Rockies at Dodgers 1:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA, KDOC-56
Greinke’s on the hill for four or five innings as a tuneup. Uribe’s managing. Kershaw’s the pitching coach. Ryu may be the bullpen coach “if he can get him to understand when he calls down,” Mattingly said.
The Rockies send out rookie Christian Bergman, who’s 3-4 with a 5.29 ERA in nine starts this season and coming off a win against the D-Backs in which he gave up two runs on six hits in 5 2/3 innings.
Ryu is throwing bullpen today and Kershaw will throw a couple of innings in a simulated game. The Dodgers are feeling pretty hopeful that Ryu will be able to start Game Three of the NLDS on October 6.
If you’re interested in what has happened or is still happening elsewhere, here’s MLB’s live blog of the events in Cincinnati between the Pirates and Reds, in Texas between the As and Rangers, in Seattle between the Angels and Mariners, in Chicago between the Royals and White Sox, and in Detroit between the Tigers and Twins. What’s the big deal? Well, there’s a chance that there might be three, three! Game 163 tiebreakers required to settle the playoff seedings and even some of the participants. The possibilities are laid out in mind-numbing detail in that post.
Lineup when available.
Today's Dodgers lineup:
Barney 2B
Puig CF
Gonzalez 1B
Kemp RF
Crawford LF
Ellis C
Rojas 3B
Arruebarrena SS
Greinke P
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) September 28, 2014
I hope Jensen doesn’t call that a tuneup. 8 pitches: 7 balls, 1 strike. Inning over. He barely broke a sweat!
NPUT (Playoff sked)
Uribe (in his Lasorda uni) seems to be having fun managing.
From what everyone says, he has fun all the time.
Guess he’s one of those intangibles in the clubhouse every team would like to have.
Remarkably, Crawford ends the regular season hitting .300 on the dot. He was hitting .261 at the All-Star break.
I’ll trade the three months of frustration for a hot, ecstatic October!
scooplew, you were asking about Dee’s hip earlier: here’s the story from Dodgers.com. It’s an “impingement” which recurs occasionally, he says.
Thanks, Link.
I know the game is meaningless, but it gives another W to Zack, some fun who won’t be going into October, and hopefully more confidence to those who will.
true and much better than if we were losing 1-9
That one landed in Bernardino!
Nice Barney
nice 1-2-3 inning by Garcia
Gee, I’d be careful, hit a home run, you will get replaced 🙂
I assume Kemp was replaced just so Uribe could say “I dragged off one of my team mates”
Nice that the A-team gets to come out to an ovation — at least if they get on base!
It hasn’t been noted but didn’t Agon’s getting hot coincide with Kemp coming to life? Maybe there’s some truth to that theory about having a good hitter hitting behind a hitter…. Awkward but you know what I mean….
A-gon proves your point?????
He’s just proved a point now!!
Athletics up 2-0 in Texas, for the Bay Area fans.
Having grown up in Tacoma and Seattle, and now living in Oakland, I am ambivalent. On the bright side, anything that relegates the Raiders to the back pages is good. Would you Southlanders take them back, please?
I’d hate to see their collapse completed, but on the other hand I’d love to see Felix Hernandez get to pitch in the playoffs for the Mariners.
Didn’t the Brewers have an equally fast start?
Guess the lesson to learn from them and the Dodgers these past two years is it’s not how you start, or even how your get going, but how you finish that counts. (Of course, if you’re strong all along the way, it makes it that much easier!)
Man, I forgot how good Matt is when he’s 100%, which he hadn’t been for about two years until the All-Star Break this year.
He was incredible in ’11 . . . said he’d be 40/40 and had “only” 39 HRs . . . then I believe he said he’d be 50/50.
2/3 of the Triple Crown, right?
He was cheated from the MVP, especially when we learned an actual cheater was selected.
BISON!
Still time to catch A-gon for the team lead!
Let;s hope they stay hot in October!
Today’s Dodgers-Rockies game is a freebie on MLBTV.
If I’m reading the MLB.com front page correctly, the rest of today’s games are free on MLB.TV but subject to blackout.
I am watching it from the Monterey Peninsula, CA.
Like me, you’re in Gnatland.
We moved here many years ago. Much to my delight I learned that one of my immediate neighbors was also a lifelong Dodger fan. We gave gone through many ups and downs together and our families became very close.
Cincinnati’s 4-1 win Pittsburgh today makes the Cardinals’ game today moot. It means the Cardinals won’t have to meet the Pirates tomorrow to determine the NL Central champion and the first NL Wild Card team and also that we are likely to face Wainwright on Friday when we open the NLDS vs. St. Louis at Dodger Stadium.
Tigers beat the Twins to clinch the AL Central.
Pirates lose, which means they play the Wild Card game on Wednesday against the Giants and the Cardinals are NL Central champs and will play the Dodgers in LA Friday.
Does anyone know if Dee’s absence from the lineup is precautionary or because there is something serious?
MRI negative but out as a precaution, or so the pre-game analysis from Orel and Nomar and the cast of thousands said.
Thank you.
Will adjust to prosthetic hip by gametime Friday.
Aw shucks, guys.
I hope the Dodgers get the WS ring. 26 years!
Yeah, buddy, thanks for this. You deserve nothing less than a WS ring.
Amen — I heartily third the thanks!
If not the ring, how about following Jon to the ranks of Dodger employee?
Ha! I could telecommute!
Link: Thanks for everything all season long and taking over the site after Jon Weisman joined the Dodgers.