PATTERSON, D-BACKS STIFLE GIANTS
No-Hit Bid Ends in 8th
SAN FRANCISCO, May 28 (AP) - Making just his second start of the season, John
Patterson took a no-hitter into the eighth inning before settling for a two-hit,
complete game shutout as the Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the San Francisco
Giants, 2-0, at Pac Bell Park. It was the eighth shutout of the season for
the Diamondbacks, tying them with the Giants for the major league lead.
Patterson (1-0) managed to outduel San Francisco starter Damian Moss (6-4), who
fired seven innings of one-run ball himself.
Moss escaped a serious two-out threat by Arizona in the fourth. After
retiring Danny Bautista and Lyle Overbay on strikes to open the inning, Moss
yielded a single to Matt Williams and Steve Finley's double to the left-center
field gap put runners on second and third. Chad Moeller was given an
intentional free pass to fill the bases and Patterson rolled into an
inning-ending fielder's choice.
The Diamondbacks finally broke the scoreless deadlock in the sixth.
Bautista led off with a single and advanced to second on Overbay's hit-and-run
grounder. Williams popped to third for the second out of the frame but
Finley followed with his second two-bagger of the game, this one to right-center
field, scoring Bautista with the game's first run. Moss retired Moeller on
a grounder to short to end the inning.
Arizona added an insurance run in the eighth with a rally that was aided
immeasurably by a Giants' miscue. Facing reliever Joe Nathan, Luis
Gonzalez flied to center for the first out but Bautista singled through the
box. Overbay walked, putting runners on first and second. Shortstop
Rich Aurilia then let Williams' sure double play ball go right through his legs,
filling the bases with only one out. Scott Eyre replaced Nathan to face
the lefty swinging Finley, but the Diamondbacks center fielder lifted a
sacrifice fly to center, scoring Bautista to put Arizona on top, 2-0.
Patterson, meanwhile, was setting the Giants down with surprising ease.
Barry Bonds drew a lead-off walk in the second, but Patterson retired the next
19 San Francisco hitters in a row. With one out in the eighth, J.T. Snow
looped a ball into right-center field. Right fielder Bautista made a full
dive but came up empty and the Giants had their first hit of the game.
Patterson immediately induced a double play ball off the bat of Pedro Feliz to
end the inning.
In the ninth, Patterson retired Jose Cruz, Jr. on a pop fly to first, and then
set down pinch hitter Ruben Rivera on a fly to center. Marquis Grissom
then fisted a looper that landed just inside the right field line for the second
San Francisco hit of the contest, bringing Ray Durham to the plate. The
Giants second baseman worked ahead in the count 2-0 and then lifted a long fly
to left. It was as well hit a ball as San Francisco had managed off
Patterson all day, but Gonzalez ran it down at the edge of the warning track to
end the game.
Patterson becomes just the third National League hurler to toss a complete game
two-hit shutout thus far this season. Mark Redman of the Florida Marlins
turned the trick against the New York Mets on April 18 and Tim Redding of the
Astros stymied the Cubs on May 24.
5/28/2003, Ari03-SF03, Pacific Bell Park 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP 2003 Diamondbacks 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 6 0 10 1 2003 Giants 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 Diamondbacks AB R H BI AVG Giants AB R H BI AVG Cintron ss 5 0 0 0 .276 Grissom cf 4 0 1 0 .340 Baerga 2b 5 0 0 0 .358 Durham 2b 4 0 0 0 .262 Spivey 2b 0 0 0 0 .287 Aurilia ss 3 0 0 0 .291 Gonzalez,L lf 4 0 0 0 .277 Bonds lf 2 0 0 0 .345 Bautista rf 4 2 2 0 .305 Santiago,B c 3 0 0 0 .268 Overbay 1b 3 0 0 0 .248 Snow 1b 3 0 1 0 .293 Williams,Ma 3b 4 0 1 0 .259 Feliz 3b 3 0 0 0 .296 Finley cf 3 0 3 2 .216 Cruz,Jo rf 3 0 0 0 .243 Moeller c 1 0 0 0 .292 Moss p 2 0 0 0 .333 Patterson,Jo p 4 0 0 0 .000 Nathan p 0 0 0 0 .000 33 2 6 2 Eyre p 0 0 0 0 .000 Brower p 0 0 0 0 .000 Rivera,R ph 1 0 0 0 .208 28 0 2 0 Diamondbacks INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Patterson,Jo W 1-0 9.0 2 0 0 1 6 96 62 1.20 9.0 2 0 0 1 6 96 62 Giants INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Moss L 6-4 7.0 5 1 1 3 4 111 66 3.77 Nathan 0.1 1 1 0 1 0 10 6 2.49 Eyre 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 2.35 Brower 1.1 0 0 0 1 1 20 12 1.77 9.0 6 2 1 5 5 143 85 Ari: Spivey inserted at 2b in the 9th SF : Rivera,R batted for Brower in the 9th E-Aurilia, Santiago,B. 2B-Finley 2(11). RBI-Finley 2(18). SB-Finley(4). K-Gonzalez,L, Bautista 2, Overbay, Patterson,Jo, Grissom, Durham, Aurilia, Feliz, Cruz,Jo, Moss. BB-Gonzalez,L, Overbay, Moeller 3, Bonds. SF-Finley. GWRBI: Finley Temperature: 59, Sky: clear, Wind: out to center at 15 MPH. Attendance: 40,454 Game Time: 2:38