[PilotMan]

4/6 4-3 (11) L to the Astros
Road loss when Fred McGriff homered off of Rhoden in the 8^th. In the 11^th, Dale Murphy homered off of Don Robinson (0-1) to end it. Other than the homer, Rhoden pitched great. Franco threw 2 scoreless. Scioscia went 2-4 to lead the offense. Tom Candiotti threw 149 pitches for the Astros in his start.


4/7 3-2 L to the Astros
LA spotted the Astros 2 in the first on a Benito Santiago single that scored Pettis and Doran. Valenzuela (0-1) wouldn't allow any more and pitched into the 9^th. Ray Knight tied the game in the 7^th with a 2-run HR (1). Kirk McCaskill struck out 12. In the 9^th the Astros got a hit, then another with 1 out. With first open he walked Pettis to load them up then Don Robinson came in. He threw 1 pitch and Scioscia missed it and allowed Cecil Espy to score.


4/8 2-1 (10) L to the Astros
Oh man, not the way to start the year at all. A sweep by the Astros. Two extra inning games, and every one of them one run losses. That suuuuuucks. Greg Swindell and John Denny went toe to toe and left it in the hands of the bullpens. John Franco (0-1) gave up 3 hits and a sac fly in the 10^th to hand the win to the Astros.


4/9 7-5 L to the Giants
I don't think 0-4 is the way we wanted to start. DeCinces goes 2-3, both Sax and Henderson go 2-4 and that's about it. Downs started and struggled hard. He gave up 11 hits and 6 runs in 6 innings. It wasn't pretty. Giants rookie Stan Jefferson hit his first career HR. LA was down 7-2, and managed to put the tying run at the plate in the 9^th, but Plesac struck out Kittle to end it.


4/10 6-2 W over the Giants
YAY! We WIN 1 game!! WOOOWOOOWOOO! It kind of feels like that. Tanana (1-0) get the POG. He went the distance, stopped the streak, stuck out 6. He, of course, was helped by Pete Incaviglia, who had 1 hit coming into the game. Inky homered 2 times, both solo shots. Tony Phillips also went 2-3. Nice to finally get that first win out of the way.


4/11 11-1 W over the Giants
See?! This is more of what I had in mind for this season! Top of the order set the table, and Pete Incaviglia cleaned it up. Rick Rhoden (1-0) went the distance and struck out 6. LA did it all with Ray Knight (2-4, 3 RBI), Ricky Henderson (1-2, 2 BB, 3 runs, SB) and Pete Incaviglia (3-4, 2 HR, 7 RBI).
That gives Inky 4 HR's in the last 2 games.


4/12 4-1 W over the Giants
Incaviglia goes deep for the 3^rd straight game (5) along with Fred Lynn's first of the year. Valenzuela (1-1) allows a lead off homer to Gregg Jefferies, but only allows 2 hits the rest of the way, striking out 7. Franco comes on with 1 out in the 9^th and proceeds to load the bases before getting the final out and preserving the win.


4/13 2-1 W over the Astros
John Denny (1-0) needed his best stuff to take out the Astros and their rookie pitcher Greg Swindell. Swindell was a late season call up and one of the team's top prospects. He went the distance in the loss. Inky didn't homer, but he did get a sac fly in the first that put us up. Later it was a Tony Phillips double that scored Scioscia to give us the lead for good. Franco pitched the 9^th and gave up a leadoff single. Bob Horner then hit the ball to the wall in center before Henderson got to it. Then he finished off the Astros for his first save of the season.


It's a sad day in Boston when the Red Sox put Jim Rice on waivers and he was claimed by the Phillies. Nice way to end your 13 year , 310 HR, stay in a town.


4/14 3-1 W over the Astros
The Dodgers got 8 innings from Kelly Downs (1-1) who struck out 7. LA got 2 hits from Knight, Inky and Scioscia. Don Robinson struck out the side in the 9^th to get his first save of the season. This is a nice rebound from our shitty start. Being home rocks.


4/15 9-1 L to the Astros
Tanana (1-1) got pounded for 8 runs in the 2^nd inning. That's all that Dave Stewart (2-0) would need. He went the distance and wasn't threatened all game. Ray Knight and Fred Lynn had 2 hits each. Things got a little tense in the 7^th inning when Ken Howell hit Stewart, while we were down 8 runs. There was a lot of yelling from the benches, but Stewart wasn't hurt and stayed in to finish.