Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 10, 2008
Double Comeback

The NL West keeps slipping away from the Arizona Diamondbacks:

It was close to 9:30 on Tuesday night when, in San Diego, Manny Ramirez hit a deep drive to the warning track in center field, a sacrifice fly that brought home the go-ahead run for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Five hundred miles to the north and about 30 minutes later, after dramatics by Chris Snyder tied the score at AT&T Park, the San Francisco Giants rallied in the bottom of the ninth for a walk-off, 5-4 win over the Diamondbacks.

Andre Ethier continued his hot hitting, going two for four with four RBI. He's driven in 11 runs in the last five games and Manny hit his 12th home runs since joining LA.

In San Francisco, the Chrises, Snyder and Young, combined for five hits and all four Arizona runs scored. The team as a whole, however, could not get to Barry Zito who worked six strong innings, striking out nine and only allowing two runs.

Jon Rauch takes the loss as he faces two batters and allows both to reach, setting up the winning run. In a trade that hurt the Diamondbacks, Rauch is now 0-5 with a 6.41 ERA, allowing five home runs in 19 2/3 innings. Bob Melvin picked a bad time to stop sniffing glue.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:17 AM | Division Races | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Obviuosly the DBacks want to win the division but they're playing like crap, banged up, Dunn hasn't helped them win. They didn't score runs all year now it's too late to make any moves. Barring amazing turn arounds or a possible LAD collapse they're screwed. Tell me Torre won't be gloating come playoff time.

Posted by: Bandit at September 10, 2008 12:48 PM
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