[0] DODGERS LOCATE OFFENSE : FOR ONCE, CANDIOTTI GETS GOOD SUPPORT DODGERS 7, MONTREAL 2.Byline: Michael Rosenthal Daily News Staff Writer The least productive team in baseball decided it was time to do something drastic: nothing. And it worked. The Dodgers, who took no batting practice before Wednesday night's game against the Montreal Expos The Montreal Expos (French: Les Expos de Montréal) were a Major League Baseball team located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1969 until 2004. After the 2004 season, the franchise relocated to Washington, D.C. and became the Washington Nationals. , collected an encouraging 10 hits and starter Tom Candiotti The Dodgers' biggest run output since they scored eight against Pittsburgh on May 6 gave them two of three games in this series and pulled them within one game of .500 (20-21). ``You try everything,'' manager Tom Lasorda said. ``It's like a snowball rolling down rolling down The liquidation of an option position by an investor at the same time that he or she takes an essentially identical position with a lower strike price. a hill that gets bigger and bigger. You just do whatever you can to stop it. ``That's what we tried to do. . . . And this was one of our biggest offensive outputs in a long time.'' Ironically, it came on a night the Dodgers didn't need it: Candiotti (2-3) was brilliant. The Expos were handed their two runs in the second inning - one when a ball rolled through the legs of left fielder Billy Ashley Billy Manual Ashley (Born July 11, 1970) in Trenton, Michigan, is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. Ashley was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 3rd round of the 1988 MLB Draft. He started his professional career with the Gulf Coast Dodgers in 1988 and 1989. , the other when a hard grounder got past shortstop Greg Gagne Greg Gagne may refer to:
After that, Candiotti was unhittable. Keeping the National League's best hitting team off balance, he retired the next 21 batters. The only hit he allowed after the second inning was a meaningless two-out double by David Segui David Vincent Segui (born July 19 1966 in Kansas City, Kansas) was primarily a first baseman with the Baltimore Orioles (1990-93 and 2001-04), New York Mets (1994-95), Montreal Expos (1995-97), Seattle Mariners (1998-99), Toronto Blue Jays (1999), Texas Rangers (2000) and Cleveland in the ninth. When it was over, Candiotti had allowed only four hits, struck out two and walked only Moises Alou in the first. It was his second straight victory and first complete game in almost a year. ``When you get runs like we did tonight, it makes everything so much easier,'' Candiotti said. ``When the other team gets a few runs early, you might not make it past the fifth or sixth inning because they might pinch hit for you. ``I thought we showed a lot of character tonight. When we got down, the way things have been going, we could've sulked. We didn't. We battled back. . . . We played well tonight.'' Candiotti hadn't been pitching too poorly: He came into the game with a 4.28 ERA. However, as usual, the Dodgers had given him little support. The team had scored three runs or fewer in six of his seven previous starts. It was a replay of last season, when he had a 3.50 ERA but finished with a record of 7-14. Finally, on Wednesday, the Dodgers gave him a little help - although it initially didn't appear they would. Expos starter (and ultimately the loser) Jeff Fassero Fassero was drafted by the St. , who came into the game with a 1-3 record (5.47 ERA) lifetime against the Dodgers, finally seemed to find a groove against them in the first three innings. In that span, he allowed three hits but struck out six and no one got as far as second base. Against a team that, going into the game, was hitting only .234 (second worst in baseball) and had scored the fewest runs (147) in the major leagues, Fassero and the Expos had reason to be optimistic. And then, suddenly, the Dodgers figured him out. The hit that seemed to unleash the torrent came with Montreal leading 2-0 in the fourth. With the bases loaded and one out, third baseman third baseman n. Baseball The infielder stationed near third base. Noun 1. third baseman - (baseball) the person who plays third base third sacker Mike Busch Michael Anthony Busch (born July 7, 1968, in Davenport, Iowa) was a Major League Baseball third baseman. Busch is an alumnus of Iowa State University. Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 4th round of the 1990 MLB amateur draft, Busch would make his Major League - who had all of 12 at-bats since he was called up from Triple-A Albuquerque on May 1 - came to the plate. The result? Line-drive single Noun 1. line-drive single - a single resulting from a line drive line single bingle, single - a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base to center to score two runs. The Dodgers scored once more that inning and three more the next to take a 6-2 lead and drive Fassero (3-4) from the game in the process. Even slumping Eric Karros got into the act. In the seventh, facing Alex Pacheco, Karros hit his fifth home run over the right-field wall to give the Dodgers a five-run advantage. It was the team's only extra-base hit of the game. ``You don't have to be a rocket scientist Rocket Scientist In the world of finance, these are people with science and math degrees who work in the finance field building highly advanced quantitative finance models. These models help banking, insurance and investment firms to price financial instruments. to figure out what's wrong,'' Lasorda said. ``You look at the statistics and you know. ``You see where we rank in hitting. . . . And then you see where we rank in pitching.'' On this day, at least, the Dodgers got plenty of both. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--color) MONDESI (2) Montreal first baseman Dav id Segui can't come up with a throw as the Dodgers' Chad Fonville crosses the bag safely in the fifth inning. Associated Press |
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