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GAME LOG
ATLANTA (AP) -- Tom Glavine didn't waste any time in bouncing
back.
"I'm happy to come back and pitch a good one tonight after what
happened in Cincinnati," he said Monday night after leading the
Atlanta Braves over the San Diego Padres 9-2.
Glavine was coming off a 10-6 loss to the Reds, a game in which
he allowed eight runs and nine hits in four innings.
|  | | Tom Glavine allowed five hits in seven innings and struck out six, winning for the eighth time in nine decisions. |
"He doesn't give you a lot to hit," Padres manager Bruce Bochy
said.
With the Braves' NL East lead down to 1½ games coming in,
Glavine (15-6) won for the eighth time in nine decisions and
matched Arizona's Randy Johnson for the most wins in the league.
Coupled with New York's 11-1 loss to San Francisco, the Braves
increased their lead back to 2½ games over the second-place Mets.
"We are concerned, but as long as we go out there and win, they
can't catch us," Glavine said. "We've got to worry more about
what we do."
Glavine allowed five hits in seven innings and struck out
six, beating Jay Witasick (0-1), who gave up seven runs, eight hits
and five walks in 5 1/3 innings.
Andres Galarraga hit a tiebreaking two-run double, and Javy
Lopez added a three-run homer as the Braves stopped San Diego's
four-game winning streak.
With the score 1-all in the fifth, Andruw Jones bounced a double
over the center-field fence, Chipper Jones was walked intentionally
and B.J. Surhoff advanced the runners with a slow groundout.
Galarraga doubled on a 3-0 count and took third on a wild pitch.
Brian Jordan walked and Lopez followed with his 19th homer for a
6-1 lead.
"I made some mistakes pitching in the fifth," Witasick said.
"One was a hanging curveball (to Galarraga) and one was an
up-and-away changeup (to Lopez). Those dictated their explosive
inning. That was the turning point of the game."
Chipper Jones had an RBI single in the sixth off Todd Erdos, and
Surhoff and pinch-hitter Bobby Bonilla added run-scoring singles in
the eighth off Heathcliff Slocumb.
Phil Nevin had homered leading off the second, but the Braves
tied it in the bottom half on Keith Lockhart's RBI single.
Game notes
Atlanta OF Reggie Sanders is expected to be activated
Tuesday and George Lombard probably will be sent to Triple-A
Richmond. Sanders has been on the 15-day disabled list because of a
strained left hamstring since July 28. ... Team owner Ted Turner
and Dale Murphy, a two-time NL Most Valuable Player and the
holder of 13 Atlanta records, were inducted into the Braves Hall of
Fame, joining last year's inaugural inductees: Hank Aaron, Eddie
Mathews, Phil Niekro and Warren Spahn. ... The game drew only
31,316, the fourth-smallest home crowd of the season. ... It was
only the fourth loss in the last 16 games for the Padres. ...
Nevin's homer was his 35th since becoming the Padres regular third
baseman on Aug. 10, 1999.
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