John Ely (3-1, 3.41) vs. Ted Lilly (1-4, 4.30).
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COMMENTS: The Doc Savage-esque Ely brings his nifty 7.00 K/BB rate to Wrigley today, and if form holds, he will be good for at least six innings. That's not all: It's a homecoming for Ely, but fear not — he grew up a White Sox fan. "I had no other choice," he said. "My dad would have disowned me if I was a Cubs fan." Hopefully this fistful of incentives will be enough to keep the Elymaniacs satisfied. Let the Man of Bronze do right to all Dodgers and harm only Cubs!
UPDATE 9:10a (SoSG Sax): It's much too early in the morning for any sort of coherent wit, but given DB made the Ely-Lilly comment last night and J Steve reminded us this morning, here's your morning dose of pharmaceutical references. Take two of these, and call me in the morning. Or in a couple of hours, when first pitch happens.
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No "Ely-Lilly" joke??? Was it too obvious?
I made it a few days ago!
Just wanted to make sure it was taken care of somehow! Then again, I'm sure the joke will be made plenty of times during today's broadcast.
Martin
Paul
Kemp
Blake
Loney
Johnson (LF)
DeWitt
Carroll
Ely
I plan on making the joke a number of times until they finally kick me out of here, J Steve. :-)
Today's lineup courtesy of Dodger Thoughts.
A game thread before I've had my coffee? Will wonders never cease?
Manny sitting out a pharmaceutical-themed game? No way!
Ask your doctor if female fertility hormones are right for you.
NO MORE-TIZ!!!
I valium my time, so I won't do any puns this morning.
This just in.
The Ortiz era has thankfully ended.
Ortiz designated for assignment.
Justin Miller recalled from the Isotopes.
Yeah, Neeebs delivered the news a little more clearly than I did. I was too excited to go into details.
Can I make my Marcus (P)Fizer, "Astra" Seneca Wallace joke again?
And a "wow" to the Ortiz era ending (because their ERAs were never ending - heyo!). Who will back MonsterStereos in Colorado? I would hope it would be Weaver but I am sure Joe will just trot Tronny back out there to go 4 innings like he did last year
Not a pun, but I always like the ads for prescription sleep aids that say, "Side effects may include drowsiness."
Monster Cheerios doesn't need backing up!
aww she's pottytrained!
Josh:
I didn't get the "Tiz" reference until after I hit the send button.
It's all good.
Now if we can just swap XP for GA when AE comes back and pick up Lee or Oswalt, we can then breathe a bit easier.
YAY! Our little MSB is playing and R. Ortiz is gone
It's all good today
Just ended a staff meeting early so I could get to the GT. (That's Game Thread, not gin and tonic, alas.)
RaOrtiz gone? Thumbs up.
Justin Miller up? Cool. We needed more tats for better street cred.
Let's get some runs!
I always wanted to keep the "Miller the Tattooed Lady" meme going.
@Josh re side effects
Yeah same with prescription allergy medication that may cause watery eyes, congestion, etc.
I have to do some work away from my desk for the next hour or so. This will be my last comment for a bit.
I'll be out in about ten minutes or so.
I think it's Paul's birthday, so Happy Birthday!
Dodgers win this one for Paul, this guy makes road trips just to watch your games.
I can't stay, tomorrow's is my mom's bday and I have to engage on secret operations with my dad.
I'm not concerned, Ely is starting (wow, grew up as a White Sox fan, the more I know him, the more I like him).
Go Blue!
An uneventful first.
4-pitch walk to Lee?
with that groundout in the first inning, Kemp is 1-for-his-last-10
That just means that he is going to go 4/4 the rest of the day
What a great story about Ely and JMart being roommates
Kemp has his moments, but just isn't that scary to opposing pitchers these days. He's needing to take it to the next level of his career, but seems to just be dog paddling to stay above water. Not hatin', just sayin'.
reed johnson ruins lilly's no-hit bid!
Anyone else not getting audio option for MLB At Bat?
...and blake dewitt Ks on three pitches.
I am growing weary of Blake DeWitt. Whenever I see him in a key situation, he's flailing. Is this just my bad timing?
@Karina:
Feliz cumple anos para tu mama.
Saludos a ella para Los Angeles.
@Sax:
I kinda feel the same way, but then he will do something positive and his short comings dissolve.
Yeah I see what Neeebs means. We just have to acknowledge that DeWitt is a work in progress with a lot of potential. He will struggle but he has also come through for us already.
come on, kempy
Kempy?
Is that what Rhianna calls him now?
beard single!
With the exception of not having any homers, I think DeWitt is doing better than his work in progress counterpart on the Angels, Brandon Wood.
come on, FJL
scoreless through three and a half innings.
Ely had to catch that or die
Should have walked Lee like last time!
Dodgers can't get Lee out
one-out double for Derrek Lee in the fourth notches the Cubbies' first hit.
Okay, DB and Neeebs, I'll give DeWitt a DeBreak...
Does Manny make that catch?
Sweeeet catch by Reed Johnson!
FUCK YEAH!
I can only assume that was a great catch by R Johnson. Can't wait to get home and watch this thing.
Reed Johnson already fighting for player of the game.
OK, if DeWitt hits a game winning HR later, can we forget about the SOs so far?
Time to grab a Fabs Dog.
Off to the car with audio only.
BlaKKe DeWitt, two ABs and two Ks
let's go, wide eyes
Carroll turns a 1-2 count into a seven-pitch walk
Yippee Ki Yay!
two on, one out, and of course we need Ely to deliver on the offensive side as well
looks like with two RISP they aren't pitching to Russell Martin... with two out and XP in the hole, let's see if their gamble pays off
X X PPPP
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Come on, Windows OS!
(Man, that looks a lot better in courier font)
0-2 count to XP
that's a pretty sweet Lima avatar, DB
dammit XPaul, you barely hit it out of the infield on the fly
Rancho Well Shit, We Need to Make Something Happen.
but at least I've got this HI-larious Kingsford MatchLight radio ad!
At least we took Lilly to 81 pitches.
In my avatar, it's hard to tell whether Lima Time is pitching or dancing.
GameDay has that Jeff Baker fly out over the wall in left. However, it registers as an out. Go figure.
Scoreless through five.
"What's the score?"
"Nothin'-Nothin'."
"Who's winning?"
"The BEARS."
I wish I were Ferris today instead of having to jump on this conference call that is decidedly not about the Dodgers v Cubs game.
kempy is now 0-for-3
I think the Dodgers should release new pictures of Casey Blake and require that all photographs or likenesses of him reflect the current beard situation.
"the current beard situation" line cracked me up.
FJL is also 0-for-3
"We have a situation with the current beard! All hands on deck!"
today's GT is kinda slow. are you guys actually working? Yeech.
GET SOME GOD DAMNED RUNS! We're better than these punk-ass bastards.
Work, schmirk.
That said, I have a conf call in 6 mins so will have to turn down the sound and not post to the GT quite as much as usual.
guess they're keeping Lilly in, since he leads off the bottom of the sixth with a swinging K
WHERE IS YOUR DEWITT HATE NOW?!
Charley Steiner just had an aneurysm on DeWitt's snagging of a Starlin Castro line out (to end the sixth inning).
I probably want to see the highlight, but on the other hand it IS Charley Steiner, so for all I know it was a can of corn.
To be fair, mine is not DeWitt Hate. It's DeWitt Concern, maybe DeWitt Impatience.
I am not watching but was sent a message from someone that is, saying that DeWitt's catch was pretty spectacular.
And DeWitt comes back to strike out again.
Yeah, it's DeWitt Concern all right.
DeWitt whiffs and makes my capslock look stupider than capslock normally looks.
oh man, we are impotent from the plate today. I feel like it's Game 1 of this series all over again
Our offense needs to have that Cialis conversation.
dammit, leadoff walk for Lee. Ely's at 78 pitches here in the seventh...
Martin with a rare CS at second! Way to go, J Russell!
Lee is erased.
Lee just based on balls.
Two walks in one game? Control!
He must learn control!
way to go ELY!
Seven innings
85 pitches
No R / No ER
Let's get Ely a win already! His Cubs hate needs to be requited.
That's the way Russell
This game thread has more comments than Ely has pitches
leadoff single by martin...
Russ sets the table
Heart of the order coming
Get Ely a win
XP K, he's now 0-for-4
Martin looks like he's gonna be stranded on first
In play no outs?
KITT! Hirsute Mode!
Our guys sure are looking at a lot of first pitches.
(I reserve the right to whine later on that we are swinging at too many first pitches.)
Hmm. Let's try that again...
Kemp gets a single.
Martin looks like he's gonna be stranded at second
Snap.
Come on James, don't embarrass me in front of these people.
Martin looks like he's gonna be stranded at second
Stop being right, Saxy!
Loneynotblowingit fan
DAMMIT FJL
No runs through eight innings for the Dodgers (sans Ramirez and Ethier)
James ends the inning.
I'm frustrated. But at least...
No GIDP?
Christ, Steiner stinks. He was busy looking up Reed Johnson's average with RISP while Loney was grounding out to end the inning
You were saying something about defense?
Afternoon earthlings. Wind's blowing in, it seems.
leadoff TRIPLE for the Cubs. What the hell is Xavier Paul's problem this game? He's been useless
XP has had a bad inning
Oh, that's not good. Maybe I should leave and it'll go away.
Three-pitch K for Ely, getting Soto
Oh, Shit.
Cubs take the lead in the eighth.
Yet ANOTHER Error by Xavier Paul
JAIL XAVIER PAUL
Get him off the hook, boys!
Steiner: "ground ball.
AND IT GOES DOWN THE LINE INTO THE DODGER BULLPEN!!!!"
Blue screen of death, indeed.
do we really think Reed Johnson, Blake DeWitt, and Jamey Carroll are going to save us in the ninth?
Ugh. I skipped lunch for this crap?
Triple, then double.
Cubs lead; Colvin to third. Why?
XP errs again.
haha Steiner said "bolloxed"
Is Manny available today?
Marmot?
Thanks Karina, and Ely! Furcal get on base before I have to go back to crazy people.
furkey to PH for reed johnson
atta way to lead off the inning fookie.
what happened to Cubs closers sucking moosecock? i feel like I am in an alternate dimension
First Dewitt homerun right here.
quick furcal K, five pitches. Yay.
As Eric Collins would say, the Cubs have two outs to go.
TAKE THE WALK!
Raff was pinch-hitting.
Manny pinch-hits for Ackbar?
Raffa to SS?
gracias!
Marmol: 10 SV, 2 BL SV this year
I'll take it.
DeWitt walks, saving him from a fourth strikeout in this game
Manny is duuuue.
gotta do it now, Manny. GA is in the on-deck circle
Manny hits for our MSB
2-0 count to Manny, but they go out to the mound to calm Marmol and he comes back with a strike.
2-1.
2-2.
ugh - that's what got Manny on Tuesday night too
okay...well...not looking good.
GAARP. This is already over.
praying for a HBP.
Garret has a called strike on pitch #1, but for all we know Garret is actually still swinging, really really slowly
Manram swings, misses.
Now it's all up to GA.
I miss Ethier.
on gameday that almost look liked it hit him. crap.
That blows.
games like this make me want to get really, really drunk
GA you are the hitting version of Ortiz.
Thanks for holding up the wheels of justice for nothing.
Later guys and gals!
Joe's gonna give XP several days off I bet
seeya Paul!
GAARP,
He's failed us for the last time.
DFA him now!
Two extremely solid starts in this series and both were wasted by a sleeping offense.
Seeya, everybody else. I gotta figure out what I am going to do with the rest of my evening, besides getting really, really drunk.
GAARP - i love it! Who came up with that?
XP for GA
MFPGT up.
@FB
I recommend getting really, really drunk.
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