Dodgers at Padres, 5:40PM PT, TV: SPNLA, FSSD, MLBN Free Game
The Dodgers send Alex Wood (9-9, 3.67 ERA) to the mound to make his seventh start for them since coming over from Atlanta at the trade deadline. He lost his last game to the Cubs, but since Jake Arrieta threw a no-hitter against his team that’s not exactly a surprise. His opponent will be Tyler Ross (10-9, 3.27 ERA). He won his last outing, giving up three hits and no runs in seven innings.
The lineup is a little more familiar today:
Tonight's #Dodgers lineup:
Rollins SS
Utley 2B
Gonzalez 1B
Turner 3B
Ethier RF
Crawford LF
Grandal C
Pederson CF
Wood P #whiff
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) September 5, 2015
Giants at Rockies, 5:10PM PT. Peavy v. Bettis. The Giants have lost seven straight and are 8 games in back of the Cubs for the second wild-card spot.
NPUT
Lineup surprises every day: https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/640576511716626432
https://twitter.com/fangraphs/status/640571443353284609/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
If I were a Rockies or D-Backs fan that would have been discouraging to see back in April.
It’s a small pleasure to be pretty much unconcerned with what the Gnats do any more, but I’d still like to see BadGums get gnocked around Coors today.
Envy is a terrible feeling…
So is cluelessness.
That’s not envy, it’s schadenfreude.
Day game tomorrow: 1:10PM PT. Anderson v. Cashner.
Great game. Time for dinner. I’m starving.
Enjoy!
Didn’t lose ground. That feels really good! KJ looked strong.
At this point, it doesn’t much matter what the Gnats do.
Woo-HOO!!!!
Magic number is 20.
We win!
In my mind Spangenberg = SpongeBob.
Another putout for Andre.
Love to hold serve here and win so that the Giants still don’t gain any ground.
So, who do people miss the most: Kendrick, Puig, or Hernandez (or I suppose Peraza)?
Wow. Tlhis list makes me realize it’s amazing we’ve continued to win.
And I didn’t even mention Ryu or McCarthy!
Not to mention slumping Justin, Joc, Adrian and Yasmani.
In deed. The starting pitching has been holding the team up well.
Call ups and vet acquisitions working out as well.
Hatcher did a nice job there. On to the ninth.
Either has been busy in the outfield tonight too.
Ha Steiner’s voice got excited on that pop fly by Rollins!
See below :).
You have quicker fingers than I do. 🙂
Sometimes.
Briefly Steinered on JRoll’s fly ball.
Too bad, but good at bat.Time for Jimmy to get a hit.
Seager’s making Benoit work.
He battled that’s for sure.
Steiner thinks the Padres scored.
With all due respect to Wood, Ethier is player of the game to this point.
What a read by Dre!
Joc! Good job by him and Ethier!
Great start to the eighth.
Minus Yasmani’s bunt… Slumps must feel so horrible for the slumpers..
He’ll come out of it.
He will, but he needs some time off.
Yes.
7 Wood
Gets us to the short game.
Love this too!
Love it!
Good on ya’, Wood!
Bear down, Wood. You’re doing a fine job tonight.
Good time for a JT slump busting hit.
Pretty modest pitch count for Wood, only 81 through six.
What’s the most innings he has gone as a Dodger? Has he pitched into the 7th before?
I don’t believe he has, but he will tonight.
Big out here with Solarte. I hope he makes it.
One pickoff, one called strike three call and then a one pitch pop out. Wow! That is very effective pitching!
Kid, Link and I need to tell you the story of Tippy Martinez and Lenn Sakata.
Ha! And here’s YouTube of those events.
Trust me – I know. I happened to watch that game against the Jays on tv when I really was a kid.
So crazy memorable.
Funny thing – I don’t recall them ever being called or referred to as “Jays” back then – only “Blue Jays”.
Ok Blue Jays / Let’s play ball.
Seems like enough evidence to me.
DP here might make possible 7 inning outing by Wood
Or pickoff.
I think Gonzo told Wood to do that pick off throw when he walked the ball back to Wood after his last throw over.
Plus K!
Plus one pitch pop up to the next guy!
Love to see Joc get his 50th RBI right here.
Speaking of RBI, she is – and a few others – MIA tonight.
Just checking in now. I was writing, then exercising while watching.
I am perhaps a bit less productive on this Saturday night than you are.
Ha! My husband is gently snoring on the other couch…
I think I could be friends with your husband!
Only a single.
Here’s hoping for a third Either lead off double!
Wood doing well and pitch count not too high.
SF winning 5-1 in Colorado. I guess they might not lose every game for the rest of the year.
Coors, baby!
You offering?
Ha – good one Link!
First beer I had over a bar — Coors 3.2 beer in Durango, Co. We were all too young for the real thing, but back then (1970) you could get lower-alcohol-by-volume beer if you were below the legal drinking age.
Good time for me to restate my man crush on Arrenando.
Saw him make two errors in a game (something I can tell my grand kids).
Gnot even the Gnats can lose every game to the Rox, but they’ve still got a chance.
Pitchers man – some times it takes them 30 pitches to get through an inning, other times only 7.
2nd base drama: Round 3.
We win on the appeal.
I think it was Nomar who said last night that this umpiring crew was going to demand that second base be removed from any future games it works.
Another play at 2nd.
Bartolo Colon is a great baseball player. Evidence.
It was the shortest route around his gut.
Now now. He’s a work of art.
Let’s see what happens with this Ethier lead off double.
Nice to see Crawford move him over to third… and home and then back to the dugout.
Pitchers duel so far but I’m thinking the hitters break out in another inning or two.
Bases loaded, less than two outs, no runs. Nothing ever changes.
Wood being in the middle of that didn’t help.
Looking forward to see how Wood will do on 6 days rest.
First inning was encouraging.
Better health and regular PT no doubt helped Dre do much, much better this year. But hadn’t realized that late last month he’d hit.396 (23-for-58) in August, highest in the majors in that span. Ethier’s average had ballooned to .299 — his highest since 2008
Heck, he got a hit off a lefty the other night!
Flashing the leather as well!
Lester, wasn’t it?
Old DT commenting friend KT (KMT now, I think) continues to attend games at DS despite back issues and be generous with extra premium seat tickets at times. He seems to have taken his game experiences to a whole new level as shown by excerpts from recent comments on another blog:
–“I finally brought the 2013 Carl Crawford #25 jersey that he signed on the front as I got him to sign on the number he was talking to me and said are you going to try to get me to sign something for you every night and I told him I’m good luck last night he went 2 for 4 and tonight he led off with a Home Run…He smiled at me when he was going to take the field in the bottom of the 1st”
–“I told the ump yesterday that when he was called over he was ready to throw someone out before he even talked to someone and that that attitude was totally wrong…he acknowledged my point”
So, he has a new pal in CC…and so far has not been run by an ump. But you never know. ;-])
KT has always been an autograph/memorabilia hound for his kids. Wonder if the little one, who used to watch the games on his knee in front of the television, is attending games now.
Saw an opinion that after his last woofer of a start Latos missed a great opportunity to keep his mouth shut. Instead he publicly dissed what he called DM’s quick hook, claiming he was getting his release point right his last 2 IP (over what was pretty much 4 innings of batting practice).
In light of Latos’ showing as a Dodger, Eric Stephen retorted: “Could make an argument his release point should be September 4.”
From ESPN:
Then, from a later ESPN column:
Latos, a free agent-to-be, will not be a Dodger next year. Given the potential fragility of starting pitching, though, I feel confident that he will be on the roster through game No. 162.
Funny line from Eric.