The Dodgers lost their last game of the regular season today, to finish with a 22-2 record, although they were 0-2 in crucial one-run games. After the first five games of the season between these two teams were Mondesi vs. Ian showdowns (again, Mondesi is on the Dodgers), the Dodgers sent Ripper to the mound vs. Ian. Matthew (ne Ripper) has been very good this year, and has improved his control a lot. We hoped to get him some good work against a good Angels team, and he did, but he struggled a little bit, with a couple of kids getting ringing hits off of him that we wouldn't have necessarily expected. Ripper would appear to have some mechanical kinks in his pitching that need to be worked out. Tiger came in to the game after Ripper pitched three innings and had his first shot against the Angels this year and also pitched well, allowing the last of the Angels' 4 runs and getting an assist from Brick, who turned a sweet line drive double play
On the hitting side, the Dodgers struggled a little bit, after scoring two quick runs in the first inning. We struck out 11 times in the game today (remember, there are only 18 outs in a Little League game), although we were facing a great pitcher.
Our next game is not until June 12th, in the Tournament of Champions (as I may have stated in an earlier post), and we will take the holiday weekend off from baseball. Boo!
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