D-Backs 9, Dodgers 7: Time To Vent

“We have to find out where we go and what’s going to give us the best chance to win a ballgame.”

Enter Russ Ortiz

I didn’t realize Ellis had pinch hit for Russ Ortiz. I guess the 12th would have been interesting indeed

I expect some bullpen changes before the weekend is over.

Fuckit. On the bright side, Charlie Haeger came in relief and didnt screw up. The offense is ridiculous……and unfortunately so is the bullpen

I know he is the fall guy but the last two games just go into the argument that the Dodgers don’t have an “Ace” and that Kershaw is too young and Bills falls aparts once things get rough.

The first half of 2009 is ancient history and this team isn’t going anywhere untl those two guys start pitching more consistently.

Great stuff in 3 innings, then gives up a HR to Drew and never gets back in rhythm. I don’t know what it was, but I don’t understand how he couldn’t go back in rhythm. I hate our bullpen. I hate Torre for not letting Broxton pitch the 3 guys he needed to pitch to, most of all I hate this loss.

Who else is also unavail?
vr, Xei

The Dodgers have only lost 5 games (including tonight) with 19 hits, since moving to LA

http://bbref.com/pi/shareit/N3CKr

The Bad Ortiz
Who was really the better Ortiz
Pitched better than
The Good Ortiz
Who was really the worse Ortiz
Who now is once again
The Bad Ortiz

Torre after the game:

“Russ Ortiz just didn’t look comfortable and he let it get away.”

Tony Jackson, Dylan H will all focus on Bills.

First three innings were good, but that last inning was frustrating for him.

Ability wise they(the team) can do it, they just gotta focus.

No mention on bullpen use.

Why is Prime Ticket playing an infomercial for UCLA during a Dodgers broadcast?

Is there a reason why tomorrow’s game is starting at 6:30??

Ned Colletti didn’t name any specific pitcher as he was calling out his team’s staff on Wednesday for its failure to consistently throw strikes, but the Dodgers general manager didn’t really have to. Anyone who had seen the club’s first seven games this season knew who the culprits were, and besides, there were so many culprits that Colletti didn’t really have time to name them all because manager Joe Torre was waiting to talk to him.

“Our pitching staff has been upside down with walks and falling behind hitters,” Colletti said. "You can’t continue to pitch behind in the count at this level and expect to get away with it. If you look at rallies late in games, almost always, at the beginning or in the middle of them, there is a walk. I’m not big on statistics, but if you look at 1-0 (counts) versus 0-1, I’m pretty sure you will see a dramatic difference in what hitters do. I’m hopeful that it’s just the early part of the season putting us in that position. But it needs to get better, sooner rather than later.’’

http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/news/story?id=5090378

have no business being on the roster. Ramon got out of a jam tonight, but has been bad. Russ was awful again. I know that we have Beli and Kuo close to being back in a week or so, but how many games are we going to lose because we can’t close the deal before that? If R n R Ortiz can’t produce, we have to consider going to Alb and getting J Mac and others to replace them. Sorry for the rant, just frustrated and want us to perform better. Go Blue!

http://www.truebluela.com/2010/4/15/1423529/dodgers-hurt-by-the-finish-but

Lots of things are hurting this team right now.

Russ Ortiz and Ramon Ortiz have no business pitching in the major leagues. After tonight Lindblom and Mcdonald better be highly considered a bullpen spot. Lindblom would be better to bring up now because he has 3 options, Mcdonald only has 2 left I believe, and it’s still a while till any relief comes from Belasario or Kuo.

Matt Kemp is hitting very well, but his defense is worse than I would play in cf. Quite frankly it’s a disgrace right now. I love Kemp but he needs to focus when he’s playing defense, it’s really inexcusable how bad he’s been so far on defense.

The rotation is worse than advertised by the national media, and it just makes me groan. It’s not because they are right, but because they think they are right because of A. Padilla starting the season opener and B. The rotation sucking complete ass so far minus 2 or 3 starts. The walks are killing us so far, and the bullpen is being severely overused, and at this point that cannot happen.

The bullpen is the worst thing about this team so far, and it was the best thing about it last year. The only pitcher not to have a bad outing so far has been Broxton (and I think Troncoso actually), and everyone else has run into at least one bad outing. We need Kuo and Belasario badly.

The offense is near the top of the league right now…and we’re still not able to score. Yes I believe we’re scoring about 6 runs a game, but with how many people the Dodgers are getting on base there is no way this team should get 19 fucking hits and score 7 god damn runs. Sorry for the language, but it’s extremely ridiculous to average more than 2 runners an inning and only score 7 freaking runs. Just flat out terrible (and I hate to say this) clutch hitting. UGHHHH.

James Loney is so horrendous looking at the plate. His 2nd to last at bat I could barely stand to watch. It seems like he is simultaneously bailing out, getting on his front foot, and dipping his swing. What in the hell is wrong with his swing? No wonder he’s got no power, that swing looks awful. Maybe I’m seeing it wrong, but from what I see he needs to make some major mechanical adjustments to his swing. Holy crap. Not only that, but he managed to have the most worthless 2-6 in the history of mandkind. Both hits were singles, neither one led to a run, he left 7 on base, and he wasted a leadoff double by Manny I believe in the 9th and went on to have the worst at bat I’d ever seen him have. It’s dumb to cast off Loney right now a week into the season, but he really needs to start slugging more than .350+ like last week or he’s not going to have much of a future with this team after 2010.

I know some of these look like knee jerk responses, which may be some part of it, but I don’t understand how such a good team can be so bad at the same time. Tomorrow needs to be a big game for Kuroda.