Padres Defeat Dodgers in Extra Innings Again and by Run Again, 2-1

In the upper deck behind home plate of Jack Murphy Stadium Tuesday night, a young man set fire to a Dodger pennant before being taken away. Rick Monday, who doesn’t like flag-burners, was nowhere to be found.

These are trying times for the Dodgers, sole occupants of last place in the National League Western Division for the last two nights. It’s a position they never knew in 1985.

And naturally, it didn’t come any easier against the San Diego Padres, who beat the Dodgers out in extra innings for the second straight night. This time it was 2-1 in 12 innings, Garry Templeton delivering a two-out, bases-loaded single off Ken Howell for the game-winning run.

The Dodgers, meanwhile, managed just four singles off Eric Show and two relievers, neither of whom was Goose Gossage.

The Dodgers came into the game batting .160 with runners in scoring position. That was no problem Tuesday night, because they rarely put a runner in scoring position, getting only four hits to the Padres’ nine and leaving five runners on base to the Padres’ 14.

In the last five innings, against Padre relievers Gene Walter and Lance McCullers, the Dodgers managed just one hit, a single by Mariano Duncan.

Duncan’s hit led off the 11th inning. But Ken Landreaux, who followed, fouled off a bunt attempt, fouled off a hit-and-run try and finally popped out to short left. Bill Madlock then grounded into a double play.

Dodger Manager Tom Lasorda was so inflamed by the loss that he cursed his way up the runway from the dugout and didn’t stop until shortly before reporters arrived. Then, he took refuge in an eating room adjacent to the Dodger clubhouse.

“It was well-deserved--we ain’t doing bleep,” said Madlock of Lasorda’s outburst. “What’s he supposed to do, act like he’s at a church social?”

Overall, it was the fourth time in nine games that the Dodgers have gone into overtime, the third for the Padres, and it was the ninth consecutive one-run game for both teams.

Rick Honeycutt gave the Dodgers six strong innings of four-hit, six-strikeout pitching, then turned the game over to Tom Niedenfuer (three scoreless innings) and Howell.

But Show was prime-time material himself, allowing an unearned run on three hits in seven innings. Reliever Walter retired all six batters he faced, and McCullers followed with two shutout innings.

“It’s a tossup right now who you want to face, McCullers or Gossage,” Dodger first baseman Greg Brock said. “McCullers may be throwing harder.”

Howell, who pitched out of a second-and-third, one-out situation in the 11th by striking out Marvell Wynne and Tim Flannery, didn’t escape the 12th.

The Padres loaded the bases on a single by pinch-hitter Carmelo Martinez and two walks, one intentional. Templeton ended the long night by hitting the first pitch up the middle.

After the game, the Dodgers announced that Madlock, batting .194, would return to Los Angeles today to have his left hip examined.

As it turned out, the Dodgers tied a team record with the nine consecutive one-run games, set by Brooklyn in 1953. The ’53 Dodgers won six of those nine games, however.

“What’s nerve-racking is not the one-run games,” Madlock said, “but the way we’ve been losing them.

“We could very easily be 8-1. The only game we should have lost is the one (Dave) Dravecky pitched last week, when we only got one guy to second base. The other games we’ve been winning, and we gave it away.”

The Dodger defense has been deadly. They’ve made 16 errors to their opponents’ 6 in the first nine games.

“We’ve got to shore up our defense,” Madlock said. “It’s not how many errors you make but when you make them, and we’ve been making them late.

“We’re not as bad a defensive team as we’ve been playing right now. It’s not the tough plays we’re messing up. It’s the routine plays.”

The Dodgers made one error Tuesday night. Bill Russell, filling in for sore-heeled Steve Sax, couldn’t handle Tony Gwynn’s one-hop smash in the first inning.

That almost developed into a run when Steve Garvey doubled past Madlock into the left-field corner. But after walking Jerry Royster, starting at short for Templeton, who had symptoms of the stomach flu, Honeycutt induced Graig Nettles to bounce out to Greg Brock.

The Dodgers’ only run off Show came when Royster couldn’t pick up Madlock’s broken-bat roller in the sixth after Landreaux’s leadoff single.

Manager Tom Lasorda elected to have cleanup batter Brock bunt the runners over, and Mike Marshall’s infield out scored Landreaux. Show struck out Franklin Stubbs to end the inning, Stubbs’ 12th strikeout in 22 at-bats.

Otherwise, the game was distinguished by excellent defensive plays by both sides. In the fourth, Royster made a diving catch of Brock’s liner behind second base. Three batters later, Garvey took a hit away from Mike Scioscia with a backhand stop.

In the seventh, Garvey stood his ground on another Scioscia one-hop shot, intercepting the ball at chest level.

Brock fell on his backside but held on to Garvey’s foul pop in the third. Dodger shortstop Mariano Duncan went back two steps on the outfield grass to throw out Royster in the fourth. And Russell went behind second to throw out Garvey in the sixth.

Then, in the eighth, after Templeton, who had entered in the sixth as a pinch-hitter, had a single off Niedenfuer, Scioscia threw Templeton out attempting to steal, the ninth time in 12 attempts the Padres have been caught.

Twice, Honeycutt had two-out situations in which a Padre was on second, first base was open and Wynne was at the plate, with the pitcher up next.

Both times, Honeycutt elected to pitch to Wynne, and once he was burned--when Wynne followed Terry Kennedy’s double with a sliced double to left field for a 1-0 lead in the fourth.

In the sixth, Royster lined a hit to left and wound up on second with a double when Stubbs slipped and fell. Honeycutt walked pinch-hitter Templeton intentionally, then retired Kennedy on a fly ball to center.

Wynne again. This time, Honeycutt got him to ground slowly to first, then hustled over in time to take Brock’s toss and beat Wynne by a half-step.

Show, who gave up just three hits and an unearned run, was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the seventh still looking for his first win. In three starts, Show has allowed just 4 earned runs in 21 innings for a 1.71 earned-run average, but is 0-1. He lost to the Dodgers, 2-1, on opening day and was not involved in the decision in the Padres’ 4-3 win over the Reds in 11 innings last Friday. Tuesday night, it was another no-decision.

Padre Manager Steve Boros went counter to conventional strategy in the seventh, when pinch-hitter Flannery drew a leadoff walk off Niedenfuer in a 1-1 game.

Instead of bunting Flannery to second base with rookie Bip Roberts, a good bunter, Boros sent up pinch-hitter Dane Iorg, who struck out. Tony Gwynn followed with a base hit that almost surely would have scored Flannery.

Instead, there were runners on first and second, and Niedenfuer escaped by getting Kevin McReynolds on a fly ball and striking out Garvey.

Dodger Notes

Jerry Reuss, just demoted to the bullpen, said he suspects the Dodgers are actively seeking to trade him. “There are three signs you’re about to be traded,” he said. “One, Chief (Al Campanis) says there’s no trade in the making; two, Tommy (Lasorda) says he loves you like a son, and three, you get your meal money one day at a time. There I am.” Reuss, who learned of his demotion during Sunday’s game with the Giants, said he went through “disbelief, denial, anger, then realization of the facts.” Added Reuss: “I realize where I am and I’m going to change it. I believe what I say. I’m going to win 15 to 18 games this season.” With the Dodgers? Reuss: “I said I’m going to win 15 to 18 games.” . . . Ed Vande Berg, the left-hander who was supposed to fill the void in the Dodger bullpen, has an earned-run average of 10.13 after his first three appearances. Vande Berg gave up a game-winning home run to Bruce Bochy in the 11th inning Monday night. “Good pitch, wrong location,” Vande Berg said of the curveball he threw Bochy. “It’s unfortunate, but I’m not faring too well right now.” . . . Pitching coach Ron Perranoski said Reuss’ removal from the rotation was not necessarily a permanent one. “I told him to go down there (the bullpen) and get his stuff together,” Perranoski said. “He needs more consistency in his velocity.” . . . Steve Sax, examined Tuesday by Padre physician Cliff Colwell, will return to Los Angeles today to have his sore right heel re-examined by Dr. Frank Jobe, the Dodger team physician. According to Dodger trainer Bill Buhler, Colwell said Sax’s heel is just bruised but advised that Sax refrain from running for a few days. Buhler said he expects Sax to be fitted with an arch support. It’s also possible that Sax, who already has had two cortisone shots (one over the winter, one during spring training) will have another. Sax, the Dodgers’ leading hitter through the first eight games with a .400 average, was available to pinch-hit Tuesday night. He aggravated the injury as the point man in Monday night’s rare double-single-double play routine, pulling up lame rounding third. “I was walking a tightrope going around third,” Sax said. “When I put on the thrust, it’s just not there.” . . . Pedro Guerrero was examined Tuesday by Jobe, who said Guerrero will begin “minimal, mild and gentle rehabilitative exercises.” The One-Run Syndrome

Date Score Inn. April 7 Dodgers 2, S.D. 1 9 April 8 S.D. 1, Dodgers 0 9 April 9 Dodgers 1, S.D. 0 9 April 10 S.D. 3, Dodgers 2 9 April 11 S.F. 9, Dodgers 8 12 April 12 S.F. 7, Dodgers 6 11 April 13 Dodgers 3, S.F. 2 9 April 14 S.D. 4, Dodgers 3 11 April 15 S.D. 2, Dodgers 1 12