Matt Kemp personally broke the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-game losing streak yesterday with a walk-off homerun in the bottom of the ninth against the St. Louis Cardinals. Jonathan Broxton should cut him a check for saving his ass from a loss. Kemp has been on a tear since the beginning of the season and he has never started out a season this hot.
Andre Ethier and he are carrying the Dodgers offense. James Loney is a non-factor but with his .150 average but to take a positivist view of the situation, he is outhitting pitchers Clayton Kershaw and Hiroki Kuroda and their .125 averages. Blake DeWitt is not looking so bad now after the start Juan Uribe has had. Jamey Carroll is off to a career best start at age 37. Casey Blake needs to invest in the Bengay company. The three-headed monster in left has turned into a tri-headed statue, and the catchers are not hitting their weight.
I don't even want to talk about the pitching. Outside of Clayton Kershaw (he did have the bad start against the Cardinals), the pitching has been almost non-existent. Hong-Chih Kuo went on the Disabled List and now they do not even have a left-hander in their bullpen. They brought up Ramon Troncoso to replace him rather than Scott Elbert or one of the left-handed veterans they have in Albuquerque.
No one else may be hitting the panic button but I am perilously close. They are 7-9 heading into a series with the Atlanta Braves and they always seem to kick the Dodgers ass, at least for the last several years.
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