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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- After a slow start this year, San Diego's
Bret Boone has found a groove at the plate.
He drove in five runs -- all in the second inning -- in the
Padres' 9-5 victory Monday night over the slumping Los Angeles
Dodgers.
Boone, who has 26 RBI in June after totaling 21 in the first
two months of the season, hit a two-run homer and three-run double
during an eight-run outbreak against Orel Hershiser in the second
inning.
|  | | Orel Hershiser, right, wanted to hide after giving up eight runs in 1 2/3 innings Monday night. |
"Innings like that don't come along that often, and you
appreciate when it does happen," said Boone, who was hitless in
his other two at-bats and is hitting .262.
"I think I was pressing a little bit earlier in the season, but
now I'm relaxing my hands. The difference when things aren't going
right for you is that you get a good pitch to hit and you foul it
off or something.
"When you're going good, you hit it."
Boone got two good pitches to hit in the second inning, when he
hit his 13th homer to left his first time up, then lined a sharp
double to left-center with the bases loaded as the Padres sent 12
men to the plate.
Boone's big game came three days after he hit three homers and
drove in six runs to lead San Diego to a 10-7, 10-inning win at
Cincinnati last Friday.
"He's been hitting real well on this road trip, and he's
continuing to play well at second base," San Diego manager Bruce
Bochy said.
Handing the Dodgers their fifth straight loss -- and also
Hershiser his fifth defeat in his last five decisions -- the Padres
rocked the right-hander for eight runs on six hits and three walks
in just 1 2/3 innings.
"I've had some sad days, but today really tugged at your
heartstrings, to see Orel struggle like that," Dodgers manager
Davey Johnson said. "It was hard on him, but it's been just as
hard on me because I think the world of him. He's such a great
pitcher and has had such a great career.
"He's something special."
The 41-year-old Hershiser (1-5) was starting on one day's rest,
having thrown 27 pitches during a rain-delayed 1 1/3 innings of a
6-1 loss Saturday at St. Louis.
"I struggled tremendously," said Hershiser, who seemed to take
what he called "a debacle" more matter-of-factly than Johnson
did. "The only pitch I was able to throw for a strike was a
four-seam fastball."
The Padres' victory came several hours after they learned that
Tony Gwynn will undergo arthroscopic surgery Tuesday on his
degenerative left knee and could be out as briefly as a month or as
long as the rest of the season.
"We'll know more tomorrow," Bochy said., alluding to Gwynn's
upcoming surgery.
The 40-year-old Gwynn, an eight-time NL batting champion, has
had five operations on the knee.
Brian Meadows (6-5) limited the Dodgers to Todd Hollandsworth's
sixth homer, leading off the first; Gary Sheffield's sacrifice fly
in the fifth; and Alex Cora's leadoff shot -- his first major league
homer -- in the seventh.
Meadows allowed six hits in 7 1/3 innings. He walked three and
struck out five.
Kevin Nicholson and Eric Owens added RBI singles in the second,
and Ed Sprague chipped in with a sacrifice fly for the other run as
San Diego sent 12 men to the plate.
Ryan Klesko had an RBI groundout in the ninth for San Diego's
final run.
Shawn Gilbert doubled in two runs in the bottom half, making it
9-5, after Carlos Almanzar walked three straight batters.
Hershiser developed control problems this year and hasn't won in
eight starts dating to an 8-1 victory over Cincinnati in the
Dodgers' home opener April 14.
He matched a modern major league record, hitting four batters in
a 10-3 loss to Houston on April 19. Hershiser did it in just 1 1/3
innings.
In the second inning against Sprague, he threw one pitch five
feet over the head of catcher Todd Hundley. Then he bounced a pitch
that hit Klesko on the left big toe.
In May, Hershiser volunteered to go to the minors, making three
starts before rejoining the Dodgers.
Notes: In addition to Gwynn, the Padres placed RHP Stan Spencer on
the 15-day DL with a strained right elbow. They also transferred SS Chris Gomez to the 60-day DL, recalled RHP Will Cunnane from
Triple-A Las Vegas, and purchased the contract of Dusty Allen from
Las Vegas. ... Padres RHP Brian Tollberg, who made his big league
debut last Tuesday, was chosen NL player of the week. He went 2-0
with a 1.25 ERA in two starts last week, at Arizona and Cincinnati.
... The Dodgers activated Hundley, who was out with a strained rib
cage, and assigned C Paul LoDuca to Triple-A Albuquerque.
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