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Sunday, April 30, 2006

Five-Peat! Dodgers 4, Padres 2

The Padres have lost five in a row, getting swept at home by the Diamondbacks, and now are in a position to have the same humiliation imposed on them by the Dodgers with a sixth loss on Sunday. The Padres are, needless to say, in pretty awful shape compared to last year's (barely) division "winners"; now in last place in the NL West, they've been swept at home twice this month, and are losers of four of eight series, a somewhat misleading figure because at one of those, the series with the Giants, had a postponed third game, and another, the Mets series, contained four games. Regardless, their 8-14 start isn't actually all that different from last year's ho-hum, it's-still-early 11-13 April that left them in fourth place, four and a half games back of the 15-8 first-place Dodgers.

Somebody needs to explain to me what Clay Hensley is doing as a starter. Never possessing anything like dominating strikeout numbers, he looked to me like the kind of pitcher teams put up when they get desperate to plug gaps in the rotation. Since his spot start against the Mets went well, getting a win despite only going five and a third and giving up four earned runs, he got another chance. To be honest, Hensley didn't actually do so badly — a quality start, really — but the Padres' popgun lineup never supported him.

Instead, the Dodgers' rickety offense clicked just enough to get the job done, with Nomar's solo blast and bases loaded sac fly leading the way. Yes, I saw them intentionally walk .195-hitting Jeff Kent, and giggled accordingly; at what point do you pitch to Barry Bonds, let alone Jeff Kent?

The Padres gave Brett Tomko a win. How does a guy this bad get to be 3-1 already?

Recap


Comments:
If anyone is interested, I put a page together that pulls news feeds from all the popular Dodger media outlets and blogs

http://www.dcdeal.com/dodgers/
 
Mmm, great, another RSS aggregator.
 

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