Dodgers at Giants, 7:15PM PT, TV: SPNLA, MLBN (out-of-market only), NBC Bay Area
Two heavyweight pitchers go at one another tonight, each with only one loss this season, one with eight wins and one with nine. The eight-game winner is the Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw, who also sports an ERA of 1.46. He’s got a career record against the Giants of 17-7 with a 1.60 ERA, and if that’s not enough, in the Giants’ home park he’s 9-3 with a 1.23 ERA. Facing him will be new-to-the-Giants Johnny Cueto, who’s 2-0 with a 4.40 ERA in two starts against the Dodgers this season but has a losing record overall (4-5) against Los Angeles.
This is the last series the two teams play against one another until August, but from that point forward nine of their last 38 games will be head-to-head.
The Dodgers’ draft picks are enumerated and expounded upon here. Their first pick was a left-handed hitting high-school shortstop named Gavin Lux.
Lineup:
Utley 2B
Seager SS
Turner 3B
González 1B
Thompson RF
Pederson CF
Grandal C
Hernández LF
Kershaw P— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) June 10, 2016
NPUT
In the end, a satisfying game.
Yahoo! Please, JT, let that break you out of your season-long slump!
9 and 1 for Clayton!
Woo-HOO!!!
Come back RBI. It is safe to celebrate now!
I literally had to turn it off.
Did you just wait 5 minutes and turn it back on or how did you know it was done?
I peeked at Gameday on my phone. I know. I’m such a wimp. Then I turned on the tv and rewound.
Oh BABY! Too much tension.
But we win!!!
What the blazes is wrong with Jansen? Has no sense of the strike zone tonight.
I can’t watch.
I couldn’t look away, though. Masochism in action.
Come on Jansen. Stop messing around with Blanco.
SF getting some good licks against Jansen.
One more! Yikes. Get Blanco, Kenley.
Hopefully he is cold off the bench.
Phew!
Ok KJ. Please get it done.
Great running by Pederson to beat the shift.
JT!!!!
HR and a 3-2 lead in the 9th!
Turner!!!
Cursed 6th inning for Kersh. Any possibility we will score again tonight?
Maybe we are a first and last inning kinda team.
I mean Trayce IS batting in the ninth inning.
And by Trayce I mean JT!
Post of the night!
Thanks. Glad the “last” was the 9th. I couldn’t have taken extra innings!
Kershaw has now thrown more pitches than Cueto tonight.
But gets the K to end the inning.
Darn. At least it wasn’t a bleeder.
Or a home run.
Kershaw strikes out Span for a second time.
How did this team ever score 12 runs earlier this week? I know it was the Braves but my goodness does it seem more and more like a mirage.
So many bleeders against Kershaw. A million paper cuts of infield hits.
Not Seager’s finest game. Sometimes you just have to hold on to it my friend.
Come on Seager – take a cut man!
Cueto quick pitched to first base – but no one was there!
Dodger doing that thing again where they have long stretches of the game where they do nothing at bat.
Nothing at all.
Except of course for the ball gently brushing against Utley’s pant leg.
Game has really settled into the pitchers’ duel as advertised.
And Duffy homers off Kershaw. 2-1 Dodgers after one.
But Pederson and Grandal both make outs and we get only two runs. Not to be greedy, but shoots, guys, that coulda been BIG!
And Thompson singles. 2 on, 1 out.
Now A-Gon singles Seager in. 2-0 Dodgers.
Cueto’s pitching oddly. Wild pitch and balk lead to a Dodgers run.
Other great Dodger draftee names: Andre Scrubb (P) and Kevin Lachance (SS).