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NEW YORK - They will not go away. Having been beaten for eight innings by hunch plays and a grinding starting pitcher, the New York Yankees reversed a game and quite possibly a World Series last night with a pair of home runs that gave them a stirring 4-3, 10-inning Game 4 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Yankees didn't just even the Series, they punctured an upstart opponent's dream. First baseman Tino Martinez gave the Yankees a 3-3 tie with a two-out, two-run homer off Diamondbacks reliever Byung-Hyun Kim in the ninth inning.

Nearly seven years after she admitted that she plotted to have her boss killed in his Glen Burnie office to cover up thefts from his dental practice, Shontay Joyner Hickman had her life sentence reduced Thursday to 40 years in prison for testifying against her cousin. The reduction, in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court, was part of a sealed plea agreement in which Hickman, 38, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty last year to first-degree murder in the slaying of Dr. Albert Woonho Ro, who hailed from a family well-known in the area's Korean-American community.

A Baltimore Circuit Court judge has denied a man's request to be tried as a juvenile in two violent robbery cases earlier this year, including an attack that left a Southeast Baltimore man in a coma. Arthur Jeter was less than a month short of his 18th birthday when, police allege, he and three other suspects were involved in the attack and robbery of Zachary Sowers, 28, early June 2, outside the man's home near Patterson Park. Four days after that incident, authorities allege, Jeter and others robbed and assaulted another man. Jeter's public defender, Jennifer Davis, argued yesterday before Judge Roger W. Brown that Jeter was not one of two assailants who police believe beat and stomped Sowers.

This was supposed to be the week that Zach and Anna Sowers planned what they would do for their first wedding anniversary on Saturday. Instead, Anna Sowers will spend that day where she's spent most of the past four months: sitting at her husband's hospital bed, hoping, praying that he'll come out of the coma he's been in. She'll be thinking about whether her husband will pull through. She'll be thinking about how to pay for her husband's mounting medical bills when the insurance runs out in a few months.

Quote: "Jeter's on the sun and we're on the earth. He's hotter than a pistol." -- Roger Clemens on teammate Derek Jeter, who has reached base by hit or walk in all 51 games for the Yankees this season.It's a fact: The Mariners have scored 10 or more runs 13 times this season and lost three of those games.Who's hot: White Sox pitcher Mike Sirotka has not allowed more than two earned runs in his last six starts.Who's not: The Indians' David Justice is hitless in his last 17 at-bats.On deck: The Athletics play 19 of their next 22 games on the road.

On the field: Two of the best control pitchers may or may not have engaged in a battle of intimidation. Jimmy Key hit Braves DTC rookie Andruw Jones in the back leg with a pitch in the second inning, and in the bottom of the third, Braves right-hander Greg Maddux hit Yankees rookie Derek Jeter just above the left wrist with a fastball, his first hit batsman since July 15. Maddux, you may recall, brushed back Eddie Murray in the World Series last year, causing...

All eyes will be on shortstop Derek Jeter, who is one hit away from passing Lou Gehrig to become the Yankees' all-time hits leader. Jeter had three hits in New York's 4-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday night, giving him 2,721 for his career. Jeter has 267 career hits against the Orioles and is batting .262 against them this season. Orioles pitchers have had no answer for second baseman Robinson Cano and outfielder Nick Swisher. Cano is batting .474 (27-for-57) with six homers, 17 RBIs and seven doubles in 15 games against the Orioles this season.

Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter and Nomar Garciaparra are potential Hall of Famers, a latter-day Willie, Mickey and the Duke. How can Mike Bordick make the American League All-Star team against such competition? Most likely, he can't. But Bordick is worthy of All-Star consideration, and that fact alone is testament to his remarkable first half. Fans might not view the late-blooming Bordick as one of the game's best shortstops - he is fifth in the AL balloting - but his younger peers do. "He's solid, a great player, for sure," Garciaparra said.

Tenants of a once-regal apartment complex on North Charles Street and a management company hired by the city reached a tentative out-of-court agreement yesterday to repair collapsing ceilings, a broken elevator and to eliminate pools of water in the lobby.The accord over the Queen Anne Belvedere Apartments was reached with the intercession of District Court Judge Norman E. Johnson Jr.In the six weeks since the city foreclosed on the converted turn-of-the-century rowhouses, which stretch from 1204 to 1301 N. Charles St., the Rev. Steven Jeter, the president of the tenants' association, and other residents have complained that repairs are slow and sloppy.