NL: REALITY STARING DODGERS IN FACEROCKIES' SWEEP, SOMEHOW, DOESN'T KILL PLAYOFF HOPES COLORADO 7, DODGERS 6 (10 INN.).Byline: Tony Jackson
Anthony (Antonio) Jackson, best known as Tony Jackson Staff Writer DENVER - Whoever said numbers don't lie never met these Dodgers. Right now, the numbers are lying through their teeth, and this gullible bunch is buying into every word. The latest development that had them covering their ears, closing their eyes and pulling the sheets over their heads in an effort to avoid the truth was a 7-6, 10-inning loss to the Colorado Rockies For the National Hockey League team (1976 – 1982), now known as the New Jersey Devils, see . The Colorado Rockies are a Major League Baseball team based in Denver, Colorado. They are in the West Division of the National League. in front of 25,069 Sunday at Coors Field • • [ . That completed a three-game sweep by the team that has occupied the National League West basement every day since April 8. For much of the afternoon, the Dodgers seemed on the verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955. of a stirring, comeback victory. Jeff Kent Jeffrey Franklin Kent (born March 7, 1968 in Bellflower, California) is a Major League Baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and a former MVP winner. Early career erased a four-run deficit with a seventh-inning grand slam grand slam n. 1. The winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand in bridge and other whist-derived card games. 2. Sports The winning of all the major or specified events, especially on a professional circuit. off David Cortes, giving Kent the most 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 (85) in a season by a Dodgers second baseman second baseman n. Baseball The infielder who is positioned near and to the first-base side of second base. Noun 1. second baseman - (baseball) the person who plays second base second sacker since the team moved to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. in 1958. The game got away in the 10th, when the Dodgers failed to bring Willy Aybar home from third with two outs and Duaner Sanchez couldn't pitch around a leadoff double by Cory Sullivan, the Rockies center fielder's fourth hit of the game. With one out, Brad Hawpe drove in Sullivan with a gapper to the wall in right-center, sending the Dodgers home with their tails between their legs. And, to hear them tell it, with their postseason hopes as alive as ever. ``As long as we have a chance to make the playoffs, it doesn't matter who we're playing or how many games we have at home,'' Kent said. ``It doesn't matter to me, and it shouldn't matter to anyone else. You can't make assumptions in baseball. That's what is so great about this game, that you 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. what's going to happen.'' As for the aforementioned lying numbers, consider: The third-place Dodgers begin a nine-game homestand tonight against second-place San Francisco. They trail division-leading San Diego by seven games and the Giants by 1 1/2. They have 26 games remaining, of which they have to win 20 just to finish .500. And it is worth considering whether the Dodgers, if the tables were turned and they led the Padres by seven games, would spend much time looking over their shoulders. But these Dodgers (61-75), as they are so quick to tell you, are a long way from being mathematically eliminated, the magic number being some combination of Padres wins and Dodgers losses adding up to 20. The key word, of course, being ``mathematically.'' Because in every other sense, the eulogies on this lost season can safely commence. ``We would have loved to win this game, especially the way we came back and battled all day long,'' Dodgers manager Jim Tracy said. ``In essence, what you feel bad about is that even though the team we're trying to catch up to also got beat, we lost a day off the calendar.'' If there is hope for the Dodgers, it comes in the form of the remaining schedule, which has them playing 16 of their final 26 at home. The upcoming homestand includes three games each with the Giants, Padres and Rockies. The reality is the Dodgers probably need to win all nine, a virtually impossible proposition, to truly inject themselves back into the race. Whatever happens, this clearly is their last, best hope of survival. ``Yeah,'' said Sanchez (4-5). ``We have to do what we have to do to win games. We have to play better than we played here. We just have to try to fix everything and see where we can go.'' Colorado's Scott Dohmann (2-1) pitched around a leadoff single by Aybar and a two-out single by Valentin in the 10th, getting Dioner Navarro to fly to center. The Dodgers, who went 6 for 25 with runners in scoring position in this weekend, lost seven of 10 at Colorado this year, and it will take a three-game sweep by the Dodgers next week for them to win the season series. Tony Jackson,(818) 713-3675 tony.jackson(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo, 4 boxes Photo: Brad Hawpe (11) is congratulated by teammates after his 10th-inning single finished Colorado's sweep of the Dodgers. Jack Dempsey/Associated Press Box: (1) DODGERS vs. SAN FRANCISCO - Tony Jackson (2) 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. (3) GAME RECAP (4) HOW THE RUNS SCORED |
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