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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Randy Wolf felt right at home in Dodger
Stadium.
Wolf, pitching at the ballpark for the first time since his high
school championship game, threw his first complete game in the
majors as the Philadelphia Phillies beat Los Angeles 4-2 Sunday.
"It was a fun day," he said. "It's pretty special to do it
here at Dodger Stadium. I've got all my friends and family here,
and it's really something I'll cherish for a long time."
Wolf, who was drafted by the Dodgers out of high school but did
not sign, pitched a six-hitter. He struck out four and walked four
in his 31st big league start.
Wolf (4-3) was coming off his shortest outing of the season,
having lasted only three innings last Tuesday at Houston.
"My last outing was brutal," he said. "But today was getting
stronger and stronger as I went along. I was getting a lot of
first- and second-pitch outs.
The last time Wolf pitched at Dodger Stadium was in his final
high school game, when he tossed a complete-game victory for El
Camino Real in the 1994 Los Angeles city championship game and
earned MVP honors.
The native of Canoga Park, Calif., might have been a tad nervous
in this outing -- he hit his first batter, F.P. Santangelo, with his
second pitch.
"Whenever he needed to get an out, he got it," Dodgers second
baseman Mark Grudzielanek said. "He definitely used all his
pitches. He didn't have any one pitch that was working really well
and he didn't strike many people out, but he had good command, he
threw in and out and kept us off-balance."
The complete game was only the fourth by the Phillies' staff,
but manager Terry Francona said sentimentality didn't enter into
his decision to let Wolf complete his 129-pitch effort.
"It had nothing to do with where he was raised. We're trying to
win," Francona said. "He hasn't been in the league long enough to
have much of a history. I didn't want to let him stay out there all
day, but he was pitching good. That's why he stayed in."
Chad Kreuter of the Dodgers homered for the first time since his
tussle with a fan at Wrigley Field.
Dodgers starter Carlos Perez, who escaped bases-loaded jams in
the third and fifth innings, took a 2-1 lead into the seventh.
But Ron Gant hit a bloop single with one out, continued to
second on left fielder Gary Sheffield's bobble and scored the tying
run when Mike Lieberthal greeted Antonio Osuna (0-1) with a double
down the right-field line. Kevin Jordan's RBI single made it 3-2.
Desi Relaford drew a leadoff walk from Terry Adams in the
eighth, advanced on Wolf's sacrifice and scored the Phillies'
fourth run on a double by Kevin Sefcik.
Sheffield opened the scoring with an RBI single, marking the
sixth straight game in which the Dodgers scored in the first
inning. The hit drove in Shawn Green, who hit his league-leading
18th double.
Kreuter, whose eight-game suspension for his part in the May 16
fracas in Chicago is under appeal, connected in the fourth inning
for his second homer of the season and first since April 19.
Game
notes
Dodgers 3B Adrian Beltre, who strained his right hamstring
running out a grounder to second base in Saturday night's 7-6 loss,
will be placed on the 15-day disabled list Monday, retroactive to
Sunday. It will be Beltre's first stint on the DL in three major
league seasons. ... The Phillies, who have scored fewer runs than
any team except the Detroit Tigers, have left the bases loaded 14
times this season. ... The Phillies took two of three from the
Dodgers. It was first time they've won a series from Los Angeles in
six tries since May 1998, when they won three of four at Dodger
Stadium. ... Gant ended an 0-for-16 drought with a third-inning
double. ... Philadelphia's defense, which started the day tied with
Boston for the fewest double plays in the majors, turned three on
grounders by Sheffield, Grudzielanek and Eric Karros.
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