[PilotMan]

6/17 5-4 (11) W over the Padres
The Padres are the new leaders in the West and this is where the new season begins. Jimmy Key and Fernando Valenzuela went pitch for pitch and the score was knotted at 3 going into the 8^th when the oddest thing happened. San Diego reliever Henry Warner, a rookie, had come and and was batting. He took the Valenzuela pitch and put it in the left field seats for his first career hit and home run. That gave the Padres the lead until the bottom of the 9^th when Mike Scioscia singled home Steve Sax who had pinch hit and singled, to tie it up. In the 11^th Stubbs walked, stole 2^nd, then was singled home on a Ron Kittle, walk-off, pinch hit to end it.


6/18 3-0 L to the Padres
Jim Beattie (0-4) had his best start of the year, but it was Bob Ojeda that shut us down instead. Beattie went 8, struck out 4 and allowed the 3 runs. Stubbs had previously been 0-11 against Ojeda, went 2-3 for our only bright spot. This snaps our 5 game win streak.


6/19 11-2 W over the Padres
Rick Rhoden (8-4) came within 1 out of a complete game, but he wasn't the highlight of the game. The offense jumped all over Tandy Charley (6-3). Sid Bream went 3-4. Both Franklin Stubbs and Roy Smalley hit their 7^th homers. We've cut the Padres lead to 1.5 games.


6/20 4-3 L to the Astros
Stubbs (8) and Bream (6) hit solo homers, and LA had the tying run on third with 1 out in the 9^th. Don Aase struck out the side in the 9^th to shut down the rally. Stubbs was 2-3 in the game, raising his average to .252, from the Mendoza line where he had been residing. John Denny (5-6) took another hard loss, but even his 7 innings wasn't good enough for us.


6/22 10-7 W over the Astros
This was a lost game. By all rights, this game was over. The score at the middle of the 5^th was 7-0, Houston. Valenzuela didn't even make it out of the 5^th. This team hasn't had an explosion like this all year long. Pena (2-2) and Niedenfeur (18^th S) pitched the last 5 scoreless while we scored 3 in the 5^th, 4 in the 6^th and another 3 in the 7^th. Dwight Evans hit number 8, Bream (7) and Nettles (4) went back to back in the 6^th. Evans had 4 RBI's.


6/23 5-3 L to the Astros
Frank Tanana went 7, struck out 11, but suffered the gopher ball curse yet again. He left with the game tied, but it was Ken Howell (0-2), the rookie, who served up a 2-run homer to Dale Murphy that cost us the game. Dwight Evans hit his 9^th homer of the year. Mike Scioscia, who has had a great June, went 2-4 in the losing effort.


Toby Harrah has finished his rehab stint. He batted .077 in 4 games. Sax, who batted .281 in 27 games was optioned back to AAA.


6/24 4-1 L to the Astos
Rick Rhoden (8-5) allowed 11 hits in 7 innings, and Doyle Alexander (7-6) allowed 5. Mike Scioscia and Dwight Evans had 2 hits each, which means that the other 7 players combined for 2 hits. Soooo, not a whole lot of offense or even danger for Houston. Back to back losses again.


6/25 5-4 L to the Padres
The first game against the first place Padres just kept our losing streak going. Jim Beattie pitched 6 innings and left losing. LA rallied to let him off the hook, but it was former Dodger Bob Brenly that hurt us today. Among the league leaders in homers, he hit his 17^th HR off of Steve Howe (2-2) to put the Padres up in the 8^th inning. We got a runner on second before Gary Lucas shut us down the rest of the way.


6/26 4-3 W over the Padres
LA built up a 4-1 lead after 2 innings thanks in part to Stubbs and his 10^h homer of the year. He's our first to double digits, and he didn't start getting playing time until Murphy went down with the injury. Mike Marshall and Toby Harrah went 3-4 and Marshall had a couple RBI's. Denny (6-6) went 8 and Niedenfeur got in trouble in the 9^th, gave up a home run and had the tying run in scoring position, but hung on for his 19^th save.


6/27 3-2 L to the Padres
We end up dropping a game in the series, which is bad news when we had dropped a couple before that already. Valenzuela (8-3) started, and went into the 8^th, but stayed in too long. Mike Scioscia had another couple hits, and has been the most dangerous hitter on the team for June. The Dodger killer, Luis Salazar is hitting .210 on the year, and has been quiet so far, but managed another home run, off of Valenzuela, that ended up tying the game at 2.


6/28 7-5 L to the Braves
We've dropped 5 of our last 6 games now. At one point we were losing 7-0. To say we got close is good, but seriously, we didn't win, so who cares. Jose Rijo (2-7) pitched probably his best game of the year, keeping us off the board for 6 innings. Frank Tanana (4-4) got the start. When Jose Rijo, and his 1 career hit, hits a bases clearing triple in the 2^nd inning and Brad Komminsk, who is hitting .156 goes 3-5, with 3 RBI and a HR, and you commit 3 errors, you're not going to win. Such is the '85 Dodgers.


6/29 12-6 W over the Braves
Man, the balls were flying out of Chavez Ravine tonight! LA scored in each of the first 6 innings to go up 12-3. Roy Smalley hit #8. Mike Marshall hit #9 and Dwight Evans had his first multi homer game of the year as he went deep with #10 and #11. Ex- Dodger Candy Maldonado also hit #7 of the year. Almost all of that offense came against Jim Deshaies in his second career start. Rhoden goes to 9-5.


6/30 6-5 W over the Braves
Beattie pitched the best game of his season going 7 allowing 2 runs. In the 8^th Ken Howell served up a 3-run home run to Braves catcher Mike Bishop that put Atlanta up 5-2. Jim Acker came on to close things out. Leadoff triple from Toby Harrah, Smalley walked. Buck Martinez became out #1. Willie Randolph doubled home Harrah. Frank White became out #2, but Smalley scored to make it 5-4. Evans singled home Randolph to tie the game. A wild pitch moved over Evans. Acker was lifted for Brian Fisher who gave up the walk off single to Stubbs that scored Evans. Nice comeback. Niedenfeur gets the win to go to 2-3. Greg Nettles came out of the game after hitting a double. Word is that he's day to day with a groin strain.