Eric Stults was on fire for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday night.  Stults limited the Chicago White Sox to only four hits as the Dodgers shut out the White Sox in a 5-0 victory.  Stults pitched all nine innings for the Dodgers and improved his record to 2-0 with a 0.60 era.

The Dodgers offense got two runs in the first inning with rbi singles from Andre Ethier and Russell Martin.  In the fourth inning three more runs crossed the plate for the Dodgers Blake DeWitt double that scored two runs and then a rbi sac fly by Stults.  Stults did a little bit of everything for the Dodgers as you can see.

The Dodgers will now send Clayton Kershaw to the mound on Thursday as the White Sox and Dodgers play the rubber match of their three game series.  Who will come out on top? Leave us a comment and let us know what you think!

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Brad Penny who has been unable to return to the cy young status he was at least year attempted to change his fortune around. Against the team who you can only say is in a bigger slump right now the New York Mets. Penny fought as hard as he could but only managed 4 innings 8 hits and 6 runs he will go to sleep tonight with nightmares of David Wright. Who hit two back to back jacks one to left and one to right which swelled Penny’s era to 5.66. Another weird thing of matter was that Brad Penny could not get anyone out with 2 outs. Which lead the Dodgers to a lose with the score of 4 to 8

Some good news came out of this game though the Dodger bats somewhat woke up. While only getting 7 hits all but three dodger(one being the pitcher) had a hit. Including Jeff Kent hit a home run that I still think has not landed yet. After Kent hit one Blake Dewitt blasted his 5^th home run of the year. Dodgers only left 10 men on base today which is a sign that things could be getting better.

The bullpen looked again solid only giving up two runs threw four pitchers. Also the dodger finally got a extra base hit in Andre Either’s double that would be the only extra base hit in the game. However the Mets bullpen came together after Vargas let go of 4 runs. The Mets bullpen shut down the dodgers cold only giving up one hit after Vargas outing. The Dodgers today made the Mets look like…?…last years Mets before the whole destruction from the inside out at the end of the season.

Amongst the all the losing and errors and home runs special attention was paid to Joe Torre. This being his first time back in the town where he produced so many world series championships. Have with the swagger of being back in New York he fell silent watching his new team be defeated again. Clayton Kershaw will take the mound tomorrow night in hopes of winning his first ever game. Should the bullpen hold the bats swing and the curve ball stays sick Kershaw could finally get his win and get the dodgers out of this 4 game winning streak…

Blake DeWitt delivered a rbi single in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Cincinnati Reds on Monday night by the score of 6-5.  The Dodgers had got two walks and a hit in the inning before DeWitt came to the plate and singled to score Russell Martin.

DeWitt led the Dodgers at the plate with two rbi in the game.  James Loney and Matt Kemp both had one rbi in the game as well.

Starting pitcher Brad Penny lasted six innings as he gave up nine hits and five runs in the game.  Penny gave up a two run home run to Adam Dunn in the game as well.  Penny wasn’t his usual self as he didn’t have great command and couldn’t locate hit pitches very well.

Joe Beimel, Jonathan Broxton, and Takashi Saito threw the final three innings of the game for the Dodgers.  Saito ended up picking up the win which improves his record to 2-1.

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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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The Los Angeles Dodgers continue to play good baseball as they beat the New York Mets 5-4 on Tuesday night.  The win was the Dodgers tenth win in their last eleven games and they improved their season record to 19-14.

Blake DeWitt hit a inside the park home run in the fifth inning to score the tieing and go ahead run for the Dodgers.  DeWitt who hit is first home run on Monday now has two home runs in under 24 hours!    DeWitt finished the game with four total RBI.

Juan Pierre also scored DeWitt in the second inning to pick up a RBI.

Hiroki Kuroda didn’t have his best stuff as he only lasted 3 1/3 innings after giving up eight hits and four runs.  Only two of the runs were earned however, but Kuroda should have pitched a lot better then he did.

Hong-Chih Kuo ended up pitching 3 2/3 innings of relief after Kurdoa exited the game and he picked up the win which was his second of the season.  Takashi Saito notched his fifth save of the season in the game as well.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers hit three home runs on Monday night as they went onto defeat the New York Mets 5-1.  Rafael Furcal got things started with a lead off home run to start the game off of Oliver Perez.  Blake DeWitt and Matt Kemp both went deep in the fifth inning off of Perez as well.

Besides the RBI’s from Furcal, DeWitt, and Kemp, Russell Martin also had a RBI single in the first inning.  The Dodgers only struck out three times in the game and only left seven guys on base.  It was a productive night at the plate.

Chad Billingsley picked up the win for the Dodgers as he tossed six innings of five hit ball.  He did allow one run while walking four batters and striking out four batters.  Joe Beimel, Jonathan Broxton, and Takashi Saito pitched the final three innings without giving up a hit.

The Dodgers are now 18-14 on the season and hope to continue their hot play as they play the Mets again on Tuesday.

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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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The Los Angeles Dodgers were never really in the game last night as the Arizona Diamondbacks put a butt kicking on them by the score of 10-5.  The Dodgers really couldn’t figure out Doug Davis who was making his last start before having thyroid surgery.  Dodgers pitching also sucked as the Diamondbacks scored 10 runs off of 12 hits.

Chad Billingsly took the loss for the Dodgers.  Billingsly only lasted 2.1 innings in a terrible performance.  He gave up five hits, five runs (four were earned), walked three, and struck out one batter.

Hong-Chih Kuo stopped the bleeding for the next 3.2 innings as he didn’t allow a run, but after Kuo was done, Ramon Troncoso came into the game for an inning and gave up four earned runs on only two hits.  Jonathan Broxton pitched the 8th inning and also allowed an earned run.  Terrible job by the pitchers except for Kuo.

Blake DeWitt and Jeff Kent both had two RBI’s each for the Dodgers.  Andre Ethier picked up the other RBI.

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