DODGERS NOTEBOOK: IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK HOME.Byline: Eric Noland Daily News Staff Writer They must be weeping into their hotel pillows, flipping longingly through their wallet photos and repeatedly playing Randy Newman's ``I Love L.A.'' An acute case of homesickness - that's what the Dodgers seem to be suffering from this season. How else to explain their abysmal performance on the road thus far? The Dodgers, thankful to be back home for Wednesday night's game with 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 , returned with a road record (10-17) that was nearly an exact reversal of their home mark (17-11). Their three most recent trips produced records of 1-5, 3-7 and 3-4. This from a team that has been 11 games over .500 on the road over the past two years. ``I have no idea why,'' center fielder Brett Butler Brett Butler can refer to different people:
"Don't Care" is a 1994 (see 1994 in music) single by American death metal band Obituary. what kind of talent you have.'' Butler observed that San Francisco and Pittsburgh are two surprising first-place residents. ``Will that last?'' he said. ``You don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. . For us, it's the same thing in reverse. The Dodgers are expected to win and they're not. Is it going to last? . . . ``There's no doubt in my mind we're going to prevail, we're going to come out on top and win the division, get into the playoffs and try to win the world championship. ``I can't give a reason why our road games are as bad as they are . . . but you just try to reverse the negativism negativism /neg·a·tiv·ism/ (neg´ah-ti-vizm?) opposition to suggestion or advice; behavior opposite to that appropriate to a specific situation or against the wishes of others, including direct resistance to efforts to be moved. and try to get out of it.'' Quick recovery: Right fielder right fielder n. Baseball The player who defends right field. Noun 1. right fielder - the person who plays right field outfielder - (baseball) a person who plays in the outfield Raul Mondesi, who was thought to be a candidate to miss a couple of games with a sore left finger and shoulder, was back in the lineup after being cleared by the Dodgers medical staff. ``They told me it's not broken, just ligaments (sprained),'' said Mondesi, who jammed his left little finger diving into a base Monday at Houston and missed Tuesday's meeting with the Astros. ``I don't want to miss no more games.'' To offer the finger some support, Mondesi taped it to his ring finger, then cut two fingers off his batting glove to accommodate the human splint splint, rigid or semiflexible device for the immobilization of displaced or fractured parts of the body. Most commonly employed for fractures of bones, a splint may be a first-aid measure that allows the patient to be moved without displacing the injured part, or it . People's choice: Dodgers catcher Mike Piazza Michael Joseph Piazza (born September 4, 1968 in Norristown, Pennsylvania) is an American Major League Baseball player who currently plays for the Oakland Athletics. He began his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and played for the Florida Marlins, New York Mets, San Diego Padres , who led all vote-getters for last year's National League All-Star team, is setting another blistering pace. Piazza, who drilled a 454-foot home run to left in the first inning Wednesday night, has received 595,400 votes in fan balloting, 17 percent more than the next-most popular player, Atlanta center fielder Kenny Lofton (493,306). CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: After hitting a two-run triple, the Dodgers' Juan Castro, grimacing, injured himself sliding into third. Terri Thuente / Daily News |
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