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Originally Posted by goingtothewhip
Well I agree with you completely on his at bat Thursday against Wood. Goes to 2-0 with the bases loaded and the tieing run on 3rd and he swings at a fastball thats eye level that was without a doubt ball 3. 3-0 in that situation is the "catbird" seat as Jerry Bailey would say.
I think he's still green, but has really improved recently with the occasional regression that we saw on thursday....granted in the worst place imaginable. So in that regard I see your point about him showing signs of lacking mental faculties in the clutch.
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I would sure tell ya if I saw him improve at the things he is struggling with. What I have seen is da youngsta get even better at doing the things he was already pretty good at. The reason the Dodgers struggle is they don't have any reliable hitting against decent teams. They are pretty reliant on whatever generosity they can get from a pitcher. When the Dodgers are on the road, the home pitchers are naturally more comfortable against them. That's when pitchers can be very tough. They simply aren't going to hit that type of pitching. I am not a huge stat person, but I do know Kemp is hitting whatever bad pitching he gets. Lowe and Kuroda have shown signs of being on the crest of really good pitching. If they can quickly get Furcal back, they have a shot at putting something together. They don't have enough reliable hitting to compete for anything past the division. In the past 2 weeks they've lost about 7 games due to a lack of hitting. 4 games against the Cubs....2 against the Rocks...1 against the Mets...Those were all close low-scoring games. Broxton and Saito have been suspect too, but Saito wouldn't have lost those games if he had more than a tie or 1 run to work with. Can't say the same for that f'n Broxton. You could have a 6 run lead, and that loser would tighten up and keep throwing fat breaking pitches down the center. That's an unreliable cow.