Rockies at Dodgers, 1:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA, ROOTS Sports
Brandon McCarthy makes his first major league start since April 25, 2015 when he went on the shelf for Tommy John surgery. He insists he’s looking at this game as just another start. Right. He’ll face the Rockies’ Jon Gray (5-3, 4.83 ERA). Gray has pitched at least six innings in all but one of his last seven starts.
Corey Seager got a hit in his 15th consecutive game Saturday night and now holds the longest current hit streak in the big leagues.
Lineup when available.
Utley 2B
Seager SS
Turner 3B
González 1B
Thompson CF
Kendrick LF
Puig RF
Grandal C
McCarthy P— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) July 3, 2016
The Sunday Night Baseball game between the Braves and the Marlins wouldn’t ordinarily hold my attention, but it’s being held in a ballpark which was built at Fort Bragg, NC in just four months. It replaced an overgrown golf course on the base.
It marks the first time a professional, regular-season game in any sport has been played on an active military base and is the first time the state of North Carolina has hosted a regular-season Major League Baseball game.
What’s going to happen to it after the game is played?
…the site will be converted into softball and multipurpose recreational fields following Sunday’s game. The playing surface will remain, along with the foul poles, dugouts and bullpens, as a lasting reminder of Sunday’s historic event.
Okay, Imma gonna wanna to see this.
NPUT
Garrison Keillor has “retired:” https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/750037483841347585
Greinke and Heaney on DL. Zimmerman no longer pitching well. Price struggling now. Who knows when Cueto gets his elbow soreness that bothered him while still in Cincinitti?
Dodgers now playing better. Ryu and McCarthy returning. Norris looking good. I love Stewart. Urias able to make 10 starts at age 19. De Leon in the wings.
Friedman must be feeling better.
Also, BadGums is long overdue for his TJ surgery.
For the third season in a row, the Dodgers have a 47-37 record after 84 games.
Obviously, a team that’s stagnant.
That record projects to a 90.7 win season.
I saw Firesign do a live theater presentation in San Francisco, perhaps 30 years ago. Enormous fun.
Saw them in San Diego about 30 years ago.
Err…make that 40 years.
Drat. SF won.
No the Snakes lost.
Interesting moves today by the Dodgers to get McCarthy on the roster, but DFA’d Sierra was a safe bet, since no one would pick up that salary.
Right-hander Yaisel Sierra was outrighted to make room on the 40-man roster, just five months after the Cuban signed a six-year, $30 million contract with the Dodgers.
Sierra struggled in his season with Rancho so far, compiling a 7.16 ERA in 11 starts and a .305 batting average against.
Bottom of the tenth. Time for a dinger.
I am so pleased for McCarthy!
So completely smooth.
Extra innings in Arizona. Wear those gnats out!
Yabba-dabba doo!
Gnats go quietly in ninth, giving Snakes walk-off opportunity.
A great Dodgers win today.
Ten games over .500 and possibly 4 games back if the D-Backs come thru.
We win!
Woo-HOO!!!
Arenado will be champing at the bit in SF.
Good. Very good.
And maybe Story’s thumb will have recovered too.
Or as the ghost of Steve jobs would say, chomping at the byte
Steiner says they were “ruthlessly” knocked down and are being carried off by security.
I wouldn’t say ruthlessly. They just kind of dropped and were dragged.
Like windows – drop and drag.
The Ghost of Steve Jobs would like to speak to you about copyright.
(‘Course, the guys at Xerox PARC would like to speak to HIM)
Ha! Is that like the ghost of Marley?
Yep. There’s a great play by Tom Mula called “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol” which I recommend you all try to hear performed.
Cool. Another great link you provided for us.
“I wonder where Ruth is…” (Identify quotation).
Sounds like Mel Brooks or maybe Airplane, but probably not.
Nope. Hint: It’s very LA.
LA Story?
Nope. Another hint: “It had been snowing in Santa Barbara since the top of the page.”
Firesign.
“Come in out of the cornstarch and dry your mukluks by the fire.”
They’re no fun, they fell right over!
“Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers!”
“Everything you know is wrong….”
We are definitely “All Bozos on this Bus.”
we are all bozos on this blog (squeeze the weeze. honk, honk!)
Does this date us or make us incredibly cool?
both!
Wow – you guys are full into reminiscing!
(Backs away slowly and quietly…)
Or as you guys might say not so much reminiscing but Forward Into the Past.
im still not in the loop on this one. Is it a movie?
Firesign Theater. A comedy radio/vinyl group. I listened to them obsessively in college.
Thanks! I guess I don’t know all the US cultural references yet. 😉
Here’s the Wikipedia entry.
Being a Canadian with British roots, my dad introduced my to the Goon Show. Nice to see Firesign inspired by them.
Silly.
So dumb.
Ruh roh. Protestors…
Go Kenley!
Go snakes!
Giants – DBacks Gameday
Gnatpen blows another save.
The fans must be apoplectic.
Foaming at the mouth, as usual.
Dbacks just tied the game up.
Here’s a good pic of the Ft. Bragg field.
How many people will that makeshift stadium hold?
12,500
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/187091810/ballpark-on-army-base-named-fort-bragg-field
Thanks, great story!
So is that in honour of July 4th weekend? Is that the reason they are playing there? Besides leaving a ball park to play in I mean.
Vin likes Blackman, Vin likes Blackman, Vin likes Blackman
Love the two kids sitting behind home plate wearing black! (rooting for the ump?)
Blackman fans, like Vin?
I am looking forward to seeing Story’s swing.
and miss.
Yes. And miss.
Just like that!
He thinks the ump missed that last one.
He gneeds to get healthy for the Gnats.
I would love the Rockies to do a number on the Gnats.
Will the Chill with the ground ball out.
Grandal now 6-for-28 with three of the hits of the four-base variety.
Yaz sir!
Yeh Grandal!
Thought it was caught at first.
By Descalso?
Ha ha!
He he he.
Then I took a 2nd look and realized he came up short. Stop.
Third time’s the charm.
You stop!
Our starting pitching in this three-game series: 0 runs in 17 innings, 26 strikeouts.
The other Jo(h)n(ny) Gray, one of my first baseball cards:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/grayjo01.shtml
What uniform was he wearing? He had 4 different ones in his 4 year career.
1954-55, same team, but different city!
My card, which I still have, is 1955 Topps with Gray in a Philadelphia A’s uniform.
Guessing we see Jansen today. Seems like it has been a while.
Judicious use of McCarthy this afternoon.
Don’t care to relive ’66 WS!
Willie D’s nightmare.
The entire offense’s nightmare.
Well, there were those 2 innings where they scored 1 run in each.
Willie D made a huge error.
Did he not make like 3 errors in the same inning?
Yep.
Generous strike call on that that strikeout.
Big out on the caught stealing.
Game is just quietly rolling along right now. Considering the Dodgers have a 3-0 lead, I do not mind.
Rox won’t stay down forever, though.
Tomorrow would be fine by me.
Especially since they play SF.
Hoping the bubble doesn’t suddenly burst today for McCarthy – but I would definitely let him go one more inning.
Well, he it 72 pitches, but I guess they count more at this level. Adios y gracias.
Yes. In hindsight, I’ll send down on the call for another inning.
Puig was tricked on that one.
Seems so, but Vin doesn’t think so.
Nice double down the line by Puig.
McCarthy threw 72 pitches in his last farm appearance, so at this pace 6 innings seems easily within reach with him at 52. Perhaps more.
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/749671606780329984
Dodgers getting some seeing eye hits recently.
I could take those 3 innings from McCarthy all day long.
All season long actually.
Well, we got the minimum out of that opportunity.
We only put one hit into it and got two runs out of it. Seems like a good return.
Run expectancy with bases loaded no outs is 2.28, so we got the average rather than the minimum.
Darn. I had great hopes for that situation. Two more runs ain’t chopped liver, but still…
I hear you.
Two runs on one hit.
Sending Grandal was not the best play ever.
Mystery he was sent after seeing Barnes’ arm the past few nights.
I’m not sure we’ve had the best judges of outfield arms coaching 3rd base the last few years.
and with AGon coming to bat.
Exactly.
Grandal, as Vinnie says, out from me to you. But 3-0 is fine.
That would be a distance of a few hundred miles.
Clever.
More for me! And a lot more for our resident Aussie fan.
Me too!
True enough.
I’m 5 to 6 hundred miles closer to LA than Link and Bob. Of course, I’m further away because I measure by km. 😉
THAT’S how that works!
That’s why Canada is bigger than our older brother USA.
2,668 miles in my case.
Very very out, in that case.
51 pitches for Jon Gray.
Never bad to get into the Rockies pen earlier in the game.
Wow. Good pitch by Gray.
Seager had some loud fouls earlier in the ab.
He has a little peach fuzz on his chin does young Mr. Seager.
Seager up. Wouldn’t have it any other way.
Let’s capitalize here with more runs.
And all I was hoping for was that McCarthy didn’t hit into a DP.
RBI for our pitcher!
Howie has stolen 2 and 3rd on consecutive at bats – on ball 4 each time.
Grandal – this would be a good game to break out.
Great at bat on his part, getting the walk.
Puig was down 0-2 but worked out a walk.
Boy I sure hope this Thompson kid pans out.
He’d make Ethier superfluous if he was a lefty.
Young Mr. Thompson strikes again. 13 HRs, 32 RBI.
He hit it just as I was reading a line in the Dodger Digest preview of today’s game that Gray suffers from giving up a lot of home runs.
A great addition to the club.
So, says Vin, the Rox starter has invisible friends.
I don’t know if anyone has noticed and mentioned this but Seager has a pretty ok swing.
Thanks for the heads-up.
16-game hitting streak now.
Now hitting .303.
Tough lineup for your first time back. Good job Brandon.
Rox at home: BA .305 OBP .373 SLG .531 OPS .904. Road: BA .244 OBP .301 SLG .402 OPS.703. Not so tough on the road. Still, their road OPS is better than the Dodgers overall OPS!
17 pitches in the first. Right about average. Somebody check his wife’s Twitter account to see if she’s going crazy yet.
Edited: She was prepared: https://www.instagram.com/p/BHaJ45ejnpH/
I’ll say it again. Nice start for McCarthy.
Nice start for McCarthy.
93 mph.
Through seven innings, an interesting game in DC.
Strasburg has shown his cowardice again, though.
Hehehe.
no longer.
So it’s a contest between the Blue and the Gray.
Weather may interfere with the playing of the Ft. Bragg game. That would be a shame after all the work that’s gone into it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4blIJst_M0
Thanks for sharing that. Just listened to all of it.