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LOS ANGELES (AP) – The rain fell as hard at Dodger Stadium after
the game as it did during it. The difference: the tarpaulin was on the infield -- and two marquee players were in the trainer's room with injuries.
|  | | Tony Gwynn, center, is helped by a trainer after pulling a hamstring while running to second. |
First Tony Gwynn strained his right hamstring. Then Kevin
Brown's outing was abbreviated by injury in the Dodgers' 3-1
victory over San Diego on Friday night.
"They're doing their job, trying to get the game in," Padres manager Bruce Bochy said of the umpires, who chose not to call the game. "It was a sloppy night, but both teams had to play in it. I've seen worse."
Gwynn will be re-evaluated before Saturday's 10 p.m. ET game against the Dodgers to determine whether he can play or if a trip to the disabled list is likely. Team trainers told Gwynn that he might not play for at least 10 days.
"I don't know what they have planned," Gwynn said after the game. "In this
day and age, you've got to have bodies, and I understand that. It's
better now than it was when I cane in here. But the way this
business works, they'll probably put me on the DL."
Brown (2-1) worked 6 1/3 strong innings, struck out seven and
walked two before coming out. Jeff Shaw pitched the ninth for his fifth save.
Gary Sheffield had two RBI singles and Shawn Green also singled
in a run, helping the Dodgers send the Padres to their fifth
straight loss.
Brown sat through a 24-minute rain delay during the bottom of
the sixth, but was back on the mound for the seventh when the rain
began falling again. He struck out Mike Darr, but walked Santiago
Perez and hit Damian Jackson with his 96th pitch before coming out
of the game with stiffness in his lower back.
"I knew he was going to go back out there because he's a
gamer," Darr said. "He pretty much stuck it to us."
Dodgers catcher Chad Kreuter couldn't detect anything in Brown's delivery that would suggest he was experiencing any discomfort.
"I didn't know he was hurting like he was. He didn't say
anything to anybody," Kreuter said. "I think he did great, under
the conditions we were in out there.
"It was a wet track, very sloppy, and everybody was slipping
and sliding around. So you just try to get through the game without
getting hurt because of the footing. When that water gets into that
clay, it just gums up on your feet and you have no traction with
your spikes," Kreuter said.
The start of the game was delayed 27 minutes by rain and the
first five innings were played in a steady drizzle. The grass and
dirt areas were heavy with moisture when Gwynn's hamstring
tightened up rounding first base on his leadoff hit down the left
field line in the sixth. He tried to stretch it into a double and
was thrown out by Sheffield.
"Right when I hit the bag, it grabbed a little bit. Then, a
couple of steps past the bag, it grabbed a lot and I knew I pulled
it," Gwynn said. "I should have stopped at first, but that ball
was a double and I've got to get to second on that. I tried to, but
I didn't make it."
Gwynn, a 15-time All-Star, was limited to just 36 games last season after undergoing surgery on his left knee.
Brian Tollberg (1-1) took a two-hitter and a 1-0 lead into the
sixth, but he faced the next four batters without getting an out.
Tom Goodwin drew a leadoff walk, and the Dodgers took a 2-1 lead
with consecutive singles by Mark Grudzielanek, Sheffield and Shawn Green. Green's hit chased Tollberg, who struck out six and walked two.
The Padres, who failed to get a runner past second base in
either of their previous two games against Colorado, scored in the
first when Phil Nevin drove in Gwynn from first with a two-out RBI
double.
Game notes
The Dodgers have been rained out at home only 17 times
since Dodger Stadium opened in 1962. The Padres were in town for
five of the last eight rainouts, dating back to Apr. 11, 1982. ...
Rickey Henderson and Gwynn became the first teammates in their 40s
to play in the same outfield since Doc Cramer and Chuck Hostetler
of the Tigers in 1945. ... Dodgers 1B Eric Karros did not play
because of flu-like symptoms.
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