{"id":1325,"date":"2009-06-05T08:03:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T15:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2009-06-05T08:07:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T15:07:11","slug":"dodger-post-game-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=1325","title":{"rendered":"Dodger Post-Game Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0.9pt 0pt 0in; text-align: center; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 19.5pt; font-family: Arial;\">Phillies 3, Dodgers 0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">W:<span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Cole Hamels (4-)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">L:<span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Clayton Kershaw (3-4)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">S:<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>None<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">HR: <span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>None<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Avenir;\">Los Angeles<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Avenir;\"> Dodgers (37-19):<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Avenir;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">AW, MAN!!<\/span><\/strong>: The Dodgers were shut out for the second time, and both shutouts have come in the last six games\u2026Los Angeles has been held to two runs or less in six of its last eight games, but is still 4-4 in that time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">OOPS!!<\/span><\/strong>: <strong>Cole Hamels<\/strong> became the first pitcher to shut out the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium since August 5, 2007, when Arizona\u2019s <strong>Brandon Webb<\/strong> tossed a seven-hitter in a 3-0 win.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">YEAH, <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">MATT<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">!!<\/span><\/strong>: <strong>Matt Kemp<\/strong> has hit safely in nine straight games, batting .433 (13-for-30)\u2026he has also hit safely in 15 of his last 16 games, batting .397 (23-for-58).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A GREAT EIGHT<\/span><\/strong>: <strong>Andre Ethier<\/strong> has hit safely in eight straight starts, batting .333 (10-for-30).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Avenir;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> <\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Avenir;\">Philadelphia<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Avenir;\"> Phillies (32-20):<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">WHAT A RUN!!<\/span><\/strong>: The Phillies extended their winning streak to seven games, their longest since a seven-game run September 11-18, 2008\u2026Philadelphia also extended its road winning streak to five games, and is a major league-best 20-6 on the road\u2026Philadelphia is 16-4 in their last 20 games overall.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SHUTTING THE DOOR<\/span><\/strong>: The Phillies posted their first shutout since September 5, 2008 at the New York Mets\u2026Philadelphia was one of only four teams that hadn\u2019t pitched a shutout before tonight\u2026Boston, Florida, and Washington now remain\u2026the Phillies had 11 shutouts in 2008.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">COLE VAULTS<\/span><\/strong>: <strong>Cole Hamels<\/strong> earned his third career shutout, his first since June 5, 2008 vs. Cincinnati \u2026it is Philadelphia \u2019s first complete-game shutout since <strong>Brett Myers<\/strong> on August 20, 2008 vs. Washington .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">WHAT A HAM<\/span><\/strong>: <strong>Cole Hamels <\/strong>is unbeaten in his last seven starts, going 4-0 with a 2.84 ERA (14 ER\/44.1 IP) in that span\u2026he has worked at least 6.0 innings in each of his last six starts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ROAD<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> RIBBIES<\/span><\/strong>: <strong>Raul Ibanez<\/strong> has recorded at least one RBI in nine of his last 10 road games (15 total) and in 13 of his last 15 contests away from Citizens Bank Park (25 total)\u2026he leads the National League with 30 road RBI\u2026only Evan Longoria has more road RBI (34) in the Majors.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NO TOAD ON THE <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ROAD<\/span><\/strong>: <strong>Raul Ibanez<\/strong> has hit safely in nine straight road games, batting .366 (15-for-41).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">HOWARD ABOUT THAT?<\/span><\/strong>: <strong>Ryan Howard <\/strong>has at least one RBI in six straight games (12 total).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Notes courtesy of Mark Rogoff, Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillies 3, Dodgers 0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,89,134],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-phillies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}