Padres at Dodgers, 7:10PT, TV: SNLA Spanish, SportsNet LA, ESPN2
Each team has won one game in the opening Clash of the Titans of the NL West, so tonight is the rubber match. The Padres send out Andrew Cashner, who’s 1-2 lifetime against the Dodgers. Don’t let that fool you, though. He’s got a 1.53 ERA with 45 Ks in 53 innings against the home team. His opponent will be Brandon McCarthy, who last year had a 2.61 ERA against the Padres in two starts for the D-Backs, giving up one run in 14 innings.
Adrian Gonzalez is 6 for 9 (.667) to start the season, with 2 singles, 2 doubles, 2 home runs and 4 runs scored. Jimmy Rollins and Howie Kendrick are each 3 for 8 (.375), Carl Crawford is 2 for 6, and nobody else has more than one hit.
Lineup:
Tonight's #Dodgers lineup vs. the @Padres. pic.twitter.com/1AS3kuDIDW
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 8, 2015
NPUT
Not every day you see MLB history being made. I am so proud of AGon.
a very nice win
If you had told me after three games neither Kershaw nor Greinke would have a win but McCarthy would I’d have been surprised to say the least.
Well friends, enjoy the off day tomorrow. Chat again on Friday.
See you then!
Yes! See ya Kemp and San Diego!
Yes! We win!
Man. Nothing easy about beating these Pads.
Naw – let’s close it out here quickly.
Vin, “unless there is a huge rally in the ninth inning…” You mean like last night?
Too bad. Puig gave it a good shot.
Lots of extra base hits in DS this series.
That was a charitable triple. Myers had it and it bounced out.
Game day has it a three-base error all the way.
Maybe they changed it.
Now they’ve changed it TO a triple. Oy! From Jon’s Dodger Insider post today:
“Jimmy Rollins reached third base in the eighth inning Wednesday on what was originally ruled an error. Today, the official scorer changed that
to a triple.”
Bounced right out of Myers’ glove.
Almost another one went out!
It’s up to Jimmy.
Need some 2 out hitting to make it happen.
Can they get AGon up to bat this inning?
Nice. Relatively smooth although JP did look a bit wild on some of those pitches.
I so want Howell to do well. Go JP!
D. S. sold out. I thought the crowd seemed lively!
Howell time. A bit nervous to see how JP does this evening. Here’s hoping for a clean inning.
Hope dashed.
He looked a lot better.
Long game again. I’m not noticing the supposed change in game speed yet.
Yeah – I was just thinking that I need to call it a night again soon. Then I realized that the game is only in the 7th inning.
2:51 for 7 1/3 innings. You’re right.
24 combined baserunners and 4 pitching changes will do that.
Grandal is like the anit-Gonzo so far this year at the plate.
He hit that ball solidly.
Yep – with nothing to show for it. He has done that several times in the last 2 games.
Nice work Baez! Liking this kid,
4 for 4, 4 RBI. Good night for Adrian.
Plus a gold glove and a silver bat.
Is it just me or is .769 batting average pretty good?
That was the first pitch that was on the inner half. Hit off the hands.
Beautiful!
We’ll take it!
The unintentional, intentional walk it looks like.
The way he is hitting tonight, I’m almost surprised he didn’t get the Bonds treatment.
AGon doesn’t need the ‘roids.
Pitching change in front of his AB.
What’s he gonna do now?
They will have to pitch to Gonzo with men on base if Puig doesn’t GIDP.
Good point.
They cant walk him to load the bases can they?
First and third no one out. Everyone hits. AGon might come up this inning, which could mean he might get 2 cracks at #4,
Great start joc
Pen not imploding tonight, so far.
That inning could have been much worse
Let’s hope theirs does.
Too bad. Up to that point he pitched as well as Kershaw did in the first game. We may need Gonzo to hit another one tonight yet.
I agree. He just got tired, and they were all over him. This Padre team is unrecognizable.
He lost it completely this inning.
Pull McCarthy!!!!
If this was last night, McCarthy would have been gone after the third pitch this inning.
And should have been.
McCarthy is done for the night….wonder how long til Mattingly will see it?
Just realized that AGon will be looking to drive another one in his next a bat – to go for 4 in a game!
They may IBB him
Good grief! Can we figure out what AGon is eating for breakfast and pass it around.
Doing it in the heavy air of April as well.
Go man go. Player of the week for sure!
Gonzo is a professional hitter.
Jack, as a cricket follower (if I remember correctly) did you catch any of the world cup?
Just listened to the finals on BBC. And mocked the Brit exchange pilot out our way for England’s sad performance/
Yes, they weren’t very good and the Aussies peaked just at the right time
Now back to baseball 🙂
I really only like the Test matches. Twenty20 and ODI seem too gimmicky. The powerplays, and limiting how many overs your best bowler can toss etc…
Test matches are my favourite
McCarthy also not looking like he will go the distance in this one. Closing in on 90 pitches.
A belated Happy New Year to all.
April, close enough 🙂
April 6 was my New Year.
start of real baseball, fair enough
Ethiopian New Year is Sept 11th.
First quiet inning for the Dodgers.
nicely done!
Alonso slow or just not risking it with Puig there
one more, lets mop this up
Always love it when the 8th hitter can extend the inning so the pitcher can bat not starting an inning. See if Joc can do that here.
Sadly, no.
Crawford looks several years younger than last year. How’d he do that?
Cashner not long for this game at this rate. Get to see more of that Padre bullpen soon I’m guessing.
Norris is tough to run on.
Howie looked a little slow, too.
Dude is unconscious! Another blast!
A-Gon!
curious to see that wild play later on when I check out the post match video
It’s not a “match,” John. It’s a “game.”
Cricket has matches, baseball has games.
Ha! Cultural differences for the win.
despite all the dramas, at least we have a 2 run lead
Thus far, I could certainly take another 197 innings of McCarthy.
Six Ks!
Inexplicable that Rollins would not go to third.
That last out was on JRoll. he could have walked to third.
That play reminds me of curling – sometimes a bunch of rocks spill everywhere out of the house, but the one you expect to move doesn’t!
I think Rollins should have gone to third.
Can’t blame Puig entirely for that one. McCarthy should have advanced to third on the misplay at the plate.
Wild inning.
What the heck is going on here? Crazy inning on both sides of the ball.
Hit it hard Puig – let’s crack this one open.
Huge roar of a cheer for McCarthy drawing the bases loaded walk!
Terrific AB by McCarthy.
bases clearing double would do
Everybody is hitting this inning.Let’s keep it rolling Joc!
Only the one mistake by McCarthy really, but it is enough for him to be behind after his first 2 innings.
Gameday Audio does this weird thing this year were it goes silent between innings. No commercials for me to listen to. Now that I think about it, last year I also got to listen to the Dodger pre-game show and often a bunch of the post-game show as well. This year it comes on about 1 minute before the first pitch.
Having early season trouble with my mlb.tv, so tough to stay awake fighting it.
Good start to the year for AGon! Too bad no one was on base for him.
Kemp Upton combo killing us.
Another case of not getting Matt out costing the Dodgers.
Chance to see McCarthy.
Here’s the Gio catch and throw WBBsAs mentioned below.
Ryun has some talent (possibly)
http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2015/04/08/116952224/video-hyun-jin-ryu-raps-in-korean-nh-card-commercial
As a pitcher, at least.
Giancarlo just made a spectacular catch and Puigish throw for a double play in Miami.