Bob filling in here.
I’ve already forgotten to include a Clayton Kershaw start nickname once already, so I’ll do it again. Jon can add them retrospectively.
Pittsburgh starter Brandon Cumpton, making his Major League debut, is just eight months younger than Clayton Kershaw.
J.P. Howell, who pitched two innings last night, dropped the appeal of his 2-game suspension and will spend the rest of the series hanging out at some of Pittsburgh’s finer restaurants and taverns. Yasiel Puig ends up in the 2 spot in the lineup today behind leadoff man Skip Schumaker. Andre Ethier goes from 6 to 5. MEllis is 6 and AEllis is 8. Uribear has the third base job today.
I’m proposing a new theme song for the 2013 Dodgers.
Anonymous
I think they pulled away the welcome mat.
Linkmeister
Retroactively?
Anonymous
Who’s managing? Can’t be Mattingly, that lineup is too far above his intelligence level…
Anonymous
Mattingly is back today.
Anonymous
But for how long?
Anonymous
He might get tossed by this ump.
Linkmeister
Bah. KCAL only.
Jeffrey Thomas III
This kid making fools of our Dodgers, I think I’ve seen this before…
Jeffrey Thomas III
Clayton has to be frustrated after Sanchez appeared to strike out twice.
Anonymous
Unlike Cumpton, Kershaw has to prove himself to the umps.
KT
Hanley????
Jeffrey Thomas III
Horrendous.
Anonymous
Who is our defense coach?
Jeffrey Thomas III
What are they doing out there?
Anonymous
McGwire really gets results.
Anonymous
He ain’t there!
Anonymous
Too bad we released Hernandez yesterday, today we could trade him for another washed-up disgruntled catcher, Miguel Oliva, soon to be an ex-Marlin.
Jeffrey Thomas III
This ump is terrible. He has given every close pitch to Cumpton while giving none to Kershaw. Pretty amazing really.
Anonymous
I think I know what Mattingly had in mind with today’s batting order: Kershaw singles, Schumacher sacrifices him to second and Puig drives him home. But he forgot to tell Clayton he had to pitch a shutout…
KT
Alright AJ!!
Come on Clayton
KT
SHOE!!
Anonymous
SCHU!
KT
you spell it your way…I spell it my way
Anonymous
I always have trouble spelling it because the name starts out German and finishes English.
KT
I actually know how to spell his name…I just like calling him shoe
Anonymous
Needs to be Shoemaker oder Schumacher.
Anonymous
A run!
KT
Gonzo
Hanley
Come on Dre
KT
DRE!!
Anonymous
He is 8 for his last 18. A good thing.
Anonymous
lets pile it on here (I’m not satisfied with just 1!)
Anonymous
But don’t get to 10. I don’t want all that work I did this morning to go to waste.
Anonymous
C’mon shew – I felt like spelling it a different way KT :)
Anonymous
Oh Shoo!
Linkmeister
Hooray for runs, but once again we (Schumaker here) failed in a bases-loaded situation.
Anonymous
Oh, pshaw!
KT
turn two
Anonymous
CI! (Gameday having trouble registering what happened)…took them five minutes
KT
SHOE!!!!
Anonymous
Shoo fly catcher!
Anonymous
Sounds like Shoe-ew-ou-oo made a great catch!
KT
took away a hr…wall only 6 ft…caught it about a foot above the wall
Anonymous
Was the catcher interference call correct?
KT
yes
Anonymous
Thanks
KT
Here is the catch:
http://i.imgur.com/Ar9nUgP.jpg
Anonymous
Was that Martin’s out just then, if so, we were so close to falling behind!
KT
yes
Anonymous
wow
KT
way to get out of it Kersh
Anonymous
and Shoo – I’ll stop now :)
KT
Here’s another angle of the catch:
http://imgur.com/dftl14S
Anonymous
Kershaw has thrown 100 pitches through 6 innings. Send him out for another?
Anonymous
I think so, but be prepared to hook if he gets over 120.
Anonymous
One more, with bottom of order, but his pitch counts have been disturbingly high lately.
Anonymous
Certainly in terms of innings eaten.
Anonymous
The video just came up on gameday, great catch!
KT
Hanley not wearing his protection
Anonymous
Now………it’s the bullpen !?!
Anonymous
To the pen we go.
Linkmeister
Ah, for the days of Saito, Broxton and Gagne.
Anonymous
Boy, we are spoiled.
Anonymous
Withrow in this spot?
Anonymous
This is normally Kenley’s spot (and against the meat of the order). But now that he is a closer…
Anonymous
Still, we had other choices.
Linkmeister
Ah, but better ones? How many innings has Howell thrown in the last couple of games? And who else might you want to give the ball to?
Anonymous
Howell is suspended.
Linkmeister
Oh, right. Forgot.
Anonymous
Someone with more experience in tough situations, perhaps Moylan.
Anonymous
An Aussie would get you out of a tough spot
Anonymous
Howell serving his suspension today and tomorrow. I expected Moylan.
Anonymous
Did I read Gameday right, Withrow gets two outs and the genius brings in Paco to face the right-handed batter?
Anonymous
you are the genius. Check Walker’s splits; he is a switch hitter. 184 vs LHP before today. Another genius Steve Lyons made mention of this fact.
Anonymous
No Prime Time here, all I have today is Gameday. Jon’s rules must be suspended in his absence but I will refrain from calling you anything except noting your wife probably knows you for what you are.
Anonymous
It’s OK for you to insult Mattingly with your sarcasm of calling him “the genius”?
All you needed was gameday. They post batter splits in real time, you just didn’t think of looking at Walker’s splits assuming you know baseball stats that well.
Anonymous
nice pitch
Anonymous
Withrow has impressed me.
Anonymous
Not too bad
Anonymous
I didn’t realize that Moylan is an Aussie.
Anonymous
Can any of you read the white uni with blue letters being worn by a man behind home-plate. Is it in Spanish?
Anonymous
Glanced at the strange lettering, but not enough to translate.
Anonymous
I guess we are all in a state of shock.
Anonymous
Do you think managers will ever learn to leave a pitcher in the game as long as he is pitching ok. This is just one of the reasons I’ve always hated managers. None of them are good, some are worse than others…
Anonymous
how does this generalization apply to the game we are watching?
Anonymous
Once upon a team they did. In 1963, Perranoski pitched 129 innings in 69 relief appearances for the Dodgers and went 16-3. Clem Labine also was used to working multiple innings in relief and also started occasionally. Reliever Mike Marshall had a rubber arm for the Dodgers in relief in 1974 and won the Cy Young.
Anonymous
Here’s a game I listened to on the radio in 1963 and I think WBB did as well. Perranoski went 6 innings in relief. We can discuss why the game has changed but by leaving that out you supporting Mr. cantfindusername’s pointless comments.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN196309180.shtml
Anonymous
I am neither supporting nor opposing Mr. cantfindusername’s comments. I am simply making an observation on how the use of relievers has changed. They also weren’t called “closers” then, and they seldom came in at the start of an inning. They were referred to as “firemen,” for putting out a fire, i.e. coming in when there were runners on base.
Anonymous
I should have said by adding your earlier comment without what you say just above you appear to the reader to be supporting Mr. cantfindusername’s comments although possibly without the intention of doing so.
Anonymous
Some of the comments that are posted here have been borne out of the frustrations and disappointments of this season I think that was the case in the point that Mr. cantfindudername’s post. Some may find such comments pointless. I’d prefer to say that some posts include points with which I don’t agree.
Anonymous
The Giants coughed up a 5-4 lead in the 9th at Atlanta and lost 6-5. Key error by Brandon Crawford set things up. Freddie Freeman with the game winning RBI single.
Anonymous
The Dodgers are 1-3 in road extra inning games so far this year. The only win was in Colorado and that went to extras after Todd Helton hit a 2-run homer in the 9th off of League. The Dodgers got 2 runs in the top of the 10th on RBIs from Uribe and Cruz. Belisario(!!!) pitched a 1-2-3 10th for the save.
KT
Well come on Aussie
Anonymous
We haven’t had a base runner since the 6th inning. It’s long past time to score a bushel.
KT
Dre’s heating up
KT
Come on Juanito
Anonymous
What a ridiculous waste of an out that Ellis bunt was.
Anonymous
But hey, it worked out!
KT
don’t agree…pulled the infield in so that ball Juan it actually made it over the 3rd basemen’s head otherwise easy out
Anonymous
True, but Mark is one guy I trust to successfully put the ball in play so that the man on 2nd gets to 3rd, and hey, maybe he’ll knock him in and wind up on base to boot.
KT
Juanito!!
Anonymous
Uribear!
Anonymous
League is warming up. This is not a drill.
KT
Pirates must be questioning the stop sign for martin because they just showed both of Puig’s outfield assists
Anonymous
League : )
KT
NICKY!!
Jeffrey Thomas III
Insurance for the Leaguepocalypse!
Anonymous
That’s about half a policy.
Mario Luevanos
I wonder what League is thinking, loss of confidence perhaps.
KT
need more runs
Mario Luevanos
It’s OK Schumacher, he put in the effort.
Mario Luevanos
Here we go! Is he trying on some new socks? League being superstitious?
Anonymous
Nick Punto strangely approves of that play.
KT
Snyder was out
Turn two
Mario Luevanos
Hanley’s arm has been poor all game.
Anonymous
His defense has been suspect for years. Can’t wait for Dee at SS and Hanley at 3B next year (seriously).
Jeffrey Thomas III
If they’re not making fairly routine plays that doesn’t bode well for League…
Mario Luevanos
holy s**t
KT
AJ???
KT
1 more
KT
BALL GAME!!
Anonymous
League : )
Mario Luevanos
wow
Anonymous
Baseball is a funny game.
Anonymous
The book of that title, by Joe Garagiola, was one of the first baseball books that I ever read.
Jeffrey Thomas III
Schumaker saving them more than once today.
Anonymous
How ironic an ending.
Anonymous
It has been such a painful season, every win is that much sweeter.
Anonymous
Good god, that scared the daylights outta me.
KT
Just like we drew it up….right guys?
Linkmeister
Was that last out to Schumaker another long fly ball over the wall or what?
Anonymous
no
Anonymous
Looked like it off the bat!
Mario Luevanos
Schumaker is a valuable ninja.
Linkmeister
So what did Schu do to make all you guys applaud him so furiously?
Jeffrey Thomas III
He robbed Martin of a home run earlier in the game, his ninth inning catch was just a solid catch in left field. It’s more of an overall game applause.
Linkmeister
Ah. OK, hooray for Schumaker. I saw the video of the Martin catch. Quite something.
KT
remember the wall is only 6 ft high in left field at that point…As Dre said “a normal guy wouldn’t have had to jump”
Anonymous
NPUT