazy it can get at the Metrodome, but he doesn't seem particularly concerned that his concentration will be disrupted when he takes the mound against Minnesota Twins right-hander Kevin Tapani for Game 2 tonight.Guzman has pitched in the Dominican World Series, where near-riot conditions are not unusual in the stands. The loud, but orderly fans in Minnesota probably will be mild by comparison."I don't think it's going to bother me," Guzman said.

The Orioles have signed corner infielder/outfielder Joel Guzman, once one of baseball's top prospects, to a minor league deal. He will not receive an invite to major league camp. The former Los Angeles Dodgers' ballyhooed prospect was dealt to Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2006 as part of the Julio Lugo, trade-deadline deal. He was with the Washington Nationals organization last year, batting a combined .268 with 12 homers at Double-A and Triple-A. Guzman, 25, batted .232 in 24 big league games with the Dodgers and Devil Rays.

MIAMI - - What's the biggest difference between a character actor and a leading man? "About 15 to 20 million dollars," says veteran actor Luis Guzman. "And a private jet." Guzman knows what he's talking about. Since his feature film debut, in director Robert M. Young's 1977 adaptation of Miguel Pinero's harrowing play Short Eyes, the Puerto Rican-born, New York City-raised actor has appeared in more than 100 movies and TV shows - Miami Vice to Frasier, Boogie Nights to Anger Management, The Limey to Runaway Jury.

Lineup choices National League rules don't allow for a designated hitter, and manager Sam Perlozzo went against conventional thinking by starting right-handed hitters Kevin Millar and Jay Payton against Washington Nationals right-hander Jason Simontacchi. Left-handed hitters Aubrey Huff and Jay Gibbons were relegated to the bench. The moves were rewarded when Payton lifted a sacrifice fly in the fourth to give the Orioles a 1-0 lead, and Millar added a run-scoring single in the fifth for a 3-0 advantage.

NEW YORK --Hours before he was to be married, a man leaving his bachelor party at a strip club in Queens that was under police surveillance was fatally shot and two of his friends were wounded, one critically, when police fired into their car early yesterday, witnesses and the police said. Many details of the shootings were not immediately clarified, but relatives of the slain man, Sean Bell, 23, and community leaders, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, demanded an investigation into what some called an overreaction by officers that left a man dead on his wedding day. Witnesses told of chaos, screams and gunfire near the Kalua Cabaret about 4 a.m. as the victims walked out, got into their car, a silver Nissan Altima, drove about a block and struck an unmarked police minivan carrying plainclothes officers.

Pasadena boy, 8, dies after being struck by an SUV An 8-year-old Pasadena boy, who rode his bike up to his aunt's stopped sport utility vehicle to talk to his cousin inside, died after being struck by the SUV, Anne Arundel County police said yesterday. Edgar Hernandez-Guzman suffered internal injuries when he was run over about 3:40 p.m. Monday by the Lincoln Navigator driven by Rosalba Ortiz De Guzman, also of Pasadena, police said. De Guzman was stopped near Summit Avenue and Chain Hills Road when Edgar approached along the driver's side.

EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED / / Elijah Wood is a young Jew who travels to the Ukraine and enlists some eccentric locals to help him find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II. PG-13. THE GOSPEL / / A successful R&B singer who has abandoned his father's church returns years later to try and make things right -- and discovers the congregation has a lot more to overcome than his youthful fecklessness. PG. IN HER SHOES / / Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette are squabbling, mismatched sisters in this comic melodrama from writer-director Curtis Hanson.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- David Cone couldn't get it done yesterday, but he is confident that the Toronto Blue Jays will have better luck when the American League Championship Series resumes tomorrow at SkyDome."

As ragged as his five innings looked, as tenuous as the Orioles' 5-1 lead seemed, Juan Guzman wanted more.More pitches, more innings, more work."I need to pitch as much as I can to get out of the jam I'm in right now," the veteran Orioles pitcher said over and over yesterday.Guzman got 79 tense pitches on a day when manager Ray Miller's patience inched closer to exhaustion. And when the Orioles' bullpen poured kerosene on the brushfires that Guzman had set, they got an 11-7 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.

CINCINNATI - B.J. Ryan sat in his hotel room in Cincinnati six years ago, unsure whether he was headed to the Reds' Triple-A affiliate in Indianapolis or staying with the major league club. Though he had been optioned earlier in the day, a team official revealed that an injury to another pitcher could keep him with the Reds. He still had hope, if not a permanent address. So Ryan stuck around, watching TV and trying to relax, when his name rolled across the bottom of the screen. Viewers were informed of another trade at the non-waiver deadline.

WASHINGTON - The once fearsome Atlanta Braves were one out away yesterday from slinking out of town with what would have been a second straight shutout loss to the Washington Nationals. But something happened on the way to the Nationals' victory lap. Maybe it was the wet conditions or the pressure or simply bad luck. Whatever the cause, Washington shortstop Cristian Guzman threw wildly to first on Raul Mondesi's bases-loaded grounder with two outs in the ninth inning, allowing the winning runs to score in a 2-1 Atlanta victory.