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Padres salvage series avoid sweep in 12th inning
By Ken Gimblin and Joe Cronin July 23, 2006 |
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SAN FRANCISCO--The San Diego Padres were on the verge of getting swept by the Giants at AT&T Park in a four game series, but found a way to avoid getting swept by defeating the Giants in a 12 inning ball game, in a warm afternoon at the ball park. With the score 2-1 Giants after five innings, San Diego picked up three more runs in the top of the sixth inning when Mike Piazza hit his 15th homer off Giant pitcher Jamey Wright to make it 2-2, then Khalil Greene hit a triple to score Adrian Gonzalez to make it 3-2. Mark Bellhorn then hit a sac fly to left to score Greene to make it 4-2 San Diego. In the bottom of the 8th inning the Giants Ray Durham, hit a RBI single to center to score Shea Hillenbrand to make the score 4-3, San Diego. With Ray Durham and Jose Vizcaino on base, Pedro Feliz singled to left and scoring Durham and Vizcaino to give the Giants a 5-4 lead, but it didn’t last. In the top of the ninth Terrmel Sledge belted his first homer of the year for San Diego and the game were then tied 5-5 again. The score remained tied until the top of the 12th inning, when Giants reliever Brian Wilson (L, 1-3 ERA 5.82) took a the loss after giving up the game winning run after Eric Young hit a sac fly to center to score Mike Cameron for the go ahead run and the win 6-5. The winning pitcher for San Diego is Jon Adkins (W, 2-1 ERA 3.24). JC & Kenny G's Giants footnotes: Barry Bonds trainer Greg Anderson heads back to court in front of the second newly selected Grand Jury at the Federal Building in San Francisco Thursday. Federal Prosecutors will again ask him the same questions he refused to answer over 15 days ago that sent him to jail for contempt. Anderson is expected not to answer any of the questions and will face contempt a second time. Mark Geragos will argue with the Judge William Alsup that Anderson already has time served six months for steroid distribution and that he can't be tried for double jeopardy or in this case triple jeopardy as Alsup may send him back to Dublin Correction's for contempt of court for refusing to answer the prosecutor’s questions. Anderson is expected back in court again and will be asked about the calendars and schedules of steroid distribution to Bonds in records seized from Anderson's home in a Federal raid on Anderson's Peninsula home. The calendars reveal the dates and amounts of dosage of steroids that Bonds was told to use by Anderson who distributed the steroids disguised as "the Cream" and "the Clear from BALCO labs in Burlingame. An Anderson acknowledgment of the calendars, scheduling and distribution would prove that he gave Barry Bonds those listed amount of steroids and tie Bonds into a perjury charge proving that Bonds had knowledge that the clear and the cream had steroids in the BALCO products. In the case of Bonds surgeon, Dr. Arthur Ting of Fremont Dr. Ting's records reflect that Bonds elbow grew from steroid use so fast that the tendon couldn't keep up with the growth and tore in 1999 which sidelined Bonds for six weeks during the season. Ting's records show the Bonds growth and the tendon tear. Bonds attorney Michael Rains argues that tearing a tendon doesn't prove that human growth hormones was the cause and effect of steroid use but an injury Bonds could have obtained playing baseball. The prosecution is heavily relied on the testimony of Anderson who distributed the steroids and on his word could land Bonds a perjury charge if he said he gave Bonds the steroids and documented it on the calendars. Again Geragos says that Anderson will not testify. Anderson can go back to jail for the life of this second Grand Jury which is estimated to be as long as February 2008. Bonds while relieved on Sunday that he was not indicted last week knows that the Grand Jury is re-picked and will again begin investigating Bonds use of steroids with the witnesses at hand, former girlfriend Kimberly Bell, former manager and former childhood friend Steve Hoskins, and unlikely to talk trainer Greg Anderson. In the charge of Bonds for perjury Hoskins and Bell said they saw Bonds use steroids and admit it to them may not hold water as Geragos puts it it's a "he said she said" issue. Tuesday's matchups: The Giants will start Matt Morris (8-7 ERA 4.42) the Nationals will start Ramon Ortiz (6-9 ERA 4.73) first pitch on Tuesday night 4:00PM PDT at RFK. Joe Cronin and Ken Gimblin co-host Sportstalk on 1690 KFSG Sacramento. Quote sources: KTVU Fox 2 Oakland |
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