Wood Hammers Giants and Nails Start
Alex Wood is certainly making a case to stay in the rotation. 6 innings, 77 pitcher and 1 hit makes an excellent case for Alex. If Maeda struggles on Friday, I would have Alex stay in the rotation. He was very impressive last night. His pitch count is up to almost 80 and he can build on that. I was impressed about Wood and depressed about the next guy I
- Alex Wood is certainly making a case to stay in the rotation. 6 innings, 77 pitcher and 1 hit makes an excellent case for Alex. If Maeda struggles on Friday, I would have Alex stay in the rotation. He was very impressive last night. His pitch count is up to almost 80 and he can build on that. I was impressed about Wood and depressed about the next guy I am about to mention.
- On the other hand, Sergio Romo is making a case to go away… far away! He has been in 10 games this year and the league is hitting .323 against him. In only one of those 10 appearances has he not given up a hit or a walk. That is beyond bad! The league average pitch speed is 84.53. His is now down to 77.77. League average exit velocity is 85.97 while his is 90.24. Translation: He throws slow – they hit hard! After 10 appearances, I have seen enough. Sergio, you have been voted off the island. Get Dayton back up here. Romo was a good story (bad guy Giant becomes good guy Dodger – he turned from the darkside), but the ending isn’t good.
- Cueto looked like he is struggling too. The Giants were lucky and/or made a number of very good defensive plays. Man, A-Gon is slow! Baez is going to give up a HR occasionally, but if he would vary his pace, that would help keep the hitters off balance. He still needs to speed up his delivery.
- Stripling, I am less concerned with. He’s just in a bad streak right now of a couple games. The next time he has a good inning, take him out and let him build his confidence a bit. He will be fine. Unlike Romo, he has velocity!
- Flash: Cody Bellinger is Human! He looked lost last night. He will catch back up, but I don’t think leadoff is the place to play him. Just my two cents. Put him 6th or 7th or 8th.
- The Dodgers hit well enough to win – Romo was the main fly in the ointment. No more excuses.
- Buehler went 3.2 innings for RC and allowed 1 run (he’s human), walked 2 and struck out 5. Spitzbarth got his 5th save.
- Kyle Farmer was 4-5 while playing 3B for Tulsa and Garlick had a HR.
- OKC did not play, but Great Lakes won 7-0 as Alexy, Soto and Duester threw the shutout.
- Dave Roberts said A-Gon’s struggles are because of his elbow.
- Rich Hill’s finger is good, but his stuff and control are not. It’s a few more days on the DL I guess.
- The kid goes today. It will be riveting!
- From Chris Haft of MLB.com:
With Julio Urias (age 20) scheduled to be the starting pitcher, Corey Seager (23) expected at shortstop and Cody Bellinger (21) possibly in the outfield for Thursday’s finale of the series with the Giants, the Dodgers are all-in on the youth movement.
Seager turns 23 on Thursday. The last time the Dodgers started three players under the age of 23 was July 6, 2007 — Matt Kemp, Tony Abreu and Chad Billingsley.
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Disagree, not disagreeable
Urias pitched well, needs to clean up his walks to keep his pitch count down. He got a couple of DP balls on good pitches. Bullpen was nails today and the 10th inning was huge. Utley got a clutch pinch hit and runs the bases like a wild man. Home to face the Phillies and then the Giants again. Rockies get swept by the Nats and are tied for 1st and get the DBacks next. Dodgers only 3 games back and have a chance to make up some ground.
And although Toles had not got a hit, in the last two games, he has started, I saw a different hitter, when he struck out today, so I wasn’t surprised when he came through today.
He has a knack of coming through, in these situations.
Toles stats went down during his slump, but he hasn’t been the only one, does people realize that Joc has seven more strike outs, then hits?