Randy Wolf (8-6, 3.34) vs. Josh Fogg (0-1, 2.25).
COMMENTS: Can you say "must-win"? Okay, it's not even September, but suffice it to say if the Dodgers don't win today's game, a great many Dodger fans (including some of our SoSG stalwarts) will be ready to write off our post-season chances. It's time for a statement game, and it's time to set us up for a chance to take this series. To that end, rotation mainstay Wolf puts his hot streak — arm and bat — on the line against reliever-turned-starter Fogg. The Dodgers dodge a bullet in missing the injured Aaron Cook, but it won't mean a thing if they can't knock Fogg around the world in eighty pitches. Let's leave Colorado with the Dodgers still in sole possession of first place!
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264 comments:
1 – 200 of 264 Newer› Newest»I don't get the picture.
Sax: Do I really need to explain it?
You see, Wolf's a redhead. The wolf on the picture is a redhead. The wolf on the left is the collective SOSG community showing some love to Wolf.
You see the heart in the background? That too symbolizes love. What Orel is trying to say is for us to show some love for the Wolfman.
I do dream analysis too!
:-)
I had to change the dodgers luck so I went out and bought the Majestic Dodger jacket at Dick's Sporting goods (the same one the players wear in the dugout). It is currently on sale for 100 bucks (originally 120) plus there is a coupon in the mail for 20 off 100. GO BLUE!!!!
That wolf on the left seems like he is trying to eat the one on the right.
Lineup (from DT)
Furcal SS
Kemp CF
Ethier RF
Ramirez LF
Blake 3B
Loney 1B
Martin C
Hudson 2B
Wolf LHP
AC: Those are love bites.
i hope we work out some frustrations tonight. I am visualizing lots of drawn walks followed by gapped doubles, plus Randy pitching into the eighth, supported by solid fielding
We're going to be leaving about halfway through the game to go get this baby thing started, so wish us luck.
If I don't get a chance to further participate in the GT, let me say two things:
1. Go Blue!
2. If Wolf is yet again the only one to drive in runs, I hope it finally shames Raffy, James, Russ, and Manny into living up to their potential.
How in the hell does Josh Fogg have an ERA of two and change pitching at Coors? I'll be lighting a candle at the altar of the patron saint of Regression Toward the Mean.
Good Luck Josh S!!!
I need a win, or my fine china will be dust by night's end.
@MLASF
Either that or let it be a blow-out early so I can get a really spectacular night of drinking in.
Josh S, best of luck! I hope your boy is born on a WINNING day for the Dodgers.
That did not happen on my birthday, by the way. (Yet another clue to my secret identity!)
Like I said before, we still have a pretty decent playoff lead. I'm not gonna freak out because we aren't winning the division. Things will be just fine. With that being said I would still like to see a win tonight.
I am planning to run a few miles while the first couple of innings are going on. Then I plan to come home, shower, and have a celebratory beer and whiskey as the Dodgers lead by 6 in the 6th inning and win by 8.
I planned my whole evening out around a Dodger win last Thursday so my lack of organizational skills may have been the reason for their demise.
good luck, Josh!
Good luck Josh.
@Sax, So I take it you're not a Sagittarius then?
Good luck to you, Josh!
Yeah, what they said...and to the missus, especially!
they are talking about how our pitching is causing the dodgers to lose their giant lead in the standings right now.
DOES ANYBODY WATCH THE GAMES ANYMORE!?!?!?!
We are virtually tied with SF for the best ERA in baseball. How the hell is pitching the problem? Cant anyone just say our timely hitting sucks.
Good luck to you and Mrs.Josh!
and many congratulations in advance!
May the Dodgers win, so you can tell your kid he was born on a day the Dodgers won an important game within a rough patch in a very wonderful season.
and we're underway!
make Fogg throw strikes with that sinker
Andre the Giant
YEAH BABY!!!
attaboy Dre! 2-0 good guys!
Dodgers go up 2-0
Sa-mack!
I wish Vinny stops saying that the Dodgers should be "heavy favorites" tonight.
Ethier 2 run Bomb! Go Blue!
Apodaca
keep taking those walks
APODACA, already.
Apodaca already!
(Haven't left yet. Thanks for the wishes, everybody!)
damn, lets not make that a habit.
I credit Neeebs' Count Chocula avatar sugar rush with bringing in those early runs.
not a good steal ratio for the kid
you still gotta throw strikes, Randy
come on wolf, we need you tonight.
Wolf is off.
Strike zone is elusive tonight.
It's the first inning and he tends to be shaky at the start. Let's trust him, gents.
Karina,
You know me. For every silver lining, there's a cloud.
nice work, Randy
I moved my Loney in between Capt. Kirk and Greedo.
The Count Chocula is in Loney's former place in the featured spot of the hall of bobble.
And what would Henry VIII think about the Count Mr. Customer?
that inning was way to easy.
James and Russ back to back? the best they can do would be just take pitches and hope for walks
OK, I'm in for a while.
Josh, best of luck with the delivery, although you've already done the heavy lifting. Remember what I said about eating during the clean-up. Nurses love that.
Memo to Ned Colletti:
Don't dick around with Ethier in the off-season. Nothing like having a bona-fide star come through your organization, then making him all disgruntled because you low-ball his contract to avoid arbitration.
Now back to this one.
From right now, until he gets back to normal, he's Loney or James Loney. No King James for him.
Oh, and I'm just about done with Forkal as a lead-off. This game should be 3-0.
@Mr Customer I get it, but the pessimism gets me more nervous and anxious.
I just arrived, and something Sax said made me do a little research. On the date of my birth, the Dodgers beat the Giants 3-0. Burt Hooton was the winning pitcher, and he threw a complete game.
will the new shoes get our mojo going?
are you kdding me randy?
I hate that Vin has to read these Nickeback promos.
Between the odds and the shoes, Vin is entertaining as hell tonight.
(Not that he isn't normally.)
jeez Randy, please no more stupid walks
and dont let them clear the pitcher
agreed, Erin - there's something not right about that
@Karina
Say no more! say no more!
@Neeebs
Henry VIII is a chump. Francis I has promised me a baronetcy, so he's my guy.
nice Randy
KKK
whew.
Rats. Dodgers were idle on my birthday. They lost to the Cubs the day before, 7-6, and beat the Pirates the following day, 5-0.
They were 12 games over .500 on my birthday, though.
excellent.
Erin, how did the Red Sox do in your date of birth?
Mrs. S was born in the off-season.
@Mr Customer Thank you.
I love how you are a history geek.
Raffy needs glasses
Good question, Karina. Apparently I was born on a Sunday (I had forgotten), and for some reason the Sox didn't play. I haven't found any reason for it, but it must have been a rainout, because otherwise it would have been the third game of a series with Baltimore.
Forkal does it again!
Swings at obvious ball 4's and watches pitches he should swing at to protect.
does this strike zone go out to the end of the opposite batters box?!?
another horrible inning. im sensing a season high in innings pitched for fogg tonight.
No baseball related activity of significance on my bday.
@Josh S.
Nice gear for the little Dodger.
our innings have to last a little longer than ten pitches.
offseason birthday for me, but I share a birthday with Branch Rickey and Fred Merkle of Boner fame
wow that was close
damn spilly
fuck, come on guys get your shit together.
EYx2's at bat was almost as long as our last inning.
alright, we got through that. Now lets score some runs.
I was born on the offseason, maybe Aguilas could have played that day but at the time, they played 3 o 4 games a week, so maybe i was born on a day of nn-baseball activity.
On May 8, 1962 the Dodgers were victorious at Houston, beating the Colt 45's 9-6. The improved their record to 16-11. By the way, 1962 was the inaugural season for Dodger Stadium.
ANDRE THE GIANT PART II
woop!
Andre the Giant has a Posse, of homeruns.
we are no longer the dodgers, we are the ethiers
Ethier!!!!!!!
whew, looked like it just grazed him.
It's a one-man band.
Dude that lady behind Blake in the white shirt with brown hair has some FUNKY haircut.
Andre is playing so above it all, he's in the ethier
I may have to use that for the PGT
When the show a right hander batting - above the dugout. FUGLY
fogg is nearing his season pith high.
pitch
Based on who is showing up tonight, our lineup looks like this so far (pending Casey Blake's at bat here in the fourth):
1
2 Kemp CF
3 ETHIER RF
4 Ramirez LF
5
6
7
8
9
alright loney, please do something.
AC, how's your stomach lining?
APODACA!!!!!
APODACA
APODACA
APODACA
can loney get the ball out of the infield here? i think so.
AP-O-DA-CA (clap clap clapclapclap)
that was a excellent at bat for casey, an 8 pitch walk. we need some more of those.
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LONEY SAYS FUCK US ALL
@Mr C.
I betcha you don't think Charles V was such a chump, eh?
YESYESYEYSYESYYEYESYEYSYEYSYEYSY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lonnnnnnnnneyyyyyyyyy
YEAH!!! Welcome to the big leagues James!!!
FREE
JAMES
LONEY!!!
thank you, thank you, i will be here all night, remember to tip your SoSG Bar waitress
Loneyrado!!
Charley Steiner again got a home run call right. If that had gone foul, I would have beat my transistor radio to death.
Where's Dusto?
woop x 3!
that was better than a walk. take note, Russ
That's it! Loney is officially out of his slump. I won't hear any arguments to the contrary.
and martin gets a hit!!
Now that was a beautiful sign from Russ.
Maybe Bobble Loney likes his new digs.
haha loneyfan comes out of hiding.
Oh my sweet Lord! Loney 3 RBI HR!
Should i give him his royal title again?
No wonder my GameDay froze :)
LF makes an impromptu appearance
@Sax: Stomach lining is fine...Now...
King James going Earl Weaver and Russ going the other way. Two great signs.
koufax, you are clairvoyant
Hanging by a thread and the thread has just broken. I love it Vinny.
"The Fogg is being lifted." --Charley Steiner
Cue the Tapatio commercial!
I almost fell off the treadmill! Atta boy Loney!!
The Fogg has been lifted.
Because nobody has heard that line before.
Merciless attack against the Maracaibo-born pitcher! Go Blue!
LoneyFan, where have you been? Hiding out with Loney's power swing?
6-1 Dodgers, top 4 no outs two on
@ Mr LA SF, it's Charley Steiner. It's all relative.
Sax - Updated list
1.
2. Kemp
3. Ethier
4. Ramirez
5. Blake (great walk)
6. Loney
7. Martin
8.
9. Wolf (on the mound anyway)
Wolf just looked so pissed at the sign Bowa sent him.
Seriously, you are leading 6-1. Let Randy corn hole one of Rincon's pitches.
Raffy, knock Martin in if not Hudson too
what the hell furcal.
@I Alivandi, nice. Hudson gets credit for the walk, so now we only have a gaping hole in the leadoff slot.
One that just hit into an inning-ending double play to strand two. Yay, Rafael!
that wasnt very good, Raffy
it's only the fourth, stay sharp, Randy
did anyone see that Breezy needed an MRI for a pain in his oblique yesterday?
wolf with a lead puts on the cruise control.
i love that, to follow a scoring inning with some shutdown pitching
i missed that about Breezy
(what's an oblique?)
Ok Dodgers, let's make a deal: the Rockies can't go into the post-season because Aguilas need Carlos Gonzalez. It's crucial they get into the post-season because my brother is coming back home the very same day that the regular season ends, which means these siblings will only be able to attend post-season games, because we don't know when we'll be together again for a baseball game at the Luis Aparicio.
We have little chance without him in the lineup and the MLB regular season is just 4 or 5 days away from the venezuelan winter baseball opening day.
any of several oblique muscles; especially : any of the thin flat muscles forming the middle and outer layers of the lateral walls of the abdomen
kemp wanted that one.
Kemp barely gets thrown out.
what no more homeruns? your slipping ethier.
boooo Andre!! you need to hit homeruns every at bat!
How sweet would be a Manny's HR in this game?
NicJ, that definition is a little indirect. Some might say, underhand or perverse.
Breezy's been doing too many side bends and situps!
6-1 Dodgers, mid 5
sorry, its your side FB.
Saxtionary.
that's where the sidebends come in!
Fred's Brim - Muscles on the lower side. Sounds precautionary. He is available today.
BTW, that curve was downright voluptuous
Ianetta nets a leadoff double in the fifth
Wow. As good as that first curve was, the one Ianetta hit was terrible.
Sax - There is one out.
we have to keep them at more than a grand slams distance to be safe tonight.
for a minute there i thought vin was losing it.
Oh goodness. I am tearing up thinking how much we will lose when Vinny hangs it up.
Rincon got nasty there.
Old Loney and Old Martin return!
@Sax i like to think they had a relapse.
gotta stay after them at the plate, can't get comfortable
Furcal=Fail
damn - so close!
finish this off Randy
that was an out yesterday.
Shitty umpiring in this series so far.
dont let hawpe burn us again.
Come on Wolf, sock Hawpe
Nothing but junk baby.
Is it too early to nominate Randy Wolf as our 2nd-half MVP?
i hate when we let up on the offense when we get a decent lead.
LL - He is close with Kershaw for pitching MVP. I think Ethier is the MVP for the year though.
So close. It was foul, but Randy put a pretty swing on it.
hopefully we can get a little two out rally going to give wolf a little breather. or at least a long at bat.
Yeah, but Kershaw doesn't bring the lumber. Chicks dig the long ball.
...And I'm back! I see things have been going well enough without me.
Who re-animated Loney?
LL - Kershaw did hit a homer in ST.
Furcal needs to sit
The Bad: Rincon has shut us down.
The Good: He probably cant pitch tomorrow.
Yes we have our leadoff hitter up next inning
What is up with Raffy?
Not his average.
Raffy, please cut down your swing, kthxbai
@Neeebs,
Carlos V was nobody's chump.
Nice game Furky. A HIDP and a Silver Sombrero. Think Torre will take a hint?
Randy says "WHEW"
Manny, punch Dingus while you are there!
that almost hit dinger
Josh, if the Loney HR doesn't cause Mrs. Josh S.' water to break, nothing will.
These early games (LA time) are killing me having to get home late and catch up on Tivo.
Great seven strong from Wolf!
Yes Randy!
his pitches are at 99 or 99 + that last inning, so that was prolly his last
wolf says he is going back out there.
lets get some hits - we only have 4!
FB - He is at 99 total. Given that he was wrapping again, he may well get another inning on a batter-by-batter basis.
200
Herges owns us.
haha, beat the shift.
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