DREW DOUBLES PLEASURE TWO HOME RUNS LIFT DODGERS TO WIN DODGERS 6, MILWAUKEE 4.Byline: Tony Jackson
Anthony (Antonio) Jackson, best known as Tony Jackson Staff Writer He is unfailingly pleasant and polite, a common trait among those reared in small-town Georgia. Perhaps for that reason, he has largely been given a pass by the media this season, even as he repeatedly has failed to produce in a key spot in the Dodgers' order and has provided a case study in the dangers of signing free-agent players to fat, long-term contracts. If Thursday night is any indication, J.D. Drew might finally be turning the corner in what to date has been a miserable first season in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . The Dodgers' 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 , playing his more comfortable position of center field in the absence of Milton Bradley  This article or section is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article or section in an . , homered twice off Milwaukee ace Ben Sheets. The second one, a two-run shot that broke a sixth-inning tie and sent Sheets to the clubhouse, sparked the desperate Dodgers to a 6-4 victory over the Brewers in front of 32,004 at Dodger Stadium • • [ . It was Drew's first multihomer game in more than 11 months, since he swatted two as a member of the Atlanta Braves The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. From to the present, the Braves have played in Turner Field. against Florida last June 30. And as big as the second one was in terms of putting the Dodgers ahead to stay, the first one was every bit as important. Or perhaps even more. As Drew walked to the plate in the bottom of the fourth, the evening to that point had played out much the way most evenings have lately for the struggling Dodgers. With rookie left-hander Derek Thompson Derek Thompson (born on April 4, 1948) is a Belfast, Northern Ireland-born British television actor, most notable for playing Charlie Fairhead in the long running series Casualty. making his second major-league start, they already trailed 3-0, and Thompson was only partly to blame. The Brewers had taken a 1-0 lead in the second inning. Bill Hall, who couldn't score from second on Junior Spivey's single to left, came home when Dodgers left fielder Ricky Ledee, a veteran who should have known better, inexplicably threw the ball to second base. Milwaukee made it 3-0 in the fourth, and although Thompson opened the door for that rally with a one-out walk to Carlos Lee Carlos Noriel Lee (born June 20, 1976 in Aguadulce, Panama) is a left fielder in Major League Baseball who plays for the Houston Astros. He bats and throws right-handed. He is married and has two daughters, Cassandra and Karla and a son, named Karlos. , he appeared to get out of it when shortstop Cesar Izturis went into the hole to pick off a grounder by Wes Helms Wesley Ray Helms (born in Gastonia, North Carolina on May 12, 1976) is a professional baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies. On November 15, 2006 he agreed to a contract in principle with the Philadelphia Phillies to a two year contract for approximately 5. . Although Izturis' throw might have beaten Helms to first - and although televised replays seemed to show Helms crossing the bag without ever actually touching it with either foot - umpire Dana DeMuth Dana Andrew DeMuth (born May 30 1956 in Fremont, Ohio) is an umpire in Major League Baseball. His major league career began in 1985; he umpired in the National League until the umpiring staffs from the American and National Leagues merged in 2000. called him safe, enabling Lee to score. Chad Moeller then singled home Hall, putting the Dodgers in a three-run hole against Sheets, who to that point had retired 11 consecutive batters to begin the game. But Drew proceeded to break up the perfect game, the no-hitter and the shutout, hammering a pitch from Sheets (1-5) far beyond the center-field wall. Jeff Kent followed with another solo blast, into the left-field bleachers, to make it 3-2. It was the first back-to-back homers by the Dodgers since the last time they had seen the Brewers, when Jason Repko and Milton Bradley connected April 18 at Miller Park. Sheets began the fifth by walking Jayson Werth and later wild-pitched him to second, leading to Jason Phillips' tying double with one out. And after Antonio Perez opened the seventh with a hustle double, Drew drove Sheets' final pitch of the night into the front row of the right-field pavilion. It can be argued that Drew takes far too many pitches and draws far too many walks for a No. 3 hitter. It can be pointed out that he still is batting a scant .214 (9 for 42) with runners in scoring position. But there is no denying the fact that after beginning the season with an 0-for-25 slump, he has done a remarkable job of grinding his way back to respectability. And while his average remains a mediocre .264, it is primarily because of that early-season drought. Since finally getting his first hit in the Dodgers' sixth game of the season April 10, Drew is batting .307, with nine home runs and 26 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 . And if he can deliver on a regular basis like he delivered against Sheets, that five- year, $55 million contract Dodgers general manager Paul DePodesta gave him last December will start to make a little more sense. Tony Jackson, (818) 713-3675 tony.jackson(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo, 4 boxes Photo: J.D. Drew hits one of his two home runs off of Milwaukee's Ben Sheets during the Dodgers' victory Thursday. Edna T. Simpson/Daily News Box: (1) DODGERS vs. MILWAUKEE - Tony Jackson (2) GAME RECAP (3) HOW THE RUNS SCORED (4) ALMANAC almanac, originally, a calendar with notations of astronomical and other data. Almanacs have been known in simple form almost since the invention of writing, for they served to record religious feasts, seasonal changes, and the like. |
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