Randy Wolf (9-6, 3.25) vs. Doug Davis (7-11, 3.75).
COMMENTS: The Dodgers have won three series in a row. But they lost two of three games to Arizona before that streak. But the Snakes' last loss to the Dodgers kicked off a string of seven straight losses for them. And the Dodgers dodge a bullet in missing Dan Haren. But the D-bax are coming off a sweep of Houston. But the Dodgers have their most reliable starter in Wolf going tonight. And Arizona is without Jon Rauch (traded to the Twins) and Chad Qualls (injured yesterday). Ergo, if the Dodgers can knock Davis out early and get to the soft underbelly of AZ's bullpen, they can tread all over the Snakes.
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They should cut their heads. Anyone has Mr.Longbottom on speed dial?
@db
Hopefully, that works better for Joe Torre than it did for Lord Howe.
I'm off to the ravine tonight.
Probably wont have time for a Shortstop short stop, but we'll be in 3B Loge if any of you miscreants are in the neighborhood.
Beto Duran Tweets:
"Ronnie Belliard locker is between Manny and Furcal"
Hopefully we'll get to see Belly #3 tonight!
The Delino will be at tonight's game. Look for me on the field level as I try to avoid the serpent that is garlic fries.
Join or Die!
Martin C
Ethier RF
Manny LF
Kemp CF
Blake 3B
Belliard 2B
Loretta 1B
Castro SS
Wolf P
Oh great, the 2nd string infield tonight
@Mr C, should we look for the man in Victorian attire?
Dusty
Did you put the Dodgers' roster on ipod shuffle to get this lineup?
Very interesting.
Martin at leadoff? I'm glad out found out this early, for it will require more gin than I thought to begin with.
@ Paul
Torre let Malkiel fill out the lineup card..random walk down Elysian Way.
@Sax,
Alas, I'm going incognito. You'll still be able to recognize me by my dashing good looks and devil-may-care attitude, though.
intriguing line up
Is it just me, or does Mark Loretta look like the love child of Randy Quaid and Richard Nixon?
Mr C-
Careful of the air quality. It's nasty out there.
That there's an RV.
Just when Furcal starts heating up, we sit him. Yay.
@DB: Love the Random Walk Reference. I remember having to read that book in grad school. I think Mailkel died recently.
Also, if anyone is interested I have two tix to the game tomorrow and I can't attend. They are Reserved, Section 1, Row D.(Right behind home plate)
If you want them, you will have to pick them up in the West San Fernando Valley.
Email me at screen name at Yahoo. Spell the name correctly because I don't get double "e" emails.
I should have added...No Charge.
Furcal's family had to evac from their home in La Canada so that might have something to do with his not being in lineup. Everything is said to be ok, but it has to weigh on a brother.
Thx, Neeebs. I had hoped I wasn't reaching too far with that reference. My old man was an economist, so I think he made me read it when I was in 8th grade or so. Clearly I turned out normal. *ahem*
I did a quick Ipod shuffle for the line up. Some are pretty funny.
Martin- Tres Equis -Cypress Hill
Eithier-Goodnight and Farewell -Smashing Pumpkins
Ramirez-Just Abuse Me- Air Traffic
Kemp-In the Lords Arms -Ben Harper
Blake- Mountain Song-Janes Addiction
Belliard-Leech- Incubus
Loretta-Stairway to Heaven-LZ
Castro- DJs-Sublime
Wolf-Pocket of a Clown-Dwight Yoakam.
Apparently the White Sox are all for sale. Colletti, get on the horn!
Damn, Paul, that's some hard hitting commentary. Love it!!
Thinking about Beard and Jane's Addition in the same sentence is more than amusing.
"Blake says/
Have you seen my Beard around"
Ned should look into that Konerko guy.
All the whitesox? Can we sneak in Gordon Beckham? eh probably not.
They're opening up the BelliYard already?
You can put them on the block! Yes!
Oh, and Paul, much respect for having Cypress Hill on your iPod.
[Corrected from previous misspelling]
Finally. Russell Martin is leading off again. YAY. Then again, unless Castro continues his shockingly good hitting, and Belliard continues his late season surge, Randy Wolf is the best hitter in the last 4 of the lineup.
Dusty
Hopefully the Dodgers tonight will be heading up the river with a boat and no paddle and handing out beatdowns.
I sat next to B Real at a Dodger game in 1994. Pretty Cool.
Oh interesting. Jesus Castillo was DFA'd to make room for Belliard. Who is going down to the minors to make room?
Snake Pliskin? Thought he was dead.
Did Paul say, Dwight Yoakam?
Awesome. I thought I was the only guy to have metal, punk, limited rap, and honky tonk on his iPod.
@Mr Customer, holy smokage, I just realized you changed your avatar (I was on my blackberry earlier).
Please tell me you're not going to the game a la Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutenant.
@ DB, I too appreciated the Malkiel reference. Random walk down wall street was an early read for me as well...
If anyone is interested, the MLB Network will be showing the 1974 World Series games 1, 3 & 4 on Saturday at 8am. Not the greatest moment in Dodgers history but still might be fun to see Cey, Yeager, Blue, Sutton and the boys again.
This should be sung before every Dodgers/DBacks game:
O Whacking Day, O Whacking Day
Our hallowed snake-skull cracking day
We'll break their backs
Gouge out their eyes
Their evil hearts we'll pulverize
O Whacking Day, O Whacking Day
May God bestow his grace on Thee.
@Sax
The avy is from pulp fiction, in honor of our fixer being on the mound.
Nice one, Josh S!
@ Sax
The Gammons/Plaschke spooning imagery is terrifying either way.
Looks like Mota to DL with a toe issue. There is Belliard's 25 man slot.
Mota must have caught the toe flu from Broxton.
Pettitte has a perfect game through sixth in Baltimore. Here's hoping I'll jinx the bastard.
Thanks, Erin. Now I can send some "NNNNnnnnnoooooonnnan!!!!" thoughts toward him.
nice pic, Mista C!
"So, pretty please... with sugar on top. Beat the fucking snakes."
haha nice play Hairston
HA! Jerry Hairston just made an error to blow the perfect game in the bottom of the seventh.
The "NNNNnnnnnoooooonnnan!!!!" always works.
and there goes the no-no - nice work Erin!
And a hit! Jinx accomplished.
i am calling for the 3-run bomb now
God, that would be sweet, FB.
Jon Garland is apparently on the table and the Rox are interested
Accuscore gives us a 75% chance of winning.
At the game right now. Beautiful night. Not much smell of the fires.
I do hope the Furcal family--and the families of all SoSG readers--are okay and fire-safe.
AC, SoSG Delino will be coming for you, so have a beer at the ready...
God do the Yankees ever lose anymore?
Jesus hates the Yankees.
http://www.shirtsnob.com/archives/pictures/jesusbusted.jpg
Prediction time: I say DBacks 2 runs 7 hits - Dodgers 5 runs 11 hits
62 comments in the GT before the game even begins.
Belliard with his first Dodger double play. Welcome!
Anyone notice Russell's high socks?
Vinny - "Penny, who went to Boston - couldn't cut it there..."
ROTFLMAO
Wow. That could have been horrible. Thank goodness it is a laugh now.
The sky looks pretty crazy.
2 points awarded to manny for the takedown.
Seeing eye singles are so scary.
Nice fielding Manny
Ojeda always kills us. I hate that little guy.
Well, wolf looks like he came back down to earth.
Ojedasenreich gets us again. The crowd really shouldn't boo, because Augie has zero power and Manny had him played right.
For those Pierre haters: Juan prolly would have got to that.
Kemp montage on dodger vision. Nice
Awesome. Yet another misjudged ball by Manny that costs us.
Yea, if we were an AL team.
Manny would be DH
WOW Welcome!
Ken - Montero would have probably scored on Pierre anyway. From second.
Also, are you really advocating that?
WELCOME TO LOS ANGELES RONNIE.
WELCOME TO THE DODGERS RONNIE!!!
Welcome to the dodgers mini manny.
Yes Belli #2!
Shall we call him Belly Mode?
Hey daddyo is in a pink shirt on the third base line last row of the stadium club.
That did not take long.
To my darlin', another Marlon!
Seriously, Ali, Manny should just play first base.
Belly!!
That sounded great off the bat of belly 2. Welcome to la!
That sounded great off the bat of belly 2. Welcome to la!
Ken, I hope your joking.
welcome to the Dodgers, Mr. Belliard!
Yea, im joking
If Loney wasn't so bad, I wouldnt even say it
Come on Randy.
Ken - Manny has played 1B a total of zero times in his professional career. He would be awful there, cost us FAR more runs than in LF and the Dodgers would end up with a far less efficient defensive configuration. Not to mention how much more prone to injury it would make him.
BTW, scary about Furcal's house. I hope everything ends up ok.
Damn it Randy. I was just about to advocate that they put you in left field.
@ ali
take a joke
At least Belli-went-yard, 2-1 Snakage
Love the Belly with the seeds on the field. No wonder he is a bit chubby.
Ken - Hard to differentiate in text bro.
I used to go to school near La Canada. Lots of hills there filled with a lot of dry brush.
@Ken, I know you're only yanking Ali's chain, but the day-glo avatar is so disarming, even I get confused.
@ Ali
its alright. i'm just a lil peeved how people on their blogs are attacking pierre for being garbage, especially when martin, furcal, loretta, and loney are struggling and have worst OPS than Pierre.
Wolf says that K is for Kuroda.
I'm still stunned by Dusty's avi.
"The Assassins"
Anyone going to any games this week?
Ken - I may.
MAIS OUI!
@ Ali
I might go to Wednesday game, but I feel bad enjoying myself especially with all the terrible fires affecting some people I know =(
nice camera-work there, boys
Ken - It is sort of like when someone dies. You have to go on with your life.
What the hell. That was weird.
Wow. Manny owns Arizona like Vlad owns Texas.
Flashes of my former son! Matin doubles :)
Wow. Manny's timing is off. Davis kind of hung that one.
MLASF-
Had to fire up a new avatar for the new game tomorrow!
Lets see Russ get a bag or two.
Can we PLEASE advance Martin.
dangit - let's not waste the double, ok?
crap
Damn.
A quarter inch further in and that ball is gone.
manny put his mouthpiece back in? I was wondering where that thing went.
The dodgers can waste a leadoff double like nobodys business.
Why can they never get productive outs?
The AFLAC question is too damn easy. Gonzo.
what was the AFLAC question?
Wolf absolutely blew Reynolds away. He really seems to have the heater working tonight.
Bad situational hitting
The guy who reads the KABC/Dept of Sanitation PSA has such an annoyingly smug voice, I don't even want to recycle after listening to him. I want to punch him in the face.
They forgot about the productive out concept.
karina - What former Dodger has the D-Backs record for HR in a season? Easy question.
He just recently retired. I don't know what took him so long though.
Reynolds swings away at all things
@ Sax
u mean the guy who sounds like Marvin the Martian?
That's right, Ali. Sorry for my clumsiness.
In five years, we will be talking about three premiere outfielders in the majors. I believe two of those three are playing tonight.
MLSF - Gonzo was actually mildly productive in his lone season in L.A. Just now $7.5 million productive or worth taking ABs away from Kemp and Ethier. He would probably be an OK bench bat. He just can't throw at all anymore.
cmon Randy dont walk this bum
Wow. Wolf was far more aggressive with Reynolds than Young.
thank you mr umpire sir
Ali - I'm just saying he's been out of baseball for a while now. It took him a while to decide to leave baseball.
@Fred's Brim: on Gameday that last pitch was a borderline strike.
MLSF - Well, he played last year. I was looking at his FanGraphs page and the Marlins, shockingly, played him in RF in 22 games. What in the world was Fredi Gonzalez thinking? He used to have a decent arm, but not since around 2003 or 2004. He ended up with an arm worse than Pierre or Sizemore.
hehe really? i would have let that one pass too
Green light the Beard.
what a waste.
Damn!
nice play by JUpton
Ali blew it!
good job, Ali.
TMZ has a video on their front page of Brad Penny in LA last night. The guy behind the camera asks him if he wants to come back to LA and he gives an annoyed look and says "naw". Its on fat boy
Hey. I was calling for the GL 3-0. Blake would have killed that pitch.
Anyone else remember Offerman and all his errors?
Damn this dude takes a serious f'ing cut.
@Ali "Anyone else remember Offerman and all his errors?"
I won't forget that awful defensive as long as i breathe. My older brother would joke about endlessly.
karina - Seriously. 35 errors in 115 games in 1995. The guy could hit and Tommy had to bench him anyway, because he as so awful
Wolf is pitching with a chip on his shoulders.
MLSF - Please don't say that given his history ;-)
That poor rookie stands no chance against Randy.
Wolf is pretty obviously tipping that curve.
Eh. Davis bordered on interference there. Russ could have probably made the catch.
Clockwise wave. That's new.
Clockwise wave. That's new.
Sax, I'm just now seeing your recycling post. I totally agree. It's like when an ad is particularly annoying and I make a mental note, "You have such a shitty ad that I will not buy your [widget]." I have a long list of these. Mini Buffalo Ranch Chicken Sandwiches are right at the top.
At game. Typing on iPhone. Ate turkey dip. MAnny is below avg fielder . Want hot dog. One beer down. Is any starterr not reasting. No like iPhone typimf.
Cora - I've been involved in both.
Just got off tha horn with my buddy. Through his work, he scored some super uber VIP tickets for tomorrow's game. He said they don't even have a price; just says "$ VIP."
It's on.
@Dusty - Like Donkey Kong?
@Dusty - they put those people in the bleacher beach section away from everyone so they aren't bothered by "the common folk"
Will there be a new Dodger in the wings?
the only run we have is by the guy who has been on the team for a day, sheesh.
Loving Martin's aggression, even on outs. He should have taken that, however.
Dodgers need another bat
this is doug davis pitching, right?
Only five innings? Feels much longer.
Heyman saying the talks between D-Backs and Dodgers are "heating up" over Jon Garland. I'd be surprised what with Padilla in the fold now.
Not to be cruel, but he dominated the Dodgers when he was very sick last year, right before his surgery.
can we score some runs to get randy the win?
@ MLASF
Exactly like Donkey Kong.
Heyman has been right on so many, many things.
MANNY REDEEMS
I miss that manny, welcome back!!
That pitch was belt high, outside edge. Must've been a sweet swing.
WOW!!!
Me to wife and sis-n-law: It's time for Manny to jack one out right he...
[Manny hits it out]
And no, I don't say that before every at bat.
I think the dodgers just realized that doug davis was pitching
Now Doug Davis looks like Doug Davis.
Screw Steve Lyons, good things are happening now that the team has discovered the long ball.
Back to back HRs!that's how they roll!
damn that little man.
Damn, Beard, you messed up another 4+1 opportunity.
Casey you stink!
It's because he thinks those Auggie Stanklemyer commercials are making fun of him.
I love Matt Kemp.
Penny is sched to pitch Wednesday against Phiwwies. Those guys should eat his pitching alive.
Tenderonnie is a free swinger, isnt he?
If Alyssa Milano could only see him now...
I'm refering to Penny of course
200, for old-time's sake
for real, DB - Fills feast on pitchers like him, ones that rely on a mediocre fastball
cmon HCK, keep it going
nice pickup, Beardly!
Two sons meet. Two homerums. Two sons separate. Two outs. Sosg is power.
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