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Showing posts with label Post-Game Thread 2008. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Post-Game Thread 2008. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Post-Game 159 Thread: Scenes from a Celebration
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Post-Game 157 Thread: Magic Number Is...
UPDATE:
Commenter Joey shares the perfect song with us:
...and SoSG Delino updates us:
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Monday, September 08, 2008
Post-Game 144 Thread: Baek to Square One
Congratulations, Cha Seung Baek. You just won your first home game. Of the season. Against the Dodgers. Who had just won eight straight. Strange game, this.
Is it the road? Or the Padres? We'll never know.
Fortunately, Tim Lincecum and the Giants took care of the Diamondbacks, so the Dodgers remain in first place by 1.5 games. Onward!
photo by Denis Poroy/AP
Sunday, September 07, 2008
Post-Game 143 Thread: Peakin' & Sweepin'
—Joe Torre
As they say, timing is everything. (Unless you're in real estate, then it's location, location, location.) Just over a week ago the Dodgers were coming off three consecutive series losses, including sweeps by the Phillies and Nationals, and a 9-3 loss to Arizona. Eight losses in a row—a season high.
Turn the page to September and the Dodgers suddenly have three consecutive series wins of their own, including two sweeps. Most importantly, they won five of their final six games with Arizona, upping their season record to 10-8 against the Diamondbacks. Eight wins in a row—tying a season high.
Everything the Dodgers need to win has been on display during the past eight games. In this span they've hit 14 total home runs, they've scored at least five runs per game, their starter hasn't gotten the win only once, and they've made only three total errors.
Timing is everything, and the Dodgers hold a 1.5-game lead over Arizona heading into their final 19 regular-season games. Although 13 of these 19 games are on the road, all 19 games come against teams a combined 83 games under .500.
"If you win your share of games, you're going to finish in first place," said Torre after today's game. "And if you don't win, it's nobody's fault but your own." In other words, the only thing that can prevent the Dodgers from winning the division is the Dodgers.
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Post-Game 142 Thread: First at Last, First at Last
...after 154 days without sole possession of first place (April 4 to September 5).
photo by Gina Ferazzi/LA Times
Friday, September 05, 2008
Post-Game 141 Thread: The Derek & Andre Show
photos by Jeff Gross/Getty Images
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Post-Game 134 Thread: Nope Still Springs Eternal
Little did I know how much more relevant this two-month-old post would become:
When opportunity knocks, the Dodgers always seem to be out on the back porch frying burgers with the radio on too loud. Observe:
May 9-11: The then-MLB-best D-backs face the Cubs juggernaut and get swept out of the windy city for their first 3-game losing streak of the season. Finally the Dodgers will gain some ground, right? Nope. The Dodgers suffer their own sweep via the jugger-not Astros and actually lose ground after their subsequent loss to Milwaukee.
May 26-30: The mighty Diamondbacks get swept by the lowly Giants and lose the opener to the even-lowly-er Nationals to cap their first 5-game losing streak. At least now the Dodgers will pick up a few games here. Nope. Dodgers get swept by the Cubs after losing 2 of 3 to St Louis, then lose 3 of 4 to the Mets. Again they lose ground.
June 2-4: D-backs get swept by Milwaukee. While it may be too little too late, at least the Dodgers can make a move here, no? Nope. Dodgers match Arizona's 3-game losing streak at the hands of the Rockies and Cubs.
June 13-15: D-backs win the first game (barely) but still manage to lose the series to Kansas City of all teams. Surely the Dodg- Nope. Dodgers get swept by Detroit to cap a 5-game losing streak and lose ground.
Thus has been the Dodgers' 2008. After the D-backs' scorching 27-15 start, they proceeded to go 13-23. But over that same time, the Dodgers went 14-21, picking up a mere 1.5 games. Put another way: since May 22, the D-backs have lost 18 times on a day the Dodgers also played a game. In the Dodgers' corresponding 18 games, they've come away with 4 wins. If we'd just played 0.500 ball during those games, we'd be leading the division by a game. Now, I probably put less stock in the specific timing of wins and losses than anyone I know, but even I find this frustrating.
Well, I assume you know where this is going...
August 24-28: The D-backs lose the rubber game against Florida, then miraculously get swept by the then-48-82 Padres to go 0-4 over that period, just as we go up against the even-worse Nationals. NOPE! NOPE! NOPE! WE CAN'T EVEN STAY EVEN!!! After the Phillies finish their sweep of us, we conveniently remain in the bent-over position on the bus down to DC. 0-5, loss of a half game over that same span (and I'm not even counting the preceding two losses to Philly).
Monday, August 25, 2008
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