FREEWAY COLLISION: KARROS' SHOT GIVES DODGERS THE WIN IN BRAWL-MARRED GAME IN ANAHEIM : 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 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 the game. The game stayed tense until Eric Karros' solo shot off Angels' closer Troy Percival Troy Eugene Percival (born August 9, 1969 in Fontana, California) is a Major League Baseball reliever on the St. Louis Cardinals. Percival came out of retirement on June 8, 2007 when he signed a minor league deal with the Cardinals[1]. in the top of the ninth broke a 4-4 tie and gave the Dodgers a 5-4 win. Tony Phillips
The battle took place before a sellout crowd of 34,507 that was liberally stacked with Dodgers faithful. Park, who has battled wildness in his past three starts, didn't make any friends with the Angels in the early innings, as he hit Jim Edmonds James Patrick "Jim" Edmonds (born June 27, 1970 in Fullerton, California) is a left-handed batter who plays for the St. Louis Cardinals. Edmonds is affectionately known as Jimmy Baseball [1], "Lassie" and as "Hollywood"[2] among Cardinals fans. 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 earlier 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. Tom Prince, in the game at catcher because Mike Piazza was rested as a designated hitter, quickly got in Phillips' face, and soon Eric Karros was arriving from first base to forcibly separate the two. 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. 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. But in the scramble to accomplish both, artistry took a beating. The Angels committed two errors in two different innings. The Dodgers struck for two unearned runs on the first of those occasions but left the bases loaded on the second. The Dodgers were nearly as sloppy defensively, allowing two unearned runs to cross the plate in the second inning and later surviving a two-error fifth inning. Angels third baseman Dave Hollins was busy at both ends of the defensive spectrum. In the Dodgers' two-run fourth, he made a spectacular dive to his left to glove the hot liner of Raul Mondesi. Seconds later, however, Hollins picked up the grounder of Todd Zeile, stepped on the bag for the force . . . and wildly overthrew first base. Shortstop Gary DiSarcina quickly followed suit by bobbling Greg Gagne's grounder for a run-scoring error, which kept the inning alive for Prince, who blooped an 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 into right field. In the sixth, Hollins was at it again, although this time the Dodgers were kept away from home plate. Hollins committed an error on Tripp Cromer's grounder but later made a diving stab of Piazza's ground smash down the line and reached back in time to force Brett Butler for the final out. A defensive lapse by the Dodgers, meanwhile, resulted in two unearned runs for the Angels in the second. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1--color) The Dodgers' Eric Karros and Angels manager Terry Collins get in middle of brawl. (2) Angels pitcher Jason Dickson fires a pitch to the Dodgers' Mike Piazza in the first inning. Both were name to the All-Star team. Associated Press |
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