Rockies Get Yoshii From Mets

Right-hander Masato Yoshii was traded by the New York Mets to the Colorado Rockies on Friday for left-hander Bobby Jones and right-handed reliever Lariel Gonzalez.

“He fits into the plan of what we want to do,” Colorado General Manager Dan O’Dowd said of Yoshii. “Twenty of his 29 starts [last season] were what we call quality starts. He finished the season 5-1 with a 1.74 ERA in his last 10 starts.”

The deal gives the Mets two Bobby Joneses: They already have Robert J. Jones, a 29-year-old right-hander. Robert M. Jones, 27, was 6-10 with a 6.33 ERA in 30 appearances. Yoshii was 12-8 with a 4.40 ERA in 29 starts and two relief appearances.

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Carlton Fisk, who parted bitterly as a player with both the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox, will enter the Hall of Fame wearing a Red Sox cap. . . . The Arizona Diamondbacks avoided arbitration with Matt Mantei when the 26-year-old closer agreed to a one-year contract worth $2,831,000. . . . The Cincinnati Reds obtained outfielder Alex Ochoa from the Milwaukee Brewers for outfielder Mark Sweeney and a player to be named. . . . Infielder Dave Hollins agreed to a minor league contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. . . . Right-handed reliever Jason Isringhausen and the Oakland Athletics agreed to an $825,000, one-year contract. . . . Right-hander Al Reyes and the Baltimore Orioles avoided salary arbitration, agreeing to a $620,000, one-year contract. . . . A few hours after filing for salary arbitration, right-hander Anthony Telford agreed to a $2-million, two-year contract with the Montreal Expos. . . . The Kansas City Royals found a replacement for retired closer Jeff Montgomery, signing reliever Ricky Bottalico to a one-year contract.

Tennis

Amelie Mauresmo of France claimed her second big scalp in as many days in the Adidas International, beating defending champion Lindsay Davenport, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4, at Sydney, Australia, a day after ousting top-ranked Martina Hingis. In a men’s final matching Australians, Lleyton Hewitt won his second consecutive title with a 6-4, 6-0 thrashing of Jason Stoltenberg. . . . Defending champion Chanda Rubin defeated top-seeded Amy Frazier, 6-2, 6-1, and Kim Clijsters of Belgium downed qualifier Maria Vento of Venezuela, 6-3, 6-2, in the semifinals of the Tasmanian International at Hobart, Australia. . . . Michael Chang, advancing to his first final since October 1998, defeated Juan Balcells of Spain, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, and Magnus Norman of Sweden beat Gaston Gaudio of Argentina, 6-4, 7-5, in the semifinals of the Auckland Open in New Zealand. . . . Australia’s Mark Philippoussis woke up with a stiff neck and withdrew from the final against Andre Agassi in the Colonial Classic at Melbourne, a warmup for the Australian Open that starts Monday.

Miscellany

International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch will meet Jan. 31 with federal agents in Washington as part of the U.S. Justice Department’s investigation into Salt Lake City’s scandal-tainted winning bid for the 2002 Winter Games. Samaranch, 79, is being interviewed as a witness and is not considered a target of the investigation. . . . Organizers of the Sydney Olympics could be forced to cut $35 million from the budget due to a massive sponsorship shortfall.

Magic Johnson scored 17 points to help Magic M7 to a 94-64 victory over the Sundsvall Dragons in a Swedish basketball league game at Gothenburg. . . . Roger Hughes, an offensive coordinator who helped Dartmouth win two Ivy League titles, was hired as football coach at Princeton.

Felix Trinidad and Olympic gold medalist David Reid will fight one night earlier than planned, with promoter Don King asking Nevada boxing officials for a March 3 bout in an outdoor stadium on the Las Vegas Strip. . . . Irene Pacheco (24-0) scored his 13th consecutive knockout and retained his International Boxing Federation flyweight title with an 11th-round TKO of Pedro Pena at El Paso.

Two-time world champion Michelle Kwan took the lead in the Grand Prix figure skating finals with first place in the women’s free program at Lyon, France. . . . Sondra van Ert and Chris Klug gave the United States a sweep of the parallel giant slalom events in World Cup snowboarding at Berchtesgaden, Germany.

Molly Hatcher, 21, the co-captain of the Kenyon College women’s swim team, was killed and 10 other swimmers were injured when the school van slid on an icy road into a highway guardrail and rolled several times in Coshocton, Ohio. . . . The University of Vermont canceled the remainder of its men’s hockey season after learning that some players had lied during an investigation into a hazing scandal.

Mark Heisler, who covers the NBA for The Times, and former Herald Examiner and Times columnist Melvin Durslag will be among those honored at the eighth induction dinner of the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame on Jan. 22 at the Bernard Milken Jewish Community Center in West Hills.