Dodgers Beat Angels without a hit

[armyraider]

After watching his team beat the Angels 1-0 without getting a hit Saturday night, manager Joe Torre couldn’t recall a stranger game in his managerial career.

“That’s about as bizarre as you can get,” Torre said.

Jered Weaver threw six no-hit innings and Jose Arredondo held the Dodgers hitless in the seventh and eighth. It still wasn’t enough.

“Any loss, no matter what, is tough,” Weaver said. “I’m sure you guys are going to eat this up a lot more than I am. I don’t call it a no-hitter for me. I only went six innings.”

The Dodgers became the fifth team in modern major league history to win without getting a hit. Because they didn’t have to bat in the ninth, the game doesn’t qualify as a no-hitter.

“That’s certainly a weird linescore,” Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. “But it’s a 1-0 loss, that’s the way we look at it.”

The closest the Dodgers came to a hit was Matt Kemp’s slow roller on the first-base side of the mound in the fifth inning. Weaver’s fielding error on the play led to the game’s only run, which was unearned.

It was only the fifth game in the majors since 1900 when the winning team didn’t get a hit, and first since Boston’s Matt Young in 1992, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Angels outfielder Torii Hunter shook his head and said he had seen anything like it. “Never, not even in Little League,” he said.

With the Angels trailing in the interleague game at Dodger Stadium, Weaver was pulled for a pinch-hitter in the seventh after throwing 97 pitches.

The Dodgers’ Chad Billingsley (7-7) scattered three hits over seven innings, then Jonathan Broxton and Takashi Saito shut out the Angels for the next two innings. Blanked for the second game in a row, the Angels finished with five hits, but never got a runner as far as third.

In the fifth, Weaver (7-8) charged to his right to field Kemp’s spinning squibber, but bobbled it. The ruling on whether it was a hit or an error seemed to be a close one, since Weaver would have had to field the ball cleanly—and first baseman Casey Kotchman was off the bag. Official scorer Don Hartack ruled it an error.

“I believe if he just picked it up with his bare hand and flipped it, he gets him by a good step and a half,” Hartack said. “So my thinking was, it really wasn’t a bang-bang play. I looked at the replay once and it looked like Kemp was a good seven steps away, so my thinking was Weaver had plenty of time to make the out.”

Kemp completely agreed with the scoring.

“I hit it off the end of the bat and it had a little funky English on it,” he said. “He could have made the play, but he just dropped the ball. It was an error. I mean, if they’d have given me a hit, I’d have been happy. But it was an error by far.”

Kemp stole second and continued to third on catcher Jeff Mathis’ throwing error, then scored on Blake DeWitt’s sacrifice fly.

“To come out of a game like that with no hits, it was pretty bizarre,” DeWitt said. “But it’s a great win. No win’s embarrassing.”

Weaver struck out six, walked three and hit a batter. Chone Figgins pinch-hit for him in the seventh with two outs and a runner on second, but grounded out.

Baseball’s other no-hit losers were Andy Hawkins of the Yankees in 1990, Steve Barber and Stu Miller of Baltimore in 1967, and Ken Johnson of Houston in 1964.

The Angels had runners at first and second against Saito with two outs in the ninth, but he struck out pinch-hitter Reggie Willits to earn his 12th save.

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Crazy...awesome but crazy

[max powers]

hahahahahahaha bitchass angels!!

[82rediar]

Originally Posted by max powers

hahahahahahaha bitchass angels!!

Yep that's why we have the best record and we are starting to take over LA

[BeforeDishonor]

Originally Posted by 82rediar

Yep that's why we have the best record and we are starting to take over LA

You have the best record but you're not taking over LA. We don't stand for that OC bull**** up here.

[82rediar]

Originally Posted by BeforeDishonor

You have the best record but you're not taking over LA. We don't stand for that OC bull**** up here.

A lot of Dodger blue fans love to wear red now.

[armyraider]

Dodger blue for life girl...comon now! Nobody likes the California angles, err i mean Anneheim angels, or is it the santa monica angels...ehh nobody cares, good record or not ;)

[Sofa King OG]

its all about the Dodgers...I gotta admit I had to root for the Angels to beat the Giants in the WS a few years back...but honestly theyre the Dolts of the MLB...some bandwagon ass fans.

and "Los Angeles...of Anaheim" come on now...what a joke. They shouldve been dropped that name.

[raiders79]

Who's this guy, Mr. Balloon Hands?

[BillyJoeHobert]

Originally Posted by 82rediar

A lot of Dodger blue fans love to wear red now.

No one from Los Angeles likes or respects the Angels. I bet there were some Dodger fans from OC who jumped ship but we don't need them anyway.

I was at this game. Funny seeing a thread about it here.