[0] DODGERS LOOK SMALL AMONG GIANTS; PEREZ STILL OUT OF CONTROL AS BONDS' TWO HOME RUNS WIN IT : SAN FRAN. 6 DODGERS 3.Byline: Matt McHale Staff Writer Barry Bonds Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24 1964 in Riverside, California) is a left fielder for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. He is the son of former major league All-Star Bobby Bonds, the godson of Hall of Famer Willie Mays, and a distant cousin of Hall of Famer Reggie had done it to a lot of guys. Just not Carlos Perez. For some reason, the Dodgers' worst pitcher had been one of the best against Bonds, but all that changed Friday night in the San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Giants' 6-3 victory before a sellout crowd of 53,869 at Dodger Stadium • • [ . Coming in with just three singles and one RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in in 18 career at-bats against Perez, Bonds hit two home runs and showed he might be all the way back from arm surgery that cost him almost two months of the season. Bonds, who in a game last September against the Dodgers became the first player in major-league history to reach 400 career homers and 400 stolen bases, struggled after coming back from the disabled list. But now that he has uncovered Perez, whose record dropped to 2-9 after the Dodgers' fifth straight loss, Bonds appears ready to resume his Hall of Fame career. ``If he's not 100 percent, he certainly is close,'' manager Dusty Baker Baker should know. He played eight years with the Dodgers and once hit 30 home runs in one season. But he has never seen a Dodgers pitching staff struggle this way, either. It seemed Perez, who has given up at least six runs in six of his starts, might allow that many Friday night. Although his velocity matched the season-high 89 mph fastball he had last Saturday in San Francisco, Perez made four seriously bad pitches. All went for home runs. ``He is not a power pitcher In baseball, a power pitcher is a pitcher who relies on the velocity of his pitches, sometimes at the expense of accuracy. Power pitchers usually record a high number of strikeouts and statistics such as strikeouts per 9 innings pitched are common measures of power. and he can't make mistakes,'' pitching coach Claude Osteen Adrian Beltre had a chance to atone for Perez when he hit a game-tying two-run homer in the fourth against Giants starter Chris Brock (5-6). But two innings later, Beltre left the game with a strained groin muscle. Beltre, one of the few bright spots in the Dodgers' (34-43) miserable season, will be reexamined today. There was no one to take up the slack. Todd Hollandsworth Todd Mathew Hollandsworth (born April 20, 1973 in Dayton, Ohio) is an outfielder in Major League Baseball. Previously, Hollandsworth played with the Los Angeles Dodgers (1995-2000), Colorado Rockies (2000-2002), Texas Rangers (2002), Florida Marlins (2003), Chicago Cubs , starting in place of Gary Sheffield
Gary Antonian Sheffield (born November 18, 1968 in Tampa, Florida) is a Major League Baseball designated hitter and outfielder for the Detroit Tigers. (flu) in left, went 0 for 4 with three strikeouts. In the seventh inning, the Dodgers had a chance to tie the game when Dave Hansen
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Marvin Benard led off the top of the ninth with a home run off Dodgers reliever Jeff Shaw, brought in to get some work. It was the Giants' fifth homer, the most in one game since August 1995 against Philadelphia. The others were by Ellis Burks to open the fourth and Rich Aurilia one out later. Robb Nen, who allowed a ninth-inning, game-winning homer to Todd Hundley last Saturday, pitched the ninth for his 21st save. Friday night was a test for all the Dodgers, who were still in last despite eight straight losses by the fourth-place Colorado Rockies. Trailing by three in the fourth, the Dodgers came back. Hot-hitting Eric Karros lined a one-out double into the left-field corner off Brock and Hundley followed with a sharp single to right. One out later, Beltre drove a 1-1 fastball into the left-field stands to tie the game. Karros came in batting .410 (15 for 36) in his last 10 games and .357 (30 for 84) with six homers and 15 RBI in his last 23. Beltre, batting over .300 most of his first full season, had dropped to .290 with an 0-for-10 slump before Friday. In the fifth, Perez retired the first two batters for the fourth time in the game before going to a 3-2 count on Bonds. Perez threw him a fastball and Bonds hit it over the center-field wall for a 4-3 Giants lead. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--Color) The Dodgers' Todd Hundley can't interrupt a double-play toss by the Giants' Jeff Kent. (2) Adrian Beltre's fourth-inning home run gives the Dodgers a brief moment of hope Friday. Hans Gutknecht/Daily News |
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