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Jon Garland (10-11, 4.19) vs. Brad Penny (10-8, 5.04).
DODGERS' MAGIC NUMBER: 9 (I think)
COMMENTS: Apologies are in order. We inadvertently posted yesterday's Game Thread on the hour instead of at one minute after the hour, thereby breaking our Game Thread superstitions streak and almost certainly causing the Dodgers to lose. To add hurt to harm, we never got around to posting a Post-Game Thread. Our bad!
A Saturday afternoon game at Dodger Stadium means the game is being broadcast on Fox, which means no Vin. Boo. The Dodgers might want to find a way to avoid another loss to Penny, as Tim Lincecum goes tomorrow and let's just say it's unlikely he'll surrender the tying run in the ninth again.
Fortunately, the Rockies lost again yesterday (thanks, D'backs!), lowering the Dodgers' official magic number to 10. Their unofficial magic number (since they've already won the season series against the Rockies — assuming the Rockies stay in second place) is 9. Their magic number to make the playoffs (as division or wild card winner) is 8. Got it? Good.
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Thanks for restoring order, Orel!
It's my fault, i shouldn't have gone out last night, while there was a Giants-Dodgers game on TV. I should have stayed home, with popcorn, watching the game and commenting here. My apologies.
Furcal SS Ethier RF Ramirez LF Kemp CF Loney 1B Blake 3B Belliard 2B Martin C Garland P
(Posted from Target while Mrs Dusty shops for crap we don't need)
Just curious, why wouldn't the "official" magic number take into account tiebreakers? Who is this "official" person anyway? Sucks for them to wait for an extra meaningless game before celebrating the division championship with the rest of us.
Belliard in the lineup=win.
Yo let's do this.
Chris Rose and Jose Mota doing broadcasting. Could be worse. Maybe Mota will be biased in our favor given his name.
Jose Mota, Angels announcer, biased toward the Dodgers? Suuuurrrre...
It was worth a shot, Josh.
I hate Velez
Let's win this, Dodgers. I want that fat tub of lard sweating profusely, early on.
Manny, WTF are you doing? How hard is it? Haven't you done this since childhood? I guess the answer is yes, in a sense.
Giants get a gift run.
Already in a hole.
I waited all morning for this?
Am I watching the replay of last night on tape delay?
Sarcastic cheer for Manny.
Furcal seems to really be grooving it lately. Credit where credit is due.
Come on, E! Let's get one back. Or five.
I forgot how Penny has those tiny chicken legs compared to massive gut. He looks like one of the Beagle Boys from the Ducktails cartoon
Please stand by, Fox is currently experiencing technical difficulties.
Bad Penny in some early trouble. Get that man a pork chop, stat.
F U Fox (for so many reasons). How hard is it to broadcast a game?
Prime Ticket never has problems like this
Yay! I am watching the game on the radio
$2.79 transistor radio still the best deal.
In protest I might just turn off the game and listen to the soothing sounds of crackle and hiss and local broadcasters.
C'mon James, take a bite of lard!
JLo, fewer and fewer opportunities to homer at home. This would be a good time for one. Or two.
CHOMP! 1-1 tie!
Free James Loney! 86th RBI ties the score
Come on, Chewbacca, work something and keep this inning going.
Rancho Ardiendo!
RANCHO RANCHO
BOOMSHACKALAKA!
GRAND SLAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Penny: "Darn!"
Bellislam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!8:73$;&/&&3$/&&;$;&:&@;
Belliard Grand Slam! take that, Penny
Ha Ha you suck Penny
This is so sweet. Sooooo sweet.
SUCK THAT, PENNY
Charley got the call right! Belli-YARD
Rancho eat a big pile of shit, Bad Penny!
Call to the bullpen...
Russell can't even hit this guy.
Too bad Martin is back to being awful.
33 pitch, 5-run inning.
@Josh S 12.25p: nice clairvoyance!
Couldn't have happened to a nicer pitcher.
We should make Rancho EABPOS a staple. Hahahah
I'm getting a little shaky I'm so excited. I needed this.
From last night's game, when Martin was caught looking and k'd, Erin and I watched him whine to the ump and both of us thought Russell
looked totally pathetic.
That Martin whining to the ump last night was not only pathetic but embarrassing. Nonetheless, I have my Martin tee on today.
Penny didn't get all pissed off at Belli for watching his shot like he did when Adrian Gonzalez did it a couple of weeks ago
Instead of don't stop believing we should play who's crying now.
Suck it Steve Perry!
@sax
That was embarassing for Martin. Especially since it was a great curveball
Let's make Penny run a base, then get out of the inning, to tire him further.
Velez is downright anorexic. I'm going to call him Calista.
I'm not diggin rose's sarcastic tone towards manny, he is just pissed the indians suck.
Ronnie Belliard = Marlon Anderson?
How's that NL hitting treating you now, Bad Penny?
I'm going to say something rude to Rose on his Twitter feed.
Velez is skinny as a toothpick turned sideways.
Lasorda and Sax sitting together. *wipes a tear*
^ Meaning the real ones, not the SoSG fellaz.
I have a feeling garland is going to keep them in this game.
I miss hearing Vinny telling the Winn/LA Clippers/half-court shot story for the 4 trillionth time.
Get one back, ManRam.
QUIT SHOWING THE LITTLE GIRL THROWING THE BALL BACK CLIP.
BISON HR!
Bison HR!!!!!!
Glad they are acting like Penny was throwing batting practice.
25 on the season.
Sure wish he would go on a streak and tag 30!
JLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LONEY HOME HR!
King James rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Loney is freed!!!!!!!
Righetti: "Okay, Brad, stop that."
The dodgers better watch out they could be in some serious trouble. Crushing a penny is a federal offense after all.
Penny should just walk off the field and never pitch again
Free at last, free at last...
Nic with the Federal Reserve humor!
Dusty, i just realized you mean JLo=James Loney.
I'm digging the "Penny Sucks" chant from the croud
Come on Orel, that joke was in mint condition.
Nic, time for a change in your material (to coin a phrase).
@ Karina
Were you picturing Jennifer Lopez?
Bye-bye Brad!
The buck stops here with the bad currency puns.
Bochy makes change. Out comes penny.
Man i'm on a coin roll.
Guess Boch doesn't believe "In for a penny, in for a pound."
Belly #2 on fire! SB!
"Were you picturing Jennifer Lopez?"
I know I was. Wait, what were we talking about?
Bochy had to cut his losses, you can't make a dollar out of fifteen cents.
Penny: "Am I back in the AL?"
Man I know we are getting the second string announcing crew, but it's gotta be the 4th string production crew.
I was picturing Jennifer Lopez, for real, with the "i'm still i'm still Jenny from the block" chorus in my head.
USC ain't looking great.
Or her:
http://umpbump.com/press/2008/03/24/hot-baseball-wife-jennifer-lopez/
Sweeeeeet DP.
Sax, I'm not the only clairvoyant one. Fred's Brim, earlier today in the last GT:
"...racking up 11 hits and 7 runs against Brad Penny this afternoon will make me (and I bet you, too) feel better"
Hits were off, but well done!
We owe it all to the GT being posted at the right time today.
Smooth play by Loney.
It's been a great game for King James
@DB "We owe it all to the GT being posted at the right time today."
With great power comes great responsibility.
Wait, did Brad Penny pitch today? Sorry, I blinked and must have missed it.
I actually had fallen asleep early in the game and missed all the offense, but I'm all caught up now thanks to the DVR.
MERKIN TIME!
15-1 after this inning?
Giants putting a Merkin on their mound.
Rose pronounces it "Mer-keen."
Flash Ramirez!
Did Rose just say Kemp is the front-runner for the Gold Glove?
Here's a joke: What's black and orange and red all over?
A: Brad Penny in a blender.
Bwahahaha!
Belly 2.0 - We can rebuild him.
Rose said Kemp should be considered for "a" Gold Glove. They don't give out more than one per position, do they?
Ah, Velez is pitching now, according to Rose.
There were some cholo dorks last night who had these new hats. They were Dodger blue but had the SF logo on them in white. They weren't homemade, either (New Era, I believe).
Maybe he's referring to the little-known Silver and Bronze gloves.
Russell RBI! 9-1!
Amish life!
Wow, Russ actually went the other way.
Velez throws well for such a thin guy.
@Orel: "Rose pronounces it "Mer-keen.""
Well, it's always keen for us when he pitches.
WP!
Josh, well the outfield just has three gold gloves, there is no left, center, and right designation. So technically rose was correct, a douche, but correct.
Garland is a sort of lucky charm, don't you think?
Wow, Randy Johnson is warming up.
Karina, I think it's your avatar that's lucky.
Have we had a 1-2-3 inning today?
Garland has been a pretty solid pickup, especially with Bills throwing like four-year old Philly fan.
Rosenthal saying the Dodgers would start Wolf and Kershaw in the playoffs, and Bills won't be in the rotation.
Thats being generous mlsf.
Robothal saying Dodgers could pitch Wolf, Kershaw, Kuroda then Garland/Padilla in the playoffs. No Bills.
I beat you to it, Orel.
Garland isn't the kind of pitcher that will get us a lot of 1-2-3 innings cause he's not a K kind of guy. But man do I like him as a late-season pickup. EATS some mother friggin innings.
75 pitches so far for Garland.
I think Rose needs to stick to working the sidelines.
DB, those hats are part of the "MLB Twisted" line at Lids. They have most teams' logos in Dodger Blue, but not too many Dodger hats in other team colors.
I don't whether to make fun of Randy Johnson's age or his ugliness. Can I do both?
You sure did, MLASF. And that's one rabble-rousing avatar.
@Dusty - Mullet over
That moron may have saved Raffy's back from blowing out from trying to stretch a double into a triple.
Ethier makes it ten!
Randy Johnson is our Chad Billingsley.
That's a big "may" considering the ball went into left, Orel.
Dusty, that's a little harsh. For Randy I mean.
Heh, Nic.
@ Josh - AAAhhhhh! Thx for the heads up on those lame Twisted caps.
The Trojans are about 9 minutes away from saying goodbye to any bcs title hopes. Man Corp sucks.
Actually, I've seen a lot of variously colored Dodger caps. One was yellow and green a la the A's, one was Cardinal and Gold, another was powder blue and gold, etc.
@Orel i don't think my avatar is particularly lucky, i changed it yesterday, but again, i didn't have much of a presence on last night's ga,e thread.
TOP CLASS from Dodger fans standing and cheering for Johnson, given it's prolly his last toss in the MLB.
Yeah I've seen the USC and UCLA colors before. Those are actually kinda cool (one more than the other).
Kemp with a slight lemp.
Freege Ame Sloney!
What a pummeling we are providing! Loving every minute.
Just three more outs, and we win the season series
Shaq just sent a Tweet that said "Can anyone tell me what the opposite of humor is"? I replied "Jay Leno"
Garko hasn't exactly worked out for the Jints, has he?
How refreshing is it to see our pitcher go seven innings?
9 pitches for Garland. Not too bad when they're on the 7th.
I was jsut thinking that, MLASF, re Garko. I thought that would be a good pickup for Jints. Maybe he needs daily at bats to get in a groove where SF mainly used him off the bench.
Cal barely snuck by Minnesota today. What's the USC situation?
Tied at 13. Corp has been trash.
DeWitt sighting.
Oh, it is tied. No worries for sc.
DEWITT CAN HIT
DeWitt goes to 11!
DeWitt HR! it's home run feast at Dodger Stadium!
@DB "How refreshing is it to see our pitcher go seven innings?"
Refreshing as drinking a Red Bull under a waterfall.
@dusty, nice call on Leno. His ratings won't hold.
@ Sax
Please...just...make...Leno go...away.
SC's going down.
Just opened a pack of Upper Deck baseball cards that Mrs. Dusty let me buy at Target if I was a good boy while she shopped. She patted me on the head and bought me two packs.
First card out was Hong-Chih Kuo!
USC got their customary loss to a crappy PAC 10 team out of the way early this year.
Whoops for USC
Rancho Ardiendo again!
"Still looking for that first career grand slam" -Rose re JP
Pierre goodness! still Rancho Ardiendo!
Come on, guys, let's get this offense cranked up! I want 15 runs.
I hear delino softly crying out there somewhere.
Rock the Casbah on the speakers! there isn't enough The Clash in this world :)
Repko still sucks, some things never change.
Karina, well said re: Clash.
I'm imagining Garland as Pac-man, just gobbling up little round innings.
Not that I'm looking backward, but this would a 12-nil ass stomping if Manny wouldn't have fucked up that fly ball.
That's not just splitting hairs, Dusty. That's splitting cilia.
Yeah, I'll walk that back, Orel.
84 pitches for Garland thru 8. That's like 2 innings for Kershaw.
"I love innings. Innings, innings, innings. Here it goes down, down into my Belly. Mm, mm, mm."
Bumgarner's glove looks like the cheap plastic ones you can buy for your two-year-old in the toy aisle at K-Mart.
Bumgardner the next Lincecum?
@ Orel
What am I, a doctor?
I know they are supposed to be good, but the next generation of giants with names like Madison and Buster don't scare me a whole lot.
@Dusty do you know we say "doctors" to the lawyers?, at least in venezuelan spanish :)
@ Nic
Wait til you see the next generation of Jints' names:
Tiffany, Heather, Cody, Dylan, Dermott, Jordan, Taylor, Brittany, Wesley, Rumer, Scout, Cassidy, Zoe, Chloe, Max, Hunter, Kendal, Katlin, Noah, Sasha, Morgan, Kira, Ian, Lauren, Q-bert, Phil
Timmah- Wash your hair!
@Dusty - I think half of those names have played for the Lakers in the last decade.
Are those the children of Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel?
Come on, DreamWeaver, put this one to bed.
Haha it took me about three names in to realize what that was from.
Yep, Orel.
Dharma!!!!!!
Who the hell are these people, and why do we reward them with the singing of our national anthem?
Watch it, Buster!
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