Dodgers at Padres, 1:40PM PT, TV: SPNLA, FSSD
The Dodgers’ Kenta Maeda (3-3, 2.87 ERA) started his career in American baseball like a house on fire, posting a 0.31 ERA in his first four starts. In his next four starts he gave up 14 earned runs to bring his ERA and W-L record down to earth. He’ll face the Padres’ Colin Rea (3-2, 4.37 ERA), who has had trouble getting past the fifth inning this season, doing so in only three of his eight starts so far.
Lineup:
Utley 2B
Seager SS
Kendrick 3B
Gonzalez 1B
Thompson LF
Pederson CF
Puig RF
Ellis C
Maeda P— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 22, 2016
NPUT
I figured that with a 5:40 pm start time, I’d get to watch the whole game easily, but it was nearly midnight when the whole mess ended. Not pretty, but a relief nonetheless.
Had to call it a night after the 8th, but see that yawl and the Dodgers carried on for a little bit more.
Yikes. No wonder Howell went three and Stripling did the same: Tsao was injured.
This is the ninth time we’ve broken 100 comments this season. Seems a little slower than last year. We’ve lost package and audit, so that reduces our number of potential commenters.
Audit occasionally had something to contribute.
But apparently still ahead of the pace from 2 years ago.
just tuned back in, wow
Wow indeed!
So I guess they will need to send Tsao down and call up someone from Triple A.
Maybe Urias, but I won’t bet on it.
It’ll be a reliever tomorrow, a starter on Tuesday.
More like Fein.
Twelve scoreless innings from the ‘pen, with exceptional efforts from Howell and Stripling. Also, Lipitor pitched out of potentially game-ending jam.
Wowsers, that was a long game.
Well, it was less than 6 hours.
Can you imagine being on the field for 17 innings in July in LA or San Diego? I think I’d melt from the heat.
That would be rough.
It would be worse if it were in the Midwest where the temperature and humidity would have zapped everyone’s energy.
Yeah, like in old Busch Stadium on Astroturf.
I hope this is a turning point for the team.
Me, too.
Woo-HOO!!!! (It’s been a while.)
We win!
Just heading home from the family BBQ. Fun to see the Dodgers winning.
No one left in the bullpen?
Tsao.
’nuff said.
Stop them here, blue.
Looking a lot brighter.
Birthday cards and TJ Maxx G/C purchased. Way to hold ’em till I got back and the Dodgers could score. Thanks, folks.
Redemption song…
Yasiel!
Yeah!!!!!
Yikes.
Even when you win a game like this, it takes a lot out of you.
Just got back from a memorial service of several hours. And here y’all are. Wow.
I’d like to be able to go to bed early (11 p.m.), but I’m not sure that’s happening.
Kershaw batting. This, I like.
Walking Gonzalez to face Howell, or do we pinch-hit for him and bring in Stripling in the bottom half of the inning?
When we faced Perdomo at the start of the season, we scored 7 runs against him in 2 innings in the first two games of his MLB career. He entered tonight’s game with an ERA of 9.77 in 11 appearances.
The much maligned bullpen has produced nine scoreless innings.
And the less maligned batting order will apparently give the pen the chance to produce many more.
Please pardon my mean spirit, and I wish the man no harm, but the Dodgers are a better team when Crawford and his $21.6 million salary are on the DL. $21.6 million this year and a bit more next year.
I’m guessing that, when Ethier and SVS return, there’s a DFA in his future.
Five hours ago, I posted this: “I hope that we have run out of imaginative and bizarre ways to lose games.” I guess we haven’t. (Even though we haven’t lost . . . yet).
How, how, how could you fail to score in that situation?!?!!!!!!
only the 2016 Dodgers would do that
really!?!
It seems as if we are playing for a tie.
I gotta go buy birthday cards for my niece. Make sure we win, willya?
Ok then, if you insist 🙂
Terrific pickup by Kendrick.
Seems like Upton and Solarte are up every inning.
I had hopes for Howell pulling a Syndergaard, but no.
Oh boy another bullpen game.
The bullpen has done very well today.
I have to feel fatalistic about this one.
And why not, given what has transpired lately.
Lipitor comes through, though!
Roberts moves Kendrick around the field like he is coaching a Little League team. It doesn’t work.
Oh fine, leadoff walk.
On four pitches, to boot.
Puig swings at ball four, twice.
I hope he comes back to his potential pretty soon. Seems like he’s struggled for a year.
Maybe he was just a flash in the pan way back when.
I think he’s a great athlete, but at the moment he looks like he’d be better at decathlon than baseball.
Good observation. When are the U.S. Olympic team tryouts?
July 2-3 for the decathlon.
Confirmation: Opening the 10th, Monday introduced himself with Kevin Kennedy.
AJ may have a few words for Puig after his failure to advance on a perfect bunt to third base.
I need another glass of Malbec.
That’s two balls in this game that have been overplayed by outfielders. Puig gave up three runs by diving for the ball back in the fifth or sixth and now Pederson has done the same. Catch it on a hop, blast it.
It’s windy out there. Neither of them could get to the ball. In Puig’s case, even had he played it on a hop, at least two runs would have scored.
Recognize that and play it on a bounce, then.
Joc’s only chance to was catch it.
Even in a less-than-perfect world, Kenley should K Mupton.
Howie!
Howie answering Scoop by spanking the ball tonight.
I apologize, Howie.
Imagine that he would be the first to apologize for a lousy April.
Yahoo, Turner!
Anyone listening to the radio? Steiner’s not there and Monday has a partner whose voice I don’t recognize. Today Rick is giving the score frequently but he’s not telling who he’s working with.
Yep. I have the same question. Sounds like an ex-pitcher.
This might be the guy: “Former Major League manager Kevin Kennedy begins his second season and
first full season as the analyst for AM 570 LA Sports alongside Rick
Monday on every road game outside of San Francisco in 2015.”
It might be Kevin Kennedy. Unfortunately, we’ve got Steiner on the video, and he’s almost the worst of worst. At least Hawk Harrelson is amusing – for a short time, anyway.
You and Bob are both back in the States, are you?
Still in Italy, but on my way to Portugal for a couple of weeks.
Bom viagem!
Sheesh. What a world. One guy in BA and watching a game on video over the ‘net (right?) and the other in Italy listening to it also over the ‘net.
What would Mel Allen or Curt Gowdy say?
Mel would say, “How About That?!”
No, I’m flying back to LA on Thursday, spending the night there, and then driving north the next morning.
Good old fashioned rally
Just when you think things can’t get any worse. I’ll have a glass of Malbec, thank you.
Ugh
Tough stuff for the ump.
I’m astonished it’s taken over ten minutes to get started again. It’s not like they had to get a back board and ambulance for the umpire.
I feel like I missed something. How long has the rotation been Kershaw, Stripling, Kazmir, Wood, Maeda? Somehow I just realized this order…
I think it was his last outing that Maeda was changed up to give him extra rest. Update – it was two starts ago.
Four very fine innings by Maeda.
A game of some interest.
A potentially intriguing game. Hendley should know.
Checking in for the first time in awhile. I hope the Dodgers can find an imaginative way to win today. You know, something like scoring 15-20 runs.
It is a long weekend across Canada, and I will be going to a family BBQ soon. I will be checking into the game a bit but probably won’t be able to post much today. Today is the first day of the rest of the week and I feel a win coming on!
Hello! First game live in almost two weeks.
My first in several days, except for early innings of some.
Good first inning for Maeda.
How weird. I,too, am going to a memorial service, in my case of a dear friend. Not a happy puppy today, more like an unhappy donkey myself.
It’s one thing to start Kendrick, but why put a guy hitting about .220 in the No. 3 spot in the batting order?
He had a horrible April but is hitting something like .286 in May.
I hope that we have run out of imaginative and bizarre ways to lose games, but I must admit that I am feeling like Eeyore, the pessimistic and gloomy donkey from Winnie the Pooh. Also, I am going soon to a memorial service for the mother of a friend.
Our run differential suggests that we have been a slightly above average team so far with a record of 23-20 (or an 86 wins pace). But, as you say, we have found different ways to lose.