Wednesday, September 19, 2007 |
Walk Away, Walk Away: Rockies 6, Dodgers 5
well it's been money for muscle another whirligigWell, that passage didn't quite go the way I remembered it, but then, the Dodgers' season hasn't gone down as I figured it might, either. A question, then: hadn't the Dodgers better shut down Jonathan Broxton if he's not helping? Their season is over, and is there some benefit to letting him grind through his problems at a time the Dodgers' public relations man has enough on his hands? This, of course, is not just this year we're talking about but next year and further down the road. It's only the third time in his career he's logged 70 or more innings in a season. I'm jes' saying.
money for muscle and another girl i dig
another hustle just to make it big
and rockaway rockaway— Dire Straits, "Tunnel of Love"
The Dodgers made a game of it, taking the lead in the sixth on Brad Penny's probable/improbable infield RBI single and a scoring groundout from Matt Kemp, but then there was that whole (near-) walkoff homer from Brad Hawpe, something that earned him his first curtain call of his career. Dodgers pitching surrendered three other homers in addition to Hawpe's, two to Matt Holliday, and one to Yorvit Torrealba, all three solo shots.
Update: Broxton's woes are due to his pitches flattening out according to an anonymous scout.
The Dodgers have a division elimination number of five after this game, a number further whittled by Arizona's easy 6-4 win over San Francisco. In the Wild Card, the Padres got a dramatic ninth-inning win with a walkoff homer by Scott Hairston to upend the Pirates 5-3. Hairston has five home runs in 44 at-bats with the Padres, and might be making a bid for a starting outfield job in 2008 at Petco. With the win, the Pads extend their Wild Card lead to 2.5 games over the Phillies, who lost 2-1 to St. Louis despite the Cards missing Albert Pujols.
Update: The Rockies have surpassed the Dodgers in this series as the division's third-place team. If the Dodgers were to finish fourth, it would be only the second time since the advent of the three-division system in 1994 that the team finished so low. Unlike their 2005 debacle when the Dodgers finished 71-91, the Dodgers appear headed for a breakeven or better record, a small consolation for a lost season.
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