DODGERS NOTEBOOK : PIAZZA DOESN'T TALK AFTER BEANING.Byline: Kevin Acee Daily News Staff Writer It's not as if Francisco Cordova Cordova, Spain: see Córdoba. had any reason to hit 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 . The Dodgers catcher hit four ground balls in an 0-for-4 performance against him last Saturday. But by hitting the Dodgers' best hitter on the left elbow with the first pitch of the second inning Friday, the Pirates pitcher gave cause to that speculation. It was the only pitch that even came close to getting away from Cordova in seven innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. work. Piazza was replaced by Tom Prince in the bottom of the second. He was diagnosed with a bruised bruise v. bruised, bruis·ing, bruis·es v.tr. 1. a. To injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of (part of the body) without breaking the skin, as by a blow. b. elbow and will be re-evaluated before today's game. X-rays were negative. Piazza was not in a sling sling (sling) a bandage or suspensory for supporting a part. mandibular sling a structure suspending the mandible, formed by the medial pterygoid and masseter muscles and aiding in after the Dodgers 7-1 victory. Nor was he in the mood to talk. After being nonresponsive to a first round of questions, he waited in the trainer's room, which is off-limits to the media, until it was time to board the bus. While he did not stop walking, he did speak on his way out of the stadium. ``What can I say? I got hit. It hurts,'' Piazza said. ``It's part of the game. If it got away from him, it got away from him. You'll have to ask him.'' Chilly: The temperature at game time was 51 degrees. It was in the 40s - and felt colder - by the seventh inning. There is a 100 percent chance of rain here today. That would be a zero percent chance of game here today. ``We'll be lucky if it doesn't snow,'' Russell said, making a joke about the number of games being played in and postponed by cold weather. He was then told Sunday's forecast called for temperatures in the low 40s with snow flurries. At least it is better than last season's first road trip when the Dodgers played three games in Chicago in freezing rain Freezing Rain is a type of precipitation that begins as snow at higher altitude, falling from a cloud towards earth, melts completely on its way down while passing through a layer of air above freezing temperature, and then . ``It can't ever get any colder than it was in Chicago last year,'' said Piazza. Mused Russell: ``This is short-sleeve weather compared to Chicago last year.'' If rain and/or snow halts today's or Sunday's game, at least one of them could be made up Monday, as it is an off day for both teams. The Dodgers begin a two-game series Tuesday at New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . |
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