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Wednesday, Jun. 21 10:05pm ET
D-Backs' bats awaken in victory over Padres | |||||
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PHOENIX (AP) -- Travis Lee was 3-for-4 with three RBI on Wednesday night as the Arizona Diamondbacks' slumbering offense awoke for an 11-8 victory over the San Diego Padres. Arizona took two of three from the Padres and has a day off before beginning a big weekend series against the Colorado Rockies, who trail the Diamondbacks by a half-game in the NL West. With two of their best hitters, Jay Bell and Matt Williams, sitting out the game, the Diamondbacks pounded 14 hits against five San Diego pitchers. The Padres also walked nine, including leadoff batters in five consecutive innings. The 11 runs were the most for Arizona since May 9. San Diego also committed four errors. Tony Womack tripled in his first two times up for the Diamondbacks to tie his own club record. Womack was 3-for-6 with an RBI and was robbed of a bases-loaded hit by Al Martin's diving catch in left field to end the sixth inning. Damian Miller hit his sixth homer and an RBI single. Mike Morgan (2-1) got the victory with three shutout innings in relief of Omar Daal, who had another shaky outing, but a two-run single in the third. Carlos Reyes (1-3) allowed three runs on three hits in one inning of relief to take the loss. Eric Owens was 2-for-3 with three runs scored for the Padres, including a two-run home run, his fourth homer of the season. San Diego starter Brian Meadows allowed six runs -- five earned -- on six hits before being relieved with the bases loaded and none out in the third. Reliever Brandon Kolb got Hanley Frias to ground into a first-to-home-to-first double play. But Daal lofted Kolb's 0-2 pitch over the third baseman's head for a single that drove in two runs and made it 6-2. San Diego tied it with two runs in the fourth and two in the fifth. Daal walked Ed Sprague to lead off the fifth, then gave up Phil Nevin's RBI double before being relieved by Morgan. Bret Boone singled to drive in Nevin and tie it. The Diamondbacks took the lead for good, 7-6, on Womack's RBI single in the fifth. Arizona added three more in the sixth on RBI singles by Lee and Miller. The third run scored when Danny Bautista beat out what would have been an inning-ending double play. In San Diego's sixth, Martin hit one to deep left field, where Luis Gonzalez went up to try to catch it at the wall. But a fan in a Padres jersey reached over and appeared to touch the ball and Gonzalez's glove, and the ball bounced free for a triple. Gonzalez and manager Buck Showalter argued vehemently with umpire Dana Demuth that it should have been a ground-rule double, but to no avail. The fan was thrown out of the game. Ryan Klesko hit his 14th homer, a two-run shot off Byung-Hyun Kim in the ninth. Daal gave up six runs, four earned, on four hits in four-plus innings. He walked three, hit two batters and struck out two. Daal has allowed 18 runs in his last 8 1/3 innings. Game notesArizona's Bernard Gilkey ended an 0-for-28 slump with a seventh-inning pinch-hit single. ... Tony Gwynn sat out his second consecutive game. If Gwynn retires this year, he's played his last game at Bank One Ballpark because San Diego doesn't play Arizona again this season. ... Padres right-hander Stan Spencer, who left Monday's game after five shutout innings, is out 4-6 weeks with a right elbow flexor strain. ... First baseman Erubiel Durazo, out since May 30 with torn cartilage in his right wrist, had no ill effects in rehabilitation appearances with Triple-A Tucson, and is expected to be activated by the Diamondbacks on Friday. | ALSO SEE Baseball Scoreboard San Diego Clubhouse Arizona Clubhouse RECAPS Boston 9 NY Yankees 7
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