Dodgers Week Three In Review
by Eric Stephen on Apr 26, 2009 6:13 PM PDT
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PrintThe Dodgers returned to Earth this week, back to the land of the mortals. Some good games were mixed in with some bad games to start a long road trip, but even with an up and down week they widened their division lead from one game to 2.5 games.
Dodger Batter of the Week: Manny Ramirez, who was torrid until Saturday night in Colorado, and ended up hitting .333/.391/.619 or the week. Ramirez's performance at the plate was roughly the same as both Andre Ethier (.348/.464/.565) and James Loney (.375/.464/.583), but Manny got extra credit for hitting a ball out of Minute Maid Park on Wednesday.
Dodger Pitcher of the Week: Chad Billingsley had another superb outing against the Astros, but the award this week has to go to Ramon Troncoso, who was superb in his two outings. He faced 18 batters during the week, and allowed only a single hit, and on a night when most of the Dodger bullpen was unavailable Troncoso came through with a clutch four-inning save.
Week 3 Record: 3-3, 28 runs scored, 34 runs allowed (.404 pythagorean winning percentage)
Overall Seasonal Record: 13-6, 110 runs scored, 74 runs allowed (.688 pythagorean winning percentage)
Upcoming Week: The Dodgers end their nine-game road trip with three in San Francisco, then come home to play four against the Padres, so the whole week is against the two teams directly behind the Dodgers in the NL West.
Week 3 Stats
| Player | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | BA/OBP/SLG | OPS |
| Loney | 24 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | .375/.464/.583 | 1.048 |
| Ethier | 23 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | .348/.464/.565 | 1.030 |
| Manny | 21 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | .333/.391/.619 | 1.010 |
| Blake | 17 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | .235/.381/.471 | .852 |
| Hudson | 25 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .280/.379/.360 | .739 |
| Kemp | 22 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .182/.308/.273 | .580 |
| Furcal | 21 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .238/.333/.238 | .571 |
| Martin | 22 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | .227/.261/.273 | .534 |
| Ausmus | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .400/.400/.600 | 1.000 |
| Loretta | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .500/.500/.500 | 1.000 |
| Pierre | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .286/.375/.286 | .661 |
| Castro | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000/.000/.000 | .000 |
| DeWitt | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000/.000/.000 | .000 |
| Pitchers | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .083/.313/.083 | .396 |
| Totals | 211 | 28 | 56 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 27 | 29 | .265/.362/.389 | .751 |
| Pitcher | G | W-L | Sv | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | ERA | WHIP |
| Billingsley | 1 | 1-0 | -- | 7.1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0.00 | 0.682 |
| Wolf | 1 | 0-0 | -- | 7.0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 5.14 | 1.286 |
| Stults | 1 | 0-0 | -- | 5.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5.40 | 2.400 |
| McDonald | 1 | 1-0 | -- | 5.0 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 9.00 | 1.600 |
| Kershaw | 2 | 0-2 | -- | 9.0 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 15.00 | 2.444 |
| Troncoso | 2 | 0-0 | 1 | 5.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | 0.176 |
| Broxton | 2 | 0-0 | 2 | 2.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.00 | 0.750 |
| Ohman | 1 | 0-0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| Mota | 2 | 0-0 | 0 | 2.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4.50 | 1.000 |
| Belisario | 3 | 0-1 | 0 | 4.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6.75 | 2.000 |
| Elbert | 1 | 0-0 | 0 | 1.1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6.75 | 2.250 |
| Kuo | 1 | 1-0 | 0 | 1.0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 18.00 | 2.000 |
| Totals | 6 | 3-3 | 3 | 51.0 | 51 | 34 | 34 | 23 | 33 | 6.00 | 1.451 |
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Stupid Gurnick quote
Further fueling speculation about the composition of the Dodgers’ young starting rotation, veteran Eric Milton pitched six scoreless innings Sunday for Triple-A Albuquerque. Milton allowed only two hits one day after Jeff Weaver made his first start for Albuquerque
Like we’re supposed to be SO impressed that a pair of retread pitchers are getting scoreless innings in AAA. The stat line doesn’t mean shit, Gurnick. What are their scouting reports? Are they facing a bunch of guys with huge holes in their swings? Putting up a 0 ER doesn’t automatically make someone a candidate for a big league job, especially when their history suggests beyond mediocre peformance.
I think
Jeff Weaver would make an excellent long or middle reliever at this stage in his career. I don’t know if he has the chops to still give us 30 starts and go 6 or 7 innings of allowing 2 or 3 runs each trip.
But what do I know I’m Simi Valley High class of ’95 (Weaver is class of ’94).
Oh, one other thing,
.688 winning percentage translates to 111 wins. I’ll take that. What is that best Dodger all-time? Why yes, yes it is. It is also the best all-time Dodger winning percentage.
Mama TOLD me there'd be days like this - Van Morrison (btw, the Shirelles sang "mama SAID there would..." Different song completely, actually opposite lyrics.)
Hey Eric & U guys – check out the new Cleve Cavs Nike parody & have a laugh… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk09AbO3akM
… the closing bit at the very end (after the break) where he’s crying on his teammate’s shoulder "It’s the playoffs man…the playoffs.’ is also priceless. BTW, An LA/Cleveland Final would be tremendous for the NBA.
Regarding the 2009 Dodger pitching staff; they lead all of MLB in this category : Only 131 hits allowed in165.0 total innings. :)
…and even with Sunday’s debacle of 10 runs allowed — we are still 4th best (out of 30 MLB teams) in FEWEST runs allowed. Nice staff all in all, don’t you think ? Put that together with Manny & the boys hitting. We’ll be fine, imho.
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