NEW YORK -- Seattle's Lou Piniella and Philadelphia's Larry Bowa were runaway winners Wednesday for the Manager of the Year awards.

	Bowa

	Piniella

Piniella, who led the Mariners to a record-tying 116 wins during the regular season, won the American League award for the second time, getting 22 first-place votes and six seconds for 128 points from a panel of the Baseball Writers' Association.

"The only danger of opening up a big lead is if complacency sets in, you can go into a tailspin," Piniella said. "My coaching staff and my players did outstanding job of making sure that didn't happen."

Bowa, whose Phillies contended with the Atlanta Braves until the final weekend of the season, won the National League award for the first time. He got 18 first-place votes, six seconds and five thirds for 113 points.

	Voting results
	American League Voting for the AL Manager of the Year Award, on a 5-3-1 basis:
	Manager	1st	2nd	3rd	Total
	Piniella, Sea.	22	6	--	128
	Howe, Oak.	5	17	1	77
	Kelly, Min.	1	4	8	25
	Williams, Bos.	--	--	12	12
	Torre, NY	--	1	5	8
	Manuel, Cle.	--	--	1	1
	Scioscia, Ana.	--	--	1	1
	National League Voting for the NL Manager of the Year Award, on a 5-3-1 basis:
	Manager	1st	2nd	3rd	Total
	Bowa, Phi.	18	6	5	113
	Tracy, LA	4	8	4	48
	La Russa, Stl.	4	5	3	38
	Brenly, Ari.	3	4	6	43
	Dierker, Hou.	1	4	4	21
	Baylor, Chi.	--	3	4	13
	Cox, Atl.	2	--	2	12
	Baker, SF	--	2	4	10

Bowa spent the 2000 season with the Mariners as Piniella's third-base coach.

"I probably learned more from Lou than all the people I've been around, in the one year," Bowa said.

Piniella, 58, and Bowa, 55, have similar intense styles, but Piniella has calmed down during 15 years as a major league manager.

"I do have the intensity," said Bowa, whose contract was extended Wednesday for two years through 2004. "I think I've learned to bottle it up a little bit better than before. I'm still very intense. I'm not going to lie about that."

Bowa, fired by San Diego after compiling an 81-127 record in 1987-88, said Piniella warned him about his intensity.

"There was a time during the course of the year when I was very high," Bowa said, "and you have to sort of back off there."

Oakland's Art Howe was second in the AL voting for the third consecutive season, getting five first-place votes and 77 points. Minnesota's Tom Kelly was third with 25 points.

Jimy Williams, fired by Boston on Aug. 16 after keeping his team in contention for most of the season, finished fourth with 12 third-place votes and 12 points. He was the first manager fired during a season to receive any votes since the BBWAA began the manager awards in 1983.

At the time Williams was fired, Boston was 65-53, two games behind Oakland in the AL wild-card standings and five games behind the New York Yankees in the AL East.

Boston went 17-26 under Williams' successor, Joe Kerrigan, and finished 13½ games behind the Yankees and 19½ games back of the Athletics.

Jim Tracy, the first-year manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, was second in the NL voting with 48 points, followed by Tony La Russa of St. Louis with 38 and Bob Brenly of Arizona with 33.

Piniella, who also won the award with Seattle in 1995, became the first manager to twice lead teams to first-place finishes after leading from opening day, first accomplishing the feat with the 1990 Cincinnati Reds.

Seattle went 116-46, breaking the AL record for wins set by the 1998 Yankees (114-48) and tying the mark set by the 1906 Chicago Cubs (116-36). The Mariners then were eliminated by the Yankees in the second round of the playoffs, 4-1.

"Just a lot of wins, a lot of wins," Piniella said. "I hope when we go into spring training next year, people don't expect a duplication."

Ballots for the awards had to be postmarked before the start of the playoffs.