DODGERS OWE BEIMEL A BEER.Byline: KEVIN MODESTI While their opponents sprayed champagne Saturday night, the rest of the Dodgers should have bought Joe Beimel Joseph Ronald Beimel (born April 19, 1977) is a relief pitcher for the Major League Baseball Los Angeles Dodgers. High school/college years Beimel attended St. Marys Area High School and was a letterman in football, wrestling, basketball, and baseball. a beer. Serving it ever so gently, in a shatter-proof cup. With a thank-you note tied on with a blue ribbon blue ribbon denotes highest honor. [Western Folklore: Brewer Dictionary, 127] See : Prize . Because the story about Beimel slicing open his pitching hand on a breaking glass in a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of bar at 2:30 a.m. is colorful, salacious sa·la·cious adj. 1. Appealing to or stimulating sexual desire; lascivious. 2. Lustful; bawdy. [From Latin sal and rich in moral implication, it's bound to become the story of the Dodgers' sweep at the hands of the Mets, the wayward relief pitcher relief pitcher n. Baseball A pitcher who replaces another during a game. Noun 1. relief pitcher - a pitcher who does not start the game fireman, reliever the goat of a series that kept slipping through the bullpen's fingers. But Beimel's angry teammates ought to be grateful he has given them a scapegoat for three losses for which the blame should be spread all over the clubhouse. I guess the nice way to put it is that the Dodgers won as a team this summer and they lost as a team this week. Choose your visual: Jeff Kent Jeffrey Franklin Kent (born March 7, 1968 in Bellflower, California) is a Major League Baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and a former MVP winner. Early career and J.D. Drew in the dirt after getting tagged out at home on the same play in what might have been the first pivotal second inning of Game 1 in October baseball history. Rafael Furcal's and Kenny Lofton's nightly flailing as the top of the lineup completely laid down. Marlon Anderson's inadvertent headstand after he and Shawn Green's double thumped off the left-field wall in the third inning Saturday. Somewhere (no idea where), Beimel probably had to stifle a smile when Brett Tomko Brett Daniel Tomko[1] (born April 7, 1973 in Euclid, Ohio)[2] is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres, who previously played for the Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners, St. , the pitcher who most publicly ripped the bloody left-hander, let this back-and-forth game get away, giving up the Mets' last two runs of the night in the eighth inning. Whose fault was that? Beimel's nocturnal injury two nights before Wednesday's playoff opener weakened the bullpen, and his lie to the club about the circumstances was a huge mistake in judgment. His unavailability may have something to do with the pitching moves that will leave Grady Little William Grady Little (born March 30, 1950 in Abilene, Texas) is a manager in Major League Baseball. He guided the Boston Red Sox from 2002 to 2003, and has been manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers since 2006. second-guessed through another winter, and the incident and ensuing gossip put the first crack in the team's feel-good autumn. But his staying out late is not the reason the Dodgers are going home early. The truth is that baseball's streakiest team picked a terrible time to go cold again. Jeff Kent distinguished himself. James Loney did all he could filling in for a limping Nomar Garciaparra Anthony Nomar Garciaparra[1] (born July 23, 1973, in Whittier, California) is a Mexican-American baseball player who currently plays third base for the Los Angeles Dodgers. . A few others had the good sense to stay out of the way when the wheels flew off this juggernaut. Pretty much everybody else should look in the mirror before considering another round of Beimel-thumping. ``We have got to play a little bit better baseball than we have played these first two games,'' manager Grady Little had said going into Game 3. ``Because you can't make the little blunders that we made in the first twogames and expect to get away with them against a good ballclub like we're facing.'' And then the Dodgers went out and turned in another performance in which everything that could go wrong did go wrong. Starting pitcher Noun 1. starting pitcher - (baseball) a pitcher who starts in a baseball game baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; Greg Maddux Gregory Alan Maddux (born April 14, 1966) is a pitcher for the San Diego Padres. He was the first pitcher in Major League history to win the Cy Young Award for four consecutive years (1992-1995), during which he had a 75-29 record with a 1. , the Hall of Famer, got no farther used elliptically for) go no farther; say no more, etc. See also: Farther than Derek Lowe, the postseason stud, or Hong-Chih Kuo, with his Mets-killing left-handedness. Maddux's defense let him down, Anderson seeming to pull up short on David Wright's RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in blooper in the first inning, Loney booting a grounder in the second and Anderson's adventures continuing in the third. The Mets are good. They're not 3-0 good. They're not 6.58-ERA-for-the- Dodgers-starters good. They're not .135-average-for-Furcal-Lofton-and-Drew good. Winning a baseball championship happens in two distinctly different stages. You succeed in the long haul of the 162-game regular season, then you rise to the moment in the lightning round of the playoffs. The Dodgers were heroes of the regular season. The more things went wrong, the more they went right. If JoeBeimel's accident, Kent's and Drew's baserunning blunder or Lofton's 0-for-11 start happened during the summer, Little would have made a joke and the team would have dusted itself off and gone on. But when those little disasters happened in the fall, there was no time for resilience. They tried to turn the page. The next page said, ``The End.'' Little tuned in the perfect mood music during the regular season. He still can't find the right buttons to push in the playoffs. The Dodgers came up with so many surprises during the regular season, the kids and the role players, that you came to expect them. Those guys were exposed in the playoffs. The Dodgers came out of the regular season confident they're on course for a great future. They come out of the playoffs knowing general manager Ned Colletti still has a lot of work to do. Their fortunes went south suddenly and shockingly and too comprehensively to be blamed on one hard-luck guy at a bar. ``We just got outplayed -- pitching, hitting, defense,'' Kent said. ``But there's no sense in being specific. It doesn't really matter. We got beat by a team that was playing better baseball than us.'' They ended the regular season 7-0. They end the playoffs 0-3. New York, New York, New York. Start spreading the blame. heymodesti(AT_SIGN)aol.com (818) 713-3616 |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion