Chad Billingsley (12-8, 3.83) vs. Max Scherzer (8-8, 4.26).
COMMENTS: We are so certain of a victory tonight that we're even taking the brakes off of our GT superstitions (opponent name in the title; posting on the hour). Why should we be worried? Arizona is 19 games off of the division pace. Scherzer hasn't gone more than 7 innings in any of his last six starts (2W, 2L, 2ND), with his ERA jumping from 3.61 to 4.26 over that period. AccuScore gives us a 53% chance of winning tonight's contest. And most of us Dodger fans have faith in Chad Billingsley, despite drivel from Bill Plaschke and the usual gang of idiots, as well as losses in Billingsley's last two outings.
We've waited two games into this four-game series to bust out the team's hupping sticks, whcih I believe is deliberately and coincidentally timed for "new-man" (get it?) Jim Thome's arrival tonight. So I expect a huge win by the Dodgers tonight. In fact, you'd be Mad not to agree.
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I've stopped believing. Sorry, Journey.
@Gagne's lucky glasses: i'm confident they'll improve.
McDonald looked good.
Oh hey, Dusty has come back from the depths to join us in our sorrow tonight
looks like we just want to end the game now.
Damn, it's not any better than when I left.
Haeger is up in the pen...Joe's mailing it in now LOL
ok boys, make me regret going to bed early, and Neeebs for learning to read
Hot damn, Furcant turned back into Furcal right then!
No, not this time Dodgers. You always get my hopes up and let me down..
I love how we're just making fun of Neeebs now.
Maybe Torre pinch-hits Thome for Manny? No? Okay, I'll settle for Manny.
Manny, you don't suck!
that all you have to do manny, line drive up the middle.
Its an RBI atleast
Thome could be a sort of unofficial hitting instructor.
I'm Dusty Baker and I'm back from the dead/Chillin at the beaches down at Club Med
Actually I had a work function that I had to attend. No Dodger game on in the corner meant that I left early and irritated.
Now see the game, I am still irritated.
Is it still chasing a pitcher if its in the 8th?
@ MLASF
Exactly. Manny can pop it up to the pitcher and the crowd rises to its feet like the ball is going to fly over the TRUE BLUE sign. I wondered last night, if people are this poor at judging distance, how do they drive safely?
thats the game.
Wait, Neeebs is reading?
@glg
It's a compliment.
I remember saying it kinda looked like a nimbus when that photo first ran.
When you're a hammer, everything in the world looks like a nail.
4-1 and we've got three outs left. Not feeling it here.
this is russells first time catching haeger, right?
Yes it is, Nic.
At least we always have the Chicas Polar Pilsen.
That knuckler is everywhere.
@sax
Speak for yourself! I tend to go through those fairly quickly. The beers, I mean.
I feel like 7 every time i watch that Kirk Gibson HR.
Sax said: "At least we always have the Chicas Polar Pilsen."
Well said! They lift my, er, spirits.
why f around with the lineup joe?
Street was shut down?
That just made my night a little better.
@karina
I was just saying that last night during the video montage at the ravine. I still get the chills when they play that clip.
Holy shit! Did you guys see that? Loney grounded out weakly. Whoa!
and WHY is Loney still playing. dude sucks!
put pierre at 1st base?
Get ready for the "Too Fuckin Mad for the PGT (TFMFTPGT)" PGT.
That's your ballgame.
Sure as hell isn't mine.
Boo Dodgers, Boo.
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how does martin for halladay sound now?
I love that two people with the Dust... name said very similar things both at 9:40PM.
Impossible?
Boo! (And not in a Halloween kind of way)
we do have guy on the bench that can actually hit the ball. Why not play him?!?!
unless he can take a lawnchair out to first, i dont think he can.
my dad still calls me "dust".
I'd sacrifice Loneys occasional defense for a few hits from Thome.
It seems weird to be counting on garland to even the series.
I hear you dust, but Thome has said himself that his back prohibits him from playing the field. Only in an emergency could he play.
I might consider this an emergency.
Post-Game Thread is up.
Sax, on the other hand, is down.
Down goes Sax!! Down goes Sax!!
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