Mark Buehrle went through the Dodgers like a lawn mower cutting grass, and the White Sox easily took the first of a 3-game set, 6-1. The game lasted only 2 hours and 5 minutes, as Buehrle lived up to his reputation of working fast.
Derek Lowe was the Dodgers' starter, and he wasn't all that bad, but like every other pitcher on that team, he got zero offensive support. He gave up single runs in both the 1st and 2nd, but settled down after that. Down 2-1 heading into the 8th, he ran out of gas, giving up a 2-run shot to Jermaine Dye that led to a 4 run inning.
As soon as Dye hit that homer to get the score to 4-1, you may as well had sent everybody home and called it a night. It's not like the Dodgers would actually play up to their contracts and put together a late rally, right? Nope, God forbid that were to happen for once. A 3 run lead on the Dodgers is as close to a guaranteed win for the other team as there is.
How did the Dodgers' hitters do last night? Juan Pierre: horrendous. Jeff Kent: deplorable. Matt Kemp: atrocious. Angel Berroa: embarrassing. In fact, pick your negative words and that sums up this team quite nicely. Worst offense in the league, by far.
What makes these games even more frustrating is that the second they get down, it's not like they're going to come back. Watching them is so boring. It's comparable to watching soccer or golf. Booooooorrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiing.
I know Buehrle is a pretty decent pitcher, but not that good. But this is the Dodgers we're talking about, and they have the uncanny ability to make any pitcher look like Cy Young material. I pitch in a slow-pitch softball league, and I bet I could make the Dodgers look bad. It wouldn't be hard.
Eric Stults gets the call tonight, and he had a solid start last Thursday in Cincinnati. Hopefully he can hold the White Sox to negative runs over the whole game. That's right, I'm hoping to see the Dodgers take tonight's game by a score of 0 to -2.
No comments:
Post a Comment