DODGERS WIN IT IN 15TH : DODGERS 3, NEW YORK 2.Byline: Kevin Acee Daily News Staff Writer When Brett Butler Brett Butler can refer to different people:
A starting lineup in sports refers to the set of players actively participating in the event when the game begins. The players in the starting lineup are commonly referred to as starters, whereas the others are substitutes Monday, his teammates tried not to wonder if it would be the end of his career. By night's end, 15 innings and exactly five hours after the game began without him, Butler scored the winning run, taking off from second base on Tom Prince's infield single and not stopping until he slid safely into home to give the Dodgers a 3-2 victory over the New York Mets
Butler was at the doctor's office when the game began. He was having his sore throat Sore Throat Definition Sore throat, also called pharyngitis, is a painful inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the pharynx. It is a symptom of many conditions, but most often is associated with colds or influenza. checked out. After finding out he just had swollen lymph nodes Lymph nodes Small, bean-shaped masses of tissue scattered along the lymphatic system that act as filters and immune monitors, removing fluids, bacteria, or cancer cells that travel through the lymph system. and receiving antibiotics, Butler returned to the park and joined his team in the dugout in the fourth inning. As the game dragged on, Butler was inserted in center field in the ninth inning. In the 15th inning, his fourth trip to the plate, he grounded into a potential double play but beat the throw to first base. He stole second as Greg Gagne Greg Gagne may refer to:
His run ended the longest Dodgers game since last Aug. 3, when they lost 5-3 to Atlanta at Dodger Stadium • • [ . It was about time. The Dodgers stranded runners in scoring position In the sport of baseball, a baserunner is said to be in scoring position when he is on second or third base. The distinction between being on first base and second or third base is that a runner on first can usually only score if the batter hits an extra base hit, while a runner on in the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th. Those runners were on third base in the latter two innings. Todd Hollandsworth Todd Mathew Hollandsworth (born April 20, 1973 in Dayton, Ohio) is an outfielder in Major League Baseball. Previously, Hollandsworth played with the Los Angeles Dodgers (1995-2000), Colorado Rockies (2000-2002), Texas Rangers (2002), Florida Marlins (2003), Chicago Cubs , who singled with one out in the 12th, reached third base on Raul Mondesi's single. But Juan Castro struck out and Eric Karros flied out to center field to end the inning. Todd Zeile led off the 13th with a single to right field and went to second on a sacrifice bunt by Butler. He made it to third on Gagne's infield single but was thrown out at home on a grounder by Prince. Wilton Guerrero struck out swinging for the third out, leaving Gagne as second. Pedro Astacio, who pitched the final three innings for the victory, was the fifth Dodgers pitcher to follow starter Hideo Nomo, who allowed Todd Hundley's two-run homer in the sixth inning. Still, Nomo was just the latest Dodgers starter to depart knowing he had pitched well enough to get a win, but wouldn't. Two innings after Nomo left, the Dodgers made their comeback, tying the game 2-2 on three singles, a walk and a sacrifice fly. The bullpen again allowed the Dodgers time to come back. After Nomo departed, knuckleballer Tom Candiotti made his fourth appearance of the season. He allowed his first hit, but not his first run in one inning of work. Scott Radinsky pitched a scoreless eighth in his fourth appearance. Darren Hall, also pitching his fourth game, shut the Mets down in the ninth and survived a bases-loaded, one-out scare to make it through the 10th. Mark Guthrie pitched the next two innings. Astacio, the Dodgers scheduled starter for Wednesday's game, closed it out. This dearth of hits out of this potentially devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. lineup must soon become a concern for the Dodgers if it hasn't already. The Dodgers entered Monday's game, the seventh of the season, hitting .228 as a group. They entered averaging just more than three runs a game. The culprit is that hits with anyone on base are rare. A total of 19 runners have been stranded in scoring position. Cleanup hitter Mike Piazza had just two at-bats with a runner in scoring position prior to Monday. Those both came Sunday, and he converted on one of them for the game-winning 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 . ``We haven't been hitting well as a team,'' Dodgers manager Bill Russell said after Sunday's 6-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates, in which the Dodgers came back from a 3-0 deficit after starter Ramon Martinez left the game after the fifth inning. ``Hopefully we're coming together,'' Russell said. ``. . . It's there. It's just a matter of getting it going consistently.'' CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--color) Todd Zeile breaks his bat during the second inning against the Mets. (2) Dodgers pitcher Hideo Nomo did not earn a decision Monday night against the Mets. Myung J. Chun / Daily News |
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