Garth goofs
Brooks' miscue looms large in Padres' loss to Brewers
Posted: Saturday March 13, 1999 09:58 PM
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Don't quit your day job: Garth Brooks signs autographs prior to the game in which his error in the ninth helped give the Brewers the lead. AP |
PHOENIX (AP) -- A misplay by country-music performer Garth Brooks
contributed to the San
Diego Padres 2-1 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers on
Saturday.
Brooks, playing left field in the ninth, stepped back, then sprinted
forward and fell as a sinking drive by Milwaukee's Alex Ochoa fell
off his glove.
Ochoa was credited with a double and scored moments later on a single to
center by Todd
Dunn, giving the Brewers the victory over the split-squad Padres.
"I feel like I let these guys down," said Brooks, who was hitless in two
trips to the plate. "I dropped that ball in the ninth with two out. It just
kills me."
Brooks entered the game as a defensive replacement in the bottom of the
sixth.
In the top of the ninth, Brooks almost gave the Padres a lead. With a
runner on second and two out, the Brewers intentionally walked Andy Sheets in
order to pitch to Brooks.
After taking a fastball from left-hander Horacio Estrada for a called
strike, Brooks swung at an 0-1 pitch and lined softly to shortstop Lou Collier in
shallow left field.
In his initial at-bat, Brooks swung at the first pitch from right-hander
David Weathers and hit a line drive to the mound.
Weathers, who seemed startled, knocked the ball down and threw Brooks out
at first to end the inning.
Brooks is now hitless in three at-bats in exhibition play.
Jeff
Cirillo had two hits and drove in a run for Milwaukee.
San Diego scored on a solo homer by Dave Magadan,
his first of the spring.
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