DODGERS' LUCK IS ALL BAD INJURIES, POOR START AND ANOTHER LOSS TO ROCKIES COLORADO 8, DODGERS 7.Byline: Vincent Bonsignore Staff Writer A bad day turned into an even worse night for the Dodgers on Wednesday. First, they learned J.D. Drew needs season-ending surgery, not to fix the broken left wrist he suffered in July that kept him out of the lineup the last two months, but to remedy the nagging pain that's plagued his right wrist and shoulder the last two years. Then they watched on their clubhouse TV as the NL West Division-leading Padres came back from a two-run deficit to beat 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 in extra innings Noun 1. extra innings - overtime play until one team is ahead at the end of an inning; e.g. baseball extra time, overtime - playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie , ruining any chance for the Dodgers to pick up ground on the Padres before taking the field against the Colorado Rockies For the National Hockey League team (1976 – 1982), now known as the New Jersey Devils, see . The Colorado Rockies are a Major League Baseball team based in Denver, Colorado. They are in the West Division of the National League. . Then came the real misery. The Dodgers coughed up three leads against the Rockies to drop their second game in a row, 8-7, in front of a season-low 30,329 at Dodger Stadium • • [ . It was a game the Dodgers led 5-0 at one point, 6-4 at another then finally 7-6 in the eighth. They surrendered each lead by allowing crushing two-out hits, the biggest blows coming on a grand slam grand slam n. 1. The winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand in bridge and other whist-derived card games. 2. Sports The winning of all the major or specified events, especially on a professional circuit. in the fifth by Garrett Atkins Garrett Bernard Atkins (born December 12, 1979 in Orange, California) has been the third baseman for the Major League Baseball team the Colorado Rockies since 2003. He bats and throws right-handed. (UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX ) and a two-run home run in the eighth by Cory Sullivan Cory Sullivan (born August 20 1979 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a Major League Baseball outfielder. He is an alumnus of the Wake Forest University. Sullivan made his major league debut with the Colorado Rockies on April 4, 2005. . The Dodgers now head to San Francisco to begin a critical four-game series with the Giants tonight with a tired bullpen, huge question marks at the Nos. 4 and 5 spots in the pitching rotation and trailing the Padres by six games with 17 to play. ``Stranger things have happened in this game,'' Dodgers manager Jim Tracy said. ``But obviously we have to win a number of our remaining games and obviously we need some help. San Diego has to lose some games in a row and we have to capitalize on that.'' The Dodgers will also need better efforts from their pitchers in the back end of the rotation. One night after Edwin Jackson put the Dodgers in a huge hole in the second inning and pressed the bullpen into a heavy workload, D.J. Houlton wasn't much better. Houlton pitched into the fifth inning, but he labored all night with his control then finally collapsed in the fifth when he surrendered the grand slam to Atkins to wipe out nearly all of a 5-0 lead. Tracy wanted to rest his bullpen after it combined to pitch 7 2/3 innings on Tuesday in relief of Jackson, then was reduced by one arm when Elmer Dessens was pulled from possible relief duty to prepare for a starting assignment in place of Jackson on Sunday against San Francisco. But after Atkins' slam, Tracy had no choice but to turn to the bullpen again. ``I struggled all night to throw strikes and I threw way too many pitches,'' Houlton said. ``I was getting behind in counts, then had to throw fastballs, and I paid for it. I'm disappointed.'' Olmedo Saenz gave the Dodgers a 6-4 lead on a solo home run in the fifth, but the Rockies tied the score in the sixth on a two-run single by Todd Helton. The Dodgers took their last lead at 7-6 when Willie Aybar scored on a double play grounder by Jeff Kent in the seventh. But Yhency Brazoban couldn't hold it, surrendering the two-run shot to Sullivan in the top of the eighth for the winning runs. The Dodgers built a 5-0 lead through the first four innings on a home run by Jason Repko, an 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 ground-rule double by Oscar Robles and run-scoring single from Kent. But Houlton couldn't hold it. The Rockies took full advantage, beating the Dodgers for the seventh time in their last eight meetings. ``I don't think you can sit here and expect a whole lot more offensively than seven runs,'' Tracy said. ``We scored the runs offensively you would think was necessary to win the game. But giving up eight is a substantial number.'' Vincent Bonsignore, (818) 713-3612 vincent.bonsignore(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 5 boxes Box: (1) DODGERS at SAN FRANCISCO - Vincent Bonsignore (2) GAME RECAP (3) HOW THE RUNS SCORED (4) 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. (5) OTHER GAMES: BURROUGHS PULLS PADRES OUT OF TAILSPIN tail·spin n. 1. The rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep, spiral spin. 2. Informal A loss of emotional control sometimes resulting in emotional collapse. |
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