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Chad Billingsley (1-0, 1.69) vs. Rodrigo Lopez (1-0, 1.50).
COMMENTS (from Sax): So how do we follow up the majesty that was a magnificent four-homer home opener--the first four-homer opener in Los Angeles Dodgers history--in a follow-up game against a division rival? Maybe by trying to figure out a way to win a series and start clawing our way out of the basement of the NL West (tied with the Padres, 2.5GB 3 GB the Giants (after SF's afternoon win)).
Critical to that goal will be the pitching of His Royal Thighness, who needs to go deeper than his last outing (5.1 IP, 7Ks and 1 ER to earn the win vs. Pittsburgh). How will Chadley perform in front of more than 10,000 people for the first time this year? Well, considering some of the characters who will be limbering up behind the home bullpen gates around the sixth inning (Jeff Weaver, 4.91 ERA; Ramon Ortiz, 9.82; George Sherrill, 22.50), I'm guessing Bills gets even more shakes than usual when he hits his first hiccup. Let's make sure we score enough runs to give him a padded lead, okay?
Manny & Ethier: Luis Sinco/LA Times; Blake & Kemp: Stephen Dunn/Getty Images
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Boyer's beard looks like the superimposed beard on SOSG.
The superimposed beard is on Casey Blake not literally SOSG.
this lakers clips game just proves the clips have been tanking it for the past three months.
I missed that trivia question about myself.
Lakers -150 to win the west may be among the worst bets you can place this year.
Well I guess it = a hit. I was never good at math.
bases loaded. DP machine up.
Ducks on the pond.
Release the Loney!!!
DP= Double play. Not the other thing.
The house is en fuego
please, please don't GIDP FJL
walk in another run Norberto!
Now would be a good time to unleash the home opener.
Come on Loney
Wow. James was pretty badly fooled there on the curve.
i think we need to change what the "F" in "FJL" stands for.
Well it wasn't a DP.
Bob Howry enters, and they play baba o'riley
i would take a walk here
I mean, as a fan, not as Casey Blake
Maybe Blake should have taken a f'ing walk.
Looks like the beard is coming back, though
Aw dammit. Well, at least it's tied. I'll take that.
this game is never going to end.
6-6 tie. Yucch.
AHHH SHIT.
FoxSportsWest.Com should have the tagline "we were here waaaaaaay before ESPNLosAngeles.Com"
there you go MLASF
Vin said CMon's name correctly. There's a lesson in there, Steiner.
MONASTERIOS!!!!!!
Is it C-Mon? Or C'Mon?
Because of the divorce, players are paid by the hour for home games.
MONASUCKIOS
If it's C'Mon, I hope his wife's name is Irene.
Little Dexy's Midnight Runners action for those of you scoring at home.
Meanwhile, Upton is scoring on the road. 7-6 Snakes.
Happy, MLASF and Josh?
*everyone turns and glares at MLASF*
Nightmare on Elysian Street.
If it makes anyone feel better, I died a little bit again.
Or "Are You Sterios?"
Now I'm just dying all over the place.
at least he is on par with the rest of the pen.
Breaking Tweet from DSBG:
"So I lost my iPhone and can't tweet cause I don't have a phone worthy of the app. But none the less, ITS DODGER TIME!!!!!"
is honeycutt calling the bullpen or Philly to tell them to come pick up monasterios?
This game sucks.
Dukes won tonight 7-6. Jay Gibbons walk off homerun. But it doesn't look like there is much relief help in AAA.
oh come on ump don't shrink the strikezone now.
why do the dbacks have a small little toilet statue on their gatorade cooler?
Wait Topes not Dukes....DOH!
"He's got Ortiz down in the pen."
*hangs head, defeated*
It's the crappy Ortiz.
Oh, I suppose I should clarify. It's the statistically crappy Ortiz.
Oh wait, I mean the statistically crappier Ortiz.
Augie! Augie!
Still 7-6, going to bottom seven
Ortiz gets one batter to produce two outs. Lucky break.
We get nine outs to tag a crappy bullpen for at least one run. It's far from over.
the DFA meter slightly tilts the way of Russ
Will we see Flat Breezy tonight?
yeah, and the Dbacks only get three outs of a crappy pen to extend the lead.
(im assuming Brox is pitching)
Way to harsh my optimistic buzz, Nic.
No GBA on TV. THats a plus.
Take that Jamie.
That one girl they showed was an entire stanza off while singing "Take Me Out..." And there's only one stanza.
Good point re GBA, MLASF. A little part of me just revived.
Why does everyone automatically sway during "take me out..."
Sheep.
Dewitts OBP is taking a beating tonight.
Wasn't that Nic who had the GBA line?
I decided to let you take the glory to make up for harshing your optimism.
My mis-read.
Russ is killing the ball.
dewitts BA is getting dangerously close to "lose your job to ronnie belliard" levels.
did anyone else hear sherrills warm up toss in the BP hit the fence?
DeWitt's OBP is making up for it though.
russ martins baserunning has been freakin terrible.
Is Sherill next!! oh joy!
I want them to put a sign on the Dodger bullpen gate: "Abandon all hope ye who enter here."
Flat Breezy. Oh, boy.
@NicJ: totally agree with you on Russell Martin's baserunning. Yesterday he got hung out to dry as well. What is it with his lack of positioning?
PICK UP THE DAMN BALL GEORGE
To advertising agencies and TV producers: The surefire way to get me NOT to buy your product is to use the same advert twice in a row within a minute of each other.
Unless it's a MSB ad.
I don't Sherill could pass a sobriety test right now.
WHY CAN'T SHERRILL BEND AT THE KNEES? Who is teaching him defense, Eric Karros?
YOOOOUUUUK
Well this cannot end well. Sherrill, meet DL. Sherrill, DL. DL, Sherrill. I think you two kids can hit it off.
whats really disappointing is the fact that Haren is pitching tomorrow. We should have won this game.
Four pitch walk. He is indeed Flat.
Good holy christ, what a trainwreck.
I don't think I can pass a sobriety test at this stage, either
Hey, a DP! Alright!
(sees runner at third)
Crap, it's still not over.
Pretty impressive DP there by the Dodgers. DeWitt's feed was sweet but Furcal made an insane throw to nab Jackson at first.
Why did Snyder get sent back to second?
haha, thats what happens when you run way off the basepath to take out the DP
Snyder must not have had the proper documentation in his passport.
Yeah Paul, ye without sin...
I love little 4-packs of Dogfish Head.
What the? He's at second?
I think that DP rejuvenated Sherrill.
Hey, George Sherrill!!! 7-6 AZ through 7.5.
Nice comeback Ming.
Even Vin didn't know what happened re going back to second. Or to Cali.
I'm out of Sauvignon Blanc. Gotta go to the beer.
im thinking it was because ryal ran way off the basepath to take out furcal to break up the DP.
Usually you are penalized by the firstbase being out too. but since he was already out they moved back the runner.
This man is getting aggravated. He's watching a lame Wawanesa Insurance commercial that is so full of stock footage it was probably done in Namibia.
nicJ, great call on why Snyder got pretzled back to second base. A student of the game, you are.
Top of the order. Good things are bound to happen.
nicJ, if Snyder wasn't on second during that play, and we got Ryal at second and Jackson at first, do we get the chance to kick a Diamondback in the nuts as punishment?
Hey Furcal, you don't have to swing in defense of the dirt.
Reynolds is killing us at third base
Freaking Reynolds, why can't he suck with the glove like he does with hand-eye coordination.
Anybody have a quick remedy if the SD Card slot doesn't seem to recognize the SD card? I've never used it, so I don't know if I'm missing something. But if I can't get these pictures off the card, my at-game recap of the home opener may be delayed...
No goodness from the top of the inning this time
I can't decide which I want more: to win or for the game to be over.
Didn't Luke Wilson used to be in movies once?
Why is he playing the role of David Arquette now?
@ sax
are you sure you're sticking it in right (so to speak)?
you haven't used the SD slot or that particular card before?
What is the marketing department at the Dodgers going to do after the Yankees series ends June 27?
Joe West thinks this game is a disgrace.
Yes
No, I've never used the slot. The card is good. The Dell isn't registering it.
Joe West hates Dodger-Diamondback games. And he also thinks they get too much media coverage. And he also wants another pastrami sandwich.
Why exactly is Haeger pitching here?
If 44,621 were in attendance then I'm a black jewish republican.
@Dusty - You don't have the voice to be Sammy Davis Jr.
sometimes SD slots require the card to be inserted upside down, or the opposite of how one would naturally think the card goes in.
Manny may need two games off after this marathon.
New rule: Just let Haeger pitch and don't spend 10 minutes talking about the catcher's glove. I am loathe to criticize Vin, but by this point we all get it that a knuckleball is harder to catch and requires a different glove.
And what, were there only 3 knuckleball gloves ever created in the world, and they just have to be passed around amongst some not-so-secret band of knuckleball brothers?
@Paul
I may need time off after this game.
Two on, two out. Ugh.
@Dusty the Tech Support: It won't go in upside down. Oh, well.
Haeger throws some "heat" and gets the third out.
Last chance, Dodgers.
On to the ninth. I don't think I could handle extras. Better win one for the Gipper.
at the moment, Haeger is our second best starter and our third best reliever.
Haeger as "Bullpen Pitcher" it is. He will have an office so big Jaime McCourt would be jealous.
The next distracted-spouse-on-the-beach Corona commercial is going to end with a broken bottle stuck in the jugular of one of the people. Be forwarned.
Andre Ethier can't possibly get the walkoff hit this time, right?
@Nic - You say that as if Broxton has actually pitched.
Then it's up to the rest of youse guys
Dusty,
We might have to have the SOSG B team in here tomorrow.
Im just glad to know im not on the D team.
MANNY DOUBLE!
dusto magnifico will play for me tomorrow.
man, manny is freakin slow.
Manny almost got tagged out jumping up on second base. But wow, that was one hell of a gapper double, Manny.
VIP TICKETS!
where is Dusto? i guess we have to wait for Furcal to play a little worse for him to appear.
Oh look, there's Manny interacting happily with other players in the dugout.
#FuckYouFatFuckSimers
I am surprised that Carroll has to even turn his head to see where the shortstop and second baseman are located.
Sax,
If your card reader isn't cooperating, try plugging the camera (with card) in via mini USB. Slow, but might work well enough.
haha, DB
Come on Lones
man on second nobody out, ive seen this before.
I'm calling a Loney homer.
james loney sure does foul off a lot of pitches
I'm calling a Blake game-tying single
@Sax
Also doing a reboot of your computer might help. If it hasn't been restarted for a long time, the slot may have fallen asleep. (Insert joke here.)
@Mr C, Hmm. I don't think I have a mini-USB. I have a MSB, though.
How many times can Loney foul the fucking ball off his own knee or foot?
who you calling a Loney Homer?
five straight fouls for Loney
He's trying to pull an Alex Cora
six straight foul balls
they scurred.
now its a timeout-off
Homefries Loney sucks.
There went that.
blake comes out to HHH's theme music now?
Loney goes for 8 pitches, all strikes. Chinface takes two pitches, both balls.
someone just hit a single, please.
I think the Dodger shuttle drivers have fallen asleep by now
at least manny isnt in the shower yet
uh oh, 2 strikes and ugly swings = not good.
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA
That was the most pathetic attempt by Young.
I LOVE IT!
I HATE YOU STEINER, BUT I'M HAPPY IT'S TIED. DAMN YOU CONFLICTED FEELINGS.
CHINFACE!!!
And the game goes on.
YES YES YES, I love that I suck at math!!
I NEVER LOST FAITH IN THE BEARDLESS WONDER!!!!
that was so close to being out.
Oh god, someone pleeeeez score blake. I can't handle extra innings.
Mr LA SF, I do believe of the two of us, I was correct.
That ball is long gone in a day game.
please win it now, we dont have the bullpen strength to win it in extras.
I guess so, Sax.
praying for a wild pitch.
Please Russ for all of us end this!!
DeWitt, that would have been a nice time to get your first hit of the game.
0-for-5 for Blake DeWitt.
Martin up with Blake on third and two out. Here comes the IBB.
That IBB only adds to the monster of Martin's OBP.
Wooooooo! I came back just in time!
This game is not so good for my post-game thread.
But all will be forgiven if Reed Johnson can win this.
Martin finally makes a nice baserunning move to take second
FUUUUUUCCCKKKKKKKK
Oh fuck, we're going into extras.
God damn, I want to go to bed.
Is it August?
nice blocking by russ though
Our bullpen cannot handle this.
Who the hell do we have left to pitch?
Oh yeah, the big Ortiz.
See? Paid. By. The. Hour.
maybe andre can win it after all.
400
100 comments per hour of game played
Dammit I just pulled at Mr LA SF
man blogger is having an off season too.
oh shit, the commenting thing is going buggy again
all i see is my comments
it's too bad those google guys don't have the money to be able to invest in blogger infrastructure
I guess we don't have to worry about extras. Pretty soon Joe West will drive a monster truck into the stadium and murder everybody.
No more. I can't take it. I'm going to bed.
"A pleasant good evening to you, wherever you may be. Tonight's game is the "f' you Joe West" game.
"A pleasant good morning to you, wherever you may be" if this goes on much longer.
There shouldn't be an East Coast media bias against this game. They can wake up in the morning and catch the end before work.
Competence!
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