After Going For The Block, Dodgers Get Dunn Hollywood Squared
by Eric Stephen on Aug 6, 2010 10:13 PM PDT
in Dodgers Game Recaps
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PrintOn the day it was reported that the Dodgers reportedly put in a waiver claim on Adam Dunn, attempting to block him from other teams, Dunn showed just why he is so coveted. The slugger hit two towering three-run home runs down the right field line off Clayton Kershaw in the first three innings, giving the Nationals a series-opening 6-3 victory at Dodger Stadium.
Dunn's home run in the first inning went an estimated 460 feet and caromed off the Stadium Club, a target once thought unattainable. His second home run, also with Ian Desmond and Ryan Zimmerman on base, hit high off the foul pole in right field in the third inning.
Notes
- The six runs given up by Kershaw were the second most he has ever given up at Dodger Stadium, behind only the seven runs he allowed to Milwaukee on May 4 earlier this season.
- Andre Ethier hit a two-run home run, his second dinger in three games, which extended his hitting streak to six games. He and Matt Kemp are now tied for the club lead with 18 home runs.
- Kenley Jansen walked his first batter of his young career tonight, the light-hitting Justin Maxwell, who struck out three times against Kershaw. Jansen also walked his second batter, although that was an intentional pass to Dunn
- Ramon Troncoso made his first major league appearance since July 2, pitching 1 2/3 scoreless innings
- George Sherrill struck out Adam Kennedy looking to end the top of the ninth inning, and has now retired 13 of the last 16 batters he has faced.
- Drew Storen, the 10th pick of the 2009 MLB draft, retired the Dodgers in the ninth inning for his first major league save
- First base coach Mariano Duncan had back issues tonight and missed the contest. Jeff Pentland took his place in the first base coaches box.
Tomorrow is True Blue LA Night, with Hiroki Kuroda attempting to halt the two-game losing streak against baseball inventor Livan Hernandez.
WP - John Lannan (3-5): 6 IP, 5 hits, 3 runs (2 earned), 2 walks, 2 strikeouts
LP - Clayton Kershaw (10-7): 6 IP, 7 hits, 6 runs, 2 walks, 9 strikeouts
Sv - Drew Storen (1): 1 IP, 1 walk
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I was rooting for a win
But since they lost, at least they had the goddam courtesy to lose 6-3.
The Omar Moreno of this blog
I am baffled you picked the right score
It was Kershaw vs. John Fucking Lannan for christ sakes. . .. John Fucking Lannan
by SeanMillerSavior on Aug 6, 2010 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I pick the same score every day
Opponents 6, Dodgers 3.
It was bound to pay off eventually. Odd that it was today, I’ll grant you that. 46 points is more than Opps 6-LA 3 usually would have gotten me.
The Omar Moreno of this blog
by Humma Kavula on Aug 6, 2010 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I believe that the Dodgers have never lost on TBLA or DT night, yes?
The Omar Moreno of this blog
by Humma Kavula on Aug 6, 2010 10:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Yep
They lost on an unofficial game in 2008 on the night of DT picnic day though.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 6, 2010 10:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Please remind me where your seats are… we’ll be in our regular seats but I’ll try to come by and say hi.
The Omar Moreno of this blog
by Humma Kavula on Aug 6, 2010 10:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Kensai's twitter
# It was actually AM 710, but who cares. :o about 7 hours ago via TweetDeck
“James Loney is the only untradeable hitter to me on the Dodgers right now.”-A. Martinez, local radio show host on AM 570 about 8 hours ago via TweetDeck
He would save characters to stay under the previous 140 limit if he stopped adding :o to every tweet/comment
by Eric Stephen on Aug 6, 2010 10:24 PM PDT up reply actions
How hard would it be
to get 23 guys through waivers? How many prospects could be gained? At least 23, probably a few good ones. I’m interested in hanging onto Kershaw and Kuo. That’s about it. I guess none of the other 23 could start for any contending team, so, I guess nevermind.
You know what waiting on prospects got us? This team.
by regfairfield on Aug 6, 2010 10:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I was talking about the Jacksonville five era. We had one of the most anticipated classes of all time, and it turned into this.
Prospects, especially ones that people will actually trade, aren’t some magic ticket to success.
by regfairfield on Aug 6, 2010 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Well yeah. but the best younger players weren't even part of that group.
Kemp, Kershaw and even Ethier performed better than Loney, et al.
The best of them is Billingsley and people are trying to trade for him for J.A. Happ.
And ultimately, unless your prospects become superstars, it’s not what you do with your farm team, it’s how you spend the money you saved with them.
We spent it on Kuroda and a whole bunch of crap.
by regfairfield on Aug 6, 2010 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Kershaw’s on the edge of that at least.
But yeah, building a team is all about getting irreplaceable players. Either you develop them yourself, or you use your farm system to save enough money to buy them. Other than Kershaw we don’t have that guy.
by regfairfield on Aug 6, 2010 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Red Sox have done good at generating near irreplaceable players..
Ortiz, Youkilis, Pedroia, Lester, Buccholz, Beckett..
Although the pitchers could be debatable.
They seem to have the best of both worlds – at developing the guys and also having enough money to sign the best players. Yankees just seem to be a free agent team though Hughes/Joba/Cano are doing good for them.
FWIW, they didn’t generate Ortiz or Beckett. Beckett was acquired by expensive Hanley Ramirez sacrificing trade. Ortiz was acquired from the Twins for I know know not what at this point.
On a desperate search for Sunshine at Nats Park. In Rizzo and Ramos we trust.
That’s a bit silly.
It turned into this… and 2008 and 2009. That’s a pretty damn good result.
by Michael White on Aug 6, 2010 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions
2 teams that went to the NLCS?
What a horrible result. Now if only all the players that could have replenished that group hadn’t been traded…
Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
oh of course
ENTIRELY because of manny. No one else helped at all.
Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
This year might be one of the strongest top heavy National Leagues in a while.
The WC is going to be 1 of these teams (Phillies, Braves, Reds, Cardinals, Padres, Giants). Top 4 are going to make the playoffs.
Very likely that all 4 playoff teams will be 90 plus win teams. Not sure if thats ever happened.
1998 was very top heavy
Cubs had 90 wins as the WC (and needed Game 163 to get it), but the top three had 106, 102, and 98 wins.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 6, 2010 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Happens a lot
2004 (Astros 92 wins, WC)
2003 (Marlins 91)
2002 (all four teams with 95+ wins!)
by Eric Stephen on Aug 6, 2010 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s probably the high-water mark in terms of top four, maybe in either league.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 6, 2010 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions
AL West was amazingly stronger in 2002..
Oakland As – 103-59
Angels – 99-63
Mariners – 93-69
Amazing to win 93 games, and not only miss the playoffs but finish 10 games out.
Actually 2002 might be the most lopsided major league season ever..
6 AL teams finished with 93+ wins.
3 AL Teams finished with 100+ losses.
If this were
NCAA football, we’d win the NL West if the season ended today. Best record vs. division at 27-15.
We’d get killed in our bowl game against a non-BCS school though.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 6, 2010 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Putting Theriot and Scotty Pods on the top of the lineup is like putting two Juan Pierre's.
And the Dodgers think its a good thing.
I've spent a lot of time
revisiting the 92 Dodgers, because I need something from the past to relate this to.
HR leaders, 1992 Dodgers:
1) Karros 20
2T) Hansen 6
2T) Webster 6
4T) Davis 5
4T) Strawberry 5
Team total: 72
I think people just have too great of expectations for Matt Kemp. He’s a good player, but he’s not great. Its almost like some dodger fans are so desperate for a superstar, that they’ve probably unfairly put the onus on Kemp to be that guy.
In all fairness,
Kemp has been an absolute sad sack of a player for months, but then again, so have all Dodger position players not named Furcal.
SOMEONE has to be the “superstar.” I guess Manny and Ethier get excused from the scrutiny due to injury.
Kemp should go phantom DL so we can quit hearing about how much he sucks. Put Ethier back there too, get him rested for 2011.
An outfield of Pods/Hoffman/Paul backed up by GA and a just-back-from-injury Johnson sounds pretty cool.
by some_dude on Aug 6, 2010 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
How much money would you throw at Adrian Beltre this off-season?
He’s the best 3rd basemen out there, and the Dodgers have no one in the minors or at the MLB level to play it.
We’ll be stuck with some atypical, non-3B guy at 3B, like Carroll, DeJesus, anyone else who is guaranteed to hit fewer than 5 HR.
Don’t the Red Sox have a team option on him or something? They would probably want to keep him after this year.
As Eric stated in the GT, it will be a long road to hoe for my brother, there is progress...
I posted this in the GT, after this thread was already up, so I figure most would not have read it in there. Most might not care to read it in here, but I thought I would post it anyway. You can lambast all you please.
Though, you do have to look at when he was finally able to get someone to look at his mechanics from a focused point of view. That would be the bullpen with Martin on 7/24.
Since then his line is:
6 G, 4.1 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, .188/.188/.188/.376 (Yes, I know, small sample size)
Just FYI, since the AS Break, here are the numbers:
10 G, 6.1 IP, 7 H, 3 ER (2B, HR), 1 BB, 4 K, .269/.296/.423/.719 (incl non-warm up game v SF)
I really appreciate your posts.
Whats it like to have a brother in the major leagues?
Does George have a bunch of crazy stories about life on the road with a major league team?
Thats the type of stuff I’d want to know. Just how living ‘the life’ really is.
Earlier in his career yes...
there was a lot of things. All the hazing when he first came up. Some of life in the clubhouse comes up from time to time. You hear about good players, bad players, primadonnas, ritualistic players, good coaches, bad coaches, strange coaches, etc.
I will always cherish being able to see Game 3 of the NLDS last year, and celebrate in STL with the families in the Dodgers suite, the players in the clubhouse (champagne galore), then afterward at the hotel. Getting to meet childhood heroes like Torre and Mattingly, plus everyone else was very cool.
ya thanks for sharing, thats awesome
I think i speak on behalf of most when I say we would love to keep hearing any inside stuff about how you’re brother is doing and what he is working on, and any stories from being with the team that you may have, very neat to have an inside look into professional baseball like that
William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.
Thanks for the great stories. A buddy of mine worked at the hotel where you and George stay at with some of the players…he said you two were great guys.
by robotmadeofnails on Aug 7, 2010 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
it’s a damn good thing I’ve been drinking tonight, screw Adam Dunn…I looked at my phone tonight to see he had the same fucking at bat twice!
poqwuga;lsdjga;lk
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
please
oh please explain to me how vodka = cough syrup?
Because I had some whiskey tonight and it tasted like delicious.
Leading the league in OMGs.
Dodgers get "Dunn" in by
The Big Donkey
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
You swiped this one directly or indirectly from MissB in the Federal Baseball gamethread! I’m not sure whether I’m flattered or horrified by that. I do know that Dunn’s production spike is fun but a bit nerve inducing for this Nats fan. If he leads the league in HR, he’s going to ask for and get a truck of money from someone for his age 30+ seasons and I don’t know if the price will be worth it for us to retain him and I doubt the picks will be worth it to let him go. I so wish Rizzo had signed him before the deadline and his hot streak.
On a desperate search for Sunshine at Nats Park. In Rizzo and Ramos we trust.
SOMEBODY DIDN'T CLOSE THEIR F'ING TAGS
Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU!
"You can't please me. You never met me. Zoë, why do I have a wife? "
well that was fun...
what a great night to introduce some English friends to the game of of baseball : /
William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.
According to this one guy on BTF! Sands is having the 5th best minor league season!
FWIW he is 21 in AAA
Ok for shits and giggles I took every minor leaguers’ numbers through 8/5/10
used a run estimator (ERP- similar to linear weights) to get a r/g # for each player, adjusted for age relative to level, adjusted for league difficulty, then figured how far above/below league average, then divided by that leagues runs/g (yes it’s a dumb method, but here’s teh top 20 YTD 2010):
1 Eric_Hosmer 11.3
2 Brandon_Belt 10.0
3 Mike_Trout 9.7
4 Mike_Moustakas 9.1
5 Gerald_Sands 8.8
6 Matthew_Rizzotti 8.8
7 Mike_Stanton 8.5
8 Domonic_Brown 8.1
9 Kila_Kaaihue 8.1
10 Brett_Jackson 8.0
11 Julio_Martinez 7.8
12 William_Myers 7.8
13 J.P.Arencibia 7.1
14 DanJohnson 7.0
15 Frederick_Freeman 6.9
16 Brandon_Laird 6.7
17 Jared_Goedert 6.6
18 Lucas_Duda 6.3
19 Carlos_Santana 6.3
20 Devin_Mesoraco 6.2
Dodgers/Great Lakes Loons announcement today
Probably another long term extension like they did with Chattanooga.
Carlos Delgado is now a member of the Red Sox. Signed for $3 million (pro-rated so he’ll get about $900k)
Wow
“First base coach Mariano Duncan had back issues tonight and missed the contest. Jeff Pentland took his place in the first base coaches box.”
…Eeven the coaches area breaking down…, man!
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