The trade for Hanley Ramirez paid dividends for the Dodgers as he cranked a 2 run HR in the top of the 10'th inning for the game winner in this game. Key Lines:
Melky Cabrera- 3 for 5. BA= .359. The Melky Hit Parade continues! Need moar XBH's!
Brandon Belt- 3 for 5, SB(7). BA= .238. Belt drove in the 2 runs that tied the game in the bottom of the 8'th. He struck out with runners on first and second in the 10'th. I'll say this about the K in the 10'th. He got the bat off his shoulder and took his hacks. That's all you can ask him to do.
Matt Cain- 7 IP, 9 H, 3 R, 0 BB, 2 K's. ERA= 2.80. By virtually eliminating walks, is Matt Cain making himself too hittable?
Stephen Fife(Dodgers)- 6.1 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 3 BB, 2 K's. ERA= 1.46. Don't know anything about Fife. This was his second MLB start. He has 3 K's against 6 BB's. He's not going to have long term success with those peripherals. I've learned to be very leery of opposing pitchers I've never heard of before. Takes hitters an AB or two to adjust. Fife also had a double and scored the first run in the 5'th as Matt Cain got BABIP'ed with bloopers in that inning.
The Dodgers gained a game on the NL West leading Giants and now have a 2 game deficit. The D'Backs won a slugfest over the Mets 11-5 and are now 5.5 games behind the leaders.
Barry Zito tries to be the stopper today facing Chad "Baggy Pants" Billingsley.
The Giants announced a trade for Marco Scutaro to bolster their bench. The cost was Charlie Culberson who started off the season strong in Fresno but had tailed off badly in the last couple of months and probably was not in the Giants future plans.
It sounds like Pablo Sandoval will probably be placed on the DL today and Aubrey Huff called up. I don't see Aubrey Huff helping this team and it throws the Belt situation back into uncertainty just as he seems to be coming around a bit.
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That umpire's NARROW strike zone, I do believe had something with so many hits. I didn't realize the strike zone was so small...
ReplyDeleteIF the Giants DL Pablo, unless Pagan or Belt cranks it up, the pitchers are going to have to get awhole lot busier.
My family put a lot of pressure on me to watch the Olympics Opening Ceremonies with them. Ooof!! I had the Giants game on in the bedroom and would sneak away once in a while to keep tabs on the game. I didn't see enough pitches to get any sense of the strike zone but Grant over at MCC seemed to think it was ridiculously small. Sounds like Romo should have had strike 3 instead of a walk that would have gotten him out of the 10'th inning. Maybe he was thinking about that pitch when he grooved a slider to Hanley?
DeleteOver the years and decades, the K zone has gotten small in the late innings for Giants pitchers facing the Dodgers often enough that I'm almost paranoid about it.
BTW, the Olympic Opening Ceremonies have to be the most bloated, pretentious excessive and pointless bore. Durn thing went on for 5 friggin' hours until midnight. I went to bed with a raging headache. Oh well, Giants game lasted almost as long and was just as unsatisfying.
DeleteDoc, I started noticing about the 3rd inning when Scully mentioned it. From the way he was talking it had been going on since the beginning. This ump was not calling corners or up or down. What is surprising was that Cain had no walks and didn't zing a fastball by his head. Cain got a little angry and Posey was framing pitches to no avail... I guess Fife and more patience.
DeleteSounds like Posey needed to put down two fingers that meant Cainer was supposed to throw a high hard one that, dang, it just crossed him up!
Deleteit is said that danny boyle produced and directed....thats a lie
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I liked the Olympic opening for the most part. Doc, Boyle championed Health Care. That didn't even catch your fancy?
DeleteBut, you gotta DVR the opening, and watch AFTER the Giants game. Priorities.