DODGERS NOTEBOOK: YOUNG IS ON JOHNSON PLAN.Byline: Brian Dohn Staff Writer Dodgers manager Davey Johnson n. Baseball The infielder who is positioned near and to the first-base side of second base. Noun 1. second baseman - (baseball) the person who plays second base second sacker would get his starting job back - though it would come with a few more rests to keep the 32-year-old spry An application framework from Adobe for building rich Internet applications using HTML. Spry takes the tedium out of writing AJAX code and also includes routines for creating animation effects and building widgets. For more information, visit http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry. . However, more than a week after Young's return it's clear the second base position has evolved into exactly what Johnson envisioned a month ago - a platoon. Young's been back for seven games, and after sitting through Friday's 8-5 win in 10 innings against Philadelphia, he's started just four of them. And it doesn't have much to do with Young not playing well. He's 6 for 16 with four walks, three stolen bases and three runs scored. ``I'm on his plan,'' Young said of Johnson. ``Whatever he wants.'' During the season the Dodgers have become disenchanted dis·en·chant tr.v. dis·en·chant·ed, dis·en·chant·ing, dis·en·chants To free from illusion or false belief; undeceive. [Obsolete French desenchanter, from Old French, with Young because, as a leadoff hitter In baseball, a leadoff hitter is a batter who bats first in the lineup. Strategy Leadoff hitters must possess certain traits to be successful: they must reach base at a proficient rate and be able to steal bases. , they think he hits too many balls in the air. Defensively, the team believes he lacks range. The situation came to a head last month in Arizona when Johnson said he was making a switch at second base to give Young time to heal his bumps and bruises. Young asked to go on the disabled list but the Dodgers didn't want to place him there because he couldn't be traded. Finally, three days before the July 31 non-waiver trading deadline, the Dodgers placed Young on the disabled list with a sprained ankle A sprained ankle, also known as a ankle sprain, ankle injury or ankle ligament injury, is a common medical condition where one or more of the ligaments of the ankle is torn or partially torn. . Lieberthal signs: The Phillies signed catcher Mike Lieberthal Michael Scott Lieberthal (born January 18, 1972, in Glendale, California), nicknamed Lieby,[1] is a backup catcher in Major League Baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He bats and throws right-handed. Lieberthal has a .313 batting average, a . , a Westlake High graduate, to a three-year, $19 million contract extension before the game. There's also a club option for the 2003 season at $7.25 million. ``The main reason I want to stay here is the players we have here, and the coaching staff and the general manager,'' said Lieberthal, a first-round pick of the Phillies in 1990. ``We have a chance to win here the next few years. We've had some injuries here lately, but there are a lot of parts in place. No longer are we a handful of players away from winning.'' Lieberthal, 27, was a career .252 hitter in 310 games spanning five seasons before breaking out this year. He was named to the NL all-star squad this summer and entered the Dodgers' series hitting .310 with 25 homers and 78 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 . He also leads NL catchers with a .999 fielding percentage In baseball statistics, fielding percentage, also known as fielding average, is a measure that reflects the percentage of times a defensive player handles a batted or thrown ball properly. . He's committed one error this season and hasn't made one in 84 games. ``Mike's a prime example of what we've been trying to do here,'' Phillies general manager Ed Wade Ed Wade (b. January 31, 1956) is the current General Manager of the Houston Astros. Early career in baseball Wade began his baseball career in 1977 as an intern in the Phillies public relations department. said. ``We made a commitment a couple of years ago to build around our young nucleus. . . . I think this is a clear signal that we're going to do that.'' Lieberthal makes $2.2 million this season. He was given a $1 million signing bonus A signing bonus or sign-on bonus is a sum of money paid to a new employee by a company as an incentive to join that company. These are often given as a way of making a compensation package more attractive to the employee e.g. if the annual salary is lower than they desire. and will be paid $4.5 million next year, $6 million in 2001 and $7 million in 2002. Extra bases: Dodgers right-hander Robinson Checo (groin) threw 66 pitches in a rehab assignment for Single-A San Bernardino on Thursday. He allowed six runs on four hits in three innings against Rancho Cucamonga. . . . Former Dodgers lefty Carlos Perez, now the highest-paid pitcher in the minors, allowed six runs (four earned) in a loss Thursday for Triple-A Albuquerque against Tucson. Perez allowed 11 hits, walked two, struck out one and allowed a homer. Johnson said Perez needs one or two more starts before returning to the Dodgers, making him a prime Sept. 1 call-up. . . . Former Dodgers right-hander Hideo Nomo is slated to start the series opener for Milwaukee against the Dodgers on Monday. DODGERS vs. PHILADELPHIA Time: 4:05 p.m., at Veterans Stadium. TV/Radio: Channel 5; XTRA-AM (1150), KWKW-AM (1330 Spanish). Matchup: Dodgers right-hander Ismael Valdes (8-11, 3.48 ERA) will celebrate his 26th birthday with a start against the Phillies. Valdes always seems to be killed by one pitch, or one inning. He's won three of his past 15 starts, but has a 3.23 ERA in that span. Valdes is 5-4 with a 2.77 ERA in his career against the Phillies. Phillies lefty Randy Wolf (5-5, 5.01), a former El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
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