Dodgers at Giants, 4:15PM PT, TV: Fox
The Dodgers send Scott Kazmir (5-3, 4.46 ERA) to do battle with Jeff Samardzija (7-4, 3.33 ERA). Kazmir has made two starts against the Giants this season and they haven’t been good: he’s given up 10 runs in eight innings in the two games. In Samardzija’s last start he went five innings against the Cardinals and gave up six runs on nine hits, four of them HRs.
Puig goes to Lake Elsinore Rancho Cucamonga to begin rehab on Monday. The Dodgers want him to shorten his swing a bit while there, hoping to reduce his rotation and “eliminate some of the strain he exerts.”
Lineup when available.
Today's Dodger lineup vs. Giants:
Utley 2B
Seager SS
Turner 3B
González 1B
Thompson RF
Pederson CF
Grandal C
Kendrick LF
Kazmir P— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) June 11, 2016
I just noticed that in this lineup all members of the infield hit first. Then Roberts goes off script and has C Yasmani hitting between CF Joc and LF Howie. Come on, Doc, symmetry is important!
NPUT
Joc in last 7 games has struck out out twice in 18 at bats for a strikeout rate of 0.111. His BABIP over that span was 0.133. He is making contact and mostly hitting the ball hard but not getting any luck.
In last 14 days Joc’s BABIP is 0.171 in 44 plate appearances while Seager’s BABIP is 0.290 in 53 PAs. Pederson’s strikeout rate in those 14 games is 18.2% while Seager’s strikeout rate is 18.9%.
Thompson’s strikeout rate in the last 14 games is 20.9 % and his BABIP is 0.304 in 43 PAs.
http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2016&month=2&season1=&ind=0&team=22&rost=&age=0&filter=&players=0
This is trending the wrong way: “Jansen has recorded three blown saves since his streak of 25 straight ended May 20.”
And watch. This will be the year when Jansen makes his first ASG – when all his peripheral numbers are down.
Every year, Kenley has at least one short slump.
Only fair, the batters often do
Arrrrrgh!
Really frustrating Kenley collapse.
Tough loss.
Horrible ending to a game we should have won.
Part of me says lots to like about this game.
Lots of hits. Good relief pitching until Jansen.
Bad baserunning by the Dodgers did them in. Those 2 outs at 3rd base.
I know.
Jansen in a bit of a slump. But nobody has won anything yet.
Stupid gnats.
Eep!
Should we be feeling nervous about Jansen coming in after last night?
Nah. Not a chance.
And by that I mean yes definitely.
So it strikes me that scoring in the 2 inning and 10th works just as well as 1st and 9th.
So nice to see the middle of the lineup producing for the Dodgers!
Two or three more runs would be good, guys.
AGon!!!!!
Home run AGon!
Glad the Dodgers at least tied it in the 7th. Nothing doing in the 8th.
Walk is fine. Take any run you can get any way you can.
Bochy trying to get his 10,000 daily steps done in one inning.
Outs at third are killing us tonight. Killing us.
Corey pressing a bit.
Dodgers down a run on the road with 3 innings left against a team 3 games better than them. And yet – I like their chances.
J.P. Howl in. At least he makes me howl recently.
Oh foo.
Got the ground balls we wanted but not the results.
Poor feeds from Turner and Seager.
Not bad Kazmir but not great either. Too many walks.
5 BB, 3 Ks. Not good today.
Feels weird to be out hitting a team.
But I’m not complaining.
Outscoring would be nice too.
Patience young Jedi. Patience. 🙂
I want what I want and I want it now!
Oh well then. Let’s score two.
It is gratifying if weird to have not only the Dodgers radio broadcast available every day, but also the Yankees one. I had no idea the Yankees had a woman doing color commentary. She’s got an interesting background
Sounds like Joc just missed a HR.
And then made a foolish baserunning mistake.
Yep.
After watching Joc get the double on last night’s grounder into right center field and seeing Trace tag up from first and go to second and a few other times Joc and Trace have been running more, I wonder if Roberts wants them to run more or if Joc and Trace have just agreed between themselves to run more.
The pitcher was looking back at Joc on second once and then stared at the catcher before pitching. I was thinking that Joc should steal third but he had a short lead when he broke for third.
Kaz maybe back on track. Hopefully not the shark too.
Shark pulled in the fourth.
And now Kazmir done as well.
27 strikes, 22 balls. Not real good, Scott.
Phew – nice diving catch by Howie.
Great double play. Nice job Grandal.
I’m thinking we will see a few members of both bullpens tonight.
Shoot. The Dodgers forgot to score in the first inning. How can they do the first and last inning thing now?
Better late than never!
Smegma’s capable of helping out. He’s been awful recently.
Kazmir reverting back to Kazmir.
If he only gives up the two for the next six we’ll be okay with him, right? Right? 😉
JT two hits in last two ABs!
I though that was a better hit than the dinger, which came off a hanger down the middle.
McCarthy and Ryu are also rehabbing at Elsinore this weekend. McCarthy’s first game action in well over a year.