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Updated: Sat Sep 06 03:18:25 EDT 2003

LOS ANGELES DODGERS ORGANIZATION NOTEBOOK

LAS VEGAS... 3B RICK BELL went 3-for-4 with two RBI in a 9-5 win over Fresno August 26. Bell hit a two-run double during a seven-run sixth inning and tripled and scored in the eighth...

Despite hitting six home runs, including three in two separate innings, the 51s dropped a 9-8 decision at Fresno August 27. With two outs in the top of the first inning, 1B DARYLE WARD connected on the first of three consecutive home runs off Boof Bonser. OF CHIN-FENG CHEN and 1B LARRY BARNES followed with the second and third blasts in the first. In the eighth, 2B JOE THURSTON smacked a two-run homer with one out. Two batters later, Chen hit his second home run of the contest and Barnes followed with his 15th longball of the year. The 51s became just the second team in the league this season to homer six times in a game and the first in the minors this season to have a pair of three-homer frames...

C KOYIE HILL (.318, 3 HR, 36 RBI) was named to the All-PCL team....

JACKSONVILLE... OF TARRICK BROCK hit a grand slam and finished with five RBI in an 11-1 romp of Greenville August 21. OF FRANKLIN GUTIERREZ blasted a two-run homer and scored three times and 1B DEREK MICHAELIS hit a solo shot. Gutierrez doubled home OF JASON REPKO with the go-ahead run in the top of the 10th inning for a 6-5 win over West Tenn August 27. SS VICTOR RODRIGUEZ collected four hits and an RBI and C BRANDON ROGERS homered. It was the third straight game the team played decided by one run...

RHP BRIAN PILKINGTON won three straight starts August 15-26 (19 IP, 21 H, 8 R, 8 ER, 1 BB, 13 SO)...

3B BRENNAN KING was mired in an 0-for-17 slump in five games August 18-26....

VERO BEACH... 2B NELSON CASTRO hit a two-run double to drive in the go-ahead runs in the top of the ninth inning of a 6-3 triumph over Brevard County August 22...

RHP FRANQUELIS OSORIA allowed no earned runs in six consecutive games August 6-27 (9.2 IP, 8 H, 4 R, 1 BB, 10 SO), notching a pair of saves...

2B SCOTT GILLITZER hit .029 (1-35, 8 SO) in 11 games August 14-27...

1B JAMES LONEY, the Dodgers' first-round pick in last year's draft, hit .121 (7-58, 12 SO) in 16 games August 6-26....

SOUTH GEORGIA... OF DELWYN YOUNG (.323, 15 HR, 73 RBI) was placed on the disabled list with a laceration on his right leg on August 25...

OF ED MONTAGUE drew a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the 10th inning to beat Rome, 7-6, August 23...

LHP JONATHAN FIGUEROA spun six scoreless innings (4 H, 0 BB, 5 SO) in a no-decision against Rome August 22. Figueroa went 0-7 with a 4.37 ERA in 12 games July 7-August 27...

LHP JAMAAL HAMILTON threw six scoreless innings (7 H, 0 BB, 5 SO) in a 2-1 win at Charleston-SC August 26....

OGDEN... RHP CHAD BILLINGSLEY struck out 10 batters (7 IP, 3 H, 2 R) in a 2-0 loss at Missoula August 22, marking the sixth straight start in which he allowed two earned runs or fewer...

OF RYAN CARTER belted a grand slam and finished with five RBI in a 9-2 decision over Missoula August 24. Two nights later, C RUSSELL MARTIN hit a grand slam and had five RBI (3-5, 1 2B, 1 HR) on August 26 in an 11-9 loss against Casper...

RHP JORDAN PRATT went 0-7 with an 8.25 ERA in 14 games June 23-August 21....

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