Opening Day! Let’s have a little Danny Kaye to start the season off.
Dodgers at Padres, 4:05PM PT, SPNLA, FSSD
It’ll be Clayton Kershaw making his sixth straight Opening Day start for the Dodgers; Don Sutton holds the record of seven. This will be Tyson Ross’s first Opening Day start for any team. Overall it’s the 10th time the Dodgers and Padres have opened against one another.
2016 #OpeningDay lineup:
Utley 2B
Seager SS
Turner 3B
Gonzalez 1B
Puig RF
Crawford LF
Pederson CF
Ellis C
Kershaw P pic.twitter.com/jNwyH0a5lE— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 4, 2016
NPUT
from Jon W:
“Their 15-0 victory (recapped by MLB.com) was the largest Opening Day shutout by any team in Major League history, according to Elias, breaking a 105-year-old record set by the Pirates at Cincinnati on April 12, 1911, 14-0.”
Other records set or tied, too.
http://dodgers.mlblogs.com/2016/04/04/dodgers-outrageous-opening-day-offensive-onslaught/#more-2101566
This was a really fun game to watch. Kershaw was certainly on his A game.
Rockies climbing all over Grienke I see
I don’t wish Greinke ill, but I can’t say I am really rooting for him to do well either!
Greinke is a mercenary, which baseball’s rules allow him to be.
But he’s driven in the Snakes’ only run.
Owings starting in CF, where he has never played in the Bigs before.
https://youtu.be/qpGx4foRdPw
We win! (Thinks back to last year and our victorious post game rituals).
Woo-HOO!!! Had to leave at the bottom of the 8th for my writers group, and just got home. I did feel comfortable, though, with a 15 run lead.
I admit I switched to the NCAA game sometime after 8 runs had been scored.
That was a nice enjoyable game. Kazmir was probably muttering “save some runs for tomorrow, guys” on the bench.
Nice to close it out without giving up a late run or three.
Get somebody up. No need to tire Yimi out unnecessarily. 20 pitches already.
UNC 39 – Nova 34 at halftime.
I can’t believe how bad my bracket was this year. I got almost all my points on the first day of the opening round.
None of us did very well. Only one of us even has a team left in this game.
DXMachina is at 92%! That is very good indeed.
With the Nova win, I ended up in the top 3% nationally and DXMachine in the top 10%. Not bad for our small group.
Wow, really! I’m stunned considering how trashed my bracket wound up. Shows how wild this tournament was.
Go Big East!
We did real good! Great for the BE, and now Villa can go back to being a hated rival. Two of their main guys, Hart and Jenkins, were snatched out of DC schools from my Hoyas.
Coleman pitching out of that mini jam.
Maybe some of the Dodgers heard that it is Vin’s last year and wanted to win on his last Opening Day.
Joc showing that he has been working on it (his swing).
It is never this easy. But I will take it!
Are we trying to out do the team whose name we do not mention?
my goodness, we couldn’t have dreamed a better start to the season.
I don’t care who you are, a multi million dollar player or a parkland amateur, winning brings a great vibe to any team and this will certainly give the team a big boost (until their first loss I guess) 🙂
Jessica Mendoza is very good, but think ESPN needs to replace Boone with someone with expertise in pitching.
And now Puig has a hit, so every starter has one today.
Trayce Thompson in for Crawford already. He will get an at bat or two tonight.
Get brother Klay on the phone!
and a RBI
I see I’ve come back at the right time!
Kershaw putting on a show, on the mound, in the box and on the bases! Can recall his Opening Day dinger a couple of years ago (2013 against the giants).
This inning is fun.
Puig is the only guy without a hit and he scored a run anyway.
Half way through the first game of the season, and I am already sick of MLB Gameday’s memorable moment sound bites. I thought they might have had some new ones this year, but no such luck.
Kershaw trying to add a batting title to his resume!
Nice one from Clayton.
If Joc hadn’t been so quick on the last play, Kershaw would have had an RBI.
AJ helping out with the bouncer.
Nice team hitting tonight with 4 doubles thus far.
Joc strokes it!
Coming into today, Kershaw ‘s opening day numbers included a 7-1 K to walk ratio. After 5 innings, he has 7 k’s and one walk.
You’re saying he’s consistent?
I’m saying he’s good!
In a rut, eh?
Ha!
The Padres had a rally going with that full count!
Hadn’t realized that this is Dick Enberg’s last season as well.
He’s pretty good, too.
Remember him initially from calling Bruin baloncesto games in the 1960s. Just a kid (him and me!)
In a week I’ll be in Buenos Aires, and Dodger home games will be starting at 11 p.m. (about the time dinner ends).
In honor of AGon (via Truebluela)
Well, took a great throw and relay to get Chase.
Sports Illustrated magazine’s preview of the Dodgers. “If they lose him [Kershaw] they’re done.”
They pick the Dodgers to win the division, beat the Mets in the NLDS and then lose to the Cubs in the NLCS.
You gotta believe Joc didn’t want to start off the season with a strikeout.
Get used to it.
Thankfully he didn’t swing at it.
I’m here but with massively dilated eyes after a visit to the ophthalmologist, so seeing the game is difficult right now.
And I’m having dinner with my family. I’ll be listening to Vin but not able to comment for a few innings.
Your family indulges you that way or are they fans as well?
It’s on quietly in the background.
We are usually later nighters in any event, no?
Yes. Usually 9-12 and that works fairly well.
My wife doesn’t object to my watching, but I mute the sound on the iPad.
will be checking in from time to time around my classes today. At least we have started well
Silly Pad fans. AGon didn’t trade himself!
Good start!
Chase was an All Star not that long ago in 2014. Looking for a bounce back.
Well, he just got a bounce by Jay.
I’m in Winnipeg Vin. Thanks for asking. And yes it is a pleasant afternoon!
Feeling excited/nervous. Glad it is Opening Day.
Actually right now I have a bit of vertigo where I feel like maybe the Dodger will just fall off a cliff this year -despite my 92-70 prediction yesterday, Suddenly, I see how everything could go terribly, terribly wrong.
Anyway, here is to another season of Dodger baseball.
I take some comfort in the fact that almost nothing went right last year and we still won 92 games.
Excellent point. That is strangely reassuring.
We gotta look for it wherever we can find it to quell these Opening Day jitters.
looks like lots of our regular posters are back and ready to go.
For those who didn’t do it on the last post, (if you wish) what is your regular season prediction, mine was 90-72.
Happy New Year!
I am ready.
I have a copy of the original 45 rpm single, in a picture sleeve.
The off season has seemed longer this year for some reason
Sure did. Heck, I can still recall when we started the season on March 22.
Finally! Real baseball!
I thought this day would never come 🙂