Saturday, June 26, 2004 |
Angels 7, Dodgers 5
Frank: Please, for the love of God, stop talking about the Red Sox.
Arte: uncomfortable as a deer in the headlights talking about all that minority stuff. Whatever. All I know is he's got us one heck of a lineup.
Ross Porter: it's nice to know you're reading Dodger Thoughts, but could you give a little credit where credit is due?
Pitching
Sele: needs work. A control pitcher should have, like, control. Maybe his first start should have been at Salt Lake?OP: fantastic game. Hope he's feeling better soon. Update: looks like he's got a rotator cuff strain and is listed day-to-day. Yipes.
Mota: great movement as usual, but left one up for Anderson.
Dreifort: is it just me or does he look disgusted every time he takes the mound, like he thinks he should be starting?
Gregg: oooh, that must feel good. Two zero frames, and I don't care how slumpy the Dodgers bats are about now.
Donnelly: very, very rickety on the mound. Awful location. He kept missing Jose's setups, and not by a little.
Frankie: panic time: he only got two K's this afternoon! :-)
Offense
Dodgers: you can rest on Beltre's back for so many innings, but he can't do it by himself alla time. This is a Tracy problem; Green shouldn't be in the top half of the lineup unless he proves himself better than the other guys ahead of him. But at least guys were getting hits.GA: did anyone think he'd come back and be this productive immediately? I'm just amazed.
Kennedy: yesterday he had a level-er swing. Today, back to loopiness. What gives? 0-4 = another bad day.
Vlad: studerrific.
Leadoff: 0-9, with a walk. Amazing the Angels won this game.
Umpiring
Hey, now we know where this guy went: he's making ball and strike calls. Jeez, Donnelly gets five balls?
If you follow this link to Shawn Green's batting chart on MLB.com and click on "2004 Season," you can see the locations where Green has hit the ball.
Try, for starters, Dodger Stadium. In 122 at-bats, Green has had seven hits that have reached the warning track or deeper - three doubles and four home runs. He has had three fly-ball outs that have reached the warning track, and about five others near the vicinity - roughly 350 feet from home plate.
That means in 107 out of 122 at-bats at home, 88 percent, Green hasn't really even shown high school power.
Ross has done this before with other material Jon's written up. Just after Jon did a piece on Weaver's awful first innings, who shows up with a pregame show harping on Weaver's awful first innings but Ross Porter. It's now beyond coincidence. At the very least, Porter is a reader. He ought to say something nice to Jon by way of acknowledgement.
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