Mets at Dodgers, 7:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA
It’s a battle of dueling lefties tonight at Chavez Ravine as Scott Kazmir (2-2, 5.68 ERA) of the Dodgers meets Steven Matz (4-1, 2.83 ERA) of the Mets. This is the first meeting of the two teams since last season’s Division Series, and the Dodgers had better have their hitting shoes on. After Matz they’ll face Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard and Bartolo Colon in this four-game series.
Lineup when available.
Hernandez LF
Kendrick 2B
Gonzalez 1B
Turner 3B
Puig RF
Thompson CF
Ellis C
Culberson SS
Kazmir P— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 9, 2016
NPUT
After a full nights sleep, I offer this deeply mined gem this morning. Looking at the last 4 games, the Dodgers win when the other team scores 2 runs but they lose when they score 2 runs.
Disappointing to wake up this morning and learn that you had all let me down. When will you get the offense going?
My record is now 0-3. What to do?
Convene a fans’ meeting.
Night all. Catch you tomorrow. At least SF lost too.
I’m not too much of a “booing” fan but I’m not above calling out “Boring!”.
And just to clarify – I don’t find baseball boring, just the team’s play at times.
Frustrating at times for me, rather than boring.
All too often at home this season our hitters have all the fizz of a bottle of soda left out for a day without the cap on.
Frustration.
Dodger hitting at home is sick. And not the good kind.
Great at bat by JT.
Turner with the loud foul ball but at least gets a walk out of the deal. I’d be fine if Puig launched one here and now.
Me, too.
Sloppy game. Our turn for an unearned run.
The Mets are not doing themselves any favours with their base running. And yet they still lead.
Maybe the Dodgers need to bring a bit of dirt from an away park (SD or Colorado perhaps) to give them good luck when they play at home.
Dodgers are 3-7 in the first game of series so far this year. Might be 3-8 after tonight.
Of course, they are 6-3 and one tie in those series…
Just joining tonight’s discussion. Enjoyed the comments, not the score. My wife and I just finished watching the first season of Home Fires, a six-episode Masterpiece series on PBS. Set in a small British community at the start of World War 2. Nicely crafted. Good character development. Second season is in the works.
Let’s get this third out now, Blanton.
He listened. You must have good seats. 🙂
Or a loud voice.
Ha!
Jays beating the team from SF.
Trayce – too many errors my friend.
Sticky mitt.
Nice in cutting the ball off.
Phew! Time to get two back.
And an inexcusable right down the middle pitch to Matz.
Big difference in the game thus far – their pitcher got a hit after a fielding error and our’s did not.
Truth.
Bad error by Kendrick.
Kazmir looking less terrible. More strikes.
One more inning like that and Scotty will be the proud owner of a Quality Start. Who woulda thunk it?
somehow we are right back in this game
A couple of Met mistakes and some good defense.
Fell asleep for a few moments there. Woke up to Kazmir striking out to end last inning. It seems like the Dodgers woke up a bit themselves.
Thompson homer was sweet to see, and the Mets bobbled a few to keep the inning going.
How ’bout a wild pitch?
Trayce!
No sooner said…
Would be nice to stop the picket from going up every inning.
We are getting seriously out-pitched.
And out hit. But base running we are winning!
Not a good at bat by Hernandez.
Need a double play here in a big way.
Got one! Sort of…
I’ll take it and won’t apologize for bad base running by the Mets.
Kazmir is going to drop way down in the rotation once McCarthy and/or Ryu come back.
Can’t happen soon enough for me. He hasn’t pitched with any confidence all season, as far as I can tell.
He is definitely this year’s Latos.
And this year’s Latos is 5-0 and ERA 2,62.
So we should enjoy Kazmir more next year.
Whether we like it or not.
Feels like forever since I posted here even though it was just last week. Nice to be back in the loop!
Now we need to score at least 3 – uh make that 4 – runs in this one.
Nice play by Hernandez!
Coming into tonight Kazmir led the staff with 7 dingers surrendered.
Apparently he really doesn’t want to give up his lead.
Honeycutt needs to explain good stats v. bad stats.
Ha!
Which Met will hit a homerun this inning?
Kazmir continues to impress. Not.
What is happening?!?!?! They’ve hit 30 on the road, according to Vinny.
In case you’re wondering: Top 20 list of players, leadoff home runs, career.
Ichiro a lot higher on that list than I might have thought.
I was surprised too. Soriano moved to the 3-4 hole or he might have caught Rickey.
Okay, Kazmir. No. More. Dingers.
Been looking forward to this series Their pitchers not so much. Hope the Dodgers are over their collective slump on offense.
Clearly the Mets are not suffering the same drought.
They are 4th best in NL on offense (OPS+) so far this season.
Oh good lord.
A couple seconds behind on the telecast, but I could have guessed based upon your reaction.
Here at the game with my husband. Let’s hope we win this one.
Long day today, on the ferry to Colonia and the bus to Montevideo (where taxi drivers actually yield to pedestrians at crosswalks). Going out to an early (8 p.m. dinner) and then will crash – probably will see little if any of tonight’s game, but counting on you all to bring home a Dodger victory.
Your winter approaches!
No, my summer. I fly home on the 26th.
Bus route.
Buquebus!