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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Alex Cora's throwing error cost the Dodgers the
game, though a play in the first inning upset Los Angeles even
more.
Richie Sexson hit a game-winning single in the bottom of the
ninth inning as the Milwaukee Brewers snapped a three-game losing
streak with a 3-2 win over the Dodgers on Wednesday night.
|  | | Geoff Jenkins has four home runs against the Dodgers this season. |
Geoff Jenkins, who had hit a solo homer off Dodger starter
Darren Dreifort in the first, led off with a bloop single into
short left field.
Cora raced over from shortstop, fielded the ball with his back
to the plate, turned and threw wildly over the head of second
baseman Mark Grudzielanek. First baseman Eric Karros backed up the
play, but Jenkins easily reached second.
Sexson lined the third pitch from Terry Adams (6-7) into center,
driving in Jenkins.
Cora said that he thought Jenkins might try to get to second, so
he just made a play he's done countless times.
"I always do it," Cora said. "I just threw it away, and
that's it."
Ray King (1-1) earned his first major league win by pitching a
perfect ninth inning.
Dreifort and Brewer starter Jamey Wright each allowed two runs
in eight innings. Dreifort struck out a career-high 11 and allowed
just four hits.
Wright allowed six hits and seven walks, but the Dodgers failed
to capitalize on his wildness, especially in the first.
Wright started the game by walking Tom Goodwin, Grudzielanek and
Shawn Green. Eric Karros followed with a sacrifice fly.
After a groundout put runners on second and third, Adrian Beltre
hit a grounder toward shortstop Mark Loretta.
The ball was ruled to have hit Green as he was running to third
and second base umpire Jeff Kellogg called him out. Beltre was
credited with a single, but it cost the Dodgers a run and possibly
more.
Loretta said he didn't see the ball hit Green.
Dodgers manager Davey Johnson argued the call and was upset that
Kellogg told him that he heard the ball hit Green.
"The only thing I don't like about that call," said Johnson,
"was that if you're going to make that call you got to see it and
it's got to change direction. You can't just hear something."
Johnson appealed to plate umpire Eric Cooper, but Cooper told
him that he didn't see it any differently.
The inning was over and the Dodgers missed a chance to give
Dreifort a few more runs.
Wright, who has not won since July 28 when he defeated Colorado,
retired the side in order in the second and third and got out of
the fifth when the Brewers turned their first of three double plays
in the game.
"He righted himself," Brewers manager Davey Lopes said. "Once
he got out of the first inning, he pitched a good game."
Tyler Houston connected off Dreifort in the fifth as Milwaukee
took a 2-1 lead, but the Dodgers' tied the score at 2 in the sixth
inning on an RBI double by Jim Leyritz.
Game notes
Karros' sacrifice fly in the first was his team-leading
ninth of the season. ... Jenkins is tied with Jeromy Burnitz with a
team-leading 24 homers. ... Wright's double in the third was his
first of the season and seventh of his career. ... Dreifort's
previous strikeout high was 10 on July 25, 1998, against Arizona.
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