Hudson Induces Different Strokes, Conrad Bane Of Dodgers Existence
by Eric Stephen on Aug 13, 2010 7:14 PM PDT
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PrintThe Dodger offense continued their alternating performances this week, following a nine-run outburst with another shutout, this one at the hands of Tim Hudson with a Billy Wagner finish, as the Braves took the series opener 1-0. The only run of the game came off the bat of journeyman Brooks Conrad, filling in for the injured Chipper Jones at third base, who smashed a pitch over the center field wall in the seventh inning. This was the Dodgers third 1-0 loss of the season.
Hudson pitched eight shutout innings, and has allowed a total of two runs in 36 2/3 innings over his last five starts.
Conrad had hit every one of his home runs this season -- all six of them, before tonight -- in the eighth inning or later, which made his seventh inning blast relatively early by comparison.
Hiroki Kuroda pitched well, allowing one run in seven innings, but thanks to the lack of offense by the Dodgers he was hung with his sixth loss in his last seven decisions.
One night after his implosion in Philadelphia, Jonathan Broxton was given the ball to pitch the eighth inning, and he responded with a scoreless frame, allowing only an infield single.
The Dodgers managed to reach base five times, and three of those were by Scott Podsednik. Podsednik reached base to start the ninth inning, but was caught stealing by Wagner, whose pickoff move helped record the second out of the inning. Wagner then struck out Andre Ethier to end the game.
Ted Lilly and Derek Lowe do battle tomorrow night.
WP - TIm Hudson (14-5): 8 IP, 3 hits, 1 walk, 6 strikeouts
LP - Hiroki Kuroda (8-11): 7 IP, 4 hits, 1 run, 2 walks, 3 strikeouts
Sv - Billy Wagner (29): 1 IP, 1 hit, 1 strikeout
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its like binary code
except with numbers besides 1.
Adam Morrison has more rings than Lebron, Bosh, and Wade combined?
Cliff lee would have 40 wins by now
Adam Morrison has more rings than Lebron, Bosh, and Wade combined?
and the Laker season is only two months away.
Adam Morrison has more rings than Lebron, Bosh, and Wade combined?
they came out this week:
http://www.nba.com/lakers/photos/1011lakersschedule.pdf
Adam Morrison has more rings than Lebron, Bosh, and Wade combined?
and sam bradford's debut is tomorrow!
GOD I CAN’T FREAKING WAIT TIL SC AND RAMS FOOTBALL! no matter how depressing the last 3 nfl seasons have been… =( all this depressing baseball has me so ready for some football!
Unleash King Sam #8
WOW
Magic Johnson wants to buy the Pistons
Adam Morrison has more rings than Lebron, Bosh, and Wade combined?
well, be a part of the ownership group that buys them. He just wants a bigger front office role than what he has now with the Lakers.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 13, 2010 7:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I hope I heard wrong
but it sounded like Jim Watson said “you can sum up the Dodgers offense in 5 words, in-con-sis-tent” to close out the post game show
William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.
Is one of the requirements for calling into Dodger Talk being in possession of a lobotomy?
Leading the league in OMGs || Proud owner of a Chad Billingsley Real Doll
Hi!
TN is really, really, very, hot and humid. It’s good though! My house is pretty neat, and it’s two blocks away from a laundrymat and grocery store…and like, a 5 minute walk from about 8 bars. I’m pretty much screwed.
I still don’t have a bed or anything, so I’m on an air mattress — which actually isn’t that bad. I just have to buy everything. Blah.
However, what you guys will appreciate the most is that my roommate is a baseball fan. She saw my Ethier jersey and very tenatively asked if I played fantasy baseball. Apparently she’s very into it. Sadly, she’s a Padres fan, but her parents are Dodgers season ticket holders.
Leading the league in OMGs || Proud owner of a Chad Billingsley Real Doll
You realized you just stoked the flames of the board, right? :)
Two girls who are big baseball fans, living together? Heaven.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 13, 2010 7:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah
we have plans to go see the Lookouts and the Nashville Sounds play.
Leading the league in OMGs || Proud owner of a Chad Billingsley Real Doll
Does it even occur to these people how young Broxton is? He’s still learning how to pitch and building experience, good and bad, that will serve him well in the future. Mariano Rivera was barely in the majors when he was Broxton’s age.
"A baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day."
1. That Dodger Talk caller was probably an idiot
2. Broxton is a very good pitcher, and he can close games for my team, but… he kinda doesn’t have any stuff right now. He’s been bad.
The Omar Moreno of this blog
by Humma Kavula on Aug 13, 2010 8:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I agree but I also think that, to a degree, he’s been unlucky/mismanaged. The most telling stat to me is that Broxton is 19 for 19 this season in save opps when pitching with less than three days rest. He’s 2 for 7 when pitching with three or more days rest. Sometimes it just can’t be controlled but he seems like someone who needs his rythym.
"A baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day."
I certainly agree
that he has been mismanaged.
It’s frustrating and makes me want to punch a kitten, because people who have questioned him all along can now say, “See?! See?!”
Yeah, he can’t get anybody out right now. Shut up or the kitten gets it.
The Omar Moreno of this blog
by Humma Kavula on Aug 13, 2010 8:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Just saying
I’m watching Red Sox vs Rangers, and I must say, this is like watching yesterday’s Dodgers game of how Red Sox bullpen is just melting right now LOL. 8-2 to 9-8 now? Wow, this is just deja vu.
They melted down lastight, too. If not for the Dodgers, Papelbon’s BS would have been the big story last night.
"A baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day."
The #Dodgers won 6 of 7 road games heading into the ASB and stood 21-21 on the road. Since then, they are 2-12 in road grays.
The Dodgers have outscored opponents on the road this year (257-251), but are 23-33
That implies that the Dodgers are an unlucky team
losing more games than they should. Just wondering, do you think that’s true? Overall, have they been lucky, unlucky, or about even?
To me, they’re neither unlucky nor lucky. They’re schizophrenic. They can go through a series where they win a whole bunch of one-run games in a row, but score exactly five and they suck. Pitching and hitting is constantly out of sync. They have STILL won more games than they’ve lost, but they’ve been a very tough team to watch.
The Omar Moreno of this blog
by Humma Kavula on Aug 13, 2010 8:17 PM PDT up reply actions
This
To me, they’re neither unlucky nor lucky. They’re schizophrenic
by Eric Stephen on Aug 13, 2010 8:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Now a Dodger Talk caller claims to know a lot of bar owners/workers, and said Matt Kemp was out partying on Saturday night, and that’s why he went 0 for 4 with 4 Ks on Sunday.
I saw him Sunday morning, and all I will add is that Kemp was just sitting in front of his locker before the game, and more surly than usual. I have no way of knowing if he was hungover or anything, just FYI
At least
…and please correct me if I’m wrong…
…it’s lookin’ like another five points for ol’ Humma.
The Omar Moreno of this blog
I'd get a crap load of points if I guessed 1-0 dodgers lose every night, lol
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
Nah
Grid value is too low for you to really cash in on that strategy.
The Omar Moreno of this blog
by Humma Kavula on Aug 13, 2010 8:10 PM PDT up reply actions
My only goal is to hit a triple digit winner from here on out.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 13, 2010 8:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Dodger Talk is hilarious
Eric, you should set something up where you can be a guest or a featured caller there, it would definitely be better then most of the callers they get.
Hudson has broken FIP and xFIP apparently
Missed the game. I know he induces a lot of groundballs but this is getting to the point of being ridiculous.
Padres are playing the game under protest. Hairston was ruled to have interfered with Freddy Sanchez and Bud Black did not like that very much.
perhaps the grounds for interference were applied incorrectly? I don’t know; I’m not watching.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 13, 2010 8:35 PM PDT up reply actions
probably already been posted but
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Aj1SY2z0FMgpgyglrwo1lxARvLYF?slug=sh-leedodgers081310
henson believes lee will get a big offer from the dodgers.
1 year shorter and 15 million less than the Yankees
just to make McCourt look like he tried most likely. Doubt we’d have a new owner by then if things fell apart in the trial.
LSU football camp hasn’t gone as smoothly as Lee anticipated and he might be asked to redshirt. Juniors Jordan Jefferson and Jarrett Lee are entrenched as the No. 1 and No. 2 quarterbacks, and unless they both flop the soonest Lee could become the starter is 2012.
Hell, the way our rotation looks, Lee could probably be a starter for the Dodgers before September 2012.
by StolenMonkey86 on Aug 14, 2010 6:28 AM PDT up reply actions
11pm KC time restart, per eleventy beat writers on Twitter.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 13, 2010 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
They started back up
Yankees hitting with men on in the 6th. Royals are likely doomed.
Dodgers bullpen > Red Sox bullpen.
His production won’t end up all that different than Jayson Heyward. Heyward will have the ~200 PA advantage (the “he’s been there all year” argument) and will get credit as a key cog on a playoff team or a team at or near the top of the NL all season.
Stanton may very well win the award, but doesn’t have anything close to locked up right now.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 13, 2010 9:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Plus, I completely left out Buster Posey in the equation.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 13, 2010 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Hyperbole got me again, haha.
It’s going to be a tight race. It’s just that my mind was blown when I read about Stanton power surge lately.
by silverwidow on Aug 13, 2010 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Wasn't in a month and a half ago after 3 starts that Strasburg had it locked up?
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
HOLY HELL wasn't he hitting just below .200 before we played them?!
he’s caught fire!
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You can't tell me what to do
Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
Wakefield starts the 11th inning. One pitch, game over.
"A baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day."
Aaron Boone all over again
11th inning, 1st pitch, walk off.
Great knuckleballer comparison
by Jesse Spector:
Knuckleballer comparison: R.A. Dickey, 9 IP, 1 H, 0 R… Tim Wakefield, 0 IP, 1 pitch, 1 H, 1 R, 1 HR
by Eric Stephen on Aug 13, 2010 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions
First and third with 2 outs, after AROD single. Cano with a chance to tie it up or take the lead now. Y tu Soria?
Looks like I didn't miss much
LOLffense
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
BTW Eric
You should take it as extreme kudos that everybody just took your headline in stride. Oh yes, just another exceptionally good and funny headline from Eric. Ho hum.
I mean, Conrad Bane?!
No need to congratulate you. This is what you do every day. Well done.
The Omar Moreno of this blog
Thanks
I was thinking it was too corny even for me.
I’m still mad they didn’t acquire Ryan Raburn because I had several Match Game headlines in the works.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 13, 2010 10:55 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
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Is that sign
still there? Probably not huh. Such a part of my childhood though, almost as much as the crappy fish on sticks in the Submarine ride
How would you define your approach to management, apart from being brilliant?
by Josie Becker on Aug 14, 2010 8:33 AM PDT up reply actions
I should be on my way to the fair
of course the woman is lagging.
Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
Frontrunners are leaping off the bandwagon?
by 68elcamino427 on Aug 14, 2010 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Aren't weekends always a lot slower than weekdays around here?
I know I gotta lotta stuff to do today. Just browsin’ now whilst I get a bite to eat.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Aug 14, 2010 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Great article from Chad Moriyama (AKA kensai) at
MOKM regading coaching and the Matt Kemp situation. Love the gold nugget he found in the LA Times archives.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Here are his last 7 starts (the one before that was a terrible blowout in favor of the other team)
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
It is quite easy using baseball-references game logs for each player
but I’m not sure what eight game streak you are referring to. He wasn’t good just before the AS break. He are his post-AS stats, which comprise six starts:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?n1=kurodhi01&t=p&year=2010&share=0.49#70-75-sum:pitching_gamelogs
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Aug 14, 2010 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Thanks. The eight game streak I was referring to was that he has failed to win in his last eight starts. So I was trying to see if it was him or the offense during those games. And from what it looks like he has been pretty good during this stretch
Braves lineup
Infante 2B
Heyward RF
Gonzalez SS
Glaus 1B
McCann C
Diaz LF
Conrad 3B
Cabrera CF
Lowe P
If you want a starting point for a Kershaw contract this offseason
Ricky Romero (1 year service time, same service class as Kershaw) just signed a 5-year, $30.1m deal with Toronto, per Ken Rosenthal.
That will buyout one FA year.
Also per Rosenthal
Romero largest guarantee ever for pitcher with less than 2 yrs of ML service. #BlueJays #MLB
by Eric Stephen on Aug 14, 2010 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions
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