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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Desi Relaford took it personally when the
Montreal Expos walked a batter to get to him.
Relaford took out his feelings with a two-out single that scored
the winning run in the 11th inning to give the San Diego Padres a
4-3 victory over the Expos on Saturday night.
"It messes with your pride when they walk to get to you,"
Relaford said.
Relaford's single off Julio Santana (0-3) scored Ruben Rivera
from second base. Second baseman Jose Vidro made a diving stab at
the ball but it rolled off his glove in short right field.
Rivera was able to score ahead of Vidro's throw.
"You hit it in the right spots and sometimes you can get away
with it," said Montreal first baseman Lee Stevens about Relaford's
game-winning hit. "You don't always have to hit it hard."
Rivera led off the inning with his third walk of the game and
was sacrificed to second. With two outs, Santana intentionally
walked Eric Owens to get to Relaford.
"(Owens) is hitting .310, I'm hitting .226, so why not throw to
me?" Relaford said.
But as the Padres shortstop pointed out, he's hit well with
runners in scoring position (.354) this season.
Kevin Walker (7-1) pitched the 11th for the win.
Vidro tied it at 3 with a two-run homer off Padres reliever
Donne Wall in the eighth.
Vidro connected with two outs for his 19th home run.
Pinch-hitter Wilton Guerrero had drawn a leadoff walk.
"To persevere and get the win is big," Padres manager Bruce
Bochy said. "That would have been a disheartening loss."
Padres starter Brian Tollberg allowed one run and three hits in
seven innings. The no-decision was the rookie's eighth in his last
10 starts.
The only run Montreal scored off Tollberg came on an infield
single by Vidro and Lee Stevens' run-scoring triple in the fourth.
Tollberg retired 11 of the final 12 batters he faced.
Stevens went 4-for-4 with a walk.
San Diego took a 3-1 lead on consecutive RBI doubles by Ryan
Klesko and Phil Nevin in the sixth.
Montreal starter Javier Vazquez allowed three runs on nine hits
in seven innings.
The Padres took a 1-0 lead in the second when Nevin scored on a
double-play grounder.
Game notes
With an infield single in his first at-bat, Nevin has
reached base by a hit or walk in 40 consecutive games. ... The
Expos turned three double plays, giving them seven in the first two
games of the three-game series. Montreal infielders have not
committed an error in the last 23 games, spanning 204 innings. ...
San Diego's Bret Boone snapped an 0-for-15 skid with an infield
single in the first. In his last seven games, he was 2-for-26
before the hit. ... Expos OF Peter Bergeron missed his second
straight start with a bruised left thumb, but did come into the
game as a defensive replacement in the eighth. ... Dave Winfield
was inducted into the Padres Hall of Fame. Winfield, who played the
first eight years of his career with San Diego, had his uniform
number (31) retired and a banner with his picture hung from the top
of Qualcomm Stadium.
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