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That'll leave a mark Bell knocks in game-winner, knocks out umpire
Updated: Tuesday April 17, 2001 1:03 AM
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Jay Bell seemed to always be in the center of everything Monday night. Bell scored a run, drove in the go-ahead run and took out an umpire with a throw in the Arizona Diamondbacks' 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. "He came up with a big base hit for us, and I'm sure he'd rather forget the other play," manager Bob Brenly said. Bell doubled and scored on Greg Colbrunn's single in the first, and his RBI single off Matt Morris snapped a seventh-inning tie. In the sixth, he accidentally hit umpire Larry Young in the forehead with a throw, bloodying Young's face, jacket and pants. The game was completed with three umpires and the wound required 14 stitches. "There was a river of blood coming out," Diamondbacks first baseman Mark Grace said. "He got filleted right about where your eyebrow starts." Young was injured after Pujols hit with one out in the sixth caromed high into the air off the second-base bag. Bell fielded the ball in shallow center field, and when he wheeled to make the throw, Young was directly in his path and just a few feet away.
Young was taken to Barnes Hospital for precautionary tests. Dr. George Paletta, the Cardinals' team physician, didn't expect Young to be able to return to action on Tuesday. "He's going to have a big shiner," Paletta said. "It will probably take a couple of weeks for all the swelling to go down." Bell, who visited the umpires' room after the game to make sure Young was all right, said he was able to block it out because it was an accident. "Certainly, I feel terrible about it," Bell said. "And certainly, my heart is freed up because I didn't do it on purpose. Certainly, nobody ever wants to see anything like that, but I've seen it before." Robert Ellis, whose contract was purchased from Triple-A Tucson earlier in the day due to Brian Anderson's thumb injury, won in his first appearance since 1996, when he made three outings with the California Angels. Ellis (1-0) allowed one run and five hits in six innings. "If he could have thrown a nine-inning no-hitter, it would have been a little better," Brenly said. "But I don't think I could have asked for anything more than that." Rookie Albert Pujols extended his hitting streak to 10 games, and Mike Matheny had a sixth-inning sacrifice fly for the Cardinals, who have lost four of five. Morris (1-2) allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings. "He does not deserve to be the losing pitcher," manager Tony La Russa said. "There's not justice in this game a lot of times." Matheny's sacrifice fly tied it in the sixth as Pujols barely beat center fielder Steve Finley's relay. Pujols made a hook slide and missed the plate with his foot, but touched it with his hand. Matt Mantei pitched a perfect ninth for his second save. Mantei gave up a game-winning three-run homer to Todd Hollandworth in a 10-7, 10-inning loss on Sunday. Notes: Ellis is the 20th starter used by the Diamondbacks in their four-year history. ... Bell has two hits in each of the last four games, and is 12-for-28 his last 10 games. ... Erubiel Durazo is 3-for-22 against the Cardinals in his career. ... Pujols is 18-for-36 during his hitting streak. He was 7-for-14 with eight RBIs in the Cardinals' three-game sweep at Arizona April 6-8. ... The Cardinals have been outscored 25-11 the first two innings. ... Steve Finley was 0-for-3 with a walk and is hitless in 29 at-bats. He's 3-for-41 (.073) overall.
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