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HOUSTON (AP) -- Tim Bogar's first hit since leaving Houston
really hurt the Astros.
Bogar, released in 2000 after four years with the Astros,
delivered a pinch-hit homer in the 10th inning Sunday to give the
Los Angeles Dodgers a 9-8 win in a game Houston led by five runs.
It was the first pinch-hit homer of his career and first hit of
the season for Bogar, who was on the disabled list from April 5 to
May 28 with a strained right hamstring.
"It's just a good feeling to finally help out this team," said
Bogar, who batted for reliever Mike Fetters with two outs in the
10th. "I have a lot of friends over there and I had a lot of fun
while I was here. But I have no regrets about leaving.
"It's just nice that I did it for this team. I really have kind
of felt like dead weight until today."
Bogar hit only .207 in 110 games with Houston last season.
This season has been ruined by injury.
"It's frustrating when you keep hurting the same thing over and
over," he said. "I can't say I'm 100 percent right now. If I had
to go out and play every day, I don't think I could do it. But it
should get better as we go along."
The Astros, meanwhile, had closer Billy Wagner leave in the
ninth inning after facing only two batters. He strained his left
elbow, the same elbow he had surgery on last year, and will have an
MRI exam Monday.
"I think we should have won the game," Astros manager Larry
Dierker said. "When you have a five-run lead, you should find a
way to win. But right now, I think everybody is more concerned
about Billy than that we lost the game."
Kent Bottenfield started and struggled through five innings,
allowing five runs on eight hits. It was Bottenfield's fourth poor
outing in five starts since returning from the bullpen May 7.
"I'm not getting any of the right movement on my pitches right
now," Bottenfield said. "I need to find out why. I don't know
what it is, but it might be my mechanics."
Fetters (2-1) pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings for the win. Jeff
Shaw pitched the 10th inning and got his NL-leading 17th save in 18
chances.
Octavio Dotel (2-4) pitched 1 2/3 innings and gave up Bogar's home
run.
Vinny Castilla hit two home runs, including a grand slam, and
tied a career high with six RBI as Houston -- which had won four
straight games -- built an 8-3 lead in the third inning.
Los Angeles' Tom Goodwin was 5-for-5 with a double and four
singles.
In the fifth inning, Shawn Green's RBI single and Marquis
Grissom's sacrifice fly drew the Dodgers within 8-5.
Green's two-run homer in the seventh -- his 13th of the season -- made it 8-7, and Goodwin's infield RBI single tied the game in the
following inning.
Dodgers starter Eric Gagne lasted only 2 2/3 innings, his
shortest outing this season, and hit three batters. He allowed
eight runs on six hits.
Gagne's first career homer made it 3-0 for the Dodgers in the
second.
Castilla's two-run homer cut Houston's deficit to 3-2 in the
second. The Astros then went ahead by scoring six runs in the third
inning, with the highlight Castilla's grand slam.
Castilla signed with Houston last month after being released by
the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
Game notes
Taiwan's president, Chen Shui-Bian, attended the game.
There were about 200 pro-Taiwan demonstrators in the center-field
stands and about 50 protesters down the left-field line. ...
Goodwin's five hits were a career high ... Astros reliever Mike
Jackson has a 0.00 ERA in 12 appearances covering 13 2/3 innings on
the road this year ... The grand slam was Castilla's third of his
career, and first since July 12, 1996, when he was with the
Rockies. It was the 24th multihomer game of his career and the
fourth time he has had six RBI in a game. ... It was Houston's
fifth grand slam of the season, one short of the team record set in
1989.
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