In case you missed it, here’s the most amazing play of the year thus far:
Dodgers at Giants, 7:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA, NBC-Bay Area, MLBN (out-of-market only)
Lefty Alex Wood (1-0, 3.29 ERA) faces Johnny Cueto (3-1, 5.25 ERA) in Game Three of the four-game set. It might be Wood’s last start for a while, because of this news:
Urias pitches Thursday.
— Ken Gurnick (@kengurnick) April 26, 2017
Lineup when available.
Tonight's Dodger lineup at Giants:
Bellinger LF
Seager SS
Turner 3B
González 1B
Grandal C
Puig RF
Utley 2B
Toles CF
Wood P pic.twitter.com/dyWBoqVbv7— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 26, 2017
NPUT
Not what I wanted to wake up to this morning. Browsing through the innings the thing that bothered me the most was Grandal calling for a high fastball to Morse after Baez struck out the previous hitter with a great change up.
Now we are seeing why the Giants didn’t keep Romo. Living in Giants country I saw a lot of tonight’s Romo last season. I enjoyed it then.
Yeah, seemed like a stretch at the time picking him up. Not much condolence, but Blanton doing as equally poorly with Washington.
Arrrggh!
Overall, it’s currently a rather uninspiring team outside of Kershaw, Wood, McCarthy, Seager, Turner and Jansen. Real unsettled in the outfield, questionable in middle relief (particularly lately) and lack of clutch hitting. Blowing a 3-0 lead after 6 and wasting a brilliant performance by Wood is galling.
Puig’s new approach is promising and Quique actually leads the team in OPS+. Barnes has looked good as well and Forsythe returns at some point. Sample size is small, but look more like a 90 win team, as implied by their Pythagorean, rather than the 74 win team suggested by projecting their current record.
Sure seems like a loooong time since they had a massive two-game winning streak.
Frustratingly inevitable.
Night, all. It will get better.
I hope you are right, but I am not very sure.
No guarantees.
Lots of hopes.
Game’s over.
What a waste.
Will he walk in the run?
At least Arizona lost.
Grumble grumble grumble.
Roberts plays very little little ball — the sacrifice or the squeeze or the hit-and-run.
Not just Dave — that seems to have been the same for Donnie and Joe as well.
Maybe it’s endemic to being manager of the Dodgers. Did Grady Little play much little ball? Or Davey Johnson? Or Jim Tracy? I can’t remember. Walt Alston was a master of it with a lineup that started with Wills and Gilliam. I miss that kind of baseball.
Amen.
“Speed never slumps.”
And with us it seems that “slumps never slump.” I have vented enough for one evening.
Yes! — consistently inconsistent . . . deja vu all over again from last year. (They DID turn it around last year, with an SF collapse . . . this year as well?)
I hope so. Losing to the Giants in this fashion is worse than losing this way to any other team.
This is why I stop watching. Easier to take when it’s little blue balls instead of hits.
Precisely.
I’m trying to be optimistic, but with the lack of offensive output, prolonging the game only guarantees tiring the already-tired bullpen.
It’s not just lefthanders we aren’t hitting, it seems to be anybody on the mound. I know that we are playing only our 23rd game, but there are many signs that I don’t like. I have little or no confidence that any on the following will get a hit on most at bats: Utley, Barnes, Grandal, Gonzalez, Van Slyke, Toles or Pederson. That is way too many when we carry only 12 or 13 non-pitchers.
At the beginning of the year, there was talk of how potent the lineup was, with everyone a threat. Now they have to put an APB out for someone to hit in the clutch.
Just don’t put the ball on the ground, Gonzo.
C’mon, bats! Gotta break out of this funk SOME time (I hope!) — might as well be now!
I’ve switched to game day. Too tense!
Isn’t that worse, especially knowing that it has already happened?
RBI: I also have switched to Gameday quite a bit lately. Frequently find games too tense to watch as well.
Great DP!
Needed that!
Now need bats.
I feel sorry for Wood. Such a good outing, wasted.
Dodgers are going to have to break their recent tendency to score in only one inning if they are to pull this one out.
Yuck!
The pants only going down to the knee with orange below is a particularly unfortunate look on Morse.
Didn’t stop him from hammering that high fast ball.
Salt meet wound.
At dinner party, so following under the table. Another tense one.
It’s not (just) Baez. This game has really slowed down now.
Tension also does that.
Ugh. Romo.
Trying not to care. Trying not to worry. Just want the win.
Nearly midnight in Michigan, will be watching rest of game on the iPad in bed.
I am checking out as well. Hopefully a great game to visit in the morning.
for fun, lets add some more
Just got back to Ann Arbor from ballgame in Detroit – 8-0 shutout for the Mariners, some good plays, glad I did it. Got cheap tickets on StubHub. Big thunderstorm on the drive back.
Toles speed for the run.
That works too!
Utley doubled his average from.032 to.064!
That works!
Big moment here for Utley.
He is due.
Glad Seager wasn’t walked.
Seager!
At this pace, Wood would need 108 pitches to complete 9 innings.
Which sadly is about 20-25 too many for Wood.
This inning we should work more on the scoring aspect of the game. That would be fun.
See? Fun right?
Bellinger beginning to make contact with the up and in strike.
Cueto and Wood making this game quick so far.
Quick and tense.
Always tense for me!
Darn autocorrect does not like Cueto’s name!
Does it turn it into Cutie or something like that?
My guess is that it turns into Curtis.
Curtis. Cutter. No Cutie yet!
Not a lot of scoring so far this series. Column A is good pitching. Column B is poor hitting. Take your pick.
Column C.
Well at least you didn’t choose the 5th Column.
I was looking for the all the above column.
Bob, what were you doing in Mexico?
Have a beach house in Puerto Escondido.
Keep up the good work, Alex.
AGon made Cueto throw more than 3 pitches. Feels like a victory!
Takes Toles three at bats to do that.
For a Dodgers – Giants game, y’all are very quiet tonight.
I was lifting lady-weights. Next, heating up homemade veggie soup for dinner. But I’m talking to the tv screen plenty!
I use a Vitamix to make veggie soup. Always amazes me that after 5 minutes of blade spinning the soup is piping hot.
Curious what Utley’s batting floor is? It feels like he is in the 3rd parking lot below ground already.
THanks for the video link, Link.
Know we know what being over the top in baseball is like!
ESPN just laid off a bunch of on-air personalities and writers, including Dodger beat guys Doug Padilla and Mark Saxon. There are some other recognizable names in the NYT here.
One of our local sportscasters who made the leap to ESPN was also let go today.