THOSE BLASTS FOR THE PASS HOME RUNS PUT DODGERS BACK IN FIRST DODGERS 11, SAN DIEGO 10 (10).Byline: TONY JACKSON
Anthony (Antonio) Jackson, best known as Tony Jackson Staff Writer A pennant race turned upside down on Monday night. For that matter, so did four decades' worth of history. In the kind of emotionally stirring victory that can propel a team to a division title and beyond, the Dodgers rallied in the early innings, rallied in the late innings and rallied in extra innings Noun 1. extra innings - overtime play until one team is ahead at the end of an inning; e.g. baseball extra time, overtime - playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie . And in what might go down as the seminal moment in a storybook sto·ry·book n. A book containing a collection of stories, usually for children. adj. Occurring in or resembling the style or content of a storybook: storybook characters; a storybook romance. season, they emerged with a thrilling 11-10 victory over the San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. Padres in front of a sellout crowd of 55,831 at Dodger Stadium • • [ . They also emerged with first place in the National League West, by the same half-game margin they held over the Padres when this four-game series began on Friday night. The Dodgers slammed seven home runs, including a no-doubt, two-run walk-off blast by gimpy gimp 1 n. A narrow flat braid or rounded cord of fabric used for trimming. Also called guimpe, guipure. [Perhaps from French guimpe; see guimpe. Nomar Garciaparra Anthony Nomar Garciaparra[1] (born July 23, 1973, in Whittier, California) is a Mexican-American baseball player who currently plays third base for the Los Angeles Dodgers. off veteran reliever Rudy Seanez with none out in the bottom of the 10th. And they included four consecutive solo shots to begin the bottom of the ninth by 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 , J.D. Drew, Russell Martin
``It was the most amazing thing I have ever seen in a baseball game in my life, at any level,'' said Anderson, who went 5 for 5 with two homers and a triple. Before that, though, the stage had to be set with a back story that was utterly bizarre. First, Brad Penny gave up four runs in the first inning, putting the Dodgers in an unenviable hole, before they rallied back by scoring four runs of their own by the bottom of the third. Then, rookie reliever Jonathan Broxton came on to begin the eighth inning with the game still tied, just as he had come in to begin the ninth with the game tied the previous afternoon. And, for the second game in a row, Broxton let it get away after issuing an ill-timed walk to Geoff Blum. Finally, after the Dodgers got a run back in the bottom of the eighth to close to within 6-5, closer Takashi Saito gave up what appeared to be three back-breaking runs in the top of the ninth, leaving the Dodgers facing a four-run deficit in with three outs left. But four swings of the bat changed everything. The first two ninth-inning homers came off Jon Adkins. The final two came on the first two pitches by Trevor Hoffman, who was trying to nail down the save that would have moved him within two of all-time record holder Lee Smith. Anderson was in the lineup only because he was 3 for 9 for his career against Padres starter Jake Peavy, against whom he hit his first homer and also singled. But even after that stirring rally woke up a ballpark that had fallen into deafening silence only minutes earlier, veteran reliever Aaron Sele put the Dodgers in another hole in the 10th when he was hit hard, even on the outs he recorded. Russell Branyan got to him for 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 with two outs, giving the Padres a 10-9 lead. Thanks to Garciaparra, who returned to the lineup after a two-day absence with a strained left quadriceps he still has to be careful with, the Padres' lead in the game didn't hold up, and neither did their lead in the division. ``That ninth inning had me 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 tears,'' Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti said in the jubilant clubhouse. ``That 10th inning had me pretty close to actual tears. ``I admire the way they play, I admire how they care, and I admire the way they go at it every day. They never stop trying. The season may have started tonight.'' The Dodgers (79-71) now have the schedule in their favor, with six games remaining on this homestand against non-contenders Pittsburgh and Arizona. The victory also gave the Dodgers in effect a two-game lead for a playoff spot, because Philadelphia lost to Chicago and now trails the Padres by 1 1/2 games in the wild-card race. Penny and Peavy both were gone after five innings, the former having given up all four of his runs after recording two quick outs in the first inning and the latter having gradually coughed up that four-run lead over the first three innings. tony.jackson@dailynews.com (818) 713-3675 CAPTION(S): 2 photos, 2 boxes Photo: (1 -- color) The Dodgers' Marlon Anderson high-fives Julio Lugo at the plate after his home run in the ninth inning tied the score 9-9. (2) The Dodgers' Marlon Anderson hits a second-inning home run off San Diego pitcher Jake Peavy. Keith Birmingham/Staff Photographer Box: (1) BACK TO BACK TO BACK TO BACK (2) DODGERS VS. PITTSBURGH - Tony Jackson |
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