Dodgers at Athletics, 7:05 p.m.
Dee Gordon, SS
Elian Herrera, LF
Andre Ethier, RF
Bobby Abreu, DH
James Loney, 1B
A.J. Ellis, C
Adam Kennedy, 2B
Juan Uribe, 3B
Tony Gwynn Jr., CF
(Aaron Harang, P)
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Anonymous
Have not seen the passing of Dave Boswell reported here at DT. He pitched in the 1965 WS for the Twins against the Dodgers. RIP
Anonymous
A Baltimore native, finally got to pitch for the O’s in his last season in 1971.
Anonymous
if i remember correctly, we had a 17 inning affair with the A’s a few years back right fellas?
Anonymous
Pretty good memory. June 17, 2006. Seo had 3 BBs in the 17th and walked in the winning run.
Ken Arneson
I was at that game. Steve Karsay got the win, and then decided to go out on top, and retired after the game.
Jeffrey Thomas III
Karros just said on Think Blue TV that he hopes the Dodgers trade for a guy like Dempster because teams can win in the post season with two dominant pitchers. Wait, Dempster would be that other dominant pitcher along with Kershaw? I don’t see it.
Anonymous
I don’t see it either. At age 35, Dempster’s numbers are way better than they have ever been before. We already have two guys just like that in the rotation – Capuano at 33, and Lilly at 36. Throw in the kid, and Dempster isn’t any better than three guys we already have. (And while Bills, Harang, and Eovaldi have their flaws, all can come up with an occasional gem as well.) No thanks.
Jeffrey Thomas III
Though he isn’t dominant either, I’d prefer the Dodgers looked at Garza.
Anonymous
Dempster has pitched better than any Dodger in 2012 yet you say no thanks without any mention of what such a trade will cost. I think another team will offer more than the Dodgers will but the trade should be considered.
Dempster’s ground ball to fly ball ratio is 0.71, last season 0.79, the 3 years before that at least .93 yet his ground out to fly out ratio is 0.80, the previous 4 years at least 1.22. He is getting outs that used to be hits and throwing fewer pitches thereby. Now, his BABIP is a very low 237 (his BA against is 11th best in MLB at 204) I don’t dismiss that as luck as readily as others. Perhaps you have some facts that you have seen in Chicago that speak to what knowledgeable baseball people say as to how Dempster is pitching so well, if so please post such.
His line drive % is about the same as last year but H/9 is 29% lower. Could be luck, could be a 10 week hot streak, could be lasting. You are too quick to say No thanks.
Anonymous
>> You are too quick to say No thanks.
And you are WAY too quick to hop on the unsustainable bandwagon of a 35-year-old whose numbers have never looked anywhere near this good before, not even close. Just to cite one stat as an example:
Age 32 2009 WHIP 1.305
Age 33 2010 WHIP 1.319
Age 34 2011 WHIP 1.448
Age 35 2012 WHIP 1.012
Anonymous
Dempster has been dominant in 2012. Does that help you see it? If not perhaps you will be nice enough to elaborate on what you don’t see.
Jeffrey Thomas III
Yeah his 2012 numbers are nice. But do I think he will be a dominant force in the post season that the team could rest their hopes on? No. Something like Hamels/Lee or Halladay if healthy is a dominant duo one can depend on. That’s all.
Anonymous
you did not answer the question imo
Jeffrey Thomas III
I think nsxtasy has done a nice job of that. We are not debating his current 2012 numbers, but a 35 year old doing it for the first time and sustaining it seems very unlikely. Obviously none of us truly know how he will pitch for the rest of the season.
Linkmeister
Blasted Prime Ticket/KCAL deal. It sure seems like there are more KCAL games this season than the last four or five. (I may have said this before, but I still believe it.)
Anonymous
It should be about 50 games each year.
Anonymous
Ken Arneson has a chia of Coco Crisp. hehe
Ken Arneson
My life is now complete.
underdog
I’m already glad I decided not to go to this one tonight. Of the 3 Dodger starters in this series, Harang is the one by far I’d least enjoy watching pitch. Anyway, not a great start.
Christopher Staaf
Wow, I never thought I would see Gwynn Jr. misplay a bounce.
Anonymous
it has some english on it, it seemed to me it took a funny hope.
KT
Seems like Tony is regressing in all aspects right now…time off might be a good thing for him
Christopher Staaf
I dunno, I really don’t want to see Ethier or Elian play CF too much. I hope Kemp starts that rehab assignment this weekend and come back for the series against the Mets.
Anonymous
we must resist Christopher, i’m hoping he comes back till after the all-star break.
KT
I agree blue after the break to make sure
Christopher Staaf
Oh I am all for making sure KeMVP comes back 100 percent, even if it means after the the break, but we can’t keep hoping the offense will get timely hits consistently. Right now, no one fears anyone in our lineup, including Ethier. That’s got to change soon.
Anonymous
a blame all this on Kennedy.
Anonymous
The first 5 Angels reached base against Zito tonight in Anaheim. 3 of them scored on a Pujols homer.
The 6th batter sacrificed!
Jeffrey Thomas III
Now 4-0.
KT
so your saying all hope isn’t lost and both the gnats and our starting pitchers are struggling
KT
Well time to get some back guys
Anonymous
40 pitches in one inning, terrible.
Jack Dawkins
That half inning felt like it was 2 hours long.
Anonymous
And we go down without a fight, 1-2-3.
underdog
Yeah the current pitch count comparisons are… not good. Offense needs to get a couple runners on at least…
underdog
On the bright side, maybe my friends at the game tonight will get to see Tolleson!
Anonymous
Harang is going to ruin the off days the bullpen had on the first day back.
Anonymous
Another walk by Harang. Don’t know why the As are even swinging.
Anonymous
everything seems to be up (at least to me) i’m wondering if he’s tired or something.
Anonymous
Instead of trying to take pitches, Kennedy swings at the first one for a pop fly out…
Anonymous
and Uribe tries to hit it to Neptune but comes up empty.
Anonymous
meanwhile McCarthy only has 20 plus pitches.
KT
Good Tony made contact…nice to see
Anonymous
Dee with a flyball, fine him.
underdog
This feels like first game of the Mariners series (though they have a hit now), in that the offense looks flat and like this will be another long interleague road series. And yet, that series worked out okay ultimately. No time to panic!
So I won’t mention that I miss Matt Kemp.
Anonymous
Walk them all Harang, go for the record books.
Christopher Staaf
No. Crisp got a double and scored.
Anonymous
Pitch count is now Harang-85, other guy-39, way to make him work guys.
Anonymous
Harang is a strike out pitcher so you’d expect him to make a lot of pitches but almost 70 in 3 innings!! err.
Jack Dawkins
Josh Reddick walks up to bagpipes. I like.
Anonymous
that story Vin just mentioned touched my heart man. really cool.
Anonymous
ANOTHER walk, terrible game from harang, now the bullpen has to suffer.
Christopher Staaf
Well, that turned into a bullpen game quickly. Here is hoping Eovaldi and Kershaw go at least 7 in the next two days.
David Farinella
And here’s hoping Zito goes all 9 for the gnats.
Christopher Staaf
lol Bochy threw the towel on that one.
Anonymous
If we can get out of this quickly, it just means 2 more innings for Wright, right. Harang usually goes only 6 anyway. Still in the game, for now.
Anonymous
there showing Harang with a PO’d face. No worries Harang, you didn’t have it today, it happens.
Anonymous
as Vinnie would say, Elbows & Knee Caps…
Anonymous
Please get us a real third baseman!
First pitch swinging…
David Farinella
I’ve been away for a couple of days on a crazy deadline… Who were we Ruled 8ed about?
KT
AK about being removed from the team
Jon Weisman
NPUT