NL West race: August 30, 2008
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
NL West race: August 30, 2008 MLB.com: Dodgers end eight-game slide Manny Ramirez had four hits again Saturday night, his two homers helping the Dodgers end an eight-game losing streak with a 6-2 win over the first-place Diamondbacks, whose lead was trimmed to 3 1/2 games. Ramirez, who was 4-for-4 with a walk Friday night, singled in the first inning off Dan Haren, hit a two-out solo homer in the third, doubled with one out in the fifth and scored on Matt Kemp’s 16th homer, hit the right-field foul pole with one out in the seventh for his ninth home run in 29 games as a ...
Manny keeps the flame alive
True Blue LA —
... by destroying Diamondback pitching on Saturday Night. Hitting for the cycle is something that most hitters would like to do in their career but Manny couldn't care less about such things. Needing a triple to complete the cycle he instead lofted a fly ball down the right field line and instead of veering foul it stayed just straight enough to hit the inside part of the foul pole and ricocchet to Dun who could only glove it and throw it back into the stands. Two home runs, a double, and a single would have to do instead of the cycle. ...
The Week In Quotes: August 25-31 by Alex Carnevale
Baseball Prospectus —
... (Ken Gurnick, MLB.com ) AT LEAST HE KNOWS WHAT THE SOLUTION ISN'T "I'm not sure if Ardoin and Berroa are going to add to the probability of getting people on base."—Joe Torre, on his backups at catcher and short. "I play the game, go have fun. I'm on vacation. I don't got nothing to lose. I got one more month left, you know, go to the house, relax and see what my situation is going to be."—Dodgers left fielder ...
