Game 116: Dodgers vs. San Francisco Giants 3:2
After such a poor showing right after the all-star break, the Dodgers seemed to be heading downhill. It was nice to hear Brett Tomko with such positive words.
The Dodgers have gained nine and a half games in the past two weeks. Pretty impressive if you ask me.
Mark Hendrickson looked better than perhaps any of his other starts as a Dodger, pitching seven strong innings and Julio Lugo provided the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly in the eighth to carry the Dodgers past the rival Giants, who have lost three straight and 14 of 17. Jeff Kent appeard to be on the right track after a stint on the disabled list, hitting a solo homer for the Dodgers.
Steroid Boy went 1-for-1, walked three times and singled home the Giants' second run. I still don't understand the walking of such a washed out has been. If we really want to give him first base, why not just plunk him? It saves three pitches on the pitchers pitch count.
Andre Ethier hit safely in his fifteenth consecutive game.
Hendrickson gave up two runs and scattered 10 hits in seven innings. He walked four and struck out three. Tomko worked the eighth and Jonathan Broxton pitched the ninth for his second save in four chances.
The Dodgers took a 2-1 lead on Kent's 11th home run, leading off the fourth inning against Noah Lowry. Hendrickson walked Bonds to load the bases in the third after getting ahead of him 0-2. Durham followed with a single that drove in Randy Winn and tied it at 1. Durham also singled after Hendrickson walked Bonds with two outs in the seventh, but Ethier threw Durham out at second trying to stretch his hit into a double.
Nomar Garciaparra's sacrifice fly put the Dodgers up 1-0 in the first inning.
Some thoughts:
1) Living in the Bay Area, I decided to watch the Giant's channel. It was some of the most asinine, unprofessional announcing I have ever seen. I have no idea which one, but one of the announcers kept scribbling with his white pen over Tommy Lasorda everytime they showed him.
"We went through a very trying stretch. And to bounce back
the way we have, that's great," Tomko said Friday night after
he pitched a perfect eighth inning in Los Angeles' 3-2 victory
over the the arch rival San Francisco Giants.
We could easily have given up and coasted when we were
six or seven games back. But we knew that wasn't going
to happen. There are too many guys here who wouldn't
let that happen."
the way we have, that's great," Tomko said Friday night after
he pitched a perfect eighth inning in Los Angeles' 3-2 victory
over the the arch rival San Francisco Giants.
We could easily have given up and coasted when we were
six or seven games back. But we knew that wasn't going
to happen. There are too many guys here who wouldn't
let that happen."
The Dodgers have gained nine and a half games in the past two weeks. Pretty impressive if you ask me.
"We like the way things are going right now,"
Los Angeles manager Grady Little said.
Los Angeles manager Grady Little said.
Mark Hendrickson looked better than perhaps any of his other starts as a Dodger, pitching seven strong innings and Julio Lugo provided the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly in the eighth to carry the Dodgers past the rival Giants, who have lost three straight and 14 of 17. Jeff Kent appeard to be on the right track after a stint on the disabled list, hitting a solo homer for the Dodgers.
Steroid Boy went 1-for-1, walked three times and singled home the Giants' second run. I still don't understand the walking of such a washed out has been. If we really want to give him first base, why not just plunk him? It saves three pitches on the pitchers pitch count.
Andre Ethier hit safely in his fifteenth consecutive game.
Hendrickson gave up two runs and scattered 10 hits in seven innings. He walked four and struck out three. Tomko worked the eighth and Jonathan Broxton pitched the ninth for his second save in four chances.
The Dodgers took a 2-1 lead on Kent's 11th home run, leading off the fourth inning against Noah Lowry. Hendrickson walked Bonds to load the bases in the third after getting ahead of him 0-2. Durham followed with a single that drove in Randy Winn and tied it at 1. Durham also singled after Hendrickson walked Bonds with two outs in the seventh, but Ethier threw Durham out at second trying to stretch his hit into a double.
Nomar Garciaparra's sacrifice fly put the Dodgers up 1-0 in the first inning.
Some thoughts:
1) Living in the Bay Area, I decided to watch the Giant's channel. It was some of the most asinine, unprofessional announcing I have ever seen. I have no idea which one, but one of the announcers kept scribbling with his white pen over Tommy Lasorda everytime they showed him.
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