FREEWAY COLLISION: DODGERS WIN BRAWL-MARRED GAME IN 9TH : DODGERS 5, ANGELS 4.Byline: Eric Noland, Daily News Staff Writer For 37 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Dodgers and Angels enjoyed a relatively peaceful cohabitation A living arrangement in which an unmarried couple lives together in a long-term relationship that resembles a marriage. Couples cohabit, rather than marry, for a variety of reasons. They may want to test their compatibility before they commit to a legal union. in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . The Dodgers won championships and fans' hearts, with little reason to feel threatened by their neighbors. The Angels, meanwhile, were conscientious objectors in the battle for the region's baseball soul, content to throw money at star-crossed free agents, make brainless brain·less adj. Unintelligent; stupid. brain  less·ly adv.brain trades, play before minuscule crowds and lose a lot of games. All of that apathy was shoved aside Wednesday night at Anaheim Stadium, however. And, in a stirring 5-4 win by the Dodgers, shoved hard. Given a chance to play games that count with the advent of interleague play Interleague play is the term used to describe regular season Major League Baseball games played between teams in different leagues, introduced in 1997. Before the 1997 season, teams in the American League and National League did not meet during the regular season. in the major leagues, the two went at one another like a couple of infuriated in·fu·ri·ate tr.v. in·fu·ri·at·ed, in·fu·ri·at·ing, in·fu·ri·ates To make furious; enrage. adj. Archaic Furious. siblings, brawling for a full eight minutes in the middle of a game that later turned on the haymaker of Eric Karros A sellout crowd of 34,507 at Anaheim Stadium - liberally stacked with Dodgers fans - seemed to love every minute of it. ``Yeah, it's going to get the blood pumping a little bit,'' Dodgers catcher Tom Prince said of a bench-clearing shoving match that occurred after Chan Ho Park put a fastball up under the chin of the Angels' Tony Phillips ``It was an intense game,'' added Karros, although the Dodgers first baseman says it had more to do with the team's opportunity to climb to within six games of first-place 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 in the National League West. (Mission accomplished.) Intense. Wild. Manic even - the teams combined for seven errors. The Dodgers fought back from an early 3-0 deficit to tie it at 3-3 in the fifth and inch ahead 4-3 on Tripp Cromer's 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 single in the eighth. The Angels answered with a ground-rule double in the eighth by Phillips whose fourth hit and fourth RBI of the night tied the game at 4-4. But the sizzling siz·zle intr.v. siz·zled, siz·zling, siz·zles 1. To make the hissing sound characteristic of frying fat. 2. To seethe with anger or indignation. 3. Karros had the final word. Against Percival, the Angels' hard-throwing closer, he drove a one-out fastball over the wall in right, and Todd Worrell shut down the heart of the Angels' lineup in the bottom of the ninth to secure the Dodgers' third win over the Angels without a loss this season. ``I'm up there trying to do one thing - hit the ball out,'' said Karros. ``Mike (Piazza, the preceding hitter) did a good job wearing him out. He fouled off about seven pitches.'' It was Karros' 10th home run in his past 19 games. Percival said of his lapse: ``I usually don't take it personally against anyone else, but I take it personal after the scuffle we got into.'' Park, who has battled wildness in his last three starts, didn't make any friends with the Angels in the early innings, as he hit Jim Edmonds and Tim Salmon with pitches. The issue boiled over when Phillips, the most volatile of Angels, stepped into the box with two out in the fourth inning. Phillips, who had led off the game with a home run and later driven in two runs with a single, soon was surveying a fastball headed generally at the point of his chin. After diving out of the way, he slammed the head of his bat to the ground, took a step in front of the plate and began yelling at Park, who remained atop the mound looking blandly toward the plate. Prince, in the game at catcher because Piazza was rested as a designated hitter, quickly got in Phillips' face, and soon Karros was arriving from first base to separate the two forcibly. The dugouts and bullpens quickly got into it, resulting in the requisite elements for a major-league brawl: a lot of grabbing and shoving, one or two players hitting the deck, and no one visibly injured. In this case, no one ejected, either. ``I just didn't want him going out trying to hit Chan Ho,'' Prince said of Phillips. ``We weren't trying to hit him. He hit a fastball for a home run and a breaking ball for a single, so we were going to pitch him in. . . . and Chan Ho's always been a little wild.'' Said Karros of his role: ``I just wanted to separate them (Phillips and Prince). ``It's not that big a deal. Typical baseball thing - get out there and talk.'' Right. The high spirits should have been expected. The Dodgers and Angels not only are playing for their civic egos, they are straining to get back into their respective division title races. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1--color) The Dodgers' Eric Karros and Angels manager Terry Collins get in middle of a fourth-inning, bench-clearing brawl. (2) Eric Karros, left, of the Dodgers tries to get between teammate Tom Prince and the Angels' Tony Phillips as the brawl begins. Associated Press |
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