DODGERS SILENCED BY METS NO-NAME; BOHANON BEATS ROOKIE REYES : N.Y. METS 2, DODGERS 1.Byline: Eric Noland Daily News Staff Writer Throughout their July surge, the Dodgers have been piling up runs at a rate that, for them, is uncharacteristically robust - 14 against Colorado, 11 and 9 against 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 , 8 against the Angels and New York Mets
They picked an unfortunate time to revive some unpleasant April-May memories with one of their trademark funks. Against New York Mets pitchers of dubious credentials, the Dodgers managed just four hits and one lonely run Wednesday night, and came up on the wrong end of a 2-1 defeat at Dodger Stadium • • [ . ``We have been scoring runs, we just didn't get it tonight,'' said manager Bill Russell Noun 1. Bill Russell - United States basketball center (born in 1934) William Felton Russell, Russell . ``We ran into Kevin Brown The name Kevin Brown can refer to several different people, including the following:
One of those ill-timed nights. The Dodgers, who had spent four consecutive days lurking three games behind In sports, the phrase games behind, often abbreviated as GB in tables, is a common way to reflect the gap between a leading team and another team in a sports league, conference, or division. San Francisco in the National League West, fell another game back - to four out - with the loss. It occurred on a night when the Dodgers became the fifth team in the major leagues to top the 2 million attendance mark. But for a crowd of 39,610 fans, there was precious little to see. Bohanon, just called up from his seventh career assignment to Triple-A, allowed only one run through five innings - that on a solo home run by catcher Tom Prince, who was again filling in for injured 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 - and the Dodgers had even less success against Cory Lidle Cory Fulton Lidle (March 22, 1972 – October 11, 2006) was an American right-handed baseball pitcher who died in a single engine plane crash four days after his team, the New York Yankees, were eliminated from competition at the end of the 2006 season. , Greg McMichael and John Franco (26th save). ``We've been getting good offense, playing good baseball. We're not going to stop because of this,'' said Prince. As the Dodgers resolve to press on, they'd be advised to blank out the memory of what happened in the ninth inning, when they had a prime game-tying opportunity but instead expired meekly. Against Franco, Raul Mondesi led off the inning by reaching base when third baseman Edgardo Alfonzo backed up to play a short hop and instead had the ball play him for an error. Mondesi then moved up on catcher Todd Hundley's passed ball. ``We expected to tie it up, the way things have been going,'' said Russell. No doubt: runner at second, no outs. But there would be nothing more, as Eric Karros struck out, Todd Zeile lined to left and Wilton Guerrero grounded to third. It all spoiled the unofficial sendoff send·off n. 1. A demonstration of affection and good wishes for the beginning of a new undertaking. 2. A farewell: gave our guests a hearty sendoff at the airport. of Dodgers rookie Dennis Reyes, the Fernando Valenzuela impersonator who is expected to return to Triple-A Albuquerque when Ismael Valdes comes off the disabled list next Monday. Reyes' major-league career got off to a storybook sto·ry·book n. A book containing a collection of stories, usually for children. adj. Occurring in or resembling the style or content of a storybook: storybook characters; a storybook romance. start when he defeated the Giants before a sellout crowd at Dodger Stadium a week and a half ago. However, the 20-year-old left-hander will return to the minors as a decided work in progress: a 1-2 record, 4.58 ERA, a yield of 21 hits in 17-2/3 innings and four stolen bases on him in as many attempts. In this game, he was extremely Fernando-like - in trouble in every inning - but still limited the Mets to their only two runs in his five innings. The Dodgers just couldn't keep up, even when relying on their usual guns. Tripp Cromer? He went 0 for 3 with a couple of groundouts. Roger Cedeno? Three strikeouts. Wilton Guerrero? He was 0 for 4. In the heart of the lineup, meanwhile, Karros was robbed by Alfonzo, who made a diving catch of a liner in the sixth. And Zeile didn't help the Dodgers' cause any when he failed to run on a squibber up the first-base line with two runners on in the fourth; when it was ruled fair, he was thrown out at first by 80 feet. About the only exception to this trend was found in an unlikely source: Prince. He is fond of saying, ``I'm here for defensive purposes,'' but nonetheless seems to be working hard to match at least part of the dimension Piazza brings to the catching duty. Prince had hit two home runs in only one of 10 previous major-league seasons, but this was his second in as many nights. Mondesi also tried to help. With a single in the fourth, he extended his hitting streak to a season-best 12 games. But in the fourth, as in the ninth, he ended the inning stranded on base. |
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