Posted Under: Johanna's View
So, this I am sure many of you saw on Sportscenter, but here is game story by Bill Plunkett, a great baseball name, about the Dodgers/Angels game in which the Dodgers didn’t get a hit, but still won the game on two errors. It’s the 5th a team has no-hit the home team and lost in MLB history, it happened once where the home team no-hit the visitors and lost. The other fact I learned from this is that it can’t be a true no-hitter if 27 outs aren’t recorded. Anyway, thought it was a great story from the west coast. And while we are in Dodger-land, here is a column by TJ Simers about why the Dodgers aren’t getting hits. See, apparently all of Joe Torre’s World Series rings aren’t impressive enough to the Dodger kids to get them to by into the old baseball philosophies of Torre, Larry Bowa and Bob Schaefer. Simer’s calls for the return of Mattingly as hitting coach so that they can relate to some youth, even though Mattingly was retired before these guys every started paying attention to the Yankees. Simer’s point is also how much the youth is running the show there, and how little the verterans, usually the cornerstone of team expected to lead the way, don’t matter. Anyway, its a interesting peak into why the Dodgers can’t, overtake the Diamondbacks.




