Dodgers at Diamondbacks, 1:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA, MLB.TV free game
The Dodgers’ Dan Haren, off to his best start in years, is 5-1 with a 2.84 ERA. Josh Collmenter is 1-2 with a 3.89 ERA. As a starter he’s 1-2 with a 4.28 ERA since moving from the bullpen to the rotation.
In other news, Hyun-Jin Ryu is scheduled to come off the DL this week and could start against the Mets in NYC next Wednesday.
#Dodgers lineup at Arizona:
Gordon 2B
Puig RF
Ramirez SS
Gonzalez 1B
Ethier CF
Crawford LF
Uribe 3B
Butera C
Haren P
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 18, 2014
NPUT
Since he played baseball there, AJ probably is following news that a giant sinkhole opened at the Austin Peay football field.
Follows the saga of the Corvettes that fell into one at their museum in nearby Bowling Green KY. This whole area is subject to them due to the limestone underneath. But still…
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/05/austin-peay-state-university-sinkhole
You know…. I hesitate to be too critical at this point….
But, here are a few early season notes / thoughts ..
1. Dee Gordon: Very quietly (national media) having an All Star Season thus far.
2. Hanley Ramirez: “A+” at the plate ….. “C” at SS (at best)
(For instance that hopper he couldn’t get last night with 2 outs and nobody on base was
a play that he absolutely has to make… Many lesser names would have made it. And,
BTW – some of those lesser names are playing in HS and College right now.)
3. Dodger pitching…. Hot / Cold. (The same guy can be a ‘world beater’ on Tuesday, and a
‘chump’ on Wednesday)
4. Yassy Puig: Up and down… But, really improving quickly… and always exciting!
5. Scott Van Slyke: Do not trade this guy at the deadline. He’s surprisingly sly and clutch.
And, I’ll try to avoid a rule #8 violation this season, but….
….
I really miss Steve Lyons.
I cannot get used to the whole TWC crew. They’re not all bad, but the presentation of the games just doesn’t seem right to me. They’re so corporate… so vanilla in there pristine studio with big screens, and a home plate, etc…. Not fresh. IMHO.
….
IMHO- The best crew was Steve Lyons, Kevin Kennedy, & Patrick O’Neil from CF after the games…..
Since this is the first time you’ve brought it up, it could hardly be a Rule 8 violation yet.
I don’t know. Yeah, the center field wrap-ups were more informal, but were they better? Orel and Nomar have a lot of knowledge to share. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
I too miss Steve Lyons. At every opportunity.
I found him to be a bit off the wall. Sometimes I enjoyed his antics, but almost never felt that I understood something better after listening to him.
Not really seeing the “down” in Puig’s “up and down”. Perhaps “down and up”. In the first 14 games, including a PH, he had a hit in half the games. In his following 25 games he has had a hit in all but 3, including 8 of his 9 dingers.
Checking in after a family pool day. Another loss. I wonder at what point the team starts to worry.
Five games back but still over. 500 (barely). 117 games to go. Stay calm and eat cotton candy. 😉
Or in my case, a red velvet mini cupcake. That, and listening to ESPN Red Sox guys bemoan their team cheered me up immeasurably!
everyone quiet today 🙂
Another disappointing loss I see.
Just reading the play by play, I guess if Kemp hits his liner either side of the second baseman, the scores would have been tied.
He hit it as hard as it could be hit, but right at the second baseman. Remember Willie McCovey’s lineout to Bobby Richardson in Game Seven of the 1962 WS? It was like that.
I was minus 8 years of age so I will have to look it up 🙂
Whippersnapper! 😉
Sounded like it was very similar. That is the same play that came to my mind.