Dodgers Win Worth Waiting For
by Eric Stephen on Aug 8, 2010 1:30 AM PDT
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PrintHiroki Kuroda was great after a shaky start, retiring 17 straight batters before being relieved, and the Dodgers won in walk-off fashion thanks to James Loney, making the third True Blue LA Night a victorious one, keeping our perfect record intact.
Thanks to everyone for showing up; we had a great time. Matt Kemp was robbed of a grand slam on a great catch by Mike Morse, but the Dodgers managed to score two runs instead of one thanks to Adam Kennedy throwing the ball to nobody with a glove at first base. That was the extent of the Dodgers offense, until the 10th inning, that is.
The 10th inning not only provided James Loney's second walk-off hit since the All-Star break, but also gave us a glimpse of the five-man infield, deployed briefly by Jim Riggleman's Nationals.
Jonathan Broxton got the win, pitching the final two scoreless innings, ending his night with a thrilling strikeout of Ryan Zimmerman to set the stage for Loney's (and Ronnie Belliard's, and Scott Podsednik's) heroics.
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Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?
You posted the recap
at one thirty in the morning? Bloody hell, no one’s going to be up to read that.
How would you define your approach to management, apart from being brilliant?
I had a ton of fun tonight :)
It was great to finally meet a lot of people. Apparently some serious issues were worked out tonight :P
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
Phil and crew
I am guessing that we need to have TBLA night about once every 3 or 4 home games. I’m sure you got everyone to buy a ticket for todays game so we can win the series!
I'm glad to be back home from deep in the woods after a great trip
and come back to a Dodger win for a change. Looks like I both missed some things and missed nothing while I was gone. :-/ But glad you guys had a good TBLA Night and enjoyed yourselves.
Hope my return and your night brought them luck!
I even suffered through their Sunday night loss on my first night in mountains, but before leaving for backpacking trek, when a rustic lake restaurant was showing the game, sigh and of course I had to watch it.)
I highly recommend taking a break from sports (and more importantly the stress of life) whenever you can and hitting the wilderness.
Hope everyone’s well.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
west central Sierras
We departed from edison lake. which requires driving down one of the state’s most harrowing roads. as a passenger i needed dramamine… but its worth it because the trails on other side of lake are gorgeous beyond belief. will try to post a pic here later. we had one bear encounter but wasotherwise pretty benign. my stepdad’s 60th bday trip was a big success. :)
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
by underdog on Aug 8, 2010 9:28 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Nice, I have probably done some of those same trails. As a 13 year old we drove up the western Sierra to Lake Thomas Edison while another group drove up the eastern Sierra. They hiked to where we parked their cars and we hiked to where they parked our cars. We took the ferry across the lake and hiked up and spent a night at all of the “three recesses”. We also hiked up to and fished at Pioneer Lake and climbed to the top of Mount Hopkins. Our best fishing was at the “third recess”. We made sure didn’t clean our fish near our campsite, so no visible bear encounters. The last day was a long tough hike out over Mono Pass with a quick hike up to the top of Mount Star, then down the pass to where our cars awaited. But you are right, that area is gourgeous. Probably my favorite backpacking trip of all time.
vr, Xei
Nice
my stepdad wants to try going over to the other side next time, not sure I’m up to it because the altitude gets to me over 10 or 11K feet – like that Mono Pass way., but we did make it to some of the upper alpine lakes which were amazing, and the 3rd recess lake where, yeah, one of our fellow campers caught a couple of small trout that we ate.
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 was able to watch the end of the game. It was great to see another TBLA win even if this one was from my house. The last hike I did was Dick’s Peak in Tahoe. We were on part of the PCT.
by Skunkburner on Aug 8, 2010 10:07 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
The day has come
GA DFA. Jay Gibbons up.
by Alex41592 on Aug 8, 2010 10:31 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
Pods LF
Theriot 2B
Ethier RF
Loney 1B
Kemp CF
Belliard 3B
Carroll SS
Ellis C
Lilly P
by Alex41592 on Aug 8, 2010 10:39 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
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