The Force is with you, young Broxton, but you are not a closer yet.

Broxton blew. Blew big time. He had some help (Nomar), but dang he found a lot of rope on the mound to hang himself with in the form of not missing bats.

Frustrating loss.

This is going to happen when you put a young person out there. These are the growing pains you go through when you trust a young player in an important role. It happened out of necessity, but it happened. I've read arguments that Billingsley should have been left in to pitch the 9'th. Give me a break! Broxton is the closer until Saito comes back (which is today). So many people argue that the Dodgers don't give young players (or as I translate it the young players they like) vital roles on the Dodgers. Well, it just happened and the blue lost a game it should have won. If the manager doesn't put Broxton in he's charged with not trusting young players. Broxton gets robbed of his chance of closing via Saito's injury. He trusts Broxton and puts him in, and the manager is charged with trusting his good, young, player. Give me a break. Your man-crush failed plain and simple. Did not get the job done. It's just one game. It sucked. Hopefully the big guy learned something. I'm not worried yet that the rest of his career is ruined over this. This junk happens. Unfortunately it just happened to the blue last night. To me, Broxton is still the future closer unless he comes to some self-realization that the 9'th inning gives him the creeps or something and says he doesn't want to be.

Anyways, Saito is ready to go for tonight back as closer.

Rest of the draft is happening today.