Kemp 4, Astros 3: My Bro-mance of Kemp and Kershaw

by Kenchanayoh on Jul 19, 2009 7:22 PM PDT Comment 10 comments

Rarely can you say that one guy singlehandedly won the game in the sport of baseball, but Matt Kemp showed that his career-high 4 runs were enough to take the final game of the series against the Houston Astros. Ever since being put into the Final Vote ballot, Kemp has been impressing fans on both sides of the ball. Today, he went 3-3, stole a base, scored 3 runs, and hit the game winning home run on the bottom of the 8th, allowing the Dodgers to fuel another comeback and win another one-run game. His homer was a massive blast to left-center, measuring about 450 feet.

The bottom of the lineup did all of the damage for the Comeback Kids. Andre Ethier, Brad Ausmus, and Kemp accounted for all of the team's hits. Ausmus had 2 timely doubles and 2 RBI filling in very well defensively and offensively for Russell Martin. Hiroki Kuroda looked very shaky in 5 innings of work, as his pitches weren't fulling anyone in the Astros lineup. He was fortunate not to give up more than the 3 runs he gave up in the 3rd inning.

It was another hot day at the ballpark, as I kept drinking a lot of fluids to keep from getting heatstroke. But I was glad to finally witness a late-inning comeback in person. This is my 3rd blog posting about Matt Kemp, so I might as well be joining the Kemp and also the Clayton Kershaw fan club.

Speaking of Clayton, he had another magnificent pitching performance last night, picking up his 5th straight win with his 7 shutout innings. By far, these two youngsters have carried the load for this team for the past month. Kershaw has given up 4 earned runs in the past 7 outtings (42-2/3 innings). In that same stretch, Chad Billingsley has not won a game in 6 tries, including losing 2 of them, and allowing 25 earned runs in the last 33-1/3 innings. Very interesting numbers to consider for fans and observers.

Anyways, I will be at the game tomorrow to watch the return of Jason Schmidt, our highest paid player in the pitching rotation.

Plus also visit my blog sometime, especially for more pics and dumb opinions!

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the dude pitching tonite was in the minors right? why is he so highly paid? geez, i woulda thought a few other pitchers made more.. is manny the highest paid dodger?

by BernadetteP on Jul 20, 2009 4:20 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Schmidt signed a 3-year, $47 million contract before 2007, and got hurt almost immediately. He made 6 starts in 2007, and has been battling back ever since.

by Eric Stephen on Jul 20, 2009 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

wow, that’s a lot of money for nothing…

by BernadetteP on Jul 20, 2009 5:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

also, the astros pitcher kinda helped the dodgers, too. how often does it happen that one player scores that many runs in a game? basically, the dodgers only needed 2 players in the dugout, kemp and ausmus, that was pretty cool, brad kept bringing kemp home :)

by BernadetteP on Jul 20, 2009 4:23 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Four runs scored by a player is not that uncommon

But scoring all of your team’s four runs is quite rare. It has happened three times since 1954.

by David Young on Jul 20, 2009 6:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

plus a 4th, Eric Davis in 1990 (as it was later discovered today).

by Eric Stephen on Jul 20, 2009 6:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

The link lists that as one of the three.

by David Young on Jul 20, 2009 8:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

but Kemp was the 4th :)

by Eric Stephen on Jul 20, 2009 11:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

still i sure was impressed

by BernadetteP on Jul 20, 2009 7:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

while not uncommon

it’s hardly common either; you are right to be impressed.

by David Young on Jul 20, 2009 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

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2010 Dodger Payroll

Pos	No	Player	2010 Salary
C	55	Martin	$5,050,000
1B	7	Loney	$3,100,000
2B	33	DeWitt	$410,000*
3B	23	Blake	$6,000,000
SS	15	Furcal	$8,500,000
LF	99	Manny	$7,267,760
CF	27	Kemp	$4,000,000
RF	16	Ethier	$6,000,000

2B/3B	14	Carroll	$1,350,000
2B/3B/1B	3	Belliard	$825,000
C	12	Ausmus	$850,000
OF	5	Johnson	$800,000
SS	60	Hu	$405,000*

SP	22	Kershaw	$425,000*
SP	58	Billingsley	$3,850,000
SP	18	Kuroda	$14,100,000
SP	44	Padilla	$4,025,000
SP	50	Stults	$405,000*

CL	51	Broxton	$4,000,000
LHP	52	Sherrill	$4,500,000
LHP	56	Kuo	$950,000
RHP	67	Troncoso	$425,000*
RHP	54	Belisario	$425,000*
RHP	31	McDonald	$425,000*
RHP	68	Monasterios	$460,000*

		Pierre	$4,000,000
		Andruw	$3,600,000
		Schmidt	$2,000,000
		Wolf	$2,000,000
		Hudson	$1,440,000
		Nomar	$1,250,000
		Ohman	$200,000
		Zerpa	$35,000
		Hoffmann	($50,000)

Others on 40-man roster (total: 39)
RHP	37	Haeger
RHP	73	Link
RHP	47	Wade
C	9	Ellis
C	71	May
SS	87	DeJesus
OF	75	Paul
OF	17	Repko	$500,000
RHP	64	Guerra**
RHP	74	Jansen**
LHP	59	Leach**
RHP	49	Schlichting**
LHP	57	Elbert**
OF	62	Robinson**

Totals			$93,522,760
Red = arbitration Asterisk () = estimated * = currently in minor league camp
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