You can't stop Ubaldo Jimenez, you can only hope to contain him
If you're anything like me, you were not intimately familiar with the career of Rockies righty Ubaldo Jimenez. In fairness, it had spanned a grand total of 13.2 innings entering Sunday's series finale in Colorado. Jimenez added six more to that total today, enough to give him his first major league win as the Rockies knocked off the Blue 9-6. It helped Jimenez to have Matt Holliday, who hit another homer and drove in three, around. He headlined a 12 hit, two homer attack that victimized Chad Billingsley and Eric Hull early, and Joe Beimel late. As for the Dodgers, Russell Martin and Jeff Kent combined for seven hits, three runs, and four RBIs, but they weren't able to keep up with the onslaught. After the Blue pushed two across in the ninth to cut the lead to three, Andre Ethier had a chance to be a hero. Key word? Chance. It didn't happen, as Manny Corpas struck him out to end the game.
And since it wouldn't be a Dodger game these days without some bad news, Kent had to leave the game in the ninth after pulling a hammy. The Dodgers are officially toting a M.A.S.H. unit into an ever-tightening four team race in the NL West. More on the game tomorrow.
BK
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CAN U GUYS GET AN INTERVIEW WITH GRADY LITTLE AND/OR NED COLLETI AND ASK THEM WHY KEMP & EITHIER ARE NOT PLAYING CONSISTENTLY?............WHY ARE THEY BEING PLATOONED?.........AND THEN........ASK THEM WHY GONZO WILL GET BENCHED, KEMP WILL GET BENCHED, & EITHIER WILL GET BENCHED, BUT PIERRE WILL RARLEY GET BENCHED?
Posted by: Aryan | July 29, 2007 at 10:54 PM
Pierre NEVE gets benched!!!! it;s probably in the contract, you know, he gave Colleti a discount if he can play everyday.
Posted by: DODGER 1955 | July 29, 2007 at 11:17 PM
Aryan:
While they're at it, shouldn't they also ask GLL why he continues to bat Kent 4th in the batting order!?!?!?!
JK
I DO agree with you that it is high time that Little League give some of that valuable "rest" that he has been passing around in abundance (to guys like Ethier, Kemp and Gonzo) to Pierre!!
CTF.
Posted by: CamTheFan | July 30, 2007 at 12:18 AM
Hey BK:
is the Title for this Blue Note thread a play on the closing number from the movie Hairspray (i.e., You Can't Stop the Beat)???
CTF
Posted by: CamTheFan | July 30, 2007 at 12:21 AM
CTF-
No. Never seen Hairspray, be it in stage or musical form. Not my genre.
BK
Posted by: Brian Kamenetzky | July 30, 2007 at 12:30 AM
CTF -
I believe it was Dan Patrick on Sportscenter that said, "You can't stop him, you can only hope to contain him." - usually about Jordan during basketball season. It evolved into a phrase said about any player really; however, usually in a dominating performance.
I'm not sure where you are all located geographically, but as an East Coast Dodgers fan, I do envy those of you located in LA's backyard - you're able to watch the games, listen to pre/post game on the radio, etc.
My only TRUE form of coverage is this blog, as the Dodgers MLB website covers "most" everything, while I think the LA Times gets better coverage. With true fans celebrating or bemoaning the team in this blog though, that's where I get my true rocks off!
My only hope is that ESPN carries a game of the week once every 3 months. With Barriod coming to town Tuesday for a 3 game set, at least ESPN will show those games! (They better show all 3, considering they showed the entire series against the lowly Marlins!).
Posted by: Brian | July 30, 2007 at 06:53 AM
Ya Kent has got to go down the lineup.....not 4th
Posted by: Aryan | July 30, 2007 at 01:46 PM