Hiroki Kuroda (1-0, 0.00) vs. Dan Haren (1-1, 3.95).
It's Jackie Robinson Night at Dodger Stadium.
- MLB set to honor, remember Jackie (MLB.com)
- basic info on Jackie Robinson, by his daughter Sharon Robinson (New York Times)
- Newcombe recalls Robinson era (Tony Jackson, ESPNLosAngeles.com)
- Via Inside the Dodgers: The Dixie Walker She Knew (New York Times)
- Jackie Robinson, By The Numbers (True Blue LA)
- From Women in Blue:
"Every year it's a great feeling to wear his number 42," said Kemp. "I wear my pants up and do that feet-first sliding that he used to do back in the day - stealing all those bases and getting dirty...Wearing his number just shows how important it is what he did for baseball. To be on the Dodgers and knowing he wore the jersey that I wear is pretty special."
- From a Dodgers press release:
In celebration of Jackie Robinson Night, Tommy Davis, "Sweet" Lou Johnson, Tommy Lasorda, Hall of Famer Frank Robinson and former Los Angeles Laker and supporter of the Jackie Robinson Foundation Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will be introduced on the field, as will Jackie Robinson Team 42 Scholars.
Special Advisor to the Chairman Don Newcombe, who was also a former teammate of Robinson, will throw out a ceremonial first pitch to Dodger center fielder Matt Kemp, and Newcombe and Abdul-Jabbar will address the crowd during pregame ceremonies. The National Anthem and God Bless America will be sung by R&B singer and songwriter Jeffrey Osbourne, who is best known for his hit song "On the Wings of Love."
In addition, the entire Dodger team will wear number 42 in Jackie Robinson's honor. The Dodgers will also wear number 42 during Friday's game.
COMMENTS (from Sax): If last night exemplified how our pitching staff looks like a bunch of amateurs, then it's only fair to juxtapose Hiroki Kuroda as the team's porn star--he's the only guy we've got who will go deep, go hard, and go long. (Have fun translating that, Kenji Nimura!)
So Kuroda is the perfect guy to go up against Arizona ace Dan Haren, who has gone at least 6.2 IP in each of his two starts (you see, Dodger starters, it is possible), tallying 13 Ks on the year. Dodger manager Joe Torre will probably be limited to Jeff Weaver, the only non-starter to have not pitched last night (and even starter Charlie Haeger got in the game), so Kuroda going long would be a godsend, prior to our weekend series against the what-the-hell-are-they-doing-there division-leading Giants. And let's score more than seven runs again tonight, shall we?
316 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 316 of 316Saxy, you are so right
Just when I thought I was out....
We really do suck.
Ahhhh, yeah...looks good in Word.
If I paste our box score in Word, will it make any more sense?
What's pulling you back in, Paul?
Manny could be a hero, for once.
tease tease tease
Just when I thought I was out....
Hey, we cut it to one. Way to go, Manny.
It all rests on Loney. So in essence we're still screwed.
That my friends was a professional hit. That was exactly what ManRam was trying to do with that ball.
watch, now Loney's gonna foul out
tease tease tease
Hey, Loney doesn't get out! I actually have hope!
Casey at the bat...again.
Just when I thought I was out...!!!!
It rests on Chinface...
I know I'm about to be extremely happy or pissed. It's a weird feeling
Why isn't someone running for Manny?
I guess with 2 outs it doesn't matter all that much.
BELIEVE IN BEARD(LESS).
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
holy shit! he threw it away!
I do believe we're back in.
I am back in!!!!!
Ghost of Jackie helped that ball out into the stands.
i think he threw it with his wrong hand
Wow, I'm not pissed!
you motherfuckers are taking this way into extras, aren't you?
I think one of Manny's dreads whipped into Drew's face on his way by.
I picked the wrong night not to have a single beer.
Reed gets a second chance
tease tease tease
GODDAMN NOT EXTRAS AGAIN
*sigh* why am I still up?
here we go again
Joe West must be having a heart attack right now.
F'ing A, another extra-inning game
I can't take this stress. I'm filing worker's comp
Can someone work an ASCII Dodger hat onto that Picard?
At least all of our losses have been very, very close losses. We've only been blown out once, if I recall
Have the Ortizes pitched yet. I just got in.
(Joe West) Life is peaceful there
(Joe West) In the open air
(Joe West) Baby you and me
(Joe West) This is our destiny
you guys are right, it looks great in the post view. nice.
Okay, no more ascii art since we're past 200
over under on when Broxton's arm falls off?
This is all part of Frank McCourt's plan to sell more concessions
Do you believe in miracles? Well, I don't. But this gaame...even on my droid while in atlanta...kicks ass
Broxton with a sweeeeeeet K for the second out
He made Parra normal.
Sax, then Frank is dumb. The food is always gone by the seventh.
everything I said about you Big OX I apologize.
When the hell is Broxton going to come in for an actual save opportunity?
RUNZ PLEEZ.
was that what they call a "1-2-3 inning"? I heard about those but thought they were a myth
I was dry...it is the Dodgers fault for the neat Suntory whiskey in my hand now.
get a hold of one, Joyce!
yes her name is Sky Cox
Hooray for DeWitt!
leadoff hit! Cheers!
Raffy moves DeWitt to second.
Hooray for the Blake that still has a beard!
cmon Dre!
Its 2am in the atl. I'm listening to the game off my phone in the darkened guest room. Feels like when I used to stay up watching sctv until my folks would catch me. Go dewitt!!!!!!
Okay Andre do what you do best! Do that voodoo you do so well.
Furkey sac. Come on kempy
Delino on the lamb again across the country.
Bok bok bok bok
and I'm not talking about aborted supreme court justice nominee Derek
WILD PITCH
I love the D-Backs.
you know what to do now!
Triple H's theme? Whaaaaaa?
ER, PASSED BALL
epic fail, heheh
Delino, are you going back to Turner field? They host the rox this wkend
Passed ball helps... Just hit it hard dre
This radio broadcast is 20 seconds in the past. Its like the light from a long dead star
ENDRE!!!!
YESSIR!!!
ANDRE VALKOFFFFF!!!!
Yesssss!!!!! CHEERS!!
Bberry gameday is slow but I'm already in bed
Good night y'all.
wow do I feel better
WHERE HAVE I SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE?
Ethier! #16
We needed this. Ugly as it may have been, we needed this. I needed this.
No repeats at turner. Just a pit stop en route to south carolina
Dodgers... won? Whats that? We also won a series?
We deserved this one badly tonight
Why isn't there a one-touch area to get to the bottom of the iPhone
Boom, Mr Walkoff does it again
I would have lost my own bet about which series we would win first.
Andre rockin the fro!
Dodgers win...but you already knew that. I'm so in the past
300
300
and they couldn't make it to 4 hours - weak!
it's bedtime for this tired buckaroo. gnite all
damn it!
A Delino-
I spend many an evening in my hotel in DC listening or watching Dodger games on my phone. Especially tough when we are playing at home and the games go deep into the night, East Coast time.
Wait, did I get it or not?
Way to go Andre! Go out there and don't take any pictures with your adoring fans!
We won a series, holy shit
@Delino - going to South of the Border? You never sausage a place!
I think Delino picked it off MLSF.
Good night kids
Guys...2am fridayh is awesome.you'll love it when you get there. Goodniht
Well, that was a real son of a bitch. Glad that monkey's off our back.
@Sax
It drives me freaking batshit on the iPhone that there's no one-touch to get to the bottom. 99% of the time I need it, it's trying to get to the bottom of a GT.
DB this east coast fandom takes special dedication. I wonder how many hours of sleep i've missed over the years, either from staying up late or (when I was a kid) getting up early to check the score
Bring on the Gnats.
And I've been to south of the border. That p?ace is like RACISM: THE THEME PARK
Not a bad comment count for a night of mediocre, sometimes disappointing baseball occurring the night after a 5-hour shitpile.
Wonder if the former Dodger greats were still in attendance to watch that walkoff... probably not though
me at 10:18
I am soooo psychic this week.
FB, a special shoutout to those of you who have to stay up late to watch our favorite boys in Blue. When I lived in DC all those years, I would do the same thing, and that was before the internets were really mature. I would watch the box scores changing and email friends back and forth who were watching.
Yes the east coast fans are awesome!!
Also a special shoutout to Suntory my financial and spiritual advisor for the night.
Sweet Andre walk-off video on Dodgers Live.
OK, that's it for me. I need my rest. I have lunch date with a Double Down sandwich tomorrow.
Exactly DB - refreshing a box score or watching a crawl on ESPN2 or tuning into Headline News for a sports report in the 20s and 50s.
It was worse when I was a kid though. Newspapers were terrible because games were so late, but it was exciting to sometimes get two games in the Sunday paper (the box for the late friday night game and the saturday day game). After a while, I figured out that I could get the score via the radio, usually waiting for the out-of-town scoreboard during Mets games. But whenever they played east coast teams, I could usually find the game somehwere on the AM dial. Living in an interference-free area, we could pick up Chicago, Cincy, Philly, Pittsburgh and New York stations blasting out at 50,000 watts after 9pm. I even got St Louis a couple of times and I think Houston once. You really had to work, man!
When I was but a wee lad in the sticks in Dittmoretown, I was sometimes able to pick up an AM station that carried Vin's call of the game. I don't know if it came from St. Louis or NO or Dallas or what. That's how I came to covet the Blue despite growing up in the Eviler Empire that is Cardinals territory (may they rot in hell).
Later, with the addition of cable in the Baker household, I could watch the Dodgers as they played Cubs or Braves on WGN or TBS. Sometimes this was the first time I would have been able to see our lineup live that season instead of having to rely on the box scores, print media, etc. Then the miraculous virgin birth of ESPN happened, and things were made easier.
that's awesome! i bet it came from west texas or new mexico. At night, if the weather's right, an AM signal can travel a loooong way. The summer of 88, the family took a trip out west to see the national parks. We rented a big camper and drove the whole way. In the deserts of California, Utah and Arizona is where I got my first real taste of Vin doing Dodger games. I know I heard him doing nationally televised games (GOW, World Serieses, etc), but that doesn't really count.
Guys, I tried to get up at 4am Venice time to watch this game, but it just wasn't happening. Especially since this was the first night I actually slept through the night (the jet lag is a bitch). I didn't want to ruin my chances of sleeping for more than three hours. So maybe when I settle into a regular sleeping pattern, I'll destroy it by waking up at an ungodly hour to watch baseball. I know I could watch the archived game at a reasonable time, but knowing the results are already out there pretty much ruins that for me.
Anyway, sorry I missed this one.
I'll bet you're right, FB. We only had a couple of local AM stations, so there wasn't much clogging up the dial.
So yeah, that's the background on how, through the magical night air that crackled with Vin's call of the game, a hick kid from AR whose first game at Dodger Stadium wasn't until 1983 came to support Dodgers.
@Erin
Still jet lagged? Dang! That's rough. It affects some more than others. First time I went to Europe it dragged me down for days, but on subsequent trips it's never bothered me much.
Actually the last two nights have FELT like 4AM to us as the extra innings games have dragged on...
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