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DENVER (AP) -- Davey Johnson expects big numbers from Gary
Sheffield and Eric Karros. But Adrian Beltre and Alex Cora?
Beltre had a career-high six RBIs -- including his second grand
slam of the year -- and Alex Cora had two homers and five RBIs
Thursday as the Los Angeles Dodgers outlasted the Colorado Rockies 16-11.
|  | | Adrian Beltre of the Dodgers watches his second grand slam of the season leave the Coors Field yard in the third inning Thursday. |
"They are so young," Johnson said. "You can't expect that
from them, but you are glad when they happen."
Beltre went 4-for-6 and Cora was 4-for-5, setting career highs
for hits and RBIs as the Dodgers won for the seventh time in nine
games.
"I had opportunities with men in scoring position," Beltre
said. "I got my chance today and got lucky, got my pitch to hit
and swung at it."
Los Angeles, which overcame four errors, tied its season high
for runs and set a season high with 20 hits.
"Those are the flip sides of those two guys," Johnson said.
"They provided the offense, but they can't be happy with the way
they played defense."
As both teams scored in double digits at Coors Field for the
fourth time this season, Dodgers starter Eric Gagne was pounded for
nine runs -- six earned -- and 11 hits in 4 1-3 innings. He is
winless in his last seven starts.
Larry Walker went 4-for-4 with a home run and two RBIs and Jeff
Cirillo had two hits and three RBIs for the Rockies, who lost for
the 18th time in 22 games.
"We have to be discouraged by the outcome," Colorado manager
Buddy Bell said. "The offense should have been enough, but we
couldn't find a guy to get outs."
Colorado's Kevin Jarvis was tagged for seven runs -- just one
earned -- and seven hits in three innings.
Los Angeles fell behind 3-0 in the first, took a 7-3 lead with a
six-run third, then saw Colorado tie it in the fourth. The Dodgers
broke open the game with four runs in the fifth and three in the
sixth, taking a 14-8 lead.
Onan Masaoka (1-0) pitched two-thirds of an inning for the win.
Loser Giovanni Carrara (0-1), who followed Jarvis, gave up seven
runs and seven hits in two-thirds of an inning.
Neifi Perez's RBI single and Cirillo's two-run single put
Colorado ahead in the first.
Beltre hit an RBI single in the second, and the Dodgers went
ahead in the third on Gary Sheffield's RBI single, Beltre's slam
and Cora's solo homer -- the fourth time this year the Dodgers hit
consecutive homers. The inning was set up by Cirillo's throwing
error on Mark Grudzielanek's one-out grounder to third.
The Dodgers have hit eight slams in a single season for the
first time since the Brooklyn Dodgers did it in 1952. Beltre also
hit one May 21 at Florida.
Colorado, which had 15 hits, closed to 7-5 in the third on
Cirillo's RBI single and Brent Mayne's run-scoring grounder, then
tied it in the fourth on Todd Helton's two-run single.
Los Angeles regained the lead in the fifth on Beltre's RBI
single and Cora's three-run homer off Carrara (0-1).
Mayne hit a solo home run in the bottom half, but RBI singles by
Sheffield, Todd Hundley and Cora increased the lead to 14-8 in the sixth. Devon White and Sheffield had RBI singles for Los Angeles in the
eighth. Walker homered in the bottom half.
"It was a long game," Cirillo said. "A long, long, long, long
... did I say long?"
Game notes
Los Angeles Hundley from the 15-day DL and optioned C Paul
Loduca to Triple-A Albuquerque. ... RHP Ismael Valdes, acquired
Wednesday from the Chicago Cubs, will meet up with the Dodgers in
Philadelphia, the team's next stop on a 10-day road trip. ...
Mayne's sixth homer matched his career high. ... A Walker homer
reached the third deck for the sixth time. Overall, there have been
13 homers into the third deck.
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