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Wow. How many chances did we have last night? Too many. We should hace won that game. I dont wanna talk about it to much. We all saw what happened and it doesnt need to be broken down point by point.

Plan: Put that loss behind us and sweep the pathetic Nationals.




Its Clayton Kershaw vs John Lannan. Lannan has a 5.56 ERA. Lets hit thus guy good and give him loss #6.


Martin is out for the season. Right when he was starting to produce. What a lot of people dont reallize, is he is working day and night to get back to being at least a decent hitter. He is a class act ballplayer. From the looks of it he will watch from the dugout.


Also Ethier played an inning at first. Strange move. No balls to him so we really didnt have a chance to see how he handled it.


BTW: Dodgers wont have to face Strasburg; his start was moved to next Tuesday.


Thats it. Email is juanpierrewoodblog@gmail.com. Go Dodgers!

Ethier is back?

I sure hope so. He looked like the player I saw in April and May. Two doubles and a home run. The whole team played better.

Padilla pitched another GEM. He made lots of soap bubble pitches. Vin went wild on each one. I wasn't counting but it seemed like he had a lot of 3 pitch strike outs. He went the distance giving the bullpen the night off (thank god).

Right after Vin reminded us that Ethier is batting .222 or something against leftys, he proceeded to have a 3 hit game with two doubles and a homer. Just like I said in the last post, for some reason I feel so much better about the team.

I was asked to make a list of other blogs I recommend. I will do that later tonight, but right off the bat I can name Dodger Thoughts and Vin Scully is my Homeboy. I regret to say that I forget the name if the guys that right these two, but their both great at what they do.

Last thoughts: if anyone knows how to stream video to Justin.tv, I would love it if you put up a stream of tonights game, as I am in Santa Barbara for the day.

That's all. Go Dodgers!! Email is juanpierrewoodblog@gmail.com

Relief

No not relief pitchers. Relief as in we got the monkey off our back. The team played better. Ted Lilly threw a gem. Martin hit an RBI double.

Some will say "Don't get your hopes up. Martin got injured and Furcal is day to day".
To those people, try to be more optimistic. The mood seems to have changed. Maybe it was the news if DodgerFilms, or the fact that Martin was hitting, or something else. The mood seems to have changed.

Maybe the reason I'm saying this is because Vincente Padilla has a (wait for it) GEM and has taken a no-no through 6 1/3. Scratch that. Line drive base hit. Wow what a close play. But he still is throwing a great game. Another base hit. I sure hope I didn't jinx anything.

To avoid the jinx risk I will end this post and make a "notes" post later tonight.

Go Dodgers!

Dodger Films is back!!

In the midst of an 8 game losing streak, Dodger fans have something to cheer for. Bobby Crosby and Dodgerfilms are allowed to film again! And what better way to celebrate then getting great footage of Gray catching a Kemp homer.



Its guys like Bobby and Dodgerfilms who make you forget that the Dodgers are having a mid-season crisis. Thanks.

On the downside, Matt Kemps 5 for 5 game was overshadowed by a 10-5 loss. Hiroki Kuroda and Jeff Weaver each gave up 5 runs. Not good. Finaly we get more than 3 runs on the board and the pitching can't hold it down. I'm getting frustrated.

Colletti finaly made trades. But as Dodger Blues puts it, don't start treating him like our savior. He makes his first start tonight. Lets hope our offense shows up.

Sorry for the lack of posts. I had a lot going on. Anyways Good Evening America. Go Dodgers!

George Sheril us getting on my nerves

Man. What ever happened to Sherril? He was great in 2009. Now he can't go an outing without giving ups buncha runs.

Give the padres some credit though. They outpitched us. But I'm starting to wonder if the bigger problem might actually be the offense. Sure our pitching is horrible but were scoring so little runs that it's not mattering.

We go to San Fran for a 3 game series against the hated Giants. It sounds like thier starting to cool down. Montasterios against Lincecum tonight. Let's hope Lincecum has been practicing that trick pitch where it lands 20 feet in front of the batter.

I'll be at the Fresno Grizzlies game tonight. They happen to be the Giants Triple-A team. But I don't think I'll get to much of a hard time for wearing Dodger gear because only 3000 people show up per night.

Anyways that's it. Email me at juanpierrewoodblog@gmail

Scott Podsednik and Bullpen Woes

Earlier yesterday the Dodgers traded two minor leaguers to the Royals for Scott Podsednik. However Kuroda had a rough 7th. The Dodgers lost 6-1.

Back to Podsednik though. He is batting .310 with 45 RBI and 5 home runs. I think he has a 15 game hit streak too.

But possibly the best part of this trade is the high socks. We will finally have high socks patrolling the outfield daily at Dodger Stadium.

It's a Good pickup, but the real problem is pitching. But for once you can't blame Colletti for this. Even if that LA Times guy says you can. I don't know what to make of him. Total hater. Which makes me mad because I respect how the LA Times does sports.

Anyways today it will be Soap Bubble Padilla vs. Matt Latos. Latos is 11-4 which doesn't make me too optimistic.

That's all. Emails? Address is juanpierrewoodblog@gmail.com. Go Dodgers!

Andre Ethier vs. The Flu bug

Nice. Ethier comes though in the clutch. That's what I'm talking about. Make a statement Dodgers.

Tonight it will be Kuroda against Clayton Richards. We need to get out of this offensive slump.

Don Mattingly will manage the Phoenix team in the Fall league. I supose he needs to get some kind of experience.

I won't be going down to Anahiem afterall for today. Maybe some other time.

That's all. Go Dodgers!