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Anonymous
Good to see Loney helping us out vs the D-Backs with an early RBI double
KT
Go BLUE!!!!
Anonymous
To the amazement or perhaps amusement to all here, last year I suggested the Dodgers would be wise to sign Loney to something like 5 years, $50 Million before the trade with Boston.
Anonymous
You may be right, but I think he needed a new start somewhere else and I feel he would not have done as well if he stayed here (also Gonzalez has worked out pretty welI I think)
Anonymous
I agree. I liked Loney a great deal and I still do. He and Kemp both arrived in 2006 and both showed great promise. I took my daughter, then a freshman at UCLA, to Loney’s first game, which was the second game of the 2006 season. It was a drizzly night, traffic was heavy, and we got there a bit late. Loney walked and scored in the first inning and then singled in the third in a win over the Braves. Loney had a very difficult 2012, the pressure seemed to get to him, and he needed a change. I am pleased he is doing so well with Tampa Bay. I hope we meet him in the World Series.
Anonymous
However, it cost the Dodgers what, $75M a year to replace Loney with Crawford, Beckett, Punto, and Gonzalez.
Anonymous
I too was a Loney fan – always felt like he was on the cusp of having a season like he is this year – hitting well over .300 STILL. Figures he would finally put it together the year after leaving. But, yeah, since he’s over in the AL East with the Rays, I wish him well.
KT
now that the bucs have beat the cards and taken over 1st place…It’s time for the cards to return the favor…still 6.5 back but if the cards win and we win could be 5.5 at the end of the night
Anonymous
Atlanta now 5-3 up against the Rockies and the Rays have increased their lead. It’s looking like a good day already!
Anonymous
Make that 8-3!!
Anonymous
some people here want the Braves to lose so Dodgers will eventually pass them for best record. I’m on the edge on that currently but starting to agree. Thus, 8-3 what a shame.
Anonymous
Maybe, I’m thinking put the West well and truely behind us, then start chasing those ahead
KT
not that many games left..they won’t be as easy to pass…not like the rest of the NL west
Anonymous
I guess so, all we can do is keep winning and whatever else happens, happens
Anonymous
Finally made it to a home game after 20+ years. Looks like I chose a good one,
Anonymous
It’s been 22 years for me, but I think I have a reasonable excuse!
Anonymous
You will have no excuse next April.
Anonymous
Sunday 23rd March, I have my ticket! (It’s still not a home game, but it will do!!)
Anonymous
Ha! I am at 37 years.
KT
I’m at a month and 3 days
Jon Weisman
Have fun!
Anonymous
I can’t recall my last DS game, but I think it’s when I took my six-year-old daughter to Disneyland (she’s now 25). I have been to five Dodger games in Denver (two in 1994 and three this year), and three forgettable ones last year in Oakland.
Jon Weisman
Haven’t seen much Angels baseball this year, but what I’m seeing right now is ugly.
KT
Funny gif of Chad Qualls:
http://i.imgur.com/ATo393G.gif
Jeffrey Thomas III
Hurl, definitely a word that came to mind when hearing of today’s signing.
Anonymous
Everybody in the starting lineup for the Dodgers tonight is hitting at least .260, led by Greinke (.394), Ramirez (.380) and Puig (.372).
KT
Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers6m
“Gracias por jugar con el corazon, ahora a ganarle a los Yankees.” -@TommyLasorda pic.twitter.com/3FYTvuzNZB
KT
Jon Weisman @jonweisman7m
Mariano and Vin, by @JonSooHoo #dodgers #yankees pic.twitter.com/yYhii82nB1
Anonymous
As much as we have disliked Brian Wilson, in my mind there has never been a Giant who was detested more by Dodger fans than Sal Maglie. As a little boy who was born in Brooklyn, I was flabbergasted (although I didn’t know then what the word meant) when we acquired Maglie from Cleveland during the 1956 season. But he went 13-5 in 1956, including a no-hitter as we won the pennant. He then pitched two complete games vs. the Yankees in the World Series, beating Whitey Ford, 6-3, in the first game, and losing, 2-0, to Don Larsen’s perfect game in Game 5. Maglie allowed only five hits. So, who knows with Wilson? Will he replicate the work of Maglie or Schmidt, or something in between?
Anonymous
Juan Marichal.
Jon Weisman
Nice top of the first …
KT
Puig!! so close
Jon Weisman
Puig missed a HR by less than a foot.
KT
Hanley!
Jon Weisman
Hats off to Hanley
Anonymous
What, only a RBI single :)
KT
here is the just missed Hr by Puig:
http://i.imgur.com/TkPKGjY.jpg
Jon Weisman
Overbay over wall.
Jeffrey Thomas III
Hopefully that’s the only home run he gives up tonight unlike his last start.
KT
Let’s get that run back and more
Anonymous
Lead didn’t last long but yeah, makes for good entertainment when the Dodgers come back with more – Pettite very hittable these days
KT
but got right back!!!
KT
URIBE!!!!
Anonymous
Proves my point right away!
Jeffrey Thomas III
Juan got all of that one! Ball is carrying tonight.
Jon Weisman
U-ri-bear!
KT
Zack!
Jon Weisman
Greinke raises his batting average to .412, OBP to .487
Jeffrey Thomas III
Amazing.
Anonymous
Greinke has to start being seriously considered for coming off the bench late when you need just a single to score a run to tie or get a lead.
Anonymous
last year he hit .212, the year before .143
Jeffrey Thomas III
So he’s trending upwards! Way upwards.
Anonymous
Play the hot hand – he’s comfortable at the plate right now.
Anonymous
.467 BAbip
KT
Dodgers PR @DodgersPR 1m
Estimated distance on Juan Uribe’s home run: 441 feet.
KT
DP Time
KT
Good inning Zack
Jon Weisman
Three hits allowed, four strikeouts for Greinke in first three innings.
Anonymous
Aside from that strikeout – Cano has some serious offensive numbers for a 2nd baseman.
KT
Hanley!!
Jeffrey Thomas III
Not a wise move.
Anonymous
Well – pitcher due up next….Oh, wait ! ya – terrible move !
Jeffrey Thomas III
Actually Ethier was on deck, but judging by his first at bat against Pettite maybe it wasn’t such a bad move.
Anonymous
Ah, my bad, I was mixing up the Ellis duo.
Anonymous
If any of you subscribe to The New Yorker perhaps you would be nice enough to put up this profile of Girardi by Gay Talese at your convenience. Here is what they show for free: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/24/120924fa_fact_talese I got interested by Vin’s comments.
Anonymous
Not sure how to post this, since it is an e-reader. I suppose I could make pdfs and send them to you if you’re interested.
KT
Let’s put up a crooked number this inning
Anonymous
Just back from Camden Yards. The ‘Stros pulled an A’s move and stole home while the O’s southpaw was standing on the mound looking in for a sign. Oh, yeah, Chris Davis hit one out.
KT
yea it was posted on MSTI…picked his pocket cleanly
KT
Gonzo!
KT
Come on Dre you are due
Anonymous
Poignant story from Vin on seeing Joe D with a childhood buddy.
KT
Mellis!
Jeffrey Thomas III
Great start for Greinke, get him his 100th win!
Anonymous
Pettitte was already 31 years old when Soriano last played for the Yanks.
Anonymous
Grienke should have batted for himself!
Anonymous
The Dodgers have been winning, but the offense is basically MIA on this homestand, outside of Saturday. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and credit the opposing pitching.
Anonymous
Pettite came in with a 4.39 ERA – granted that’s against the AL and the abominable DH.
KT
Hanley!!
KT
Come on Yasiel start off the rally
Anonymous
Wild ol’ game in Texas
Jon Weisman
Mike Trout has now reached base six times in 10 innings.
KT
side out time to walk this off
Anonymous
from your keytboard .. . .
KT
Dre!
KT
Come on WP
Jeffrey Thomas III
Wild pitch?
KT
hoping for 1 to get dre to 2nd
Jeffrey Thomas III
Ah I see, was gonna say it would take a heck of a wild pitch to score Dre from first.
Anonymous
Kelly has 3 in 40 innings, so…
KT
Dre!
Jon Weisman
Three-run walkoff for Rangers, 14-11 final
KT
MELLISSSS!!!!
Jeffrey Thomas III
Two walk offs in a row! How often does that happen?
KT
because we are hot Baby!!!!
Going for the sweep tomorrow
Anonymous
Hotter than your average Uribear.
Anonymous
That’s all she wrote!
Anonymous
Just tuned in from the Russian River area. WOO HOO!
KT
Ball Game Dodgers WIN
27-6 since 6/22
3.5 ahead of the DBags
Anonymous
Want to like twice!
Linkmeister
Yeah!
Anonymous
Wow, wow and wow
Anonymous
Wow!
Jeffrey Thomas III
How was it from the stands?
Anonymous
Great win. Hopefully Dodgers keep Mariano Rivera off the mound tomorrow night as well.
KT
oh yea when asked what the Dodgers were giving Rivera…they were told two days off
Anonymous
Gotta give the Kid some run support. Zack was a wild pitch or faster Hanley away from a win himself.
Jon Weisman
NPUT