Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 11, 2008
More Manny Mashing

Manny Ramirez hit two more home runs for the Dodgers Wednesday night, having no problem with PETCO Park. Los Angeles won 7-2, extending their lead to 3 1/2 games. Manny this season has now played about 1/4 of his games with the Dodgers (27.5%), but has 41% of his home runs with his new team and 37% of his RBI. At this point, I have to believe Fox is rooting for a Dodgers-Red Sox World Series, just for the Manny story line. Of course, Brewers-Twins would save a lot of travel costs. :-)

T.J. Simers tries to get the Dodgers to talk about the playoffs, but they won't bite:

"Hopefully, we'll make the playoffs," Manager Joe Torre said, and sometimes he sounds so clueless.

The Brewers could mess it up if they fail to win the wild card, but right now I've got Lowe opening against the Cubs, Chad Billingsley following and then everything riding on the No. 3 starter.

If it's Penny, the guy who led Florida to a World Series win, and a healthy Takashi Saito closing the game -- the Dodgers have a shot of being a real force in postseason play.

"I don't disagree," Torre said when I listed the ideal rotation, placing Hiroki Kuroda fourth and everyone else beyond Lowe, Billingsley and Penny as no factor.

Lowe pitched previously in the World Series on two days' rest, so he can go in Game 4 for the Dodgers, setting up Game 5 for Billingsley. I just need to know where there's a good restaurant in Chicago.

"You sick so-and-so," Torre joked, "but I say that with love."

The Arizona announcers sounded totally defeated after the Arizona loss yesterday. Do they really think the Dodgers are incapable of another long losing streak? Or that the DBacks can't rip off six in a row at home against the Reds and Giants? I think Torre is right. It's much too early to be thinking playoffs.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:08 AM | Sluggers | TrackBack (0)
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