Chad Billingsley (6-3, 2.80) vs. Jon Garland (4-4, 5.75).
COMMENTS: Halfway home (wow, I had no idea Oscar from The Office was in this!) on our journey through the Manny Ramirez suspension, and the Dodgers are still playing at a cool .600 (15-10) clip, maintaining our major-league leading record by four full games. Even if we play .500 ball for the rest of Manny purgatory, going 27-23 through the full 50-game suspension, our nine-game lead over the second-place Giants doesn't seem like they would be a realistic divisional threat. And with Hiroki Kuroda back from the DL and looking pretty good Monday, plus Ramirez back in the lineup in a month...things look promising even if the Dodgers go through their typical June swoon.
At least, that's what comeback wins like we saw Tuesday night, in which the Dodgers scored five runs in the eighth inning to take the lead, would have you believe. Heck, they almost pulled off a three-run comeback in the ninth on Monday night, too. So as we go into the rubber match, let's see the team can show up prior to the late innings, and hang a Garland early.
SoSG Orel will be reporting from the press box tonight once again, so stay tuned for the latest insider news from the Ravine!
301 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 301 of 301haha, pointless and boring, kinda like spending a majority of your career on the bench, huh lyons?
Bellisario better not blow this.
Bills' line: 6.0 IP, 4H, 4 BB, 9 K's, 111 pitches (71 strikes)
Great line for Bills. I'd like to see home go deeper into the games though.
Funny how Lyons says that when so many people say that about the sport he spent his entire life in.
Orel - Is there gonna be a Lakers/Magic game thread tomorrow?
not to mention MLSF, which one of those sports is still in the olympics
I didn't want to rub it in, he was taking it really hard that baseball was axed while BV survived.
stay tuff, Belly
Not sure what looks scarier. The Terminator Salvation ride... or Carrow's Prime Rib Dinner
Tonight... the Delino will not be denied his lucky number!
attaboy Belly. Can you do it in the 8th too?
I though the Boss's album was "The Rising" Nice try lady.
i think orel is getting dirty looks in the pressbox for scoffing at GBA right now.
I'd comment on the girl in pink they just showed, but after my Jackie Johnson post, I don't want to be known as the SoSG perv (that's LAsorda's gig)
It's time for the California Lottery seventh-inning stretch!
Nancy Bea wanted no part of that trainwreck.
Delino - It was better than the chick singing
Orel - how's the stomach doing? Cheddar/chili/dog has brought down many a nation.
so close...
orel's stretching right now.
I really was hoping for Big John Stud!
(And if you don't know who that is... it's not what you think)
I'm now...
poaching for....
There's no place like home
With your family around you you're never alone
When ya know that your loved
You don't need to roam
Cause there's no place like home
Time's are changing everyday
We won't get by with the same old ways
No-oooo pulling together will make it right
With help from are friends I know we can right
Cause there's no place like home
With your family around you you're never alone
When you know that your loved
You don't need to roam
Cause there ain't no place like
Better believe it
I said their no place like home
"I mean no place child" .
alright lets start another rally
Nic, I think the term "rally" doesn't apply when they have the lead.
"Orel - Is there gonna be a Lakers/Magic game thread tomorrow?"
I thought we'd combine the two since both games are basically concurrent.
The "I" tatoo on the back of Rauch's neck is actually four feet long.
I am really not sure what to think when Rick Monday is plugging unions on the radio.
NIC J's A DIAMONDBACK LOVING SPY!!!!
The game's afoot, sir.
Delino, how long have you been waiting to do that?
Is Castro known for being a speedy runner? Is he bunting to sac or for hit?
"Orel - how's the stomach doing? Cheddar/chili/dog has brought down many a nation."
Can you believe I only had one?
Not Kemp's finest moment
im red through and through
great baserunning.
even better firstbase coaching.
"Delino, how long have you been waiting to do that?"
You've got Manny-watch
I had 227-watch.
Now the circle is complete.
orel will you ask joe torre if a rally only happens when your behind?
haha, jk
Whoops again.
be tough here, Tronny. get these guys and Brox gets the bottom of the lineup in the 9th
damn - would Orlando have had that one?
Cocky or arrogant? "We only need one run to win."
Finally, a chance to join the hijinx.
Nice pitchers' battle tonight, although Bills made it look a little harder.
I might have stuck with Belly for one more inning.
5 years ago, that was caught.
who brings a catchers mitt to catch fly foul balls?
Orel,
Nice work once again from the PB.
33,804
Smallish crowd. Tickets could be had on e-Bay for very little; some with parking.
Think J-mart is muttering to himself right now?
i have the trifecta of bad timing to go to a dodger game tomorrow. The weather sucks, cole hamels is the opposing pitcher, and its the first game of the NBA finals.
Trouble brewin'. D'backs have 1st & 3rd w/1 out.
tron can get a double play ball down.
"i have the trifecta of bad timing to go to a dodger game tomorrow. The weather sucks, cole hamels is the opposing pitcher, and its the first game of the NBA finals."
Yet, you will be at Dodger Stadium!
very true orel.
Besides, Cole Hamels sucks this year.
his last few outings have been good, and its not like our offense has been on fire lately.
Well, he's worse than last year.
IEDP!
see, i told you tron could do it.
Double play!
Forkal tried to throw it away, but FJL is just too tall.
Pornstache sighting!
check the ball for mustache wax
Is it a balk if he pauses to twirl his moustache?
you think he grew that thing just to get on ESPN?
I think he did it for the lay-dees.
Bastard son of Rollie Fingers in the hizzie.
He looks like he should be plotting some kind of bank robbery with a blimp and henchmen named Stuley and Ox.
Boy, there is NO ONE at this game!
Another homerless game. Probably.
Brox Mode!
well seeing how we are up one going into the 9th, i hope it stays homerless
unless homer simpson is pinch hitting.
broxton's intro music is a little weak
DOH!
Clay Zaveda and Daniel Schlereth look eerily similar.
It's difficult to judge pitch height from the press box.
A century on the gun, outside corner, no strike?
One down, two more to go.
Byrnes is in the game. Excellent.
2 down
Small crowd making loud noises.
No Brox tomorrow.
That upstairs fastball is the deadliest weapon Broxton has.
It's the beer yelling.
hopefully we dont need him
Place on its feet.
Broxton bringing the heat. I wonder how many 103s he puts up at Dodger Stadium this year?
The Dodgers win!
nice
AZ TOD: 9:56 p.m.
Down to the clubhouse!
K for the last one and Bills gets the win.
Yeah. Roberts was never going to hit that ball.
Loney was great on the post game.
Q: Were you thinking 3 bases on that hit?
A: I was thinking inside the park.
300 for the win?
OK, 300 now
This team finds all kinds of ways to win. This is a fun team.
But O-Dog comes in to the game tomorrow, OK Joe????
This is a soliloquy.
Good nite all.
bastards at prine ticket didn't even give broxton credit for the save in their box score graphic
Post-Game Thread up top!
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