Thursday, June 12, 2008

Padres wipe the floor with the Dodgers

Spotted a 5-0 lead in the 1st, Jake Peavy made sure that the game would essentially be over early. And, quite easily, he did.

Hiroki Kuroda was bombed, and Peavy just completely overwhelmed the Dodgers (again) as the Padres just slapped them silly, 9-0. It was pretty much an embarrassingly bad effort from the Dodgers, who dropped 2 of 3 after winning on Monday. And the beat goes on.

I knew the second I saw that Peavy would be coming off the DL to start Thursday, I could pretty much scratch off the game as a big, fat L. Oh lucky me, I was right! Want to know just how dominating he is against LA? In 20 career starts, he's 11-1 with a 2.31 ERA and 127 K's in 132.1 IP. They are by far his favorite matchup, and it's not even close.

Still, it would have been nice to at least make some sort of ballgame out of this. But Kuroda had absolutely nothing to give, a complete 180 from his last start against the Cubs, in which he was terrific. Right from the start, Brian Giles hit a 3-run bomb and Adrian Gonzalez added a solo shot as well. Kuroda only lasted 2.1 innings, giving up 6 runs.

As for the offense... ugh... I don't know why I even waste time talking about these clowns, but I guess I have to considering this is a Dodgers website. James Loney was 2-4, and that was it for highlights. 5 total hits and 0 walks. That's just downright ridiculous. They should be ashamed of themselves, they really should.

Good thing Chan Ho Park and Hong-Chih Kuo are pitching lights out. Actually, I'm shocked Kuo actually gave up a run, but he still K'd 5. Together, they went 4.1 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 6 K. Thank God for them. Scott Proctor, on the other hand, continues to stink up the place, as he gave up 2 more runs in 1 inning of work. With an ERA of 5.72, I've got to think his job is in jeopardy, especially if Yhency Brazoban comes back solid.

At 4 games under .500 and looking a whole lot worse than that, the Dodgers are now off to Detroit for interleague play with the Tigers. It's a good pitching matchup between Derek Lowe and Armando Galarraga, who has been one of the few positives for the Tigers this year. Both teams need to make a statement by taking this series and starting to play better ball.

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