NO OFFENSE, NO CHANCE RELIEVERS SHUT DOWN DODGERS; GAGNE GAGS IN RETURN ATLANTA 5, DODGERS 1.Byline: Tony Jackson
Anthony (Antonio) Jackson, best known as Tony Jackson Staff Writer The Dodgers thought they had caught a break when vaunted vaunt v. vaunt·ed, vaunt·ing, vaunts v.tr. To speak boastfully of; brag about. v.intr. To speak boastfully; brag. See Synonyms at boast1. n. 1. Atlanta left-hander Mike Hampton Michael William Hampton (born September 9, 1972 in Brooksville, Florida, U.S.) is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher who plays for the Atlanta Braves. He bats right-handed and throws left-handed. Hampton is well-known for being one of the best active hitting pitchers. had to leave with one out in the bottom of the third inning with forearm tightness. Ultimately, the only break came from the much-maligned Braves bullpen, which on Saturday night wound up breaking the Dodgers. Rarely able to mount an offensive threat, and never able to sustain one, the Dodgers went oh-so-quietly in a 5-1 loss to the Braves at before 49,112 at Dodger Stadium • • [ . Meanwhile, the newly activated Eric Gagne finally made his season debut in the ninth, but it was hardly worth the wait. The first two batters to face Gagne - Chipper Jones Larry Wayne "Chipper" Jones, Jr. (born April 24, 1972, in DeLand, Florida), is an American Major League baseball player. Although initially a shortstop, Chipper has spent most of his career as the starting third baseman for the Atlanta Braves. and Andruw Jones Andruw Rudolf Jones (born April 23, 1977 in Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles) is a baseball player who will be a free agent after the World Series. From 1996 until 2007, Jones played for the Atlanta Braves, a Major League Baseball franchise. - homered, putting the game well beyond reach of the offensively challenged Dodgers. Gagne then gave up a hit to Julio Franco This article is about the Major League Baseball Player. For the former Vice President of Paraguay, see Julio César Franco. Julio César Robles Franco (born August 23 1958, in Hato Mayor, Dominican Republic) is a Major League Baseball infielder who plays for the before striking out the side. In typical Dodgers fashion, a potential first-inning rally was stifled when Milton Bradley  This article or section is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article or section in an . , the grand-slam hero of the previous evening, struck out to strand runners at second and third. They didn't get another runner into 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 until the sixth, and only then when rookie Jason Repko Jason Edward Repko (born December 27, 1980 in East Chicago, Indiana) is an outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Primarily a utility outfielder, his career had been slowed by numerous injuries. hustled a double out of what should have been a routine single to left. That was just the third hit the Dodgers managed against Adam Bernero, the long reliever who came in when Hampton departed and proceeded to mow down the Dodgers at will over the next three innings. J.D. Drew, who came in batting .115 (3 for 26) with runners in scoring position, finally broke through with a single up the middle, scoring Repko and chasing Bernero. Jorge Sosa relieved and immediately got Jeff Kent to ground into an inning-ending double play, the sixth time this season the Dodgers' second baseman has done so. With that, the Dodgers effectively were done for the evening. They didn't get another hit. Sosa got a helping hand in the seventh when Bradley, with 10 home runs and 24 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 , led off the inning by inexplicably trying to bunt his way on. It was an easy play for Sosa and a complete waste of one of the nine remaining Dodgers outs. Jason Phillips ended that inning by fouling out on the first pitch, beginning a stretch in which three of four Dodgers hitters would make outs on the first pitch. In the end, Bernero, Sosa, Reitsma and Dan Kolb combined to hold the punchless Dodgers to a run on four hits over the final 6 2/3 innings. The Dodgers (21-15) failed again to win back-to-back games, something they haven't done since sweeping a three-game series from Colorado on April 29-May 1. Their lead over Arizona in the National League West shrank to mere percentage points, with third-place San Diego pulling within a half-game. Odalis Perez (4-4) gave the Dodgers a quality start against his former team, but in a twist that was disturbingly reminiscent of what Perez endured the past two years, his run support was grossly inadequate. The Braves scratched out a first-inning run by being aggressive at the plate. With one out, Marcus Giles and Chipper Jones singled on first pitches. Giles then got an incredible jump on a steal of third, getting halfway there before Perez even released the pitch to Andruw Jones, who drove in Giles with a sacrifice fly to center. Andruw Jones was the first of 13 consecutive batters Perez would retire. That string was broken with two outs in the fifth, when former Dodgers outfielder Raul Mondesi hit the first of four solo homers for the Braves. Andruw Jones made it 3-0 with a two-out blast in the sixth. Bernero (3-0) retired eight of 10 before the Dodgers' mini-rally in the sixth. He also received a gift when Bradley, who had singled with two outs in the fourth, tried to take third on Olmedo Saenz's sharply hit single to right. Mondesi, who came in hitting .200, showed that his arm is as strong as ever, throwing out Bradley on one hop to end the inning. Kolb, acquired from Milwaukee last winter so John Smoltz could return to the starting rotation, has had a rocky ride in his first season as Atlanta's closer and came in with a 6.28 ERA. Tony Jackson,(818) 713-3675 tony.jackson(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo, 5 boxes Photo: (color) Eric Gagne is irked after surrendering back-to-back home runs to Chipper Jones and Andruw Jones. John Lazar/Staff Photographer Box: (1) ATLANTA at DODGERS - Tony Jackson (2) WELCOME BACK (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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