HE COULD'VE BEEN SELECTED LITTLE RUN SUPPORT; NOMO LOSES AGAIN ARIZONA 2, DODGERS 1.Byline: Jill Painter Staff Writer Hideo Nomo Hideo Nomo (born Aug. 31, 1968 , Osaka, Japan) Japanese baseball pitcher whose success with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995 created new opportunities for Asian players in Major League Baseball. is not an All-Star this season. He just pitches like one. Kevin Brown The name Kevin Brown can refer to several different people, including the following:
Nomo allowed six hits and held the Arizona Diamondbacks This article is about the baseball team. For other uses, see Diamondback. The Arizona Diamondbacks (also referred to as the D-backs) are a Major League Baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They play in the West Division of the National League. to two runs. But the Dodgers don't score many runs, especially when Nomo pitches. In Nomo's eight losses, the Dodgers have scored 10 runs combined. The Dodgers loaded the bases with one out in the fourth inning and again found a way to squander squan·der tr.v. squan·dered, squan·der·ing, squan·ders 1. To spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate. See Synonyms at waste. 2. the opportunity as Arizona beat them 2-1 in front of 41,769 at Dodger Stadium • • [ . ``I feel no frustration regarding getting no run support,'' Nomo said. ``I feel frustrated that every time that I pitch we've been losing.'' Losing seems to be the norm for the Dodgers these days. The Dodgers lost five of six games on the homestand and eight of the past nine. They're in third in the NL West, 6 1/2 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 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 and 1 1/2 behind Arizona. Nomo fell to 9-8 but hardly through much fault of his own. With a 2.71 ERA, he loses because the Dodgers don't score. Shawn Green Shawn David Green (born November 10, 1972, in Des Plaines, Illinois) is a 6' 4" left-handed Major League Baseball player. Green is the starting right fielder for the New York Mets.[1] Green was a 1st round draft pick, and has been a two-time major league All-Star. lost the support of Dodgers fans Saturday when he was booed relentlessly for not diving for a bloop bloop Baseball n. A blooper. tr.v. blooped, bloop·ing, bloops To hit (a ball) into the air just beyond the infield. adj. Hit just beyond the infield. single that broke up Odalis Perez's no-hit bid in the eighth inning. Green didn't feel he had a chance to catch it. But a day later, he had won over the Dodgers faithful again. Before he even picked up a bat. The cheers got louder with a single in the fourth and even louder when he hit a double - his 27th - in the sixth. ``(Sunday) was normal,'' Green said. ``(Fans) were a lot more receptive than I thought.'' Just not if you were Daryle Ward Daryle Ward (born June 27, 1975 in Lynwood, California) is a Major League Baseball outfielder and first baseman for the Chicago Cubs. He bats and throws left-handed. The 6-foot-2, 240 pound (109 kg) Ward was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 1994 amateur draft. . Ward swung badly at an Andrew Good pitch in the dirt with runners on second and third with no outs. The boos rivaled the ones Green received Saturday. ``I don't play that much,'' Ward said. ``I don't understand how they just boo me. Maybe it's a sign of how bad things really are.'' They are bad for Ward, who was 0 for 4 and is batting .188. There wasn't much to cheer in the fourth. Green singled, and on Lo Duca's double to the right corner, he was held at third by third-base coach Glenn Hoffman. Right fielder Dave Delluci bounced the ball in front of his cutoff man, Matt Kata. Kata then dropped it after he fielded it, but Hoffman already had held Green. ``There was nobody out, and you've got opportunities with nobody out and runners on second and third,'' Dodgers manager Jim Tracy said. ``The quickest way to defuse the inning is to go ahead and send him, trying to force something that unbelievably doesn't make any sense whatsoever in that situation, getting a guy blown up at home plate. ... ``(Hoffman) has a split second to make the decision. He made the right one because there's nobody out.'' Ward struck out and Good walked Ron Coomer to load the bases. David Ross hit into a double play to end the inning. He heard the boos, too. ``Hoffy made the right decision,'' said Green, who watched the replay. ``He was being really aggressive. He was waving me and held me right after I passed third base. As soon as I stopped, the ball was dropped. It's not his fault. That's baseball.'' Lo Duca was still a fan favorite, a day after he called the fans' response to Green ``pathetic.'' He made a great running catch into the wall along the left-field line in the seventh. Fans didn't seem to mind his comment, cheering him the entire game. ``They have a right to boo us. It came out wrong,'' Lo Duca said. ``They have every right to boo us, especially if we're not producing. They deserve better.'' As does Nomo. Jill Painter, (818) 713-3615 jill.painter(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: Arizona's Shea Hillenbrand scores as catcher David Ross takes the throw in the fourth inning Sunday. David Sprague/Staff Photographer Box: DODGERS vs. SAN DIEGO - Jill Painter |
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