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Giants lose 4th game in row with 6-5 loss to Dodgers
By Gary Araki August 12, 2006 |
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The San Francisco Giants woes continued as they lost their fourth game in a row to the first place Los Angeles Dodgers by the score of 6-5 this afternoon at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles. With this loss, the Giants now find themselves 6.5 games behind the Dodgers, and in last place in the National League West. One bright spot in this game was the fact after the Dodgers had taken a 3-0 lead by the bottom of the 2nd, the Giants were still able to make a comeback in the fourth inning and tied the game, and took the lead for the only time in the game with one run in top fifth, but that would the only time the Dodgers gave up the lead. The Dodgers scored two runs in the bottom of the first, when Julio Lugo doubled to left off of Giants’ starter Matt Cain, which scored Kenny Lofton. JD Drew than singled to center, scoring Lugo, which then gave the Dodgers a 2-0 lead. LA struck again in the bottom of the second, when James Loney tripled to right, and then starting pitcher Brad Penny helped his own cause by singled to second, which scored Loney, to give the Dodgers a 3-0 lead. Finally in the top of the fourth, the Giants started to get to Brad Penny, and Steve Finley started the inning with a double. Ray Durham had a single, which then scored Finley from third. Barry Bonds then followed with a drive to center, but Durham was stuck at 3rd and Bonds at 2nd. Moises Alou followed up with a drive to left field, which then scored Durham and Bonds, which then tied the game at 3-3. But the Dodgers made their move in the bottom of the fourth when Loney doubled to right, and then Brad Penny moved him to third on a sacrifice to Matt Cain. Rafael Furcal followed with a single to center which scored Loney to give the Dodgers a 4-3 lead. The top of the fifth, Steve Finley was on base due a fielding error by Lugo, and then Finley stole second, and Omar Vizquel singled to left scoring Finley, which tied the game again 4-4. With Vizquel on third, Ray Durham flied out ending the inning. The bottom of the fifth was to be the end of Matt Cain when he gave up a two-run homer to LA’s Wilson Betemit, to make the score 6-4 Los Angeles. Cain ended his day going 4 innings, giving up 10 hits, and gave up six earned runs for his afternoon of work. Omar Vizquel helped to cut the Dodgers lead to one run in the top of the seventh when doubled to right, scoring Todd Linden from second to make the score 6-5 Dodgers, and that would be all the scoring in the game. Matt Cain was assessed with the loss, dropping his record to 8-9 for the season. This was Cain’s second career start against the Dodgers, and that was on July 6th, and he also only went four innings, and he gave up 3 runs in a non-decision. Brad Penny improved his record to 13-5, with his six innings of work, in which he gave up 7 hits, and 4 runs. He struck out seven Giants in the game. Giants/Dodgers Notes: Back on July 26, the Dodgers were in last place in the National League West, 7.5 games behind first place. In 17 days, LA has gone from last place to first place winning 14 of their last 15 games. Meanwhile, the Giants on July 26th were third place 3 games out first and have now have only won 3 of 16 games, and find themselves in fifth place, six games out of first place. San Francisco has now lost 11 of their last 12 road games, and they have now lost 14 of the last 18 games, and are on their way to losing their 6th consecutive series with the loss today, with the Dodgers taking two of the first three games. This was Brad Penny’s second career victory over the Giants, and his record is now 2-1 against San Francisco. Penny won his first game against the Giants on May 12 of this year. Sunday’s finale of this series will have Jason Schmidt (9-7, 3.15era) going for the Giants while the Dodgers will have Greg Maddux (10-11, 4.43) on the mound , making his third start for LA, since coming from Chicago Cubs on July 31st. Maddux has a 24-14 career record against the Giants, with a 2.99era in 43 career starts. Schmidt has an 11-9 career record with 3.79 era in 31 starts. |
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