Dodgers fall to Giants, 8-3
If Tim Redding had remained in South Korea for another season, he said he would probably be at a training camp in Guam right now, searching for a fast-food joint or chatting with friends on the computer.
The retread right-hander was one of the few bright spots for the Dodgers' split-squad team that lost, 8-3, to the San Francisco Giants on Saturday at Scottsdale Stadium.
A 33-year-old veteran of eight major league seasons, Redding held the defending World Series champions to two hits over two scoreless innings.
“Lot better than I really kind of anticipated,” said Redding, who was sent home early a day earlier because of a stomach-related illness.
In first-year Manager Don Mattingly’s first game of the spring, the Dodgers were brutalized in the third and fourth innings, as the Giants scored a combined eight runs off Carlos Monasterios and Oscar Villarreal.
In the third inning, Monasterios was pounded for five consecutive hits, the last a two-run triple by Nate Schierholtz that put the Giants ahead, 4-1.
The Giants added four runs in the fourth inning, which was capped by a two-run home run off Villarreal by a slimmed-down Pablo Sandoval.
The Dodgers also lost a split-squad game to the Angels, 4-1, on Saturday.
-- Dylan Hernandez, reporting from Scottsdale, Ariz.
Photo: Dodgers first baseman James Loney is tagged out by Giants catcher Chris Stewart in the first inning Saturday. Credit: Rick Scuteri / Reuters
dudgers SWEPT in a season-opening doubleheader?
By both the World Champion GIANTS & Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim?
Alright!
Let's see how many empty seats we can show Frankie baby on opening day in LA!
Posted by: 16blows | 02/26/2011 at 03:56 PM
Like I said once before today, someplace else.
It's not how you start it's how you finish or words to that effect.
I'm glad I didn't have to watch all those men left on base, today.
Posted by: OldBrooklyn Fan | 02/26/2011 at 05:46 PM
Donnie has this guys whipped into midseason form already - 15 hits, 2 walks and 2 errors parlayed into three whole runs.
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Its time for Dodger baseball.
Posted by: Labeldude | 02/26/2011 at 07:08 PM
Outscored 12 to 4- Same Old Dodgers
Posted by: Joe the Plumber | 02/27/2011 at 04:40 AM
Has Kemp quit on the season yet? Anybody see him run hard, or is that too much to ask?
Posted by: Chumpy Kemp | 02/27/2011 at 08:49 AM
Prediction: In his first year, Donnie Baseball will be too permissive and laid back, sowing disrespect. He spent too much group nap-time with old Joe. That's not going to happen with Gibby in Arizona. This tidbit from Sports Illustrated:
"[Kirk Gibson] has banned all cell phone conversations from the clubhouse -- and no texting, iPads and computer usage 30 minutes before the first pitch of games. That's a radical departure for a clubhouse that had been chock full of remote control vehicles, air soft guns and assorted other toys -- all gone now."
Posted by: Lance Pendragon | 02/27/2011 at 09:01 AM
My Pirates of Los Angeles are right on schedule.
Posted by: Johnny Depp | 02/27/2011 at 09:46 AM
Just a taste of things to come.
Posted by: KoufaxFan | 02/27/2011 at 02:26 PM
Hey Chumpy - How about Kemp today?
Posted by: vtadave | 02/27/2011 at 02:50 PM
"How about Kemp today?"
- 'today', he got caught trying to steal 2nd & also picked got off 1st ... same ol' Chumpy 'K'emp, appears.
What about the one that blows - 16, rf? He's on a roll now aft two games: ofer 4, 2 strikeouts & 3 runners left twisting in the wind on the bags (speaking of which, that Triple Corona his is in the bag too, appears.)
Posted by: 16blows | 02/27/2011 at 07:55 PM