In a very close game the 01 Arizona Diamonbacks
held on for a 4-3 victory over the 13 LA Dodgers. The DBacks turned to
an obviously tired Randy Johnson despite The Big Unit pitching an
inning of relief in Arizona's regular season finale vs these same
Dodgers. Johnson was only able to go 2 innings before asking out with
his team trailing 1-0. Manager Daly was expecting a bit more of a fight
out of Johnson but quickly turned to plan B Miguel Batista. Batista
used not only his arm but his bat to guarantee more games for him and
his teammates. Batista went 4 shut out innings and chipped in with a
huge RBI single as well the DBacks 3 run 4th inning. The Dodgers did
not go quietly as they scored 2 runs off reliever Erik Sabel in the 7th
after Batista was removed. Greg Swindell relieved Sabel in a tight spot
but was able to get a huge double play to keep the
game at 4-3. Both teams threatened over the next 2 innings but timely
double plays kept it a 1 run game. Byung-Hyun Kim came in for the
DBacks in the 9th to record his 10th save of the short season.
Yasiel Puig had a chance with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th to be the
hero but he weakly waved at strike three in the dirt to end LA's hopes
of extending its season.
--submitted by Peter Daly--
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