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  Tuesday, Mar. 14 7:05pm ET
Montreal 5, Los Angeles 3
 
  RECAP | BOX SCORE

VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ Given the results of this spring, the Los Angeles couldn't be blamed for hoping a night game would spark a chance. It didn't.

Fernando Seguignol hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the seventh inning Tuesday as the Montreal Expos defeated Los Angeles 5-3 in the first preseason night game at Dodgertown in at least 25 years.

It dropped the Dodgers to 2-12, the worst spring record in the major leagues.

Seguignol, who went 2-for-3 with three RBIs, hit his second homer of the spring after Andy Tracy led off the seventh with a single off Rick DeHart. Brad Fullmer and Charlie O'Brien also had two hits for the Expos.

Eric Karros had tied the game at 3 with a home-run off Felipe Lira, who gave up one run in two innings. Matt Skrmetta pitched two innings of one-hit ball for the save.

Dustin Hermanson, the scheduled starter when the Expos open the season April 3 against the Dodgers, allowed one run and two hits in four innings.

Dodgers starter Chan Ho Park has his best outing of the spring, giving up one run and five hits in five innings. Park struck out five and walked two.

Park entered the game with a 10.80 ERA. In his previous start, he gave up five runs in three innings Wednesday against the Detroit Tigers.

The game attracted 3,787 to the 6,500-seat Holman Stadium, the Dodgers' largest weekday crowd of the spring.

The Dodgers billed Tuesday's contest as the first preseason night game in the history of Dodgertown, but some long-time fans and employees disputed that claim. Dick Crago, the Dodgertown preseason public address announcer for more than 30 years, said he remembered calling night games in the early 1970s.

 


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