Padres at Dodgers, 7:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA, FSSD
The last time the Padres’ Andrew Cashner faced the Dodgers, Adrian Gonzalez whacked three home runs while he was pitching. Cashner’s been better since, although his record doesn’t show it. He’s 1-7 this season but he’s got a 3.24 ERA. He is 1-4 with a 2.22 ERA lifetime against the Dodgers and 0-2 this year.
He’ll face Zack Greinke, who lost his first game of the season last week against the Rockies even though he only gave up one run in six innings. This will be his third start against the Padres this season, and he’s given up one run in 13 innings so far. In nine career starts against San Diego, Greinke is 5-0 with a 1.58 ERA.
Bill Shaikin of the LA Times asks “What happened to the Padres?” as he looks at their 20-22 record this season and compares it to the high expectations the team had going into 2015. And what can we expect of this series? Shaikin says if you’re cynical you’ll say the pitchers will win. “The Padres have not scored in 14 innings. The Dodgers have not scored in 31 innings.”
Lineup when available.
Tonight's #Dodgers lineup vs. Padres:
Pederson CF
Rollins SS
Kendrick 2B
Gonzalez 1B
Grandal C
Turner 3B
Ethier RF
Van Slyke LF
Greinke P
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 22, 2015
NPUT
Game won without throwing a pitch, last accomplished in 2009: http://m.rockies.mlb.com/news/article/5756884/
I’m excited to see Bolsinger pitch tomorrow, in the flesh.
Enjoy!
What he’s done so far is encouraging, but not yet definitive.
Just got in, good to see us back in the winners circle
Phew!
Absence makes the heart grow fonder . . . sure missed the Ws.
Needed that one! Weathering this downturn. 4-6 in last ten is same as other division leaders, StL and Mets (of course the Mets lost their division lead). In the younger circuit the Yanks went 2-8 and Rays took over division lead.
Woo-HOO!!!
Also known as Woo-TWO (runs)!!!
I like it. Let’s make it woo-TEN tomorrow.
Ha ha! I’m all for that!
We win!
KK-enley!
The long national nightmare is over . . . or something like that.
KKenley, kkeep it up!
Ground out. Kenley’s K rate continues to plummet. 🙂
Kenley time. Fingers and toes crossed.
In terms of chants, having fans yell “Let’s go home team (Dodgers)” seems far more appropriate, sensible, exciting and intelligent than having fans yell “Beat away team (LA).”
Has anybody ever won a game without throwing a pitch?
Funny idea.
Guess they could pick off a runner.
And I’m pretty sure that has happened.
What a shame Zack isn’t eligible to get the W if LA wins.
Still, it’s better than taking another hard-luck loss.
I love baseball and the history of baseball. However, it it wasn’t for the tradition of the game that is so special and important – the win stat would change. A reasonable approach would be to award it to Greinke in a case like this, rather than Hatcher and his one pitch (should the Dodgers indeed win).
What’s worse is when a reliever blows the save, then gets the win.
Agreed.
Not always: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Regan_(baseball)
105 pitches, no decision. One pitch may get the win. Doesn’t seem fair to Vinny, or to me.
Joc!!!
Joc-ularity!
Remember, Father Mulcahy on MASH used to use that word a lot.
Joc!
Alright – we have 200% more opportunity to score a run (if my math is correct).
And I think my math is wrong – we have (at least) 2 full batting innings to their 1.
C’mon, Dodgers — no bottom of the 9th for these next 6 games!
That ball four was strike two.
Bullpen time: Hatcher coming in.
Let’s go Greinke!
Uh oh. Matty could get revenge here.
Greinke is going strong this evening but may not be around for a decision in this game.
Thank you Padre defense!
A RUN!
If Dodgers score here – they would miss tying the LA scoreless innings streak. The record is 36 innings and they are at 35. Brooklyn record is 41.
Pressure is on!
Greinke is averaging 9 pitches an inning.
So he can go 11 or 12 innings tonight in a scoreless game.
Oy!
Grandal may be out for a few games. Out now because of getting hit in the mask several times tonight.
By a bat and a ball.
Grandal’s fly out was mildly Steinered.
Darned if I didn’t get my hopes up for half a second.
While we’re waiting for the Dodgers to score, check out Dad’s surprise for his daughter during the traditional dance at the reception.
Saw that early today too. Pretty cool.
Even baseball related!
Exactly!
Waiting for the Dodgers to score a run somehow becomes more exciting the longer it goes – just in the sense that statistically it has to happen soon but it feels like an illusion, a mirage, a dream until it does.
. . . a nightmare!
Ha. Yes I thought of that as well.
WP or PB to cap this offensive outburst? . . . Please?
Great start, Zack!
Bats . . . ?
Reading that Harang might be the target. So we don’t have to argue Cueto/Hamels. (I believe that he is the owner of The Dodger record for Ks in a row).
There are numerous better options that wouldn’t deplete the major league roster or require fallowing the farm: http://dodgersdigest.com/2015/05/22/forget-about-cole-hamels/
Timmy!
Hush your mouth!
I’ll pass on that one – the worst starting pitcher in baseball over the past couple years – and hope the Gnats sign him to a five-year extension.
Let’s hope Zack once again lives up to his reputation as the stopper.
I would normally say that it still depends on the offense except he wields as powerful a bat as any other Dodger has these last 5 games.
Another game I’ll get to see. One good thing about getting the Giant and Padre feeds instead of the Dodgers, they booth have much better looking “token female” broadcasters than the Dodgers. Come on, FO, theres a trade that would be popular…
Er, all the Padres broadcasters look decidedly male and mostly white.
Oh, wait. You must mean their in-studio person. Ally Sturm is not male.
The one who does interviews before, during, and after the game, Chris Budden I think it is.
Alanna Rizzo is not unattractive.