You win some you lose some, that’s the nature of the beast. Teams expect to lose games in a 162 game season, that’s a no brainer. They just hope that they win more than they lose. At some point in the season your team is going to have winning streaks and losing streaks there’s nothing much a team can do, but go out and play. Eventually things will square away.
That seems to be the case for the Dodgers right now. They started out great, then they hit a bump in the road, then they went back up winning seven games in a row. Now they seem to be hanging in there, winning and losing evenly. Such was the case with the last two series.
The Dodgers started the weekend facing the Angels having lost 7 of the last eight games against them. They didn’t fare much better this time around. They faced Joe Saunders in game one and lost 4-2. Kuroda actually pitched well enough to win, but things came apart for the Dodgers when Bennett threw the ball all the way to the warning track, on what should have been the last out of the 4th inning, allowing a run to score. The Angels never gave up the lead after that. The second game the Dodgers won 6-3 behind Dewitt’s 2 run home run, four shut out inning by Kuo and Saito saving the game in the 9th. It was only the second win in eleven tries against Angels. The third and final game they lost 10-2, thanks to Lowe giving up seven runs in five innings.
Having lost two out of three in Anaheim, the Dodger returned to Dodger Stadium to face the Reds. Things went better as they swept the three game series 6-5, 4-1 and 5-2. The first game was won in dramatic fashion, by who other than Dewitt (the hottest Dodger right now), Dewitt drove in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth. They took the second game thanks to Billingsley pitching seven scoreless inning and sloppy defense by the Reds that allowed the Dodger to score two runs and never look back. The rubber game of the series blessed the Dodger with another great pitching performance. This time Kuroda pitched eight strong inning and earned the win thanks to Saito saving the game. The weird thing about the game was that the Dodgers scored their first four runs without a hit (passed ball, wild pitch, squeeze bunt and a throwing error).
The Dodger host Albert Pujols and the St Louis Cardinals for three games followed by a seven game road trip against the Cubs and Mets.
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