Posted by GameSetMatch on 12th October 2009
Whomever the opponent in the National League Championship Series, the Dodgers are not expected to make changes in the lineup.
It isn’t broken, so manager Joe Torre doesn’t figure to fix it, which means Ronnie Belliard will be the second baseman over Orlando Hudson, Matt Kemp hits in the No. 2 hole and Manny Ramirez continues to bat cleanup.
What really is making the lineup click more than anything right now is Rafael Furcal’s production at the top of the order. He not only had a .500 batting average (6 for 12) in the three-game National League Division Series, he had a .667 on-base percentage. He also is a threat on the basepaths with 12 steals.
Click here to read the full article – By Doug Padilla of Daily News
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Posted by GameSetMatch on 8th October 2009
Chris Carpenter had always found the Dodgers to be easy prey.
Six times the St. Louis righthander had gone against the NL West Division champs, and he was 5-0 with a 2.20 earned run average. In his last 32 innings against the Boys in Blue, the Cy Young Award contender had held them to three runs.
And the way the Dodgers staggered into the playoffs, moving to the cusp of an epic collapse, it stood to reason that Carpenter would help himself to another healthy portion in last night’s first game of the NL division series at Dodger Stadium.
Click here to read the full article – By Ray Parrillo of philly.com
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Posted by GameSetMatch on 7th October 2009
Orlando Hudson feels grateful merely to be on anybody’s roster this season, much less getting ready for the first postseason series of his career.
Actually playing would be even better.
It’ll happen, but not at the start of tonight’s Dodgers-Cardinals Game 1 at Dodger Stadium. Dodgers manager Joe Torre said Tuesday he’ll go with Ronnie Belliard at second base for the opener against Cardinals right-hander Chris Carpenter.
Belliard “doesn’t have as wide a range (defensively) as Hudson does, but I think offensively he’s maybe a little fresher right now,” Torre said Tuesday.
“We asked O-Dog to do a lot of stuff early in the year. And he played his tail off and continues to do that. But it was just a decision I decided to make, and we’ll go day-to-day right now. We’ll go with Belliard and see what we have.”
Click here to read the full article – By Jim Alexander of The Press-Enterprise
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Posted by GameSetMatch on 5th October 2009
Sooner or later, Clayton Kershaw seems destined to be “The Guy” of the Dodgers’ starting rotation — and it’s looking more like sooner rather than later.
He was a 20-year-old rookie bit player in last year’s playoffs with two innings of relief, but he’ll be starting Game 2 of the National League Division Series against St. Louis on Thursday, the youngest Dodger given the ball in the postseason since Fernando Valenzuela. Randy Wolf earned the Game 1 nod based on consistency and experience, but it is Kershaw’s electric left arm that has the potential to dominate, even against a lineup as potent as the one the Cardinals possess.
Click here to read the full article – By Ken Gurnick of MLB.com
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Posted by GameSetMatch on 30th September 2009
29 SEP 2009: Scott Elbert of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches during a game against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park in San Diego, CA.
The Dodgers were already trailing by the final score in the eighth inning Tuesday night when Scott Elbert took the mound for the Dodgers, but it wasn’t a meaningless outing for the rookie left-hander.
“He’s auditioning,” said manager Joe Torre, who has been impressed enough by Elbert’s composure and stuff to suddenly use him in close games with an eye on October.
Indeed, with Hong-Chih Kuo’s elusive command only a couple months after seemingly overcoming control issues, Elbert could very well be this year’s James McDonald, sneaking onto the postseason pitching staff via an impressive September after having virtually no role during the previous five months.
Click here to read the full article – By Ken Gurnick of MLB.com
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Posted by GameSetMatch on 24th September 2009
Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp celebrated a quarter century of life on Wednesday while Dodgers fans are celebrating a rising star who has a good shot of reaching a statistical plateau that has never been reached in the more than 100-year history of the franchise.
Kemp is aiming to become the first Dodgers player to hit .300 with 25 homers, 100 RBIs and 30 steals in one season. Through Wednesday, his 25th birthday, Kemp was hitting .304 with 25 homers, 97 RBIs and 34 steals in 149 games.
Already, he is only the sixth player in Dodgers history to have 20 homers and 30 steals in one season, and the first since Raul Mondesi in 1999.
There will be those who tell you that they knew this is what they’d eventually see from the gifted but raw young athlete drafted in the sixth round of the 2003 First-Year Player Draft out of high school in Oklahoma, where he turned down an offer from the Sooners to play shooting guard and instead opted to focus on baseball.
Click here to read the full article – By Lisa Winston of MLB.com
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Posted by GameSetMatch on 22nd September 2009
On the very day the Chicago Cubs decided they had seen enough of Milton Bradley and sent him home, the Los Angeles Dodgers and their fans just couldn’t get enough of Andre Ethier.
And just what does Bradley have to do with Ethier? Plenty. They are connected by a trade nearly four years ago that resulted in Ethier becoming a member of the Dodgers and a driving force in the team’s bid for postseason success.
On Sunday at Dodger Stadium, Ethier hit his team-leading 31st home run and ran his RBI total to 101. Meanwhile, in St. Louis, where the Cubs were preparing to play the Cardinals, Chicago GM Jim Hendry met with Bradley to tell the outfielder he was suspended for the final two weeks of the season.
Click here to read the full article – By Fred Claire of MLB.com
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Posted by adam20 on 2nd September 2009
Andre Ethier has been winning games all year with his bat. On Tuesday night, he won a game with his eye and saved one with his glove.
Ethier drew a tiebreaking bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the seventh inning, then made a game-saving catch crashing into the right-center fence in the top of the eighth as the Dodgers edged the D-backs, 4-3.
A second effective start by Vicente Padilla was undermined when the bullpen let a 3-1 lead get away. But the Dodgers broke the tie when Ethier worked his walk on a 3-1 pitch from lefty Clay Zavada after a walk to pinch-hitter Juan Pierre, a double by Rafael Furcal and an intentional walk to Matt Kemp, who homered for the Dodgers’ first run and created their third with his baserunning. Kemp has homered in his past four games.
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Posted by adam20 on 31st August 2009
Over the years, Randy Wolf has worried less about striking out hitters and more about pitching to contact. That strategy has worked this season as Wolf is 9-6 and has won four consecutive starts.
Wolf said he hasn’t pitched any differently during his winning streak.
“When you pitch to contact, you get ahead of guys and you’re throwing strikes,” Wolf said. “Then you can expand and then you can go for the punchout. Throw strikes early, and if you show the other team you will do that, they will become aggressive.”
Click here to read the full article – By Steve Gartner of MLB.com
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Posted by adam20 on 20th August 2009
This is how poorly things are going for the Dodgers right now: Jonathan Broxton gave up the lead in the ninth inning Wednesday night without allowing a hit.
Broxton walked Albert Pujols, who proceeded to steal second base and advance to third on a Russell Martin throwing error. Matt Holliday then completed the unconventional run with a sacrifice fly to center field for a 3-2 lead. As odd as the winning run was scored, losing games is nothing unusual for the Dodgers these days.
Click here to read the full article – By David Ely of MLB.com
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