Frustrating Night Had by All in Dodger Loss : Baseball: Seanez surrenders game-winning homer, but two-run lead and game-winning situations blown in 7-6, 11-inning loss to Phillies.

Rudy Seanez sat on the bench Thursday night, staring ahead at the field, long after the Dodgers’ 7-6, 11-inning defeat to the Philadelphia Phillies.

He trudged into the clubhouse, and again sat alone, this time staring into his locker.

He finally showered, dressed, and walked alone into the night, wondering how in the world life can suddenly be so rotten.

“Man, just when I don’t think it can get any worse,” Seanez said, his voice trailing off. “It’s bad. It stinks. I don’t even know what to think.”

The Dodgers spent four hours battling the Phillies before a paid crowd of 24,448 at Veterans Stadium, and in 30 seconds the game was over.

Seanez, the last man in the Dodger bullpen, entered the game with two outs and a 1-and-0 count on Charlie Hayes. He relieved Pedro Astacio, who suffered a bruised right knee while fielding Darren Daulton’s comebacker.

Two pitches later, Seanez was walking off the field after watching Hayes belt a hanging slider deep into the left-field seats.

“I understand what he’s going through,” said Dodger starter Tom Candiotti, who was supported by the most runs since June 21. “He doesn’t have a lot of confidence now anyway because of the role he’s in, and then to throw a home-run ball like that can be pretty deflating.”

The home-run pitch left the Dodgers only hoping it won’t come back to haunt them. Their National League West lead was cut to one-half game over the second-place Colorado Rockies.

“We should have won that game,” Dodger Manager Tom Lasorda said, “that ballgame was ours. We scored six runs. When you can’t win when you score six runs, something is wrong.”

The Dodgers indeed were 30-4 when scoring at least six runs this season, and most impressive, were 52-0 when leading after eight innings.

Yet it all came tumbling down upon them when they blew a 6-4 lead in the eighth, Todd Worrell blew only his second save situation of the season in the ninth, and the Dodgers blew scoring opportunities in the 10th and 11th innings.

“Tonight was one of the strangest games I’ve been in,” Worrell said.

Said Phillie Manager Jim Fregosi: “It was bizarre. It had a little bit of everything in it.”

The Dodgers appeared to have the game in hand, 6-4, when second baseman Delino DeShields hit a two-run homer off Russ Springer in the eighth inning. It was DeShields’ first four-hit game of the season, tying a career-high last set in 1992.

The Phillies, only 1 1/2 games behind Colorado in the wild-card race, stole the story line when they came back with a run in the eighth on Mickey Morandini’s run-scoring single, cutting the lead to 6-5. Still, the Dodgers had little worry. They had Worrell to close shop in the bottom of the inning.

Then it happened. Mark Whiten led off with a broken-bat blooper between third baseman Tim Wallach and shortstop Jose Offerman. The ball appeared to be within reach, but Wallach took a stab at it and missed, and Offerman was screened by Wallach.

Worrell got ahead of the count on Daulton, 1-2, when Whiten stole second base. Worrell, pitching carefully, then came with a fastball on the outside part of the plate and Daulton sent it off the left-field wall for a double, scoring Whiten.

The Dodgers appeared doomed, right up until Daulton tried to steal third. Charlie Hayes, seeing Daulton running, swung at a high pitch and sent it right to Wallach. Wallach tagged out Daulton at third and threw to first for the double play.

The Phillies, who were one for 17 with runners in scoring position, and the Dodgers each exchanged blown opportunities until the bottom of the 11th. With one out, Daulton hit a sharp bouncer off Astacio’s right knee. Astacio threw one more pitch before leaving.

Lasorda summoned Seanez, and the rest is history.

“It was a frustrating night for all of us,” said Dodger catcher Mike Piazza, who went one for six, gave up two passed balls and was called for catcher’s interference.

“I’d like to forget this thing ever happened.”