Padres at Dodgers, 7:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA, FSSD
The Dodgers look to Alex Wood (1-2, 6.00 ERA) to halt their unexpected 4-game losing streak. Wood has struggled so far this season, but he’s been better at home than on the road. The Dodgers hope that continues tonight. The Padres send out Cesar Vargas, a right-handed rookie who made his major league debut last weekend. He went five innings and gave up just one run but didn’t get the decision.
In this series there are a couple of guys playing against teams which traded them who have been successful doing so: Matt Kemp is hitting .310/.364/.408 in 19 games against Los Angeles. Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez has had similar success against his old club, batting .316/.360/.540 in 69 games.
Lineup when available.
Utley 2B
Seager SS
Turner 3B
Gonzalez 1B
Puig RF
Grandal C
Crawford LF
Pederson CF
Wood P— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 29, 2016
NPUT
Team meeting hasn’t worked yet. They still seem to be pressing and distracted at the same time. Tough times.
It’s frustrating that a team with so many good hitters produces so many easy grounders and popups without working the count.
It’s unprecedented for me to turn off the game after eight innings, but the last two nights have been intolerable. On the bright side, Wood pitched well, though it was the Padres.
Some reasonably good news on the injury front. Ethier starts the Ultra G (Alter G?) machine soon, while Ryu and McCarthy throw bullpen sessions tomorrow and Bolsinger and Guerrero play extended spring training games next week.
(Cheerily)
Hi everybody! Great game tonigh…oh. Again with the losing? Has the offense taken April off?
Glum indeed.
Glum.
And I was hoping that Kemp wouldn’t hit a sac fly. Wish granted.
We make the lowliest teams look hot.
Snake bitten.
Girding myself for a 5 game losing streak.
Let’s hope it stops at that.
There a million ways to lose. We are just scratching the surface.
Ha!
See what I mean?
The baseball gods are not through with us yet.
Also, Dee Gordon? Really?!?!?!
Hi all. This lack of offense makes me very grumpy, and I don’t want to inflict my grumpiness on everyone.
I’ll say good night, because I’ll watch the rest in bed on the iPad.
Alex not getting ground balls lately.
There we go.
There we go! Grandal and right handed to boot.
Well, that’s a welcome change of pace.
Vargas – PPP. He is from Puebla, Mexico. PPP is a polular deragatory Mexican appelation for poblanos. The first two P’s are curse words
Four hits for the Dodgers, four posts for our blog.
I was out at one of my favorite Peruvian restaurants, checking the scores on my phone. I enjoyed the Mets’ 12-run inning, but Schadenfreude only goes so far – I want Peevy to stay in the Gnats’ rotation, and I want the Dodgers to score some runs.
At least we have Vin to listen to.
AND…baseball is not soccer.
This is becoming unbearable.
Maybe we can score a run the old fashioned way, a dinger, which doesn’t require RISP.
Matty cuts down his trade mate Grandal
Pretty incredible the amount of ground balls that Wood induces.
Would nice to see Woody give an uplifting performance, though not really the pitching that has been the problem lately (apart form Clayton!).
Any team that has Melvin Upton Jr. hitting fourth is hard to take seriously.