Dodgers Go For Sweep In Phoenix
by Eric Stephen on Sep 9, 2009 3:57 PM PDT
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PrintFresh off one of their most thrilling wins of the season last night, the Dodgers go for the sweep tonight in Phoenix. They have a tall task, facing one of the league's best pitchers in Dan Haren.
Haren has made 11 starts against the National League West this season, and he has a 1.85 ERA and a 3.04 FIP in those games, yet only a 3-3 record to show for it. The Diamondbacks are shockingly only 4-7 in those games.
Jon Garland will make his second Dodger start, and second straight against his old teammates. At Chase Field this season, Garland is 4-5 with a 5.35 ERA in 13 starts. I would prefer if you didn't do the math this one time.
Don't look now, but Rafael Furcal has put together a modest five-game hitting streak. He has reached base 12 times in those five games, hitting .381/.480/.476 while scoring six runs.
James Loney has five multi-hit games in his last eight contests, hitting .379/.438/.483 during that span.
Lost in the hoopla of last night's eighth inning rally was that Orlando Hudson made two outs during the inning, a rare but essentially meaningless occurrence. Here are the Dodgers who have made two outs in the same inning this season:
- Orlando Hudson: last night, grounded out to first base, then flew to center in the eighth inning
- Juan Castro: August 4 vs. the Brewers, sacrificed to pitcher, then grounded to pitcher in the sixth inning
- Andre Ethier: July 10 in Milwaukee, grounded out to second base, then popped out to third base in the tenth inning
- Matt Kemp: May 6 vs. Washington, lined out to center, then grounded into a force play, third to second, in the sixth inning
Also, from the Dodgers:
The Dodgers and the American Red Cross are hosting the Heroes Blood Drive on Friday at Dodger Stadium from 3:00-9:00 p.m. All donors will receive a commemorative Dodgers item and may enter a drawing to win a chance to be honored as the Blood Donor of the Game at one of the remaining regular-season Dodgers home games. To schedule an appointment, or for additional information, please call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE, or visit GiveLife.org
Here are tonight's lineups:
| Dodgers | Diamondbacks | |||
| SS | Furcal |
2B | Roberts |
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| CF | Kemp |
SS | Drew | |
| RF | Ethier | RF | Upton | |
| LF | Manny | 3B | Reynolds | |
| 1B | Loney | C | Montero | |
| 3B | Belliard |
CF | Young | |
| 2B | Hudson | LF | Byrnes | |
| C | Martin | 1B | Tracy |
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| P | Garland | P | Haren | |
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Game Time: 7:10pm
TV: Prime Ticket, ESPN
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Not in MLB, but some dude in the Canadian league turned the trick this season:
http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2009/07/ottawa-batter-makes-3-outs-in-one.html
that would be somrthing
the good thing about making 2 outs in an inning is that your team has scored at least 4 runs in any inning that you accomplishthe feat. in order to make all tree out the team would have to score at least 13
by MammothDodger on Sep 9, 2009 4:05 PM PDT up reply actions
A note for those out of the LA area
The game is on ESPN, but there is also a Yankees-Rays game before it. It seems like those early games always tend to run long when waiting for a Dodger telecast.
I did look it up, and the 14 Yankees-Rays games this season have averaged 3:10 in length.
What would be really cool is watching
Ethier take Joba deep. Loney too, if that game were in Yankee Stadium.
Randy Wolf to miss Friday start
Randy Wolf, who has emerged as a stalwart of the Dodger rotation, had been scheduled to pitch Friday against San Francisco but now will miss that start with an irritated elbow, according to Dylan Hernandez of The Times. Hiroki Kuroda will make that start on four days’ rest.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dodgerthoughts/2009/09/randy-wolf-to-miss-friday-start.html
Just like that
It became a 4 man rotation though slightly different than what you would have predicted.
Update:
Here’s more from Joe Torre’s conversation today with KABC’s Charley Steiner.
“Randy Wolf went back home last night. He’s got a little hitch in his elbow, which he thinks he got by swinging the bat. He got a little injection and everything should be fine. It feels find already, actually, and we’ll see him in San Francisco over the weekend, but he will miss a turn.
“When he went to throw his bullpen (after his last start), he just felt something in the back of his elbow, and we just didn’t waste any time. We sent him back home, and (Dr. Neil) ElAttrache saw him today and injected, and the results so far have been positive because he felt relief right away.”
A week ago we were wondering how to fit six guys into the rotation
Now we have the opposite problem…
So Kershaw and Wolf will miss a start so that means this weekend in SF we’ll pitch Kuroda, Padilla and Billingsley, ugh.
Funny
headed into the year they were our number one and two guys. Now we are scared when they pitch?
Eric I thought you’d appreciate this since you did the 50 walk challenge.
http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2009/09/09/walkin-my-baby-back-home/
What's amazing about Eric's challenge
Considering the players on this team, you would have not that they would have come close to meeting it and certainly not with more than 20 games left in the season.
That said, Matt needs a walk or two in the next day or so to make it seem possible.
Though, I am good for my donation regardless.
Yeah, I am going to donate even if Kemp somehow falls short.
I thought I made a reasonable case for it happening back in February, and that was before Manny was officially back, and when DeWitt was going to be the 2B. :)
He's at 47
I think he’ll make it. If he is going to be the superstar I hope he will be, I’ll want to se that up to 75 by next year though.
aaron miller
dominating his first start on the playoffs…. 5 innings 1 hit 0 runs 2 walks 7 Ks….. GL up 5-0…
Aaron MILLER
the man is dominating in the playoff game right now!!
6 inning 2 Hits 0 runs 2 walks 9 Ks!!!!!!
Wow…. his night might be over and geison aguasviva is going to come in the game now…
GL up 5-0 still..
yeah
even in his junior year, he didnt focus Entirely on pitching… he will still a hitting prospect too..
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