PENNY FOCUSED IN STRONG OUTING DODGERS 6, COLORADO 2.Byline: Tony Jackson
Anthony (Antonio) Jackson, best known as Tony Jackson Staff Writer Brad Penny Bradley Wayne Penny[1] (born May 24, 1978 in Blackwell, Oklahoma)[2] is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers.[3] Early career finally got the one thing he had been looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. : a chance to take the mound free of fanfare and free of doubts. The Dodgers finally got the one thing they had been looking for: vintage Penny. The result for Penny was six shutout innings in which only one Colorado runner got as far as second base. The result for the Dodgers was a crisp, 6-2 victory Saturday night over the Rockies in front of a sellout crowd of 54,123 at Dodger Stadium • • [ . Six days after making his long-awaited season debut in the bitter chill of Denver, where the focus was more on how his freshly rehabilitated right arm would hold up to the rigors of a competitive game than on how he actually pitched, Penny simply blended in with the rest of the Dodgers rotation this time. The only concession to the nerve injury There is no single classification system that can describe all the many variations of nerve injury. Most systems attempt to correlate the degree of injury with symptoms, pathology and prognosis. that essentially had sidelined him since last August was the fact he was lifted after six innings, a point at which he already had thrown 95 pitches. Although he went to far too many three-ball counts, Penny was otherwise brilliant. He began the game by striking out Rockies leadoff man Aaron Miles
From 2003-04, Barmes posted a . on five. He ended the first inning by getting Todd Helton Todd Lynn Helton[1] (born August 20, 1973 in Knoxville, Tennessee)[2] is a Major League Baseball first baseman who has played for the Colorado Rockies since the 1997 season. to ground to second, the first of 11 groundball outs Penny recorded, along with two more strikeouts. Afterward, Penny relished his newfound sense of normalcy nor·mal·cy n. Normality. Noun 1. normalcy - being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning normality . ``Definitely,'' he said. ``You hate to go out there and not feel good. You aren't going to have your best stuff all the time, but at least I felt good.'' The Rockies threatened only once. With two outs in the fifth, Garrett Atkins Garrett Bernard Atkins (born December 12, 1979 in Orange, California) has been the third baseman for the Major League Baseball team the Colorado Rockies since 2003. He bats and throws right-handed. (UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX ) hit a line-drive single to right field. Penny followed with his only walk of the evening, to J.D. Closser, moving Atkins into scoring position. But after falling behind 2-1 to opposing pitcher Joe Kennedy, Penny came back to get a called third strike to escape the mini-jam. Moments later, in the bottom of that same inning, the Dodgers got the opening they were waiting for to break open a scoreless game. Olmedo Saenz led off with a grounder to third that Atkins booted, kicked and then couldn't find beneath his feet. The error began a five-run inning off Kennedy that included a two-run single by Cesar Izturis and a three-run homer by rookie left fielder Jason Repko. The division-leading Dodgers (15-8) increased their lead over second-place Arizona in the National League West to 1 1/2 games after the Diamondbacks lost 2-0 at San Diego. Last Sunday, Penny labored his way through five innings amid a 46 degree game-time temperature and intermittent drizzle throughout. He had been just good enough to keep the Dodgers in a game they finally won with an eighth-inning rally. Penny was left with no-decision in that game, but he was just relieved to finally get that first start out of the way. This time, Penny did get the win, along with a reminder of how much fun it is to pitch without wondering whether his right arm would blow up at any moment. ``This was just Brad Penny the pitcher,'' Dodgers manager Jim Tracy said. ``He wasn't worried about how this feels or that feels. It was just 'I've got a game to pitch, so I'm going to come in here in the afternoon and prepare to pitch this game.' He just went out and worked within the framework of (the game plan) we had put together for him.'' Kennedy (1-3) came in with a 3-0 career record and a 1.57 ERA against the Dodgers and, for four innings, continued that dominance. To that point, the Dodgers had just two baserunners, both of whom Kennedy had walked. But after Atkins' error allowed Saenz to reach, Jason Phillips finally broke up Kennedy's no-hit bid with a double that fell no more than an inch fair down the left-field line and rolled into the corner. One out later, Kennedy hit Penny on his back (right) heel, loading the bases. It was the eighth time a Rockies pitcher hit a Dodgers batter in the clubs' past four meetings. Izturis followed with a bloop bloop Baseball n. A blooper. tr.v. blooped, bloop·ing, bloops To hit (a ball) into the air just beyond the infield. adj. Hit just beyond the infield. single that fell just out of reach of Matt Holliday in left, scoring two runs. Repko followed with his fourth home run of the season, making it 5-0. The win was Penny's first since last Aug. 3, when he threw eight shutout innings against Pittsburgh in his Dodgers debut. Tony Jackson, (818) 713-3675 tony.jackson(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo, 5 boxes Photo: Dodgers Jason Repko, right, gets a high-five from teammate Cesar Izturis, center, after his home run in the fifth inning. John Lazar/Staff Photographer Box: (1) DODGERS vs. COLORADO - Tony Jackson (2) GAME RECAP (3) HOW THE RUNS SCORED (4) ALMANAC almanac, originally, a calendar with notations of astronomical and other data. Almanacs have been known in simple form almost since the invention of writing, for they served to record religious feasts, seasonal changes, and the like. (5) SEVEN UP |
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