DODGERS' HOPES FOR PLAYOFFS END SAN FRAN. 4, DODGERS 0.Byline: Staff Writer Twenty-five minutes before the Dodgers took the field to be soundly beaten by 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 4-0 Wednesday, they had a chance to sit in the clubhouse and watch the Mets beat Atlanta to end offcially the Dodgers' playoff fantasy. The Dodgers then played as if they had just had the last breath stomped out of them - you know, as they've played most of the season. ``Now we play for second place,'' Dodgers closer Jeff Shaw
In essence, Wednesday was a wonderful little parallel for the season, especially since Luke Prokopec Kenneth Luke Prokopec (Born February 23, 1978) is an Australian-born, right-handed pitcher who played in Major League Baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays. , in the No. 4 spot in the rotation, took the loss. While the Dodgers' top three starters have all had strong seasons, anyone they've tried in the fourth and fifth spots has experienced all sorts of difficulty. Entering Wednesday's game, the fourth and fifth starters were a combined 10-25 with a 6.38 ERA. Though Prokopec was solid in two other starts, he allowed four runs in five innings against the Giants to further pad the brutal numbers of the back end of the rotation. That glaring gap, which was insufficiently filled by Carlos Perez, OrelHershiser, Mike Judd Michael Galen Judd (born June 30, 1975, in San Diego, California) was a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 9th round of the 1995 MLB amateur draft, Judd would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers on , Eric Gagne, Matt Herges Matthew Tyler Herges (born April 1, 1970, in Champaign, Illinois) is a Major League Baseball pitcher. He is an alumnus of Illinois State University. Signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1992, Herges would make his Major League Baseball debut with , Ismael Valdes
CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Catcher Chad Kreuter and Eric Karros console Dodgers starter Luke Prokopec. John McCoy/Staff Photographer |
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