Sometimes, heck, even a fair amount of the time it is not how good or bad you play, it’s how good your opposition is playing. That’s when you know you just have to tip the cap and go get’em tomorrow. Of course, tonight was free replica jersey giveaway, so I don’t think doing a raising the shirt is in any way similar. Interesting, but not the same.
Tonight the local nine, wearing the sweet Colt 45 gear ran into one of the better teams in the league. The final score of 3-1 may seem like it was a close game and in many ways it was, but truth be told it really wasn’t. Not with the pitching the Dojers feature. I know that the just completed series with the Nats featured a good opponent, but there is just something different about this LA team. We will see where the Nats and Dojers will be come September, but if I were a betting man, I’d go with the Trolley Men right now. Call it a hunch.
Here is the bottomline: LA just has damn good pitching. ‘Nuff said, game over once you fall behind the team that features Matt Kemp, who is now making himself known around the league as perhaps the best player in the NL. Of course Joey Votto may have something to say about that, but yeah, Kemp is good. So good he wasted no time depositing a fastball by JA Happ in the Hunter’s Lodge area (or thereabouts) in the very first inning. Two runs up early, pitching and defense, and an add-on run a couple innings later. It was not going to be easy for the local kids and well, turned out to be just that way. Compete they did, but the cap tipping was warming up as early as the sixth inning on this one once the bullpen started to stretch their legs out in LF.
Let’s see what happens tomorrow against the ACE of the Trolley Dojer staff. Wow!
LA Dojers 3 | Pony Boy Colts 1
W: Lilly | L: Happ (who pitched well enough in other days to get a win, but not today)