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Sunday, Jun. 3 4:35pm ET
Unit's one HBP causes bigger stir than 14 K's

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PHOENIX (AP) -- The San Diego Padres left Arizona angry and winless in three tries.


	Padres third base coach Tim Flannery, second from left, is ejected by umpire Jim McKean in the sixth inning. Flannery had been arguing with Arizona's Luis Gonzalez, who'd been hit by a pitch.

Randy Johnson struck out 14 in six innings and created a major stir by hitting San Diego starter Kevin Jarvis with a 94-mph fastball Sunday as the Diamondbacks beat the Padres 8-4 to tie their franchise record with nine victories in a row.

Reggie Sanders was 3-for-4 with a home run and five RBI as the Diamondbacks completed a sweep of the Padres and beat them for the sixth time in a row.

Jarvis had to leave the game with a bruised right triceps after he was hit by Johnson's pitch to lead off the fifth inning.

In the bottom of the sixth, emotions heightened when the Diamondbacks' Luis Gonzalez was hit in the right buttocks by reliever David Lee on a 3-2 pitch. Lee got a warning from the umpire but stayed in the game.

When the inning ended, Gonzalez told San Diego third base coach Tim Flannery what he thought of the act. Both benches emptied and Flannery was thrown out of the game.

Hard feelings had been simmering since Tuesday, when the Diamondbacks sharply criticized the Padres' Ben Davis for bunting to break up Curt Schilling's perfect game in San Diego.

Jarvis (3-5) accused Johnson of throwing at him.

"Anytime you throw at anybody, especially a pitcher, and you hit them in the pitching arm, you're talking about the way they make a living, the way they support their family," Jarvis said. "Right now he's jeopardizing that.

"Especially coming from a ball club that got all bent out of shape thinking Ben bunted in the wrong situation and talking about the right way and wrong way to play the game. I think they've got things a little backward over there."

Arizona catcher Damian Miller said Johnson threw a two-seam fastball that just got away.

"We were trying to pitch him inside, but we're not going to hit the pitcher to lead off an inning. That's just idiotic," Miller said. "It was completely unintentional."

Padres manager Bruce Bochy said he didn't think either batter was hit intentionally.

"But tempers flare," Bochy said. "It's going to happen. It's part of the game, but it hurt us to lose our starting pitcher. We hope he's all right and can make his next start."

Johnson (6-4) allowed four runs, three of them earned, on seven hits.

He left the game for a pinch hitter after throwing 106 pitches. Manager Bob Brenly said Johnson was in "a state of disbelief" when told he was coming out of the game so soon.

"I said, 'Huh?' " Johnson said. "But I didn't argue with him or anything. Later on during the year I probably would be a little hesitant, but our bullpen has been pitching great. To get out of the ball game pitching six innings and throwing 100 some odd pitches is just going to make me feel that much better the next start."

Johnson, in his ninth double-digit strikeout game of the season but first in four starts, didn't walk anyone.

Gonzalez said he had no doubt he was hit in retaliation for Johnson hitting Jarvis. He was most upset that he was hit on a 3-2 pitch rather than early in the count when he would be ready for it.

"I just thought that was a poor play on their part, but that's OK," Gonzalez said. "We have a veteran team and we know how to handle things a little bit differently than some other teams do."

Sanders drove in three with his 16th homer with two outs in Arizona's four-run first inning. He knocked in two more with a bases-loaded, two-out single in the fifth to put the Diamondbacks up 7-4. Tony Womack was 3-for-5, including a triple, and scored three times.

Arizona is 11-2 so far in a stretch of 17 straight games against NL West foes.

Davis, booed by the Diamondbacks crowd throughout the series, hit his fourth home run for the Padres.

Phil Nevin doubled in a run in the San Diego fifth for his 500th career hit. Bubba Trammel followed with an RBI single to cut Arizona's lead to 5-4, then left the game with a strained right hamstring.

Arizona scored in the first inning for Johnson for the first time since April 13, 10 starts ago.

Game notes
LHP Brian Anderson, who threw 6 1-3 scoreless innings for Arizona before leaving with a groin injury Saturday night, was placed on the 15-day DL. RHP Geraldo Guzman was recalled from Triple-A Tucson. ... The Padres are 8-17 against the NL West, 1-6 against Arizona. ... Jarvis' eight RBIs are the most among big-league pitchers. ... Los Angeles announced that Kevin Brown has been scratched as the starter for Tuesday night's game at Arizona.