Diamondbacks at Dodgers, 7:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA
It’s a battle of righthanders as the D-Backs send out old friend Rubby De La Rosa to face off against Carlos Frias of the Dodgers. De La Rosa was sent to the Red Sox by the Dodgers as part of the trade which brought them Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford two years ago. Arizona acquired him in the off-season, and he’s gone 2-1 with a 4.68 ERA this year in 25 innings over 4 starts. Frias is making his first start of the year for the Dodgers after two relief appearances.
Update: Mark Saxon of ESPN has a discussion of the Dodgers’ bullpen and its management. Three different pitchers have been used in save situations at the MLB level, and it’s the same in the minors: “The Dodgers’ four minor-league affiliates have had a total of 14 pitchers record at least one save.”
Hmm. Interesting.
Lineup when available.
Tonight's #Dodgers lineup vs. the D-backs:
Pederson CF
Rollins SS
Kendrick 2B
Gonzalez 1B
Turner 3B
Ethier RF
Grandal C
Guerrero LF
Frias P
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 1, 2015
NPUT
“Three different pitchers have been used in save situations at the MLB
level, and it’s the same in the minors: ‘The Dodgers’ four minor-league
affiliates have had a total of 14 pitchers record at least one save.’”
“Hmm. Interesting.”
Considerably more interesting than the save statistic in its right.
Sorry WBB, Gnats won.
No, the Angles (sic) lost.
Hi all! Great game! I was watching while I exercised and cooked. Joc’s swing was a thing of beauty.
Third shutout of the season.
even nicer
Just wish our record when scoring 3 or less runs was a bit better than 1-8 so far this year.
Seven or more runs in four of our last six games.
nice
Woo Hoo!
What you said!
I wasn’t sure you were here, so I yelled.
We win!
Woo HOO!!!
JP continues not to fool anybody.
Coming in his babip was .450!
nice scott!
SVS!
Grandal needs to get untracked.
I expect he will. In the meantime, everyone else is picking him up.
Angles have tied the Gnats in the eighth.
That was an effective and efficient inning by Santos.
35 Hr in 22 games is pretty impressive
Scary to think that most of our games have been in pitcher friendly parks.
as Vin said after Either’s HR, in spring training the talk was our lack of HR’s this year after losing Kemp and that we would rely mainly on defence and Pitching
There were several articles by stat nerds suggesting that we might actually hit more dingers. But nothing like this!
You misspelled “defense.”
here we go again 🙂
You had a lot of colour to this blog without labouring to do it.
In the future I shall endeavour to spell in Traditional English. The first time could have been funny, the second, third, etc. is beating a dead horse.
http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/705640-beating-a-dead-horse
Sorry, WBBsAs, but it’s true.
I’d rather it were a cat.
To Say Nothing of the Dog
And even more so when you consider that in at least 2 games they didn’t any.
Guerrero falls under .400.
17 strikes, 3 balls. My goodness, Pedro!
Going to see the Dodgers in San Diego June 14 and June 15. First visit to Petco. One game in the second level, one game at the top. Any tips regarding food or anything else?
Avoid the rightfield stands or you’ll spend the night dodging Dodger home run balls.
Thanks. LOL!
The Dodgers are making good use of their hits tonight!
It’s the historic Ethier.
Historic?
At times like this, it”s hard to imagine paying someone else to have Dre play for them.
The Gnats had a lead, but look to be folding.
Nice recovery by Báez.
Ack. Get Goldie out and get hurt by Trumbo. Spoke too soon!
I’d say he’s earned another start.
Ayup.
Uh-oh.
Hanley woulda make that look easy, of course.
Frias is doing well so far. Good for him.
Pretty low pitch count, too.
2-1 strikes to balls.
It’s nice to see Goldschmidt come up trailing 5-0 with nobody on base.
Saw where Rubby’s changeup was supposed to be developing into a weapon.
Gameday says Dodgers have sent 2 of them over the fence.
Self-destruct weapon, maybe.
The one to Joc floated nicely to the heart of the strike zone. I don’t think he could have asked for a better pitch.
Think maybe he’s a keeper.
Joc put a really smooth swing on that pitch.
Kemp who?
I was quite amazed that with such a smooth swing, the ball ended up towards the top of the bleachers
Good thing they relieved his pressure…
Next stop, clean up.
Wow!
This should be fun, Joc in a situation where they have to throw him strikes.
I wasn’t expecting that much fun..wow!
That pitch was sure teed up for him.
I wonder how Steiner would have called that.
Same way I did here. Lazy fly ball to center, carrying, carrying, home run!
Vin withheld judgement.
Vin usually watches the outfielder, and since he didn’t cotton on to how far it was carrying til the end, neither did Vin.
Very fine first inning for Frías.
Gameday says every FB he threw 95 or better, one hitting 98. The 98 and three 97s to Goldschmidt.
Wonder how long he can go airing it out like that.
Wonder if Gameday is accurate.
I’d bat Guerrero higher, maybe ahead of Turner
Chase Utley is hitting .123, and is on a pace to drive in 91 runs.
No start for Van Slyke because his cousin, Miley, isn’t there anymore…
TJ for Homer Bailey. So much for this year. Wonder what will happen with Tanaka.
http://www.si.com/mlb/2015/05/01/homer-bailey-reds-tommy-john
It’s an epidemic. Tanaka sounds a very likely candidate.
Frías has been less than impressive, overall, but I don’t mind his getting the opportunity.
2.1 innings, 0 runs, 2 hits, 1 walk, 2 strikeouts so far this year. Light work, admittedly, but so far not so bad.
Results not bad, but inconclusive.
Impressive v the Nats in one start last year, then couldn’t get out of the first in Coors in his other.