Brewers at Dodgers, 7:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA
Taking the place of Carlos Frias, who’s been on the DL since July 1 with lower back tightness, is the Dodgers’ latest reclamation project Brandon Beachy. He’ll be making his first major league start in nearly two years. He last pitched for the Atlanta Braves in August 2013, then had Tommy John surgery (for the second time!) in March of 2014 and has been rehabbing ever since. In four years with the Braves he was 14-11 with a 3.23 ERA. None of those numbers mean a thing now.
Sports Illustrated’s current issue (July 6, 2015) has an illuminating article which cites a study showing that only 67% of pitchers who undergo Tommy John surgery fully recover. And a different statistician cites his numbers to indicate that one of every two pitchers who undergo the surgery throws fewer than 100 innings in the rest of his career.
For Beachy’s sake let’s hope he fits in the “more than 100 innings” category.
His opponent will be rookie right-hander Taylor Jungmann, who’s 3-1 with a 2.43 ERA in six big league starts.
Lineup when available.
Tonight's #Dodgers lineup vs. Brewers:
Pederson CF
Kendrick 2B
Turner 3B
Gonzalez 1B
Grandal C
Puig RF
Ethier LF
Rollins SS
Beachy P
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) July 11, 2015
NPUT
Another day, another loss. But four days of not losing coming up… It would be nice to see Seager, Olivera, and a couple of non-reclamation-project pitchers next Friday.
They still have the third-best record in all of MLB.
Are you happy with them?
No Woo, only woe.
Boo-hoo…
Not exactly a day at the Beach(y).
Get ’em tomorrow, Mr. Anderson.
A run!
I hate Parra. Did I mention that?
Jungman only at 70 pitches.
Hate to say it, but I think that’s the game.
So glad we won last night. Still have a chance to win the series tomorrow afternoon.
Full disclosure – I have the game on the radio but I am watching slinky videos youtube. Earlier tonight I was listening to the Stuff You Should Know podcast and the episode was on the slinky. Some fascinating stuff, including the crazy fact that the bottom of a slinky remains motionless when you extend the whole slinky and drop it. That is, it remains motionless until the top of the slinky compresses down to where the bottom is. Anyway, it looks very cool and has kept me more entertained than the Dodger game this evening.
And now the Giants are winning in their game to boot.
Phils only up by one now against San Fran.
Still only have 2 hits. Whoa.
I loathe Parra, whatever team he is on. He just kills us.
Brewers are not playing like a last place team.
Puig with the cannon to throw out the runner at second base!
Glad to see the Giants losing their game as well.
Gnats closing the gap. Ours is widening.
We sure are swinging early and often. Guy has less than sixty pitches (they must look good).
Nice inning by Tsao.
Enough with the hitting the ball over Ethier’s head and off the wall already Brewers.
And yet, another double play the Dodger hit into.
Team ranks (seems like the right word) second to the Braves in the NL in that category.
Yes, I see what you did there. Takes base runners to be a contender in this fight however. So good news/bad news kinda thing.
Dodgers rank only 9th in baserunners in the NL, just above the league average. Braves rank second.
Ha – your superior stats defeat my glib comments.
Yes, but the remark stimulated the search and brought us all greater understanding of the team’s performance.
I’ll split the royalties with you 75-25 – with you taking the lion’s share obviously.
I think that “reeks” is the right word, actually.
I would also take a 4 run fourth inning.
Dee dislocated a thumb and will miss the ASG.
Bummer.
I guess we will need a 4 run seventh rather than just 3.
Boy, that was a meatball that Beachy tossed up there.
Ooph. Welcome back to the big leagues, Beachy.
No eyes, what was the challenge about?
Whether the runner should have been allowed to score on the ground rule double, since it hit off of Ethier’s knee. It’s all a wash now with the 3 run double by Gomez.
My mistake – apparently it was whether or not the ball hit the wall before bouncing off Ethier. That is, whether it was a ground rule double or a home run.
Beachy is in tough again. And likely down 1-0.
Well, not for the moment anyway. Runners on 2nd and 3rd.
Yasmani is not the brightest base runner sometimes.
So, I asked Jon at Dodger Insider earlier today if he knew what the heck was in SVS’s non-glove hand when he made that sprawling catch last night. Unfortunately Jon said he didn’t see it so he didn’t know. The mystery remains – unless one of you fine people figured it out.
Jon’s got access. He could look at the video (it’s on Dodgers.com) and ask. C’mon, Jon!
I wish I had linked it like you did last night. But I mentioned that it was viewable online, but haven’t heard back on that. My guess, Jon is a busy guy and has better things to do than solve Scooby-Doo type mysteries.
The job plus a family life. What a concept!
Perhaps Link, you or someone else, more closely – geographically and
relationally – connected to Jon, could get Jon to take a look!
Boy, if a Dodger Insider can’t tell us, who can!?
Beachy getting out of a mini jam there, which is good to see.
Further to the discussion of A-Gon and his GIDP numbers, here’s a list of the single-season records for that dubious distinction. The most in a season has been 36, set by Jim Rice in 1984. Rice came close again the next year, hitting into 35 DPs. The third guy on the list at 32 surprises me, because Billy Butler was a pretty darned fast runner. Adrian has hit into 28 once and 24 twice during his career. Howie Kendrick has hit into as many as 26 once.
I love those lists that have the career, progressive, active and season by season records. I spend far too much time looking at that stuff. We should all be tracking Albert Pujols to see how far up the all time list he can go, Currently, he is in 9th spot with 304 GIDP, with Julio Franco in his sights at #8 with 312. He has been averaging 22 a year, so he could conceivably pass Cal Ripken’s 350 GDIP and move into first place on the list within a couple of years.
You are weird.
Ha. I legitimately laughed out loud when I read that! 🙂
And didn’t necessarily disagree with you.