Dodgers v. Padres at Petco Park, on SPNLA TV at 7:10PM PST. The Dodgers send out Dan Haren for his first start for his new team in 2014 while the Padres send out Tyson Ross, a 26-year-old in his second year with San Diego.
Lineup:
#Dodgers lineup at Padres:
Crawford LF
Puig RF
Ramirez SS
Gonzalez 1B
Ethier CF
Uribe 3B
Ellis C
Gordon 2B
Haren P
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 2, 2014
In other news, the Dodgers claimed infielder Carlos Triunfel off waivers from Seattle. They’ve optioned him to Albuquerque. You may well ask why they need another middle infielder and shortstop, what with Hanley Ramirez, Corey Seager, Alex Guerrero (being moved to second base) and Erisbel Arruebarrena already on board.
Game Thread above.
Might today’s lineup be:
Crawford
Puig
Ramirez
Gonzalez
Kemp
Uribe
Ellis
Gordon
Kemp in for Puig as Puig arrives late to ballpark. I still want to trade Puig for Fernandez.
Knew little about Haren until last night. Gameday said he threw quite a few knuckle curves, which I think is kinda rare these days. Former Dodger Burt Hooton made a living with his, IIRC. Is Haren’s anywhere close to that, I wonder?
Also wonder if Gameday knows a knuckle curve if and when it sees one? IIRC it had Billingsley throwing an actual knuckleball in one game a couple years back.
So…anyone know if Haren actually does throw the pitch?
I used to throw it.
So…you taught it to Hooton, right? ;-])
No, but I learned the grip and found it broke a lot more sharply than my regular curveball.
You probably find it fitting that bees delayed the Gnats-Dbacks game.
http://mlb.si.com/2014/04/03/bees-delay-giants-diamondbacks-game/
If he threw it last year in DC, they didn’t mention it. Mussina was famous for throwing a knuckle curve. I recall Haren as a tough cookie against us when he threw for the Snakes. He had a great second half with the Nat’s, after coming back from a injury, with a WHIP of 1.017 and SO/9 of 8.2
There is a picture of him on the mound gripping the ball like I would guess would be gripped for a knuckle curve.
Nice series victory, especially after losing that way on Sunday and having to think about it through the off-day. . . .If only there weren’t all those injuries!
Injuries are a fact of life, or so we’ve been told. But yeah, Kershaw and Wilson getting hurt in the first week seems like fate is dealing a bad hand.
Look at the averages in the box score. Gordon is hitting .385 while Gonzalez is at .118, Ethier is all the way up to .211 after two hits tonight, Hanley’s at .105, and Puig is at .250. What happens when the middle of the lineup rounds into form?
A point I believe Mattingly made too. 🙂
Are you saying I’m managerial timber, sir? 😉
Bob, can I assume you watched on Channel 96?
Anyone have a SportsNetLA exapansion outside of TWC update?
Um, it’s going to add a third language besides English and Spanish. Korean will be added as of tomorrow’s game.
I suspect that’s not the kind of expansion you’re hoping for, though. According to Fox Sports, as of yesterday nothing new had happened in negotiations with any of these other companies: DirecTV, Dish, FiOS, U-Verse, Charter and Cox.
And, so it came to pass that on the Fifth Game….
God made the bunt… and, Yasiel bunted…
And, it was good… 🙂
Yes, Dee! Started with Uribear!
C’mon, additional insurance run here . . . especially with two out.
MLBTV is really stinking it up tonight. They’ve replayed AGon’s fifth-inning groundout about 50 times.
just popping in briefly, feel a bit better the lead is back to 3 runs
I also was popping in and out. “Saw” the great K to end the 4th . . . then nice to see the Blue got that run back right away.
My internet is failing me tonight. Hope they hang on. Goodnight.
Somebody’s gotta go first, so I’ll mention that I saw Triunfel play in Seattle last September. He did nothing memorable, though.
Yet, you remember?
My cousin and her husband are Mariner fans, so they mentioned him as a (one-time) prospect.