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GAME LOG
SAN DIEGO (AP) – The San Diego Padres sure looked different
Thursday.
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They wore camouflage jerseys and green caps to honor the
military. And they finally beat the San Francisco Giants.
The Padres won 8-3, their first victory against the Giants after
five straight losses this season and seven overall.
"It's nice to beat the Giants," manager Bruce Bochy said. "It
looked like we had to disguise ourselves to do it, but we did it."
Adam Eaton survived solo homers by Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent.
Tony Gwynn's troublesome left knee was quiet enough to allow him to
start his third straight game and hit a key RBI double. And the
Padres' two young setup men, Tom Davey and Kevin Walker, were
impressive.
The Padres were determined not to be swept for the second time
in a week by the Giants. Three of the losses had been by one run.
"Before the game, nothing was said, you know, `We've got to
beat these guys,' or anything," Eaton said. "But definitely
everybody was thinking we need to beat these guys, or it would have
been two sweeps in a row."
The Padres had their chances the night before, but lost 2-1 in
part because a freak play in which Calvin Murray went from second
to third in the ninth inning when a wild pitch by Trevor Hoffman
temporarily lodged in catcher Wiki Gonzalez's chest protector.
Murray then scored the winning run on a sacrifice fly.
"When you're knocking heads that many times, you've got to get
on the board," Gwynn said. "It's nice to get a win just so in our
mind you know you can beat them. But for a while there it just
seemed like we lost every possible way you can lose to them."
Gwynn drove in a run in the seventh inning with his 535th career
double, tying Lou Gehrig for 22nd on the career list. The
hit-and-run double, to right-center, scored Mark Kotsay from first.
It was his 3,115th career hit.
Playing three straight games – especially a day game after a
night game – was a deviation from the Padres' plans for Gwynn,
whose 2000 season ended after knee surgery on June 27. The team had
planned to play him no more than two straight games early on, but
Gwynn said his knee felt fine Thursday.
"I'm still confident," he said. "Just keep giving me
opportunities, and you feel like you'll contribute somehow. Today
was a nice way because we had the hit-and-run planned for an inning
in that situation.
Mike Darr went 3-for-4, scored twice and drove in one run.
Eaton (2-0) had an RBI bunt single during one of the two rallies
that gave him the win. He allowed three runs and seven hits in six
innings, struck out six and walked one.
Bonds snapped an 0-for-21 slump – the second-longest of his
career – with a solo homer with one out in the fourth, the 496th of
his career. Bonds' only two homers and two RBI this year have come
against the Padres.
Bonds said there is pressure approaching 500 home runs.
"You're in the position to accomplish something special,
something you never thought was possible," he said. "It seems
like you're out on center stage, all alone.
"Maybe that's why I haven't hit in the playoffs," he said with
a laugh. "The spotlight, it's tough."
The first three Padres batters in the fourth scored off Livan
Hernandez (1-2). Right fielder Armando Rios misplayed Phil Nevin's
fly ball for an error leading off the inning, making that run
unearned when Nevin scored on Ben Davis' bases-loaded walk.
Chris Gomez added a sacrifice fly and Eaton an RBI bunt single
when first baseman J.T. Snow overran the ball.
San Francisco tied it at 3 in the sixth on Kent's solo homer and
Rios' RBI single, both with two out. It was Kent's fourth homer,
all coming against the Padres.
San Diego went ahead 5-3 in the sixth on a sacrifice fly by Alex
Arias, was pinch-hitting for Eaton, and Damian Jackson's RBI
single. The Padres added three more in the seventh, including
Gwynn's RBI double.
Davey struck out the side in the seventh and walked Bonds in the
eighth, the only runner he allowed in 1 2-3 innings. Walker came on
with two outs in the eighth and walked Snow, but struck out
pinch-hitter J.T. Snow.
The Padres became the last NL team to beat Hernandez, who
allowed five runs – four earned – and eight hits in six innings. He
had been 3-0 against San Diego in five previous starts.
Game notes
Bonds' longest slump was 0-for-22 in April 1991 while with
Pittsburgh. ... Hernandez is 4-11 with a 5.74 ERA in 19 career
starts in April. ... San Francisco's No. 5 starter Mark Gardner
will make his first start on Saturday at Milwaukee. That allows
Russ Ortiz to pitch on his normal four days' rest.
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