Billingsley, Bison Lead The Way As Dodgers Beat Diamondbacks 3-2
by Eric Stephen on Oct 2, 2010 9:50 PM PDT
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PrintChad Billingsley ended his season in style tonight, leading the Dodgers to a 3-2 win over the Diamondbacks to make a winner out of acting manager Jamey Carroll.
Before the game, Joe Torre was beaming with praise for Billingsley, who struck out 13 Diamondbacks last Sunday. "His record certainly doesn't indicate the way he's pitched this season," Torre said, "right now, he either wins or loses his own game for me. He just stays out there and pitches. Last outing he threw 120 pitches, and he's just been very, very good."
Billingsley was very, very good again tonight, taking a shutout into the eighth inning. Carroll went to the mound in the seventh with two runners on base and a 3-0 lead. Billingsley greeted the acting manager with a smile on his face as he said, "Hey skip," and then proceeded to talk his manager into staying in the game. "I tried to read his face more than read his words. In my eyes he looked pretty good, so we gave it a shot," Carroll said. Stephen Drew followed with an RBI single just out of the reach of James Loney, and Carroll made a second visit, this time with a hook.
Ramon Troncoso allowed one of Billingsley's inherited runners to score, but Billingsley overall was solid. He struck out nine in his 7 1/3 innings of work, lowering his ERA to 3.57 on the season. After the All-Star break, Billingsley was 5-7 with a 3.00 ERA, 30 unintentional walks and 82 strikeouts in 96 innings.
"His future is very bright. Keep your fingers crossed that he stays healthy, because that's the only thing can derail him at this point," Torre said of Billingsley.
Andre Ethier had four hits for the Dodgers for the second time this season, and eighth time in his career.
Matt Kemp provided the power, knocking in Ethier with a two-run home run in the fifth inning. It was the fourth straight game Kemp has hit a home run, tying a career high. He also hit home runs in four straight games April 13-16 this season, as well as Aug. 29 - Sept. 1 last season.
Kenley Jansen pitched a scoreless ninth inning for his fourth save of the season, striking out three batters in the process. Jansen has made 16 appearances this season of exactly one inning, and he has struck out at least two batters in 10 of those 16 appearances.
Joe Saunders took the loss, his major-league-leading 17th defeat of the season.
Ted Lilly and Rodrigo Lopez finish out the schedule tomorrow afternoon.
WP - Chad Billingsley (12-11): 7 1/3 IP, 4 hits, 2 runs, 1 walk, 9 strikeouts
LP - Joe Saunders (9-17): 7 IP, 10 hits, 3 runs (2 earned), 5 strikeouts
Sv - Kenley Jansen (4): 1 IP, 1 hit, 3 strikeouts
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As JoeT would say,
“Bills really showed us something this year.” I hope the Dodgers can, somehow, manage to sign him to a multiyear deal in the offseason, covering at least a year past his “team-controlled” time.
Dodger below Average in RBI'S in all positions in the NL
Vinny referred to this stat in the middle of the game. According to what I can see, based on rank Kemp is second to Chris Young for CF, Ethier is 4th in RF, and Loney is 7th at 1st. If he was just aggragating RBI’s Loney might indeed be below, but not Kemp and not Ethier.
Rode the elevator with Ely. Can’t wait for hockey season.
by Alex41592 on Oct 2, 2010 10:24 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
I was listening and wrote a note about the green light thing and showed it to them through the window that separates their studio from the press box, on my way out.
by Eric Stephen on Oct 2, 2010 10:57 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Yeah
Carroll said Kemp had a few good ABs so he figured “why nor?”
by Eric Stephen on Oct 2, 2010 11:09 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I could write something but here is someone who will do it better
Joe P. explains the NL Playoff scenario
And the scenario Eric and I are rooting for could cause….
Sunday in San Francisco.
Monday in San Diego.
Tuesday in Atlanta.
Wednesday in Philadelphia.
Four cities in four days. I’d say that hasn’t happened since Satchel Paige’s barnstorming days.*
*This leads to a fascinating point — it probably would be to the Phillies advantage to lose to the Braves Sunday. If they lose, there’s a chance for this three-team, two-game playoff, which could utterly wreck the rotation of the team facing the Phillies in the playoffs. Baseball should not have a system where LOSING is better for a team than WINNING. But we’re in uncharted territory here.
Interesting
it probably would be to the Phillies advantage to lose to the Braves Sunday. If they lose
Via Eric’s comment yesterday about fans rooting against their team for the “greater good”…prepare the fireworks!
Phillies fans can fuck themselves no matter what they do :)
by Eric Stephen on Oct 2, 2010 11:07 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
“Baseball should not have a system where LOSING is better for a team than WINNING. But we’re in uncharted territory here.”
I’m usually all over MLB (aka “Selig”) for this reason or that. But in this case, I think this is just a case of a really longshot coincidence, not unlike the 2000 Presidential election. If we do get this sort of “doomsday” scenario, I hope there’s no overreaction, where a bunch of rules get changed after the inevitable fallout, which ultimately just make things worse. Given what we’ve seen in the past, my guess is that’s exactly what woul happen.
Hey! Billingsley was just fine tonight
Oh wait…
by Eric Stephen on Oct 2, 2010 11:11 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Here are some playoff facts we do know:
The NL West champion will be the second seed in the NL playoffs since they are guaranteed to have no worse than a 91-71 record and both San Diego and San Francisco have the tie-breaker with Cincinnati (whose best possible record is 91-71).
Wednesday will feature home games for Philadelphia, Minnesota (hosting the wild card) and the AL East champion (hosting Texas).
Philadelphia could play Cincinnati (if Atlanta is the wild card) or the wild card team if it is San Diego or San Francisco. The NL West champion will play either wild card winner Atlanta or Cincinnati if the wild card is from the NL West. If there is the 3-team tie, Cincinnati may have to be in Philadelphia on Tuesday, ready to fly to either San Francisco or San Diego if Atlanta loses that game.
In the American League, there is the issue of the AL best record and the wild card. Tampa Bay’s magic number is 1, since they hold the tie-breaker over the Yankees.
For those interested
the first 10 picks (plus 2 supplemental) are in place now, in the sense that the Dodgers cannot move into the top 10.
Florida, Mets, Angels and Dodgers are all tied at 79-82.
Oakland and Detroit are 80-81
Any team that the Dodgers end up tied with, will get the higher draft pick, except the Angels.
If either the Angels, Oakland or Detroit win tomorrow, they will be ahead of the Dodgers.
If either the Angels, Oakland or Detroit win tomorrow, they will be ahead of the Dodgers.
You mean behind the Dodgers, as in worse draft pick.
Except of course the parts of the post where he posted the team records.
by Eric Stephen on Oct 3, 2010 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Was at the game tonight, it was awesome
Bills was dominant. It was idiotic to hear the people next to me and my friend talking about how bills needed to lose some weight because he couldn’t outrun the fucking grounder in his first god damn at bat…morons.
Bills is great thoiugh, plus i’m a little drunk. Glad to see Bills domiate the way he did until the 8th though. Too bad Troncoso allowed yet another inherited runner to score. Oh well.
"If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate"
Last game
how did Jansen’s FB movement look?
It looked like Billz’ fastball was moving all over the place ….left, right, and down. One strikeout looked like the bottom dropped out @ 90mph (nasty).
Bills has been using that 2 seamer which has been moving all over the place. It has looked great.
by Michael White on Oct 3, 2010 8:45 AM PDT up reply actions
New idea
Padres are desperate for fresh relievers. Trade them Belisario and Broxton for top prospects. they’re desperate, I tells ya!
Okay, I need coffee. Never mind me.
Go chaos theory today!
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
“Some men aren’t looking for anything logical. He can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the National League playoff teams burn.” ;-)
by Little Blue Bicycle on Oct 3, 2010 8:33 AM PDT up reply actions
And fontenot!
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Oct 3, 2010 9:46 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
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