Billingsley & Blake Carry The Dodgers, 6-3

by Eric Stephen on Jun 14, 2009 3:26 PM PDT in Game Recaps Comment 16 comments

The face of an ace.

The Dodgers needed a win today to both win the series with Texas and ensure their eighth straight winning week. Enter Chad Billingsley and Casey Blake. The highlights:

Billingsley pitched into the eighth inning, allowing only two earned runs on five hits, picking up his National League-leading ninth win.
Casey Blake gave the Dodgers their first run with a sacrifice fly in the first inning, then unleashed a three-run Beard Bomb well over the left field wall in the third inning to give the Dodgers the lead for good.
The Dodgers piled up 10 hits and seven walks, infusing some life into their offense. The only player without a hit was Juan Pierre, who still got on base twice via walks.
Andre Ethier, James Loney, and Matt Kemp each stole second base
Ramon Troncoso pitched a scoreless eighth inning, lowering his ERA on the season to 1.51
After allowing a leadoff single in the ninth inning to Michael Young, Jonathan Broxton fanned the next three hitters to close out the series

Fun with numbers:

Pitcher	ERA	WHIP	K/9	BA	OBP	SLG
Jonathan Broxton 2009	1.41	0.688	14.91	.103	.192	.140
Eric Gagne 2003	1.20	0.692	14.98	.133	.199	.176

The Dodgers take Monday off, then will welcome Oakland to town for a short three-game homestand. Clayton Kershaw will face Dallas Braden Tuesday.

WP - Chad Billingsley (9-3): 7 IP, 5 hits, 3 runs (2 earned), 1 walk, 3 strikeouts

LP - Derek Holland (1-4): 5 IP, 5 hits, 4 runs, 4 walks, 2 strikeouts

Sv - Jonathan Broxton (16): 1 IP, 1 hit, 3 strikeouts

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broxton has been better then gagne in Whip, Baa, OBP, and Slg and nearly identical K/9 and era

if he continues this pace.. he should win the cy young award

by matthewmafa on Jun 14, 2009 3:47 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

He’ll have to beat Chad :)

by Eric Stephen on Jun 14, 2009 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't think closers should really ever win the Cy Young award.

Though if Broxton keeps this up, he is probably about as deserving as any reliever will be.

by Brendan Scolari on Jun 14, 2009 6:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

+1

Closers should never win the Cy Young.

by ASUcruz on Jun 14, 2009 6:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I should amend that to say that modern day closers should never win the Cy Young. If a reliever puts together a Mike Marshall like season I wouldn’t complain.

by ASUcruz on Jun 14, 2009 6:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's true

I don’t know when we’ll see that again though.

by Brendan Scolari on Jun 14, 2009 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'd say never

With the way the game has been specialized, I don’t see anyone repeating what Mike Marshall did.

by ASUcruz on Jun 15, 2009 12:33 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

NL Run Diff's Top 5 (3 from the West*) -

DODGERS +81*
Phily +39
Colo +16*
Milw +16
S. F. +15*

by Craig88USC on Jun 14, 2009 3:52 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Great

Colorado and SF have played well so far this year too, although the Rockies have been somewhat unlucky.

by Brendan Scolari on Jun 14, 2009 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Eric - Has there ever been Co-Cy winners?

by Craig88USC on Jun 14, 2009 3:53 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Yep

In 1969, Mike Cuellar and Denny McClain shared the AL award.

by Eric Stephen on Jun 14, 2009 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Funny you should compare Broxton to Gagne because I was just thinking in my mind earlier, "Minus the two blown saves from Broxton, he seems like he’s having a year equal to the amazing years of Eric Gagne.

by Jesse Sparks on Jun 14, 2009 4:08 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs