Game 28: Dodgers vs San Diego Padres 5:11
Fifth inning curse again, ladies and gentlemen? Almost - luckily with his 28 pitch in the inning Seo got Giles to pop out to Navarro. It' like playing with fire - the Padres left bases loaded in both the fifth and the sixth innings. Jae Seo ran his pitch count to 101, having to make a half of his pitches again in the fifth and sixth frames.
However, what we managed to escape in the middle innings, got to us at the end of the game. Bullpen's a mess right now.
This is what I got five hours of sleep for:
(1) How about that run(s) saving catch by Nomar Garciaparra in the top of the sixth on a wild high throw to first by charging Bill Mueller? Wow. Nomah is really a quick positional learner at first.
(2) The Dodgers were making outs almost too quickly tonight. Padre starter Young had like 85 pitches thrown by the end of the sixth. That does not give too much time to catch a break to Seo (not that he wasn't taken out of the game by the seventh ;)).
(3) How can you leave Tim Hamulack to pitch to Mark Belllhorn, who torched Hamulack with a game-winning hit in the tenth last Friday is beyond me. Especially with two men on base (the previous one being a walk to Piazza). Especially with well-rested and warmed-up Franquelis Osoria in the bullpen... Is Grady losing it with managing our bullpen? Some signs pointing to it, folks...
(4) Kudos to Kristen who picked Olmedo Saenz as our best right-handed PH. Kudos to Olmedo for justifying the selection with a 3-run game-tying HR in the seventh. Seems like ages since we have last seen a Dodger game-changing longball!
(5) The Franquelis Osoria Watch: Fran did not have anything, I'm sorry to say. Left all of his pitches over the plate and allowed all five batters he faced to reach. All in all: 0 IP, 5 hits, 5ER, 2 HRA and the worked-up ERA ballooned back again to 6.91. Talk about one outing taking care of two weeks of inching closer and closer to 3.00 :(. Overall 11 runs and 17 hits allowed?? To the (previously lowly) Padres?! Yuck!
(6) Congrats to Andre Ethier for hitting his first big league HR tonight in the ninth! Many more, Andre!
(7) Who wants to stop the bleeding? I'm almost scared of us sending Brett Tomko to the mound - with the HR-ball that the Padres have served up tonight. Show some balls, Brett - groundballs, that is.
However, what we managed to escape in the middle innings, got to us at the end of the game. Bullpen's a mess right now.
This is what I got five hours of sleep for:
(1) How about that run(s) saving catch by Nomar Garciaparra in the top of the sixth on a wild high throw to first by charging Bill Mueller? Wow. Nomah is really a quick positional learner at first.
(2) The Dodgers were making outs almost too quickly tonight. Padre starter Young had like 85 pitches thrown by the end of the sixth. That does not give too much time to catch a break to Seo (not that he wasn't taken out of the game by the seventh ;)).
(3) How can you leave Tim Hamulack to pitch to Mark Belllhorn, who torched Hamulack with a game-winning hit in the tenth last Friday is beyond me. Especially with two men on base (the previous one being a walk to Piazza). Especially with well-rested and warmed-up Franquelis Osoria in the bullpen... Is Grady losing it with managing our bullpen? Some signs pointing to it, folks...
(4) Kudos to Kristen who picked Olmedo Saenz as our best right-handed PH. Kudos to Olmedo for justifying the selection with a 3-run game-tying HR in the seventh. Seems like ages since we have last seen a Dodger game-changing longball!
(5) The Franquelis Osoria Watch: Fran did not have anything, I'm sorry to say. Left all of his pitches over the plate and allowed all five batters he faced to reach. All in all: 0 IP, 5 hits, 5ER, 2 HRA and the worked-up ERA ballooned back again to 6.91. Talk about one outing taking care of two weeks of inching closer and closer to 3.00 :(. Overall 11 runs and 17 hits allowed?? To the (previously lowly) Padres?! Yuck!
(6) Congrats to Andre Ethier for hitting his first big league HR tonight in the ninth! Many more, Andre!
(7) Who wants to stop the bleeding? I'm almost scared of us sending Brett Tomko to the mound - with the HR-ball that the Padres have served up tonight. Show some balls, Brett - groundballs, that is.
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