Dodgers at Giants, 7:15PM PT, TV: SPNLA
Brett Anderson has started two games for the Dodgers so far this season, going six innings in one game and five innings in the other. He got a no-decision in the first game and picked up a win in the second. He’s got an ERA of 3.27. He’s only made three starts against the Giants in his career, and he’s 0-2 with a 5.25 ERA.
Anderson will face two-time Cy Young winner Tim Lincecum, who hasn’t looked like the same pitcher he was in 2008 and 2009 when he won those awards in quite a while. He’s started two games this year. In his first outing he looked like a throwback to those years, though; he went 7 scoreless innings, walked 3, struck out 5 and gave up 4 hits. Unfortunately he didn’t get a decision. His second outing was similar: he went 5 innings, giving up 6 hits and 3 runs while walking only 1 and striking out 4. In that one he got a loss. Lincecum is 9-7 with a 3.38 ERA in 24 career starts against the Dodgers.
Lineup:
Tonight’s #Dodgers lineup vs. the Giants:
Rollins SS
Puig RF
Gonzalez 1B
Kendrick 2B
Grandal C
Crawford LF
Uribe 3B
Pederson CF
Anderson P
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 21, 2015
Puig is in the lineup, which means his hamstring is better. It also means that Mattingly knows he’s 8 for 14 against Lincecum in his short time in the big leagues.
NPUT
Jon Weisman not only agrees re: last night not being our night, he illustrates! http://dodgers.mlblogs.com/2015/04/22/the-not-their-night-game/#more-2090981
When you’ve got a washed-up hack like Lincecum on the mound, be patient and let him take himself out of the game.
Not being able to see last night’s game was a blessing in disguise. Tonight’s is on local TV, so I’ll mute the sound and listen to Vin for three innings, then no sound at all to avoid being Steinered.
night all
Well, drat. Nibbled to death by ducks with all the infield hits.
G’night all.
Night and see everyone tomorrow evening.
Glimmer of hope.
Extinguished.
If only we were still down by 3.
After the top of the 7th ended I thought this game was cruising along.
Not any more.
This new stattracker stuff is almost mind boggling in how much it can calculate. It will lead to a whole new leaderboard of categories: max speed of runners, exit velocity for hitters, revolutions per second for pitchers and a whole bunch more.
Nope. Not our night.
Well, it felt like that other 6-0 game anyway . . .
I completely agree. And if we win 7 straight after this game, it will be worth it.
From your keys . . .
Now I’m all tense about Heisey.
Maxwell is going to be mighty sore tomorrow.
Gonzo continues to cool down from his unsustainable hot start. But that one almost sneaked through.
Argh.
As in work of?
As in typo.
Oh. Ha ha. How about as in drat?
Let’s go AGon, clap, clap, clap clap clap.
Oh man. Need to Gonzo here to come up with a single at least.
Unbelievable catch. He slammed his knee.
Polite golf clap.
Don’t get over anxious Puig!
Well a small moral victory. Only one out instead of DP #5.
But I wish Turner hadn’t swung and made Romo throw more strikes.
At least we are getting into their pen.
I like that too. Perhaps soften them up a bit for the rest of the series.
Their pen’s been overachieving for much too long, but so far this year it’s caught up with them.
Lucky 100 posts! Here we go with 101.
Perhaps start with a Joc walk…
Yes!
Close to striking out but just fouled tipped it to stay alive to see ball four. 11th walk this year already for Joc.
Need some base runners.
Okay Dodgers. RBIs!
Who’s up?
Got him swinging!
Ump getting squeezy.
foul tip mentioned this about 4 hours ago, but curious as to what you guys think is going on with Chris Heisey and what he is doing up with the Dodgers? Any guesses as to what move(s) will happen?
Moving an outfielder, but who?
Not Joc. Not Puig. Crawford or Ethier.
Pads won – as did the Mets again. At least the Cards lost.
Pretty weak inning.
Grandal will turn it around soon, hopefully.
I thought that was going out.
Three innings to get at least three runs. We got this.
Arbitrary turning point of the game hopefully right there. ha!
Thank you!
How about a DP for us now, baseball gods?
Good call RBI!
Steiner says Lincescum turned in an “outstanding performance.”
Talk about Steinering Lincescum’s performance.
not looking like our day, but we are close enough if we are good enough
That could have gone either way (of course it doesn’t go our way).
Vin makes the good point that when you shift against him you need to pitch to his strength (but, I guess that applies to everyone).
Oh man. Sweet play by Crawford.
Some nights it’s just not your night. Unless it turns out to be your night later.
Maybe the Dodgers only warm up once this game thread warms up, There have certainly been more comments in the last few innings than the start of the game.
Nice start Puig, now lets make this count
Guerrero is really showing his worth in limited opportunities
Yea!
Alex the Warrior!
Okay, time to heat up dinner. I’ll be watching and hoping as we sup soup.
Just grab a bowl of cold cereal!
And here comes the stupid chant.
Every hit of theirs except for the triple and Crawford’s double has found a hole, not rolled foul, squibbed where we are not, etc. whereas our balls are like magnets to their mitts. May not be our night. Anderson not playing smart on the field at all, either. But then we have Vin: So the Dodgers stick out their toe on the road, and the Giants run over it.
The Dodgers have not helped themselves with brain-dead swinging at a pitcher who can’t throw strikes.
Yes. That as well.
Now, that is troubling.
Like being killed by a hundred thousand paper cuts. With a dash of lemon juice on top.
And now the balk.
Dang
Definitely glad we have won 7 in a row or else this one would be even more troubling than it feels now. Only one hard hit ball by the gnats out of the 7 hits they have.
What is troubling you (I mean, other than the fact that we are losing to the giants)?
That’s what’s troubling me!
Isn’t that enough?! If not, I could mention the Jets losing to the Ducks in hockey.
Frustrating game so far. Three DPs.
Unwilling to let Lincescum walk the bases loaded, apparently.
And lots of ground balls turning into double plays for the Dodgers.
Now I get Steinered the rest of the night.
Lots of ground balls finding holes for the gnats.
So far tonight feels like the game the Dodgers lost 6-0 to the Rockies. All the breaks going one way, that is.
In Denver, Kemp arguably misplayed a double into a triple. Rox tie it up, 2-2 in the fourth.
Joc mimics.
Can’t see it. I’m blacked out and, what’s worse, due to be Steinered in an inning.
happy birthday Joc!
http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2015/04/21/119595256/wish-a-happy-23rd-birthday-to-dodgers-phenom-joc-pederson
Reports Chris Heisey is in #Dodgers clubhouse. No roster move yet.
I can’t recall any other pitcher who’s gone from HOF candidate to washed-up as quickly as Lincescum.