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[UPDATED] [OT] The Dodgers make history
Posted by BostonPeng on 7 May 2009
Before I post the promised links, which will hopefully come this afternoon, I had to extend my congratulations to the Los Angeles Dodgers who have a broken modern day record with their 13th consecutive win at home with their 10-3 win over the Nationals from Washinton, D.C. (LA Times story)
As Ken Gurnick from MLB News points out the actual Major League record is quite a way’s off at 21 wins, but last night’s win tops the former modern day record for consecutive at home wins to start a season, a mark that was last set by the Detroit Tigers with 12 consecutive at home wins to start the 1911 season.
Granted, the now 7-18 Nats own the worst record in baseball, and the Dodgers have yet to face a team with a winning record, but hopefully we can keep winning through the games in Philadelphia and New York (Mets) next week, as well as to the at home Interleague games against the Angels right over Memorial Day weekend.
Congrats to winning pitcher Clayton Kershaw and to the rest of the team. Hopefully we’ll have a number of other milestones to celebrate as we wind our way to October and the postseason.
Updated 2:30 pm: Alas, the news from Chavez Ravine isn’t all good today. It turns out that Manny Ramirez has been suspended for 50 games due to a positive test for performance enhancing drugs. Manny says it was due to a medication a doctor gave him for a “personal health issue”, although I don’t quite believe him when he says he thought it was okay to take since it wasn’t a steroid. Sorry, Manny, at this level we not only play with sleeves and caps, you’re also responsible for knowing if a medication prescribed by a doctor is okay to take.
Somehow this doesn’t surprise me, though, especially since Manny has already shown me that we can’t take his statements at face value. After all, last year he was all about loving playing in LA this season but when it came time to sign on the dotted line he had his agent make things hard on the Parking Lot Attendant and the Dodgers. He’ll be eligible to play again on 3 July. Hopefully the Dodgers will show that we have a pretty damned good team without him for the next 50 games.
