After Myers Blows Lead, Padres, Reds Tied in 14th : Baseball: Padres’ 5-1 lead in the ninth in not safe.

Nasty? The only thing nasty about Randy Myers on Friday night was his pitching performance as he blew a four-run, ninth-inning Padre lead at San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium.

The Padres recovered, sending the game into the 14th inning with the score 6-6, but only after another rocky outing from the bullpen stopper they acquired during the off-season in a trade for Bip Roberts.

One night after trading jokes with talk show host Dennis Miller, Myers traded in what looked like a certain Padre victory for extra-inning cliff-hanger in front of 22,956.

In fact, the night was ugly for all three of Cincinnati’s former “Nasty Boys,” the nickname the bullpen trio of Myers, Rob Dibble and Norm Charlton earned during the Reds’ 1990 championship season.

Dibble yielded an RBI double in the Padres’ four-run rally in the bottom of the eighth, and, after the Reds took a 6-5 lead in the top of the 11th on Freddie Benavides’ RBI single, Charlton blew the save, allowing Jerald Clark’s game-tying double.

The Padres actually took command after being no-hit for six innings by Cincinnati right-hander Tim Belcher.

Myers’ blowing a Harris start is not new. Against the Dodgers on April 12, Myers allowed two inherited runners to score and then let two of his own score as the Dodgers scored four runs in the ninth to tie the game at 4-4. That day, the Padres won it with a run in the bottom of the ninth.