Record Cactus League crowd watches Dodgers' latest tie game - Los Angeles Times

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Record Cactus League crowd watches Dodgers' latest tie game - Los Angeles Times Mar 18th 2012, 07:03 The best part of the Dodgers' latest tie game, this one 3-3 against the Giants on Saturday night, was probably that they actually had people come out to see it. Lots of people. A record number of people. The Dodgers' attendance had averaged only 6,815 at Camelback through their first five home games, giving concern that simply changing ownership might not be enough to immediately signal the return of the faithful. But they drew more than 11,000 on Friday for the Rangers, and against the rival Giants on a cool and breezy St. Patrick's Day (night), they drew a Cactus League record of 13,655. They didn't get to watch much of a game, but you come to a spring training game, you take your chances. Out of pitchers, the umpires called it after the ninth. It was the Dodgers' third tie of the spring. Aaron Harang started for the Dodgers, and although hardly sharp -- he gave up seven hits in his four innings -- likely would have thrown four scoreless innings if the wind had not picked up a routine looking fly by Brandon Belt and carried it over the left-field fence for a two-run homer. The Dodgers -- wearing not just green uniforms for St. Patrick's Day, but near florescent green -- got one back in the bottom of the inning off Brian Burres when Justin Sellers doubled and scored on a Juan Rivera base hit. The Dodgers tied it in the fifth after Ted Federowicz singled, Ivan De Jesus Jr. walked, and Matt Kemp lofted a hit to right. The Dodgers took a 3-2 lead in the sixth when infielder Luis Cruz lined a solo home run out to left. For the 28-year-old Cruz, with his fourth different team in seven years, it was his second home run in 100 spring at-bats. The Giants were going quietly by then, managing only one more hit against the next three Dodgers' pitchers -- Josh Lindblom, Jamey Wright and Ronald Belisario -- until the Dodgers gambled a tad. Shawn Tolleson, their 2011 minor league pitcher of the year, made his first spring appearance in the eighth. Gregor Blanco led off with a double, took third on a groundout and scored on a sacrifice fly by Belt. The Dodgers are now 8-3-3. RELATED: It's a retro-looking Andre Ethier in Dodgers' 8-6 loss to Rockies Vin Scully scales back his Dodgers broadcasts a bit further Dodgers bidder Michael Heisley considers selling Grizzlies to Larry Ellison Record Cactus League crowd watches Dodgers' latest tie game This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.

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