1.   Before injuring his knee on a sliding catch in left field against Pittsburgh, Sheffield was swinging the bat better than any Dodger.

2.   Bernie Williams raced in and made a sliding catch Clemens whiffed two more in the fourth and struck out McLemore on three pitches leading off the fifth.

3.   Boehringer retired Jermaine Dye when Darryl Strawberry made a nice sliding catch in left field for the second out.

4.   Boehringer got Jermaine Dye for the second out when Strawberry made a nice sliding catch in left field.

5.   After Schourek threw a wild pitch, he was replaced by Jeff Brantley, who was aided greatly by a sliding catch in center by defensive replacement Darren Lewis.

6.   After that, he lined sharply to left, but David Justice made a nice sliding catch for the out.

7.   Against the Tigers, he made a sliding catch along the left field line in the third inning and a diving stop and throw behind second an inning later.

8.   But when he jarred the shoulder trying to make a sliding catch Sunday in San Diego, he aggravated it enough to ask Scioscia for a day off.

9.   Davis ended the sixth inning with a sliding catch near the third-base seats.

10.   Defensively, his sliding catches became his trademark.