http://www.trolleydodger.com/2009/08/20/in-a-pinch-running/ Tangled up in Blue since the late 19th Century. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.trolleydodger.com/2009/08/20/in-a-pinch-running/comment-page-1/#comment-2388 Trolley Dodger Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:04:53 +0000 http://www.trolleydodger.com/?p=944#comment-2388 <p>That's a baseball season in a nutshell, right there -- every year there are nutty items no one ever could have predicted, and what's true in April is false in September. And vice versa. :)</p> That’s a baseball season in a nutshell, right there — every year there are nutty items no one ever could have predicted, and what’s true in April is false in September. And vice versa. :)

]]> http://www.trolleydodger.com/2009/08/20/in-a-pinch-running/comment-page-1/#comment-2387 kenS Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:47:40 +0000 http://www.trolleydodger.com/?p=944#comment-2387 <p>Yeah, seems like that old theory about "facing someone the second time" is at work here. Hard to believe this offense which was averaging over 5 runs a clip a couple of months ago, is now being shut down more often than not. Just curious, if someone in May had told you the Dodgers fortunes might lie in the hands of Charlie Haeger and Vicente Padilla, how crazy would that have sounded?</p> Yeah, seems like that old theory about “facing someone the second time” is at work here. Hard to believe this offense which was averaging over 5 runs a clip a couple of months ago, is now being shut down more often than not. Just curious, if someone in May had told you the Dodgers fortunes might lie in the hands of Charlie Haeger and Vicente Padilla, how crazy would that have sounded?

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