BONDS FINDS HIS HOME RUN SWING GIANTS STAR BACK TO HIS OLD SELF VS. PENNY.Byline: Tony Jackson
Anthony (Antonio) Jackson, best known as Tony Jackson Staff Writer 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 - The 704th home run of Barry Bonds' career and the first of his abbreviated 2005 season came with two outs in the first inning on Friday night, a solo blast Noun 1. solo blast - a home run with no runners on base solo homer home run, homer - a base hit on which the batter scores a run to the front row of the centerfield n. 1. (Baseball) the part of the outfield directly ahead of the catcher. Noun 1. centerfield - the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher; "he hit the ball to deep center" center field, center bleachers off Dodgers right-hander Brad Penny Bradley Wayne Penny[1] (born May 24, 1978 in Blackwell, Oklahoma)[2] is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers.[3] Early career . The 605th intentional walk of his career, also his first of 2005, came from Penny with two outs in the fifth and achieved its desired result of getting the Dodgers out of an inning without further damage. Five days into his comeback from three knee surgeries, it is business as usual for Bonds. But while his first- inning pyrotechnics pyrotechnics (pī'rōtĕk`nĭks, pī'rə–), technology of making and using fireworks. Gunpowder was used in fireworks by the Chinese as early as the 9th cent. warmed a chilled crowd of 42,962 at SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Park, it failed to give them what they really came to see, which was their Giants blowing out the hated Dodgers. Thanks to a two-run, eighth-inning single by Dodgers outfielder Ricky Ledee, who was playing on a bad left hamstring and limited to pinch-hitting, the Dodgers tied the game at 4-4 in the top of the ninth. By that time, whatever Bonds had done had little to do with where the game stood. He went 1 for 3 through the first eight innings, although his homer did give the Giants a 2-0 lead. Ledee's heroics capped an eighth-inning rally against Giants relievers Scott Eyre Scott Alan Eyre (born May 30 1972) is a left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. On November 18, 2005 Eyre signed a 3-year contract with the Chicago Cubs. Eyre, who was born in Inglewood, California, graduated from Southern Idaho Junior College and was drafted by the Texas and LaTroy Hawkins after manager Felipe Alou lifted a mostly effective Brett Tomko at the 98-pitch mark with two outs in the seventh. Jeff Kent and Jose Cruz Jr. began the eighth with consecutive singles off Eyre. Dodgers manager Jim Tracy then sent Jason Repko to hit for Mike Edwards and gave him the bunt sign. But while Tracy intended to voluntarily give up an out, he didn't intend to do it this way: Repko popped the bunt directly into the glove of hard-charging first baseman Lance Niekro for the second out of the inning. But when Dioner Navarro then loaded the bases with a sharp single to right, Alou brought in Hawkins. Tracy, at a time when his club could afford just about anything except a double play, countered with the gimpy-legged Ledee to hit for Jayson Werth. Ledee obliged with his game-tying single, after which Tracy sent pitcher Edwin Jackson to run for him. But that rally ended on strikeouts of Jose Valentin and Hee-Seop Choi, sandwiched around a walk to Willy Aybar that loaded the bases. The Dodgers left the bases loaded in both the fifth and eighth innings. The Dodgers, who came in second in the National League West and one game ahead of the Giants, were hoping to capitalize on a loss by division-leading San Diego to Washington. Randy Winn, who fell a triple shy of becoming just the second major-league player since 1900 to hit for two cycles in the same season, led off the bottom of the first with a home run to right-center off Penny, and Bonds' two-out shot made it 2-0. But the Dodgers tied it with two runs in the fifth, a rally that began when Giants starter Brett Tomko plunked Navarro to start the inning. Werth followed with a triple to the 421-foot sign in right-center, after which Penny tied it with his bloop bloop Baseball n. A blooper. tr.v. blooped, bloop·ing, bloops To hit (a ball) into the air just beyond the infield. adj. Hit just beyond the infield. single to right. Choi hit another blooper that fell just in front of charging right fielder Jason Ellison with one out, and Tomko walked Kent with two outs to load the bases for Jose Cruz Jr. Tomko started Cruz out with three consecutive balls, putting the Dodgers a pitch away from taking the lead. Tony Jackson,(818) 713-3675 tony.jackson(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo, 2 boxes Photo: The Dodgers' Brad Penny lasted six innings and gave up four runs Friday. Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press Box: (1) DODGERS at SAN FRANCISCO (2) ALMANAC almanac, originally, a calendar with notations of astronomical and other data. Almanacs have been known in simple form almost since the invention of writing, for they served to record religious feasts, seasonal changes, and the like. |
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