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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The San Diego Padres got all their runs on
homers, and they also got a little luck.
Wiki Gonzalez and Phil Nevin each hit two-run home runs and
Ruben Rivera added a solo shot as the Padres overcame the 10 walks
given up by their pitchers to down the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-4.
"You hate to see that many walks, so we were probably fortunate
to win," San Diego manager Bruce Bochy said after the Padres
salvaged a split of their four-game series at Dodger Stadium.
"But then we got some good pitches when we needed them."
Said the Dodgers' Eric Karros: "If we had been a little more
patient, we probably could have had about 15 or 16 walks. But we
weren't very good offensively."
Even with the loss, the Dodgers had a good day -- learning
several hours before game time that most of their players facing
suspensions won't have to miss any games.
"Obviously, it was good news that we got before the game, but
that has no impact on how we played the game," Karros said. "A
loss is a loss."
After trailing 5-2, the Dodgers narrowed the gap to 5-4 in the
seventh when Alex Cora led off with a triple then scored on Carlos
Reyes' balk, and Shawn Green hit an RBI single off Kevin Walker.
Walker escaped further damage when he got Todd Hundley on a pop
foul to end the inning with the bases loaded. Trevor Hoffman
pitched the ninth for his 20th save in 23 tries.
San Diego's Matt Clement (7-7) gave up four runs on five hits in
six-plus innings, with six walks and six strikeouts.
The Padres took a 2-0 lead on Gonzalez's second homer, in the
second inning, then Nevin made it 4-2 with his 16th homer, also off
Darren Dreifort in the sixth. Both homers followed leadoff walks.
Rivera made it 5-2 when he hit his ninth homer, Dreifort again the
victim, later in the sixth.
"It's good to get a split here," Nevin said. "It was a tough
series."
Dreifort (4-7) gave up five runs on six hits in six innings.
After the Dodgers fell behind 2-0, Green's sacrifice fly in the
third trimmed the deficit to one run, then Dreifort led off the Los
Angeles fifth with a broken-bat double to left, took third on a
wild pitch and scored on Todd Hollandsworth's single.
The Dodgers learned Thursday afternoon that Paul Beeston,
baseball's chief operating officer, overturned the suspensions of
12 players -- penalties imposed for their roles in a brawl with fans
in Chicago on May 16.
Sixteen players and three coaches originally drew suspensions,
believed to be the most suspensions in baseball history for a
single incident.
With Beeston's rulings, slugger Gary Sheffield is the only
everyday player facing suspension, and the players' union is
appealing his five-day suspension and those of the three other
Dodgers whose suspensions weren't overturned.
None of the player suspensions will be imposed until
commissioner Bud Selig rules on the union's appeal on their behalf.
The only difference for the Dodgers in their game against the
Padres was in the first-base coach's box, where bullpen coach Rick
Dempsey filled in for John Shelby, who began his eight-game
suspension. Dempsey also will sit out eight games when Shelby
finishes his suspension.
Game notes
Ryan Klesko, an Atlanta Braves teammate of John Rocker for
two years before being traded to the Padres last December, was
thrilled to be 3,000 miles away from Shea Stadium Thursday night
and all the hostility in the air that was directed at Rocker by
angry Mets fans. "With all the stuff that's going on with that,
I'm glad to be away from it, but I know it's tough on some of the
other guys," Klesko said. "I guess everybody's just hoping for
the safety of all the ballplayers -- including John -- and making
sure nothing happens, because there's a lot of crazy people out
there." ... Sheffield (66 RBIs), Eric Karros (65) and Green (55)
are trying to give the Dodgers three players with at least 100 RBIs
in a season for only the sixth time in the franchise's 111-year
history. The team's last triple-digit trio was in 1955, when Duke
Snider (136), Roy Campanella (107) and Gil Hodges (102) led the
Dodgers to their only World Series title in Brooklyn.
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