Dodgers at Mets, 4:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA, MLBN
In Zack Greinke’s absence (no official word yet from the Dodgers about any newborn child) rookie Ian Thomas starts for the Dodgers against Jon Niese of the Mets. Thomas came over from the Braves with Callaspo in return for Juan Uribe in a six-player deal at the end of May of this year. This will be his first major league start after 23 relief appearances. Niese has been excellent over the past two months; he’s gone at least seven innings in five of his last seven starts while compiling a 2.00 ERA. Overall he’s 5-8 with a 3.36 ERA.
Update: Congrats to Mrs. Greinke and her husband Zack: 19″, 6 pounds, 5 ounces baby boy!
Lineup when available.
Tonight's #Dodgers lineup vs. Mets:
Pederson CF
Kendrick 2B
Turner 3B
Van Slyke 1B
Guerrero LF
Puig RF
Rollins SS
Barnes C
Thomas P #whiff
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) July 24, 2015
NPUT
It’s official.
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RHP Zach Lee will start for the Dodgers tonight. A corresponding move will be made later this afternoon.
11:45 AM – 25 Jul 2015
Oh, for him to do as well as Thomas last night.
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Also, Jon W. — http://dodgers.mlblogs.com/2015/07/25/zach-lee-to-make-mlb-debut-for-dodgers/
7 pitch 9th inning for Ravin, 6 strikes. Do that consistently and he’d have a spot in the pen.
Course, it was the Mets, down 5 going in.
With his fastball, he’s gonna have to strike out guys.
Maybe he was trying to and got luckier.
IIRC, a lot of recent contact off him has left the park or been XBH.
Woo-HOO!!! That’s Woo plus HOO plus !!!
SVS on his back!
??? Didn’t see and not able to follow closely.
In the ninth, he corralled a grounder about ten feet behind first and ended up on his back (so add another 6 feet) and then made a great toss to the pitcher running over to cover.
See next post. The GIF of this play is there.
You ladies and germs did good while I was out grocery shopping.
No major spats.
6-2 lead when I walked in. That’s what I was thinking of.
Knew what you were getting at. Just reporting back, sir.
Well done, lad.
(My ex-Navy Captain father used to have a line he’d use to get things moving: “Whatever you’re doing, Lieutenant, do it faster.”)
Barnes sure looks like a kid. Doesn’t have that grizzly catcher look yet.
Neither does Grandal, except for the Trump overcomb.
He has a jaw, however.
Rollins, Met killer.
Just finished my first draft of the latest manuscript! Yippee. A win would be icing on the cake. Go Blue.
Could you remind of the title of your mystery series?
Here’s the Amazon page.
Muito obrigado.
You may not like them, WBB. Lots of Buddhism and ooga-booga. ☺️
Admittedly, I lean toward Nordic noir, Ian Rankin and James Ellroy.
This one’s pretty dark, as mindful mysteries go…
I do like Robert Crais, whose humor makes him not quite so dark. I also like Michael Connelly, who is of course rather darker.
Link, saw your question about who was the human rain delay too late. But you answered it.
Also. pretty sure I heard Don Sutton as broadcaster refer to Alejandro Pena that way during a game long ago. Pena gave new meaning to “deliberate.”
Some years the Mets are helpless v starting LHP. The tradition continues tonight v Thomas.
As of July 9 they were 12-20 against left-handed starters this year.
Just came back, very nice
Read somewhere fairly recently the Dodgers might have been considering Niese. Oops…
“I am somebody!” yells Justin.
Team scoring matches inning so far…1,2,3. On pace for 39 after 9. Wonder what’s the most a team ever scored in 9 innings? Not that the record is in danger.
Like the math.
39+6 already scored, or 45. Probably like that math better. ;-])
Puig! Need to run up the score and hope the pen holds on. (kinda feel for the guy, whose wife is expecting).
Turner says “I used to play here!”
We are all over this guy (rumored to be possible Dodger acquisition).
Met announcers talking about possibility of Uribear moving to NY.
Great to score first (subject to challenge)!
Neise is also a late withdrawal due the same reason as Grienke – Via espn (couldn’t paste the link for some reason)
update – they have just updated the tweet to say, no that’s not correct and he will still pitch
Actually, Niese made it, but maybe he didn’t get much sleep last night.
Word is, everyone on the Padre roster is available. OK, how about Price and Kimbrel for Crawford, money, et al? Now WBBsAs will tell me why that is a dumb idea. He does enjoy that…
Nobody wants Crawford, though he has some limited value to the Dodgers, and that Pads can get a much better deal for Kimbrel. The Padres will not trade Price to the Dodgers in any event, because Price is not a Padre.
Guessing he might have meant Shields. In any event, would imagine that the Pads are looking to go in a different direction now that their original strategy has not worked. Probably looking for prospects. Not sure that Dodgers want would want to be saddled by Shields’ contract, but it’s an interesting proposal.
Minus Crawford’s Salary equals…
Didn’t bother to do the math, because they won’t take CC and his salary. They want prospects and salary relief.
I wonder what our overall record is in games started by spot starters who are called up from the minors, which will be the case today, or in games started by someone from the bullpen who is then followed by other relievers.
Can you tell a pitcher by his spots? Ballslinger and Frias had spot starts and then stuck. Their combined record is 10-8.
Ballslinger has been a find. What surprises me – and still concerns me – is that he throws so many curveballs but surrenders few homers. The more you throw, the higher probability of a hanger, I would think.
The panther is like a leopard,
Except it hasn’t been peppered.
Should you behold a panther crouch,
Prepare to say Ouch.
Better yet, if called by a panther,
Don’t anther.
Love Nash.
I saw your point, but I consider B and F part of the regular rotation. I am referring to the likes of Baker, Beachy, Huff. I am heading out to a local game. I will try to track this down later.
My point is that the record you are searching for is likely to be negative, in that if the spot starter had done well, he may have stuck in the Bigs like Ballslinger/Frias. Neither was part of the rotation before they got their spot start.
I count 8 of those games. Dodger record in such is 3-5.