Oh, .500, you torture us Dodger fans so. On an afternoon with a nationally-televised game, you let an outstanding performance by Chad Billingsley (8.0 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, 2 BB, 8 Ks) go to waste, as the Dodgers offense came up feeble time and time again (0-for-5 with RISP). Billingsley's only negative came after a Stephen Drew double led to a pickoff move to second in which neither Aaron 0-for-4 Miles nor Jamey 1-for-4-but-still-batting-third-best-in-the-lineup Carroll were covering. Drew gets to third on the error and scores on a sacrifice fly by Melvin Mora. You were just beaten by a guy named Melvin.
Not that the Dodgers didn't have their chances. Eighth inning, and a leadoff double by James Loney (his first XBH since April 6, for pete's sake): Rod Barajas sacrifices Loney over to third, but Dioner Navarro Ks and Jay Gibbons (who can't see the ball anyway) flies out to left. Ninth inning, Carroll leads off with a single and, after a Miles K, Andre Ethier earns a walk: and on the first goddamn pitch, Matt Kemp GIDPs.
Kenley Jansen pitched a nice ninth but honestly, who the fuck cares if you can't score during a one-hitter. When Billingsley himself (who doubled but was stranded at second) is batting better than four, and almost five (Miles is borderline), of the starting lineup, there's a problem here.
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Great re-cap of the game, Sax. Thx for putting in the time to memorialize this shitfest-o-rama.
I'd cry but I'm all out of tears. I wanted this one today. Now I'm just slamming some Dos now, passing the time.
(cries)
If Dusty cries, but he's all out of tears, can anyone really tell the difference?
*ponders*
That eighth is going to live in comedy infamy.
-Loney gets his first XBH since the earth cooled.
-The team's HR co-leader bunts him over with the grace of a drugged moose.
-The cast of the classic cult film "Freaks" tries to pick him up and fails miserably.
I don't know how to respond to that game, it is all so confusing. I mean, come on, a fucking one hitter? No earned runs? This should be a great day. I spent the afternoon with Edgar Martinez and I'm pretty sure he could have single handedly scored a couple of runs. And he was drunk! Damn it all to hell.
(sobs)
Wow sax you seemed pretty fired up. Remember "Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
AC, i feel bad for Bills.
And that poor squid we devoured tonight.
WE SUCK
Matty's gonna do something good today. Grind, grind, grind.
I must conclude that Matty's back with Rhianna.
@Czar we don't suck, we're just inept at winning.
@AC
hate leads to Hate, which leads to HATE.
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