Dodgers at Diamondbacks, 5:10 PM PST, TV: SPNLA and MLBTV (free game today). The D-Backs send out Wade Miley, who’s 2-1 with a 4.05 ERA, and the Dodgers counter with Zack Greinke, who’s 2-0 with a 3.27 ERA.
Miley faced the Dodgers in the opening game in Sydney when he gave up three runs in five innings. With him pitching, Mattingly sits Ethier and Crawford and generally loads up the lineup with right-handers.
Lineup:
#Dodgers lineup at Arizona:
Puig RF
Kemp CF
Ramirez SS
Gonzalez 1B
Van Slyke LF
Uribe 3B
Turner 2B
Butera C
Greinke P
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 12, 2014
Withrow striking out 1.5 per inning.
Even at his worst, he gets hitters out. League, at his best, can’t do that.
dodgers.com story says Kershaw tossing daily, looking good but only allowed to throw just so hard so as not to risk re-aggravating injury.
Also says ” he will require a rehab assignment once he is game-ready.”
Can’t you hear the minor leaguers who get to face him in rehab? “Gulp….”
You’d think they’d have had time to correct the box score error by now–
Butera… C 4 2 2 0 1 2 2 .286
Really, now. Who actually played catcher and turned in that line and has a .286 BA?
Nice win I see (and League being his usual self)
Harder than it had to be, but we won.
Oh come on, League.
League is who he is…
Losing value by the day.
Not much left to lose…
Who sneaked SVS into the lineup while Don wasn’t looking?
Remember Game One in Oz? SVS had an HR and a wind-held-in double off Miley.
I do, but Don seems to have suffered from amnesia since then.
Grins. We haven’t faced Miley again till today.
Don will now pull him for missing the bunt sign.
Roenickstein!
Earl Weaver and I approve this lineup.
I wish I could remember what the combined name for Lowenstein and Roenicke was when they platooned in LF for the Os.
I sure hope Matt Kemp can get back to being Matt Kemp….
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Watching him out in CF, it’s just not the same player… and, it’s easy to see.
He used to make it look easy… like CF was as big as the pitchers’ mound…
He doesn’t cover as much ground, doesn’t seem to get quite the jump on the ball he used to, and just doesn’t make make the same plays.
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I hope it’s just a little rust that he’ll shake off as the season goes along….