Friday, June 10, 2005 |
Now With Twice The Hee Seop Homers: Dodgers 6, Twins 5
Between FJT, Dodger Thoughts, and myself, there's been an awful lot of head-scratching, stuff-throwing-at-the-TV, and four-letter epithets hurled at Jim Tracy. Tonight's example fortunately was only threatened, but it was a big one: warming up Erickson in the third. Now, Erickson clearly has nothing left and needs to be used only for mopup, yet here he was as a potential relief pitcher for Penny.
In World War II, the Soviets used to have disciplinary troops standing behind the front ranks, armed with machine guns in case those ranks dispursed and turned back. The obvious similarity to tonight's game: leave the game with any runners on base, Brad, and they'll score.
But, at least the Dodgers feel fairly certain they're going to re-sign Penny, though it hasn't happened yet (a fact the postgame interview reminded us). That Penny is so eager to proceed with a deal, and DePodesta hasn't consummated one yet, isn't necessarily a sign of anything important -- except possibly Edwin Jackson's travails, which the club assures us isn't a problem, even if he gets demoted to AA. 21 or no, that's got to hurt, and if in so doing they reduce the Dodgers' pitching depth, so much the better Penny's leverage (not to mention Weaver's, provided he can get his ERA down out of the stratosphere).
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