IF ANYTHING CAN GO WRONG, IT WILL FOR DODGERS MURPHY'S LAW WUNSCH HAS FREAK INJURY IN L.A.'S LOSS COLORADO 8, DODGERS 5.Byline: Tony Jackson
Anthony (Antonio) Jackson, best known as Tony Jackson Staff Writer DENVER - The latest answer to the perpetual question of what catastrophe will befall be·fall v. be·fell , be·fall·en , be·fall·ing, be·falls v.intr. To come to pass; happen. v.tr. To happen to. See Synonyms at happen. the Dodgers next came in the seventh inning on Thursday. With his club having already blown a five-run lead, manager Jim Tracy
Drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 1st round of the 1993 MLB amateur draft, Wunsch would make his Major League , whom he wanted to face the dangerous Todd Helton Todd Lynn Helton[1] (born August 20, 1973 in Knoxville, Tennessee)[2] is a Major League Baseball first baseman who has played for the Colorado Rockies since the 1997 season. with two on, one out and the score tied. Except that by this time, Wunsch already had subluxed the peroneal peroneal /per·o·ne·al/ (-ne´al) pertaining to the fibula or to the lateral aspect of the leg; fibular. per·o·ne·al adj. Of or relating to the fibula or to the outer portion of the leg. tendon in his right ankle (sprained it, in layman's terms), and clearly couldn't pitch. That left Tracy with rookie right-hander Franquelis Osoria Franquelis Antonio Osoria (born September 12, 1981, in Santiago, Dominican Republic) is a Major League Baseball pitcher. Osoria made his Major League Baseball debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 7, 2005. , one of several current Dodgers who would be in Triple-A Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. if not for the club's incessant run of injuries, to face Helton. The result for the Dodgers was depressingly predictable. Osoria already was warmed and ready to face Garrett Atkins Garrett Bernard Atkins (born December 12, 1979 in Orange, California) has been the third baseman for the Major League Baseball team the Colorado Rockies since 2003. He bats and throws right-handed. (UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX ) after Helton, so he didn't take any extra tosses before pitching to Helton. Helton, who had homered into the upper deck in right field an inning earlier, sent an Osoria pitch into the Rockies bullpen in right-center, no more than a few yards from where Wunsch had hurt himself only moments before. The Dodgers, to the surprise of absolutely no one, didn't get a runner on base in the final two innings, rendering their 8-5 loss to the Colorado Rockies in front of 23,739 at Coors Field all but a formality once Helton untied the game. It was one more dose of misfortune for a club that is fast becoming synonymous with it. ``The fact I hurt my ankle just before I was supposed to come in and face Todd Helton, and the fact he hit a home run to put his team ahead, that just sort of encapsulates our season right there,'' said Wunsch, who is hoping to avoid the disabled list. Wunsch is the only left-hander in the Dodgers' bullpen. And while lefty Wilson Alvarez is expected back from the 15-day DL in the next few days, he is more of an innings guy than a situational reliever. The only two lefties at Las Vegas who are on the Dodgers' 40-man roster are Derek Thompson, a starter, and Steve Schmoll, also not a situational guy. Any question of what would happen if the Dodgers went without a situational lefty seems to have been answered, loudly and clearly, by Helton. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. ,'' Tracy said when asked how serious Wunsch's injury was. ``But he had to be brought in on a cart.'' Wunsch said he felt a pop in the ankle on what was supposed to be his final warmup pitch, which was one of those a pitcher takes to pass the time even when he is warmed and ready. He then took a couple more just to see if the pop was still there. It was then, and it was again in the clubhouse when team medical personnel tested it. ``I don't have any idea (how serious) right now,'' Wunsch said. ``It's not really swelling. We just tried to tape it up really hard, and hopefully, we won't have any problems with it.'' The Dodgers (40-45) appeared to be cruising after four innings, with a 5-0 lead and Derek Lowe having retired 12 of 13 batters. But the Rockies began to chip away in the fifth after Lowe walked Brad Hawpe to start the inning. Jorge Piedra (Notre Dame High of Sherman Oaks) then hit what looked like an easy double-play grounder to second baseman Antonio Perez, but shortstop Oscar Robles dropped Perez's feed to second for the force. Umpire Bruce Dreckman ruled Robles Robles is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning oaks, and may refer to:
Lowe gave up solo homers to Helton and Hawpe in the sixth, then walked Closser to begin the seventh, bringing Tracy out with the hook. Giovanni Carrara (6-3) then hit a batter and gave up Aaron Miles' game-tying single before Tracy signaled for Wunsch but had to settle for Osoria. ``When you go into a game trying to have a game plan and you stay with it, for the most part, you have to be pretty happy with the result,'' said Lowe, who hasn't won since June 6. Recently re-acquired reliever Mike DeJean (4-1) pitched a perfect seventh for the Rockies. Rockies reliever Marcos Carvajal, a Rule 5 pick from the Dodgers last December, allowed one hit in one inning of relief on Thursday and pitched 4 1/3 shutout innings during the four-game series that ended in a split. Tony Jackson,(818) 713-3675 tony.jackson(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): 2 photos, 5 boxes Photo: (1 -- color) Dodgers reliever Franquelis Osoria isn't happy after allowing Colorado's Todd Helton, background, to hit a three-run home run in the seventh inning on Thursday. (2) Rockies second baseman Aaron Miles leaps over L.A.'s Jason Repko after getting a force at second in the second inning. David Zalubowski/Associated Press Box: (1) DODGERS at HOUSTON - Tony Jackson (2) STORY LINES (3) GAME RECAP (4) HOW THE RUNS SCORED (5) 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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