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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The most searing memory for Darryl Kile of his
10th win will be the line drive off Damian Jackson's bat that screamed into his glove and left him sitting on the mound,
gathering his senses.
|  | | Darryl Kile joined Randy Johnson as the only 10-game winners in the National League. |
He looked into his glove to see if the ball was still there.
"I was actually looking to see if it was deformed," Kile said
after beating the San Diego Padres 8-3 on Tuesday to become the
third 10-game winner in the majors. "I've had a few balls hit at
me. That was by far the hardest one that happened to find my
glove."
Making the play to end the fourth inning earned Kile a pat on
the backside from Mark McGwire on the way back to the dugout. It was the most adventuresome moment in a game in which Kile pitched seven strong innings and hit a single as the Cardinals beat the
Padres for the fifth straight time.
Kile (10-3) allowed three runs -- two earned -- and nine hits in
seven innings to join Arizona's Randy Johnson and Toronto's David
Wells as 10-game winners. Kile already has two more wins than he
did all last year, when he was 8-13 in his second season in
Colorado.
Kile, who also beat the Padres 4-3 in St. Louis on April 19, won
his third straight start. He struck out three and walked three.
"That was hard work," manager Tony La Russa said. "They've
got a bunch of guys hitting .300 over there. They made him work for
every out. That was a very tough seven innings."
Kile's batterymate, Eli Marrero, snapped a 1-1 tie with a
three-run homer in the fourth inning, his fifth, and J.D. Drew
added a two-run shot in the fifth, his 10th. Both came off rookie
Rodrigo Lopez (0-3) who remained winless in six starts after giving
up six runs and 12 hits, a season-high for a Padres pitcher. Drew
and Jim Edmonds both had three hits.
Lopez is likely headed back to Triple-A Las Vegas.
"It's certainly not the way I wanted my last big league start to go," Lopez said.
"We're not pitching as well as we need to win ballgames,"
manager Bruce Bochy said, noting that a leadoff walk led to one run
and the Cardinals had two outs and none on in the inning that Drew
homered. "They're pitching better than us and that's why they've
won two. More than anything we're beating ourselves."
With Drew and Placido Polanco aboard on consecutive one-out
singles, Marrero, the No. 8 hitter, homered into the seats in left
field. Drew's homer cleared the fence in right. Eric Davis was
aboard on a two-out single.
The Cardinals, who lead the majors with 111 homers, have hit
four in the first two games of this three-game series. On April 20,
Marrero homered twice off the Padres, including his first grand
slam, in a 14-1 Cardinals win in St. Louis.
San Diego closed to 6-3 in the sixth with two runs on two
singles, a walk and two Cardinals errors.
The Cardinals scored two in the ninth on an RBI single by Davis
and a run-scoring groundout by Polanco.
Dave Veres pitched the final 1 1/3 innings for his 11th save in
14 opportunities.
The Cardinals were primed for a big inning in the second, but
Lopez struck out McGwire on a 91-mph fastball with two outs and
runners on first and third.
The Cardinals did take a 1-0 lead that inning when Marrero
scored on Fernando Vina's double-play ball. Marrero drew a leadoff
walk and took third when Kile squared to bunt, then swung away and
hit a chopper over the head of charging third baseman Phil Nevin.
The Padres tied it in their half of the third on Tony Gwynn's
RBI grounder allowing Lopez to score. Lopez was aboard on his first
big league hit, a single to right.
Game notes
With his 451-foot home run off Matt Clement on Monday,
McGwire joined Mike Piazza as the only visiting players who have
twice homered into the second deck. McGwire hit a 458-foot shot
into the second deck off Brian Boehringer on July 20, 1998. ... The San Diego Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America
faxed a letter to commissioner Bud Selig protesting the fact that
the umpires wouldn't make themselves available to reporters to
discuss a controversial play in Monday night's 7-3 win by the
Cardinals. The Padres played the game under protest after plate
umpire Gary Cederstrom allowed two Cardinals runners to advance an
extra base -- leading to one run -- after a ball errantly thrown by
second baseman Bret Boone hit some gloves piled on a towel in front of the Cardinals' dugout. Cederstrom told Padres manager Bruce Bochy that the gear was part of the dugout, even though it clearly
was on the dirt in front of the dugout. ... Bochy said the Padres
are going through with their protest. "It's going to be a tough
call," he said. "Nobody's at fault. We're talking about a gray
area of the ruling."
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