Game 139: Dodgers @ Milwaukee Brewers 2:1
I agree with Dodgers manager, Grady Little. After Wednesday's stellar performance, the only thing worth discussing is Derek Lowe.
Whenever the Dodgers need to end a slump, he is the sole pitcher on the staff that I would feel 100% confident giving the ball to. Lowe allowed just three hits and an unearned run in eight innings to help the Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 2-1 Wednesday night and stop a three-game losing streak.
Lowe improved to 14-8 on the year, by winning his fifth straight decision. He gave up a double in the second, a single in the third and an infield hit in the eighth. Lowe was 4-1 with a 1.69 ERA in August and has allowed only six earned runs in his last six outings.
Lowe said that the Dodgers watched a lot of video of the previous two losses to Milwaukee.
The only real questionable part to the game, other than the eerily quiet bats of the Dodgers, was why in the world was Lowe taken out? He had only pitched 79 pitches in the eight innings.
Takashi Saito is becoming a household name in the homes of Dodger fans. He followed Lowe and worked the ninth for his 18th save in 20 chances. Promising rookie, Matt Kemp scored the tying run and drove in the go-ahead run for the Dodgers, which avoided getting swept in the three-game series. The Dodgers had gone 16 scoreless innings over three games before Kemp scored on Rafael Furcal's sacrifice fly in the fifth.
Kemp tripled in the fifth and came home on Furcal's sacrifice fly, then hit an RBI single in the seventh after Russell Martin's leadoff double.
Now the Dodgers head to the Mets for a four-game series.
We really need Brad Penny to pitch a gem Thursday night. He needs to become the National Leagues first 16-game winner of the year.
"Anything you said about this game outside of talking about
Derek Lowe's performance would be secondary," Little said.
Derek Lowe's performance would be secondary," Little said.
Whenever the Dodgers need to end a slump, he is the sole pitcher on the staff that I would feel 100% confident giving the ball to. Lowe allowed just three hits and an unearned run in eight innings to help the Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 2-1 Wednesday night and stop a three-game losing streak.
Lowe improved to 14-8 on the year, by winning his fifth straight decision. He gave up a double in the second, a single in the third and an infield hit in the eighth. Lowe was 4-1 with a 1.69 ERA in August and has allowed only six earned runs in his last six outings.
Lowe said that the Dodgers watched a lot of video of the previous two losses to Milwaukee.
"Being a sinkerball guy, you normally don't get that many
right-handers in the lineup," Lowe said. "So, I think that definitely
helped, having them only with two left-handers.
Right-on-right is normally more effective."
right-handers in the lineup," Lowe said. "So, I think that definitely
helped, having them only with two left-handers.
Right-on-right is normally more effective."
The only real questionable part to the game, other than the eerily quiet bats of the Dodgers, was why in the world was Lowe taken out? He had only pitched 79 pitches in the eight innings.
Takashi Saito is becoming a household name in the homes of Dodger fans. He followed Lowe and worked the ninth for his 18th save in 20 chances. Promising rookie, Matt Kemp scored the tying run and drove in the go-ahead run for the Dodgers, which avoided getting swept in the three-game series. The Dodgers had gone 16 scoreless innings over three games before Kemp scored on Rafael Furcal's sacrifice fly in the fifth.
Kemp tripled in the fifth and came home on Furcal's sacrifice fly, then hit an RBI single in the seventh after Russell Martin's leadoff double.
Now the Dodgers head to the Mets for a four-game series.
"Hopefully, this is the momentum we need to go into New York,
where we all know where they stand in the division," Lowe said.
"They're probably going to win it any day."
where we all know where they stand in the division," Lowe said.
"They're probably going to win it any day."
We really need Brad Penny to pitch a gem Thursday night. He needs to become the National Leagues first 16-game winner of the year.
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