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Reading my copy of today's Daily Yomiuri, I found an interesting feature piece on Masanori Murakami, whose experience with the San Francisco Giants decades before the Dodgers' Hideo Nomo helped pave the way for future Japanese talent to cross the Atlantic:
If Masanori Murakami's father had had his way, Hideo Nomo would have been Japan's first major leaguer. Murakami...
The Giants had a few scoring opportunities against Vicente Padilla, but wasted all but one of them, most notably in the fifth with men on second and third and one out.
Russell Martin's three-run jack in the fourth effectively put the game away for the Giants, but the Dodgers continued to tack on single runs in the fifth, sixth, and seventh, and even got two more on James Loney...
Hiroki Kuroda, whose season up to now has been, for the most part, spent on the disabled list, seems to thrive in September and demonstrated that again by limiting the Giants to three hits over eight innings as Los Angeles stopped their arch rivals 10-3 in the first of six games over the next 10 games.
Hiroki Kuroda had already spent a night in the hospital and three weeks on the disabled list when this happened.
Thankfully this close call with Matt Cain’s broken bat didn’t result in a much lengthier hospital stay and a more permanent trip to the disabled list.
To quote Giants’ TV analyst Mike Krukow…
That’s some bad wood.
Hiroki Kuroda dodged the barrel of a broken bat that flew in his direction and retired 19 straight during one stretch, Casey Blake homered and the Los Angeles Dodgers matched their 2008 win total by beating the archrival San Francisco Giants 10-3 on Friday night.
Hiroki Kuroda dodged the barrel of a broken bat that flew in his direction and retired 19 straight during one stretch, Casey Blake homered and the Los Angeles Dodgers matched their 2008 win total by beating the archrival San Francisco Giants 10-3 on Friday night.
Hiroki Kuroda dodged the barrel of a broken bat that flew in his direction and retired 19 straight during one stretch, Casey Blake homered and the Los Angeles Dodgers matched their 2008 win total by beating the archrival San Francisco Giants 10-3 on Friday night.
Stephen Goldman has some commentary on the playoff-bound teams based on Baseball Prospectus' "Secret Sauce":
No. 11 THE LOS ANGELES ANGELS OF ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, USA
The Angels get knocked down on the power pitching angle, as overall they are a tick below average in strikeouts per nine, and in defense, which has been just average or a little below. Call it the Bobby...
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