Padres 4, Dodgers 2: The Perfect Season is No More
by Eric Stephen on Apr 7, 2009 10:21 PM PDT
in Dodgers Game Recaps
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PrintThe Dodgers ended their dream of a perfect season early, dropping the second game of the season to Chris Young and the Padres tonight at Petco. The attendance was announced as 20,035, but on television it looked like half that were actually there.
Randy Wolf was solid through five innings, but the sixth inning proved his undoing. After retiring eight straiht batters, Wolf allowed a shift-buster single to where the shortstop usually plays, off the bat of Adrian Gonzalez. However, due to the shift Casey Blake was manning the position rather than the superior range of Rafael Furcal. A single and a two-run double later, both Wolf and the Dodgers lead were gone.
Trailing 4-2 in the seventh, the key at bat belonged to Orlando Hudson. Facing a wild Edwin Moreno, a pitcher making his major league debut, Hudson swung and missed at ball four, a low 3-1 pitch. One pitch later, with two runners on base via walk, and Manny Ramirez on deck, Hudson struck out. Moreno then got Manny to popout, and that was the end of the threat.
The Dodgers managed five walks tonight, but did not get a hit after Matt Kemp's fourth inning single. A bright spot for the Dodgers was Ronald Belisario, who made his own major league debut in the eighth inning. The surprise addition to the bullpen showed a live fastball, between 93 and 96 MPH (according to Gameday), as well as a sharp slider, in retiring the three batters he faced.
Chad Billingsley toes the rubber tomorrow at 7:05pm, against Walter Silva, a 32-year old making his major league debut. Tony Jackson has some details of Silva's past here.
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Eric, I have no reason to believe this information isn’t accurate:
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=t_ros&cid=401
All of the minor league rosters were to be set this week. For instance, Chattanooga was just released (Elbert is there).
If true, that is great news, SW!
Just leave Heidi Androl alone!
by DodgerBlueBalls on Apr 7, 2009 10:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Must have been watching a different game . . .
On my TV Wolf looked extremely shaky 1st two innings. Padres were just too inept to put him away.
Anyway, we knew it would be like this this year. Better luck next time Wolfie, I’m sure he’ll make a solid addition to our post-season pen.
Outside of the 2nd inning
Wolf was fine (before the 6th, obviously). He had three 1-2-3 innings.
by Eric Stephen on Apr 7, 2009 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, when Manny starts connecting consistenty (currently hitting 143)
and he gets a few games under his belt he will probably look good enough.
At least against the Padres and giants.
I thought Belisario looked really good.
He was throwing hard with what seemed like good sink. Also got a couple of nice breaking balls in there. He looks like he could be a steal.
by Brendan Scolari on Apr 7, 2009 11:04 PM PDT reply actions
Everyone but Troncoso
from the bullpen has thrown, and so far done well:
6 IP, 1 hit, 3 BB, 4 K
opposing batters hitting: .056/.182/.111
1 of 4 inherited runners have scored
Just to add
small sample size obviously, but the FIP so far for the bullpen is 3.37.
For the starters, it’s only 3.38 (starters’ ERA is 4.09).
by Eric Stephen on Apr 7, 2009 11:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Also, fear not! :)
The Dodgers’ pythagorean win % is .590 through two games, putting them on a 96-win pace. Playoffs here we come!
Matt Kemp
still on pace to break the single season homerun record!!
And Loney is on pace to break the single season hits record!
by Brendan Scolari on Apr 8, 2009 12:27 AM PDT up reply actions
career .315 OBP ... thanks Ned.
I’m sorry but I’ll never ever get over trading the best A catching prospect for a 35 year old career .315 OBP player who plays poor defense.
Beltre would have had that shot in the 6th and prevented that double! Eh maybe not but I just can’t get past how bad of a trade this was and will be. That’s one of many reasons I’ll never ever be a decent GM.
by Seanny Rotten on Apr 8, 2009 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Were there technical difficulties with this website last night?
During the game I couldn’t load the webpage. I noticed the number of posts on the game thread and now am starting to think the problems were on my end…
Not that I know of
I was able to access it all game
by Eric Stephen on Apr 8, 2009 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions
I like our chances anytime...
…we got runners on late in the game & a 3-1 count on whomever is batting, with Manny on deck all representing the winning runs. Plus – the bullpen does look solid, imo. 95+ win season is likely for the ‘09 Dodgers. Also, I’m kinda sure Torre will be tweaking the lineup for the best results. That’s his job. Taking 3 outa 4 from the Pads in their pet park will be sweet…“beat LA” my ass.
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