"Endre" Ethier Does It Again
by Eric Stephen on Sep 15, 2009 11:44 PM PDT
in Dodgers Game Recaps
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PrintIts not fair to expect magical things from Andre Ethier every time he bats in the late innings, but he just keeps delivering! Ethier ended tonight's game by depositing a Phil Dumatrait fastball over the wall in right field, turning a 4-3, 13th inning deficit into a thrilling, 5-4 Dodger victory.
Ethier also came up big in the ninth inning, doubling with one out with the Dodgers down 3-2. A Matt Kemp single tied the game and sent it into extra innings. But the story was his sixth walk-off hit of the season, and fourth walk-off home run. The Dodgers as a team have 12 walk-off wins this season.
Ethier's home run was his 30th of the season, and his ninth inning double was his 40th of the season. He is just the fourth Dodger in history to have 40 doubles and 30 home runs in the same season:
| Player | Year | 2B | HR |
| Babe Herman | 1930 | 48 | 35 |
| Raul Mondesi | 1997 | 42 | 30 |
| Eric Karros | 1999 | 40 | 34 |
| Andre Ethier | 2009 | 40 | 30 |
Lost in the Andre Ethier show were these subplots of tonight's game:
- Randy Wolf came back from a hyper-extended left elbow to pitch seven strong innings, allowing just three runs, gladly picking up his 15th no-decision, tied for the MLB lead
- Zach Duke was even better for the Pirates, allowing two runs and four hits over 7.1 innings while striking out seven
- Ramon Troncoso and George Sherrill combined for a perfect eighth inning, and were followed by another perfect inning from Jonathan Broxton, who struck out the side
- James McDonald pitched three scoreless innings, his longest relief outing of the season. McDonald has a 2.40 ERA as a reliever with 42 strikeouts in 45 innings.
The players get right back at it tomorrow for an early 12:10pm start. Hiroki Kuroda will face Kevin Hart, on Manny Ramirez bobblehead day part deux. Joe Torre said in the pregame show that Russell Martin, Casey Blake, and Rafael Furcal were all likely to rest Wednesday.
Oh yeah, the Rockies lost to the Giants again, pushing the Dodgers' division lead back to five games over Colorado.
Magic Numbers
To win NL West: 11
To clinch a playoff spot: 10
WP - Ronald Belisario (4-3): 1 IP, 1 hit, 1 unearned run, 1 walk, 2 strikeouts
LP - Phil Dumatrait (0-1): 1 batter, 1 home run
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I can not believe what just happened...
I was at the game tonight and I decided to leave after the the Pirates scored in the top of the 13th to take a 4-3 lead. As i’m driving home I hear Steiner go nuts after Ethier wins the game and I feel like I have just been punched in the stomach. I have been to 5 games this year and have not seen a single win or even a home run. I am never leaving early again.
Sorry for the rant, but I feel absolutely terrible
If you left after the 10th like I did you would have at least caught Andre's homer on TV. You really made a muck of things.
Posted this on last thread, but last time I took off early on a Dodger game (my father wanted to beat traffic and it would have been a long walk home), my favorite player at the time hit a HR to win the game: Steve Sax. Pretty much made it to the end of every game since then. I was hoping to channel some of that same energy while allowing my daughters to get some sleep for school tomorrow (Daddy, when are we going to go home? . . right after Manny . . . or Kemp . . . or Ethier hits a home run (God I love this team) and thought Hudson or Pierre would loop one out after we left so I booked out of there (also I noticed the beer price ratio is something like 10:1, while taking in a sud watching on TV so that worked out too).
Little did I know the power would go to Endre.
Of coarse, last time I stayed for the completion of an extra inning game, Endre ended it with a walk-off home run, so maybe this team is so damn good they didn’t need the extra MOJO, or maybe I just made the right decision both times to channel the ENDRE!
by Dodger Dude on Sep 16, 2009 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions
I was thinking that just now!
by delias man on Sep 16, 2009 12:34 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
i read the text out at a bar and thought we had lost 5-4
when i got back i discovered i has misread the text and immediately watched the highlights, what a game! I love how steiner always says “they’re going to beat him to a pulp” lol
William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.
i'm a fan of phil dumatrait's yahoo pic
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/8079
“i suck, sure… but at least i don’t care!”
I heard a Torre interview last month
And he said that Andre reminded him of Paul O’Neal
Paul D. Kelley
Come as you are not who you pretend to be!
You are only as good as your 2nd serve and 1st volley
by so.cal.native1952 on Sep 16, 2009 10:44 AM PDT reply actions
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