NAVARRO'S HR COMPLETES DODGERS RALLY ROBLES ALSO PLAYS BIG ROLE IN COMEBACK DODGERS 7, NEW YORK 6.Byline: Tony Jackson
Anthony (Antonio) Jackson, best known as Tony Jackson Staff Writer The Dodgers were their own worst enemies on Friday night, stranding a total of four runners in the eighth and ninth innings of a tie game - three of them in scoring position In the sport of baseball, a baserunner is said to be in scoring position when he is on second or third base. The distinction between being on first base and second or third base is that a runner on first can usually only score if the batter hits an extra base hit, while a runner on . But in the bottom of the 11th, rookie catcher Dioner Navarro Dioner Favian Navarro (born February 9, 1984 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Major League Baseball catcher and switch-hitter who plays for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Career In 2000, Navarro was signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent. became their best friend. On the ninth pitch of a prolonged, professionally executed at-bat against New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of closer Braden Looper Braden LaVern Looper (born on October 28, 1974, in Weatherford, Oklahoma) is a pitcher in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals. High School Looper was a scholar/athlete while a student at Mangum High School. , Navarro launched a two-out homer just beyond the wall in right-center, giving the Dodgers a dramatic, 7-6 win over the Mets in front of a sellout crowd of 54,361 at Dodger Stadium. Looper looper, name for caterpillars that move with a looping motion, including the inchworm and the cabbage looper. looper or cankerworm or inchworm quickly got two strikes on Navarro, putting himself one pitch away from sending the game to the 12th. But he never could get that final strike, and Navarro finally struck the final blow, giving the Dodgers a two-game winning streak and moving them within six games of the lead in the National League West. Third baseman Oscar Robles had loomed large earlier, both with his increasingly hot bat and with his always-silken glove. With the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh, he poked a game-tying, two-run single through the left side of the infield, completing the Dodgers' comeback from a 6-3 deficit. With runners on first and third in the seventh, he did a bellyflop on the infield dirt to snare snare (snar) a wire loop for removing polyps and tumors by encircling them at the base and closing the loop. snare n. a sinking liner from New York's Marlon Anderson, ending the inning and keeping the game tied. Robles Robles is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning oaks, and may refer to:
The Mets' Victor Diaz wasn't supposed to be at Dodger Stadium on Friday night. But then, Mike Cameron wasn't supposed to be in San Diego, either, lying on an operating table as a plastic surgeon plastic surgeon A surgeon specialized in reconstruction or cosmetic enhancement of various body regions, most commonly the face–nose, chin, and cheeks, breasts and buttocks; PSs remove fat deposits through liposuction; PSs reduce scarring or disfigurement tried to rebuild his face. The New York Mets
Diaz homered twice, including a two-run blast to tie the game in the second inning and a solo no-doubter to give the Mets a 6-3 lead in the seventh. Diaz's first homer was arguably the more deflating of the two. It came immediately on the heels of a stirring, three-run first inning by the Dodgers that had put them in front 3-1, and immediately after a leadoff single by Jose Offerman. The game stayed tied until the top of the fifth, when a dropped ball by shortstop Cesar Izturis and a questionable call by third-base umpire Brian Gorman helped the Mets take the lead. With one out, Jose Reyes singled up the middle, and everyone in the ballpark knew the speedster speed·ster n. 1. One who drives very fast. 2. A fast car. would try to steal second. So on an 0-1 count, the Dodgers pitched out, and they had guessed right. Catcher Dioner Navarro threw the ball to second in time to get him, and Izturis applied the tag. Problem was, the ball never made it into Izturis' glove, and Reyes was safe. Miguel Cairo then singled him to third, bringing up David Wright. Wright, who had doubled in the first inning, yanked another Weaver pitch over third base. As it scooted down the line, caromed off the facade of the new seats, rebounded into shallow left field and sat untouched long enough for Cairo to make it all the way home from third, Weaver threw up his hands in disbelief, convinced Wright's ball had passed the bag in foul territory. Televised replays were inconclusive, no one came out of the Dodgers dugout to argue, and the Mets had their 5-3 lead. Weaver left the game after six innings, having allowed six earned runs on eight hits. The Mets came to town with neither Beltran nor Cameron. As Friday night's first pitch was being thrown, Cameron was 40 minutes into a surgical procedure to repair the multiple fractures in his face. He was placed on the 15-day disabled list before the game. Beltran was the luckier of the two, although he also was out of the lineup. He spent one night in the hospital with a ``minimally displaced'' facial fracture that probably won't require surgery, but came to Los Angeles on Friday and was believed to be resting at the team's Century City hotel. Beltran is listed as day-to-day and is hoping to avoid the disabled list. Tony Jackson,(818) 713-3675 tony.jackson(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo, 4 boxes Photo: Jeff Kent, left, ends up on his back after beating a throw home to Mets catcher Mike Piazza on Jason Phillips' first-inning double. John McCoy/Staff Photographer Box: (1) DODGERS at NEW YORK METS - 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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