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Thursday, Jun. 29 9:10pm ET
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The San Diego Padres got all their runs on homers, and they also got a little luck. Wiki Gonzalez and Phil Nevin each hit two-run home runs and Ruben Rivera added a solo shot as the Padres overcame the 10 walks given up by their pitchers to down the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-4. "You hate to see that many walks, so we were probably fortunate to win," San Diego manager Bruce Bochy said after the Padres salvaged a split of their four-game series at Dodger Stadium. "But then we got some good pitches when we needed them." Said the Dodgers' Eric Karros: "If we had been a little more patient, we probably could have had about 15 or 16 walks. But we weren't very good offensively." Even with the loss, the Dodgers had a good day -- learning several hours before game time that most of their players facing suspensions won't have to miss any games. "Obviously, it was good news that we got before the game, but that has no impact on how we played the game," Karros said. "A loss is a loss." After trailing 5-2, the Dodgers narrowed the gap to 5-4 in the seventh when Alex Cora led off with a triple then scored on Carlos Reyes' balk, and Shawn Green hit an RBI single off Kevin Walker. Walker escaped further damage when he got Todd Hundley on a pop foul to end the inning with the bases loaded. Trevor Hoffman pitched the ninth for his 20th save in 23 tries. San Diego's Matt Clement (7-7) gave up four runs on five hits in six-plus innings, with six walks and six strikeouts. The Padres took a 2-0 lead on Gonzalez's second homer, in the second inning, then Nevin made it 4-2 with his 16th homer, also off Darren Dreifort in the sixth. Both homers followed leadoff walks. Rivera made it 5-2 when he hit his ninth homer, Dreifort again the victim, later in the sixth. "It's good to get a split here," Nevin said. "It was a tough series." Dreifort (4-7) gave up five runs on six hits in six innings. After the Dodgers fell behind 2-0, Green's sacrifice fly in the third trimmed the deficit to one run, then Dreifort led off the Los Angeles fifth with a broken-bat double to left, took third on a wild pitch and scored on Todd Hollandsworth's single. The Dodgers learned Thursday afternoon that Paul Beeston, baseball's chief operating officer, overturned the suspensions of 12 players -- penalties imposed for their roles in a brawl with fans in Chicago on May 16. Sixteen players and three coaches originally drew suspensions, believed to be the most suspensions in baseball history for a single incident. With Beeston's rulings, slugger Gary Sheffield is the only everyday player facing suspension, and the players' union is appealing his five-day suspension and those of the three other Dodgers whose suspensions weren't overturned. None of the player suspensions will be imposed until commissioner Bud Selig rules on the union's appeal on their behalf. The only difference for the Dodgers in their game against the Padres was in the first-base coach's box, where bullpen coach Rick Dempsey filled in for John Shelby, who began his eight-game suspension. Dempsey also will sit out eight games when Shelby finishes his suspension. Game notesRyan Klesko, an Atlanta Braves teammate of John Rocker for two years before being traded to the Padres last December, was thrilled to be 3,000 miles away from Shea Stadium Thursday night and all the hostility in the air that was directed at Rocker by angry Mets fans. "With all the stuff that's going on with that, I'm glad to be away from it, but I know it's tough on some of the other guys," Klesko said. "I guess everybody's just hoping for the safety of all the ballplayers -- including John -- and making sure nothing happens, because there's a lot of crazy people out there." ... Sheffield (66 RBIs), Eric Karros (65) and Green (55) are trying to give the Dodgers three players with at least 100 RBIs in a season for only the sixth time in the franchise's 111-year history. The team's last triple-digit trio was in 1955, when Duke Snider (136), Roy Campanella (107) and Gil Hodges (102) led the Dodgers to their only World Series title in Brooklyn. | ALSO SEE Baseball Scoreboard San Diego Clubhouse Los Angeles Clubhouse RECAPS Toronto 12 Tampa Bay 3
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