Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Game 8 Thread: April 14 vs. D'backs, 7p

Chad Billingsley (1-0, 1.69) vs. Rodrigo Lopez (1-0, 1.50).

Gameday

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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Kyle Baker said...

Does Vin get the day off tomorrow?

NicJ said...

i love kemp, but can he start catching flyballs with two hands please. my heart cant take that.

Paul said...

Ethier is up soon! Game over!

NicJ said...

everyone in the stadium better leave, if the game goes past midnight Frank might charge you again.

NicJ said...

maybe we will see loney pitch tonight.

Kyle Baker said...

Clayton Kershaw just turned 25.

NicJ said...

and he still has control problems.

Paul said...

Okay here we go!

Steve Sax said...

Raffy leadoff single!

NicJ said...

leadoff man on, no outs. Everyone take notes on manufacturing a run.

Paul said...

I stil have control problems.

Josh S. said...

Kemp steals Dre's thunder here.

Steve Sax said...

Kemp HR, I'm calling it.

NicJ said...

Bunt him over kemp.

Steve Sax said...

Paul, they have avodart for that

Kyle Baker said...

there's an advert on front page of sosg for a bladder control problem medicine.

Kyle Baker said...

Enablex

Steve Sax said...

2-0 count, and Furky is distracting Leo Rosales

Paul said...

I didn't see that adverstisement I have been too busy over at the cougar life.

Steve Sax said...

@Dusty, that ad is to counterbalance cougarlife.com and KY intense

Steve Sax said...

@Paul, I'm feeling your vibe here

Steve Sax said...

2-1 count to Kempy

Kyle Baker said...

I'm perusing Macy's for some spring essentials for the modern man.

NicJ said...

hurry up dodgers. MLASF wants to watch Leno.

Steve Sax said...

2-2 count to Kempy, who just had a bad fruitless swing on a Rosales change

Paul said...

a lot of 2 stike hits tonight....another on the way?

Kyle Baker said...

@Sax

There is an interesting synergy in the most recents adverts appearing on the SoSG home page.

Josh S. said...

HaegerLife.com: Get your balls knuckled.

NicJ said...

ouch

MR.F said...

Eesh that was close.

NicJ said...

damn we lucked out on that one.

Josh S. said...

FUCK!WHEW!

Paul said...

That was horrible but was going to be awful.

Steve Sax said...

@Dusty, I hear you on the ads. I'm totally mystified by the Cougar Life ads to begin with; they have nothing to do with our content whatsoever.

Unless "Jamie McCourt" is the magic keyword.

Paul said...

Ethier = gameover.

Steve Sax said...

I don't know how Furcal got out of that sure DP (thanks, LaRoche!), but here's Walkoff Master Andre Ethier

Steve Sax said...

By the way, Kemp did not hit a HR.

Steve Sax said...

Come on, Andre.

Steve Sax said...

Ethier looked positively silly on that second strike

Steve Sax said...

2-2 count on Andre, one out, Furcal at first

Steve Sax said...

Geez Andre, that was AWFUL

Josh S. said...

Not as silly as he looked on strike three!

Steve Sax said...

Two out, and here's Wide Eyes

Kyle Baker said...

The adverts tell a great story: Modern Essentials from Macy's...CougarLife...KY Intense...Bladder control meds...

Paul said...

Sax,

the bladder control ads probably were from the Larry King references.

Josh S. said...

Turn (it) around, wide eyes!

Steve Sax said...

Too bad Mientkiewicz is gone, as I wonder how Wide Eyes and Eye Chart would have fared as teammates

Steve Sax said...

Two out, 0-2 count on Carroll. This leadoff single is getting stranded big time.

Paul said...

I can hear drunk stalkers in the crowd now.

Steve Sax said...

We've gotta have the record for most foul balls hit in a game

Kyle Baker said...

I'm re-watching Planet Earth to figure out which weird-ass rare Rainforest creature Carroll looks like.

Steve Sax said...

@Paul: Now would be a good time to mention that SoSG Alex Cora is at the game. The drunk stalker you're hearing is probably AC.

Steve Sax said...

Furcal, how about stealing now so a Carroll single would score you?

Josh S. said...

Dusty: He looks like Missi Pyle.

Unknown said...

yawn. If I went to bed now, I could get 6 hours of sleep. Should I?

Josh S. said...

See this through or sleep and hope for the best?

(Last time I did the latter was when Dre hit that walkoff in the 13th.)

MR.F said...

OH NO. PLEASE NO.

Josh S. said...

This is like a Spring Training game.

Steve Sax said...

Oh boy, here's Russ Ortiz.

Josh S. said...

JESUS, NO MORE-TIZ!

Kyle Baker said...

Can you imagine the poor SOBs who are at the game, and if we lose, will have invested all that time into a miserable, losing effort?

Paul said...

@Sax

I think he was screaming "Andre I love you I love you..no not you Ortiz!!!!"

Steve Sax said...

The PGT is in jeopardy of not posting tonight, that's for sure

Unknown said...

This feels like that 1 game I went to last year at at&t park where they brought in Mota for the 10th. 3 batters later, game fricking over.

Steve Sax said...

Leadoff base hit for I'm Not JD Drew

Josh S. said...

A pox on the entire Drew family.

NicJ said...

At least they will see the last game Russ Ortiz pitches in.

Unknown said...

Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh!!!! Stop it, stop it now.

Kyle Baker said...

@Sax

The challenge is to make tonight's PGT neutral enough to work whether we end up winning or losing, so that you can just post it right away no matter what happens.

Hell, you should just post it now!

Paul said...

This has to be the cruelest sport.

You stick it out for hours only be up in the middle of the night to see the likes of Russ Ortiz have the fate of the game in his hands.

Steve Sax said...

Vin has already changed to his jammy-jams

MR.F said...

Sigh. Maybe it would be for the greater good if this was Ortiz's last game of the year...

Steve Sax said...

@Dusty, I may just do that and post the PGT now. This is ridiculous.

All the interns have left the office. It's just me and the printing press.

Josh S. said...

I bet Vin has a nightshirt and cap like Ebenezer Scrooge.

MR.F said...

WWTLATD?

What Would the LA Times Do?

Paul said...

Matt Williams I still hate you.

Josh S. said...

Did Russ get the game ball from the Marlins game last Friday?

Steve Sax said...

we actually got Upton out, that's surprising

Paul said...

Steiner has a Dodgers onesie.

Unknown said...

What if this game gets to Weaver?

Steve Sax said...

I gotta throw another log on the fire here

Josh S. said...

Weaver hasn't appeared yet? (I took a break to watch last night's Lost.)

Steve Sax said...

Ortiz has suddenly forgotten where the strike zone is, four-pitch walk to LaRoche. No worries, we can just go to the pen...

...hello? Anyone in there?

Kyle Baker said...

You should be working your interns harder than that, Sax. If you have to work late, they have to work late.

Steve Sax said...

Reynolds about to hit a three-run HR

Josh S. said...

LET LONEY PITCH.

Unknown said...

Mister .148 ba, help us out here.

Josh S. said...

Remaining crown with the sarcastic cheer.

Kyle Baker said...

"Ortiz has suddenly forgotten where the strike zone is"

I didn't think he'd known where the strike zone is for a long time.

Paul said...

I see Jeff with a large bag of cheetos watching Beavis and Butthead on the bullpen TV.

Nostradamus said...

It's like watching documentary footage of lemmings rushing headlong toward a cliff.

MR.F said...

Kemp has not been Gold Glove-y lately....

Steve Sax said...

What the hell, Kemp?

Josh S. said...

Rawlings called, they want their trophy back.

Paul said...

Nice Matt.

Steve Sax said...

AZ has Rancho Ardiendo, and we've got Kemp making errors and Russ Ortiz on the mound.

Kill me now.

MR.F said...

Is the crowd against Ortiz?

Kyle Baker said...

Kemp has misjudged several fly balls already this year. Is he wearing the correct contacts?

Unknown said...

Where's Mark Lore...damnit.

MR.F said...

Blinded by Rihanna's beauty.

Josh S. said...

Russ must still be a Giant at heart.

No major league pitcher sucks THIS bad, do they?

Paul said...

Good thing we wasted another game of Troncoso and Broxton on this.

MR.F said...

At least since the ball Kemp missed got scored a hit, Ortiz gets charged with the run. So his ERA just gets higher and higher. So maybe we'll be rid of him sooner.

MR.F said...

Even Vin sounds a bit tired.

Kyle Baker said...

Kemp's throws from center have looked pretty weak and offline thus far this year, too.

Josh S. said...

The ball on a tee could get more strikeouts than Russ Ortiz.

Josh S. said...

Hey Sax, remember yesterday when I said a bad season could be fun too?

Yeah, fuck that.

Unknown said...

The sad thing is, if the Dodgers make an epic comeback, Russ gets the win.

Unknown said...

Ramon pulls ahead of Russ on the suck-o-meter.

NicJ said...

This umpire is dedicated.

MR.F said...

Heh. The guy in the Dodgers shirt behind home plate did a huge WTF at Russ Ortiz.

Then he just facepalms on the next ball.

Unknown said...

Russ pulls a head of Ramon, I mean

MR.F said...

I hate Russ Ortiz. I'm glad Ramon's pulled "ahead" of Russ.

Josh S. said...

Midnight. Have to be up in 5.5 hours.

Josh S. said...

Sonia Sotomayor would step in to prevent Russ from getting the win if the Dodgers come back.

NicJ said...

Anyone think we will ever see .500 this year

MR.F said...

LOL NicJ.

Steve Sax said...

that base hit would have been a lot more valuable earlier, Mr. Loney

Josh S. said...

Don't tease me, James.

NicJ said...

Wouldn't it be funny if Ellis hits a HR.

Kyle Baker said...

The cruelest thing will be if we come back and get two runs this inning.

Steve Sax said...

Ellis does not look like he knows what he is doing at the plate tonight

Nostradamus said...

Just make it stop.

Kyle Baker said...

Ellis really is a SHITTY hitter.

Josh S. said...

Damn it, they couldn't even make it the full five hours.

Kyle Baker said...

Sweet mother of shit this sucked hind tit.

NicJ said...

I can't beleive I watched the whole thing.

Unknown said...

Fuck you, ortiz.

NicJ said...

I'm guessing we are in for a very short dodgers live.

Nostradamus said...

Way to EARN that L.

Kyle Baker said...

"Dodgers Live" seems like a really bad name for this post-game production.

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