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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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«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 531 of 531Does Vin get the day off tomorrow?
i love kemp, but can he start catching flyballs with two hands please. my heart cant take that.
Ethier is up soon! Game over!
everyone in the stadium better leave, if the game goes past midnight Frank might charge you again.
maybe we will see loney pitch tonight.
Clayton Kershaw just turned 25.
and he still has control problems.
Okay here we go!
Raffy leadoff single!
leadoff man on, no outs. Everyone take notes on manufacturing a run.
I stil have control problems.
Kemp steals Dre's thunder here.
Kemp HR, I'm calling it.
Bunt him over kemp.
Paul, they have avodart for that
there's an advert on front page of sosg for a bladder control problem medicine.
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2-0 count, and Furky is distracting Leo Rosales
I didn't see that adverstisement I have been too busy over at the cougar life.
@Dusty, that ad is to counterbalance cougarlife.com and KY intense
@Paul, I'm feeling your vibe here
2-1 count to Kempy
I'm perusing Macy's for some spring essentials for the modern man.
hurry up dodgers. MLASF wants to watch Leno.
2-2 count to Kempy, who just had a bad fruitless swing on a Rosales change
a lot of 2 stike hits tonight....another on the way?
@Sax
There is an interesting synergy in the most recents adverts appearing on the SoSG home page.
HaegerLife.com: Get your balls knuckled.
ouch
Eesh that was close.
damn we lucked out on that one.
FUCK!WHEW!
That was horrible but was going to be awful.
@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.
Ethier = gameover.
I don't know how Furcal got out of that sure DP (thanks, LaRoche!), but here's Walkoff Master Andre Ethier
By the way, Kemp did not hit a HR.
Come on, Andre.
Ethier looked positively silly on that second strike
2-2 count on Andre, one out, Furcal at first
Geez Andre, that was AWFUL
Not as silly as he looked on strike three!
Two out, and here's Wide Eyes
The adverts tell a great story: Modern Essentials from Macy's...CougarLife...KY Intense...Bladder control meds...
Sax,
the bladder control ads probably were from the Larry King references.
Turn (it) around, wide eyes!
Too bad Mientkiewicz is gone, as I wonder how Wide Eyes and Eye Chart would have fared as teammates
Two out, 0-2 count on Carroll. This leadoff single is getting stranded big time.
I can hear drunk stalkers in the crowd now.
We've gotta have the record for most foul balls hit in a game
I'm re-watching Planet Earth to figure out which weird-ass rare Rainforest creature Carroll looks like.
@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.
Furcal, how about stealing now so a Carroll single would score you?
Dusty: He looks like Missi Pyle.
yawn. If I went to bed now, I could get 6 hours of sleep. Should I?
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.)
OH NO. PLEASE NO.
This is like a Spring Training game.
Oh boy, here's Russ Ortiz.
JESUS, NO MORE-TIZ!
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?
@Sax
I think he was screaming "Andre I love you I love you..no not you Ortiz!!!!"
The PGT is in jeopardy of not posting tonight, that's for sure
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.
Leadoff base hit for I'm Not JD Drew
A pox on the entire Drew family.
At least they will see the last game Russ Ortiz pitches in.
Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh!!!! Stop it, stop it now.
@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!
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.
Vin has already changed to his jammy-jams
Sigh. Maybe it would be for the greater good if this was Ortiz's last game of the year...
@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.
I bet Vin has a nightshirt and cap like Ebenezer Scrooge.
WWTLATD?
What Would the LA Times Do?
Matt Williams I still hate you.
Did Russ get the game ball from the Marlins game last Friday?
we actually got Upton out, that's surprising
Steiner has a Dodgers onesie.
What if this game gets to Weaver?
I gotta throw another log on the fire here
Weaver hasn't appeared yet? (I took a break to watch last night's Lost.)
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?
You should be working your interns harder than that, Sax. If you have to work late, they have to work late.
Reynolds about to hit a three-run HR
LET LONEY PITCH.
Mister .148 ba, help us out here.
Remaining crown with the sarcastic cheer.
"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.
I see Jeff with a large bag of cheetos watching Beavis and Butthead on the bullpen TV.
It's like watching documentary footage of lemmings rushing headlong toward a cliff.
Kemp has not been Gold Glove-y lately....
What the hell, Kemp?
Rawlings called, they want their trophy back.
Nice Matt.
AZ has Rancho Ardiendo, and we've got Kemp making errors and Russ Ortiz on the mound.
Kill me now.
Is the crowd against Ortiz?
Kemp has misjudged several fly balls already this year. Is he wearing the correct contacts?
Where's Mark Lore...damnit.
Blinded by Rihanna's beauty.
Russ must still be a Giant at heart.
No major league pitcher sucks THIS bad, do they?
Good thing we wasted another game of Troncoso and Broxton on this.
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.
Even Vin sounds a bit tired.
Kemp's throws from center have looked pretty weak and offline thus far this year, too.
The ball on a tee could get more strikeouts than Russ Ortiz.
Hey Sax, remember yesterday when I said a bad season could be fun too?
Yeah, fuck that.
The sad thing is, if the Dodgers make an epic comeback, Russ gets the win.
Ramon pulls ahead of Russ on the suck-o-meter.
This umpire is dedicated.
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.
Russ pulls a head of Ramon, I mean
I hate Russ Ortiz. I'm glad Ramon's pulled "ahead" of Russ.
Midnight. Have to be up in 5.5 hours.
Sonia Sotomayor would step in to prevent Russ from getting the win if the Dodgers come back.
Anyone think we will ever see .500 this year
LOL NicJ.
that base hit would have been a lot more valuable earlier, Mr. Loney
Don't tease me, James.
Wouldn't it be funny if Ellis hits a HR.
The cruelest thing will be if we come back and get two runs this inning.
Ellis does not look like he knows what he is doing at the plate tonight
Just make it stop.
Ellis really is a SHITTY hitter.
Damn it, they couldn't even make it the full five hours.
Sweet mother of shit this sucked hind tit.
I can't beleive I watched the whole thing.
Fuck you, ortiz.
I'm guessing we are in for a very short dodgers live.
Way to EARN that L.
"Dodgers Live" seems like a really bad name for this post-game production.
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