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Saturday, September 08, 2007 |
Do Not Anger Bengie Molina: Giants 5, Dodgers 4
Bengie Molina is not happy with the Giants this year:
What pops out at you is the fact that James Loney homered twice, only the second time in his career he's done that, the last time being his record-tying September 28, 2006 9-RBI game against Colorado. This time, though, he only had two RBIs, and why is that? A good bit of that failure falls on Grady Little, who put Nomar in the five hole, two batters ahead of Loney. Nomar shouldn't bat any higher than seventh, and certainly not ahead of Kemp and Loney. That is to say, the game shouldn't have been nearly this close, and had it not been for inferior lineup construction, Proctor's presence wouldn't have been even remotely necessary.
"It's a freakin' embarrassment what we're going through right now, losing so much, being in last place," Molina said. "I don't take that lightly. I don't take it as nothin'. I'm embarrassed. I can't even pick up my head because we're in last place. I can't take it no more.Sure enough, the former Angels backstop homered in the second and reached on a fielder's choice in the eighth, with pinch runner Eugenio Velez eventually scoring the tying run. While it says something about the last-place Giants that they have an aging catcher providing protection for Barry Bonds, it says even more about the Dodgers' tattered chances in the NL West that they're losing games to nonentities like Dan Ortmeyer, because even though it was Ortmeyer's one-out, walkoff blast that won the game, the question had to be why the game even entered the bottom of the ninth tied."I'm freakin' tired of being embarrassed. I just hate losing. I'm sorry. I'm not a big guy on anything else but winning. If nobody likes the way I take it or go about it, come and see me. I just like winning. That's why we're here."
For the answer to that, you need to look back to that eventful seventh, and why Scott Proctor was even in the game at all. It is sometimes instructive in cases like this to look at the WPCT graph:
Graph created by and hosted on fangraphs.com.
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