Already down two starters because of Vicente Padilla’s elbow soreness and Charlie Haeger’s struggles, the Dodgers can’t be comfortable about Kershaw’s regression this season.

Kershaw has always shown control problems in his young career. He walked 91 batters last year, third most in the National League. But he also posted an overall ERA of 2.79, fifth best in the NL. His home ERA of 1.83 was tops in the league.

On Tuesday, there was no give and take. It was all Brewers, as they scored seven times off Kershaw and managed to pin the 22-year-old with his shortest career start (1 1/3 innings).

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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…

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…

Going into extra innings Chan Ho Park was brought in to pitch the 10^th.However Mike Fontenot with one out got a base hit all the way to the wall putting him in scoring position. With Alfonso Soriano going 2 for 5 with 2 strikeouts there was no reason to not go after him. But Park Could not get around him and Soriano hit the walk off base hit leaving the score 2 to 1 in favor of the cubs. A just plain heart breaking lose for the dodgers today again like last night leaving 17 men on base this. Only scoring in the 4^th inning because of a walk to Blake Dewitt with only seven hit’s the bats fell silent for the dodgers and there pitchers again.

The Dodgers pack there bags take all the soaps and shampoos and towels from there hotel and get on a plane. From there at around 3 in the morning they will land in New York where they face the only team in the national league struggling more then themselves. Brad Penny will take the mound and hope to put the Dodgers on the right track. Both Teams tomorrow night will be looking to take advantage of the other in hopes of right the path each teams is on.