Dodgers at Rockies, 5:40 PM PT, TV: SPNLA, ROOTRM
Fresh from the 10-day DL, LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu (1-4, 4.05 ERA) goes to the mound. He’ll face YALHP Tyler Anderson (2-3, 6.69 ERA). Ryu was recovering from a hip contusion suffered while sliding; his trip to the DL had nothing to do with his arm. In his last two starts he’s gone 11 1/3 innings and given up just two runs while striking out 12. Anderson gave up one run on six hits and a walk in six innings in his last start last Saturday.
Two guys to watch: Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado is 6-for-12 with two home runs, four RBIs and two strikeouts against Ryu while the Dodgers’ Justin Turner is even more of a tormentor of Anderson — 7-for-12 (.583) with two doubles, one home run, four RBIs, one walk and no strikeouts.
Today in Dodgers history:
- 1963 Sandy Koufax takes a perfect game into the eighth inning before walking Ed Bailey on a 3-and-2 pitch, but will finish the Dodger Stadium contest with the second of four career no-hitters, blanking the Giants, 8-0. The Los Angeles southpaw beats San Francisco ace Juan Marichal, who will also author a no-hitter next month.
Lineup when available.
Tonight's Dodger lineup at Rockies:
Pederson CF
Seager SS
Turner 3B
Bellinger LF
Taylor 2B
Utley 1B
Puig RF
Barnes C
Ryu P pic.twitter.com/7ZLe9MAQc6— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 11, 2017
NPUT
Woo-POO!
I gave up. The boys didn’t. Stupid Coors.
Gnats lose again, still with worst record in baseball.
Still… We have heart.
It’s still an L vs. a winning team, but the Blue didn’t roll over.
I believe in moral victories — especially in a 162-game season — and this definitely was one.
Dodgers had more hits and more extra base hits than the Rockies but it wasn’t enough.
Puig held up on that one.
Puig can’t lay off the slider right now.
Not what I wanted to hear after seeing In Play Run(s).
This could happen. Not saying it will. But it could.
Well, up to Utley.
Holland is due for a few hits against him.
As my husband just said, “Made ’em blink.”
Bringing in Holland after being down 10-0. That’s a blink and a hard swallow.
Three!
Two nice at-bats!
Time for a 6+0 game.
Stand down. Greinke gave up a HR.
Utley is hot.
Greinke with an interesting game.
Through 6/2-3 now.
Make that 7.
90 pitches.
Nothing against Zanky, but I want a comeback win for the Bucs.
I could go for that too.
Just thinking back 2 years ago when Alex Guerrero hit a go ahead Grand Slam in the 9th in Coors to win the game for the Dodgers. That was fun.
We will need him to hit two tonight.
Excellent point.
Tolesy says hello. http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/la-sp-dodgers-rockies-20160831-snap-story.html
Just looked at the box score and see that Ryu gave up 5 earned runs and 5 unearned runs. That was one costly throwing error by Barnes!
Yeah — I went back and looked and they would’ve had three outs.
For want of a nail . . .
5-3 is still a ball game. 10-3 is a bit of a hill to climb.
A good throw might have gotten the out, but at Coors you should probably let the other team give you outs on a bunt.
What are the odds we score about 7 runs this inning? Or 9? 🙂
I just checked with the sports books here, Dave — they laughed.
But, but, but – it’s Coors! Did you tell them it was Coors?! Lol.
Yes.
They said Hatcher was coming in.
I’ve heard of the chance to bet after each quarter in football . . . don’t know if they do that for baseball games . . . MAYBE for the World Series, but I can’t see it happening in the regular season.
Bellinger continues to have a great start.
Just returned from a staff dinner at a nice South American restaurant. This game is going less well than I had hoped/expected. At least my dinner was enjoyable tonight!
Canadian Education Departments have staff meetings at restaurants? Sign me up!
Ha! Welcome to Canada Link!
Did anybody notice that Joc is choking up on the bat tonight?
Mr. Clutch. Way to go SVS
I bet we see Hatcher at some point in this game.
Lots of innings left. In this case, that is not a good thing.
Bring in a Ten-Run Rule!
Can Kike’ pitch?
I hear actual laughter in the stadium. I guess this does qualify as a laugher.
The seats were slow to fill up though. Quite a few of fans missed the first two innings.
Link, you had the right idea way back when.
Pull him, you mean?
Yes.
Oh, come on. Really? A balk?!? At 9-0?
Hitfest for the Rox.
Fielding practice for the Dodgers.
Poor Ryu. Taking one for the team here.
Joe Davis reminded us earlier that the runs in the second were unearned. WHIP going up though.
All five were unearned? Wow, that was a costly error.
Ryu looks like he was going to give up lots of runs tonight anyway.
I expect that we’re going to see Hatcher soon.
I thought he started the game. It was hard to watch too closely.
Did anybody think Seager should have been given the error on Barns one hopper? A major league shortstop might be expected to catch one hoppers. Too bad the scorer can’t give a half error to both Seager and Barnes.
No, it was a bad throw, and that’s always the default scoring.
Am I reading this right? 7Ks for their pitcher already?
Why on earth is Ryu hitting for himself here?
Hoping he can pitch 4 innings I guess. Bringing in a relief pitcher in the second inning at Colorado in the first game of a series would be ugly.
We’d better start putting a few runs up.
Get him out of there before he loses all the confidence he’s got, Roberts.
Ryu + altitude = batting practice.
Goodness. You look away for an inning…
Oh foo. Two more.
So far, this is looking like a jetlag game.
Drat. Down 2-0 in the 1st.
Worse if not for Joc.
Anderson’s start has been pushed back to Saturday.
The Blue have really been clicking lately . . . sure hope it continues through this weekend!
Hay alineación… https://twitter.com/LosDodgers/status/862807297268998144
Don’t look now, but the Houston Astros lead their division by six games.
Up comes one Asian pitcher, down goes another.
Grandal isn’t universally loved here, but credit where it’s due. Barnes gets good mention too.
https://dodgers.mlblogs.com/in-standout-week-for-dodger-bats-grandals-defense-not-to-be-ignored-6a650d95d9b3
Ryu in Colorado always frightens me.
Ryu has an ERA of 3.38 there. Klayton at 4.71. Klayton is in 18 games, Ryu is only 2. So perhaps he had a real great game there and a real bad one, and you remember the bad one.
The Rockies scare me, period.
Nostradamus
Anderson scratched. Fellow named Hoffman starting for Rox.
This will change the lineup, since Hoffman’s an RHP.
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Cómo dijiste… https://twitter.com/LosDodgers/status/862774777294999552
I recall listening to Sandy’s gno-gno v. the Gnats on the radio as, after dark, KFI’s signal reached all the way to Tacoma.