Dodgers 8, Palms 5

Los Angeles is the top team in the NL West, and they showed why on Friday night. Chad Billingsly managed to shut the Palms down during his 6 innings of work. Meanwhile, on offense the Dodgers managed to run Felix Gonsales out of the game early. They clubbed three homers, one three run blast from James Loney and two against the bullpen. The Palms managed to make the scoreline look a little better when Nick Markakis blasted a three run shot in the 9th inning to force the Dodgers to bring out their closer.
 Los Angeles Dodgers 8, Miami Palms 5
 Friday, June 22, 2012


 Miami Palms (37-32)                                      Los Angeles Dodgers (1-0)                              
 Player          AB R  H BI BB SO  P  A  E LOB   Ave      Player          AB R  H BI BB SO  P  A  E LOB   Ave     
 ------          -- -  - -- -- --  -  -  - ---   ---      ------          -- -  - -- -- --  -  -  - ---   ---     
 Crisp cf        4  0  1  0  1  0  4  0  0  0   .316      Gordon ss       5  1  2  2  0  1  0  4  0  2   .400
 Prado 3b        5  0  2  0  0  0  0  1  0  2   .325      Hairston Jr. 2b 5  1  2  0  0  1  0  2  0  3   .400
 Gonzalez 2b     4  0  4  0  1  0  0  1  0  0   .343      Ethier rf       5  2  4  2  0  0  2  0  0  0   .800
 Santos c        5  1  2  0  0  0  7  0  0  3   .318      Rivera lf       4  1  1  0  1  0  4  0  0  2   .250
 Holliday lf     4  0  0  0  1  2  5  0  0  0   .310      Loney 1b        5  3  3  3  0  0  12 1  0  0   .600
 Dupont 1b       5  1  1  0  0  0  6  0  0  3   .301      Jones 3b        4  0  1  0  1  1  1  3  0  2   .250
 Markakis rf     5  2  2  3  0  0  2  0  0  2   .289      Ellis c         4  0  0  0  0  2  3  0  0  0   .000
 Nunez ss        5  0  2  1  0  1  0  2  0  1   .269      Gwynn cf        3  0  1  1  1  1  4  0  0  0   .333
 Gonsales p      1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0   .000      Billingsly p    4  0  1  0  0  0  1  2  0  1   .250
  Drysdale ph    1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1   .400
  Abreu ph       1  1  1  1  0  0  0  0  0  0   .284
  Molina ph      1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0   .330
  Sohn ph        1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1   .285

                 -- -  - -- -- -- -- -- -- ---                            -- -  - -- -- -- -- -- -- ---           
 Totals          42 5  15 5  3  3  24 5  0  13            Totals          39 8  15 8  3  6  27 12 0  10


                             1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9      R  H  E
                             -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -      -  -  -
 Miami Palms                 0  0  0  1  0  1  0  0  3      5  15 0 
 Los Angeles Dodgers         0  1  3  1  0  0  1  2         8  15 0 



 LOB- Miami Palms 13, Los Angeles Dodgers 10; 2B- Gonzalez 2(19), Markakis(15), Nunez(13),
 Ethier 2(2), Loney(1), Jones(1); HR- Markakis(8), Abreu(6), Gordon(1), Ethier(1),
 Loney(1); RBI- Markakis 3(30), Nunez(29), Abreu(15), Gordon 2(2), Ethier 2(2),
 Loney 3(3), Gwynn(1); RLSP- Dupont 2, Prado, Santos 3, Markakis 2, Drysdale, Nunez,
 Gordon 2, Hairston Jr. 2, Rivera 2, Billingsly, Jones; 

 
 


 Miami Palms                    IP   H  R  ER BB SO    ERA
 Gonsales(L 4-5)                3.0  7  4  4  2  2    4.84 
 Sarfate                        2.0  2  1  1  1  1    4.31 
 Fernandez                      2.0  4  1  1  0  3    6.52 
 Schoppe                        1.0  2  2  2  0  0    4.73 

 Los Angeles Dodgers            IP   H  R  ER BB SO    ERA
 Billingsly(W 1-0)              6.0  9  2  2  2  1    3.00 
 Wright                         2.0  3  0  0  0  1    0.00 
 Coffey                         0.2  2  3  3  1  1   40.50
 Jansen(S,1)                    0.1  1  0  0  0  0    0.00 

 Pitches-strikes- Gonsales 66-35, Sarfate 19-11, Fernandez 36-24, Schoppe 12-9,
 Billingsly 107-60, Wright 31-24, Coffey 15-8, Jansen 9-6; Batters faced- Gonsales 18,
 Sarfate 9, Fernandez 10, Schoppe 5, Billingsly 29, Wright 9, Coffey 5, Jansen 2;

Player of the Game: James Loney

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