Dodgers Take Opener In Colorado, 5-4
by Eric Stephen on May 28, 2010 9:16 PM PDT
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PrintThe Dodgers got a good outing out of a fifth starter, and the offense and bullpen made it hold up, beating the Rockies 5-4 in the opener of a three game series at Coors Field. It was the 20th win in their last 26 games against Colorado, and pushed the Dodgers' divisional record to an MLB-best 14-4.
Carlos Monasterios did everything that was asked of him in his start, pitching a career-high five innings. He allowed two earned runs, and two more unearned runs thanks in part to an error by acting first baseman Ronnie Belliard in the first inning. Monasterios gave up a home run to Clint Barmes in the fourth inning, a disputed play because a fan reached over the fence to catch the ball. However, replays appeared to show the ball was going to hit the yellow line anyway, and at the very least were not conclusive enough to overturn the call.
The delay in the game while the umpires reviewed the Barmes home run allowed Vin Scully time to give his thoughts about the matter, uncharacteristically calling the fan who caught the ball "that clown with the glove." In 61 seasons of calling games, Vin Scully has rarely said anything as biting as that.
The bulk of the Dodger offense came in the sixth inning, when the Dodgers turned a 4-1 deficit into a 5-4 lead. After a leadoff walk by Jamey Carroll, Garret Anderson followed with a ground rule double to the deepest part of the park in center. A sacrifice fly and a double later, and Manny Ramirez came to the plate with Russell Martin on base and the Dodgers trailing by a run. Manny clobbered a pitch over the wall in right center field, his first home run since April 18, a span of 74 plate appearances. It was also the first home run of Manny's career in Colorado.
Matt Kemp also hit a home run, his 10th of the season, a bomb to dead center in the fifth inning.
Ramon Troncoso had a nice comeback effort tonight, after giving up a home run in three straight appearances. Troncoso allowed just one hit in his 1 1/3 innings, avoiding joining John Purdin (in 1969) as the only Los Angeles Dodger reliever to allow a home run in four straight outings. Hong-Chih Kuo was called in to relieve Troncoso in the seventh inning, entering with one out and a man on first base. Kuo's walk to pinch hitter Ryan Spilborghs was book-ended by strikeouts of left-handers Carlos Gonzalez and Todd Helton. On the season, lefties are hitless in 12 at-bats against Kuo, with seven strikeouts.
All four Dodger relievers had two strikeouts; the bullpen on the night combined for four baserunners in four innings with eight strikeouts. Scott Elbert was recalled from Triple A before the game, but didn't see action tonight, and his stay with the big club figures to be short. From Ken Gurnick of MLB.com:
Torre indicated that Elbert is likely to be returned to Triple-A when Charlie Haeger returns from a Minor League rehab assignment for plantar fasciitis. Torre said he expects Haeger to be the fifth starter again, perhaps as early as Tuesday. Torre said that he wants to give John Ely, who started on Thursday against the Cubs and is on track to start on Tuesday, an extra day of rest.
Andre Ethier played seven innings in the field for Triple A Albuquerque tonight, collecting a single and two walks in four plate appearances in the first of two scheduled rehabilitation appearances in Memphis.
Hiroki Kuroda faces off against Aaron Cook in game two tomorrow.
WP - Carlos Monasterios (2-0): 5 IP, 5 hits, 4 runs (2 earned), 1 walk, 1 strikeout
LP - Jeff Francis (1-1): 5 1/3 IP, 5 hits, 5 runs, 1 walk, 2 strikeouts
Sv - Jonathan Broxton (12): 1 IP, 1 walk, 1 HBP, 2 strikeouts
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Nice to see Bison & Manny go deep...
Now we are waiting about the Ethier’s return at least on Monday…
Colony Capital sucks... Paris est magique...
Since 2008, Dodgers are 19-3 when at least two starting outfielders hit a home run
by Eric Stephen on May 28, 2010 9:25 PM PDT up reply actions
OMG...
That’s unbelievable…
Kemp HR + Manny HR = Win
Kemp HR + Ethier HR = Win
Manny HR + Ethier HR = Win…
Colony Capital sucks... Paris est magique...
against a guy (Marino Salas) who hasn’t thrown a pitch in professional baseball in the US since that game (Sept 15, 2008)
by Eric Stephen on May 28, 2010 9:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Looooooooooooool...
Pierre is a Salas’s nightmare!!!!!
WTF… :O
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Wow, Matt Stairs has 12 career grand slams.
by Eric Stephen on May 28, 2010 9:27 PM PDT up reply actions
…and X+1 strikeouts looking on a 3-2 slider :)
by Eric Stephen on May 28, 2010 9:32 PM PDT up reply actions
So If Haeger is coming back and Torre is calling him the 5th starter, what happens when Padilla comes back? Does Haeger go back to the bullpen?
by runningwiththedevil on May 28, 2010 9:28 PM PDT reply actions
The expected rotation will be...
Kershaw
Bills
Kuroda
Ely
Padilla
Bullpen:
Monk
Weaver
Tron
Haeger
Belisario
Kuo
Broxton…
Wow that’s pretty cool…
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after he fills up on a Memorial Day BBQ
by Eric Stephen on May 28, 2010 9:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I know...
And Torre would say: “Bienvenue Monsieur Sherrill”
Colony Capital sucks... Paris est magique...
I loved when Vin would welcome Gagne with that line
by Eric Stephen on May 28, 2010 9:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh yeah....
I was remembered when Vinny said that: “Bonjour Monsieur Gagne”, Vin has not an ugly french accent…
Colony Capital sucks... Paris est magique...
He is healthy…just a tweaked back that they used to put him on the DL during a time he was struggling. He will get some bullpen sessions and rehab games in before he’s due back.
by Eric Stephen on May 28, 2010 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Healthy can be relative, I suppose.
by runningwiththedevil on May 28, 2010 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions
I chalk it up to one of those injuries that just about everyone has…the nagging type. He was pitching poorly so they used his injury to create space on the roster while he works stuff out.
by Eric Stephen on May 28, 2010 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions
from an 0-2 count
capps throws 3 straight balls, then strikes out stairs looking
William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.
Good to see Tron back on course tonight.
Nice game summary.
by runningwiththedevil on May 28, 2010 9:31 PM PDT reply actions
WOOHOO!!!
Great baseball night! A gutsy victory for us, two demoralizing losses for our biggest foes.
NL West standings
Dodgers -—
Rockies 2 GB
[crickets]
by Eric Stephen on May 28, 2010 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions
I knew the Expos could do it
Look at that, he hit the f*cking bull! Guy gets a free steak!
by Josie Becker on May 28, 2010 9:37 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Who/where do we play next Sunday?
by runningwiththedevil on May 28, 2010 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions
He will need at least 3 rehab games before coming back.
He’s only at simulated game status tomorrow, so we are about 3 weeks away.
by Eric Stephen on May 28, 2010 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Easy…no need to make Monk a martyr just yet.
by Eric Stephen on May 28, 2010 9:43 PM PDT up reply actions
FWIW
as a starter…
Monasterios ~6.09 FIP
Haeger: 6.26 FIP
by Eric Stephen on May 28, 2010 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Jon W raises a good point
What Joe says before the game and what he thinks after the game might change things for next week.
That's true
and given that Torre has said about a billion different things in the past week, we’ll just wait and see.
by Eric Stephen on May 28, 2010 9:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m not a huge Monk fan. But Haeger has been given chance after chance — only to fail almost every time. Getting sick of it.
Haeger needs a Hooton consult...
Turn his knuckleball into a knucklecurve.
by runningwiththedevil on May 28, 2010 9:48 PM PDT up reply actions
He hasn't even had a rehab start yet
I read where he’s going to pitch a simulated game tomorrow and then probably head out for 2-3 rehab starts.
At least at home the knuckleball should theoretically have some movement.
by runningwiththedevil on May 28, 2010 9:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Thus the timely platar fasciitis.
by runningwiththedevil on May 28, 2010 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions
So the Dodgers are a game back of the Padres
over/under on being in 1st place for Memorial day?
Look at that, he hit the f*cking bull! Guy gets a free steak!
Eventually a great day for me...
Dodger won…
France will host the European football championship in 2016…
JW Tsonga (FRA) won his 3rd round at Roland Garros…
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Again!!!! Again!!!! Again!!!! and Again!!!!
Roger will face Wawrinka in the last 16…
Rafa will play tomorrow afternoon…
And my favorite french woman, Aravane Rezai, will finish a wild match against the Russian Nadia Petrova :)
I hope Soderling will beat Rafa again!!!
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Eventually?
Did the Gary Coleman’s death start your day on bad note?
Sad.
by runningwiththedevil on May 28, 2010 9:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Very Sad....
I watched his show every week end… It was so funny…
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Diff’rent Strokes got to France late :)
by Eric Stephen on May 28, 2010 9:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I knew this sad news jyst before the game was started...
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Gary Coleman lived a tough life after Different Strokes. Hard to continue an acting career after a start like his, esp. w/ his health probs.
by runningwiththedevil on May 28, 2010 9:59 PM PDT up reply actions
According to Yahoo France...
Already hospitalized a few months ago, the actor was admitted again on May 27 at Utah Valley Hospital Regional Medical Center in Provo (Utah) in a very critical state, and plunged into a deep coma following a hemorrhage intra-cranial, before succumbing. He was 42.
Suffering the birth of a congenital disease linked to the kidneys and caused him nephritis, stopping growth irremediably Gary Coleman had received two transplants of kidneys, in both 1973 and 1984.
Colony Capital sucks... Paris est magique...
I didn't knew what Different Strokes would mean
In French, it translates to: “Arnold & Willy”…
I always remembered their song… I sang all the time…
Colony Capital sucks... Paris est magique...
Ethier finally relinquished the OBP lead
to Josh Willingham.
Sidebar now updated.
J-Hey kid is second to Ethier in the NL in OPS
Can't believe it took this long.
Shows how monstrous he was playing prior to the pinky/pinkie/5th hand digit fracture.
by runningwiththedevil on May 28, 2010 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Torre needs a Cease and Desist order on Haegar...
Enough is enough.
He doesnt deserve a 2nd chance.
Let Monk pitch 5 innings every 5th day.
I heard part of the call, but then he just said something like “there’s this one site where they have all sorts of information, any kind of thing you’re looking for…True Blue LA.”
by Eric Stephen on May 28, 2010 10:37 PM PDT up reply actions
hah nice, most of the Dodger Talk callers could benefit from reading an informed Dodger blog ever once in a while
William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.
that was me last night caling in. i was heading down to sd for the long weekend. the lines were wide open and i figured why just say “some website” since ive started reading this blog (unceremoniously recommended to me by a giants fan of all things, go figure) i feel my dodger knowledge has increased markedly.
with the Pirates
6-11 (.353) against Dodgers
129-178 (.420) against rest of NL
total since Tracy left:
10-20 (.333) against Dodgers
224-234 (.489) against rest of NL
by Eric Stephen on May 28, 2010 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions
That's probably not Jim Tracy as much as
the Dodgers owning the Rockies since 1993. I mean, we were 1-8 with Hurdle against LA last year.
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on May 29, 2010 7:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Bill Shaikin has an odd note in the Times’ Dodgers FYI column:
The Dodgers are keeping an eye on former major leaguer Jay Gibbons, who is batting .400 at Albuquerque. Gibbons, 33, could give the Dodgers a legitimate backup first baseman as well as a power threat off the bench. He has not played in the major leagues since 2007 and has apologized after the Mitchell Report linked him with human growth hormone
.
Wouldn’t John Lindsey be the guy to look at, if there was such a thing going on? I wonder if Gibbons has an out clause in June or something. Still, odd.
Well Gibbons has 656 major-league innings at 1B
so he’s more legitimate at 1B than Ronnie Belliard at least.
Gibbons has over 3000 major-league PAs and hit .260 / .314 / .453 / .768 / 101 OPS+. That’s 3000 times the major-league experience that Lindsey has, albeit no one know for sure how much is due to being enhanced in some way.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Well if he only used HGH he was simply wasting his time
Since Gibbons is LH and Lindsey is RH, it would seem that Lindsey is the better fit.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
srsly
I imagine he gets one start and if he blows it its back to the pen. Or so logic would dictate…
Rudimentary creatures of flesh and blood, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding.
I don't get his value from the bullpen
I always thought the big upside to a knuckleballer was that they could throw a lot innings. With Monasterios, Weaver, and Troncoso in the bullpen, do we really need an innings eater? If he can’t hack it as a starter, I vote for DFA.
Value in the pen
in the sense that he can mop up. It’s not really win added value. It’s more of resting the bullpen added value. Not much value to be had there. The value is the difference between Haeger in that role and R.Ortiz. Get your magnifying glasses out.
I don’t remember if we bet on Green / DeWitt or Green / Paul.
by Eric Stephen on May 29, 2010 8:17 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Side note from link...
Martin gets tomorrow off. Ellis to start.
Great win!
I’m stoked that I stayed up to watch all of that one in archives even though it looked like a loss for much of it. Nice comeback. Nice settling down by Monk. Some good at bats later in the game. And Broxton gets through a tough inning to really earn that save. Whew.
The kind of game that gives a fan hope for the season, when many thought it’d be a “sure loss.” No such thing in this crazy game.
Whoop!
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Good change up and and nice mix imho, after the wobbly first inning
He had the hitters off balance at times. He had a couple of mediocre innings. His fastball topped out at 92 (Francis at 91; both according to the Rockies broadcast).
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
It would be great for Dodger fans
if he simply becomes a first baseman. Sure the bat might play there but they will lose a lot of value if Posey is simply a first baseman.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Really? He's going to play 1st?
And Huff to the outfield? Once again, they are tweaking their lineup to slightly improve their offense, which it needs, but making their defense even worse…
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
I’m guessing he said that because he’s not a great catcher.
by Julio Nievas on May 29, 2010 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions
The stretch of pitching the Mets threw at the Phillies
is the most amazing thing to happen this season.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Jim Callis says Dodgers are projected to draft
A.J. Cole, a 6’5" 190 lb HS RHP. He has a commitment to the University of Miami and has topped out at 98 mph according to Perfect Game USA.
Sounds AWESOME!!!
He would be a steal where they pick
Seen him projected in top 10 in other places, and 10 to 20 elsewhere.
Another good write-up on him in the Mets blog here.
Sporting News had him going to the Astros at #8. That actually seems too high to me. They had the Dodgers drafting Gary Brown of CSU Fullerton. Who I like, but I wouldn’t put a lot of money on Logan White taking a college position player with first pick. We’ll see though!
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Here's a video of him
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?topic_id=8080130&content_id=7243413
His stuff looks real good for a HS pitcher
by Julio Nievas on May 29, 2010 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Rest in peace, Dennis Hopper
:-(
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
LeBron James odds
Chicago Bulls – 9/5
NY Knicks – 9/5
Miami Heat – 2/1
Cleveland – 9/2
NJ Nets – 8/1
LA Clippers – 30/1
Field – 5/1
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