No Relief For Dodgers In 2-1 Loss To Brewers
by Eric Stephen on Aug 16, 2011 8:19 PM PDT
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A pitchers' duel at Miller Park ended poorly for the Dodgers, as Mike MacDougal and Hong-Chih Kuo combined to face four hitters in the bottom of the ninth and failed to record a single out. Mark Kotsay singled to center field with the bases loaded off MacDougal to give the Brewers a 2-1 win, their second win over the Dodgers in as many nights.
A lot of unexpected things happened in baseball Tuesday night: Lyle Overbay and the Diamondbacks shocked Roy Halladay in the ninth inning, Juan Pierre took Ubaldo Jimenez deep, and Yuniesky Betancourt walked, the latter on four pitches despite Betancourt trying to lay down a sacrifice bunt.
Betancourt has walked roughly once every 30 plate appearances in his career, literally the hardest man in baseball to walk during his career. Then again, it was MacDougal on the mound, a man who during the same span (since 2006) has walked 13.2% of his batters faced, ranking 408th among the 412 pitchers with at least 200 innings.
Betancourt's walk loaded the bases for Kotsay, who hit the first pitch to short center field just in front of Matt Kemp, who had the ball roll under his glove, ending the infinitesimal chance Kemp had of forcing Prince Fielder at home plate.
Both teams scored runs in the second thanks to one-out ground balls with a man on third base. In the top of the inning, Kemp singled, stole second base, advanced to third on a wild pitch, then scored when Aaron Miles bounced a ball through the drawn-in infield. In the bottom of the inning, Corey Hart's grounder found Casey Blake's glove, but Jerry Hairston scored easily from third base as Blake got the out at first base.
Chad Billingsley had a very nice bounce back start, especially after struggling through the first two innings. Billingsley threw 45 pitches in the first two frames, allowing a run on two singles and two walks. Over the next five innings, Billingsley threw just 48 pitches and retired 15 of the 16 batters he faced. Billingsley was removed for a pinch hitter in the top of the eighth inning after 93 pitches.
Trent Oetljen was the pinch hitter for Billingsley, and he walked to start a two-out rally. Tony Gwynn followed with a single, but Yovani Gallardo rebounded to strikeout Casey Blake to end the threat. Gallardo allowed four hits and a walk in his eight innings, and struck out nine.
Old friend Takashi Saito pitched a scoreless ninth inning and picked up his fourth win of the season. It was just the third appearance against his old team for Saito, who has retired all eight Dodger batters he has ever faced.
Kuo got hung with the loss, walking Fielder, the only batter he faced on the night. Kuo has 18 walks in 15 innings in 2011 after 18 walks in 60 innings in 2010.
Nathan Eovaldi gets the start Wednesday night for the Dodgers, facing Zack Greinke. Maybe the Dodgers can score more than the half-run per game they have scored so far this series.
WP - Takashi Saito (4-1): 3 up, 3 down
LP - Hong-Chih Kuo (0-2): 1 batter, 1 run, 1 walk
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I stand by not pulling Billingsley. The odds of scoring a run with two out were too low. Usually I prefer to get at least two innings out of a pitcher if I’m going to let him bat for himself, and I think the Dodgers probably would only have gotten one more out of Billingsley. Still, with two out… I think you take that inning.
Billingsley, with 93 pitches thrown, was very likely the best pitcher available to D2X at that point.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 8:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Right, I know. I agree with you about Guerra — once Billingsley was out, it was frustrating to see the game end with the best pitcher not used — all in the name of a “save situation.”
My additional point is that Donnie could have saved himself some bullpen trauma by getting at least one more inning (probably only that one more, but who knows) out of Billingsley, who was the best pitcher available to pitch the bottom of the 8th.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 8:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Doing his best 2010 Jim Thome impression
"If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate"
Saito beating Kuo
Two guys who were once great pitchers for us
loved saito so hard
but his freak injury and his age made the prospect of bringing him back crazy.. glad hes bouncing back with MIL..
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Aug 16, 2011 8:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Joel Pineiro he ain’t.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 8:44 PM PDT up reply actions
He has 11 unintentional walks in 437 PA this season
by Eric Stephen on Aug 16, 2011 9:00 PM PDT up reply actions
FWIW, in another year, I might have developed an overblown dislike for Yuniesky Betancourt. (You will recall that the overblown dislike was what I had for Carlos Ruiz before it developed into full-blown irrational hatred.)
But in this year… I can’t even muster up heavy aggression.
The official Kavula position on Yuniesky Betancourt remains neutral — a shift from the previous position of mockery, which occurred when I found out he’d been good recently.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 9:07 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s more patient for him.
/snark
/Didn’t look at the actual numbers
/Aaron Miles should be mentioned here
Meh
April – 4
May – 1
June – 0
July – 3
Aug – 3
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by David Young on Aug 16, 2011 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I’d say exactly. I don’t remember the circumstances in April, but he could have gone 10 weeks or so and taken one walk and then taken 6 in 6 weeks. His pitches per plate appearance are way up as well.
The walks look like noise to me. With numbers that low, adding even 1 walk changes the % a lot. I don’t anyplace I can break down pitches/PA month to month, but for the season he is at 3.19, about the same as last year and down from 3.31 in ’09.
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I don't want to jinx it
But I’m considering writing a post tomorrow. If I’m too lazy, I’ll just bring the topic up in the comments
No problem. Hope you made some money in Vegas.
by Michael White on Aug 16, 2011 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions
The conference was at the Renaissance just off the strip, which is hotel only. Actually, I didn’t gamble at all the entire weekend, until Sunday night I went out for pizza with my niece in Henderson (Henderson!!!) and I decided it would be a travesty if I didn’t gamble something. I put $5.00 in the video poker machine, and in about five minutes won a whopping $21.25, which made this the least expensive Vegas trip I have ever had. :)
by Eric Stephen on Aug 16, 2011 9:35 PM PDT up reply actions
A great game between the Indians and White Sox
7-7 in the bottom of the 11th.
1st and 3rd with one out. Tyler Flowers lines into a double play on a hit and run. On to the 12th.
White Sox have 5 triples, but Pierre has none of them… but he does have a home run.
That right there is the definition of a weird game.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 9:26 PM PDT up reply actions
If Jayson Stark doesn’t get 1,200 words out of that alone, America loses.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 16, 2011 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Team Cabrera, Asdrubal chapter, is on first for The Guitar.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions
By the way, the official Kavula position on the Cleveland Indians is positive. We like the Clevelands.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions
We go to the 13th on the South Side, 7 up.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, yeah…
…except, maybe not. If you were at a game in which your team turned, or hit into, 5 triple plays…. you would remember that. You would tell that story for the rest of your life. Telling the story of that game would buy you drinks for a long time.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 9:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, 5 triples > 1 triple play + 5 double plays.
That was a very recent experience, I remember it well. I would have much preferred 5 triples, unless each one was the only hit of its respective inning (quite possible with the Dodgers).
Good gosh, can you imagine? 5 triples, 5 times the Dodgers stranding him at third? There is not enough gin in the world, and my liver — powerful as it is — couldn’t handle such an event.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 9:48 PM PDT up reply actions
BA driven. ;-)
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by David Young on Aug 16, 2011 10:08 PM PDT up reply actions
He didn't strike out tonight
I mean, if Sands was putting up these numbers (small sample size or not) this website would be going ape shit.
by Michael White on Aug 16, 2011 9:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Just imagine what Fed will do with his numbers in AAA
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by regfairfield on Aug 16, 2011 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions
yahoo sports fails me yet again
Bot 5th: Seattle
- T. Robinson homered to deep left
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I saw him hit a 2 run single that should of been caught. Whoever is playing LF for Toronto is terrible.
What’s funny is that whoever is playing LF for Toronto, they found that dude preferable to Juan Rivera.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Just back in my hotel
Had a great dinner in NYC, at my restaurant I saw these two pillars of Italian thespians
Robert De Niro
Tony Danza
DeNiro and Mona were both in the movie Brazil.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 16, 2011 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I will translate
Tony Danza was in a show called “Who’s the Boss?”
In that show, the role of Mona was played by actress Katherine Helmond.
Katherine Helmond and Robert De Niro both appear in the movie Brazil.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 9:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Tona D was not with Mona
but instead with two younger ladies, though neither of them were quite what I’d call young
but attractive, certainly attractive
Tony liked being Tony. Bobby was more low key
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 16, 2011 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Did Bobby know who Tony was?
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions
they missed each other by 45 minutes, Bobby was the early bird
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 16, 2011 10:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Thank you. Is this movie “Who’s the Boss?” so seminal that everyone but I knows it well?
Also, is there any subtext or subplot why you’d want to conflate the Tony Danza character with this Mona character? Maybe only Eric can answer this….
“Angela? Samantha? Mona?”
One of the great 1980s TV shows ever. Introduced the world to Alyssa Milano.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 16, 2011 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions
It was not a film. It was a television sitcom from the 1980s, which makes it, by definition, and in one word, terrible. It ran for eight years.
It was aired during the formative years of many people who post here — people who were, at the time, unable to distinguish between good television and bad television. So a lot of us have seen many episodes of this program.
When it was on, you were likely doing something worthwhile.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions
As long as you don’t disparage Just The Ten Of Us , we’re cool.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 16, 2011 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Good lord.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 10:08 PM PDT up reply actions
thank you
Adam Rich, of 8 is enough fame, was in my elementary school.
I seem to recall being both in awe and reviling him at the same time – hard to remember, was awfully young to hate
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 16, 2011 10:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Ummmm… Yes.
/walks away
/whistles
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 10:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I just looked it up in IMDb. It ran 1984-92. That explains it.
I was living in England until late 1993. Believe me, they did not show it there. Not even on ITV.
I’m pretty sure that had it still been on in 1994, I would not have watched it. But I would probably have heard about it. I’m sure someone will say that repeats were shown on A&E or Bravo of Lifetime until 2005. OK< I missed that. I think I can live with this.
Thanks for the explanations.
Berkowit28
Who’s the Boss? did air in England, regionally. But ITV also did a British remake of the show called The Upper Hand, which aired from 1990 to 1996, and used the characters and storylines from the US original.
by CanuckDodger on Aug 16, 2011 11:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I was once at a party about 15 years ago that Ms. Milano was at. We said hello, but the future Mrs HJ was with me and that was all of that
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 16, 2011 10:10 PM PDT up reply actions
When I was a summer day camp counselor, a la Maddz this summer, Tony Danza’s son Mark (Marc?) was one of the kids in our camp for part of one summer. Nice kid, at least at the time – was 12ish. Tony picked him up a few times (transportation service was an option at this camp), and was nice enough to us when he was around.
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by David Young on Aug 16, 2011 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions
that job must have been awesome
was it like meatballs?
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 16, 2011 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions
No
but we had fun anyway. Outdoors all summer. Tease the kids. Flirt with the female counselors. Beach trip once a week. One other trip about once a week (roller rink, Pickwick bowling/ice skate, Magic Mountain, Dodger day game, etc. So-called “sports camp”, but not all activities were sports-related, e.g, I taught extremely basic guitar. I learned to juggle and ride a unicycle (a slight bit) there! A group of about 8 of us made a Vegas run one weekend.
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by David Young on Aug 16, 2011 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I regret not ever being sent to summer camp.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 16, 2011 10:15 PM PDT up reply actions
my parents suck too
they lied and said we were middle class, middle class my ass
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 16, 2011 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions
I hate to reveal a previously unknown facet of my personality, but… I went to nerd camp.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions
No. It was not like meatballs.
It was like middle school, in that I didn’t get laid there, either.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions
ok, no sex, but....
did you sneak a peak at some naked co-ed?
Did you learn about yourself and come away with self respect and a new sense of who you are?
Did you beat the cool kids at their own game?
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 16, 2011 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Peek at naked co-ed: I wish.
Self-respect/new sense of myself: Dude, I don’t have any self-respect now.
Beat the cool kids at their own game: That game would be chess. I took him to 33 moves before he got me. Does that count?
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 10:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Directv tells me meatballs is rated PG.. what is that all about?
by NotJoeTorre on Aug 16, 2011 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions
some things are better seen than said
it is debatable if meatballs is one of those things, but I am sticking to it either way
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 16, 2011 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Choo up
bases loaded, one out.
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K, swinging!
Here comes Team Cabrera.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 9:56 PM PDT up reply actions
G-3
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 9:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Did anyone see this?
Chris Jackson has an article about the guys who the Dodgers will need to add to the 40-man before the Rule 5 draft.
Most notably, I think, he says FedEx and Fife do not need to be added yet.
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 16, 2011 10:02 PM PDT reply actions
Yep. Will be in the links tomorrow too.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 16, 2011 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions
sweet
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 16, 2011 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions
can we please call Fife
Barney or Pipe
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 16, 2011 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions
not bad Berk
how about Uncle Sam? Yankee Doodle?
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 16, 2011 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions
You know if he gets chased mid-inning, the recap has to be Fife Drummed Out….
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by David Young on Aug 16, 2011 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions
You know, Fife’s Been Good to me so far.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Aug 16, 2011 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Just read that Shelby Miller was suspended by the Cards indefinetly
for “violating team policy”
wonder what he did?
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 16, 2011 10:05 PM PDT reply actions
well I gotta
Did LaRussa get in trouble?
by NotJoeTorre on Aug 16, 2011 10:10 PM PDT up reply actions
should say “indefinitely and without irony”
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 10:09 PM PDT up reply actions
a good thing about sucking
when the team is good, I suffer through evenings like tonight when I have work dinners that run through the game
this season, I consider myself lucky for missing the loss
yeah, I am sure the Brewers defense has a lot to do with that.
by NotJoeTorre on Aug 16, 2011 10:34 PM PDT up reply actions
that projection makes me want to roll around on a pile of dollar bills
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 16, 2011 10:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Don’t do it, Joe. When it’s over, you feel surprisingly filthy, and you just want to take a shower.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 16, 2011 10:20 PM PDT up reply actions
that’s the only way I can fall asleep on the road
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 16, 2011 10:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Time for sleep
The gin has done its job. Good night, everybody!
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BEAST MODE!!!!
AAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHH!!!!
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 16, 2011 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions
One day, this will be known as Exhibit H
by Eric Stephen on Aug 16, 2011 10:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Make sure you explain this thoroughly to berkowit :)
Overqualified in an underqualified world since 2008.
There are 29 GM’s in baseball thinking this same thing.
I doubt the Marlins would even think about doing it though.
I seriously thought the Cards wouldn’t trade Rasmus but they did.
by NotJoeTorre on Aug 16, 2011 11:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait, wait, wait
Milwaukee has the best home record in the majors. And the Dodgers can’t win there? No way.
looked more like
the other way around
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 17, 2011 6:19 AM PDT up reply actions
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