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1985 2006
June 1 Guerrero HR Kemp HR
June 2 Kemp HR
June 3 Kemp HR
June 4 Guerrero HR
June 5
June 6 Kemp HR
June 7 Guerrero HR
June 8 Guerrero HR
June 9
June 10 Guerrero HR
June 11 Kemp HR
Kemp HR
June 12
June 13
June 14 Guerrero HR Kemp HR
Guerrero HR
Not that baseball isn't a team game, as we're sadly being reminded ...
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Anyone have any idea why Izturis is walking so much? I've never him go through any stretch of his career in the majors or minors drawing this many walks. He is turning into the Venezuelan God of Walks™. The same thing is happening with Melky Cabrera of the Yankees. Maybe the long layoff allowed Izturis to watch a lot of tape of his hitting and find ways to improve his plate discipline. Maybe he was watching tape of Omar Vizquel, a guy who takes pitches and walks a decent amount, but has no power. Izturis needs to walk more if he wants to be an everyday player and he showed some improvement in 2004.
Billingsley has some pressure on him tomorrow.
kuo was throwing serious heat; he was in the 95-97 range the entire inning, which i think is the hardest i have seen him consistently hit. unfortunately, after throwing 6 straight balls to open the inning, i imagine honeycutt and martin told him to throw some strikes, so he started pumping fastballs pretty much down the middle. gonzalez couldn't handle most of them, but eventually he chipped one the other way. i think our boy kuo could use a little more finesse, and maybe an offspeed pitch.
'"I don't know if you could expect so much from a normal human being," Little said. "The kid has been amazing since he's been up here."'
Also, I am sure the Wily Aybar Fan Club is happy this mornning. Is Mr. I am Playing Way Over My Head, still batting .300?
Also, I would not worry about the look of Billingsley, I would worry that his agent is Dave Stewart. Stewart just seems shady.
Kemp 7 HRs in 45 at bats/15 games
Karros 7 HRs in 114 at bats/48 games
Piazza 7 HRs in 177 at bats/53 games
Mondesi 7 HRs in 176 at bats/65 games
Pujols 7 HRs in 67 at bats/20 games
M. Cabrera 7 HRs in 166 at bats/46 games
D. Wright 7 HRs in 142 at bats/39 games
kidcuba can you do me a favor & copy & paste the #'s for our projection on how Bills will do today? (I gotta run some erons & won't be able to make the game today) you can put them on the computer note pad like I did, here they are.
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KIDCUBA --6IP, 7 Hits, 4 Ks, 2 BBs, 1 HR, 5 ER, and a Loss.
BLUEBLEEDER--6IP, 4 HITS, 8 ks, 4 BBs 0 HR, 2 ER & a Win
GREG BROCK --5 IP, 7 Hits, 3 runs (2 earned if Furcal is playing), 5 K's, 1 BB, no
JoeyP --5IP 4H 5Ks 3BBs 3ER & a Loss
Inside Baseball --6IP 4H 6K 2B 0HR 1ER and a Win on 88 pitches
blue22 --5 IP, 7 hits, 3 BB's, 4K's, 3 ER.
ToyCannon --5 IP,3Hits, 1ERA, 3BB, 4 K's
Midwest Blue --5IP 5H 6K 2B 0HR 2ER and a No-decision
ps thanks in advance (I'll be listing in the radio)
One game was as a defensive replacement.
Jeff Francoeur 7 HRs in 65 at bats/19 games
Ryan Howard 7 HRs in 119 at bats/44 games
Furcal, SS
Cruz, RF
Nomar, 1B
Kent, 2B
Kemp, CF
Ethier, LF
Aybar, 3B
Martin, C
Billingsley, P
Nomar: .3591
Rolen: .3575
I wonder if Bob can tell us when was the last time a first-place team started five rookies? (Not counting, of course, silly things like the Royals starting the season 1-0 or whatever.)
6.1 IP, 5H, 2BB, 7K, 1ER, W
Just another reason to not want Lofton playing, I guess.
Matt Kemp (OF) LA 6/15/2006
Manager Grady Little hinted after Wednesday's game that Kemp could now be counted on as an everyday player (or close to it), the LA Daily News reports. Kemp, in his first pinch-hit appearance since being recalled from Double-A three weeks ago, took the first pitch he saw over the centerfield fence. The blast, estimated at 433 feet, was Kemp's seventh in 45 at-bats.
I'm going with 5.666666666666666666666666666 IP
Oh wait, I thought Matt Kemp was pitching.
Shane Spencer was 26 when he hit 10 homers in his first 67 at bats.
No one way to hide it, Matt Kemp at 21 is doing some historic things as a Los Angeles Dodger. I'm not as impressed with the quantity of home runs as I am with the quality of the home runs. Those balls are mashed. That is the 2nd home run I've seen him hit to dead center.
JD Drew looks like crap but his June OPS is 973 so I guess it is just a matter of perception and my perception is wrong.
yes, 80.
Was he 21 and were those his 1st ab's in the major leagues after jumping AAA and having < 200 ab's in AA?
This is truly rare. Unprecedented for a Los Angeles Dodger.
Vishal, I'm interested to see how your prediction compares to your sim's.
Right now Ned is the Adum Dunn of the Gm world.
You could count the three K first game as something bad, and were a certain manager at the helm at the time, that could have been the last we saw of Kemp.
Yes, but the heartbreak didn't start until 5 years after his debut. For a few years he gave us everything we expected.
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So true, he may never have started another game and you can bet he'd never see CF.
My favorite memory of Mondy, truthfully was the "bleep Davy bleep Kevin Malone" tirade. Really spoke for all of us.
And FWIW, 44 was not intended as HSC bandwagoning. I just thought it bore mentioning.
Truly a frightening alternative reality.
44 - Ah, yes.
50 - Yay!
35.3 IP 8ER 23H 11W 40K 3HR - 2.04 ERA
Im not a believer in CERA, but this can't hurt.
60 BB's, 229 K's in over 1000 AB's in the minors.
I'm a season ticket holder but the best bet is to partner up with someone. The Dodgers allow season ticket holders to sell their tickets using a ticketmaster account but the catch is that you can't sell them for less then the retail price of the ticket so for most games you won't be able to sell your tickets at that price. You can use Ebay or Stubhub to sell at any price. The better seat you have the better chance of selling your unused tickets for at least season ticket face value. Also if you sell your opening day tickets you will recoup a tremendous amount of your season ticket cost. Just my 2 cents.
That was the knock on him. No one said he was a selective hitter, they said that is what he will need to work on to become an elite hitter.
You don't save much money over single game tickets. I think it was a buck a ticket for my seats, and I found it really difficult to unload the extras, of which there were plenty.
If I were you, I'd consider either the 2 for 1 seats in the reserved, if they still do that, or a mini-plan.
Guess that was my misunderstanding. I thought that was what differentiated Kemp from Guzman - he didn't swing at everything.
Cbill Line
5.2 innings 1ER 3H 5SO 1 BB No decision
62 I've had season tickets for five years now and I highly recommend it. I would just suggest finding one or more partners to ease the burden. Maybe you take 41, and you find two others to take 20 each, something like that.
He'd take that in an eyeblink, methinks.
Weaver has a reputation as an 'inning eater'; no one will call Perez that. If Perez pitch 220 innings this year, his ERA would equal (pick one):
1.His IQ
2.His homeruns allowed total
3.His waistline.
4.Number of reasons why it's someone else's fault.
For what it's worth, there have been studies showing that strikeouts can be a positive sign for a young power hitter. Here's one from Nate Silver at BP:
"I found that when everything else is held equal, higher strikeout rates have a somewhat positive predictive effect on power output. For example, the regression equations I use for PECOTA suggest that--all else being equal--45 extra strikeouts in the previous year are "worth" about one additional home run in the upcoming year. The effect is not enormous, but it's there, and it's one reason why folks like Adam Dunn and Hee Seop Choi and Wily Mo Pena tend to get such favorable PECOTA projections."
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