Dodgers avenge loss with 12-2 Pounding of Yankees
You knew it wasn't just baseball, just another game. It wasn't a loss like losses in the past. The Dodgers were the first and only (at press time) team to lose to a National team this season. That alone had to be eating at the Dodgers skipper Tye Andross and perhaps it still is eating at him. Whatever the case, today Andross made sure to remind everyone in the league where their places are at the table. The Dodgers belted out 12 hits and scored 4 runs in the first, second and fourth innings to close out another win while educating the scrappy Yankees on the way things are in this town.
Things got started early. Eric Turner took the mound for the Dodgers and proceeded to walk the leadoff hitter. With the adrenaline obviously pumping from their last encounter, the Yankees made the first move, an attempt to steal second base. But as most fans, coaches and players alike throughout the league know, you don't do that on Reggie Lawson. Lawson recovered the ball and through a bee-bee to Saxon Andross at second base. Andross then waited and waited and finally as the runner arrived, tagged him out. Turner proceeded to strike out the next two batters, and the Dodgers were off and running.
The bottom of the first saw Jeremiah Lorick walk, Lawson single to center, Turner walk and Corey Elder bang a double over the glove of the Yankee right fielder plating the third run of the inning. Elder later would score on a Colton Chavez ground out giving the Dodgers as many runs in the first as they had managed in the entire game the last time these two met.
The second inning? More of the same except for a second when it looked as if the Dodgers may be suffering from exposure to the sun. With a runner at third and Lawson returning pitches to the mound from his knees, The Yankees got a little gutsy, as Lawson lobbed one back to ET, the runner broke for home. By the time Turner saw what was happening, the run had scored. Could this be happening again?
No. Not in the least. Christian Moore started off the second with the first of his two singles, Lorick singled and after an Andross ground out, Reggie Lawson singled again, driving in two. Eric Turner then stepped to the plate and did exactly what this reporter predicted to his imaginary friend, ET took one deep to Right Center, his third, taking the sole position atop the league in Ribbons version of Homerun Derby. A lead that would last 8 Dodger batters, or roughly 2 full innings.
In the fourth, Reggie Lawson had his turn and, as always failed to disappoint. Lawson almost as if engaged with Turner in a game of "Horse" drove a pitch deep to Right Center, landing less than fifteen feet from where a ball off ET's bat had impacted the earth earlier. Turner had the opportunity to one up his teammate but settled for the walk. Elder followed with his third hit of the game, followed by a walk to Zach Barnes giving the Dodgers bases loaded and nobody out with Colton Chavez headed to the plate.
Chavez hit a tough ground ball into the hole and hustling down the line worked himself an infield single and his second RBI of the game. Two batters later, Christian Moore ended the contest with his second single of the game scoring two and securing the win for the Dodgers.
Turner struck out 8 Yankees, Lawson and Elder both went 3 for 3, but it was a total team effort for the Dodgers today with only the second slot in the lineup not reaching base at some point in the game. A convincing win, keeping the Dodgers title hopes alive as they enter into the last three games of their season.
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