[PilotMan]

6/1 7-6 (10) L to the Pirates
LA and Tanana wasted a 6-1 lead. Lasorda left Tanana in too long, when he should have gone to his big bullpen and it cost us the game. Niedenfeur (2-3) was victimized by a Tony Phillips error in the 10^th that gave the Pirates the life they needed. DeCinces hit number 15. Tough to get swept on the road by the worst team in the NL East.


6/2 6-5 L to the Phillies
Another disheartening loss. Valenzuela was rolling and we were on our way. Fred Lynn and DeCinces went back to back with solo home runs, #3 and #16 respectively. The Phills grabbed one back in the 7^th and came on in the 8^th. Ken Howell was brought in and gave up runs that put the Phillies ahead. LA tied it up in the 9^th, but it was the bat of Rudy Law, in the bottom of the 9^th. Yes, Rudy Law, 12 career HR's, who put it over the left field fence to walk off for the Phillies. Unreal.


6/3 5-3 W over the Phillies
I'm glad we didn't drop a 6^th straight to a lowly team. John Denny (4-5) went 7 to get the win. Franco pitched the last 2 innings for his 11^th save. LA got a good game from Marshall, who was 3-4 and Phillips who was 2-4.


6/4 10-2 W over the Phillies
We bashed out 18 hits against Phillies pitching. Think about this, our 3-4 hitters combined for 2-10. Everyone else got in the game. Sax had 4, Phillips and Scioscia had 3 each. Bream scored 3 times. Scioscia had 3 RBI's. Tony Phillips hit his 2^nd HR of the year, in the 4^th inning. Rhoden goes 7.2 and gets his 9^th win (9-1).


6/5 9-6 L to the Astros
Houston pounded out 21 hits and the 2 teams combined for 33 hits in the game. No way this game took under 3 hours, it felt like 4.5. Vida Blue (0-3) takes the loss and allowed 13 hits and 7 runs in 4 innings of work. Jim Beattie came in and kept that run going, allowing another 5 in 2.2. LA went yard back to back again. This time it was a Stubbs 2-run homer (13) followed by a Bream (3) solo shot. Vida Blue's game score was 7.


6/6 7-5 W over the Astros
Tanana went 8, but revisited his old issue, gopher balls in the first. Benito Santiago touched him for 3, and we were behind all day. It wasn't until the bottom of the 6^th that we pulled back in front. Sid Bream hit a triple to tie it. Later it was BJ Surhoff with a 2-run single. He was 3-4 for the day. Tanana goes to 8-1, and Franco gets his 12^th save.


Vida Blue was put on waivers and designated for assignment. Kelly Downs was recalled to take his place. That didn't take long.


6/7 3-2 W over the Astros
Valenzuela (5-4) struck out 8 in 7 innings, but had to scatter 9 hits. LA fell behind 2-0 early on, but a Lynn HR (4) and a Bream 2-run shot (4) gave us all the runs we needed. Ken Howell pitched the 9^th for his 2^nd save.


6/8 3-0 (13) L to the Astros
John Denny and Jeff Sellers threw over 18 innings of shut out ball. LA only had 6 hits the entire game and Mike Marshall had 2 of them. One of his hits was the only extra base hit for LA too. LA turned 4 double plays, 2 of them with a runner on third to get out of an inning. It was lucky that we held on that long. Niedenfeur (2-4) took the loss when the Astros got to him.


23yr old, Ex-Dodgers prospect, Sid Fernandez threw a no-hitter against the Rangers. He's 8-2, with a 2.36 ERA this year. So Cy Young, no now hitter for Fernandez.


Former Dodgers, Bobby Grich and Tony Bernazard are 1-2 for 2^nd base AL All Star voting. Also, both Sid Fernandez and Orel Hersheiser are among top vote getters.


6/9 7-5 L to the Reds
Fred Lynn hit 2 HR's, one outside the park and one inside the park. Let me say, it was impressive for a 34 yr old outfielder. Rick Rhoden (9-2) took the loss and served up 3 HR's in his 5 innings of work, 2 to Eric Davis (15) and one to former Dodger Dave Anderson (3). Steve Sax also went deep for LA (2). By the end of the third, LA had come back from being down 5-1 to tie the game, but the Reds would score in the 5^th (Davis HR) and Beattie gave up another in the 8^th to secure it for Cincinnati.


Vida Blue didn't have to travel far. He was claimed by the Reds off of waivers.


6/10 4-2 L to the Reds
Fred Lynn went 3-4 with another HR, his 7^th of the year. The rest of the team only had 3 hits all together. Kelly Downs took the loss (2-3), but he didn't pitch poorly. The offense just didn't pick him up.


6/11 10-4 W over the Reds
It didn't take long to see Vida Blue in a new uni. He pitched today, and was really good, for 5 innings. In the 6^th, down 2-1, the Dodgers put on a hit parade and posted 6 runs to take the lead. Tanana (9-1) once again, would get good run support, even if he didn't dominate. He struck out 8 in 7.1, but allowed another 3 HR's. Sid Bream had LA's only homer, his 5^th in the 2^nd inning off of Blue. Both Bream and Dwayne Murphy went 2-4 with 2 runs and 2 RBI's. It would have been really, really embarrassing if Blue would have beaten us today.


6/13 5-4 L to the Padres
LA, behind Valenzuela had a 4-2 lead, but Lasorda stuck with his ace a little too long and it cost him. The Padres tied the game up in the 7^th and the Dodger bullpen, as good as they are, couldn't hold it. Ken Howell pitched the 9^th and needed a cannon from Mike Marshall in right to nail Ozzie Guillen at third. With a runner on first, and 2 out, Tony Gwynn hit one to the gap, that rolled to the wall and scored the winning run. Booo. Howell, falls to 1-3.


6/14 5-3 W over the Padres
The top of the order went 7-15, we pounded out 11 hits off of Jimmy Key. Meanwhile, Rick Rhoden went 7 strong to get his 10^th win of the year. Ron Kittle finally hit his first homer of the year. It was only his 3^rd hit, and it was his first pinch hit. John Franco pitched the final 2 for his 13^th save.




6/15 3-2 (11) L to the Padres
I'm starting to think that when Ken Howell (1-4) comes in to pitch that we will lose. John Denny with another not so shitty start. LA needed HR's by Fred Lynn (8) and Tony Phillips (4) to tie the game. Howell gave up the walk off single to Tony Gwynn.