Yasiel Puig, Earth and the stars
Skip Schumaker, 2B
Adrian Gonzalez, 1B
Hanley Ramirez, SS
Andre Ethier, CF
Scott Van Slyke, LF
Juan Uribe, 3B
Tim Federowicz, C
Clayton Kershaw, P
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Your Los Angeles Disabled Listers
1a) Scott Elbert, left elbow surgery recovery
2) Ted Lilly, left shoulder surgery recovery
3) Hanley Ramirez, torn ligament in right thumb
4a) Chad Billingsley, right index finger contusion.
5) Zack Greinke, fractured left collarbone
6) Shawn Tolleson, lower back strain
7a) Chris Capuano, left calf strain
8 ) Ted Lilly, right rib cage strain
9) Hanley Ramirez, left hamstring strain
10) Mark Ellis, right quadriceps strain
11) Jerry Hairston, left groin strain
4b) Chad Billingsley, Tommy John surgery
12) Josh Beckett, left groin strain (and right arm nerve issues)
13) Matt Kemp, right hamstring strain
7b) Chris Capuano, left shoulder latissimus strain
14) Carl Crawford, left hamstring strain
15) A.J. Ellis, left oblique strain.
1b) Scott Elbert, left ulnar collateral ligament tear
KT
I’m ready for this
Anonymous
Our climb back up to .500 continues
Anonymous
If we win today, we won’t be last!
KT
Good start
Anonymous
LAT’d: Yasiel Puig, merely a first-round HOFer, or the first unanimous choice?
Anonymous
Jason Marquis has been remarkably successful against the Dodgers in his career. He is approaching Brian Lawrence status.
Anonymous
He’s no Larry Jaster, though.
Anonymous
Kershaw still does not have a no-hitter.
Anonymous
As a fantasy league owner of a badly slumping Chase Headley, I will allow that hit.
KT
Kershaw at 100?
Anonymous
March 19, 2088 if he’s lucky.
KT
I hope he makes it
Vinny said 100 mph…I doubted it
Anonymous
When he will appear at Dodger Stadium to be honored for his six Cy Youngs and five WS rings.
KT
Good inning…now let’s jump on them and score runs
Anonymous
That run is unearned, right? Runner advancing on HanRam’s error?
Anonymous
It should be. Pitchers are supposed to be given the benefit of the doubt in those situations.
foul tip
Gameday says both FedEx and Clayton just struck out on 3 called strikes, not once taking the bat off their shoulders. That right? Is Marquis all that deceptive?
Also, G-day has Clayton topping out at 94, which is around his usual top end. IIRC he may have hit 96 or 97 in prior years but not faster.
Anonymous
Why is Vin exempt from Rule No. 9?
Anonymous
Yes. All announcer are.
Anonymous
tap, tap, tap…is this thing on?
Anonymous
I think we are back on!
Ken Arneson
Sorry about the downtime…my bad for not paying attention to system maintenance notices. I may have been able to get it scheduled for another time if I had.
Anonymous
Not a bad time to be down. SVS dinger!
Anonymous
Thanks for all your work, Ken. You make Jon happen
Anonymous
Somehow, we are right back in the game!
Anonymous
Well, just so you don’t think I am a total Puig “homer”, Mr. Van Slyke is impressing me as well! Go Blue Crew!
Anonymous
Hadn’t been aware till now that Stults is only a year younger than Marquis, who seems like he has been around forever.
Anonymous
Look who is on deck, if Punto extends the inning…
Anonymous
Ethier 5 for last 42
Anonymous
That many?
Anonymous
Federowicz now hitting above .200. He is five for his last 16.
KT
turn two here
Anonymous
For the 11th time in his 13 games this season Kershaw has turned in a “quality start” — six or more innings, no more than three earned runs. At the conclusion of tonight’s game he will be either 5-3 or 5-4.
Anonymous
Dare I predict, Hanley gets on and Van Slyke with a walk off
Anonymous
“Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!”
Anonymous
I was wrong!
Jeffrey Thomas III
I just got home, turns out Puig is human after all.
Anonymous
Pesky, these Padres.
Anonymous
Dodger bullpen strikes (balls) again.
Anonymous
First two games of this series, bullpen allowed 2 ERs in 8.2 innings. Tonight, 3 in 3 innings, all charged to Rodriguez.
Anonymous
I know. Bad night for Paco. Kershaw wasn’t his sharpest, either.
Jeffrey Thomas III
Without Puig’s heroics the bullpen is exposed once again. Man they’re bad.
Anonymous
Mattingly is also Torrefying the ‘pen.
Linkmeister
How can so many relievers go so bad all at once?
Anonymous
Remember when we had more good pitchers than we knew what to do with?
Anonymous
“Those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end . . . “
Anonymous
It wasn’t just the bullpen . . . the offense went to sleep and even the Kid wasn’t his sharpest.
But yes, the bullpen IS bad.
underdog
That 9th was painful. So was the home plate ump (not to blame that for loss). Kershaw wasn’t totally sharp but pitched well enough to win. Dodgers just took too long to get to Marquis. While our pen is far more taxed.
Puig learned for the future tonight and will better for it.
Frustrating to not get sweep with kid K going.
Hard to see more than a split with braves but you never know. One game at a time, and other cliches. ;)
Anonymous
Got to give credit to Marquis.
Anonymous
I was looking back at the trade the Dodgers made with Seattle and Boston. Dodgers sent off Trayvon Robinson to Seattle and got back Tim Fedex and Stephen Fife and another minor leaguer from Boston. Boston got Eric Bedard and Josh Fields – both of whom are at Houston now. Bedard left Boston as a free agent and Fields was a Rule 5 draft pick.
I’m not going to say the Dodgers won the trade, but I certainly think they did better than Boston!
Anonymous
Interesting what-ifs with that trade. I believe that Ned’s original idea was to trade Kuroda for Lavarnway, who was at least one notch up on Boston’s catcher depth charts. Kuroda nixed the idea, so we ended up with Fedex. While Lavarnway made it to the Bigs a year earlier that Fedex, so far there doesn’t seem to be a large gap between them performance-wise (just looking at BR numbers). Of course, fallout from Kuroda’s nixing may have played into Ned not reupping him.
foul tip
IIRC, Kuroda wanted to re-sign but finally said he couldn’t wait forever.
Then Ned was hailed for getting 2 pitchers–Cap and Harang–for what Kuroda would have cost. Considering the financial constraints he was under at the time,. a case can be made Ned did about as well as he could. But no question Kuroda is better than either (unless Cap can do consistently what he did first half last year).
Interesting that Kuroda does not seem to find AL hitters all that fearsome.
He was solidly above average with the Dodgers, is better with NYY.
Anonymous
Now, of course if Kuroda had gone to the Bosox they would have made the playoffs and all the drama that the rest of the world was dragged into by the East Coast media would not have happened and they subsequently probably wouldn’t have done the fire sale to get rid of the malcontents and we never would have gotten our Bostonians!
foul tip
Ummmm……yeah…I think. Yeah, that’s got to be it.
In other recent old friend/AL pitcher transplant news, Harang has had back-to-back quality starts. Last two times out he has allowed 2 runs (one earned) over 15 innings. He shut out San Diego May 27.
However, he faces NYY for the first time today. Be interesting, that.
Anonymous
Where is Robinson right now?
Anonymous
Playing AAA in the Orioles organization. 5 HR, 15 RBI .238 avg., .684 OPS
Anonymous
Who does smart money say the Dodgers are going to draft today?
Anonymous
They almost always tend toward pitching, sometimes extremely so.
Anonymous
Talk about crashing to earth! 0-5 oh baby! But it does bring out the greatness in Vinny. Two nights ago we heard about Hondo, last night we heard about Dino somebody who batted in front of Ralph Kiner. I love it…and his words of wisdom.
Anonymous
Looked at the box score and it says 0-4. Felt like 0-5 :(
KT
5-12 still has a .417 batting average
Anonymous
Yeah, but only his first taste of a wiley righty. Baseball can be a tough game.
foul tip
Dodgers reportedly looking at another Cuban, a pitcher who might help this year.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgersnow/la-sp-dn-dodgers-miguel-alfredo-gonzalez-20130606,0,5818743.story
Anonymous
How about Ethier and money for the Mets’ Daniel Murphy?
Anonymous
I can recall that last year there was some speculation that he could have been had for a middle reliever, but not sure how credible that was. BTW, Lindblom is now with the Rangers, but with only one appearance in the Bigs this year.
Anonymous
If that trade happened, we could probably get some kind of return on Mark Ellis in July.
Anonymous
The idea. last year at least. was that he was only playing 2nd for the Mets (because of Wright) and that he would play 3rd for us.
Anonymous
Rangers are using him as a starter in AAA. he is 6-0 with 9 starts and 1 other appearance; ERA 2.04; WHIP 0.924.
Jon Weisman
NPUT