Dodgers at Diamondbacks, 6:40PM PT, TV: SPNLA, FS-A
Bud Norris (4-7, 3.98 ERA) makes his third start for the Dodgers. Since he’s 0-7 with a 13.92 ERA in his career against Arizona and is 0-4 at Chase Field he seems an odd choice for Manager Dave Roberts, but maybe he’s got a hunch. Norris will face Patrick Corbin (4-7, 4.94 ERA), who hasn’t made it past the sixth inning in any of his last three starts and has a 6.91 ERA in those games to boot. He’s a little better career-wise against the Dodgers, posting a 3.83 ERA in 11 games.
This is the first of thirteen games these two teams play against one another in the remainder of the season.
Joc Pederson is headed for Oklahoma City for a rehab assignment. Clayton Kershaw threw 60 pitches in the bullpen Wednesday. Other DL denizens’ news at Jon’s place.
Lineup when available.
Tonight’s Dodger lineup at D-backs:
Kendrick LF
Seager SS
Turner 3B
González 1B
Puig RF
Van Slyke CF
Grandal C
Taylor 2B
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I wonder whether Taylor is an “impact player.”
Big night for the rookie, huh? Good for him.
5 1/2 back! For real.
Woo-HOO!!! For real.
We win!
5 1/2 back sure feels better than 6 1/2 back.
Woo-HOO!!! ( sorry, false alarm, somebody forgot we were at an away game…)
are you allowed to woo-hoo on games other than our own? 🙂
No. Oops.
I’ll allow it 🙂
Seems appropriate, given the circumstances.
Wait a minute. Those are self-imposed rules. This blog has no such stricture.
I know, but they are my rules with myself nevertheless.
Ah, I thought it was as the Giants lost
Gnats lose, 4-1.
Puig is getting himself back into some form
Amazing what they are pointing out as regards Turner. At this point, he is only 3 dingers behind 2015 totals and 16 rbis shy.
Dodgers need to get about 5 hits here now so Taylor can have another chance in the ninth.
Bumgarner goes out after six innings, losing 4-1. His ERA goes above 2.
Here we go. Taylor up.
Crazy. Trying to bunt for it.
They gave it to him (3rd base was playing back).
A little more angle and he had it.
It was a good choice. 3B was playing nearly on the OF grass.
Hope we can win this without having to use Jansen.
Going to bed now secure in the notion that the Dodgers will prevail (if that is not the case, I wouldn’t want to see it anyway).
Night night.
Pad pen not very strong, but hope that one turns out OK as well.
I lied. Want to see Taylor hit before going to bed.
Everybody hitting the cover off the ball tonight. Unfortunately, them, too.
Oh this crazy game.
No Dre until mid-August.
Gnat losing at The Litter Box, as BadGums has surrendered two dingers and several other hits in five innings, 86 pitches.
We look sharp!
Pads ahead 4-1 in the 5th (Bad Gums at 84 pitches)
Taylor will get another at bat tonight. It could end up being one of the more unlikely/unexpected cycles, that’s for sure.
Remind me who Taylor is again? I mean – what the heck? Where did he come from tonight?
Acquired from the Mariners in June.
Riiight! Zach Lee, we hardly knew you.
And thanks for the reminder RBI.
Grand Salami from Taylor! (single away from cycle).
All he needs is a single now…
Taylor!!!!! Grand slam!!!!
Bumgarner’s, dare I say it, struggling a little. 3-1 and 70 pitches, bottom of the 4th.
More runs. More.
Just for fun.
Their reliever doing an impressive job shutting us down.
Until….
Thank you Chris Taylor. Thank you Dodgers.
Puig is so much more patient at the plate lately, I hardly recognize him.
Norris threw 98 pitches in 5 innings. It is good that our bullpen is extremely well rested.
Get the third out, Bud.
Done (as he seems to be as well at this point with high 90s pitch count)
Bud doing it all.
Norris looks like he’s having fun out there, after a rocky third inning.
This Buds for us!
Let’s see if Norris can beat the D-back curse this inning.
Done. (now a couple more)
And then some.
Puig!
Puig does great.
I like the Dodgers’ moxie tonight.
I agree. In it to win it, so far…
2 with a chance for more.
and done by Howie!
Taylor made!
And now 3-2 the bad guys lead. Come on, Bud, get ’em out.
But now 2 – 2.
Dodgers keep chipping away. 2-0 is a nice start.
Turner goes deep in the first!
Cute.
A cautionary paragraph from Tom Verducci at SI regarding Matt Harvey of the Mets, now out for the rest of the season with thoracic outlet surgery :
Mind you, a 28-year-old is considered to be in his prime. Koufax was 26 when he began his phenomenal five-year-run, and 29 the year he struck out 382 batters in 335 innings.
But with no surgeries behind him.
I wonder how often he wondered how he’d have done with modern sports medicine to help.
I expect that Sandy’s career would have been at least three or four years longer in that case.
Since he was only 30 when he quit…he might have made it ten more years if he’d had the benefit of even 1980s medical help.
It’s astonishing to think of Warren Spahn, who retired at age 44 and threw a no-hitter at age 40.
He was 42 when he pitched the epic game against Marichal. 15.1 shutout innings before they reached him for a run! Led the NL that year with 22 CG.
I think how the Dodgers treated him financially, after he pitched repeatedly in pain and on short rest for them, played a big role in his decision to retire at the age of 30.That perspective is reinforced in two new books that I am reading: The Last Innocent, by Michael Leahy, and The Arm, by Jeff Passan. Both are excellent.
Well, he and Drysdale had to hold out going into the ’66 season (his last) to pry money out of Buzzi’s hands.
Off to Nats-Bucs (Strasburg on the mound). See yawl later.
Enjoy!
Strasburgh was very good. Now 13-0. (Given our wild card situation, nice to see them beat the Filibusteros).
For Norris, most of that is from 2012 and before. Guessing that we have a different Bud, I hope.
I hope you are right about a different Bud tonight, but those numbers are sure scary, including a career ERA of 15.07 at Chase Field.
A Bud wiser (as opposed to sadder).
When we start getting our pitchers back from the DL, it will be interesting to see how the rotation plays out. We might possibly see some traded as well.
With so many just off or coming of the DL, Norris is probably the only one tradeable to another contender at this point.