Broxton Blows Another One, Giants Homer Their Way To 5-4 Win
by Eric Stephen on Sep 4, 2010 10:30 PM PDT
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PrintJonathan Broxton continued his second half slide, allowing a two-run home run to Juan Uribe in the ninth inning, giving the Giants a 5-4 win to even the weekend series at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers were up 4-0, but allowed three solo home runs in the seventh and eighth innings to set the stage for Uribe's game-winning blast.
The blown save was Broxton's fourth since the All-Star break and sixth on the season, and since closing out the American League in Anaheim he has allowed 21 hits, 15 runs (14 earned), 12 walks in 17 2/3 innings, with 16 strikeouts, for a 7.13 ERA. "He doesn't have the confidence that he needs to have, that he has had and will have again," Joe Torre said, "A lot of his counts are bad, and he's not as comfortable as he needs to be."
When asked why Hong-Chih Kuo was used in the eighth inning rather than the ninth, Torre said, "Kuo is our closer. If the game dictates that you need to pitch him in the eighth inning, that's what you do," adding that given Broxton's struggles, he would like to use him in earlier game situations going forward.
A three-run home run by Jay Gibbons capped a four-run rally in the fourth inning, which at the time gave the Dodgers a 4-0 lead. Gibbons has now started five games for the Dodgers this season, his first major league action since 2007, and he has homered in three of those games. As a starter, Gibbons has seven hits in 17 at-bats, and is hitting .412/.444/.941.
Ted Lilly was very good, again, giving up two runs in his seven innings of work. Both runs came off solo home runs, the second of which was hit by Edgar Renteria leading off the eighth inning. That was the last batter Lilly faced, as Joe Torre brought in Octavio Dotel, who promptly allowed a home run to Pat Burrell, the first batter he saw, to cut the lead to 4-3. One out later, Dotel walked Freddy Sanchez and his night was through.
Kuo, who threw 13 pitches while earning the save Friday night, came in to pitch on back-to-back nights for the third time this season. This time, unlike the other two back-to-back appearances, Kuo faced more than one batter, inducing a pop out by Aubrey Huff and retiring Buster Posey, who homered earlier, on a deep fly ball to center field.
Notes
- Casey Blake had a double and two singles tonight, and since the beginning of August is hitting .314/.388/.480
- Lilly is in four home starts as a Dodger is 3-0 with a 1.86 ERA
- James Loney set a new career high with his 36th double on the season, although it would have been a triple had he not fallen down between second and third base. Loney was out on the play, 9-4-6 if you're scoring at home.
- The home run allowed by Broxton was the first regular season home run he has allowed at Dodger Stadium since Mike Cameron took him deep on July 24, 2006, a span of 139 games and 135 2/3 innings.
Hiroki Kuroda and Jonathan Sanchez face off in the series finale tomorrow night on ESPN
WP - Javier Lopez (4-2): 3 up, 3 down
LP - Jonathan Broxton (5-5): 1 IP, 3 hits, 2 runs, 2 strikeouts
Sv - Brian Wilson (39): 1 IP, 2 hits
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glad I missed the game
went to griffith park instead. I saw Dodger Stadium from there.
anyway, it might be time to shut down broxton for the year.
Adam Morrison has more rings than Lebron, Bosh, and Wade combined?
Huge bonanza
for the Giants NL West title hopes today. Up from 25.97% to 35.29%. Rockies NLW title hopes up to a respectable 3.74%, while the Dodgers chances drop down below 1% again.
Padres have a tough schedule in September.
I’m not sure if they can hold on.
They have a 10 game road trip (Colorado, St. Louis, Dodgers) and then play 3 vs the Reds.
They also have 7 games left with the Giants.
I'm no fan of the Padres
but if the Giants win the division, the world will implode. Please don’t choke Padres.
Adam Morrison has more rings than Lebron, Bosh, and Wade combined?
Former UCLA TE Logan Paulsen survived the final cuts and made the Redskin roster.
I met Paulsen around Jan, and know his girlfriend. Cool that he made it.
http://dcprosportsreport.com/2010/09/04/final-redskins-roster-thoughts/
This is only scratching the surface
of Broxton’s stats, but he’s still not god awful in save situations: with 22 saves and only 5 blown saves
but when it comes to inherited runners, he’s allowed 9 to score out of 19, which is almost double his percentage from previous years.
And I dunno how they calculate average Leverage Index, but apparently this year he’s faced the highest pressure of his career, with an aLi of 1.949, where 1.000 is average.
Again, I really don’t know what these numbers mean, or if we’ve already gone over them, but I was looking at them and found them interesting.
he was the guy with the rich New York accent
anyway, he wanted to bring Sherrill in over Broxton for the 9th.
Adam Morrison has more rings than Lebron, Bosh, and Wade combined?
The guy calling from New York
I thought what he was saying was to bring in Sherill in the 8th instead of Kuo and then bring Kuo in the 9th.
NFL draft was tonight
So I missed the game. Now I’m listening to some chick butcher house music. As if it wasn’t bad enough the giants came back. Well let’s take the game tomorrow.
P.S. Suck it Pandouche!!!!!!!!!!!
by Skunkburner on Sep 4, 2010 11:08 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Any word on callups yet
Any word on callups? Sad fact that the Dodgers apparently don’t have a speed guy to bring up according to Josh on Dodgertalk. Wonder if that means Hu is not being called up?
1) Should know by tomorrow
2) Hu is not fast
by Eric Stephen on Sep 4, 2010 11:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Hu's b-ref sponser is hilarious.
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Michael told me that you had the post-game thread prewritten already (again) Eric, I just think Broxton doesn’t like you :P
"If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate"
Oh well
It was nice seeing you guys again.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 5, 2010 12:19 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
It was good to see you again too
Nice to get to the ballpark again. I had never actually been to where we were when we talked, I actually thought it was off limits before.
"If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate"
Had a great time at the game before the 9th
Lilly had great numbers, even though he gave up quite a few near-long balls.
"If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate"
It’s amazing how many late inning home runs the giants have had this year. Considering most of them have been from the likes of Uribe, Torres, Rowand and Renteria, they have had a lot of luck this year. Unless, of course, you are one of those people that believe that a player can turn on a clutch button and hit a HR in tight moments whenever they want to. I am not one of those people, so I see them as having a ton of fluke performances this year.
This year is teh suck
We’re paying for every walk off win we had last year with every bullpen(or Broxton) implosion…
"I still love my ex-wife, but only when we're not talking"
This
With the late game tomorrow I have all day in LA to just go around and punch babies.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 5, 2010 12:18 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Or a cat
"I still love my ex-wife, but only when we're not talking"
by angelofdeath on Sep 5, 2010 12:19 AM PDT up reply actions
I don't know what to say.
But I must post a comment so my descendants will know some day that I survived this time.
by Jesse S. on Sep 5, 2010 12:33 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
This is one of the weirder things I've seen in awhile
It gets going about 1:45 in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afpc_EcohcY
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man
Broxton
He has become so absolutely Neidenfuhr-like. I remember mid 80’s, Niedenfuhr would come in throwing mid 90’s and get absolutely raked. You knew the outcome when he came in and it was almost always the case. He never recovered unfortunately. I wonder if Brox is done.
I wonder if people who think Broxton is done are the same people who think Broxton never had it in the first place. Sorry, preacher, if this doesn’t describe you, but it’s predictable that last night’s performance would bring out the boo birds.
Nobody’s happy about recent-vintage Broxton, even his most ardent supporters. But there is so clear a dividing line between Good Broxton and Bad Broxton: the ASG. I wonder if there’s another explanation, an injury maybe?, that explains why his performance has been so poor.
I’ll add that if Broxton really is done, that is very, very bad for the Dodgers. The Dodgers need him to be good for the two more years that he is a Dodger, and then, they need to get high draft picks for him when he leaves for free agency.
The Omar Moreno of this blog
Not to add to the gin count
But Broxton only has one more year before FA.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 5, 2010 10:25 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Dodger pitchers who have returned from the AS Game hurt and less effective.
Penny
Billingsley
Broxton
by 68elcamino427 on Sep 5, 2010 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions
I think Broxton jumped the shark
in that consecutive stretch of five days, where he appeared in four of the five games and warmed up hard the one day he didn’t appear. The fifth day of that stretch was the Yankee debacle, when his fastball sat in the low 90s with no command, and Joe left him out there for 48 pitches. He’s been cooked mentally and physically ever since.
And yes, the comparison to Niedenfuer is accurate. Lasorda rode Niedenfuer hard that 1985 season because of Steve Howe’s implosion. Tom was one of the two or three best closers in baseball until the beginning of September, when he ran out of gas. Tommy kept throwing him out there anyway, and he gave up eight homers in September. Pretty ominous precursor to that devastating St. Louis series in the NLCS in October.
by The Dude Abides on Sep 5, 2010 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions
He’s been cooked mentally and physically ever since.
So have I . . . . That was personally an important series for me also! ;-)
some day, managers will understand that to get the best effectiveness out of your bullpen, you use your best relievers every 2-3 days, and only rarely on back-to-back days or on four+ days rest.
http://www.dingersblog.com
Which would work well if game situations requiring your best relievers were optimally distributed.
by Bob Timmermann on Sep 5, 2010 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
I think two days in a row, one inning each is fine
And if not too many pitches were thrown either game, then an appearance with a limited number of pitches is ok for the third day. But a fourth consecutive day should be out of the question, even if he only warmed up and didn’t appear on the third consecutive day. On that ominous Sunday against the Yankees, Joe made the announcement beforehand that he was holding Broxton out that night no matter what. Then he threw him out there for the 9th with a four-run lead, and kept him on the mound for 48 pitches. I think that was turning point in the Dodger season right there.
by The Dude Abides on Sep 5, 2010 11:09 AM PDT up reply actions
I feel the sarcasm dripping from your obvious well taken point
Bob, that being said, wonder if a better road for the Dodgers next year would be to use both Broxton and Kuo as dual closers. In theroy Broxton would not have the heavy workload at the beginning of the season, which some think as caused his problems and Kuo would also be protected.
Would it work is the question, and you still have to find good set up guys.
Tony Jackson thinks Billingsley is just now developing into an ace.
This is funny/ironic on so many levels.
Billingsley has overcome adversity and is pitching great this year.
He is the staff ace, it’s obvious.
by 68elcamino427 on Sep 5, 2010 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions
the perfect capper to an otherwise crappy day
when Loney fell on the triple the omen was pretty much set
Winners always have high expectations...losers whine about schedules (or blame Dorrell).
Oh fuck.
2. Larry Bowa, third base coach, Dodgers — He indicated that Don Mattingly has approached him about being his bench coach if Mattingly should end up managing the Dodgers next year. Concerning Joe Torre, Bowa said, "I know he’s not ready to retire, and he’s told me he thinks he’s going to do something. What that is, I don’t know and I don’t think Joe knows yet. If Joe and Donnie get something, I would love to keep working for either of them.’’ Bowa said the big challenge for Mattingly is "right now, he’s seeing things through the lens of a hitting coach. He’s going to have to incorporate other things, like pitching. He’ll manage in the Fall League and I think that will give him a taste of it.’’
Don Mattingly better not get this job.
And a quote about Matt Kemp.
7. Matt Kemp, CF, Dodgers — While he has had maturity issues in Los Angeles, some Dodgers personnel would be surprised if GM Ned Colletti pulled the trigger on a Kemp deal in the offseason. "There are too many skills there,’’ said a team official. "As a center fielder, he’s productive and getting better. You never know in trades, but I’d guess we’d have to be pretty overwhelmed to give up on him.’’
Isn’t the main reason for the Dodgers keeping Kemp is that his salary is still under team control. If he could be a free agent, I have the feeling that Colletti would have packaged him up with a bow and sent him to Atlanta for Melky Cabrera.
by Bob Timmermann on Sep 5, 2010 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions
From ESPN rumors. (Behind paywall)
Los Angeles Dodgers centerfielder Matt Kemp wants a contract similar to that of Baltimore Orioles right fielder Nick Markakis, reports SI.com’s Jon Heyman, but apparently knows he’s not going to receive such an offer from the Dodgers.
Markakis signed a six-year, $66.1 million deal with the Baltimore Orioles prior to the 2009 season, and Kemp, who will make $6.95 million in 2011 as part of the two-year deal he negotiated last winter, stands to make around $10 million via arbitration after ’11, then become a free agent.
If the Dodgers feel they can get value for Kemp, he may be shopped heavily this winter. Otherwise, as soon as Kemp’s value jumps back up near where it should be, GM Ned Colletti figures to pull the trigger.
The Angels might be a fit and could offer catching prospect Hank Conger and pitching prospect Trevor Reckling as part of a package. But if the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox get into the bidding, the Dodgers could make out well — and both those clubs head into the winter with a need in their outfield, with Carl Crawford and perhaps Jayson Werth represents the lone star-quality free agent outfielders on this year’s market.
- Jason A. Churchill
If it’s behind a paywall, don’t post it, especially the whole thing.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 5, 2010 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Just post a sentence or two with a link.
by Eric Stephen on Sep 5, 2010 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Aubrey Huff wears a lucky red floss-type thong
tweets Buster Olney (reporting hearsay from Andrew Baggarly)
Broxton
WTF? I turned tis one off because I saw Lilly retire 15 guys in a row and we were up 4-0. Are you telling me that I really had to worry about a loss here? No wonder the Dodgers aren’t in the race this year. Sorry but playoff teams don’t go there..
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Question:
Is Pujols speaking from the LaRussa camp and saying that they just need to get rid of the kid, or is Pujols speaking from the Colby camp and saying that they need to get him into a better situation for a player of his talent?
Albert is getting pissed
Something tells me that Albert is upset because his team will not be making the playoffs and he may lose out on his annual MVP to Votto. Seeing the Cards crack up, especiallly under Mr. LaRussa is quite enjoyable.
Yeah I would be all over that in the fall.
by Alex41592 on Sep 5, 2010 12:44 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Good article on Wallach in the LATimes today. Interesting the comparison between him and another previous AAA manager for the Dodgers, one Mike Scioscia. A few players really sing his praises in the article.
Nothing against Mattingly, but from what I’ve heard of Wallach I’d be much more comfortable with him at the helm next year. That’s primarily due to zero managerial experience for Donnie Baseball.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-0905-tim-wallach-20100905,0,4291871.story
Wallach would likely be the cheapest option. That’s always nice.
by Michael White on Sep 5, 2010 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions
chris Withrow
I think he allowed like 7 ER in less than a third of an inning. Anyway, he’s out after 0.1 IP.
by Julio Nievas on Sep 5, 2010 12:45 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
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