Subscribe to RSSThe Weekend Works and the Dodgers Tie It Up for First
For once, I am coming out of a Dodger weekend pretty impressed. Going in on Friday, I was pretty nervous and was expecting that the Dodgers would get their asses beat by the Diamondbacks. Mostly because the Dodgers have a habit lately of screwing up their first place status and because the Diamondbacks have just been notoriously difficult to beat this season.
However, the Dodgers came out on top this weekend by securing their first place tie with the D-Backs. It totally blew my mind the way it blew my mind that A-rod would actually have intercourse with Madonna-I thought she was just a corpse by now being kept alive by like solar panels or something. Let’s review the weekend.
Friday was scary for me and other Dodger fans because we were just dreading a loss. And from the looks of it in the beginning of the game, it looked very bad. The Diamondbacks played some mean ball. Especially against the usually impressive Hiroki Kuroda. Kuroda just didn’t have the usual gusto in his pitching as he usually does. He spent two innings trying unsuccessfully to defend the 3-0 lead the Dodgers had, but he just couldn’t do it. Eventually, the Dodgers ended up falling behind 6-3. At this point I wanted to kick the tv. Luckily, Nomar Garciaparra came through. He brought the Dodgers back into the game and Matt Kemp tied the game at 7-7. The rest is history as James Loney’s hit in the 11th got the Dodgers the win they needed. With the bullpen being used to capacity and a tiring night of hitting, the Dodgers started the weekend off right as they won 8-7.
Too bad that didn’t happen on Saturday. The Dodgers lost 3-2 to the D-Backs mostly because they couldn’t hit off pitcher Dan Haren as he pitched seven scoreless innings against the do-nothing Dodgers. It was one of those Dodger games that just makes you say, “well, shit”. I say this because we saw one of the famous Dodgers “FALSE HOPE RALLIES” in the ninth. This is when the Dodgers attempt to make up for their lack of actually playing decent ball for the WHOLE game and so they try and make a pathetic comeback in the last inning of the game. In the ninth, they tried really hard with even some hitting from Jeff Kent, but fell short.
Then on Sunday, it happened. The Dodgers won this one 6-5 securing their tie for first place with the D-Backs. It was nice to see the Dodgers try the age old technique of winning a game which is hitting. It worked as the Dodgers offense made a comeback in the ninth that won the game. One of the best highlights of the game came in the ninth when Nomar Garciaparra hit a double that started a hit parade that led to the win for the boys in blue. THANK GOD.
It would have just sucked if they had blown Sunday’s game. Now with a secure first place tie, the Dodgers can work towards keeping it that way. As they head off to Colorado for their series with the Rockies at crappy-ass Coors Field, they are going to need to play the best ball they can if they want to make it this year.
But like I say every year …Let’s not get our hopes up.
See you next game!
Love,
Val
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