Dodgers Double Up 3rd Place Team In NL West
by Eric Stephen on Aug 10, 2009 10:43 PM PDT
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PrintA three-run double by Matt Kemp was enough support for Hiroki Kuroda, who threw a solid 6.1 innings as the Dodgers won the first game of the three-game series at AT&T Park, 4-2 over the Giants.
Jonathan Sanchez looked good early for the Giants, striking out four in a row at one point, but the Dodgers rallied in the fourth. A one-out single by Manny Ramirez was followed by walks to Casey Blake and Orlando Hudson, leading to Kemp's game-changing double down the left field line. Mark Loretta, starting at first base in place of a slumping James Loney for the second straight game, followed with an RBI single to make the lead 4-1 at that point.
The lone run scored off Kuroda came off the bat of Travis Ishikawa, whose second inning home run opened the scoring. The Giants added another run via the longball when Bengie Molina demolished a Jonathan Broxton fastball into the left field stands in the ninth inning. The Giants were able to get the tying run to the plate in the ninth inning, but Broxton was able to close the door, picking up his 25th save.
Loretta and Manny Ramirez each had two hits for the Dodgers.
Orlando Hudson left the game after the seventh inning with an apparent groin strain. Manager Joe Torre said after the game Hudson would likely be out for Tuesday night's game.
On the postgame show on Prime Ticket, it was reported that Chad Billingsley is expected to make his next start, Monday at home against the Cardinals.
Randy Wolf, who will try to follow Kuroda's lead of evening his record, faces off against feel-good story Joe Martinez tomorrow night.
WP - Hiroki Kuroda (5-5): 6.1 IP, 6 hits, 1 run, 1 walk, 2 strikeouts
LP - Jonathan Sanchez (5-10): 5 IP, 5 hits, 4 runs, 3 walks, 6 strikeouts
Sv - Jonathan Broxton (25): 1 IP, 2 hits, 1 run
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Reporting from San Francisco — Chad Billingsley said Monday that the left hamstring he strained two days earlier felt good enough for him to avoid the disabled list but not good enough to make his next scheduled start.
With Billingsley unavailable, Manager Joe Torre said the final game of the three-game series in San Francisco on Wednesday could be a bullpen game.
Also in the L.A. Times report, Troncoso feels tired, Casey Blake didn’t bother to say sorry to Brian Wilson about his UFC endorsement, and Will Ohman is back to rehabbing.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dodgers-fyi11-2009aug11,0,174736.story
put Tron on the DL with a tired arm
move Schmidt to the 60 day DL and call up my man Choi
by SeanMillerSavior on Aug 10, 2009 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions
We have an extra spot on the 40-man, so we don’t even need that 60-day DL move (although it would be welcomed).
by Eric Stephen on Aug 10, 2009 10:56 PM PDT up reply actions
I cant wait for september call ups
so guys like dewitt, elbert and abreu can fill in when guys like hudson strain their groin and tron feels tired..oh well
William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.
Knuckle Fist Bump?
Henry Schulman had this to say in his pregame blog post tonight:
Dodgers ace Chad Billingsley is questionable for Wednesday’s series finale against Tim Lincecum. I’m told by a Dodgers scribe that 25-year-old right-hander Charlie Haeger, who is 11-6 for the Dodgers’ Triple-A Alburquerque team, is a candidate to take the start instead
Emphasis mine.
his knuckeball is not wakefield esque
wakefield has a knuckle ball that knuckles the catcher cause his is SOOO huge
by matthewmafa on Aug 10, 2009 11:37 PM PDT up reply actions
This is just a psyche job
To get the Giants thinking about a knuckleballer. It will just make JMac’s fastball look all the faster.
They do recognize Billingsley for what he really is
With their ace out for the third game of this series against Tim Lincecum, there was a fair amount of urgency heading into Monday night’s game for L.A.
NBA Channel on Direct TV
Has been showing Laker highlights at least for the last day or so. Right now , they are showing the deciding Game 6 of the 1980 Finals with the Sixers. While it was viewed an upset since Kareem did not play, you still had Magic, Wilkes, Nixon, Cooper and Jim Chones out on the floor most of that game and those guys could play.
Another difference between that NBA and today’s NBA, Daryl Dawkins of the Sixers almost tackles Cooper on a drive to the basket, today a flagrant 1 for sure and maybe a flagrant 2 (though not as bad as the McHale’s hack on Rambis in the Finals) but back then Cooper got up and shot his free throws.
I feel the need to address Broxton's inning again
Annotation taken from the yahoo! sport play-by-play listing, italics mine.
- P. Sandoval lined out to shortstop [a busted bat soft liner easily gloved by Furcal]
- B. Molina homered to deep left [one out, bases empty, three-run lead, challenge-him fastball left up – at least he’s throwing strikes]
- R. Winn singled to shallow center [a many-hop, up-the-middle bounder with eyes that Furcal almost flags, but wouldn’t have had a play on anyway]
- F. Lewis grounded into fielder’s choice, R. Winn out at second [a weak enough grounder to Blake that it was clear they’d never turn two on from the outset]
- F. Lewis to second on fielder’s indifference
- R. Garko grounded out to second [sharply hit, nice diving play by Castro – makes up for the bad luck on Winn]
This is the inning that had some people over the top? As I said, I can’t bring myself to worry about one-run HRs with one out and a three-run lead in the 9th. C’mon, even Mariano Rivera isn’t perfect.
what bothers me about broxton
is that he doesn’t give a crap about baserunners at all. i mean… pretend like you’re going to look over at first every once in a while.
also, he is 7-0, picked up the save last night, and the sky is not falling.
it was great to see all the dodger faithful out at att park last night. highlights: several instances where a dodger fan got into it too much with the asses out in the bleachers and got escorted out by security, my entire row chanting “6-4-3” whenever a giant got on first over the “beat l.a.” chant, and a giant fan stumbling into two different railings, then puking by a set of stairs (other giants fans would then proceed to walk in his vomit for the last 2 innings).
bleacher seats tomorrow! i hope to incite giant hate.
More breaking balls
I think all the hitters in the past few games are just sitting on his fast ball. He needs to mix in more breaking balls and off spped stuff like Gagne did in order to be more effective. I don’t think he’s that confident with his junk.
JB's road ERA is now over 6
His “luck” seems to fade once you leave the 110. Maybe he needs a similar policy as Vin?
It’s also related to the two games (6 runs) in SD & Milwaukee when he was hiding the toe injury. But you knew that.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 11, 2009 7:35 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Does your ipod always repeat just the one track?
At home, Torre pitches Broxton in save and tied situations, on the road, only save situations. Therefore Broxton is better in higher pressure situations, where one run can put his team behind.
Rosenthal says we almost had a "dream pen" with Heath Bell
But something happened (either the Padres or Dodgers balked at the last minute).
We’ll just have to settle for one of the best ever instead of the best :)
by Eric Stephen on Aug 11, 2009 11:02 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
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