Chan Ho Park (2-2, 2.83) vs. Joe Saunders (11-3, 3.03).
COMMENTS: Very little positive to say about tonight's game. Saunders is the Angels' ace, leading the team with 11 wins. Park, while performing admirably in any role the Dodgers have requested of him, doesn't look likely to beat the Angels, having lasted fewer than five innings in each of his previous starts. The Angels have a 2-1 record against the Dodgers this year, including Saunders already beating the Dodgers once. Want more gloom and doom? The Dodgers also face Jered Weaver and John Lackey in this series. Enjoy your weekend!
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Hi kids, I'll be here tonight, listening to the dulcet tones of Werner Herzog. But I'm seeing WALL*E tomorrow! I can't wait!
Here's the lineup:
Pierre, LF
Kemp, CF
Martin, C
Kent, 2B
Loney, 1B
LaRoche, 3B
Young, RF
Berroa, SS
Park, P
I'll check in when we get back. Go Blue!
Arizona lost in Florida, so if the Dodgers can find a way to pull off a miracle and beat the Angels tonight, they could cut the lead to 2.5 games.
Erin, all tht time in Chi-town is making you crazy in the head. 2.5 game lead? No way. I'll still root for the good guys, but come on. We're playing the first-place Angels, with a competent manager who wouldn't insist on playing a .100 PH.
Go Dodgers!
Sax, that's why I said it would be a "miracle."
It's my birthday weekend (Sunday is the actual day), for god's sake. I'd like to see the Dodgers give me a series win. I have almost no faith, but I'm hoping they'll make it happen.
Erin is trying to be optimistic, though the Angels pitching this weekend is gonna be very tough, let's wait and see these bats can pull off something much better than binary.
In the other hand, i still consider Scioscia wearing Angels red as an abomination.
See? my adopted son Martin with the HR!
Well, Martin gets it going early. He turned on a fastball and crushed it into the Dodger bullpen.
I can't stick around, because the movie wrapped tonight and we're heading to the party. Figures to be a late night.
Kent walks, King James is at bat...
have a great time on the party, Erin!
There is something wrong with channel 13's coverage; it says the Dodgers are up 1-0.
Erin, they may indeed be pulling miracles for you. The Dodgers lead 1-0 after 1 frame. At this rate, we'll win 8-0!
Park with another shutout inning. 1-0 after 1.5 innings.
I hadn't realized they changed the billboards on Gameday. Love the typography, but they are now "corporate"
Park is looking good tonight.
Hi folks, just stopping by before going to sleep
Did they change the Gameday logo?
Nope. They changed the billboard that announces the pitcher's change, strike outs, home runs, etc.
Hi Eric!
Martin walks.
Hi Karina! I see the Dodgers are up. Call me crazy, but I think they'll win 2 of 3 from the Angels.
Vin Scully is narrating how Mike Scioscia met his wife at Dodger Stadium. It's the most tender story i've heard in days.
I didn't know he met his wife at Dodger Stadium.
Double steal! (though i do think Pierre was out at 3rd).
I'm with you, Eric. They can win these series.
Anyways Karina wish I could stick around but I'm going to sleep...see you on another Gamethread soon I hope...
Vin said "i think i hadn't said this before"
Can't spell Kent without a K
Good night! suena con los angelitos, Eric!
Work that count, King James!
Thanks - hasta la proxima!
Loney works the walk to load the bases. And Karina goes to bed!
awww, failed squeeze play!
and of course, we can't score
Not going to bed...not before the game ends, besides i'm doing schoolwork.
Why LaRoche would be bunting is beyond me
Why LaRoche would then run into his own bunt is infuriating
Sorry Karina! My spanish isn't as good as EK's.
Glad to hear that you're staying up with us tonight!
Aha, it's EK that is going to sleep. I guess my English isn't so good, either.
I think the bunt is a good strategy, "caribbean baseball".
However, you're so right about LaRoche running into his own bunt, it was numb.
Vlad's dredlocks looks positively creepy.
Park starts him off with an inside pitch that barely misses hitting Vlad, and Vlad doesn't even twitch. Cool. Boy, it would have been nice to have gotten Vlad on the Dodgers...
karina, catch me up here. what are you in school for? what degree are you working towards?
As of now we are 3.0 games off the NL West lead, but 7.5 games out of the wildcard
Not as creepy as Manny Ramirez dreadlocks.
Graphic Design. I'm about to finish and it'd be my second college degree.
I don't think the wild card is going to be any NL West team. That's why the Dodgers need to win the division.
By the way, it's ok you got confused, i didn't use the "ñ".
Great bunt by Park.
Kemp with a long single!
Karina, how many years left on your degree? And what was the other degree in?
I double majored in college, too.
By the way, CHP is pitching a good game, but if the Dodgers only give him that one run, he's going to lose the game.
RISP, no outs. Kent sac fly, Dodgers lead 2-0!
I should finish it by next month. I first majored in Communications.
What degrees you have?
King Kames with the RBI single!
The other day i asked what's be my major in the US. I thought it might be broadcasting. I studied journalism, photography, radio tv and film.
Okay, Aybar gives the Dodgers a gift, and Kent gets a sac fly and King James (now you've got me saying it, karina) with a clean scoring single. 3-0 Dodgers.
Economics and Political Science were my majors.
Aybar gets a double, and the Dodgers give him a gift back when Kent blows the relay, sending Aybar to third!
Kendrick struck out. He got totally fooled!
Wow, Sax, that's impressing (your majors)!
Each one compliments the other very nicely.
I love how my beloved Dodgers are playing tonight.
Berroa with the double!
Sweeney with his daily K, Berroa at second.
WHY DOES TORRE INSIST ON BATTING SWEENEY??? Karina calls it, Mark Sweeney promptly Ks yet again. Even Rex Hudler had nothing nice to say about him.
Dodgers get another gift when Berroa's hit strikes the third base line for a double. Then, following the Sweeney K, another gift when Pierre Ks but reaches on a passed ball. But Kemp comes up and promptly forces Pierre at second.
Ethier replaces Young in RF.
Dodgers up 3-0 after six frames. Will this lead hold up?
Holy smokes, we're winning!
I hope this Falkenbourgh guy let them to preserve the lead. I feel the bullpen is the key of success in these series.
Loney with a nice grab for the third out. Falkenbourg pitches a clean 7th, 3-0 Dodgers.
Epale, Orel! that movie you went to see looks glorious
You know what? at least Olmedo Saenz made some contact with his bat, besides he gave the team very good at bats.
Hey Orel. Nice job on the new banner photos.
Martin with a leadoff single in the seventh. Cue Blur!
son Martin with a single!
Go, King James! we need an insurance run!
Kent raps a base hit, and Karina's fave Luis Maza subs in for the crusty curmudgeon.
So Karina, when are you coming to see a game at the Stadium?
Sax, i need to find a dictionary after the word you used in your final sentence, of course, after Loney's at bat.
Loney Ks. Man, that was a bad one. 1 out, men on first and second.
At least Loney didn't GIDP!
Karina, the movie had some amazing photography, that's for sure. But it actually wasn't the focus.
Sax, glad you noticed.
...which brings up Andy LaRoche. Try not to run into the path of your own ball this time, Andy!
Soon...
A few points before I finally head to the party:
1) I hate Mark Sweeney.
2) If Karina did come to the Stadium for a game, something tells me she wouldn't need to worry about bringing any cash for drinks.
3) I've disliked Werner Herzog ever since he made the guy in "Grizzly Man" seem like some sort of a hero.
4) Please god, let this lead hold up.
And I'm out.
I'm going to have to call it after this inning...LaRoche hits it deep but doesn't advance the runners. 2 out, And here comes Andre.
Ethier's up!
erin, I detect a hint of jealousy? Not necessary, drinks are on AC!
Have a good time at the party.
Curmudgeon: noun, old fashioned. A bad tempered old person.
You made me to learn a new word, thanks Sax!
ANDRE THE GIANT!
AAAAAAANNDRE!!!
Good idea to sit him for most of this game, Torre!
SIX - ZERO, DODGERS
Wow. Ethier crushed that one. Love it. Love that guy!
He shouldn't sit. Period.
Ethier should receive more love!
on to the eighth, Dodgers up 6-0.
Karina, will you seriously be up here in LA soon?
They just ran a Jack in the Box commercial with a very out of shape guy trying to buy a fruit smoothie.
I need to do some situps.
I'm thinking next Spring, actually. So we could all have some time to prepare.
1) Me too.
2) True; Dodger Stadium accepts credit cards too.
3) I don't know, I thought that guy was an annoying dick without any help from Herzog's narration.
4) Agreed.
I do agree, who wants to join me for a Dodger dog?
what kind of beer sell on Dodger Stadium?
Karina, if you bust it up here all the way from maracaibo, the least we can do is buy you a Dodger dog.
Give us fair warning so we can start rolling out the red carpet here in LA!
karina: EXPENSIVE beer.
Domestic beer goes for $12 in "large" (16 oz) size. I'm going to post a piece on this, but I'm pretty certain that it's the highest priced beer in all of MLB.
I will! i have my fingers crossed i can be there next Spring.
Pardon me--as of 2007, it was the SECOND-most expensive beer price in MLB, at $9 for a small beer. St Louis had it for $9.25.
That makes sense, of course, since it would be hard for St Louis to procure cheap beer, what with Busch Stadium and all.
That's pretty expensive beer, it's way much more expensive than buying one at a bar, right?
Okay, I've got to go soon,...
...but before I do...
...let me say 100!
And yes, karina, it is way more expensive than at a bar. I think even in a grocery store, that same 16 oz beer of Bud wouldn't cost you more than $1.
The biggest beer company sponsors 7 of the 8 venezuelan winter baseball teams and beer is cheap (though some people complain). In Maracaibo, a can costs around 2,50, that's like 80-90 cents in official exchange.
suena con los angelitos, good night!
Broxton faced 3 batters. 3 K's.
WTF is Stults doing at bat?
Juan Pierre, showing some late-inning blowout hustle!
He certainly hasn't showed Zambrano and Owings kind of talent with a bat. Maybe Torre wants to go home earlier.
Yeah, Dodger Stadium prices are ridiculous. Part of the cost of seeing the game, although they do allow you to bring in one unopened non-alcoholic bottle per person, and your own food.
Nice to see Andre in the field!
That's something. It they didn't allow that, it'd be too greedy.
Good confidence booster for Saito here.
Is it too wrong if Scioscia's face breaks my heart?
Trust me, they're plenty greedy.
Sammy boy putting a show on the mound!
Did Saito just K the side? In any case, game over! Good job, Player of the Game Chan Ho Park!
Dodgers WIN! Let's go blue!!!!!!!!!
Yes, he did. I feel happy because tonight i got to watch the game and Vin was narrating.
Sadly, Scioscia is one that got away. We can only be happy for him and his success elsewhere.
Good night! Suena con los angelitos!
same to you!
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