Giants at Dodgers, 5:00PM PT, TV: ESPN
Two undefeated pitchers face one another this afternoon on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball: Jeff Samardzija for the Giants and Kenta Maeda for the Dodgers. The Giants’ pitcher got his first win his last time out against the Rockies, going eight innings and giving up only two runs. His ERA is 3.38. Maeda has one win to go along with a gaudy 0.00 ERA, going six shutout innings in each of his first two starts.
This being Maeda’s first season in MLB, he has no record against the Giants. Samardzija is 1-2 with a 4.91 ERA in four career appearances, including two starts, against the Dodgers.
Utley 2B
Seager SS
Turner 3B
Gonzalez 1B
Puig RF
Grandal C
Kendrick LF
Pederson CF
Maeda P— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 17, 2016
Blog note: foul tip asked a question this morning in the previous post’s comments:
foul tip • 5 hours ago
“Link, what happened to the links on the right side of the page?”
Linkmeister Mod foul tip • 2 hours ago
“They’re there, but you have to scroll down. You notice that the post and comments are now centered rather than left-justified, too?
“WordPress is insistent that its customers upgrade to its new releases, so I did yesterday and poof! They mucked up something to do with the style. I’m hoping they’ll send out a fix real soon now.”
NPUT
A pleasant surprise this morning to read that Gnats had bad starting pitching AND a bullpen tire fire.
Rookie Archie Bradley of the Snakes – prize prospect – needed 35 pitches to get the Gnats out in the first at The Phone Booth To Be Named Later. On pace for a 315-pitch CGSO.
Woo-HOO!!! (Better late than…) Houseguest still here, along with a bunch of friends and family for turkey burgers. But I kept my eye on things.
Good news, certainly worth watching the taped game later on
3-4 on the season against SF. But we didn’t have a winning record against them last year and still won the division comfortably.
The rest of the month has Atlanta, Colorado, Miami and San Diego. Hopefully can have a winning record in those match ups!
Feel pretty good about the first two weeks.
Rationally I know it makes very little difference, but I wonder how much better I would feel if the Dodgers had won even 1 of the 4 they lost to SF.
Anyway, the long season has really just begun.
Actually did win 1 of the 4, 3-2 April 9, in 10 innings.
If they had, you probably wouldn’t be able to contain yourself.
I wonder if finishing the month with 15 or 16 wins is reasonably within reach.
Good win for the Dodgers. Our Hatcher to Jansen seemed to work tonight.
Dodgers in 1st.
Back to 3rd San Fran.
And the Snakes are catching up on them.
Oh, nicely done, Dodgers.
We win!
From a Gnatblog: “Was Duffy even a midlevel prospect? It seems to me that he came out of nowhere. Very possible last year was a “career year” and he doesn’t come close to that ever again. I hope I am wrong.”
What was injury delay?
Belt fouled it off his leg.
Let’s close this out quickly Kenley.
You in a hurry?
Personally, I’d like a Dodger game to end before midnight.
I like the company here, but no need to linger at this point of the game.
Checked in to good news, still a tense game I imagine
Solid outing from Hatcher.
Hatch to batten it down.
Groan!
Of course, he could also dog it.
Nice, Link.
Heh.
Bye bye Shark?
Grandal has been stroking the ball.
It appears he may be all the way back.
Puig the slide master.
Hey hey – we are winning!
No thanks to you!
“We shall overcome.” I feel fine about my part. 🙂
Kenta venturing into the 7th.
On Gameday. Why the delay on the field?
Bochy’s was whining about something, and now the Gnats have a new third base coach.
Nice two-run HR for Joc, too.
Way to go Joc!
Our number 8 hitter is better than theirs.
Nice low pitch inning for Maeda.
I will be back in about an hour. Hoping for the best in the meantime.
Maeda gives up his first run. We shall overcome.
The Shark seems to have teeth tonight.
Very disappointed that MLBTV is only offering the ESPN feed tonight.
Maeda may have “no record” v. the Gnats, but I sure like that zero ERA.
The early start time – 9 p.m. in Buenos Aires – means I’ll have to persuade my wife to go out to dinner early.
If we ever went to a restaurant before 9pm the waiters, who were still setting up, would look at us as if we were from another planet.
Absolutely. We have a fine Italian cafe down the block that starts serving at 8 p.m. When I got there at 8:10, there were already several (older) Argentine couples seated.
Know the place, though I can’t remember the name. We have a good friend that lives nearby in an apartment overlooking the zoo, one of the Nofal sisters from Mendoza.
Bella Italia Café, which also has a full restaurant nearby. They also had a recently closed grill, which was a favorite with S Carolina Governor Sanford and his Argentine girlfriend, whose apartment is two blocks over from us.
In general, I like our lineup – 2 through 6 seem very solid hitters and 1, 7 and 8 can be strong as well at any given moment.
And Maeda has already hit a home run so there is that!
I will actually get to watch the game tonight on TV. A rare treat!
You’ll get the ESPN crew, Dan Shulman, Aaron Boone and Jessica Mendoza rather than Vin, but they’re not bad. Particularly now that Schilling is gone to Monday Night Baseball.
I watched them do a non Dodger game, and they did not seem too difficult to listen to.
I think I get it over here today too, but a fairly busy day today even though it is school holidays. I’ll tape it, watch it later and briefly check in here from time to time
Checking in even though you will watch the game later. You sir are a keen fan.