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KT
Need a winning streak…How about 8 straight to start
KT
PUIG!!!!
KT
Eric Stephen @truebluela 2m
Vin Scully on Yasiel Puig: “He is not to be believed because the game is not that easy.”
KT
Hanley!
KT
Eric Stephen @truebluela 3m
With that home run by Yasiel Puig, his 6th, he is hitting .483/.508/.845
Jeffrey Thomas III
Puig is ridiculous.
KT
Nice play Gonzo!
Jeffrey Thomas III
Great play!
KT
Good 1st inning Stephen!
Linkmeister
Blast it. KCAL, not Prime Ticket. Why, o baseball gods, have you forsaken me again?
Jeffrey Thomas III
Fife lookin good!
KT
Skippy!
Jack Dawkins
This is what we like to see. No way to avoid the Brute.
Linkmeister
Gameday sez he’s 6′ 3″ and 245. Can he really be 245 lbs? He doesn’t look that hefty.
KT
muscle mass
Linkmeister
Props to Marquis for getting out of that with no runs, drat it.
Jeffrey Thomas III
If Vin and even Karros comment on how many guys Marquis walks, knowing that the guy is out of the strike zone so much, why are they chasing so many pitches? I mean Dodger coaches must know this about Marquis as well.
Anonymous
One would hope!
KT
Come on Dre
KT
AJ!
KT
Almost Stienered
KT
YES!! way to get out of it Stephen
KT
Skippy!
Come on Yasiel
Jeffrey Thomas III
Puig is going to have to learn to lay off those sliders away. Something we’ve been saying the past few years about Kemp.
KT
turn two
KT
should have been 2…cost us
KT
Hanley!
KT
Dre!
Anonymous
talk about Princeton made me think of nsxtacy (sp?) who used to post here. During the period when there was no daily thread I saw him posting at MSTI but I read only a very small fraction of the posts there or at TBLA and have not seen a post from him in a very long time; I hope he is OK.
KT
I saw something from him at TBLA less than a week ago…I don’t cruise there everyday
Anonymous
TY as always; please let him know about the activity here if you get the chance; if you do that at MSTI be prepared for root beer comments.
KT
they know I’m a regular here…so they don’t give me trouble
Anonymous
Hi Mike – I’m fine, thanks for the concern. With the reduced traffic here on DT, I haven’t been checking the comments, although I still read Jon’s columns now that he’s resumed writing them.
KT
Hanley!
Jeffrey Thomas III
Not running like he used to. He better be careful not to re-injure himself.
KT
Good inning Stephen!
KT
Let’s get him the win
Jack Dawkins
Be nice if someone gets on so Puig can get Fife the win.
Jeffrey Thomas III
Here we go…
Jeffrey Thomas III
At least he didn’t strike out this time.
KT
why did that Dodger fan congratulate him instead of trying to get the ball?
Jeffrey Thomas III
Seriously, take your souvenir!
Anonymous
How absolutely perfect is that?
…
Here, I get home late last night and missed MV-Puig’s home run.
Then, like a true “Jonny on the spot” …. Weisman has the highlight on DT for me to see this morning.
Thanks Jon.
KT
did you miss tonights?
Anonymous
Hi KT…
I definitely caught that 1st inning ‘missile’ off Puig’s bat tonight… sweet! :-)
Jeffrey Thomas III
Guerrier had been looking good lately. Not tonight.
Anonymous
Why pull Fife for Hererra to pinch hit? Don’t get Mattingly sometimes. Meanwhile, Agon!
KT
ADRIAN!!!!
Jeffrey Thomas III
Fantastic play A-Gon!
Anonymous
AG, GG
Anonymous
Three pitchers and two runs in one inning. Anybody know how many pitches Fife had?
Jeffrey Thomas III
89
Anonymous
Thanks.
Jeffrey Thomas III
I think Mattingly doesn’t like to let his pitchers go more than 6 innings. Bringing in the bull pen early makes it fun for us fans.
Jack Dawkins
Tim K at ESPN had an article today about all the strikeouts in the majors this year. Part was a discussion abiout how there are so many great relivers now. No mention of our relievers in the article though.
KT
At least the Gnats lost
KT
Dre!
Anonymous
Just an observation.
…
AJ Ellis sure looks lighter on his feet since he came back from injury.
You know, he could be just one of those guys who isn’t physically built to play each and every day.
If you recall, he was having a heck of time back behind the dish just before taking a break.
….
If I’m Donny, I’m playing Fed-Ex 2-3 days / week….
To me, it’s a ‘win – win’ as FedEx develops…. and AJ stays fresher.
IMHO.
KT
Damn
Jack Dawkins
Ok…at least it took a great catch
Jeffrey Thomas III
Dodgers botch routine plays, Padres make spectacular ones. Seems to be the difference.
KT
And of course since I’m stuck watching the SD feed….I get to see it over and over
Anonymous
And, don’t forget to mention all that “added enthusiasm” given by the announcers.
…
Isn’t Dick Enberg one of them?
…
Hang in there, buddy! :-)
KT
I’m listening to Stiener and Monday…I couldn’t listen to the homers that sit with Enburg
Anonymous
Mattingly stresses fundamentals.
Jack Dawkins
Somehow I don’t see a 4+1 happening with this group…but I will wait to see.
Anonymous
Hope springs eternal…
Anonymous
Hang tight, Jack.
…
I have complete faith in our Dodgers that they’ll.. come… ba….c….k…………
(Gosh! even my fingers were laughing in disbelief as I tried to type that line. Had to abort.)
:-)
KT
Been a long day…Night all
JJJameson
2 runs and crap relief pitching game after game = last place
Jeffrey Thomas III
I walk away for a minute and they get two more runs… this team…
Anonymous
I feel almost ‘dirty’ admitting this, but I kinda liked that song they played over the PA when that guy hit the home run. Catchy. :-)
Jack Dawkins
Hmm…..there’s 1.
Jeffrey Thomas III
Well they’re putting up a fight.
Anonymous
Unfortunately, just more of their teasing.
Anonymous
With this bullpen — and its recent track record with him alone — can you picture Clayton if Donnie wants to take him out tomorrow?
Anonymous
Heck, if they can somehow get the lead, Kid-K’s warming up!
…
He’s now being promoted to the positions of…
1. All 5 starters
2. short relief
3. long relief
4. closer
Anonymous
Works for me!
Of course, that’s the Dodger prescription to ruin an arm.
Anonymous
Seems like we have a profile of this 2013 team:
fairly decent-to-good-to-great starting pitching
anemic-to-absent offense with just enough flashes of expectations met to tease us (another “non-quality” offensive game)
poor and porous defense
a bullpen with imploding powers worthy of any former Vegas hotel
Anonymous
Have loved Vin for too many years to count.
But, he says Puig K’ed 3 times then gives the details on 2 after which I expect him to correct himself on the 3# which was not correct; then Puig K’s for the 3rd time and Vin says now he has struck out for the 4th time
Anonymous
Well the AZL Dodgers tied their first game of the season in the bottom of the 9th after being behind 8-5 then won 9-8 in the bottom of the 10th. no consolation of course
Linkmeister
This tweet is instructive:
It’s the 17th loss for bullpen, most in MLB.
Bill Shaikin (@BillShaikin)
Jon Weisman
NPUT