DODGERS FAIL TO DELIVER : ONCE AGAIN, L.A. STRUGLES AT .500 PITTSBURGH 7, DODGERS 2.Byline: Tim Brown Timothy Donell Brown (born July 22, 1966) is a retired wide receiver, who played in the National Football League. He spent sixteen years with the Oakland Raiders, during which he established himself as one of the League's most prolific wide receivers. Daily News Staff Writer It seems the Dodgers can't stand a fresh outlook. At absolute mediocrity, ground .500, for the sixth time this season, the Dodgers lost for the sixth time. Paul Wagner Paul Allen Wagner (born November 14, 1967 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American former Major League Baseball player. A pitcher, Wagner played for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1992—1997), Milwaukee Brewers (1997—1998), and Cleveland Indians (1999). , the Pittsburgh Pirates' Ringo Starr Noun 1. Ringo Starr - rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940) Richard Starkey, Starkey, Starr Beatles - a rock group from Liverpool who between 1962 and 1970 produced a variety of hit songs and albums (most of them written by Paul McCartney and look-alike who lost a sweet 16 games last season, pitched a complete game and defeated the Dodgers 7-2 at Three Rivers Stadium • • [ . Kukukachoo. To recount, the Dodgers lost with their record at 1-1, 7-7, 8-8, 12-12, 14-14 and, Saturday night, at 15-15. ``That's weird,'' Dodgers manager Lasorda said as he pulled a sweater over his head. ``Everything is weird.'' Count the ways. Roughly 24 hours after their eight-run ninth inning, the Dodgers were back to their collective .239-hitting selves. They had five hits. They struck out 11 times. Mike Piazza's 16-game hitting streak In baseball, a hitting streak refers to the consecutive number of official games in which a player gets at least one base hit. Games in which a player does not have any official at bats due to walks, or sacrifice bunts, or being hit by a pitch, are ignored (neither break the streak , at the time the longest in the major leagues, ended in a flurry of two groundouts, a flyout and a strikeout. They hit seven balls out of the infield, one being Raul Mondesi's sixth home run, in the ninth inning. They never had two hits in an inning. Wagner (4-2) caught some credit. Wagner gave Lasorda some as well. Apparently, Lasorda pulled Wagner aside last season, in September, by which time Wagner had amassed 14 losses. ``It was just a good sit-down talk,'' Wagner recalled. ``He told me what I was capable of doing, and just to go out and do it. ``It was a point in my year it was nice to have someone so respected to take time out, as little as it was, to say a few words to me.'' Lasorda even brightened at the memory. ``He stopped and we had a good chat,'' Lasorda said. ``He had the stuff to be a good pitcher, all he had to do was believe in himself.'' With what Pirates pitching coach Ray Miller called, ``an electric slider A block of material that holds the read/write head of a magnetic disk. See flying head. ,'' Wagner struck out the Dodgers' side in the first inning, then again in the fourth. Every Dodgers starter struck out at least once. Greg Gagne Greg Gagne may refer to:
``It's a new year for the guy,'' Gagne said. ``That's done with.'' When the Pirates scored three times in the fifth inning for a 4-1 lead in a game played in a steady drizzle, the Dodgers were done with as well. Tom Candiotti The rain did not bother his knuckleball grip, Candiotti said. The problem was, it didn't bother Jeff King Jeff King can refer to:
The Dodgers had nothing with which to match that or to combat Wagner, whose 52 strikeouts lead the National League. If his first six starts are to be believed, Wagner has transformed himself from a pitcher with a career 4.45 ERA into one with a 2.86 ERA. ``He's learning,'' Miller said. ``He's believing in himself and that's 90 percent of the battle. I wish I could get him to face himself one time, so he could see what I see. ``That slider's going to light up a lot of people.'' Among the league's easiest lineups to strike out, the Dodgers were practically glowing. The Dodgers scored in the third inning when Chad Fonville Chad Everette Fonville (born March 5, 1971, in Jacksonville, North Carolina) was a Major League Baseball infielder. Drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 11th round of the 1992 MLB amateur draft, Fonville would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Montreal doubled in Todd Hollandsworth to tie the score 1-1. Incidentally, Fonville, whose energetic play carried the Dodgers last week, has one hit in his past 13 at-bats. The Dodgers didn't score again until the ninth, and the Pirates scored six times in between. King doubled in a run in the first, two in the fifth and another in the seventh, when the Pirates scored two runs. Charlie Hayes homered in the eighth, against Mark Guthrie, for the Pirates' final run. Asked how a team swings so easily from productive to compliant, Lasorda sighed and said, ``It's not easy to see. We just didn't hit the ball. Our offense is just sputtering A popular method for adhering thin films onto a substrate. Sputtering is done by bombarding a target material with a charged gas (typically argon) which releases atoms in the target that coats the nearby substrate. It all takes place inside a magnetron vacuum chamber under low pressure. right now. We know they're good hitters. And we believe they're going to hit. We just gotta get them going.'' Well, they have a chance to get back to .500 today. They don't seem to have a problem with that. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Pittsburgh pitcher Paul Wagner delivers a pitch in th e final inning of his five-hit, complete-game victory over the Dodgers. Associated Press |
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