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Hiroki Kuroda (1-0) vs. Micah Owings (1-0)
COMMENTS: The Dodgers drop their first series of the season despite Matt Kemp finally breaking out (3-for-5 with a triple). Andruw Jones looked positiviely anemic in his 0-for-3 show (batting .103 on the season), which was fitting as cancer patient Doug Davis mowed us down yesterday night. That's right, the Dodgers lost to a cancer patient. This afternoon, Micah Owings will pitch on crutches and with bound feet, just to make it a challenge.
4/3 vs. SF (W, 5-4): Sax
4/15 vs. WSH (L, 4-6): Dusty, Orel, Sax
5/6 vs. MIA (W, 6-3): AC, Sax
5/16 vs. CIN (L, 2-7): AC, Sax
6/12 vs. TEX (L, 2-3): Sax
7/5 vs. MIL (W, 8-5): Sax
7/21 vs. BOS (W, 9-6): Sax
7/24 vs. SF (L, 3-8): Sax
8/24 vs. TB (L, 8-9 (10)): Sax
8/29 vs. BAL (W, 6-3): Orel, Sax
9/9 vs. CHC (L, 4-10): Sax
10/5 NLDS G1 vs. SD (W, 7-5): Sax
10/6 NLDS G2 vs. SD (L, 2-10): Orel, Sax
10/25 WS G1 vs. NYY (W, 6-3 (10)): Sax
65 comments:
whats the over/under on hr's owings hits today?
The over/under formica? I don't know, damon, but I wouldn't take his pitching for granite. Butcher block out some this afternoon to watch the game. Ceramic-able as Owings might be, I wood bet he'll be nothing but serious on the mound today as he looks for the sweep.
Those are materially bad puns.
Raffy HBP.
Raffy was hit by a pitch on an 0-2 count as well. With Kemp up next, I hope Kemp strokes one irrespective of if Raffy steals (and Owings is clearly preoccupied by the man on first).
It's nice to see Kemp get his groove back. And, Andre is still batting okay (he missed a game-tying HR last night by inches).
So who is that .067 batter down in the eight hole?
Oh, yeah. Ugh.
Man, I love commenting from work.
Ethier is making so much contact. He's just hitting it right at people.
Great, 2 more MFLOB.
yeah, but that's what Torre said to justify Pierre's start yesterday...
Are you f'n kidding me, men on first and second with no outs and 3-4-5 up the plate, and they all choke. Where is Mattingly when you need him?
Help us, Hiroki Kuroda. You're our only hope!
efficient inning by kuroda, nice.
JP says I'll hit it in the air if I want to!
Pierre with more power than Jones!!!
Ethier with the deep double. Finally!
Damn, we are tagging the ball but all for fly-ball lineouts!
Are we looking at an Ethier-Pierre-Kemp outfield? Pierre with his second hit today.
Great time for the IF to fuck up. D'backs have men on 1st & 3rd w/no out.
Great, Kuroda hits Jackson to load the bases. And guess who's up? Mark "I Have More HRs Than the Entire Dodgers Team" Reynolds.
Sweet defensive plays by DeWitt and Martin & Kuroda leave us tied at 1-1 with a man on 3rd with 2 out.
Shit. Upton RBI, 2-1 D'backs.
Kuroda's wobbling. Men on 1st & 3rd now.
Backwards K on Owings with the bases loaded! 2-1 D'backs, and we're lucky it's that close.
Kemp & Ethier get Furcal home! 2-2.
Kuroda with the inning-ending K!
"And a little child shall lead them." Ha ha, Vin!
LONEY HOMER! LONEY HOMER!
go king james!
Russell needs to swing now and then.
"King James," I like it!
Okay Juan, get on base so we can get the pitcher out of the way.
Kuroda first-pitch strikes to 19 of 23 batters. Love it.
Dammit, D'backs are chipping guys on. Bunt + tentative swing single = men on 1st & 2nd w/1 out. Kuroda's at 94 pitches.
It's true, Owings has a sweet swing.
2-2 count on Owings. Put him away, Kuroda!
Gettin' squeezed!
Torre staying with Kuroda here.
2-2 count on C. Young. This next pitch is verrry important....
Popup! One more to go.
Dammit, base hit. 4-3 D'backs.
James Loney is lookin' like me. Steve-O never would have hit that ball out.
It's true, it's true. Time to find out if this team has balls!
"Andruw Jones is not a threat to steal." Truer words have never been spoken.
Dammit, Kemp swinging at the high heat again! Word is getting out on him.
More like "Andruw Jones is not a threat, period."
Or Andruw Jones was not a steal for the dodgers.
Chan Ho with the catlike quickness on the bunt attempt!
Augie Ojeda is killing us.
Chan Ho gets Robby "Banana" Hammock to end the seventh.
Time to feast on middle relief!
King James works his 2-2 count back to a walk. Way to go, FJL.
Martin hits into an inning-ending DP.
RUSSELL MARTIN SUCKS at this stage, he is batting 60 points worse than even Juan Pierre! Nice inning-ending DP, Russell.
Martin and Jones are competing for "suckiest Dodger in early 2008." It's a close race.
The 2008 Dodgers have been decidedly unclutch.
Damn Eric Byrnes and his youthful exuberance!
Well, at least Russ can still throw 'em out.
oh, it was a pitchout. In that case, rescind my Russ comment, and also rescind Orel's damning of Byrnes' youthful exuberance.
Joyce had an 3-0 count and then had two called strikes. He better make it to first.
All up to Andruw with two out in the ninth. We know how this story ends.
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Yay, Jones strikes out swinging to end the game. Glad we've made him the highest-paid Dodger ever, with his .129 average.
Dodgers swept. I guess if you're going to lose the series, lose big. We drop below .500.
Funny I was watching the game on MLB.com with Jones up at the end, before the last pitch, in the corner of the screen popped up "box score / gameday" - even mlb.com knew the game was over before the last pitch. So sad. Dodgers need help.
we need some good ol' clutch...
We need more clutch than a junkyard full of Pintos! Ha ha!
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