[新聞] Ross' shot picks up injury-wracked Giants
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Ross' shot picks up injury-wracked Giants
By Chris Haft / MLB.com | 5/19/2011 3:28 AM ET
LOS ANGELES -- Cody Ross should have held his bald head high Wednesday after
belting the three-run homer that snapped a ninth-inning tie and gave the
Giants an 8-5 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
But Ross' head fell in sad empathy as somebody mentioned the plight of his
teammate, third baseman Mark DeRosa, who strained his oft-injured left wrist
and appears bound for another stint on the disabled list.
It was that kind of night for the Giants, who overcame the disappointment of
squandering a 5-2 lead in the eighth inning before watching closer Brian
Wilson (left ankle) and center fielder Aaron Rowand (back) join DeRosa on the
injured list in the ninth. Unlike DeRosa, Wilson and Rowand appeared to be
only mildly hurt. But their misfortune contributed to the Giants' sober mood.
"It was a good win; I don't know how much fun that game was," manager Bruce
Bochy said.
Indeed, if the tiny trainers' room in the cramped visitor's clubhouse at
Dodger Stadium had been outfitted with a revolving door, it would have spun
like a merry-go-round.
Bochy related that Wilson turned his ankle by stepping in a hole on the mound
while pitching to Jamey Carroll with one out and a runner on first base. The
right-hander stayed in the game to preserve the lead and the victory, one
inning after yielding Juan Uribe's two-run double and James Loney's RBI
single that evened the score.
Wilson denied even being hurt.
"I made a bad pitch and blew the game. That's all," he said. "I'm just pissed
about that. But I'm fine. We win. That's ultimately the goal. I bruised my
ego a little bit. But I bounced back. The team had my back and scored a few
runs."
Asked whether he felt fine physically and could pitch Thursday if necessary,
Wilson replied, "I'll pitch any day of the week. I don't ask for days off. I
don't expect them."
Rowand jammed his back as he landed hard on first base while unsuccessfully
attempting to beat out a ground ball.
"Same thing," Rowand said, referring to a similar incident that occurred a
few weeks ago. He missed no playing time after that injury.
DeRosa appeared to hurt himself as he cocked his bat while awaiting a
fourth-inning pitch.
"He said it felt like [Dodgers catcher Rod] Barajas grabbed his bat," Ross
said.
Bochy said that DeRosa, who expressed his frustration by flinging his helmet
down the tunnel leading from the dugout to the clubhouse, will return to San
Francisco for doctors' examinations.
"It looks like he's going to be out for a while," Bochy said, which means
that Miguel Tejada likely will occupy third base and Mike Fontenot will play
shortstop until injured third baseman Pablo Sandoval returns in late June.
The Giants launched their go-ahead rally after Rowand's injury, which opened
the ninth. Freddy Sanchez and Buster Posey singled against Lance Cormier
(0-1). Sliding hard into second base, Posey foiled any chance of a double
play on Nate Schierholtz's grounder, leaving runners on the corners. Up came
Ross, who belted a 1-1 pitch into the left-field seats for his third homer of
the season.
Interestingly, Cormier threw Ross three consecutive curveballs.
"I wasn't looking for it," Ross said of the final curve. "I was just sticking
with my approach to see something out over the plate and hit it the other
way. I just reacted. It just goes to show what happens when you react."
Cormier had pitched once since May 1 entering Wednesday. But, he said, "All
that is is an excuse. My job is to stay ready. I threw strikes, except one
pitch I left up. [Ross] did what he's supposed to do."
Earlier, the game belonged to Matt Cain, who allowed three hits in 7 1/3
innings while upstaging Los Angeles ace Clayton Kershaw. Cain retired the
first 12 Dodgers batters before Matt Kemp led off the fifth inning with his
ninth home run of the season, then Cain worked out of a bases-loaded,
none-out jam without a run scoring.
By then, the Giants already had enjoyed an unusually productive evening
against Kershaw, who entered the game with a 3-1 record and a 1.07 ERA in
eight career appearances (seven starts) against them. This time, the Los
Angeles ace lasted only five innings while yielding four runs and seven hits.
Cain collected the first hit off Kershaw, a two-out, third-inning single,
before scoring on Sanchez's first of two hits. That ended Kershaw's streak of
26 1/3 scoreless innings against the Giants, dating back to Aug. 1. Tejada
rapped a pair of RBI singles, including one in the Giants' three-run,
fourth-inning uprising against Kershaw.
But the Giants needed more offense to prevail. For once, they generated it.
They exceeded four runs for the first time since May 3 and amassed their
highest scoring total since piling up eight runs on April 18 at Colorado.
Ross was determined to lead the effort.
"We definitely needed this after two tough losses in Colorado late in the
game," Ross said. "I was standing in the outfield going, 'No way this is
going to happen again,' after Cain threw an outstanding game and threw as
well as he possibly can."
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the
approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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