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John Ely (0-1, 4.26) vs. Dan Haren (4-1, 4.04).
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COMMENTS: He looks like Matthew McConaughey and his pitching style has been compared to that of Mark "The Bird" Fidrych. He is John Ely, and in his last start, he held the hot-hitting Brewers to one earned run over 6 2/3 innings. He won't break 90 mph on the speed gun; instead, he's a location pitcher. Remember, Ned Colletti turned Juan Pierre (2010: .230/.292/.230) into Ely and Jon Link, so credit where credit is due.
Unfortunately, in the red trunks is Dan Haren, the Diamondbacks' great uninjured hope. But as Sax put it in last night's Post-Game Thread, "If we can beat Ubaldo, we can beat Haren." And it turns out Haren has a curiously plump 1.261 career WHIP against the Dodgers. But he also has notched 50 K's and is 10-for-22 at the plate this season, so let's not lose our heads, okay?
Fidrych: John Iacono/Sports Illustrated
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Weaver pulls a Tekulve!
Ugh. It's Kelly.
You're right, Sax — Weaver's out of this inning.
Hmmmm then again lettuce is easy to eat but hard to hit.
@Steve Sax this crowd possesses my eternal adoration and you pretty much have the idea how my ranking works.
@Dusty i've been dropping hints everywhere but the top 5 i'm talking is "human created" and i don't mean "only humans"
When these game threads started to get crowded, Sax, Orel and EK were always doing puns and challenging each other, it was the best thing ever!. You should go and look for those GTs, it was interesting, witty and hilarious.
I miss EK on GTs a lot.
Sherrill coming in to pitch to Kelly Johnson with two on and two out and a 4-1 lead in the seventh. Johnson is 0-for-3 with 10 HR and 19 RBI this year, with an OPS of 1.173 at home (though an OPS of only .514 in May).
Nail-biting time.
Sherrill dealing...oh, my nerves.
Please Sherill bring that stuff we loved you for last year. The trust is with you...
@karina 9:00p: Yeah, EK hasn't been the same since he started that night watchman job. But he really, really wanted to carry a gun, so there you go.
Why not just intentionally walk Johnson? Jackson isn't having a good year.
shitshitshit
Sherrill you blow.
This just in: Sherrill still sucks.
That was admirable Besty, but...sometimes pessimism pays.
Ugh. 4-3 Dodgers, still two out
sherrill BLOWS again
Double for Johnson, 4-3 Dodger lead.
Sure, that lefty-lefty idea would work well. If Sherrill was a viable lefty this year.
Flat Queasy time fer sure
Good old Sherrill, we can always count on him to not deliver
The bullpen has now shot up Ely's ERA by an entire run.
And now here comes Ramon Ortiz.
We are getting pecked to death here
Ortiz coming in!?!?
Crap its officially a whos bullpen is worse game.
Great now Sherrill can't be a left handed specialist.
Flat yes. Breezy, not so much.
@Dusty Baker pessimism NEVER pays. Ask my girls!
*stomping feet in disgust* Sherrill will spend another night watching tape, hope he doesn't end up like Dan Marino from Ace Ventura
to keep with the bird theme, I'd like to line the bottom of my cage with Sherrill right now. Come on, dude, get it together!
If this means RaOrtiz can't pitch Friday, then it's worth it.
Strangely, I believe Ortiz will get the third out
Since he lost his eigth inning role.
When the hell is Sherrill going to have a "heel problem" that sends him to the DL?
I know why the caged bird sings re our bullpen.
Phew. Let's win this for Ely!
I think Sherrill is a Heel already.
Egyptian Sun God Ortiz gets the final out. That was a real tough sonofabitch.
Thank goodness the inning is over.
David, 9:02p:
Why not just intentionally walk Johnson? Jackson isn't having a good year.
Brilliant call, dude.
@MLASF
He's going to have my heel up his ass if he keeps up this dodgy relief.
@sax
good call!
God I hate the Arizona play by play announcers.
If Breezy walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, he fucking sucks.
Im running empty on the bird stuff.
can someone please send Sherrill a can of 1922 Italian nuts?
So he can get the plantar fascitis, of course
That inning ruffled my feathers.
@Dusty - That would be very awkward.
Mrs. S: "Why didn't they just fucking leave Weaver in?"
Annnnd...the transformation is complete.
I think a cold could do...cold weather make birds to emigrate far away, don't them?
Gutierrez throws too fast.
Here comes Carroll, who is still reeling from those botched squeeze attempts last at bat.
I hope this AB doesn't leave Carroll Spinney around.
@Josh
I heard a similar rant in my house.
Mrs S is my new best friend.
Lizard King I offer you a ripe papaya for a good hit!
Mrs. S. has a potty-mouth! Love it.
Tron warming up in the Death Star.
@sax
"1922 Italian nuts"
I wonder if Orlando Hernandez has any...
I wish GA was napping in the clubhouse right now.
Paging KempKershaw: GAout is batting.
Speaking of nuts, here's GA.
@ Karina
I'm trying my very best to summon up my optimism.
But I'm still nervous!
@Sax: I can't Follow That Bird joke.
GA doesn't suck something awful. At least for this game.
GA not out?!
The good ol' Carroll-Anderson combination comes through again!
GA > Dbacks bullpen.
two one-out hits. Carroll is on, and GASP! GA is on.
I guess you can't spell "gasp" without GA
Oh well. It was a ground ball single. Figures.
Ahhh yes crappy bullpen meet son of crappy bullpen.
@Josh S 9:14p: NICE
I still remember Martin's bomb off Randy Johnson at Chase. Good times.
@karen it's not easy to watch close leads in the hands of this bullpen.
In a year that has been so unprobable, the unpossible has happened.
@Orel 9:15p: Nice call on the Carroll-Anderson one-two knockout punch. In fact, we are UNDEFEATED in games where both Carroll and Anderson have a hit for the Dodgers this year
Anderson's OPS is back to being above Ethier's BA. C'mon, let's get to Ethier so he can get a hit and make the world right again.
(1 game total, April 8)
Big RUSS!!!
FOND MEMORIES BRING GOOD MOJO!!!
JFUCKINMART!!!!!!!
CRUSHED!
martin, martin, he's our man
BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE!
Martin 3-run BOMB
that ones a little easier to remember.
Russ!!!!!
that's my son! what did he do?
YAAAAAAY JMART
Ok, now I feel like there's breathing room.
Migration of Dbags fans out of the stadium.
man I love it when a plan comes together
(this post brought to you by the A-Team, releasing June 11 at a theater near you)
blogger must be buggy
Kemp almost gets one of his own
where the heck are you guys
Steiner has never been so confused.
Me fail English!
DAMN that ball was killed, stupid chase field.
maybe that kickstarts kemp though.
why isn't anyone else's comment appearing
Sax, really?
bueller?
bueller?
"Russell Martin scrambles their eggs"
Vin gets in on the punditry!
okay, this is really weird.
(And this will look lame when blogger retcons this conversation and re-intersperses comments among my unbroken consecutive string)
Is Blogger broken?
Andre kicks butt.
Andre sure can hit. Too bad he's so ugly.
Another Andre double!
Dre day.
Andre shows us once again that he is more than a mere mortal
We broke Blogger.
You have to hit refresh, hmm but maybe you won't see this message anyways. we all tried to comment at the same time and the server kibitzed.
BLOGGER IS DEAD
i think i went blogger blind, i cant see anyones comments.
Ethier and Ramirez are really feeling like a deadly duo now.
And again a daggone ball gets called a strike on Loney.
I guess Blogger is even shocked that Jmart is hitting homeruns again, it fainted.
what is happening?. Guess it's time to Road King James
This feels like that Will Smith movie where he was the last man alive. What was it called? I think it was "Hitch."
8-3 thanks to Loney's third hit of the game
The home page says this GT has 309 comments, but the comment page shows only 282. I'm sorry that my comments must be bizarre here, guys.
Actually, MLASF, it was called "Hitchcock."
A little bit of a scare for a moment but things are looking good. This girl is flying the coop. I've gotta get my beauty rest! G'night y'all.
Blogger issues?
Where'd everyone go?
Am I getting the silent treatment after I hit one out?
Is Stange Sting's older brother?
Night, MB!
RANCHO ARDIENDO
Son of a bitch Blogger blows.
Wordpress, anyone?
Every time I bitch about the Dodgers' bullpen, I will remember tonight.
9-3 as the AZ bullpen walks one in
Blogger is broke :( But we walked in a run, and that my friends is pretty freakin awesome!
don't you just love back to back Rancho Ardiendo with two outs?
I think Blogger is coming back now.
Curse you, Blogger, you're taking away my main source of enjoyment of the evening.
Okay I saw this once the twilight zone, where everything is suddenly different.
chaos, anarchy, no one can see each other's comments.
MLASF holding a sign the end is near or blogger is dead...same thing.
blogger is so f'd up right now, it's a huge buzzkill
comments are popping up sporadically, except for my own
It's so delightful to see an opposing bullpen that's worse than ours
Seven spot! 11-3 Dodgers!
Damn, open the floodgates!
Carroll with a two-run RBI!
11-3!
EPALE!
We're winning. Big.
I feel better about our bullpen now. Not because of their performance, but because of the performance of the Dbags' bullpen.
Dodgers are moving to L.A.!!!
Ok, now that blogger is back, and I'm reading back through the ~50 comments that suddenly appeared all at once, I'm cracking up.
Can you imagine how ridiculous this was, around 10 of us all ranting and raving to ourselves in our own little padded cells? Get out the straitjackets. Hilarious when you think about how helpless we were, yet prolific we stayed.
Man, us getting mad at Sherrill seems so quaint now.
man how old are these comments?
Really GA again? torre wasn't kidding when he said he wanted to use him more often. Show a bit of patience GA!
Will Mark Grace come in to pitch?
@ Sax - only Dodger fans could do this ;).
Dodgers bat 12 in the eighth and take a commanding 11-3 lead.
Of course, GA makes the last out, but at least he got 2PH ABs (and one hit) for his efforts. He must have been exhausted for that second AB of the inning.
@Sax (whenever you get this)
Think about how insance it would have been if we were losing badly and we were ranting and raving?
MONO STEREOs
Pretend it's a two-inning start, Monasterios.
oh shit it's doing the padded cell routine again
Monasterios!
@DB 9:43p: yeah, the insane ranting and raving and only hearing my own words...
...reminded me of what watching games was like before this blog.
Back east, the Monasterios schools always closed for snow first.
MONASTERIOS!!!
now the home page says 345 comments, but the thread shows 358 comments
Man, this is buggier than an Amish parade
blogger has gone coo coo?
Sax- Go into the cave, find Enik, then mess with some crystals and see if you can get us out of this time warp.
Nothing like frying the D-backs bullpen at the start of the series!
Delino! How's the Ike Davis fan club going?
How's Tina Davis?
He only needed 7 pitches, Monster Cheerios
"Back east, the Monasterios schools always closed for snow first."
Oh man, Delino...that was a great line.
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@Saxy MF
Why so serious?
@DB 9.46p: Enik kinda scares me.
meanwhile Martin takes second on an error?
We've really ruffled their feathers tonight. Have a good chance at getting the win tomorrow night, too.
@Delino: but we're in the middle of the series!
Are you sure you're not at the monasterios school?
Land of the Lost
Lost
Now we just need the Lost World or Albert Brooks Lost in America
@Delino, I don't know what's gotten into me. I'm sorry. I'm not hating the Ike, or even the Mets. Except when we're getting 34 guys thrown out at home on the same play, that is.
@DB 9:47: I second the motion. Great line.
Man playing tomorrow with house money!(relatively speaking since we are sub .500)
What a great feeling.
@Sax "Man, this is buggier than an Amish parade"
Very nice!
why is reed johnson in this game
Phew, some insurance. 12-3 Dodgers
It's funny because on the 2 days/per year in AR when we had to close for snow (read: 1.5 inches of slush that melted by noon), we'd listen to the radio to see if we had to go to school, and when they'd mention the Montessori Schools I'd always think, "Who the fuck are those punk kids?"
well, sac fly. I guess Johnson ain't all bad tonight.
this is just getting sad.
i love it.
XII - III DODGERS
Johnson spot cleared and a sac fly to boot.
@Steve Sax Davis made an incredible game to end the game. By the way, the Mets were losing 6-2 at the 8th and they ended up winning the game.
Who had the over on a nine-run win?
"Buggier than an amish parade"
Can't...breathe...
A deuce...in the D'backs punch bowl!
FJL takes a Boyer ball for another RBI single.
XIII - III DODGERS
The unfortunate thing about this blowout is that Torre will once again forget that Sherrill sucks and will use him again.
Sorry King James, that was an RBI double. My bad
Hello Nasty back in the house!
HYPGTUP!
WE WIN
@Paul
It's like Hello Nasty where you been?
Monster finishes them off and we are starting to roll...a little.
awesome
apart from Breezy still not being able to finish the job, that was pretty sweet
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