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Saturday, July 07, 2007 |
Glad I Missed That Inning: Marlins 6, Dodgers 5
Brett Tomko must be DFA'd. Grady Little surely knows by now that he is utterly unacceptable in tight games; is there some reason he keeps sending Tomko out there to lose? Managers who make mistakes like this with toys like this need to have said toys removed from their toybox. Tomko walked two of the first three batters he faced, and one of them scored on Hanley Ramirez's bunt single in the top of the 10th. Ramirez had gone from hero to goat to hero in this game pretty much did it all offensively:
- In the first, he blasted a leadoff homer off Chad Billingsley.
- In the seventh, he hit another solo blast off reliever D.J. Houlton. Houlton, who lives and dies by his enormous 12-to-6 curve, couldn't throw it for strikes, and so it was really just a matter of time before the opposition teed off on his fastball.
- Finally, he drove in the game-winning run in the top of the 10th.
But blaming Tomko exclusively for the loss ignores Takashi Saito's role in the implosion. The Dodgers' usually steady closer struck out Hanley Ramirez with a 5-4 lead, but just couldn't find the strike zone thereafter. That eventually allowed Miguel Cabrera to tie the game with a booming double to the wall, and thus the managerial shenanigans that followed — which I didn't see, but was glad I missed.
And so we return to the DFA Tomko campaign.
Labels: dodgers
Comments:
Jeremy Hermida made the error on Nomar Garciaparra's fly ball. Ramirez has a lot of range but he can't run from shortstop to right field to catch a fly ball.
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