Game 38, 2014

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Giants at Dodgers, 1:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA, Fox Sports 1

The Giants send out Matt Cain and his 0-3, 4.35 ERA to face the Dodgers’ Zack Greinke and his 5-1, 2.35 ERA. Greinke went only three innings in his last outing, but that’s because the rains came and halted the game for three-plus hours. In those innings he gave up two runs which turned out to be enough to saddle him with his first loss of the year. This is Cain’s first start since he missed two with a cut on his index finger, suffered when he tried to catch a knife that fell while he was making a sandwich. There’s no word on what kind of sandwich he was making that required such a sharp knife; probably not peanut butter.

Puig has a nine-game hitting streak which equals the longest of his career. In less cheery news, the Dodgers opened the series with the worst fielding percentage in the league and ranked third in most runners left on base. Given that, it’s amazing they’re still above .500.

22 thoughts on “Game 38, 2014”

  1. Pretty revealing story about up-and-coming Sonny Gray, a fellow Rutherford Countian.

    Highly unusual for two pitchers the caliber of Gray and David Price to develop at about the same time, from high schools about 10 miles apart, in a state normally not considered exactly a baseball hotspot. Surprisingly, their Vanderbilt careers didn’t overlap.

    Price may have greater physical gifts and what’s now thought to be a pitcher’s ideal size. But then a certain Dodger executive thought Pedro Martinez too small for stardom too. Regrettably, we all know how that turned out.

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mlb/news/20140509/sonny-gray-oakland-athletics-background-tennessee/?eref=sihp

    • Huh. I’m a subscriber (for 35 years!) and I missed this one. Sometimes you gotta look at the website more carefully. 😉

  2. I also missed the end of the game — I had to turn it off just before Dee got the run-scoring double in the 7th. So I missed the three double-runs innings in a row — but I also missed the Wilsonian near-fiasco in the 8th.

    Looks like Kemp is getting untracked, Dee is continuing this Uribearean redemptive year, Puig is for real, Zack should give Kersh a run for the CYA . . . and A-gon is really slumping.
    This was huge — another win tomorrow is also vital.

    Let’s go, Dodgers! (clap accordingly)

      • I forgot you were there — and enjoyed catching up on the posts below.

        How great for us to be extolling the virtues of Dee, rather than shaking our heads.

        LOVE the “PTBD” coining . . . it’s up there with “Uribear” from last year!

  3. Just got home from umpiring a youth baseball doubleheader. Between innings I sneaked a peak at the score on my smart phone. Today’s victory was badly needed. When we were down 2-0 after five I was crossing the line from frustration to disgust, but I never got there.

  4. Brian Wilson, card-carrying member in good standing of the Kerosene Korp, at least so far this year.

    Even if he did get away with it.

  9. Just back from a long road trip of my own. My W-L record slightly better than that of the Dodgers on theirs, FWIW. (Which is not much.)

    Saw where DM called out a couple players for lack of preparation in the team meeting, with one of the called out grousing about it afterward. No names given, naturally. Anyone hear anything on who the culprits were? Teams usually are pretty guarded about that kind of thing.

    • I think you were at the game today. What was the mood when the Dodgers started to score? Amazement? Joy? Relief? How about yours?

      • We all went from resignation at the early lost opportunities to relief when we tied it to overjoyed, if in shock. I think we all have PTBD – post traumatic bullpen disorder- but somehow Wilson pulled it off. When Kemp hit it out the place went crazy! And Perez looked really sharp. All I can say is, thank heavens for Dee Gordon. He makes watching fun no matter what.

        • Nice report. It is special to see Dee — at least through nearly one-fourth of the season — be the player we all hoped he would be: catalyst for the offense. I went to spring training in 2012 and saw promise; now, I hope, we are seeing reality.

  13. Puig put in a great effort for Posey’s RBI single, but he would have given up more if it had got past him