Dodger pitcher Chad Billingsley

It wasn’t Chad Billingsley’s fault that the Dodgers didn’t win again. He pitched six decent innings. He gave up three runs, but he kept the Dodgers in the game. He couldn’t help it if the batters weren’t able to bring anybody home.

“We don’t have any problem getting the hits,” said Dodger Manager Don Mattingly after losing to the Padres, 6-3, on Jackie Robinson Night. “We’re just having trouble cashing them in.”

Ya think? The Dodgers have 114 hits so far this season, tied for eighth among Major League teams. They have scored 37 runs. That’s 27th place in the league. They have left 109 men on base in 13 games. That’s more than eight stranded runners per game.

The Dodgers left nine on in the first game with San Diego since the melee that cost us Zack Greinke. Once again, Ronald Belisario got the loss, not that he cares. His laissez-faire demeanor just irks me.

It hurts more to lose after coming from behind to tie it up than it does to just be bad from the start. When you tie it up, it feels like the mo-mo has changed and you’re going to go on to win. But then Skip Schumaker hits into a double-play with two men in scoring position, and the momentum dies before your very eyes. Depressing.

This is how I remember Harrison Ford when I met him in 1977.

Another thing that was depressing: In 1977, I met Harrison Ford at a cast and crew screening of “Star Wars.” He was young and handsome and not yet famous. When I saw him toss the first pitch to Mattingly, he looked so damn old! How could so much time have passed? I still feel like a teenager!

The Arizona Diamondbacks rush Paul Goldschmidt after his game-winning single.

In the ninth inning, Dodger pitcher Josh Beckett persuades Manager Don Mattingly to leave him in.

Guggenheim’s gonna want its money back if the Dodgers keep playing like that.

Josh Beckett pitched really well until he didn’t. And Arizona took advantage in the bottom of the ninth with a double, a base-on-balls and Paul Goldschmidt’s walk-off single to right.

I don’t know what else to say.

Dodger pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu gets one of three hits against D-backs pitcher Ian Kennedy on Saturday.

I’ll bet Matt Kemp is looking at Hyun-Jin Ryu right about now and thinking, “I’ll have what he’s having.”

In a 14-hit game, you expect one or two of the players to have multiple hits, right? But a rookie pitcher from Korea who has only been batting for two weeks? Give me a break. Ryu not only pitched well, got the win and struck out nine, he also got three hits — including a double — off Arizona pitcher Ian Kennedy.

Matt Kemp led the league this time last year in all major batting categories.

A year ago, Kemp was leading the league in all major batting categories. Granted the season is only two weeks old, and he had surgery on his shoulder in the off-season, but he is really getting a slow start and striking out a lot. His batting average is .190, he hasn’t yet gone yard, and he has only 4 RBI. I’m sure he’ll come around, but in the meantime, it makes it just that much harder for the Dodgers to win games. He has stranded more men than Fletcher Christian.

As for Ryu, I heard Charlie Steiner razzing Chad Billingsley about Clayton Kershaw — who hit a home run on opening day — now being a better hitting pitcher than Bills is. Well, step aside, boys. That title on the Dodgers now belongs to Ryu.