Vicente Padilla (10-6, 4.63) vs. Jonathan Sanchez (6-11, 4.03).
DODGERS MAGIC NUMBER: 19
COMMENTS: If you're still trying to process how Hiroki Kuroda could have mastered Matt Cain, and the Dodger bats could have broken out for 10 runs, in yesterday's series opener--you're not alone. 5-for-12 with RISP sounds positively nuts. So today's game tests whether this offense is truly back (along with Casey Blake, a welcome return to the lineup), or whether it was just an aberration.
Can James Loney (RBIs in each of the last four games) continue working his OPS back to levels not seen since early August? Can Russell Martin notch up his second extra-base hit of the month (adding to his double from last night)? Can we achieve double-digit run levels again, or at least get a win (which would ensure we'd leave SF in sole possession of first place)?
Padilla, 2-0 with a 2.76 ERA with the Dodgers, looks to keep the ball rolling; Sanchez has been solid in his last five starts (2.03 ERA) and won't be a pushover. But only one team has a starter with a reputation for throwing at batters with reckless abandon. And only one team has a player who has to remind himself each at bat that it's a baseball being hurled at him, and not a cha siu baau. Or powdered sugar donut, for that matter.
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Minky plunked!
Eye Chart gets plunked.
Good to hear, Karina. Stay safe.
Gattuso rocks in a The Clash way ! i love his agressive, "i will leave everything on the field" and "get out of my way" approach to the game. He's a punk and not afraid to explode against the foes and referees.
Doug Mienkiehitbypicz.
Karina said:
"He's a punk and not afraid to explode against the foes and referees."
WHOA! Well said. Hilarious. This was kind of your attitude in the Assassins' Circle.
Guys thanks for your concern! I guess we were all blessed to be safe today. It also rained copiously in Caracas, but besides the traffic, everything is all right. This country doesn't need another natural tragedy, like Vargas, because government won't be able to take the right measures quickly.
i want to beat penny and sweep tomorrow so bad.
@Dusty Baker was i a punk? if i had to kill, it was to survive
@ Karina
No, no...I meant that you were "not afraid to explode against the foes and referees."
Karina, then you go and say things like this: "if i had to kill, it was to survive" and make us laugh all over again. This was my fav part of the AC.
@koufax me too, last season i really wanted him to get everything straight, then he leaves the team with no explanation to anyone when they classified to the playoffs. This season, he signs with the Giants to talk smack about the Dodgers. I really wish the good guys think of him as the guy who's throwing batting practice, while i'm watching the game on the TV.
I understand this is a business, but he's not entitled to talk smack out of a team and fans that supported him, he could have been classy and not saying anything.
That fine fan catch almost makes up for that hipster interfering with the ball in play earlier.
LONEY BOMB!
loney is killing it
Loney?
GJLAR
@Cabell why the tone of surprise? he's King James after all.
Is it possible to beat a Merkin?
James Loney: King of the Road
Karina - Only in September.
If Loney knew the concept of symmetry, he would have 24 homers instead of 12.
I'm almost crying I'm laughing so hard now. I called that fan interferer a guy "with a shitty 80s haircut" and Orel called him a hipster. I have no idea what passes for hip - maybe I'm way off base.
Time for some Castrownage.
@Josh that song is awesome!
@Cabell this King James season is an anomaly to his professional career.
Giants haven't won a season series v Dodgers since 2005. May that streak forever continue.
We win!
It took a DH for the Jints to get a run. Poor, poor Jints.
for a wide margin, like yesterday...isn't it sweet?
Karina - I hope Loney keeps this up. It's nice to have that extra bat in the line-up. If there was ever a time to heat up, it's now.
"Goodnight everybody" -Vinny
Never sounded so good.
I am not going to be a gentleman about this win, just for the record.
Tony Shalhoub has clearly solved the Dodgers' woes. I shall leave him to finish the case tomorrow.
19 runs to 4 over two nights.
Bring the hurt tomorrow against Bad Penny.
Good avatar call, MLASF.
Putting the hurt on the Gnats never gets old, baby.
NicJ, are you around to go underground and visit the Gnats' blogs to see what they're saying?
"Must be sooooome party."
When we beat Gnats, I'm not even bothered by the cheap-ass tequila ads.
HYPGT up!
Sis-n-law (re Loney): He talks fast, too.
Dusty: Talks fast, runs slow.
Such masterful insight emanating from our living room tonight.
I want Penny to suffer. Is that so bad?
My prediction of the Gnats' blogs:
Gnats' fan#1: We're not out of it.
Gnats' fan#2: We're out of it like Hasselhof on the carpet.
I want Penny to suffer. I want him to suffer like he's being denied a breakfast buffet.
Orel, you were right: Padres ran backward. Now its 2-2.
Almost a perfect Saturday.
UCLA over the team that sings old Dolly Parton songs too much.
Son's team loses to a team called Chelsea (my son plays for AC Brea, same colors as Milan)
Daughter's team beats a Long Beach team.
Dodgers rout the team from the municipality by a body of water.
SC fails to lose to Ohio State. The "i" remains un-dotted.
I finish off enough beer to float a battleship.
Goooood Saturday.
Fucking Pods suck so bad.
RB, you're my personal hero tonight. If I won anything, I'd thank you in the after-game interview.
Hey, the PGT is up. Give a brotha a heads up or I'll be in this thread all night!
I did, ya lush!
We go to the bottom of the 9th in Sam Diego.
Ron Burgundy, where are you?
A full eleven minutes ago, even, Orel! Imagine that.
Sorry, missed it in my infinite refreshes of the screen. My mistake.
See, RB didn't notice it, either. ;-)
DB,
Birds of a feather, baby.
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