Dodgers Throw One Away In Phoenix
by Eric Stephen on Sep 9, 2009 10:53 PM PDT
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PrintGoing up against Dan Haren is always a tough task, but the Dodgers held their own tonight. Still, it wasn't enough, as a throwing error by Ramon Troncoso in the bottom of the ninth led to the winning run scoring to give the Diamondbacks a 4-3 win.
Gerrardo Parra led off the ninth with a comebacker to Troncoso, but his throw tailed away from James Loney, allowing Parra to reach second base. A sacrifice bunt put Parra on third base with one out, and Joe Torre elected to walk the bases loaded, hoping for a double play of some sort. However, as is seemingly often the case, having a pitcher intentionally walk two straight batters comes back to haunt him. Troncoso, despite throwing five strikes (including four foul balls and a called ball), walked Mark Reynolds to end the game.
Both teams had back-to-back solo home runs early, including James Loney's 11th home run of the season in the fourth inning. Loney has now tied Willie Davis, with the most home runs in a season without any at home.
Jon Garland, despite giving up the two home runs in the second inning to Miguel Montero and Chris Young, lasted through six innings, allowing three runs, for his second quality start in as many games with the Dodgers.
Its a tough loss, to be sure, the polar opposite of last night's great win. The Rockies, with their comeback win against the Reds, are now 2½ games back in the division. Tomorrow is an off day, followed by a series this weekend in San Francisco. Hiroki Kuroda faces Matt Cain Friday night.
WP - Juan Gutierrez (4-3): 1.2 IP, 2 strikeouts
LP - Ramon Troncoso (4-3): 0.1 IP, 1 unearned run, 3 walks
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Dodgers should call him up to pitch in place of Billingsley on Sunday. I’m almost sure he’d put up a better effort.
Touche'
Nevertheless, it’s always darkest before dawn. Billingsley’s gonna get it back soon. (That, or he’ll fess up to an injury. Either way…)
As a Dodger fan I’d of course love to see him turn it around but he has shown me absolutely nothing to lead me to believe he’s going to turn it around. The guy can’t even get pitchers out, it’s really getting quite bleak. Maybe they should send him down to the minors to get some confidence, getting rocked by teams like the Reds and Diamondbacks certainly can’t help his already weak psyche.
Why would they send him down to the minors?
the minor league season is over. Rosters have expanded. And saying, “absolutely nothing to lead me to believe he’s going to turn it around” makes you sound stupid.
by Michael White on Sep 10, 2009 7:21 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm just thinking out loud
NOT ADVOCATING THIS.
If the Dodgers need an emergency starter and they deem Stults/Haeger as liabilities and Elbert/J-Mac/Weaver as exclusive bullpen options, they will be forced to follow the Giants’ lead and call-up Withrow. Again, not advocating this but would enjoy it greatly.
No
Some tinkering would be necessary.
I don’t care if this sounds crazy or not, but I think the Giants calling up Bumgarner takes some of the pressure off in making such a move.
If Torre was hoping to get Reynold’s to strike out, he should’ve brought in Broxton. It would’ve been especially ideal since Broxton probably would’ve only been able to pitch to 1 or 2 batters, so he could’ve gotten the Reynold’s K, then depending on his pitches thrown to Reynolds, gotten Montero out as well.
You wanna know how great baseball is? The greatest basketball player ever left his sport to play baseball.
Sure, but...
As sure as the sun rises in the east, Joe Torre will hold back his closer for the save situation on the road.
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