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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

I think we had our chance to damage him yesterday, and were flat at the plate. It's a much more lazy team than the Phils. He's not going to dominate us. Hot Junk pitchers (that aren't walking people) give us fits. He's more of a fastball pitcher. He's gunna have to get that change-up to work consistently. I saw him throw a couple good ones. Bastardo, Blanton, and Moyer are all good (not great.) Dodgers are going to need a new strategy to win any playoff series against the Phils. They can't just sit there and take pitches against Hamels. It's asinine. How many times are they gunna try that foolishness? Torre is a good manager, but he doesn't use strategy well (offensively.) He's a defensive strategist(only.)

i agree that Bastardo could have got hammered yesterday, but he shows a lot of promise and I was pretty impressed... a few times when he threw his breaking ball it looked like good stuff... the breaking ball against Wolf was sick (granted he wasted it on the pitcher). Its nice to see a lefty that has the heat he can bring.

You could tell he is a big league rookie, but I think he has TONS of potential and a very high ceiling to improve on. & ya cant beat having 2 wins in 2 starts!

Was very surprised that Chan HO park didnt blow things up for us... was expecting the Dodgers to score 10 runs when he was pitching, but he was actually effective for once.... maybe all the boo's he was hearing motivated him


Hamels is back to his MVP form it seems.. knock on wood.