Mets at Dodgers, 7:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA
It’ll be Noah Syndergaard (2-2, 2.58 ERA and 49 Ks) for the Mets and Kenta Maeda (3-1, 1.66 ERA only 35 Ks) for the Dodgers. Syndergaard hasn’t won in his last three starts, while Maeda has lost and gotten no decision in his last two. Something’s Gotta Give.
Lineup:
Utley 2B
Seager SS
Kendrick 3B
Gonzalez 1B
Grandal C
Pederson CF
Puig RF
Crawford LF
Maeda P— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 11, 2016
NPUT
I’m deeply disappointed at your letting me down.
Sorry WBBsAs. ~ hangs head in shame ~ We should have listened to you when you told us to pitch around Thor. We thought you were joking because he was 0-8 with 6 k’s.
I switched the TV back to SPNLA just in time to hear Orel and Jerry tell me Thor knocked in all four runs with home runs. Last time that happened to the Dodgers it was by Lou Burdette of the Braves. The Milwaukee Braves.
Hurmph. That was a silly loss. 4 rbi’s by the opposing pitcher is a dumb way to lose.
Exactly.
Bah! Humbug!
9 one run games tonight.
Well, there goes the dreaded 2 barrier. Unfortunately, it looks like it wont help the Dodgers to have broken it.
I would be fine with double, single here. Or single, double would work as well.
I didn’t expect our bats to do much against the Mets, so I am not surprised by these three games . . . thus far.
Time to channel the Royals from last years World Series.
Hello, Mr. Nasty!
Who is that?
Familia’s nickname. Senhor Sucio.
Okay, Thanks.
Good start Gonzo!
No Noah?
So, we need a base runner.
Bullpen’s been lights out.
Blanton just dodged two bullets. Smart of Grandal to go talk to him.
Three more outs for us to turn this around. Crazy that their pitcher’s offense is what has made all the difference so far.
Hindsight is 20-20, but I wonder why Kendrick, hovering around ,200, was put in the 3 slot tonight against this pitcher.
Been on the upswing and hitting .320 since the start of the road trip.
Just what we didn’t need.
Tying run at the plate.
But not for long.
I wish we could get Thor out of there, but it’s not looking likely.
Another loud Puig out.
Just missed it.
Nice!
Nice k by Coleman. Dodger still in this.
However: Will this be another night where the 2 run barrier comes into play? It would be the 6th straight game if it does.
Though they have the dreaded deuce.
We are in lock step tonight it would appear.
Only because you made me so painfully aware.
Well, the law of averages would say – ah nevermind…
Hatch to the rescue!
Best inning he’s pitched all season.
Law of averages says Noah will not get a third home run here. With the bases loaded.
Will he be arrested if he does?
Yes. By the police of averages.
aka the mod squad
Hatcher? Dave Roberts living dangerously on his Bobblehead night.
I’m not here! I’m not here!
Sorry RBI it may still turn around tonight, However, it does look like you will have to wait another night to see them win “at home”.
If there was a fourth out in baseball, I bet it just would have been ‘grounded out to third’
That is just cruel
Ridiculous.
Maeda has outpitched Syndergaard. Except when pitching to Syndergaard.
Not so much this inning.
I still stay Maeda is wonderful.
My goodness.
Curses!
Oh nuts.
Yasmani with the dinger and then the fumble.
Just back from seeing Scherzer mow down 20 batters with strikeouts. 80% of his pitches were strikes. (he hit 97 on the radar in the ninth-really pumped up).
Wow.
Have you been to any other games where that kind of historical significance happened?
Heh, heh.
Two dingers!
So apparently the Pads have no problems with the Cubs. They win both ends of a double-header 7-4 and 1-0. Revenge of 1984.
Uhh except the Padres won that series too. Nice one Dave. (smh)
Grandel!! In the battle of solo home runs we are winning 2-1!
Corey! Man it would be great if his bat continued to come alive this month,
Corey!!!!
Maeda only gives up solo home runs. And hits them too so I guess he understands how it happens.
Bummer that it was Thor. Mets fans went nuts.
Didn’t realize there were so many Met supporters there but on the radio I could hear a fair bit of cheering and was surprised.
Back at the stadium, but I’m afraid it may mean we lose, so pretend I’m at home, ‘kay?
So you are comfy on the couch eating some popcorn, remote control in hand. Sounds fine to me. Nothing to worry about at all.
Maeda is wonderful.
I love the fact that the relatively obscure pitcher named Tom Cheney holds the record for most strikeouts in a game (of any length). He threw 16 innings of 1 run ball and struck out 21. Got to figure that someday that record will be tied or perhaps broken they way strikeouts are on the rise currently. However he did it back in September 12, 1962 and no pitcher has matched or surpassed him yet.
I mention all this because Scherzer struck out 20 earlier tonight in Washington.
Just checked Baseball Reference for Cheney’s game score for that night –
a very amazing 115.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BAL/BAL196209120.shtml
Faced 62 batters. If he averaged only three pitches per batter (they didn’t record pitch counts back then) that’s 186 pitches.
I recall reading Tom Boswell writing about this game in one of his books. Man, I loved reading Angell and Boswell when I was a kid/young man.
Dodgers doing that leaving runners on base thing again. But it is still good to move through the lineup and cause Thor (as if Noah is not enough of a significant name) to throw extra pitches.
So Bob H – how did you enjoy the Nats/Tigers game? Not much to talk about I guess…
Just got back! Wow.
Must have been so exciting! Were you rooting hard for 21?
For sure. Wanted Rendon just to sit on the grounder.
You could have been stuck on 19 because the Nats fielder almost caught a foul ball earlier in the inning. The ball landed in the stands and then the batter struck out a pitch or two later.
Yeah, Vizquel, Tigers first base coach, was teasing Zimmerman on that one). BTW, saw Vizquel misplay a ball that came his way. He was chagrined when the crowd got on him and pretended to remove a rock in the path which he blamed.
Heading to bed, so I hope i wake up to another Dodger win!
Haven’t been able to comment for a while. But at least wanted to post this gem from Blue Jay manager Gibbons from right after Maeda faced his club . Gives a good idea how Maeda does what he’s doing–
“”He has a great, late-breaking slider. He lives on the edges,” Gibbons said of Maeda. “His fastball reads 90 mph, but with all the breaking pitches, it plays a lot better than that. He was pretty dominating, he really was. He’s having a [heck] of a year, he really is. It was a heck of a pitched game.”
Storen escapes the tenth, but if the Jays don’t score here I doubt his ability to get through another scoreless inning.