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GAME LOG
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- After more than two weeks of winning, Chipper
Jones found losing strange.
Jones and his Atlanta teammates saw their 15-game winning
streak, longest in the majors since 1991, end Wednesday night as
the Los Angeles Dodgers dealt the Braves a 6-4 loss.
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POURING ON THE WINS
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Teams that have won 15 or more games in a row since 1900:
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Year
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Team
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Streak
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1916
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N.Y. (NL)
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26*
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1935
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Chi. (NL)
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21
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1906
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Chi. (AL)
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19*
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1947
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N.Y. (AL)
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19
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1904
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N.Y. (NL)
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18
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1953
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N.Y. (AL)
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18
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1907
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N.Y. (NL)
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17
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1912
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Washington
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17
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1916
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N.Y. (NL)
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17
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1931
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Phila. (AL)
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17
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1909
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Pittsburgh
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16
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1912
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N.Y. (NL)
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16
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1926
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N.Y. (AL)
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16
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1951
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N.Y. (NL)
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16
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1977
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Kansas City
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16
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1903
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Pittsburgh
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15
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1906
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N.Y. (AL)
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15
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1913
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Phila. (AL)
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15
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1924
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Brooklyn
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15
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1936
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Chi. (NL)
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15
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1936
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N.Y. (NL)
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15
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1946
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Boston
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15
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1960
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N.Y. (AL)
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15
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1991
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Minnesota
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15
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2000
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Atlanta
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15
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* one tie
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"It's been a good run. I hope I don't taste it (losing) again
for another two weeks," said Jones, who had an RBI single in the
first inning but grounded out with the bases loaded to end the
fourth.
"We need to go back home and start a new streak and not let
this loss snowball on us," he said.
The Dodgers, who handed Greg Maddux (4-1) his first defeat of
the year, got seven steady innings from Carlos Perez (3-1). Shawn
Green and Todd Hollandsworth each homered and had three hits.
"I told my mother this morning that if I beat Greg Maddux, I
would be the happiest man around," Perez said. "We had lost three
to them in Atlanta and then the first two here, but we're a good
team and they're a good team.
"We beat a great team and a great pitcher."
Atlanta's string was the longest in the majors since Minnesota
won 15 straight in 1991. The last time a National League team won
at least 15 in a row was 1951, when the New York Giants took 16
straight.
The Braves had not lost since April 15, when they fell 6-3 at
Milwaukee. The last team to win 16 in a row was Kansas City in
1977.
"Losing is something you don't like, but 15 out of 16 isn't
bad," Atlanta manager Bobby Cox said. "We'll take that anytime.
The Dodgers have good hitting, and you're not going to hold them
every night. We held them good for five out of six, and that's as
good as we could do."
Green hit a two-run homer in the fourth, his sixth, and broke a
4-4 tie with a two-out, RBI single in the fifth.
Hollandsworth hit a solo shot in the seventh.
Maddux gave up nine hits and a season-high five earned runs in a
complete game.
"I made a couple of mistakes and it seemed they hit every one
out," he said.
The Braves had been 14-0 since reliever John Rocker returned
from his two-week suspension, and he earned saves in seven of those
games.
|  | | Carlos Perez improved to 3-1 by scattering six hits over seven innings. |
Perez gave up four runs on six hits in seven innings. Mike
Fetters worked the eighth and Jeff Shaw pitched the ninth for his
seventh save.
Atlanta shortstop Walt Weiss and catcher Eddie Perez and Los
Angeles shortstop Kevin Elster all left the game early with
injuries.
Weiss went out after 4½ innings with a pulled left hamstring,
and Perez exited with a sore right shoulder and will undergo an MRI
on Thursday. Cox said after the game that it wasn't yet known
whether either would miss more playing time.
Elster left after 6½ innings with a right groin strain. Manager
Davey Johnson said he believes Elster probably will have to go on
the disabled list.
Weiss' RBI single in the fourth drew Atlanta even after the
Dodgers had gone up 4-3 with three runs in the third. Third baseman
Adrian Beltre's throwing error on a grounder by Perez allowed
runners to advance to second and third before Weiss' hit.
Carlos Perez pitched out of a bases-loaded jam later in the
fourth, getting Jones to ground to third.
Green's homer and Gary Sheffield's run-scoring single brought
the Dodgers back from a 3-1 deficit in the third. The left-handed
Green hit a Maddux fastball on the outside part of the plate over
the fence in left field for his sixth homer.
Atlanta jumped to a 2-0 lead in the opening inning on RBI
singles by Jones and Brian Jordan. Los Angeles got one back in the
bottom half when Hollandsworth led off with a single and eventually
scored on Sheffield's groundout.
The Braves extended their lead to 3-1 on Andres Galarraga's RBI
single in the third.
Game notes
Los Angeles outfielder Devon White, who hurt his shoulder
trying to make a diving catch on Tuesday night, was not in the
lineup. Team doctors said White will under go an MRI on Thursday on
the shoulder, the same one he had surgery on during the offseason.
... Since the Braves were behind going into the ninth, Rocker got
the night off. Rocker, who was mooned by a fan in Monday's game,
posted saves in both that game and Tuesday night's win by Atlanta.
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Anaheim 6
Baltimore 5
Boston 4
Detroit 2
NY Yankees 6
Cleveland 5
Texas 5
Tampa Bay 1
Chi. White Sox 7
Toronto 3
Oakland 14
Kansas City 5
Minnesota 5
Seattle 4
Chicago Cubs 4
Houston 3
Colorado 16
Montreal 7
Philadelphia 5
Cincinnati 2
San Francisco 8
NY Mets 5
Milwaukee 4
Arizona 1
Pittsburgh 8
St. Louis 2
Los Angeles 6
Atlanta 4
San Diego 3
Florida 1
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