Dodgers Welcome Back Weaver With a Win
by Eric Stephen on May 7, 2010 10:27 PM PDT
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In a seesaw battle, the Dodgers ended with the game tilted in their favor, beating the Rockies 6-5 to open their weekend series. The Dodgers welcomed back Jeff Weaver from the disabled list by getting him a win, as he was the pitcher of record when the Dodgers took the lead in the sixth inning. It was the 100th win of Weaver's career, breaking his tie with Vicente Padilla for the most career wins on the staff.
Hiroki Kuroda had a rough night, allowing nine hits and a career high five walks, two of which were intentional. It was just the sixth game of his career with three or more unintentional walks.
| Hiroki Kuroda Starts w/3 Unintentional Walks | |||||
| Date | Opp | IP | BB | IBB | UIBB |
| 6/12/08 | SD | 6.0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| tonight | Col | 5.1 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 6/6/09 | Phi | 6.0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 6/1/09 | Ari | 5.0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 5/11/08 | Hou | 6.2 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 5/6/08 | NYM | 3.1 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com | |||||
Ely Optioned
Having options is sometimes the cruelest fate in the life of a young player, as John Ely found out today. To make room on the roster for Weaver, Ely was optioned to Albuquerque one day after turning in the fourth-highest Game Score by a Dodger starter this season. The Dodgers have a giant question mark in Charlie Haeger starting on Saturday, and likely the yet-to-be-stretched out Carlos Monasterios on Tuesday, with Ramon Ortiz in reserve. I'm not saying Ely is a savior or anything, but it seems to me you might want to keep around and reward the guy who pitched at least six innings in both of his starts and walked none while striking out seven last night.
Notes
- Xavier Paul, in his last game before being optioned to make room for Manny Ramirez, had a double, a walk, a run scored, and his third stolen base
- Matt Kemp hit a bloop triple in the sixth inning to give the Dodgers the lead. It was the first RBI for Kemp in 15 games, after 20 RBI in his first 14 games
- Andre Ethier had two more runs batted in tonight, meaning he is averaging an RBI per game for his last 109 home starts, dating back to August 12, 2008 (109 RBI in 109 starts)
- Jamey Carroll had two hits, including his second double in as many nights, and is hitting.346/.400/.423 during the homestand
- Casey Blake had a pair of hits and a pair of great diving plays at third base, turning sure hits into outs. Vin Scully remarked after the second great defensive play, "Blake is two for three with the bat, and two for two with the glove."
- The Dodgers had four doubles and a triple tonight, their ninth game of the season with five or more extra-base hits
Haeger battles Jhoulys Chacin in game two of the series tomorrow night, as the Rockies send out their second of three straight awesomely-named starting pitchers.
WP - Jeff Weaver (1-1): 1/3 IP, 1 walk
LP - Matt Daley (0-1): 2/3 IP, 2 hits, 1 run, 1 strikeout
Sv - Jonathan Broxton (2): 1 IP, 1 hit, 2 strikeouts
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They are recording dodger talk
At the baseline club. They need people to ask a question What should we ask?
by LA Taco on May 7, 2010 10:48 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
ask them if they frequent any Dodger blogs
by Eric Stephen on May 7, 2010 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions
He'll be back
when GA is DL’d for an ingrown toenail.
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 don't get it.
I also don’t get optioning Ely.
If a kid’s got options, that’s not always a reason to send ‘em down! It may be a better idea to DFA some dead wood (Ortiz, GAnderson, I’m looking right at you two). Unbelievable.
Here’s your Moneyball right here. That book’s main theme was finding inefficiencies in the market and exploiting them for your own gain. How does keeping two “veterans” on the squad make any damned sense when you have two very promising, very talented players who are actively contributing?
Before anyone tells me the Xman would have only been the 5th outfielder, I say his play over the last two weeks put him solidly as 4th OF. And with Manny requiring regular rest and late innings defensive replacement, he would have gotten plenty of rest.
by Seanny Rotten on May 8, 2010 9:23 AM PDT up reply actions
If we still need pitching I suggest we pick up Rojo Johnson
Looks like high risk, high reward kind of player, but I think he would fit well.
Hey E, great recap.
It’s great to see the bats come alive and the pitching steady. Now if we can do this to a top team, we will be good. We are headed in the right direction. I know I was all about Hager early in the year, but the way Ely has been pitching, they might need to swap. X will be back. GA needs to get out of dodge. Go Dodgers.
by Skunkburner on May 7, 2010 11:10 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
or 27, I guess.
Maybe he is available :)
by Eric Stephen on May 7, 2010 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions
BTW
Payroll sidebar has been updated (with Manny and Weaver back, and X-Man & Ely down).
As has the payroll worksheet
for point of reference
the worksheet is fluid. I assume every player on the active roster will remain until the end of the season, until their status changes, just for purposes of calculating the payroll.
by Eric Stephen on May 7, 2010 11:15 PM PDT up reply actions
How the hell are we still paying
Nomar?
And why were we still paying Tomko last season?
by Seanny Rotten on May 8, 2010 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions
Nomar had a $2.5 million signing bonus that was deferred over 2009-2010.
Tomko had a $1 million option buyout in 2008 (not 2009)
by Eric Stephen on May 8, 2010 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions
Ely was sent down?? Fuck it. He’ll start LIVE on Tuesday. It just gives the team a little more “depth” by postponing the phantom DL (Sherrill?) until after the weekend.
(Wasn’t around earlier, so don’t know if this already speculated on).
I believe that’s still an option, and Josh Suchon and Ken Levine were even more in agreement with that on Dodger Talk after the game.
by Eric Stephen on May 7, 2010 11:48 PM PDT up reply actions
USC
Eric, you’d appreciate that I ran into Mark Sanchez at the stadium today. His family was honored as Hollenbeck family of the year before the game, then he got to announce “it’s time for Dodger baseball.” I guess he sponsored a large group of kids at the game and he was on the way to see them when I met him.
A lot of fans are wearing those USC – UCLA stadium giveaway hats now – the UCLA fans were of course booing him
I’m just waiting for My Town UCSD :)
by Eric Stephen on May 8, 2010 12:41 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
TRITONS, REPRESENT!
Class of ’00, John Muir College!!
by Seanny Rotten on May 8, 2010 9:27 AM PDT up reply actions
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