Dodgers at Diamondbacks, 1:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA, FS-D
Zack Greinke (16-3, 1.68 ERA) goes for the Dodgers. He last faced the D-Backs on April 12 when he shut them out for seven innings, giving up only five hits and getting his first win of the year. He’ll face the left-handed Patrick Corbin (5-3, 3.32 ERA), who missed the first three months of the season while recovering from Tommy John surgery in March of 2014. Corbin has won his last two starts, although he’s not gotten past the sixth inning in either one.
Lineup:
Today's #Dodgers lineup:
Ruggiano LF
Peraza 2B
Turner 3B
Gonzalez 1B
Van Slyke RF
Seager SS
Ellis C
Pederson CF
Greinke P #whiff
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) September 13, 2015
Bonus coverage: Cory Seager on his first big league home run.
Bonus bonus coverage: Padres at Giants.
NPUT
Keeping Zack has to be the Number One Priority this fall. Second would be at least one, better yet, two dependable pitchers. We don’t know how or if Ryu and Anderson will be next year. Woods may be something, may be not. Latos is…Gone. You have to wonder how he would have been without the tatoos. A little personal prejudice there.
McCarthy and Arroyo may be fully recovered too.
Beachy?
Plenty to choose from before they go out trying to sign another starter. Among other birds in the hand: McCarthy will be around; Ballslinger deserves a look; Frias is a backender or for the pen; and there is the possibility of Urias. They would need to resign Anderson
Let’s have a lefty-strong lineup: https://twitter.com/truebluela/status/643539219227541505
Turner is the lone right hand hitter in the lineup. Grandal is a switch-hitter, of course.
As the trade deadline approached, I leaned toward acquiring a big-name starter like Cueto. Fortunately, the Royals acquired him instead.
Yes, that’s true because he would have cost us a lot more than the two we got for about the same gain. Nevertheless, I hope they try to sign him offseason in addition to keeping Greinke. Did you see this? http://sports.yahoo.com/news/10-degrees–why-the-red-hot-yoenis-cespedes-may-not-come-back-to-new-york-031306612.html He speculates Zack might get 5 years at $35MM per. That’s scarey money.
It’s not my money but, if I had the choice, I’d spend it on Greinke (or Price) rather than a question mark like Cueto.
I think Cueto could be had for less than that. But baseball execs offer crazy salaries so I wouldn’t bet against it.
That’s Clayton money. I could see the Dodgers offering something in that neighborhood. Issue is likely to be the years. His stuff is likely to age better than some of the fireballers. I tend to agree with Package that they are unlikely to pick up another ace if they get Greinke back.
Given that neither Price nor Cueto would involve surrendering a draft pick, I’m not so sure. They want to rebuild the farm with the highest possible draft picks, so they will not sign anybody who’s eligible for a qualifying offer (but they may make qualifying offers to guys like Kendrick, who can net them a high pick if he doesn’t accept).
If he didn’t opt bout (no chance), how much/how long is the existing contract? Three years, $72MM?? Would he go (or rather, stay) for 5/$150MM?
He would be FA in 2019. Current contract is for around $25.5 million per year.
…Woo-HOO!!!
I’m superstitious, so I’ll also say…
We win. How’s this for random: Kenley’s era is the exact same as the length of game 2.56!
Ha!
I think that’s the sixth HR allowed by Kenley. For a closer, that’s a little scary.
just your regular 3 strikeout 9th from Kenley 🙂
Phew- HOO!!!!
13 is the lucky number.
This has happened before to Kenley. But why did DM pull Greinke?
No Kenley tomorrow.
Imagine trying to reduce pitch counts setting up for playoffs.
Hatch for the save?
OH fer…Thank you AJ for that home run.
Oh no.
KJ getting squeezed a little?
AJ talking to the ump after the dinger.
A little more work for Kenley than expected.
He often seems to work harder when it’s not a save situation.
Making it a save situation…
Don taking orders from Torre?
C’mon, KJ. One more…
Goldie’s day: 3Ks, 1 BB. Coulda left the bat in the rack.
Five foul balls before the first pitch out of the strike zone. Pollack’s got a good eye too.
Eventually, though, he swung at Kenley’s pitch.
That’s patience and a good eye.
Good eye, Corey.
A.J. missed the pool, though.
Over at friends house today. Happy to see a 4-0 lead. Greinke is dealing! Yeah for winning road trips (regardless of today’s game).
AJ!!!!
Take a seat, kid. 0-4 is not entirely unusual.
Walk SVS to get to the rookie. Might be smart, but the kid’s shown no fear.
Butter and Egg man delivers again.
Insurance run. Way to go, A-Gon!
Nice job, Torreyes!
Another name for Steiner to mispronounce.
Hahaha.
So tomorrow I’ll get to see Kershaw and Arrietta battling in the ravine? Whoa.
Arrietta is a Cub. We’re playing the Rockies tomorrow. You’ll see a rookie named Jon Gray.
I just saw that! Must have misheard Steiner. Or else my brain has been so thoroughly Steinered it makes mistakes all on its own!
Better chance of a W!
There are a whole lot of NL pitchers who will look at how Greinke’s pitching Goldie today.
Superb.
I don’t know if I would pitch to Goldschmidt. But then again, I’m not Greinke.
Struck him out twice today already.
Seager looks like he rolled over all three pitches for his three outs.
Greinke: 61 pitches through five innings. Excellent pitch count.
Goldschmidt’s ankle twisted weirdly on that last out. Hope he’s okay. It looked painful to me.
Puig is there today. Apparently he hasn’t been at Chase Field because he’s been working out on a special machine only available at Camelback. No drama or intrigue involved after all.
Good news. Thanks.
I will be so relieved when the Dodgers clinch the division and Steiner can shut up (hopefully) about the Gnats until at least March.
What does he say about that team west of Oakland?
He gives the score religiously, and usually throws in something about BadGums.
Doctor-ordered double play!
And it was Leake, the pitcher, who hit the big HR.
Dang. 4-3 Gnats now. Pesky as usual!
Joc has really gotten better since Seager arrived. I think he’s stopped trying to hit every ball out.
Steinered on the caught-and-dropped foul by Peralta.
Is Ender Inciarte’s older brother’s name “Starter” or “Beginner?”
Or is he named for the lead character in Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game?
I still like Socrates Brito best of all the D-Backs’ names, though.
Could be the start of another Puig flap:
“Puig has been rehabbing at the Spring Training complex this weekend while the Dodgers played at Chase Field, but he hasn’t visited the club yet.
“I’m not sure why he’s not here,” Mattingly said. “I know he’s welcome over here.”
“Asked if Puig needed an invitation, Mattingly said: “Of course not. Nobody needs an invitation. Actually, I’m surprised he’s not here.”
http://m.dodgers.mlb.com/news/article/148980994/dodgers-thriving-despite-puigs-absence
On my goal to ignore the NFL this season until the post-season (if then), I have now gone one half of the first Sunday of the season without any knowledge of that it happening in that league. Wish me luck.
I find it easy to ignore handegg 365 days a year.
Me, too. Not really my thing, except for the January I had Legionnaire’s disease. The Aistralian open and football games were the only two things I could watch. I was too sick to follow shows or read books. All I could handle was watching balls moving back and forth.
The only games I’ve watched in full in the last five years or so have been the Super Bowls, and that’s mostly because a friend has held a watch party for it every year since 1991 with one exception.
I haven’t seen a handegg game in person since high school. By pure coincidence, I’ve seen the odd few plays at friends’ houses over the years, but never for more than a few minutes.
Turner looked like he found his swing and timing in that at bat.
The Padres 2, Tony Bennett’s team 0, after one inning.
SVS misses Wade Miley this year.
Nice start, boys!
Not likely to matter much, but Latos back to pen as long man.
http://m.dodgers.mlb.com/news/article/149105082
Steinered on the double.
Given the opportunity, he’ll get it wrong every time.
Go Dodgers. Go Padres.
Gameday link to that game now in post for scoreboard watchers.
The Dodgers have the best home winning percentage of any team in MLB.
Thus one of the goals is to keep winning and get home field advantage throughout the NLDS and NLCS. Unfortunately the Cardinals have seemingly locked that up, barring a semi-collapse on their part.
True, but the Cardinals’ lead over Pittsburgh was down to 2 1/2 games at the start of play today, so it is possible that the Cards could end up as a wildcard team and make it less likely that we would have to play them.
Looks like a dog fight out there. Cubs and Pitt have four games next week and then, while we are playing Pitt this weekend, Cards will be playing Cubs. A week later Cards and Pitt meet head on. The Cards are the ones to play outside their division for the last series, which will be three games at Atlanta.
After today’s games, the magic number could be 13 or, if we’re especially fortunate, even 12.