Dodgers Put It All Together Against Diamondbacks
by Eric Stephen on Sep 7, 2009 3:52 PM PDT
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PrintA few early bombs by the offense, plus some solid pitching by Vicente Padilla, led to a 7-2 Dodger win to open a three-game set in Arizona on Labor Day.
Back-to-back home runs in the second inning by Manny Ramirez opened the scoring, a positive sign since Max Scherzer was so good against the Dodgers last week at Dodger Stadium. Loney's home run was his 10th of the season, all on the road. Wearing the road grays this year, Loney is hitting .306/.384/.472 with 10 home runs, compared to .251/.324/.312 with no homers at home.
Ronnie Belliard, starting his sixth straight game, also had a good day, with a single, double, and a home run, knocking in a pair of runs. Belliard is hitting .370/.393/.667 (10 for 27) since joining the Dodgers.
Vicente Padilla, making his third start as a Dodger, pitched six strong innings for his second win since joining the club. He was helped out by a few double plays, including a pair of baserunning blunders to end the first, when a groundball to shortstop turned into a 6-5-4-3 double play as both Stephen Drew and Justin Upton made outs running the bases. Padilla's only blemish of the day was a long home run given up to Chris Young, a two-run shot in the fifth inning.
Padilla is the 17th Dodger pitcher this season to collect at least two wins, putting the Dodgers one shy of the major league record of 18, shared by four teams, the most recent being the 2007 Rangers.
Manny Ramirez was ejected in the third inning by home plate umpire Doug Eddings after arguing balls and strikes, but Juan Pierre filled in nicely with two hits, two steals, and a run batted in. Those were the first two hits of Pierre's career batting from the fourth spot in the batting order.
In the eighth inning, with a 6-2 lead, George Sherrill walked Stephen Drew, the first walk issued by Sherrill to a lefthander as a Dodger. With two runners on, Jonathan Broxton was brought on to face Justin Upton. Broxton's strikeout of Upton was his 100th on the season, making this the 11th time in Dodger history a reliever has amassed 100 or more strikeouts in a season. Broxton finished the ninth inning to close out the game, collecting his 33rd save on the season. It was the sixth save of more than one inning for Broxton this season.
Today's win was the Dodgers' 10th win against Arizona this season, clinching the season series.
Chad Billingsley faces off with Billy Buckner tomorrow night on KCAL.
WP - Vicente Padilla (2-0): 6 IP, 6 hits, 2 runs, 1 walk, 3 strikeouts
LP - Max Scherzer (9-9): 7 IP, 6 hits, 4 runs, 1 walk, 3 strikeouts
Sv - Jonathan Broxton (33): 1.1 IP, 1 hit, 1 walk, 2 strikeouts
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When Slappy bats cleanup:
Dodgers average 7.0 runs/gm
:P
by K3vo on Sep 7, 2009 3:58 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
like I said before,
Road Loney’s the man- more homers on the road than Ethier! I really hope Home Loney watch him more. Seriously. Loney’s one of my favorite players, and I get disheartened when people point out- with some justification, regrettably- that he’s fallen behind the others. On the plus side, I think his occasional struggles- and even Martin’s more than occasional struggles, for that matter- are probably not as severe as they seem; it’s says a lot more about how far Ethier & Kemp have come than it does about Loney & Martin falling behind.
Vicente Padilla
what more can we ask for from Mr Padilla 3 solid starts 2-0 record for him but more importantly the Dodgers are 3-0 in games that he starts in. I’m sure he still has some doubters out there but like I said when the Dodgers picked him up this guy has a lot of talent and he will be a model citizen. I expect Padilla to continue pitching this well the rest of the season
by Dodgermanramon on Sep 7, 2009 5:09 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Watching the Yankees-Rays game on MLB Network, and just looking at the Yankee offense…now that is an offense! Even after adjusting for park and league, their adjusted OPS is awesome.
Eight of the nine starters are in the 124-138 OPS+ range, and their “weak link” is the 99 OPS+ of their centerfielder, Melky Cabrera. Pretty amazing.
I’m not sure the McCourts are willing to pay $156,000 per run for their lineup (includes DH)
in comparison Dodgers’ lineup $56,000 (Just the starting 8 position players)
rough estimates based on numbers for this year only (didn’t look too deep to take into account incentives and deffered salaries.)
In short, I will take exciting young players over hired guns any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Speaking of that, I thought this was interesting. From Joel Sherman of the NY Post:
40th time this year, #Yanks have scored 8 or more Rs. Shocked that #Dodgers lead majors at 42 times.
is this the
when it rains it pours style offense?
seems like thats more of the dodgers offense
the yanks have been a little more consistent offensively cause they have all that power….
but hey thats a very interesting little stat….
Yeah but how much heart do the Yanks have?
by delias man on Sep 7, 2009 5:34 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
I’d love to see them pull a Cubs this year and just get owned by the Tigers in the first round when everyone thinks they’re going to the WS.
When Inge was named to the all-star team this year, I was a big time cynic.
2009-10 LA Kings Hockey: Where Smyt Happens!!
by DodgerBlueBalls on Sep 7, 2009 6:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Re: Inge
Ya, hitting grand slams in the 9th inning to win games is the worst. I mean, Inge should be doing a lot more than that.
by Michael White on Sep 8, 2009 7:26 AM PDT up reply actions
nyp_joelsherman#Yanks wanted Cano to BB more this yr, and now he has with 27 compared to 26 in ’086 minutes ago from web
Imagine how bad this trade would have been.
Even after 17 straight losing seasons Pirate’s fans seem to be an optimistic bunch.
It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black.
cause their hitters act all pompous and arrogant when they walk up to the plate like their 7 feet tall and all muscle, plus they look around at the plate, as if they’re fishing for attention from the stands, and theyve got no fire in their eyes…they dont deserve to go to the playoffs…oh wait…hahahahaha
Especially LaRoche
Now that he’s the veteran of the team. You know he thinks he’s all big now.
"You'll have plenty of time to live in a van down by the river when...you're livin' in a VAN down by the RIVER!"
by Mr. LA Sports Fan on Sep 7, 2009 8:09 PM PDT up reply actions
“We may have to put the gray [road] uniform on him at home, even if he wears it underneath,” said Torre. “I don’t know why that is, it’s something weird.”
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090907&content_id=6840914&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
i think they should
they seem to perform at their best on the road right now
hope fully that carries over to the series on friday
Two-Face Loney
.320 CAREER batting average on the road, .269 at home. 30 home runs on the road, 11 at home. .523 slugging versus .376. I’m not a very big stats guy, but it CAN’T be a coincidence, with such a large sample size…can it?
For the record, I believe that the road numbers are a far better indication of what he is truly capable of overall…
Belliard is really doing his best marlon anderson : )
good win, important win, I really hope Bills comes out firing tomorrow…very pleased that Loney hit one out, I never thought he’d finally reach double digits
hell of a game in Tallahassee thus far..
William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.
it started as a joke...
…but it seems Ronnie is doing his best to live up to the Marlon Anderson hype.
As for Loney, sure he’d hit double digits- Loney has more homers on the road than Ethier! Like I’ve said many times today, they’ve got to figure out what he’s got against getting it done at Dodger Stadium. :)
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