It was a great opening weekend for the 2011 Major League Baseball season. Homeruns were flying out of ballparks left and right (the Texas Rangers hit 11 homeruns in 3 games and the New York Yankees hit 9 in 3 games) and then there is the Los Angeles Dodgers. One Homerun by Matt Kemp in 4 games They are still 3-1 but I would like to see a few more longballs from them. How fast can Jerry Sands be called up?
The Dodgers won last nights game in large part to some "creative" outfield play by Aubrey Huff. His Giants teammates thought so much of his play, they fashioned a "chalk" outline of his prone body on the outfield grass in warmups before the game. This was based on his play from the night before when he actually managed to catch two balls hit to him. After last night's game, I bet the team will murder his glove and the police will find its lifeless, leather body in a dumpster near Chavez Ravine with the fingers cut out.
The Dodgers did come out of the series with the Giants at 3-1 (I'll take that any day) but they only scored 13 runs in those 4 games (7 of those last night). They had some timely hits in the 7th inning when they scored 4 runs. Matt Kemp is still swinging a hot bat and Rafael Furcal had a couple of more hits.
The relief pitching is turning into a bit of a sore spot. Kuo seems to be having a hard time finding the strike zone, Matt Guerrier didn't fare much better (2 BB in 2/3 of an inning and one of those walks was with the bases loaded) and evidently the Dodgers have to have at least a 2 run lead before they can bring Jonathan Broxton into the game although he did pick up his third save last night.
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