Cubs at Dodgers, 6:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA, MLBN
The Dodgers’ Mat Latos has a career 7-3 record against the Cubbies with a 2.76 ERA. He might want to face them all the time, as his record this season is not so shiny: 4-9 with a 4.81 ERA. He’ll face Jon Lester, who’s not having his greatest season either: 8-9, 3.44 ERA. Latos hasn’t pitched since August 13 due to off-days, so he’s had lots of rest. Lester nearly got a shutout in his last outing; he went 8 1/3 innings, then gave up a run and came out. This is his first road start since July 18.
Lineup when available.
Tonight's #Dodgers lineup:
Rollins SS
Hernandez CF
Gonzalez 1B
Turner 3B
Van Slyke RF
Crawford LF
Ellis C
Peraza 2B
Latos P #Whiff
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 29, 2015
Scoreboard watchers: Cardinals at Giants
NPUT above the Vinnie one.
I notice another great start to the game in SF
In today’s NYT Magazine, an interview with Bill Bryson lists the five things he most misses about the US. No. 1 is baseball.
Just read Bryson’s book One Summer, about the U.S. in 1927. Highly recommend it. It includes some wonderful material about Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. His book A Walk in the Woods, about hiking the Appalachian Trail, is one of the few books that made me laugh out loud.
Walk in the Woods is about to be released as a movie, with Robert Redford.
We win!
Woo-HOO!!!
And I just discover the game thread. E-Winnipeg. Thought it seemed quiet tonight, but now I know why!
Anyhoo – Johnson living life on the edge there.
Baez seems to have been buried in the pen. Hasn’t pitched since the 19th.
That long? Don likes to let them scrape off the rust after a certain period, I thought.
Cavalcade of singles.
Ethier shocks everybody!
Peraza!
Now we’ll see if A.J. can actually do something.
Just looking at Gameday. What was the on field delay?
Controversial balk call.
Thanks.
Was it legit?
I’d say yes, but the camera angle I saw was not definitive. In any event, balks cannot be reviewed, but still there was still a lot of talking about it.
Waste them baserunners!
A.J. awful tonight.
Nice to see SVS heating up.
Ha! Cubby broadcast switches to Vin just in time to hear him to question Lester seven-year deal.
Quique an adventure out there.
Speed-based run!
Mat prefers pitching from the stretch?
A.J. never takes the bat off his shoulder.
Is there a site that shows called strikes per batter? Ellis does that an awful lot, particularly on the first pitch. I recall that Todd Zeile used to look at a lot of pitches–strikes and balls.
BR has that data, if you want to dig into it.
Latos didn’t get that call.
A.J. butchers one there.
MLBTV is apparently picking up this game at 7 p.m. (PDT). Odd.
I’ve been watching it on MLBTV since the first pitch.
Nice to see recovery with 3 Ks.
Poor Jonny Gomes. He came in to relieve in the Braves-Yankees disaster, and it wasn’t pretty.
Cardinals defeat that team up North (and East, for me).
End times are near: https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/637734704158928896
See link in next post.
scoreboard watching is pleasant so far