| LA Dodgers | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | LOB | AVG |
| Furcal, SS | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| De Jesus, I, SS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | .000 |
| Hudson, 2B | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 |
| 1-Hu, PR-2B | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 |
| Martin, C | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 |
| Ellis, C | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 |
| Loretta, 1B | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .333 |
| Pascucci, 1B | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .667 |
| DeWitt, 3B | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 |
| Castro, J, 3B | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 |
| Young, LF | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .200 |
| Jones, M, LF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| Repko, CF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .250 |
| Hoffmann, RF | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .667 |
| Paul, RF-CF | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 |
| Abreu, DH | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .143 |
| Totals | 43 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 11 | |
| 1-Ran for Hudson in the 4th. | ||||||||
| BATTING 2B: Martin (1, Misch), Castro, J (1, Affeldt), Hoffmann 2 (2, Affeldt, Romo), Paul (1, Romo). HR: Martin (1, 1st inning off Cain, 0 on, 2 out), Pascucci (1, 9th inning off Romo, 0 on, 0 out), Hu (1, 9th inning off Romo, 2 on, 2 out). TB: Hudson; Hu 4; Martin 6; Ellis; Loretta; Pascucci 5; DeWitt; Castro, J 3; Young; Hoffmann 4; Paul 4. RBI: Martin 3 (3), DeWitt (2), Young (1), Paul 3 (3), Castro, J (1), Jones, M (1), Hoffmann 2 (2), Pascucci (1), Hu 3 (3). 2-out RBI: Martin; Paul 2; Hoffmann; Hu 3. Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Abreu 2. SF: Jones, M. GIDP: Loretta. Team LOB: 5.FIELDING E: Young (1, fielding). DP: 2 (Castro, J-Hu-Pascucci, De Jesus, I-Hu-Pascucci). |
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| LA Dodgers | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | ERA |
| Wolf (W, 1-0) | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Weaver | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Stults | 1.1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 27.00 |
| Strickland (H, 1) | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Broxton (H, 1) | 1.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.00 |
| Mota | 1.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Garate | 1.0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 18.00 |
| Martinez, E | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
Oh yeah, did I mention that we need a closer!Help, Mr. Wizard.
If Broxton can learn to not do this, he will be great:
Fastball 98 MPH
Fastball 99 MPH
Fastball 97 MPH
Fastball 99 MPH
Fastball 98 MPH
Fastball 98 MPH
Fastball 97 MPH
Fastball 97 MPH
Fastball 99 MPH
Mix in a few curves and changeups and hitters will screw themselves into the ground.
He’s already got a very nice slider that has straight down movement and 88-93 mph velocity–if he’d just throw the damn thing. Mix in one of Bad Penny’s “splities” once in a while and he’d be lights out. Forget the curveball. He’d just try to overthrow it and wind up spinning hangers down broadway.
I’m down with the slider…
He just needs to pitch, not throw.
Until he does, guys like Matt Stairs will ruin his day…
I’m not the only one on the web suggesting that Manny might play like a professional and put up good individual stats to get through 2009 just so he can opt out after proving he still “has it” and wasn’t a distraction of the field. Then he can show the “bad Manny” and get even with the cheapskate who forced him to play somewhere other than LA in the end because he wasn’t “appreciated”.
Manny is that type. Trust me.
Most players will take the best deal their agents can get and if that’s half what they expected, they’ll shrug it off, point to the market and the fact baseball is a business and play the game the same as if they received top dollar. Some players are different and have big egos–just like some owners and some agents. We will wind up the victims of tis game that’s played all the way into spring training and still isn’t settled!
Manny has a very fragile ego. He must be told and told often that he’s the latest and the greatest or he’ll pout and believe me, if he thinks someone tried to take advantage of him–he’ll get even in the end.
Even if Broxton hangs the slider–a bender coming in at 88-93 with the same arm motion as a 99 mph heater is a world class change–even if it’s really just a hanging slider.
When he dained to throw it last year he rung up a lot of strikeouts with it.
He’s just in love with the fastball and Honeycutt is a terrible pitching coach.
But I don’t mean to disagree just to be disagreeable. Better he develop an Eric Gagne 90 mph change up that falls off the end of the table and you’d have the best closer in the game.
If only Preacher Roe were still alive. Roe could teach him how to throw that good pitch that drops like a dead duck just before it reaches home plate.