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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The New York Mets showed the Los Angeles
Dodgers how to play pennant-race baseball.
Edgardo Alfonzo, Lenny Harris and Bubba Trammell homered and the
Mets turned two Los Angeles errors into three eighth-inning runs in
a 9-6 victory Sunday over the Dodgers.
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Hampton to miss start Tuesday
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Mike Hampton will miss his next scheduled start Tuesday in San Diego because of a stress fracture in his right ribs, The New York Times reported Sunday.
Hampton, injured Thursday in a 13-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies, threw lightly in the outfield Sunday in Los Angeles, but he did not throw in the bullpen and said he was not ready to test the injury in a start Tuesday.
Hampton broke a rib in a third-inning at-bat against Colorado. He threw ball one in the top of the fourth and couldn't continue, later saying that he may have aggravated an old football injury.
-- ESPN.com news services
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The Mets remained 1½ games behind first-place Atlanta in the NL
East and 3½ games ahead of Arizona in the wild-card race. The
Dodgers trail NL West-leading San Francisco by eight games and the
Mets by 11 in the wild-card race.
"You have to keep playing and battling for nine innings because
you never know what's going to happen," said Mike Bordick, who
scored the winning run on a botched rundown play to help the Mets
capture their eighth consecutive series.
"These guys got fired up, and we got some big hits. Getting big
hits like the home runs by Bubba and Lenny, those are the kind of
things that keep you going through a nine-inning game," Bordick
said.
Bordick and Darryl Hamilton singled to open the eighth. Bordick
was trapped off third on Harris' comebacker to Terry Adams (5-6),
but he and pinch-runner Joe McEwing scored when the throw by third
baseman Adrian Beltre sailed over catcher Todd Hundley's head.
|  | | Mike Piazzo goes down to catch a foul pop hit by Alex Cora on Sunday. |
Harris scored when Derek Bell's routine grounder went through
the legs of second baseman Mark Grudzielanek for the Dodgers' third
error of the game and sixth in the three-game series.
The fading Dodgers, who dropped two of three this weekend, lost
for the 10th time in 14 games.
"We beat ourselves. We can't do that," Los Angeles manager
Davey Johnson said. "I don't have a lot to say about this one."
Turk Wendell (6-4) pitched two innings for the victory, allowing
a run and three hits. Armando Benitez pitched the ninth for his
33rd save in 37 chances.
Eric Karros gave the Dodgers a 5-4 lead with an RBI single that
chased starter Bobby J. Jones in the fifth. But Trammell,
pinch-hitting, and Harris opened the sixth with consecutive home
runs on fastballs by Darren Dreifort.
Trammell hadn't homered since July 30 in his first at-bat with
the Mets.
"The back-to-back homers were pretty nice," Harris said.
"Bubba had been struggling his last couple of at-bats, so I told
him he had to relax and it'll come for him. He's just trying to do
too much in a Met uniform."
The Dodgers, who overcame a 4-0 deficit, tied it at 6 in the
seventh when Gary Sheffield scored from first on Shawn Green's
bloop single to left-center that was misplayed twice by left
fielder Harris.
"With two strikes on Green, we were supposed to bring (center
fielder Jay) Payton back over a little bit. But he couldn't hear
me," Harris said. "Neither of us could get the ball. When I
looked up, I saw Sheffield going into third and I took my eye off
the ball. All hell broke loose after that."
Dreifort, who won his previous six starts, allowed six runs --
five earned -- and seven hits in five-plus innings.
"You expect to win every time out, but I just didn't get the
job done today," the right-hander said. "I made a lot of mistakes
all day long, and they cost us. I don't think the loss has anything
to do with the mistakes we made late in the game. It was just bad
pitching early."
The Dodgers closed to 4-3 in the third when Sheffield scored on
Green's RBI double. Los Angeles got even on Hundley's 21st homer
and second of the game. It was the 12th time Hundley has homered
twice in a game and second this season.
Alfonzo opened the scoring with his 16th homer after a
ground-rule double by Bell. Alfonzo had 13 hits, 10 RBI, three
homers and a .361 average against the Dodgers this season.
The Mets made it 4-0 in the second. Payton led off with a double
and one out later, Jones swung at a third strike, which Hundley
couldn't handle cleanly, and reached base on the passed ball.
Harris followed with an RBI single that sent Jones to third.
Harris stole second and Hundley's throw went into center field,
allowing Jones to score.
Hundley was booed loudly when he came to bat in the bottom of
the inning after a one-out single by Karros. But he silenced the
crowd of 46,122 by driving a 1-1 pitch into the right field bullpen
to close the deficit to 4-2.
Game
notes
Hundley helped the Dodgers join Atlanta as the only NL
teams this season to have four players with at least 20 homers. ...
Grudzielanek has 100 stolen bases in 131 attempts, the same totals
he had in the minors. ... The Mets have stranded an NL-leading 950
baserunners, including eight on Sunday. ... Hundley, who broke Roy
Campanella's major league record for homers by a catcher in 1996
with the Mets, homered twice against Philadelphia on May 26. ...
Mets C Mike Piazza made the defensive plays of the game on foul
pops. In the second inning, he raced back to the screen and made a
diving grab of Alex Cora's popup. In the ninth, he reached over the
railing near the first base dugout and went head-over-heels into
the first row of seats.
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