OFFICIAL 2010 LOS ANGELES DODGERS THREAD [79-82] : The losing season

[badboyf0life420]

  pitching staff waking up finally! 7 game winning streak.

 

[cincoseisdos]

Chad

 

[sinser13]

bills with a gem

 

[mr jordan04]

game was PACKED with dodger fans last night. it felt like it was 65/35 dodger fans

 

[in yo nostril]

someone sell me tickets for tuesdays game.

 

[jpap348]

Clay and Bills this weekend

 

[cincoseisdos]

[h1]http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2010/05/gm-initiation-ned-colletti.html[/h1]

[h1]GM Initiation: Ned Colletti[/h1]
By Tim Dierkes [May 17 at 8:27am CST]

Ned Colletti was hired as general manager of the Dodgers on November 16th, 2005.  His first deal, struck about a month later with the Athletics' Billy Beane, was a huge success.  Colletti shipped Milton Bradley and Antonio Perez to Oakland for young outfielder Andre Ethier, who had just been named MVP of the Double A Texas League. 

Colletti kindly answered a few questions for MLBTR about his first trade.

MLB Trade Rumors: It was rumored that the Cubs, Yankees, and Blue Jays were also in on Bradley, with the Cubs even sending Dusty Baker to the player's home.  Were any of the other possible trades close, or was Oakland always the frontrunner?

Ned Colletti: There were a couple of teams who showed a passing interest. But the calls lacked substance. Oakland had a sincere interest. The calls were of a far more serious nature.

MLBTR: At the time of the deal you called the situation with Bradley and the Dodgers "irreconcilable."  Why did you feel that way?

Colletti: I had watched from a distance what had occurred so I had some read on the situation. When I went to the Dodgers I asked a few people who were in the midst of the situation. I asked them for facts and not opinions. I also talked to players, some who were friends with Milton. Finally, at the winter meetings in Dallas I met with one of his agents. He confirmed that giving Milton a fresh start would be best for everyone.

MLBTR: Before the '06 season Baseball America suggested Ethier might not have enough power to be a corner outfield regular.  What did you see that made you feel differently?

Colletti: From the outset his swing path was excellent. A young player can develop power later. Once he started to pull the ball more and learned his body and his swing, we felt the home runs would follow. I watched much the same occur earlier in my career, most notably with Ryne Sandberg and the Cubs when then-manager Jim Frey encouraged Sandberg to use his power to pull. Ryno went from hitting 9-12 home runs to hitting 25-40 home runs shortly thereafter.

MLBTR: When your front office puts together a trade, about how many people are involved?

Colletti: It depends on the trade. Anyone who has knowledge of the players involved - both coming and going - are asked to voice their option. It can be amateur scouts, the scouting director, major league staff and an occasional major league player, player development staff and leaders and of course our professional scouts. No one makes these decisions solo or in a vacuum. The more information you can gather from the truest evaluators the better chance you have of making the right decision.

 

[Los Angeles]

A three-run sixth inning Saturday put an end to a disappointing night for Albuquerque righty James McDonald: 5 2/3 innings, 10 hits, seven runs, three walks, six strikeouts. The Isotopes had 21 hits in a 12-11 loss.

Talk about bum status

[h1]40 years ago today: A death at Dodger Stadium, and still the only one of its kind at an MLB game
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By Tom Hoffarth on May 16, 2010 1:00 PMhttp://

I remember my dad taking me to a Dodgers game, had to be in the very early '70s, putting me at about 9 years old. We're sitting in box seats behind home plate, tickets he got from his boss at work. An amazing experience for a kid to see a game.

A foul ball was hit into the stands, and there was a hush over the crowd as ushers came down to tend to the person who might have been injured. Everything seemed OK.

"Did you know that a kid was killed recently by a foul ball?" someone leaned over to tell my dad.

I heard it, but I couldn't believe that was true. It was something that I couldn't get out of my mind.

Consider that in the course of a typical major-league baseball game, about 40 balls are hit into the stands -- foul balls, mostly. Fans with or without gloves try to catch them. Most bounce off something before landing in the hands of a lucky spectator.

Added up over the weeks, months and years of games, the millions of balls hit into the stands has resulted in only one fatality at big-league contest.

Yet, it was 40 years ago today -- on May 16, 1970, a Saturday night -- in the bottom of the third inning of a Dodgers-Giants game at Dodger Stadium.

Maury Wills led off with a double. Manny Mota followed. He sprayed a foul ball off into the crowd along the first-base line, near the visitor's dugout, off Giants pitcher Gaylord Perry.

Sitting in the second row was Alan Fish, a 14-year-old from L.A.

David Schur was an assistant playground director at the Poinsettia Park Rec Center, near Santa Monica and La Brea, close to West Hollywood and just a couple of blocks from the famed Formosa Cafe. He took seven boys from the neighborhood to the game, including Alan and his 10-year-old brother, Stuart.

Alan, who pitched for the Poinsettia Little Major League team, was a straight-A student at Bancroft Junior High.

But he didn't see the ball that Mota hit foul. Almost no one did. It hit Alan Fish in the left temple on the side of his head.

"The ball came out of nowhere very fast," Schur told the Los Angeles Times.

Alan said he was fine at first. His coach took him to the Dodgers' first-aid station. They gave him two asprins. The group went back to their seats.

Schur drove the boys home -- Alan and Stuart lived on Fountain Avenue in L.A., just a couple blocks south of Sunset Blvd. But Alan's step-father, Frank Scialo, noticed that Alan's condition didn't seem to get any better. Alan got disoriented and started walking in circles. It was worse than what a typical concussion looked like.

Francine Scialo took her son to the emergency room at Citizens Hospital, and then to Children's Hospital that night. He stayed overnight. And another night. And another.

Alan Fish died four days later, on a Wednesday afternoon, of a head injury that was deemed inoperable.

According to the records in the last 150 years, Alan Fish is still the only fan to ever be struck by a ball hit into the stands at a major-league park and die.

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The game that Saturday night went on without much incident (linked here). Mota grounded out moments later after his foul ball. He made the last out, striking out against Frank Reberger to end the Dodgers' 5-4 loss.

The day that Alan Fish died, the Dodgers played a night game in San Diego, a 10-4 loss. The team issued a statement: "The entire Dodger organziation joins in the members of the family of Alan Fish in their sorrow. Our thoughts and prayers are with them."

Mota didn't seem to really recovered from it. His batting average fell. He sat out a few games, on Walter Alston's orders.

Today, Mota may talk about it, but not very much. He still feels heavy guilt. He tried to visit Alan Fish in the hospital, but he was barred from entering the room.

Fish's parents -- including his father, Marvin Fish -- brought a lawsuit against the team and the doctor. A jury absolved the team of blame three years after the incident.

According to research by Sports Illustrated's S.L. Price last year, for a story and book he did on the 2007 death of Arkansas Travelers third base coach Mike Coolbaugh, who was hit by a foul ball during a minor-league game, 52 spectators are known to have been killed by foul balls since 1887. But only two occured in professional games.

In 1960, Dominic LaSala, 68, died after he was hit by a foul ball at a Triple-A game in Miami.

Ten years later, it was Alan Fish, at Dodger Stadium.

In the 2008 book, "Death at the Ballpark: A Comprehensive Study of Game-Related Fatalities, 1862-2007" (McFarland publishing, 264 pages) by Robert Gorman and David Weeks, there's mention of another MLB-game-related death. On September. 30, 1943, 32-year-old Clarence Stagemyer was killed at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C., sitting in the stands behind first base when a wild throw by Washington Senators third baseman Serry Robertson hit him during a night game against the Cleveland Indians.

The Mota-Fish story is included in the book. But what it fails to mention -- Mota's own teenage nephew would be killed on the field 14 years later, while playing shortstop in New York, after he was struck by lightning.

Estimates are that more than 300 people are injured every year after being hit with a foul ball enough to get medical help. This doesn't even take into account the latest peril to a fan -- a sharred maple bat flying into the stands.

Who's responsible?

Read the 145-word warning on the back of each ticket. Fans assume "the danger of being injured by thrown bats, fragments thereof, and thrown or batted balls."

Does that make a death 40 years ago any easier to understand?

 

[in yo nostril]

buzzkill bro, 7 game winning streak going on here.

 

[frenchblue23]

Originally Posted by In Yo Nostril

buzzkill bro, 7 game winning streak going on here.

 

Were you able to get tickets for tomorrow?

 

[mr jordan04]

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[h3]Ethier to the DL?[/h3]
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The Los Angeles Dodgers will wait at least until Monday and probably Tuesday to make a decision on whether to place Andre Ethier on the 15-day disabled list because of the broken first knuckle on his right pinkie, reports Tony Jackson of ESPNLosAngeles.com.

Ethier met in Los Angeles on Sunday with team physician Dr. Neal ElAttrache and hand specialist Dr. Steve Shin after suffering the injury in batting practice Saturday night.

The Dodgers did get some good news concerning minor league outfielder Xavier Paul, the player whom they almost certainly would call up if Ethier were to go on the DL. Paul is expected to return to Triple-A Albuquerque's lineup on Monday after being hit in the head by a thrown ball during batting practice before Saturday night's game at Salt Lake.

Until now, it has been a charmed season for Ethier, who is hitting .392 and could be line to play in his first All-Star Game in the big leagues, which will be held in July across town at Angels Stadium.

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what are the chances of manny, kemp, and ethier making the all star game?

 

[in yo nostril]

Originally Posted by FrenchBlue23

Originally Posted by In Yo Nostril

buzzkill bro, 7 game winning streak going on here.

 

Were you able to get tickets for tomorrow?

not yet. still waiting for people to calm down with the prices. i dont think its going to happen though

 

[frenchblue23]

Seriously though, I saw dudes selling reserve level tickets for $140 each, and Top Decks for $45 each.

I hope it's not chaos getting in tomorrow, I'm trying to be there by 6.

 

[ooiron manoo]

[h3]what are the chances of manny, kemp, and ethier making the all star game?[/h3]
Highly possible.  However, Manny needs to put up better

numbers, which means more hr's and rbi's.  Kemp needs to hit like he did in April and Ethier can't be out for too long.

Sucks for Ethier though, dude just isn't meant to be on the All Star team

. 

 

[Los Angeles]

Ely with 6ks and 0 walks.

Edit: 8ks and 0 walks

Ely out, Belliard in to pinch-hit. Great job getting deep in the game, hold on to the lead now...

 

[sinser13]

Ely

Not only has John Ely not walked anyone in his last 23 innings, he hasn’t allowed an extra-base hit in his last 23 innings

 

[in yo nostril]

i remember the days when we were 13-17

 

[cincoseisdos]

Originally Posted by In Yo Nostril

i remember the days when we were 13-17

ahhh yes, t'was a crazy time

on another note

http://losangeles.craigsl.../sgv/tix/1746521024.html

 

[erascism]

<3

Ely wears his uniform very well, I must say. Hope that's not outta line.

 

[Los Angeles]

Here is how John Ely ranks among Dodger starters this season:
[table][tr][td]Strikeouts by Dodger Starters[/td][/tr][tr][td]Pitcher[/td][td]Batters Faced[/td][td]Strikeouts[/td][td]K%[/td][/tr][tr][td]Clayton Kershaw[/td][td]197[/td][td]52[/td][td]26.4%[/td][/tr][tr][td]John Ely[/td][td]101[/td][td]25[/td][td]24.8%[/td][/tr][tr][td]Vicente Padilla[/td][td]100[/td][td]23[/td][td]23.0%[/td][/tr][tr][td]Chad Billingsley[/td][td]193[/td][td]39[/td][td]20.2%[/td][/tr][tr][td]Ramon Ortiz[/td][td]20[/td][td]4[/td][td]20.0%[/td][/tr][tr][td]Charlie Haeger[/td][td]97[/td][td]19[/td][td]19.6%[/td][/tr][tr][td]Hiroki Kuroda[/td][td]200[/td][td]37[/td][td]18.5%[/td][/tr][tr][td]Carlos Monasterios   
[/td][td]18[/td][td]2[/td][td]11.1%[/td][/tr][/table][table][tr][td]Walks by Dodger Starters[/td][/tr][tr][td]Pitcher[/td][td]Batters Faced[/td][td]Walks[/td][td]BB%[/td][/tr][tr][td]John Ely[/td][td]101[/td][td]3[/td][td]3.0%[/td][/tr][tr][td]Vicente Padilla[/td][td]100[/td][td]6[/td][td]6.0%[/td][/tr][tr][td]Hiroki Kuroda[/td][td]200[/td][td]13[/td][td]6.5%[/td][/tr][tr][td]Chad Billingsley[/td][td]193[/td][td]19[/td][td]9.8%[/td][/tr][tr][td]Carlos Monasterios    [/td][td]18[/td][td]2[/td][td]11.1%[/td][/tr][tr][td]Clayton Kershaw[/td][td]197[/td][td]29[/td][td]14.7%[/td][/tr][tr][td]Ramon Ortiz[/td][td]20[/td][td]3[/td][td]15.0%[/td][/tr][tr][td]Charlie Haeger[/td][td]97[/td][td]18[/td][td]18.6%[/td][/tr][/table]
And among all MLB pitchers
[table][tr][td]Best Strikeout/Walk Ratio in MLB[/td][/tr][tr][td]Pitcher[/td][td]Innings[/td][td]Walks[/td][td]Strikeouts[/td][td]K/BB[/td][/tr][tr][td]Cliff Lee
[/td][td]30.1[/td][td]1[/td][td]25[/td][td]25.00[/td][/tr][tr][td]Luke Gregerson
[/td][td]20.2[/td][td]2[/td][td]22[/td][td]11.00[/td][/tr][tr][td]John Ely[/td][td]25.2[/td][td]3[/td][td]25[/td][td]8.33[/td][/tr][tr][td]Kris Medlen
[/td][td]23.0[/td][td]3[/td][td]20[/td][td]6.67[/td][/tr][tr][td]Joel Zumaya
[/td][td]23.2[/td][td]4[/td][td]26[/td][td]6.50[/td][/tr][tr][td]Roy Halladay
[/td][td]62.1[/td][td]9[/td][td]52[/td][td]5.78[/td][/tr][tr][td]minimum 20 IP[/td][/tr][/table]

 

[Los Angeles]

It is news we have all been trying to avoid, even though we all knew it would happen eventually.  Andre Ethier appears headed to the disabled list today, per Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com.  Ethier last played on Friday, May 14, so the first day he would be eligible to return is May 30, the final game of a series at Coors Field.  Until then, we can decide whether to use pinky, pinkie, or little finger to describe Ethier's fracture.

Rosenthal also reports Xavier Paul is the likely call up, which was also expected.  Paul was hit in the head during his pregame warmups on Saturday in Salt Lake City, probably around the same time Ethier broke his, umm, little finger during extra batting practice.  Paul played a couple of innings Saturday night, but complained of headaches and missed the rest of that game and Sunday's as well.  Paul returned last night to the Isotopes' lineup, and had two singles and a double.

 

[sinser13]

hopefully it doesn't bother him all year.

 

[frenchblue23]

Glad they made the decision to shut him down for a while.

I heard they were planning on putting a splint on it, and letting him play through the pain.

 

[mr jordan04]

i got yankee tix for less than $25 each

theyre in the reserve

, but for $25, ill take it

 

[dako akong otin]

sucks for Ethier... especially with the numbers he's putting up now.

my boy GA hitting like crap