[PilotMan]

Fred Lynn picked up the player of the week award in the NL with 4 HR's in a week and a .526 avg.


6/17 5-4 L to the Braves
Man, these one run losses are really piling up. This is the 3^rd in 4 games. The last few years these have been our wins. It also looks like my theory on this team is starting to hold true. The NL West is stronger, and we do well beating up on the East teams, but back in the 'hood, we struggle. Old friend, Candy Maldonado hit an 8^th inning HR off of Frank Tanana (9-2) that put the Braves up for good. It had looked like LA was going to win on the backs of a Mike Marshall 2-run HR (9) and another Tony Phillips solo homer (5). Tanana gave up 3 more HR's. That's 15 on the year, in just over 100 innings of work. Braves rookie thirdbasemen, Criag Worthington got his first career HR today. It raised his season avg to .087.


6/18 4-0 W over the Braves
Valenzuela (6-4) went 8.2 and was yanked an out prior to his shutout. Valenzuela got some good defensive support, including a big throw from Marshall to the plate. Fred Lynn knocked his 9^th HR of the year, a 3-run blast that opened the game up. Sid Bream went 2-4.


6/19 4-2 W over the Braves
Stubbs smashed a 400+ft, 2-run HR in the 6^th inning that gave the Dodgers the lead, and Mike Marshall went 2-4 in the winning effort. Rick Rhoden pitched 7 and moved his record to 11-2, while John Franco pitched the final 2 innings again for his 14^th save of the year. The Braves Jim Deshaies left the game in the 2^nd inning with an injury and the Braves had to rely on 5 guys from the pen to keep it close.


Bit of a surprise move in LA. Sid Bream is optioned to Albuquerque, and getting the call up is last years #2 pick (first round sup), Pete Incaviglia. Incaviglia started the year in AA, San Antonia, and has only played 16 games in AAA. Combined, he's hitting .314/.410/.545. He's hit 9 HR's, but only 1 in AAA. We'll see if that translates to the majors, if he gets any playing time. He doesn't play first base, so this is a bit of a strange move, but both Stubbs and Marshall can pick up time there.


6/20 3-2 (10) L to the Padres
Wasted a great game by Denny. He went 8, and struck out 6, only allowing 1 run. In the 9^th Lasorda went to Ken Howell. Howell walked RJ Reynolds (this whole Padres team is Ex Dodgers), Bob Brenly (see?) bunted him over, Jim Morrison (yep!) struck out, then Lance Johnson singled Reynolds home to blow the save. Howell would face 1 batter in the 10^th, getting Wiggins to fly out, then left the game with some kind of injury. I honestly breathed a sigh of relief when Neidenfeur came in. Next batter, first pitch, Cecil Cooper drove the ball into the right field pavilion. This game also saw the Major League debut of Pete Incaviglia. He singled in his first at bat, doubled in his second and got his first RBI. He started in left, with Stubbs shifted around to right. Marshall sat. Lasorda started Roy Smalley at first tonight. Doug DeCinces smacked #18 in the first. I thought it was going to be a good night, but our top rated bullpen failed.


6/21 4-1 W over the Padres
Kelly Downs (3-3) took all the pressure off the pen by throwing all 9 innings for his first complete game. Mike Scioscia, who has been completely absent this year, found something and went 3-4, with a double.


Our AAA franchise, Albuquerque is so bad, that our team ERA leader, Michael Cunningham has a 6.61 ERA. He's tied with the team lead in wins, with 3. His record is 3-9. The team is 16 games under .500, and 20.5 back. This does not look good for our future.


6/22 5-2 W over the Padres
Starting pitching FTW! Frank Tanana (10-2) goes the distance and only allowed 1 gopher ball. Ex Dodger Bob Brenly went deep on him in the 2^nd. LA brought it's own power though as Pete Incaviglia hit his first career dinger, a 345-ft shot to left field that plated 2. Doug DeCinces also got in on the act with his own in the 3^rd (19). Ray Knight has taken the starting job at first and went 2-4 batting in the 2 hole.


Brewers centerfielder, Mickey Brantley in an 11-5 loss to the Tigers. He hit his HR in the 9^th inning off of Doug Bair. Brantley is a .249 hitter this year with 9 HR's.


Incaviglia was optioned back to Albuquerque and Bream was recalled. Bummer. Looked like that was a positive move to be made. Bream hasn't done shit this year.


6/23 5-2 L to the Braves
What a waste!!!! Valenzuela pitched the game of the year and we lose?!?!?! Fernando pitched 8 and struck out 15 Braves batters. He left with the game tied at 2. John Franco (1-2) came on in relief. The leadoff hitter reached on a Tony Phillips error, then he walked the next batter. The third batter, Dave Meijer smacked the ball into the right field pavilion (3) to give the Braves the lead for good. So sad. Valenzuela had struck out 10 through 5. He was really something today.


6/24 3-1 W over the Braves
Steve Sax went 3-4 with 2 RBI's, his 3^rd HR and 22^nd stolen base. He supports Rick Rhoden who pitched 6.2 and struck out 7 while allowing 9 hits. Rhoden raises his record to 12-2 and lowers his ERA to 2.21. Both Ken Howell and Tom Niedenfeur pitched and we didn't lose! Alejandro Pena pitched the 9^th for his first save of the year.


6/25 1-0 L to the Braves
John Denny and Braves rookie John Mitchell (2-5) went toe to toe in this dual. Denny was pulled after 7 shutout innings and Mitchell pitched 8. LA could only muster 2 hits all game. Atlanta scored in the top of the 9^th inning off of Tom Niedenfeur (2-6). With 2 outs, Milt Thompson beat out a ground ball and got on first. Then Gerald Perry took a ball deep to the fence and the speedy Thompson scored. Another 1 run loss on the bullpen. Woof.


6/27 4-1 W over the Astros
Frank Tanana's All-Star season continues as he goes 8 and allows only 4 hits. Of course, 1 of those was a Bill Madlock HR (4), but he did lower his ERA to 2.73. LA had 2 of their own, of course, because we can't score any other way. This a Mike Scioscia 3-run homer (3) in the 2^nd and Sid Bream solo shot (6) in the 6^th.


6/28 8-5 L to the Astros
Fernando (6-5) got rocked early and took an early shower during the 5^th. He allowed 11 hits, and was on the hook for 7 of the runs. We hit Tom Candiotti (9-6), sort of. I mean, he threw a few wild pitches and we scored 4 on 3 hits. Steve Sax and Doug DeCinces both went 2-4 and DeCinces hit #20, a solo shot, because of course it was.


6/29 10-3 L to the Astros
Rick Rhoden (12-3) was off his game. He was touched for 10 hits in 4 innings and we had to experience Jim Beattie and and Alejandro Pena. Dale Murphy went deep twice (12,13) and Rick Sutcliffe (3-7) allowed 11 baserunners, but we just couldn't get anything in. Stubbs went deep in the 4^th for number 15, another solo shot.


6/30 7-3 W over the Reds
John Denny (5-5) went the distance with 7 strikeouts. We went against Vida Blue (1-5) again and again we got the better of him. Both Stubbs (16) and Marshall (10) hit solo home runs (dang this is a real problem). They also carried the team going 6-9 with 4 runs and 4 RBI's. The Reds have hit 20 more HR's than we have and have scored over 400 to our 300 runs this year. Their offense is just head and shoulders over ours.