Orioles at Dodgers, 7:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA, MASN 2
The Os send their Opening Day starter Chris Tillman (10-2, 3.71 ERA) out to face the Dodgers’ Kenta Maeda (7-5, 2.82 ERA). Tillman has surrendered 14 earned runs in his last 14 2/3 innings, while Maeda has given up 6 earned runs in his last 17 1/3.
If you think Puig is hitting better than he has all year, well…”Yasiel Puig homered Monday and is currently hitting .381 in 13 games since returning from a DL stint due to a hamstring injury.”
Lineup:
Utley 2B
Seager SS
Thompson CF
González 1B
Puig RF
Grandal C
Kendrick LF
Taylor 3B
Maeda P— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) July 5, 2016
NPUT
Is Link aware this is a day game?
Yes, but I overslept by 45 minutes. Didn’t get up till 8:10AM.
I wish I could oversleep, if only for one day.
Pagan out 4-3, Parker out K, Belt out 7. We don’t gain a game but we don’t lose one either.
The Rockies’ bats came alive. (All but Story.) Let’s hope they stay that way against Cueto.
Yes! 7-3 Rockies.
And strikeout. To the bottom of the 9th in SF. Pagan, Parker and Belt comin’ up.
7-3 Rockies, 2 on, 2 out, top of the ninth.
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Gnats get one back. Hold on, Rockies!
Oh well. Not to be.
Sad to see our winning streak end.
Turner gave it a bit of a ride but falls short.
Our bench is pretty weak these days.
But we got a great DL!
98 sinking fast ball. Whoa.
Britton even better ERA.
Set up guy All Star!
Brach? He is so impressive.
Brach
Thanks.
It’s the editor in me.
7-2 Rockies.
Helpful, very helpful.
Excruciating.
Nice job by Hatcher to work out of it.
Well the clock is about to strike midnight (literally) and I need sleep. I will probably keep listening but I’m not too concerned if I don’t make it to the end of this one.
They might surprise you…
It’s true I know. I’m such the optimist that it is hard to stop listening in case they do comeback!
One more, Hatcher.
Hatcher not helping himself one bit.
Nice inning by Avilán, and by the Rox.
Maybe our bats will wake up this inning, fueled by the Arenado gift.
Neither correlation nor causation.
Oh, I know that! But I like to dream.
I must drive you nuts with my magical thinking.
Ha! So good.
Instead of – or at least along side – a HR derby – perhaps there could be a 3B hitting and defense competition between Manny and Nolan. I would pay money to see that. Especially the defense part. Just have their dads, brothers, or hitting coaches hit rockets down the third baseline at them and watch the fun ensue.
Machado’s play on Thompson was awesome. I don’t Arenado even gets to that ball.
Thank you, Rockies! 4-2, on an Arenado homer.
Fell asleep for 40 minutes and just catching up on the Manny Machado show.
Machado putting on a show.
What a throw! He made it look so easy.
Baez did his job.
His recent outings have been very encouraging.
I was afraid of this. Maeda didn’t have it tonight. Roberts miscalled that one.
Tough to pull your starter there, but worse possible outcome.
Good job bearing down, Maeda!
This inning is worrying me.
Keystone cops in left field, on another soft fly ball.
Kendrick has done alright but it would be nice to have a true LF again.
Maeda is a bit erratic tonight.
I agree. He’s not at his sharpest tonight.
Bobbing and weaving, as Vinny puts it.
Hard to believe how much the rotation has turned over recently. We might not have our ace, but we might have a group of 2nd and 3rd line starters: Maeda, Ryu (if he comes back well), McCarthy, Kazmir, Norris. Ok – Norris might be more back end of rotation guy but the others have potential to be front or at least mid-rotation starters.
Grandal having trouble catching tonight. Lucky for him the fly ball was, at least, catchable.
Can Barnes be that far away? Surely his time is coming soon.
Grandal is so hot and cold. I don’t know what to make of him, actually.
His streakiness last year made much more sense. He was good until he got injuried and then he was no longer good. This year is less straightforward.
Exactly. And sometimes he just seems to be playing lazy ball, if that makes sense.
Yes it does.
No, it doesn’t.
Why not?
Because he’s clearly working hard, but Maeda’s throwing a lot of awkward pitches.
Pass balls because he tries backhanded stabs. Not running out strike three calls. Like that.
Grandal with a bad backhand there.
Ump not calling close ones for Maeda.
Another game of bloops.
Who do you guy’s like for the final vote-in for the ASG? I don’t want Belt that’s for sure. I don’t mind Story, but it might mean less playing time for Seager.
I dunno. Lamb? Story deserves it too, though and so does Marté.
All of them are more deserving than Belt.
I don’t want Braun either.
Even Braun is more deserving.
As if ASG was about equity and justice!
The ASG is officially a farce.
I don’t disagree with you. Especially the official part.
I like Marte.
That works too.
Rough start to the inning here by Maeda.
Could have been a lot worse. Puig’s arm…
Very helpful.
Got squeezed before walking Trumbo.
I thought the same.
Puig is also much more patient since he came back from the DL.
Seager, Jansen and Kershaw make ASG roster.
I don’t begrudge long-suffering Cubbie fans their enthusiasm but, even though Russell’s good, Seager’s far better.
Puig’s Little League walk-off would suggest that his hamstring is completely healed.
Yas has picked it up as well, though Jones robbed him of at least a double last night.