DODGERS FAIL IN FIRST TEST PADRES WIN OPENER OF IMPORTANT SERIES SAN DIEGO 9, DODGERS 7.Byline: Rich Hammond Rich Hammond Los Angeles Daily News sports writer. Instrumental in bringing the Los Angeles Kings hockey organization closer to the fans. He is the atypical "what a guy" to Kings fans everywhere. Rich Hammond on himself. Staff Writer The stretch drive has arrived, those 20 games that will determine whether the Dodgers are remembered as surprising National League West champs or the team that blew a seemingly insurmountable lead. All of the Dodgers' remaining games are against division rivals, which should be a good thing since they entered Monday with a combined record of five games over .500 against their final three opponents: San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Colorado and 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 . So much for a good start. Odalis Perez, who will be crucial in holding together what has been a shaky pitching staff of late, gave up five runs in the fourth inning and the Dodgers never fully recovered as they lost to the Padres 9-7 before 36,050 at Dodger Stadium • • [ . The days of beating up on the hapless Arizona Diamondbacks This article is about the baseball team. For other uses, see Diamondback. The Arizona Diamondbacks (also referred to as the D-backs) are a Major League Baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They play in the West Division of the National League. are over, and now the Dodgers have to contend with the Rockies, the Rockies, the: see Rocky Mountains. Giants, who lead the NL wild-card race, and the Padres, whose seven games against the Dodgers in an 11-day span will largely determine their October fate. Phil Nevin The Padres pulled within 6 1/2 games of the division lead and two games of the wild card. The Dodgers rallied in the seventh, with 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 singles from Cesar Izturis, Jayson Werth Jayson Richard Gowan Werth (born May 20, 1979 in Springfield, Illinois) is an outfielder in Major League Baseball who currently plays for the Philadelphia Phillies. He has usually been a bench player, but injuries to regular right fielder Shane Victorino and his backup Michael and Adrian Beltre, but with the bases loaded and two outs, reliever Akinori Otsuka struck out pinch-hitter Robin Ventura Shawn Green Shawn David Green (born November 10, 1972, in Des Plaines, Illinois) is a 6' 4" left-handed Major League Baseball player. Green is the starting right fielder for the New York Mets.[1] Green was a 1st round draft pick, and has been a two-time major league All-Star. hit two solo home runs and Werth added a two-run shot for the Dodgers, who once again got a troubling outing from Perez, their onetime unquestioned ace who often has looked shaky during the second half of this season. Perez hasn't looked quite the same, on a consistent basis, since he spent two weeks on the disabled list in July with an inflamed rotator cuff rotator cuff n. A set of muscles and tendons that secures the arm to the shoulder joint and permits rotation of the arm. Also called musculotendinous cuff. . Perez had lost only one of his previous 18 starts, which included 13 no-decisions, but he hadn't reached the seventh inning in any of his last four starts. Things looked good early, as Perez retired 10 of the first 12 Padres, but problems found Perez in the fourth. After Brian Giles grounded out, seven consecutive Padres reached base in the five-run inning. Nevin started the rally with a solo home run into the left-field seats. Ryan Klesko doubled, Khalil Greene walked and Carlos Hernandez doubled down the right-field line to score Klesko. Jay Payton walked to load the bases, and with Wells at the plate, Perez bounced a pitch several feet in front of the plate and Greene scored from third. To make matters worse, the other runners advanced when catcher David Ross made a poor throw to the plate, and then Perez walked Wells. Sean Burroughs followed with a sharp single to left-center to score Hernandez, and Mark Loretta nearly hit a grand slam but settled for a run-scoring sacrifice fly to right. By the time Giles made another out, by striking out looking, the Padres had given Wells a 5-0 lead. Perez left after the disastrous fourth, having allowed the five runs on six hits to go with three walks and five strikeouts. In the Dodgers' last four games, their starters have allowed 18 earned runs in 18 innings, even though the Dodgers managed to win two of those games. Green's homer in the fourth, off San Diego starter David Wells, put the Dodgers on the board, and Werth's two-run shot in the fifth made it 5-3. The teams traded solo homers in the sixth, as Hernandez hit one off Elmer Dessens and Green hit his second of the game to pull the Dodgers within 6-4. Nevin essentially put the game away when he crushed a pitch from Scott Stewart over the fence in left-center for a five-run lead. Wells left after allowing a leadoff single to David Ross in the seventh. He allowed five runs (three earned) on six hits, walked none and struck out nine. Rich Hammond, (818) 713-3611 rich.hammond(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 3 photos, box Photo: (1 -- color) Dodgers left-hander Odalis Perez expresses his frustration while in the fourth inning of Monday night's game against San Diego at Dodger Stadium. (2) Dodgers shortstop Jose Hernandez dives for a ball hit by San Diego's Sean Burroughs. Gus Ruelas/Staff Photographer (3) no caption (Barry Bonds) Box: (1) STORY LINES (2) PADRES 9, DODGERS 7 |
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