Dodgers at Diamondbacks, 12:40PM PT, TV: SPNLA, FS-A
Clayton Kershaw brings his gaudy 9-1, 1.52 ERA record to Chase Field, which has not been his favorite road stadium. He’s made 11 starts there and gone 4-7 with a 3.90 ERA. The only stadium where he’s done less well is Coors Field in Denver. His opponent will be lefty Patrick Corbin, who’s 3-5 with an ERA of 4.81. He’s done pretty well against the Dodgers: the Dodgers have gotten two or fewer runs against him in three of his four home starts against them, and overall he’s 3-4 with a 3.78 ERA in 10 career starts against the team.
Lineup:
Hernandez LF
Turner 3B
Seager SS
Thompson CF
Gonzalez 1B
Kendrick 2B
Van Slyke RF
Ellis C
Kershaw P— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) June 15, 2016
NPUT
Woo-HOO!!!!
It was a great win, but why do we have to only score with the long ball?
Because the spirit of Earl Weaver has inhabited the souls of the Dodgers’ players? 😉
Someone was complaining, Scoop, that the Dodgers never homered with runners on base.
We win!
Kenley kloses it out!
Phew!
At least no Goldschmidt this inning.
Blanton’s been remarkably good.
Good pitching by Blanton.
Blanton was robbed with ball two.
Why relieve Kershaw now, Dave?
Kershaw himself didn’t seem to object.
They probably discussed beforehand in the dugout.
While I’m thinking about it, everybody remember to vote for the ASG. Seager deserves better than he’s getting.
He’ll make it anyway. I don’t bother because the ASG has become such a farce.
87-88 or so.
First game in quite a while. What’s the pitch count? ( see that it is high 80s)
Corbin – 97 pitches right now.
Thanks Trayce.
Unusual to see Kershaw make an error like that. Settle down, son.
Blasted Goldschmidt. “Entering Tuesday, he had 23 home runs and 66 RBIs against the Dodgers, both tops in the Majors.”
Now that’s good timing, Slick.
Van Slyke!!!!
Corbin does the Bradley!
We need to pop one here. Let’s go Dodgers.
Oh Dodgers. You just don’t like to make things easy do you?
A cunning plan! Walk Kershaw to tire him out running the bases!
And it appears to have worked.
Why is Pederson not playing? Why does Roberts always seem to rest a hot hitter?
Corbin’s lefthanded. Roberts has his doubts about Joc’s hitting lefties much.
This one is for RBI especially:
Here is my bold prediction – LA gets to 60 wins before SF.
Mark it down.
Noted.
Ha. Feeling even better about it now that the Dodgers actually scored in this one! Really it will be a matter of SF cooling down a bit. But I think the Dodgers are starting to heat up.
that prediction may be true, but the most important one is if we get to 90 wins before SF