Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Game 150 Thread: Sept 18 vs. Rockies, 12:05p

Dodgers start Chad Billingsley, RHP (11-4, 3.14) vs. Jeff Francis, LHP (15-8, 4.35).

Dodgers: 79-70 (3rd place NL West, 4.0 GB; 3rd place WC, 3.0 GB; L1)
Rockies: 77-72 (4th place NL West, 6.0 GB; 4th place WC, 5.0 GB; W1)

Current postseason odds for the Dodgers, from Baseball Prospectus: 14.0%

From Dodgers.com, the scouting report on the starters:

Dodgers: Billingsley stepped up with another clutch start against the Padres, this time filling in for the injured Derek Lowe. he had to scramble out of two bases-loaded jams, but he allowed only one run over six innings while beating the Padres for the fourth time this year. He is 4-0 with a 1.64 ERA over his last four starts.

Rockies: Francis struggled mightily in his last start, giving up eight runs and eight hits in 3 1/3 innings of a key road loss to the Phillies. He had trouble locating his fastball and was uncharacteristically wild, walking four.

COMMENTS:

Even though we won the series against the D’Backs, it still feels like we are losing the war. Coming off a day of rest should help the likes of Martin and Kent – and we all know we need their big bats. First game of a double header will be big. COME ON, BLUE!!!

10 comments:

Alex Cora said...

Anyone at work and watching the game?

Alex Cora said...

Francis is dealing, but that pitch to Andre looked outside.

Alex Cora said...

Crap 1-0 rocks

Steve Sax said...

I am "watching" the game via GameDay from Frankfurt, Germany. It looks like Grady batted Olmedo, which is unsurprising, but he hit a home run, which is indeed surprising.

Steve Sax said...

Dodgers finally have a threat on second, and Kent rolls over and plays dead. 2-1 Rockies.

If the Dodgers can only muster one run, they deserve to lose.

Steve Sax said...

Scott Proctor. Yay.

Rockies now up by two, and proctor has seen two batters and not gotten anyone out, having hit one of them. Nice.

Steve Sax said...

Who the hell is awake on the Dodgers' offense? Did Grady tell them this was a must-win game, or did he just fall asleep and send the team out on the field?

Steve Sax said...

Dodgers go meekly in the eighth. It is over.

Alex Cora said...

Man, I did what the Dodger bats did, I feel asleep. I get to wake up to the Dodgers losing 3-1. I'm goin gback to sleep, maybe this is just a nightmare.

Steve Sax said...

it's over, dodgers suck.