Rain and snow cause trouble for the Dodgers’ schedule.
Tuesday’s game has been rescheduled as part of a day-night doubleheader Thursday, with the second game starting at 6:10 p.m. CT, ahead of an overnight flight to Miami, where the Dodgers play a Friday evening game against the Marlins.
Worse, there is a 70 percent chance of precipitation (snow and rain) for both Wednesday and Thursday.
Dodgers at Twins, 5:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA Update: The game is free on MLB.tv
Thanks to yesterday’s rain/snowout, Zack Greinke gets an extra day off before pitching this game. He’s 4-8 with a 4.73 ERA in 22 outings against the Twins, including 18 starts. On the other hand, this season he’s 4-0 with a 2.45 ERA and 40 strikeouts in 29 1/3 innings and in the midst of a streak of 16 starts of at least five innings without allowing more than two runs.
Starting for the Twins is Kyle Gibson, who’s 3-1 with a 3.63 ERA this season. This is only his second season in the bigs, and last year he only threw 51-plus innings, going 2-4 with a 6.53 ERA. He’s still almost a rookie.
Hanley Ramirez says his thumb’s fine and he expects to play. The weather may not cooperate, though, as rain is forecast for Wednesday.
Lineup when (or if) available.
#Dodgers lineup at Twins:
Gordon 2B
Puig RF
Ramirez SS
Gonzalez 1B
Kemp CF
Ethier DH
Uribe 3B
Butera C
Crawford LF
Greinke P
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 30, 2014
I must say hats off to Plouffe for the at bat (I can say that now we have won)
Can you imagine two 9th innings tomorrow?
I hope there ARE two bottom of the 9ths — but not as scary as this!
and without Kenley being needed
Another “Amen”!
Phew
uh oh
They CAN NOT waste a game where the offense finally showed up!
Of course they “can,” but I sure hope they DON’T!
too many pitches for my liking
Get the K, Kenley!
Real shame to have to use Kenley . . . but let’s get the win!
PaKo!
Get the K or double play!
Save situation with tying run on deck. I guess Kenley is up.
Another run given up in the 9th . . . hopefully it doesn’t get any more exciting.
We don’t need another appearance from Kenley
Amen
Nice to tune back in to good news
Nice to see that from Beardo.
Twin announcers talking about Dee as a threat!
I think Withrow is auditioning for a gig here in Vegas — high wire or escape artist act.
Did us a favor!
WHEEEEEEEW!
C’mon, Chris — need to shut them down!
Kemp limp?
Yahoo — nice to see a big inning again!
Uribear!
Dee looks scary in his balaclava!
heart of our lineup coming up, lets add to the lead
Shoot — that sounded like Andre could’ve had a turn-around on his fortunes.
Regardless, good inning — especially when it looked like it would be another all-tease, no-score event.
HanRam!
A-gon!
We can only hope Andre has reverted to his streaky ways . . . and there’s a BLAZING streak ahead.
Meanwhile, unfortunately the change of venue hasn’t affected the Dodger bats.
This whole schedule mess is a good example of the stupidity of interleague play.