Vin Scully graces the cover of the latest Sports Illustrated. https://t.co/ZILpf5oD8J #VIN🎙 pic.twitter.com/MBbRAG1rIv
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 10, 2016
Link to Scully interview accompanying above
Mets at Dodgers, 7:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA, MLBN (out-of-market)
The Mets’ Jacob deGrom (3-1, 1.99 ERA) of the Flowing Locks starts against the Dodgers’ Alex Wood (1-3, 5.18 ERA) of the Moussed Pompadour. The right-handed deGrom only has 16 strikeouts in his four starts, which seems low. Lefty Wood would undoubtedly trade his 28 Ks for a couple of wins; he hasn’t had one in his last five starts.
Lineup when available.
Utley 2B
Seager SS
Turner 3B
Gonzalez 1B
Grandal C
Pederson CF
Puig RF
Crawford LF
Wood P— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 10, 2016
Gnats bullpen blew three-run lead, but Jays now have serial arsonist Drew Storen on the mound in the bottom of the tenth.
NPUT
I’ll probably miss tonight’s game again – Uruguay is tiring me out, especially after today’s winery lunch.
I don’t think I’d blame the country for your fatigue.
The four-hour time difference and long work day have a lot to do with it (winery lunches are part of the job).
Was it at Bouza?
Yes. I know the Bouzas fairly well. Great Albariño.
Off to see Scherzer vs Zimmermann, but hop to be back when Dodger game starts.
Oh my goodness. Way to go, Trayce!
Nomar, on the post-game show: “You take off your helmet before you get
to the plate so they don’t hit you too hard on the head.” I admit I’ve
wondered why.
class has just finished, great news I see 🙂
Yabba dabba doooh!
Jansen gets the win!
Trayce!
First place, baby.
Thompson with the walk off homerun!!!
We win!
Woo-HOO!!!!!!
If nothing else, we have the top of the order coming up next, whereas the Mets are at the bottom of theirs.
I don’t know what it is going to take to score again. Crazy to think that the 2 run thing looks like it might come into play again.
Gnats lost 4-0.
Helpful.
We could take first solo, or be tied for first with two other teams.
It is tight right now between first and fourth.
And the Padres are not that far back in fifth either.
It is fascinating how frustrating this game is. At least the game is still winnable.
Guess not.
We gotta get one, don’t we?
Turner didn’t tag up on that one?
That would have been unusual.
Wasn’t it a deep fly ball? I was only half listening.
More of a line drive rather than a high fly ball (that might have allowed him to go back and tag up), and not that deep in any event.
My mistake. I thought I heard it was caught right at the wall. As I said, I was only half listening right then.
Can we get one more hit please?
Seager! We can do this!
Just need to push across a run here.
Yes!
Last night, Roberts couldn’t pull the BP pitchers fast enough. Tonight, he rolls the dice with Baez.
Nice to see Baez work out of trouble successfully.
Can Baez continue to be a fit in the set up role?
Ugh. This looks like trouble.
Coleman was lights out there.
No complaints with Woods pitching tonight. My only squabble is he got his hit in the wrong at bat. That was a Ross Stripling effort tonight and I hope we can win to back his start.
Great game by Alex. (ERA down to 4.62)
Alright. This is the inning we score again. Someway, somehow.
Man! Gonzo…
He thought it was going out. Plus, he’s slow. Plus, it’s that kind of a game.
But usually plus plus is good. How come not in this case? 🙁
See breaks and catching them, below.
Turner hitting it harder these days.
OPS of 1.014 on the road trip.
That will play.
We can’t catch a break, it seems.
Now Wood gets a hit.
Story of a lot of our games, eh?
So true!
A hit with two outs, again.
Wow. Terrible call on that checked swing that wasn’t.
Thought he had it!
Just missed it. We are certainly hitting deGrom hard tonight.
I guess we can take some small comfort from the pitch count.
Oh phoo!!!!
All credit to deGrom. Fooled Joc with a beautiful change up.
2 and 3rd again. Maybe this time?
Not holding out too much hope.
We have tried 2nd and 3rd with one out, then with two out, maybe next time we can try with none out and then see how we go.
Or three. Oh, wait…
That’s one way to get Wright out…
Puig has been playing inspired defense.
My back up plan on a night the Dodger game goes bad quickly is to watch Brooklyn. Got the movie from the local library and have some friends who tell me they loved it.
I want a back up plan!
I’m slowly working my way through the best picture nominees from the past year. Feel free to borrow this plan but I’m guessing you may have seen more of them than I already.
First two guys on and no runs yet. Come ON, Dodgers!
Bottom of the line up.
Well, foo. How many opportunities can you get off deGrom?
And the top!
Wood could do some good work here with a base hit.
He can hit from what I have seen.
.222 to start the game, but not this time.
Could have been worse.
Might yet be. Have you noticed that Latos, who failed for us so badly last year, is 5-0 this season?
Dave mentioned him last night.
It’s sad that Kazmir and Wood both have ERA’s right around 5.50.
Wood at 5.14 as one of the runs was unearned.
Yes. I see Gameday just changed that. When I typed it he was listed at 5.45 and Kazmir at 5.54.
Okay – now it is game on. As I mentioned this morning, 2 runs is the dividing line between a win or a loss.
Dang it.
Well that was unfortunate.
This is encouraging
And then Wood gives up hits to the first two guys he faces.
Edited: in the second inning.
Not to mention the Utley error.
We scored first! (Faints)
RBIs! Good start.
Is that a note of encouragement to yourself? 🙂
You miss little, WinnipegDave.
He missed the Toronto series.
Ha!
As long as it is helpful.
What’s this I see? Two extra base hits, a hit with a runner in scoring position and a run against deGrom!
Vin! Perhaps a bit too much orange and not enough blue on the cover, but I imagine it will be a fun read.
Don’t miss the audio interview at the link directly below the picture.
Thanks Link. I’ll have to listen to it after the game now.
I’m gonna miss this one again, but I’ll expect you guys to do a better job than you did last night.
Utley, 2B
Seager, SS
Turner, 3B
Gonzalez, 1B
Grandal, C
Pederson, CF
Puig, RF
Crawford, LF
Wood, P