San Francisco Giants

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) amp;lt;h3>Godawful: Tigers 9, Angels 6</h3> Any game featuring Jon Garland as a starter has a decent chance to get out of hand in a bad way, and this one surely did. The Angels kept getting leads, and the pitching kept coughing them back up, including a two-run lead i...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) The battle here really centers on Jonathan Broxton and his atrocious blown save, and whether or not he's cut out to be the team's closer. Those defending Broxton have declared his four-pitch walk to AAA hitter Andy Tracy immaterial, walked away from his seven blown saves because five of th...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) You've gotta beat the bad teams, and the Giants are a bad team. The Dodgers couldn't take advantage of an 11-4 Braves win over Arizona to advance in the standings, and so fall — once more — to .500 at 58-58. Getting Manny was a huge mistake, an enormous misreading of the team's position in the stan...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) The Dodgers are expected to activate Brad Penny from the DL on Friday as reported earlier in the week. Tony Jackson reports that Jason Schmidt is done for the year. Next: admitting he's done for his career. Mike Hampton got his first win in three years with a 11-4 Braves victory over the Giants o...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) This wouldn't be the first time in recent memory that a Dodger general manager has given the field manager a toy with a fatal edge; see also, Mike Edwards, Jason Phillips at first base, and the reanimated corpse of Jason Grabowski under the Jim Tracy regime, and that was with a far smarter ma...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) But certainly, playing the Giants should have helped, right? Well, not so fast; I watched yesterday as San Francisco spanked the Cubs bullpen. Sweet Lou Piniella's favorite middle reliever, Carlos Marmol, had been tasked with keeping a one-run deficit intact, but instead he surrender...

By Rob Tech: MLBAM's Gameday Blog Stops Working Coincidence? I sorta doubt it. Dodgers Rout Nemeses-In-Name-Only: Dodgers 5, Giants 0 The Giants' fifth-place finish in the NL West seems pretty well assured, and even though it's only opening day we're talking about here, it's instructive to r...

By Rob Yahoo Box NL Races The Mets suddenly looked all retro last night, i.e. like the Casey Stengel-era incompetents, losing 10-9 to Washington despite a big six-run rally in the ninth. The Braves pounded Philadelphia 10-6, so the Phils stay two back with an elimination number of four. That Philli...