Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball Blog » Brad Penny http://www.dodgershomeplate.com A blog about Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:36:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Dodgers have no problems with the Pirates http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/dodgers-have-no-problems-with-the-pirates/ http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/dodgers-have-no-problems-with-the-pirates/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:15:08 +0000 DodgerFanatic http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/?p=64 The Los Angeles Dodgers had no problems with the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday night. The Dodgers whooped up on the Pirates by the score of 8-2. Scoring in five out of nine innings, they really put a lot of pressure on the young pirates team and they had no shot at coming back.

Hiroki Kuroda pitched seven innings to pick up the win and improve his record to 9-10. Takashi Saito and Brad Penny both tossed an inning of relief with Penny giving up two runs in the ninth inning on a Adam LaRoche home run.

James Loney went 2-4 and finished the game with three rbi to lead the team at the plate. Manny Ramirez had another good game as he went 3-4 and had two rbi. Blake DeWitt and Juan Pierre both finished up the scoring with one rbi each. Pierre actually hit his first home run of the season to account for his rbi.

The Dodgers are looking very strong and I don’t think they will have any problems winning the West division especially the way the dbacks have been playing.

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]]> http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/dodgers-have-no-problems-with-the-pirates/feed/ 0 Dodgers Attempt to get David Wright to not play against them anymore and Have two outs end the inning http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/dodgers-attempt-to-get-david-wright-to-not-play-against-them-anymore-and-have-two-outs-end-the-inning/ http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/dodgers-attempt-to-get-david-wright-to-not-play-against-them-anymore-and-have-two-outs-end-the-inning/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 02:48:12 +0000 Andrewdgrfan89 http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/dodgers-attempt-to-get-david-wright-to-not-play-against-them-anymore-and-have-two-outs-end-the-inning/ 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 5th 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…

]]> http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/dodgers-attempt-to-get-david-wright-to-not-play-against-them-anymore-and-have-two-outs-end-the-inning/feed/ 0 Blake DeWitt delivers game winning hit in the bottom of the ninth inning http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/blake-dewitt-delivers-game-winning-hit-in-the-bottom-of-the-ninth-inning/ http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/blake-dewitt-delivers-game-winning-hit-in-the-bottom-of-the-ninth-inning/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 15:01:14 +0000 DodgerFanatic http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/blake-dewitt-delivers-game-winning-hit-in-the-bottom-of-the-ninth-inning/ 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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]]> http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/blake-dewitt-delivers-game-winning-hit-in-the-bottom-of-the-ninth-inning/feed/ 0 Brad Penny and the Dodgers lose to the Brewers 5-3 http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/brad-penny-and-the-dodgers-lose-to-the-brewers-5-3/ http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/brad-penny-and-the-dodgers-lose-to-the-brewers-5-3/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 03:24:05 +0000 DodgerFanatic http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/brad-penny-and-the-dodgers-lose-to-the-brewers-5-3/ Brad Penny dropped his record to 5-4 on the season as he and the Los Angeles Dodgers lost to the Milwaukee Brewers by the score of 5-3 on Tuesday night.  Penny didn’t have his best stuff as he pitched six innings and gave up nine hits and five runs.  One of those hits was a solo home run to Bill Hall.

Penny didn’t have too much run support as the Dodgers were only able to score three runs in the game.  They got rbi from Matt Kemp, Jeff Kent, and Russell Martin in the game.  The Dodgers didn’t come up with that big rally or big home run in the game as they lost their fifth game in a row.

Will the dodgers turn things around and get back to winning baseball?  What do you think?  Dodgers Blog

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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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Rafael Furcal and Nomar Garciaparra both hit home runs for the Dodgers.  Furcal hit a solo home run in the first inning and Garciaparra hit a two run shot in the sixth inning.  James Loney had three RBIs with Russell Martin and Matt Kemp picking up an RBI each as well.

Brad Penny was the starting pitcher for the Dodgers throwing for six innings giving up six hits and only one run to the Reds.  This win put him at 3-2 for the year.  The closer Chan Ho Park picked up his first save of the season throwing the last three innings. 

The Dodgers will stay in Cincinnati for one more night to take on the Reds tonight to see if they can sweep them in the series.

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]]> http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/dodgers-have-no-problem-beating-the-reds-9-3/feed/ 0 Dodgers hammer the Pirates early and win the game 8-1 http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/dodgers-hammer-the-pirates-early-and-win-the-game-8-1/ http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/dodgers-hammer-the-pirates-early-and-win-the-game-8-1/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:53:56 +0000 DodgerFanatic http://www.dodgershomeplate.com/dodgers-hammer-the-pirates-early-and-win-the-game-8-1/ The Los Angeles Dodgers were up 6-0 after two innings against the Pittsburgh Pirates and went onto win 8-1.  With the win the Dodgers improved their record to 7-8.

Rafael Furcal went 4-4 including a solo home run in the second inning and finished with two RBI.  James Loney and Juan Pierre also had two RBI in the game.  Matt Kemp and Jeff Kent both had one RBI in the game.

Brad Penny picked up the save after pitching 5.2 innings of five hit baseball.  Only one run crossed the plate and it was an un-earned run.  Penny improved his record to 2-2 on the season with the win.

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