PEREZ DOESN'T DODGE LINER, BUT DODGERS WIN : DODGERS 5, N.Y. YANKEES 4.Byline: Chris Branam Daily News Staff Writer Dodgers pitcher Carlos Perez could probably name a hundred guys, maybe five hundred, who have the ability of knocking him out of a game with a batted ball "Fly ball" and "line drive" redirect here. For the dog sport, see flyball. In baseball, a batted ball is any ball that, after a pitch, is contacted by the batter's bat. . But David Cone Unfortunately, it was Cone, the Yankees pitcher, who drilled Perez with a line drive in the Dodgers' 5-4 exhibition victory Saturday night in front of a paid attendance of 42,685 at Dodger Stadium • • [ . ``Carlos is all right,'' Dodgers manager Davey Johnson Cone hasn't batted regularly since the 1992 season with the Mets. But Perez, a left-hander, couldn't get out of the way of his hard-hit liner in the fourth inning and was struck on the right elbow. Perez left the game and the injury was diagnosed as a bruise. He is listed day-to-day. ``Cone is a pretty good hitter, but he's not that good,'' Johnson said. It was a bad ending to an ineffective outing by Perez, the Dodgers' No. 4 starter. He gave up seven hits, including two to Cone, and walked two in 3-2/3 innings. Perez finished the spring with an 0-1 record and 5.72 ERA. Kevin Brown The name Kevin Brown can refer to several different people, including the following:
Perez's injury was the only dramatic moment in an otherwise nostalgic, and chilly, evening filled with tributes to the Yankees-Dodgers' storied rivalry. Dodgers senior vice president Tommy Lasorda (who else?) got into the act before the first pitch when he and Don Zimmer, the Yankees' interim manager who was a Brooklyn Dodger in the 1950s, exchanged barbs barbs the primary, delicate filaments that are given off the shaft of a bird's contour feather. They project from the rachis and bear the barbules. in a pre-game ceremony. ``Hopefully the Yankees will beat the Dodgers in the World Series,'' Zimmer said, eliciting boos and catcalls cat·call n. A harsh or shrill call or whistle expressing derision or disapproval. v. cat·called, cat·call·ing, cat·calls v.tr. To express derision or disapproval of with catcalls. v. . Not to be outdone out·do tr.v. out·did , out·done , out·do·ing, out·does To do more or better than in performance or action. See Synonyms at excel. , Lasorda took the microphone and described the Dodgers' beating 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 in the 1981 World Series. ``We kicked the Yankees' butts like they had never been kicked before,'' he said, and the crowd roared. On the field, the stars shone in the matchup between what many people consider the two most talented teams in the major leagues. Raul Mondesi hit a two-run homer, his fifth of the spring, off Cone in the third. Devon White, the Dodgers' new center fielder, had three hits. For the Yankees, all-star second baseman Chuck Knoblauch led off the game with a triple and scored on Derek Jeter's single. Jeter also hit a 455-foot homer off Allan Mills to lead off the fifth that gave the Yankees a 4-3 lead. Bragging rights will have to wait until today, when the teams play again at 1:10 p.m. By the sixth, when both managers pulled out most of their starters, the game was tied 4-4. Todd Hundley caught his second consecutive game for the Dodgers and went 0 for 3 before coming out after five innings. Hundley, who played sparingly this spring, caught a season-high eight innings against Anaheim on Friday night. Hundley's replacement, rookie Paul LoDuca, gave the Dodgers a 5-4 lead in the sixth with an 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 single. Jeff Shaw picked up his fourth save of the spring with a scoreless ninth and the Dodgers improved to 20-9-1. Their best spring record - 21-11 - was accomplished in 1988, the year they won the World Series. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Dodgers' Raul Mondesi warms up third-base coach Rick Dempsey with a hand slap after a two-run homer in the third. David Sprague/Daily News |
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