Game 1, Dodgers at Rockies, 12:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA. This is a makeup game for one that was postponed due to weather on May 9.
Juan Nicasio is 1-1 with a 1.29 ERA in 16 games and 21 innings. He’s struck out 28 and walked 11 in those appearances, all in relief. His longest stint has been 3 inning on May 2. He’ll face Jorge De La Rosa, who’s 1-2 with a 6.51 ERA and no appearances since May 21 due to a cut finger.
Lineup:
#Dodgers lineup for first game today:
Pederson CF
Heisey RF
Gonzalez 1B
Kendrick 2B
Turner 3B
Guerrero LF
Hernandez SS
Barnes C
Nicasio P
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) June 2, 2015
Game 2, Dodgers at Rockies, 5:40PM PT, TV: SPNLA
Zack Greinke is 5-1 with a 1.48 ERA.
Over his previous five starts — a stretch that’s covered 34 1/3 innings — Greinke owns a 1.05 ERA and has yielded just five runs (four earned). He’s struck out 31, walked only seven and hasn’t given up more than one run in a start since April 29.
His opponent will be David Hale, who’s 1-0 with a 2.70 ERA in his only game in the big leagues this year. He went 6 2/3 innings.
Lineup:
#Dodgers lineup for game two:
Pederson CF
Hernandez 2B
Gonzalez 1B
Grandal C
Ethier RF
Callaspo 3B
Rollins SS
Heisey LF
Greinke P
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) June 2, 2015
NPUT
Giants just lost their fifth straight, 5-2, to the Pirates.
This regression to the mean I like.
They are finding their level.
Gnats losing again this afternoon, but only 2-1 after six.
losing even more now
Interesting tweet–
@EephusBlue
Eephusblue retweeted Emma Span
Can you blame Olivo though? Wanted to taste greatness.
I’ll see myself out.
Eephusblue added,
Emma Span
@emmaspan
Alex Guerrero’s grand slam made me look up Miguel Olivo. Currently playing for los Toros de Tijuana. Bet his teammates don’t argue with him.
Gnatfan Brisbee summarizes his team’s rotation after BadGums:
“Tim Hudson is 40 and erratic
Ryan Vogelsong is basically 40 and erratic
Tim Lincecum throws 40 and is erratic
Chris Heston is … wait, where did this guy come from, and why did we trust him so quickly?
Jake Peavy is hurt and erratic
Matt Cain is the best and the truth and probably our salvation but … likely to be erratic as all heck”
Gnats lose.
Yahoo!(That’s a post-Subway yell.)
Gnats down 7-4 at the moment.
That would be the icing on this cake.
Enjoy your icing.
Icing? Icing is what the Blackhawks and Lightning are doing in the Stanley Cup finals!
Jordi Mercer hits first dinger of season, and Gnats go silently in bottom of fifth. Now 6-4 Bucs.
Thank you friends. That was fun to do together!
I can’t get used to all the power this year. From everywhere, it seems.
I’m also impressed . . . but when the power was turned off, they didn’t win. This could have been a much easier win with non-HR clutch hitting.
I know it’s a long season and all that, but when everything that was working it turned off at the same time, I wonder which is the anomaly — the success or the failure.
They were 3-8 RISP (.375), which is pretty clutch.
Not just today — the last three weeks. That’s when the power was off.
What a game. Just, wow.
We win!
Hear that, Down Under, John?
Got it! Great win
Woo-HOO!!!!
18 innings is enough baseball
Have you ever sat through a doubleheader in a stadium? I’ve done it for college ball, and my backside was some tired afterwards.
O’s-Yanks at Camden Yards in 1996. Previous night was a rainout, so they let everyone stay for two games the next day. (O’s were swept).
I saw the Dodgers sweep the Astros on September 11, 1966. Koufax pitched a shutout in the first game, and Dodgers also won via shutout in game two behind Joe Moeller and others. See http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=196609111LAN and http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=196609112LAN
I went to many doubleheaders when I was a Tacoma Giants fan in the 1960s. The PCL always played Sunday doubleheaders, with game two shortened to seven-innings. One I saw was a seven-inning no-hitter by Dick Lemay (https://books.google.com/books?id=qZjZZZCJzugC&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=%22dick+lemay%22+tacoma+no-hitter&source=bl&ots=ns67VU8aBc&sig=Hpu8e80NCf7LjhUhGhFoa1vF68M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JxFvVdGiFsH3oATSqYLgDQ&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22dick%20lemay%22%20tacoma%20no-hitter&f=false)
KK-enley!
Come on KJ.
Get the K, KJ!
2 outs.
Could this be any tenser?
Or is it “more tense”?
Just make it past tense, please! With all of us here being happy!
I’ve added an extra element – watching Interstellar with my wife.
You, sir, are a sucker for punishment.
C’mon, KJ — get the K!
Ruh roh.
Can’;t give an extra base away, especially to the tying run . . . shoot!
1 down.
K-enley!
Man these Rockies are tough outs.
Tough even when they are out (grab some pine Tulo!)
Imposing trio coming up for CO.
But Kenley is imposing as well . . .
worse thing is that we were supposed to have no internet about an hour ago while they do maintenece here at school. I bet it will stop after Kenley gets 2 outs 🙂
You still might hear a large yell from the west coast if it’s a W!
A woo and a HOO?
Didn’t wanna jinx it . . .
I shall now take that comment back.
In re-reading, it’s not claiming it, just clarifying it.
Let’s hope it’s not a moot point!
Basehit, WP, PB, HPB, error . . .
bell has gone, first pitch HR so I can relax 🙂
class is back in 3 minutes, I might have to take secret looks at my computer once they are working
Pop quiz!
maybe do an under desk tidy, for about ten minutes!
And hope for a quick, perfect inning by Kenley.
Get them to watch with you!
lets get some insurance
Yes — make it a non-save situation!
and still bring in Kenley!
I saw “In play, run(s),” and I was hoping, please not a single. And it wasn’t.
Felt like it took forever to leave the stadium.
turning point of the season (I know, I know, there is still work to do)
— IF they hold on, yes!
It could very well be that if Kenley can hold the lead in this hitters’ park.
The team was already on track to win 96 games, so not sure what you mean.
Probably he feels the same way I do . . . that they’re not playing like a 96-game-winning team.
Speaking for myself, they haven’t these last three weeks.
I thought you were all about wins?
I am, but they weren’t keeping that pace that they set earlier.
What would the pace be if they played like they did these last three weeks? I know it shouldn’t last, but that’s the feeling I have and why this could be a turning point . . . plus it would mean a comeback late in the game — which, we established earlier, is not common for them.
The first month they were on pace to win 100 games, so I suspect that raised some expectations.
Count me in that category!
You never know . . . are they that good . . . are they THIS bad?
As you always say, Bob, it’s a long season — and I don’t think you can really assess until at least the last third of the year.
More worried about the pitching in the long haul than the hitting. It has improved but not sure of how sustainable it is after Klayton and Zach.
I mean give them the confidence that they can win games in any situation, even if they are down and out
Sure, but that is Coors. Being a hitters’ park chances of coming back are higher, but on the other hand, no lead is safe.
Holy guacamole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOU08tMaQJY
Mile High Miracle?
I like that . . . but it ain’t over yet. But the Fat Lady — and Kenley — is warming up.
I bet Kenley suddenly jumped up to his feet
I don’t believe it!
The supporting cast set it up.
It IS a team effort!
You are still watching?
Grins. On Gameday.
Oh yea!!!!!
How about that!
Guerrero GRAND SLAM!!!!!
Down to his last strike . . .
wow, wow and wow
I like our chances much better with the 3 who are coming up next
Two have made out, without anyone scoring.
WP or PB will not be turned away.
Nor HPB, BB, etc.
Turner for the lead !?!
From your keyboard . . .
I’ve seen you write that several times, what does that phrase actually mean?
The actual phrase, I believe, is ‘From your lips to God’s ear.’
All three came through!
Ya never know!
LET’S GO, DODGERS!
wow, you are ahead of me, I only have the first single
I know that time warp feeling!
Keep proving me wrong, Blue!
you have to start somewhere
Amen!
at .220, .211 and .125 it would take a miracle!
So far, they’re doing their job!
Prove me wrong . . . let’s go, Dodgers!
The three batters coming up probably inspire as much fear in the Rockies as they do hope in me.
Ravin hitting from 98 to 100 mph on the gun.
Who he?
Tonight’s winning pitcher.
we need Puig back and fast
or SOME sparkplug
we need his enthusiasm as much as his bat
Oh man. I’m gonna write this day off.
Zack has an off game — the Stopper is stopped.
Road woes continue.
If they lose this one, it’s the 3rd doubleheader CO has swept from LA.
We need some magic here.
Not that inning.
No. A K and two ground balls to the infield didn’t help.
We were excited earlier in the year when the Dodgers came back a couple of times later in the game . . . but I don’t believe that’s held up, has it?
I believe that they have only won one game were they were behind going into the 8th.
Nothing like a double header to expose all the weak spots and missing pieces a team has. Heisey and Callaspo in the lineup reminds me the Dodgers are not all the way healthy.
So true.
Would have loved to cash in Joc from third there but will certainly take the one run to tie it up.
Zack is off the hook.
Great job, Joc!
AND some wheels!
C’mon, Joc — basehit!
Bad game for Zack not to be in Stopper mode.
Man, these two games are annoying me.
It’s Coors, Jake
Usually kind to the Dodgers, I thought.
Makes for weird annoying games in general.
not good
deja vu double play
Hale with the ex-hale.
Zack! What are you DOING?!?
Ack. Lead cut in half.
C’mon, Zack. Don’t give them an opening here.
Following the fist game of today’s double-header against the Rockies, the Dodgers announced that they have designated left-hander David Huff for assignment and selected the contract of right-hander Josh Ravin from Triple-A Oklahoma City. Additionally, catcher Austin Barnes has been optioned to Triple-A, and lefty Daniel Coulombe has been recalled in his place.
Is the “fist game” the one that makes me to punch out the wall?
Lots of grammatical errors on MLBTR. They need an editor who didn’t cut class to play ball. Speaking of which, should there be a “want” between ‘me’ and “to”?
Woot woot!
Agoner!
Package is so upset with the strikeouts that he can’t bear to watch.
The strikeouts don’t bother him nearly as much as the home runs. He can’t admit Kemp was adequately replaced.
Kemp is also a big K guy and was a subpar OFer, but Package prefers to overlook that.
Joc chasing Stanton!
Different pitching, different game hopefully.
Steinered again! In a good way this time.
http://dodgers.mlblogs.com/2015/06/02/exit-barnes-and-huff-enter-coulombe-and-ravin/#comments
AAA closer Aardsma (how’s that for “a”lliteration?) is in the midst of a 72-hour window in which he has exercised a June 1 opt-out and has made it plain he plans to go to the majors elsewhere, if not with the Dodgers.
Solid at OKC this year, sitting 91-93 with good #s…2.55 ERA, 15 saves (fwiw), 1.08 WHIP fashioned via 12 hits & 7 BB over 17.2 IP. 21Ks, no dingers.
Solid as Seattle closer 2009-2010 but erratic later years. ERA+ 169 in 09 TJ in 2011 and hip surgery before that would appear to be in rear view mirror.
All that to say this: Can’t send Hatcher down to work out problems, so maybe time for his exit….replaced by Aardsma. Appears Aardsma deserves a chance in LA somehow.
Question fat chance, but could Hatcher voluntarily go down to work out kinks?
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-city-dodgers-david-aardsma-says-hes-ready-for-a-return-to-the-majors/article/5424412
Perhaps Hatcher is related to Mattingly.
Or has compromising photos.
Could develop an injury.
Can’t say that I comprehended Mattingly’s strategy with pitchers today. Was he playing for the split of the twinbill? Can any of you out there give me your takes on this?
Bad manager.
I like all the responses, but John Galt’s I rate the highest.
Making it up as he went along? Distracted by something off the field?
Did seem as if he wasn’t following a set plan, except to just “get through this somehow.”
It did feel like it was a bit of a waste of game this afternoon.
Bullpen game. Didn’t want to commit the better part of hit unless the offense was up to snuff.
Essentially, then, Don decided Jorge de la Rosa was too tough, and it was better to forfeit. A real head-scratcher.
Why all the second guessing on Donnie on this one? The offense only scored 3 runs. Why waste the pen?
This game is gradually drifting away from the Dodgers.
Don managing like spring-training game.
Maybe Donnie looked at the calendar and saw it was still spring.
A Barnes flies out to B Barnes.
JP taking a literal beating this inning,
Still time for Dodgers to come back.
I think the Rockies are trying to break Thomas.
Or the Dodgers are.
Alex doesn’t seem to have much of an arm, but I guess the Rox knew that already.
That play at first turning out to big this inning. Hope AGon can come through here.
Can we get something out of nothing here?
Yep! With chances for more!
Looked like it was bobbled to me (from the 2nd base view)
NYC does not agree.
I don’t recall asking them.
The Rox asked them, though.
Multiple choice quiz:
The Dodgers have a new pitcher today. Last name Thomas. First name has only 3 letters. Is it…
A) Ian
B) DFA
C) Both
Now if he hits a dinger…
Points for the bat flip.
Two of them in same AB.
With the way Stults pitched against the Dodgers – 3 innings and no runs IIRC – maybe the Dodgers should have had him up pitching today and not Thomas.
I think the Dodgers will still score a bunch this afternoon – and I think they will need to in order to win this game.
Averaging 7.3/game so far this year at Coors.
We may need all of that – including the point 3.
I’m not expecting much from Ian Thomas (whose flight back to OKC is probably already booked).
Nicasio injured or was around 40 pitches the plan?
Probably around the number of pitches they wanted him in for, but may have hoped that he could have gone three
It was both — they were limiting to 45; figuring 15 per inning would’ve been 3.
Living up to expectations.
Or down.
“HR: Pederson (15)…” halfway to his AAA total of last year.
On a pace to hit 45 or more.
I think he is a keeper
I know batting order supposedly doesn’t make a lot of difference, except hitters near the top get some more ABs, and normaly the best hitter is 3rd.
But DM can come up with some headscratchers. Why would you want Heisey second, moreso than any of the other RHB in the lineup today (since he does the L-R thing as much as he can)?
Not the best RHB, Under pressure to prove himself and stick on the roster. Fewer ML ABs this year than regulars…..there could be other reasons why not, but I’ll avoid that particular rabbit hole.
Joc has homered off lefties on three consecutive days.
Joc-ularity!
Quite a swing that Joc has!
But he struck out his last AB…
Joc!!!!!!!
MLBTR on HanRam and the Red Sox and their issues–
“As if trouble on offense and in the rotation were not enough, the Globe’s Alex Speier discusses the team’s sub-par overall efforts on defense. Errors have not generally been a big problem on the whole, but advanced metrics view the Sox as one of the league’s worst defensive units. The biggest problem, says Speier, is that Ramirez has been the league’s single worst fielder by a significant margin. Remarkably, Ramirez has cost the club about one quarter of a run per game thus far, and Speier observes that there are no ready solutions (other than continuing to work toward and hope for improvement) given Boston’s current roster alignment.” More…
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2015/06/red-sox-notes-offseason-farrell-hanram.html
Hard to believe, but Hanley’s a better SS than LF. But he’s a much better DH than either.
They lost the 3rd base option when they picked up Panda.
Phlablo’s range is limited, but he has pretty good reflexes and soft hands.
Didn’t look like one to send the runner on. It made it to the rightfielder so quickly.
Listening with half an ear. Quick first inning.
Missed the first. Jon is scoring the 18 innings like a boxing match. Who won the first?
So we have three catchers on the active roster? I think that is good.
I expect that will be the case only through today’s games. Barnes probably already has a ticket back to OKC.
Latest news from FIFA: “No Blatter, No Blatter, No Blatter.”
Except he’s still around through December or so, because the rules say four months notice of a meeting must be given to all members. Yo! FIFA! Y’all heard of videoconferencing?
I wonder what happened within the last few days for him to decide to resign. The indictments came several days earlier.
If this were a movie, I’d say someone from the US DOJ met privately with Sepp and said “do you really want to continue, punk? Do you?” all the while showing him a few more of the cards DOJ holds.
Wow that is huge news. And good news i would say.
Believe that having them physically there together facilitated the arrests in this instance.
FIFA’s fatal flaw, though, is called “soccer.”
I was wondering what they were talking about… Got no use for those foreigner games. Real Americans play Baseball, Football, Basketball.
I’ve never cared for handegg, and have lost almost all interest in basketball. I enjoy cycling, but only as a participant.
Me too. I only watch baseball now and that damn little thanks to the greedy Dodgers.
Story on putting SVS on the DL says the Dodgers added Heisey and Thomas and now have 26 players. What are the circumstances that allow a team the extra player on the active roster?
Doubleheader, I think. I saw that somewhere last night. Here you go.
Thanks, all, for the explanations and the links.
I don’t think there are any. I believe they must reduce roster to 25 by game time. Where did you see story?
Allowed when playing doubleheader. Player 26 can play in both, if desired. Of course, roster has to be trimmed back afterward.