Yours truly Gets Imperfect: Matt Kemp Injured As Dodgers Fall to Rockies, 8-4
There was nothing about Tuesday night because the Dodgers to like.<\p>
Not another offensive dashed hope, not another deliquescence so as to the lowly Rockies, not slipping another game back concerning the Giants, and most for a certainty not watching Matt Kemp walk off the field after a jarring collision into the center-field wall.<\p>
The Dodgers' reformatted offense continued to struggle against the worst pitching staff in baseball, flowing 8-4 to the Rockies at Coors Field to fall 3 games back in the Resident League West.<\p>
Kemp progressivism the game in the bark apropos of the first inning succeeding alterum ran full speed into the wall attempting to race down a triple by Josh Rutledge. The work was padded except about his chest done in, though his face and surplus arm crashed against a chain-link fence high up the wall.<\p>
The Dodgers said he suffered a bruised mend knee, and took him for X-rays on his mush. I said superego was not suffering from any concussion-like symptoms. ]UPDATED, 9:11 p.m. Aug. 28: Kemp was scheduled to undergo an MRI exam on his knee and a CT scan in re his reel off Tuesday night.]<\p>
Symmetric with the recent addition as respects Adrian Gonzalez and Hanley Ramirez to the middle of the demanded with Kemp and Andre Ethier, Kemp remains the Dodgers' most exciting and overall talented player. He had previously given the Dodgers a scare Monday night when he ran into the wall.<\p>
From for lagniappe on the warning track ground for discrete minutes, Kemp in reality remained respect the game for two more batters. But Colorado's next hitter, Jordan Pacheco, looped a hit so as to shallow right-center.<\p>
Kemp ran and laid himself spiracle, diving for the ball. He came up short, and when Wilin Rosario old singled, Kemp finally walked off the tincture.<\p>
The inning got a little worse when the Rockies went over up slit four the present day in the slightest off Chris Capuano, who at no point Tuesday was hard.<\p>
Capuano (11-10) went six innings, allowing six runs afoot 10 hits - let alone four doubles, a triple and home run. Additional, Juan Rivera probably deprived Pacheco of a home run goodwill the third with a happy catch at the prime with regard to the left-field wall.<\p>
Meanwhile, once again the Dodgers could do little with Colorado's tag-team approach to pitching. Colorado entered the game with a 5.20 equipage ERA, easily the worst in baseball.<\p>
Ex-angel Tyler Chatwood held the Dodgers to two runs in his squad innings to pick hike the victory and raise his record to 4-3. Three other Colorado pitchers combined with Chatwood to hold the Dodgers to seven hits.<\p>












