The Los Angeles Dodgers lost to the Colorado Rockies by the score of 5-3 on Wednesday afternoon and they lost two out of three games to the Rockies in Denver.  If you ask most Dodgers fans about the series, they will simply say it was very dissappointing because the Rockies are a team that the Dodgers should be beating up on.

Hiroki Kuroda pitched six innings and gave up nine hits and five runs as he took the loss.  Kuroda is now 5-7 on the year.  Chan Ho Park pitched the 7th and 8th innings without allowing to score another run.  Park atleast gave the offense a chance to come back in the late innings, they just weren’t able to.

Andy LaRoche and Danny Ardoin both had rbi singles in the 2nd inning and then Andruw Jones added a rbi double in the 4th inning.  That was all the offense for the Dodgers however as they struggled at the plate.  You only score three runs in a game in Denver when it is hot and humid?  Hmm I guess they weren’t swinging the bats very good.

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Dodgers came home slept threw the day after traveling threw every known time zone in the us. The Dodgers instead of eating hotel food had a nice home cooked meal and headed out to the ballpark. Where they preceded to destroy the young Rookie Greg Reynolds as they produced six runs on seven hits in 5 innings as the young rookie fell to 0 and 3. Hoping to not being out dueled by a kid Derek Lowe pitched a very strong game returning to good form. Pitching 8 innings with 5 hits and 1 run only with proctor finishing up the 9^th.

Seeing Derek Lowe Return to a form unseen since his days in Boston brought a glimmer of hope for the rotation. Another thing unseen in a little while was run support brought on by Matt Kemp who lit the Los Angeles Sky on fire with 2 doubles and home run. Jeff Kent not to be shown up got into the home run action blasting one putting him ahead of Andruw Jones with his 370^th home run. Only one starter did not have a hit and surprise surprise it is Chin-lung Hu great glove not bat but a work horse. Filling the void left by Furcal and Kent (when he takes the day off) him and maza play partially well however there non existences of bats are a cause for concern.

It’s hard to call the dodgers losing streak over I hear people saying the Mets are fine now. I guess you have to beat up on a team lower then you to make you feel better. Which is exactly what the dodgers did tonight against the Rockies. The Rockies who have the worst road record in the league hate to leave there stadium despite it being a hitter ball park they’ll take the home runs over loses. A team that was in the World Series last year now given the fact they are plagued with injuries are still very bad. I told the world not to believe the hype that the Rockies were not what everyone thinks they are. I even wrote that in another blog before the year…of course I also picked the Royals to win the central.

Who cares a win is a win they’ll take it however they can this one was by pure force. Chad Billinglsey will take the mound tomorrow where he hopes to pitch another gem. The gem has a potential to turn to a piece of coal should the dodgers not be able to provide run support like in NY. Billinglsey who I can honestly say I never liked to the mound is very good. Now I never not liked him as a person but as pitcher last year I did not like him but now I’m coming around. He’s a strong young with a fastball of gold. However when he gets behind he tends to go to the fastball to often. Usually losing control and just throwing for speed which tends to get him in trouble.

But for now we and the dodgers soak up the glory that is a win. Sleeping a little easier yelling just a little lower and hitting just a little harder…

The Los Angeles Dodgers used a big seventh inning where they scored six runs to come back and beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-2.  The Dodgers pounded out 11 hits as they scored the seven runs.  That is what happens when you have three home runs in the game.

Andruw Jones, Jeff Kent, and Gary Bennett all hit home runs in the seventh inning.  Bennett smoked a three run shot while Jones and Kent both had solo home runs.  Bennett finished the game with four rbi.  Russell Martin also had one rbi in the game for the Dodgers.

Chad Billingsley pitched seven innings and only gave up three hits and one run to pick up the win.  It was Billingsley’s third win of the season as he improved to 3-5.  Jonathan Broxton and Cory Wade pitched the final two innings.  Broxton did give up a solo home run in his inning of work.

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Wow what a win for the Los Angeles Dodgers as they came back to score three runs in the top of the ninth inning to beat the Milwaukee Brewers by the score of 6-4.

Juan Pierre had a two run double in the top of the ninth inning and then later scored on a Andruw Jones ground out to shortstop to spark the ninth inning rally.  Pierre led the Dodgers with three rbi in the game.  Blake Dewitt had a solo home run for one rbi and Jones had one rbi as well for the Dodgers.

Starting pitcher Derek Lowe didn’t have his best stuff on the night.  Lowe allowed six hits and four runs in six innings of action.  He would have been in line for the loss had the Dodgers not came back.  Scott Proctor, Joe Beimel, Jonathan Broxton, and Takashi Saito pitched the final three innings of the game without allowing a run.  Broxton got the win and Saito picked up the save.

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For the first time in a quite a while the Los Angeles Dodgers were absolutely crushed in a baseball game.  The New York Mets put a big ole whooping on the Dodgers as they won 12-1 on Wednesday afternoon.

Brad Penny took the loss and his record fell to 5-3 on the season.  Penny only lasted 4 2/3 innings while giving up ten hits and ten earned runs.  Scott Proctor pitche 1 1/3 innings and gave two innings as well.  The bleeding wasn’t stopped until Chan Ho Park came into the game and pitched three inning of hitless baseball.

The lone run for the Dodgers came in the ninth inning when Matt Kemp singled to center field to score Andruw Jones.  The Dodgers as a team only had four hits in the game and they left twelve runners on base in the game.

With the loss, the Dodgers are now 19-15 on the season and 3.5 games behind the league leading Arizona Diamondbacks.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers were not able to close out the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday night as the Pirates scored three runs in the 9th inning to beat the Dodgers 6-4.  The Dodgers went into the last inning ahead by one run, and then with two outs in the 9th inning, the Nate McLouth hit a three-run home run to beat the Dodgers.

Takashi Saito took the loss as he served up the home run to McLouth.  Saito was trying to close the game for Hiroki Kuroda who pitched six innings and allowed seven hits and three earned runs.

James Loney, Andruw Jones, Blake DeWitt, and Kuroda all had RBI’s for the Dodgers.

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Hiroki Kuroda was making his major league debut and did a wonderful job as he pitched the Los Angeles Dodgers past the San Diego Padres 7-1 on Friday night.  Kuroda pitched  seven great innings only gave up three his, one of those being a homerun to Brian Giles.

Russell Martin and Andre Ethier both led the Dodgers at the plate with two RBI each.  James Loney and Andruw Jones contributed with one RBI each as well.

Great win again a division rival for the Dodgers.  Their record now stands at 3-1.

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