WIN IS A GIANT SNOOZER DODGERS DEFEAT ARCHRIVALS IN FRONT OF UNINSPIRED CROWD.Byline: Tony Jackson
Anthony (Antonio) Jackson, best known as Tony Jackson Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden - For months, the dates had been circled in red on calendars in both halves of California, what were supposed to be four thrilling days of late-season Dodgers-Giants madness that surely would have major postseason implications. But weeks before the early-autumn chill had settled over the Bay Area, those implications had given way to the harsh reality Harsh Reality are a little-known, proto-prog band born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire out of the remnants of the Freightliner Blues Band (formerly the Revolution) in the early sixties. that neither of these teams is very good, and the National League's oldest, most bitter rivalry had dissolved into temporary irrelevance. If there was any hatred of the Dodgers left at SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Park on Thursday night, it went into hiding after about four innings. By that time, the Dodgers had the game - a 7-1 victory, it turned out, over the Giants in front of 39,820 - well in hand, and the streaking Derek Lowe Derek Christopher Lowe[1] (born June 1, 1973 in Dearborn, Michigan)[2] is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He throws and bats right-handed. had another befuddled opponent firmly in his hip pocket. Not that any of the freezing spectators seemed to notice - or care. Not even Barry Bonds Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24 1964 in Riverside, California) is a left fielder for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. He is the son of former major league All-Star Bobby Bonds, the godson of Hall of Famer Willie Mays, and a distant cousin of Hall of Famer Reggie could fire them up. Well, except for one swing in the fourth inning, when it looked like he finally had his first home run of 2005 with a towering drive hit so hard that it looked like it not only would reach McCovey Cove McCovey Cove is a section of San Francisco Bay beyond the right field wall of AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants, named after famed Giants first baseman Willie McCovey. , but might actually clear it and land on the grassy knoll beyond. The ball passed the foul pole by what looked like inches to the wrong side, leaving Bonds with a look of disbelief as he walked back to the box. He wound up flying harmlessly to center and went 0 for 3, grounding out once and flying out twice. The Dodgers, a team that on so many occasions this season couldn't come up with a two-out hit with runners 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 , took a 2-0 lead on just that - a two-run single by rookie third baseman and September call-up Willy Aybar in the second. They scored three more in the third, two of them unearned because of a dropped ball by first baseman Pedro Feliz that led to a questionable error being charged to nine-time Gold Glove shortstop Omar Vizquel. Finally, if there was any lingering doubt that the Dodgers would take sole possession of second place in the NL West, that was laid to rest when they added two more in the fourth, coming on two-out singles by Mike Edwards and Jayson Werth. That was plenty for Lowe, who still hasn't allowed more than two earned runs in any of his past five starts and has allowed a grand total of two over his past four. And with that, a rivalry that at its best has been a testament to baseball's storied past and at its worst has been a testament to parking-lot shootings reached a new low-water mark when it comes to intensity. Lowe gave up what turned out to be a harmless, solo homer to Feliz with two outs in the bottom of the second, but that was about it. Lowe went eight innings, recording 15 groundball outs and four strikeouts. Only Feliz, with his 20th home run of the season, and Randy Winn, with a two-out double in the third, had gotten as far as second base. Although second place is nice if you're in a wild-card race, the Dodgers (67-79) most certainly are not. And on a night when division-leading San Diego was idle, all the win meant was that the Dodgers moved within an uninspiring uninspiring Adjective not likely to make people interested or excited Adj. 1. uninspiring - depressing to the spirit; "a villa of uninspiring design" inspiring - stimulating or exalting to the spirit 5 1/2 games of the Padres with 16 to go in a miserable season that can't end fast enough. If the Dodgers need a bright spot, it is Lowe (11-13), who - unlike his team - still has a realistic shot at a .500 record. Beginning with a hard-luck, 2-1 loss to Houston on Aug. 26, Lowe is 3-1 in five starts and looking every bit the part of the man who won 52 games the past three seasons for the Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox are a member and currently champions of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball’s American League. From to the present, the Red Sox have played in Fenway Park. . Giants rookie Brad Hennessey (4-8), who stymied the Dodgers on one run over 6 1/3 innings just 10 days earlier, was gone with two outs in the third, having given up five runs. Tony Jackson,(818) 713-3675 tony.jackson(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo, 4 boxes Photo: Giants outfielder Barry Bonds went 0 for 3 in his first game against the Dodgers this season. Eric Risberg/Associated Press Box: (1) DODGERS at SAN FRANCISCO - 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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