Chad Billingsley (11-6, 3.73) vs. Mitchell Boggs (1-1, 3.78).
COMMENTS: Chad Billingsley brings his Thunder Thighs and sore hammy back to the mound tonight after skipping his last start; Bills saw the Cards in St. Louis earlier this season and coasted through his first five innings before imploding in the sixth with a six-run debacle. On the other side, young Boggs is 4-3 lifetime with a 5.61 ERA, and has 31 Ks but 20 BBs over 43 IP this year. Dodger fans are hoping that the team, mired in a losing spurt of four straight home games and seven losses in their last 11 games, can successfully wade boggs and get our offense back on track.
To help the team along, we're pulling out all the stops (or at least, two of them) for this game. Firstly, we're not calling out our opponent's team name in the Game Thread title, which seemed to work well on Sunday. And secondly, SoSG Sax will attend tonight's game; Sax is 6-0 this year at the Stadium. What more could you need, Bills? Let's go, Dodgers!
165 comments:
I want to take bets on where Matt Kemp will hit in tonight's lineup?
My money is on the 5th spot.
PITT...THE...ELDER!
LORD...PALMERSTON!
LORD PALMERSTON!
In Sax we trust :)
Let's hope at the end of the game, Mitch Boggs lays unconcious on the barroom tile.
I need a kind soul who can answer me two questions:
to tell the truth, i don't get the Lord Palmerston reference, does anyone wants to explain?
and what does MFPGT mean?
"I want to take bets on where Matt Kemp will hit in tonight's lineup?
My money is on the 5th spot."
Try 10th (though probably 11th, after Loretta):
Furcal SS
Pierre CF
Ethier RF
Ramirez LF
Blake 3B
Loney 1B
Martin C
Hudson 2B
Billingsley P
Karina, MFPGT is "Mother 'Fornicating' Post-Game Thread".
I have no idea about your other question.
Wow, Kemp looks a lot shorter out there in centerfield person than on tv. I thought it was the other way around? And why is he wearing stirrups?...
Oh.
This must be a mistake.
@karina, I don't get the pitt or Palmerston references either. Explain me?
Karina: We only have kind souls on this blog...right???????
Sax, are you there as a press-box-blogger or as a fan tonight?
The reds are doing us a favor. Lincecum shakey early reds lead 4-0 in the 3rd.
Nats lead the rox 2-1 bottom 3rd.
@Josh
I think Torre is planning for Kemp to get a walk off hit tonight right after Lorretta gets the second out to make it that more dramatic.
Well any bets on JP's night? I say 1 for 3 with a walk.
Google "Wade Boggs Pitt the Elder"
I'm going to tonight's game to personally see that Loney turns this around. And for the first time I have a data phone so I can post from the game!
Thanks, Mr LASF. I didn't remember why Boggs fought with Barney or maybe they translated differently in Spanish.
@Sax nice try at being candid. Have fun!
Thanks Josh. I also suspect you were acting candid.
@Neeebs We all are Jedi. Not Sith (don't know how to translate it to Star Trek lore)
Pitt the Elder vs Lord Palmerston
http://tinyurl.com/nh9477
Karina: translated its, we are all federation, not Klingon.
However, I am VERY fluent in Star Wars, too.
See how it's done?
I always wondered, how do you convert to tinyurls?
I'm actually embarrassed that I forgot where the Pitt the Elder/Lord Palmerston thing was from.
Neeebs,
all you have to do is to tinyurl.com homepage, paste the long url into the window provided and press convert.
@ Josh S,
Don't feel too bad. Everyone knows that William Gladstone was England's greatest prime minister anyway.
I personally liked England a whole lot better when King's ruled, rather than bloody Prime Ministers.
Thanks Mr. Customer for the tiny tip.(that doesn't sound good, does it?)
@Josh why should you be embarrassed?. Look what i found:
http://tinyurl.com/qr9j9a
Just a little refreshing.
Neeebs, why Greedo as avatar?
Neeebs,
So, are you a Henry II or Edward I guy?
(What does it take to start a bar brawl over historical minutiae, here?)
I thought greedo was kind of a cool character, albeit a scoundrel. So I have a greedo bobblehead in my office next to my captain kirk, Count Chocula and james loney bobbleheads
Henry II of course.
Neeebs, your decorative items are lovely.
Karina: I also have a wookie collection, next to my LA Kings hockey pucks, but don't tell anyone.
@Mr. Customer: it's awesome how your latin plural nouns are always correct.
If you ask me, i'd say Elizabeth I was an incredible queen.
Elizabeth I has nothing over Catherine the Great of Russia.
catch you on the flip side. Heading home.
Random wookies or Chewbacca's family?
SoSG: where geeks gather to talk about Dodgers baseball.
We were talking about british royalty, right?
Sax, you always seem to miss me by one game. I'm going to four of the next six games (Thursday night in the press box), and you choose to go to the stadium tonight?
@Erin, the lengths to which you will go to avoid buying me a beer!
@Josh, I am going as a fan. A very large-living fan, mind you; I am sitting here enjoying the sunset in a Aero chair, leaning back and soaking BP in. It's awesome.
@Mr Customer: are you an OK! Fan, or Hello! Or Grazia, if you're slumming? (Trying to contemporize you Anglophiles)
Rox up on the Nats, but they have a man on in bottom 9
gnats tied with reds in eighth, 5 apiece
4-3, Rockies. Runners at first and third and two outs in the bottom of the ninth. Ryan Zimmerman at the plate for the Nationals.
I just saw the Pitt the Elder clip. Awesome!
It's saving me from the abyss that is a female lead singing Sweet Child of Mine, over the dodger PA system.
Oh wait, now it's Kool and the Gang's Celebration. Kill me now, please.
Come on Nationals!
Damn it. Zimmerman flies out. Looked for a second like it might drop, but no such luck.
Game is tied between the Reds and the Giants.
All right, Sax, here are the games I'm scheduled to attend the rest of the season:
Aug. 19
Aug. 20 (press box)
Aug. 22
Aug. 23
Sep. 5
Sep. 6
Sep. 14
Sep. 19
Sep. 20
Oct. 2
Oct. 3
Oct. 4
So there are twelve chances for you. Do any of these mesh with your schedule? If so, let's schedule you for a free beer right now.
Hello Erin! is Christine all right?
Karina: random wookies AND chewy.
And we were talking English royalty. I just threw in Catherine because she is cool
Hi Karina. Yes, Christine is doing well. The incision is healing nicely and she has good movement in her arm. Physical therapy starts sometime this week or next.
Bills dominated Pujols with two pitches. Good forecast, don't you think?
That's great, Erin. I really wish she fully recovers ASAP.
In Cincinnati, the bad guys have scored 3 runs and they are still hitting. Giants 8, Reds 5, top of the 9th
Top of the 10th, i mean.
Bills is getting the outs, but i suspect they are making too much contact out of him.
King James leadoff walk. Hope sparks.
This team is starting to become oppressive on My Dodger Blue soul.
Damnit. Tomorrow's game is sold out. I told my brother to go. =(
@Paul Patience. Everything will be all right. Breathe.
Three innings, five LOB.
Fanerman, watching Wolf pitching on Friday wouldn't be so bad...
It's very unusual Bills doesn't have a K yet.
Thanks Karina.
I will try to breathe. However if the Dodgers don't score here soon I might start to hyperventilate.
Hey Russ picked up a 2 bagger. nice.
See? just a little bit of patience.There's just one out, maybe Bills will pull a Wolf here.
Karina, it's just that tomorrow is... MATT KEMP BOBBLEHEAD NIGHT! Of course I can't go since I'm stuck in norcal, but my brother got tickets through stubhub.
Bills delivers! Let's keep them coming, guys.
I love how Chad is such a good hitting pitcher.
Furcal RBI single. Dodgers up by 2!
Okay I will get off the ledge...for now.
@Fanerman i forgot that! so if your brother got tickets, will you get the Bison's bobblehead?
P.S no more baseball on TV over here, so i'm watching Prisoner of Azkaban :)
I believe that was just a five-pitch inning for Chad.
@karina (from above)
I'm glad my efforts are appreciated! (and I can't really argue with the Elizabeth I call, either)
You're right, Erin. This game is promising.
Hey where is Dusty?
Is he out having Guinness milkshakes social with his other Dodger blog family?
Andre triple!!!
3 for E
I think Dusty and Rbnlaw are at the stadium right now. Not sure, though.
M. Ramirez, in play (runs)!!!!!!!!!
3-0 Dodgers.
Beard hit.
Boggs looks like he's done already.
He is done.
Oh my God! We chased a starter!
@Josh "Always the tone of surprise"
All right! I might be able to sleep tonight.
Faith and hope, anything else, despite the LOB.
Surprise yes, Karina, but also elation.
Russell didn't get the memo that everyone gets a hit this inning.
5-0!
No one is perfect, Josh.
Chad why are you trying to give it back?
It's Chad's regular sixth inning hiccup.
Crap
DP.
Chad needed that.
I'm pretty confident the bullpen will not be able to hold the lead. We need some
more runs.
She forgot the words!!!
HAHAHA
All time worst!!!!!!!
Oh poor God!!!
One of the worst GBA 7th inning stretch singers EVER. Skanky looking, too. 0-2.
Well, we're up 5-3 but it's shaky with breezy there
100
Damn. Even when we're not playing I still can't get 100.
Oh yeah? Well, I'm not very confident that the bullpen will not be able to hold the lead.
I don't even know what that means.
Naw, I had to work late tonight so I've been listening to the radio on the way home. Will be in the Yard tomorrow night, though. Got home just in time to catch that hideous warble.
I was trying to mask a negative comment by putting the word confident in there.
The bats are asleep again
SIZZ-AFE!!!!!!*
*Whether he was or not.
Wow, now that was hustle.
Vinny, be a homer just for once. We NEED this.
Gods Loney is slow.
I got up and made a Guinness milkshake in the time it took for Loney to make it home.
Excellent move to keep Breezy in. Come on, lads, bring it on home!
Sherrill is looking sharp tonight.
Neeebs-
YOU are looking sharp tonight; at least, your new avatar is. Nice work.
not worried at all.
Nooooooo. Not a walk with Albert on.
I opted for the change of pace, Star Wars reference instead of the old school star trek motif.
Doh, here comes trouble.
Now this is a test.
When did Brox change from Johnnie B Goode to Ozzy?
I'd be lying if I said this move didn't worry me, but Brox was pretty good at this 4-out save stuff earlier this year.
Loney coming out is a head-scratcher, since he's having a hot game.
Passed the test, despite the shot to 3d.
This was only a test. Should it have been an actual emergency...
Whew.
Finally got Loney going then took out out. Hmmm...
Whew on that play.
"When did Brox change from Johnnie B Goode to Ozzy?"
It's been a couple months now. The place goes nuts when the guitar riff hits.
It was either Loney or Odog.
Casey's managed to grab a couple of those dropped balls and turned them into outs tonight.
Fanerman: both when Pujols was running
A Hudson-Castro double switch would have been better.
I can't get over Hawksworth's name. It is straight out of a comic book.
BEAST MODE REACTIVATED.
An extra run here would be nice
Brox went from b goode to paralyzer ( which sucked) and then went to iron man. I noticed it when I went to manny bobble head night. The crowd goes nuts when it hits.
State Farm!
Andre cannot be contained.
An extra two runs here would be nice.
Josh - Ask and ye shall receive.
I need to ask my sis-in-law if that was an insurance run or a for-fun run.
Paul does not have the power.
This is the money shot, Brox.
Hey rulebook junkies,
Is this still a save situation for Brox, since he entered with a three-run lead?
I tried to use the force and get that other run but an empty beer can hit me in the head instead.
Glad to see brox is locating his pitches better.
Maybe J Bro just needed that awful game in Arizona to regain focus.
Josh - Yes. At least 1 full inning. Also, he came in with the tying run on deck.
Ox absolutely blew Holliday away.
Come on Brox. Throw strikes for god's sake.
Ali, what type of law do you practice?
Vinny, tell us more about how Ankiel switched from being a pitcher.
All right one more to go.
Nice pick by Martin
Brox needed this outing tonight.
I loved Greene an his two other brothers when they came out with that mmmmm bop hit. Game over!
Thank the gods.
I LOVE LA!!
My fragile psyche brought on by early childhood memories of Cardinal success is saved!
The slider is eating people alive tonight.
I love L.A. I hate the song.
Neeebs - I'm a trial lawyer. Most of my practice is employment.
Boggs gets bombed.
Cool. I'm business/real estate. About 60% litigation.
Jackie not looking great tonight.
Sax here, stuck in lot K, but this was a sweet one I'll savor.
Sax improves to 7-0 this year!
Go Dodgers!
This victory was all yours, Saxy! YDM.
So say we all, Mr. Customer!
Hooray for Hollywood!
@Sax:
My friend got us into Lot B by way of his handicap placard (he has bum knees. . .it's hell getting old) and we sailed out onto Sunset and the 101 then onward to Long Beach.
Great game and great crowd. Rbn improves to 3-2 for games this year with 2 of the wins coming on the road.
@Neeebs "Jackie not looking great tonight."
INFIDEL
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