Padres Solve Phillies’ 5-2 Defense : Flannery Drives Home Winning Run in 11th Inning, 3-2

SAN DIEGO —  Going deep against a stacked 5-2 defense, Tim Flannery had the game-winning RBI Friday night, lifting the Padres to a 3-2 victory over the Phillies in 11 innings with a sacrifice fly to left field.

Get this: With the bases loaded and nobody out, the Phillies put center fielder Von Hayes right in front of second base. The other infielders moved up, too, daring the Padres to hit it over them.

And, it worked for a while. Kurt Bevacqua, pinch-hitting for the eventual winning pitcher, Goose Gossage, hit one right where the Phillies wanted.

Right at Hayes.

Hayes, making like a pretty good infielder, whipped it to the plate. One out.

So next was Flannery. He was facing a kid named Dave Shipanoff, who got himself into this mess by committing a leadoff error (to be explained later). On a 1-and-1 pitch, he lined one to left. Garry Maddox, the left fielder, was playing in left-center and had to run a long way for it. He stumbled along the way. But he caught it and threw to the plate.

Still, Kevin McReynolds scored the winning run, tagging from third.

It ended a three-game Padre losing streak.

And Gossage had been magnificent. In two innings, he yielded not a walk, not a hit, not a wild pitch. He struck out three.

And poor Shipanoff. Called up from Portland on Aug. 8, he started the 11th with a decent pitch to Graig Nettles, who grounded it toward the second baseman. Juan Samuel bobbled it, but still had plenty of time and threw to first.

Shipanoff, covering first, dropped the throw.

Bobby Brown pinch-ran for Nettles and stole second, although he got a horrible jump. Kevin McReynolds fouled two sacrifice attempts, then grounded one to first baseman Mike Schmidt, who threw to third trying to get Brown. Safe. Terry Kennedy was walked intentionally, bringing up the Bevacqua, but eventually setting up Flannery.

“I wanted to get under the ball,” Flannery said. “Luckily, I didn’t hit one of my line drives right at somebody.”

For the first time in days, the Padres kept it close. Down 2-1 in the seventh, Mario Ramirez, who had entered on a double switch the previous inning, singled to center, and Miguel Dilone, the fastest runner on a slow team, pinch-ran.

Garry Templeton’s bunt got him to second. Tony Gwynn’s fly ball got him to third. Steve Garvey’s infield single got him home.

Actually, Garvey didn’t hit it that hard, but it went in the right place--the hole between the shortstop and third baseman. The shortstop, Tom Foley, fielded with a lunge, but his left foot gave out, and he slipped. There was no throw.

From that time, Lance McCullers, a former Phillie minor leaguer, threw 2 innings of hitless baseball, a nice accomplishment since he’d lost his only game of the year in Philadelphia 11 days ago. He’d tried too hard that night.

This night, he threw too hard.

Then came Goose. And if things are a little luckless for starter Eric Show now, how about next week? The Padres leave for four games against the Reds, and it’s almost certain that Pete Rose will break the all-time hit record against them.

And it could come against Show, who pitches the third game.

He may wind up being the answer to a trivia question.

Won’t it figure?

And he hasn’t been a very good batter this year. A year ago, he hit three homers, but . . .

“I don’t see as many fastballs anymore,” he said. “Nolan Ryan threw me a 3-2 curve ball.”

So he struggles and struggles and tells us about it and tells us about it. Friday, he threw his first pitch and had it hammered to left. He threw his second pitch and had it hammered to left. Runners on first and second.

After he got Hayes to fly out, Schmidt walked. Bases loaded.

And at 7:14 p.m. (the game began at 7:07), Gene Walter took off his warmup jacket and began throwing in the bullpen.

Glenn Wilson, who would eventually come up three times Friday with the bases full, grounded one to third, and Nettles fielded it but had trouble getting the ball out of his glove. He threw to second for the force out, but it was low. Everyone was safe, and the Phillies had scored.

Still, Show struck out Ozzie Virgil on four pitches and Rick Schu on three.

Basically, Philadelphia did nothing again until the fifth when Jeff Stone, Samuel and Hayes had consecutive singles, Stone scoring. Schmidt also singled, loading the bases, but Wilson, in his second attempt with the bases full, grounded into a double play.

By the way, Samuel had hits in his first three at-bats, giving him 20 in his last 53 attempts (.377). Say what about the sophomore jinx? And Samuel is better in the field, too, for he had only one error in his last 26 and had made just 13 all year compared to 29 at this time last season.

Meanwhile, the Padres were reducing the Phillie lead to 2-1 in the fifth when Gwynn scored on a Carmelo Martinez single. Still, the Phillies loaded them again against Show in the seventh. Again, Wilson stepped up.

Dick Williams brought in McCullers to strike him out.

He struck him out.

Padre Notes

From Pittsburgh to San Diego, the drug problem looms over baseball. “If a guy doesn’t do his job, he’s blamed with having an alcohol problem or a drugs,” Padre shortstop Garry Templeton said. “You can boot a couple of balls, and you hear people in the stands saying ‘Hey, you must be on drugs.’