Diamondbacks at Dodgers, 7:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA, ESPN
First, this is not good news:
Dodger starter Zack Greinke will miss his start tonight with calf soreness. He is expected to take his next turn in the rotation.
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) September 23, 2015
The Diamondbacks start Chase Anderson (6-6, 4.52 ERA) against the perennial All Star To Be Determined (as of 1:45PM PT). Anderson is taking the place of Rubby De La Rosa, who’s had a tough time with the Dodgers this season (0-3, 11.21 ERA).
Lineup (and pitcher) when available.
Carlos Frias starts for the Dodgers.
Tonight's #Dodgers lineup:
Utley 2B
Seager 3B
Gonzalez 1B
Ethier RF
Grandal C
Van Slyke LF
Pederson CF
Rollins SS
Frias P #whiff
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) September 23, 2015
No Seager today. Perhaps he stayed up past his bedtime last night: https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/647090988431704064
I just watched Kemp’s error on the fly ball by the Busted Poseur in the ninth last night. He truly butchered that one.
Good thing for us he doubled in the bottom of the ninth.
That sub-standard bullpen the FO assembled failed yet again last night.
MLB let me “watch” Tuesday’s game. By which I mean I watch a couple of innings and go to bed early. It’s DVRd if I want to watch it next day. Last night was supposed to be available too, but midway through Agon’s first at bat they suddenly decided to black it out. I was going to bed soon anyway but the stupidity of the Baseball Kings just amazes me. It would be nice if today’s game would be available, I could watch it all, have lunch while watching the game, a real treat for me but not to be…
Really unfair.
NPUT @ 10:30AM PT
That’s it for me. I should catch the last few innings of tomorrow’s game. Hard to believe we could be talking about a magic number of 4 – or even 3 – in about 16 to 24 hours.
So glad to have you around, Dave!
Magic number is 5!
Magic number is 5!! Giants tie it in the top of the ninth but Padres win it in the bottom of the ninth.
Yippee!
Yabba dabba doo!
And the Pads beat the Gnats!!!!
A win for Vin!
Momma happy!!!!!!!
Might need to crowd source you the funds to go again tomorrow!
Ha! Day game, though. I do have a job… Although it’s very tempting.
WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!!!
We win!! Magic number 6 as of right now.
SD have tied the Gnats in the seventh. Kemp has a chance to put the Pads ahead.
He didn’t, and then he really didn’t, (read Brisbee on the error by Kemp, it’s vintage) and then he did.
I read Grant’s recap, but didn’t see any mention of Kemp.
“The Giants’ season in metaphor form: Down to their last three outs, with the odds stacked against them, they had a chance. Buster Posey singled in front of Matt Kemp, who fields like he’s wearing pants around his torso and a jersey around his legs, and Brandon Crawford doubled. The All-Stars were starring. The Giants had a chance.”
etc.
It wasn’t a single for the Poseur, unless you’re an extraordinarily generous scorekeeper. It hit Kemp right in the glove.
We could possibly be high 5ing for finally deep sixing the magic number 7.
Shut them down, KJ. (That was such a cheap single.)
Top of their lineup. Go Kenley go!
Huge! Corey!!!!
Love it!
See you later!
Corey!!!!!
Chase the blues away?
Chase the Blue to victory?
Jansen for the ninth.
Woot!
Uterly amazing!
I said last night we should bunt more!
This is the inning! Big hits all around.
Sounds good to me. Heck, I would take a walk, a stolen base, a wild pitch and sac fly.
Feels like we are all holding our collective breaths.
Many here seem to be holding their noses.
I am NOT HAPPY, Package!
11 of the Dodgers’ 16 batting outs have been strikeouts.
Make that twelve.
Great pitch from Avilan there to get the strikeout.
It feels like a year since Utley hit the first pitch out.
Tonight might not be the best night for extra innings the way the Dodgers are going through pitchers.
We have a truckload of pitchers out there in the pen.
Yeah, but one of them is Jim Johnson.
Nope. He went off to watch his wife have a baby.
I am so over this scoring slump.
Just missed taking the lead.
Feels like we can’t get to Colorado soon enough. Maybe the bats will wake up there.
The bats’ propensity for narcolepsy has concerned me most of the year . . . then there’s the bullpen . . .
We’re making this pitcher look like a Cy Young candidate.
Imagine us against the Mets rotation – if we get there.
Fill in the blank with every other team which makes the playoffs.
So true.
That’s their greatest talent — they do it soo often!
Thank goodness for AGon!
Or swing and ground out. One hit. We are outdoing ourselves.
Silver Lining: it’s not a no-hitter
Not even a shutout.
Swing and miss fest out here.
You’re at the Ravine?
Yup. Saw Vinny with his entire family, which made me tear up.
That alone is worth the price of admission.
(But hopefully it’s not the only winning thing to take from tonight.)
Where is everybody?
Waiting for something to happen.
I know the feeling.
Just arrived in DF.
¡Con los Chilangos!
Frias did great. But Thomas worries me.
Better at bats would be nice.
At least we got through the lineup. Top o’ the order next inning!
I knew that would happen.
Oh, man. Goldschmidt, you bum.
He is just. So. Good.
Utley!
I never did the math, but Vinnie pointed it out. Everybody knew Joe D and how great he was, but Yogi hit only 3 fewer home runs in his career than DiMaggio did in his — 361 to 358. Yogi is third in career WS HRs behind Mantle and Ruth and first in WS hits. More here.
Given the long layoff, I have low expectations for FrÃas and hope to be pleasantly surprised.
RBI, a couple days back: “For those of you who remember this from two years ago, I may have to resort to painting my toenails blue again, and sooner rather than later.”
OK, Link. As fearless leader of this blog, will you join RBI and paint yours blue, too?
Pictures helpful. ;-])
With help of the spy satellites, I think I have what you want…
A close up:
And a bonus shot of WBBsAs. As you can see, he’s conflicted whom to root for…
Those are some major nails!
“Dammit, Jim, I’m a DOCTOR, not a foot model!”
Bull pen game. Heaven help us.
Utley, 2B
Seager, 3B
Gonzalez, 1B
Ethier, RF
Grandal, C
Van Slyke, LF
Pederson, CF
Rollins, SS
Frias, P
Pederson, Rollins, Utley. Any way we can have them all hit eighth?
Ha!
Sometimes he puts SVS in right and Ethier in left. Anyone see any system to his decisions?
I prefer it this way.
I don’t think it makes a lot of difference, though I do think SVS is somewhat better defensively.
May have to do with the hand of the opposing pitcher, putting the better fielder where more balls are likely to be hit?
Better than general soreness.
This news is so bad, I’ve decided to make it good. Greinke gets a little more rest, and we put someone out there they have no idea how to hit.
But who?
Okay, maybe it’s time to panic.