Hiroki Kuroda (5-2, 3.03) vs. Aaron Cook (1-3, 5.40).
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COMMENTS: Once again, the sweet fruit of first place tantalizes us, but the reward will be hard fought. Kuroda is the Dodgers' most consistent starter, but Coors Field promises to be a Cold-Activated Battle. "In his only previous Coors Field start, he was pushed around for five runs in six innings. In four career starts against the Rockies, Kuroda is 0-2 with a 6.94 ERA," Dodgers.com tells us.
Meanwhile, only a Dodgers win combined with a Padres loss to the Nationals will make this a first-place Saturday night, but the Nationals are basically flipping a coin to decide which of two Triple-A pitchers will start for them. Why couldn't they start Stephen Strasburg a little earlier?
Also: Lakers @ Suns, 5:30p PT on TNT. Go Purple & Gold!
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1 – 200 of 202 Newer› Newest»Furcal 6
Anderson 9
Ramirez 7
Kemp 8
Loney 3
Blake 5
DeWitt 4
Ellis 2
Kuroda 1
Combined age of the top of the order: 106.
I ran in from the patio to check the lineup. Thx MLASF.
Now that means I have to finish weed eating around the patio.
Ugh, Anderson starts and bats second, christ.
You know when you had to give an oral book report in 7th grade, and no one wanted to go first? And the teacher would try to coax someone into going forst by saying that people who started out could just get it over with and not have to worry about it any more.
So maybe with GA toward the top, we can just get his at-bat out of the way and not have to worry about it any more.
So, explain to me why XP went down to ABQ to get regular playing time, but is riding the bench now?
Because he was a bad little boy in Chicago. #defence
Dusty- Except that Anderson will "get it out of the way" 3 or 4 times, while someone like DeWitt gets less at-bats.
Not that Torre understands that.
I hear you, KK. I'm just curled up in the corner trying to rationalize it...to make sense of the world according to Torre's lineup.
@MC
You are preaching to the choir.
Picture from Lima's funeral service:
http://tinyurl.com/2ctonl9
[Via VSIMH]
Kendry Morales hurts his ankle in dogpile after hitting walk-off grand slam.
Hilarious.
Just the name Kendry is hilarious. Fuckin'Kendry
Sons, your dad is on Think Blue TV pre-game show.
Dusty featured on the retrospective, too. Damn I'm getting weepy now.
I'm going to attempt the impossible: watch both the Dodgers and the Lakers at the same time. Thank you, TNT OT.
Pictire in picture is man's best friend.
^Picture
Good start.
GAARPBB
A single and a walk and Cook still only throws nine pitches.
Kemp, must have been thinking about the laker game.
this game is already frustrating.
Remember when those Colorado writers said that Helton had an advantage over Loney? Well I wonder who'd they prefer now.
I don't like the way this game is going.
this is what happens when you are given a chance to score in the first and you blow it.
When does the Laker game start again?
not soon enough.
Aw fuck. Rancho Countiendo for Tulo.
hiro has no control today.
I'm guessing Elbert's the long man.
At least Eric Collins didn't call that.
well. Cook hasnt been great this year so we can get it back.
I said this about Lily too.
GET A FREAKING OUT!!
This is Coors Field, after all. Anyone can pitch a bad inning.
Epale, everyone!
Aaron Cook walks the first two, and Kemps GIDP gives us nothing.
And now Kuroda is on the ropes in the first, already down 2-0.
15 balls, 12 strikes 2 runs, 2 hits.
Just checking in. What the balls is going on?!
Thank you Ian for swinging at ball four.
Wow that was close at first
lakers game isnt looking any better
The refs know who they're favoring.
Suns now have a 16%lead on us
Epale Karina!
I agree with everything you said about Padilla. My mom always says he looks scary, maybe she's right
already playing the suns tempo.
I think my attempt to follow two games is not working.
RonRon's active early.
the lakers need to pace themselves. the suns want to run them and hope their bench can take advantage of tired legs.
So far all these fouls are at least giving guys a chance to rest a bit.
crap, kobe out early with a cut.
shannons gotta come out big.
19-17 Lakers 7:00 1st
Fish will probably get a lot of looks, at least from long-range.
Dodgers still down 2-0, bottom 2
Roy Halladay is throwing a perfect game. PERFECT GAME.
Furcal made a great play to end the first, and he makes another to start the second
a PERFECT GAME you say?
Yes, a PERFECT GAME.
Shit Kuroda! 3-0 rox
Express Cargo.
(Shoot me.)
Kurodo gives up solo homer to Cargo
Nobody feels like playing defense today.
wtf is kobe doing? DEFENSE no threes?
I got nothing against Halladay, so I'll let this slide.
You know, about his PERFECT GAME and all.
J-Rich misses one.
Fish gets to shoot three.
Kemp let Seth smith take 3 rather than two
hey Hiroki, can you pitch it where they won't hit it?
Stupid giant Coors Field.
RON RON Damn I hate Nash
Hell of a shot by Artest there
Everyone just backed away from Nash like "Nah, you get him."
What is the Phoenix crowd chanting? "Eat LA"? I've never heard this before.
if the lakers get a stop tonight they might win.
By the way Albert and Collins are talking you'd think the suns are up 3-2
haha travel on kobe, yet nash and amare never get called for that.
RON RON
When will Pau learn that he can never back away from Nash?
@MLASF, hopefully within the next 48 minutes of gametime.
its just not hiroki's night.
PERFECT GAME
The creepiest part is that Craig Sager carries that poster of the human body everywhere.
bring in luke, we need some charges on Amare.
how was that a foul when gasol has a knee in his chest
They're just pulling out all kinds of complex fouls.
lane violation?
why arent they paying attention to amares 3 steps to the basket/
we need to slow this game down.
37-34 Lakers
Kobe should've passed ahead once he saw he wouldn't bite.
Not only it is a perfect game, the Phils are winning 1-0
A PERFECT GAME! PERFECT GAME! PERFECTO! PERFECT PERFECT PERFECT!
FUCKING JINX IT
kobe doesnt pass the ball when the clocks running down.
Well aside from game 5, that was a pass right?
The Gorilla looks like a member of the Temptations.
Er, a hairier member.
i really wish phil would put mbenga on Amare.
The Machine is back
They're just making up fouls now.
oh you can push the defender that running out on a three now?
Kardash with the slam
@Mr LASF Halladay plays for the Phillies, but if anyone deserves to throw a perfect game, it is him.
seriously were getting called for every loose ball foul and getting no whistles on our end.
I could think of plenty of pitchers more deserving than Halladay.
This is a worse start than Monasterios' yesterday.
Kuroda is circling the drain
why are you taking pitches in the 9th inning of a PG, the strikezone is the size of a VW bug right now.
I do not know what game the refs are watching but were getting mugged on practically every shot in the paint.
I hope Halliday loses the perfect game cause I don't want to hear Plashkes bullshit
Halladay is an out away. This is crazy, everyone's rooting for him at the stadium.
it seems like there has been a lot of PG's lately.
That call on Bynum was just complete BS.
ALEXI.........
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
HISTORY!!!!!
Whatever. Perfect games are so three weeks ago anyway.
I don't understand the way Marv calls fouls. They way he emphasized "REJECTED" even though it was a clear foul just baffles me.
@Mr LASF I think you are the one who hates the Phillies the most in here.
By the way, who are the deserving pitchers of a perfect game? Cole Hamels, for example?
;)
I watched the whole game, so I can tell my grandchildren I watched a perfecto.
If Halladay were on the Dodgers, Joe would have lifted him in the ninth.
farmar smells a contract. Im fine with that as long as its not in LA.
Phoenix crowd went silent
If Halladay were on the dodgers he'd be on the DL.
CC Sabathia, Tim Wakefield, hell, Jamie Moyer, I'd rather have seen any of those guys throw perfectos. And I hate the teams they're apart of.
Besides, I saw Buerle's perfecto last year, so I'm good.
Hey all. 2010 vines on The central coast are struggling a bit so much like the 2010 Dodgers a hot summer will make things work.
2009 vintage is nicccce. Just don't have the Broxton Bordeaux
*Beuhrle
I thought I saw the Hee Haw mule. Oh No it was Hillary Swank
Artest es en fuego!!
All I am saying is their an outfielder for the topes that has hit close to .400 and has 8 homeruns. That is all I am saying then I will recuse myself.
come on, nash totally pulled bynum on that one.
By the way, Kendry Morales broke his leg.
Don't celebrate kids. That's the motto Plaschke and his ilk will shove down our throats come Monday.
Plashcke is too busy with the lakers to care about baseball.
There is. Furcal typing error on my part. iPhone typos.
RON RON
I can hear the opening line now for Plaschke.
"One chose to leap; the other chose to simply smile..."
I repeat:
TROY TULOWITSKI USES MILEY CYRUS FIR HIS WALK-UP MUSIC.
Goddamn iPhone typos.
lakers have to close the half strong. been good so far.
Giants winning. Padres winning. Paul grilling
Miley Cirus? how old is he? 15?
It can be worse. i.e Lady Gaga
the dbacks really are terrible.
I hear you Josh. iPhone is making my typos non typos but replacing words.
GA is awesome.
Shit see!!
@karen I agree with your mom too. Let me tell you something, i'd wish i hadn't read that.
About time we get a call
AIR BALL
Another leadoff single...
KOBE, hit that 3 from the locker room!!!
This reminds me of last year's Game 6.
Kobe should have got 4 points for that one.
Lakers by 6; Rockies by 5
It's a 12 point lead. What game are you watching, Sax?
Elbert still has trouble throwing strikes i see.
WOW, nice catch by O Dog, i mean Dewitt.
@karina I wish I hadn't read it either. At first I was angry then sick to my stomach. I can't figure out if I'm sick because he hit her or because the thought of a woman going to a hotel room with him is so gross
Josh: i don't see what the big deal is about Troy's walkup music. The theme song from Elmo's World is too short.
@ karen what do you mean gross? he's a great looking guy
Dodgers: remember it just take an out to get out of this awful inning.
millertime!
Not much Info on Padilla's incident. I hope everyone involved is okay.
I haven't read much info I mean.
@karen that was harsh! "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
AZ is getting every loose ball.
The only solace I take from this game is that the Dodgers followed an 8-0 spanking by the Rockies three weeks ago with a nine-game winning streak.
People's reactIon to DV is great info for jury selection. This game is Going to crap much like GA.
I'm just not fond of Steve Nash
Apodaca!
Yay! No shutout.
Good news: no shutout for the Dodgers.
the PHX basket is getting smaller as time ticks off the clock.
the dodgers finally overcome the runs they gave up in the first.
lets not stop the defense now lakers.
sorry suns, its kobe time.
Ellis RBI single, Dodgers 2, Rockies 8
They'll get their bullpen.
what happens if the Lakers win tonight?
Anderson with a chance to redeem himself. Get a hit!
Furcal RBI single! Dodgers 3, Rockies 8
Is anybody else watching the Lakers game?
Lakers rolling, Dodgers trying to come back...
eh, lakers game getting out of hand now. Its gonna be called tight from now on.
What the hell is GA arguing?
of course, Anderson strikes out.
Karina--If Lakers win they go to NBA finals
this could turn out to be a six point play.
what the hell i thought the game would be called tighter. the suns just keep hacking away.
suns even taking out camera man, refs call coul on cameraman.
Nine point lead here in the fourth
The Dodgers have 4 outs to score 5 runs.
these kobe iso plays arent working.
seriously, the kobe iso play hasnt worked all quarter. Lets try something else.
Do Collins and Albert get paid by the Suns or TNT? Any more sucking up to Suns players and they'll have to get a hotel room.
Albert and Collins are sounding like this is a Suns telecast
See what you do to me? nine years without watching basketball and I've just turned the Lakers game.
I'm just listening, watching is too much.
Can't remember, a seven point lead is enough for 3:26?
im sure they are rooting for the suns. they want to work one more game.
kobe is just going to keep trying to hit that dagger three till he gets it i guess. although its no longer a dagger when your wasted possessions cause the lead to be only 5
They're overpaid for their announcing- At least homer announcers make little pretense of their bias, these guys are the future 76'er coach and an ex-Knicks announcer, they could at least try to seem less partial.
We in L.A. have been blessed by Vin, Chick and Stu.
Eric, Spero Dedes the lakers Radio guy is very good too.
oh kobe just gave gentry a little pat on the butt after he hit that last shot.
Can the Lakers please win this game/series?
Congrats, Lakers to the NBA finals!
In the other hand, this Dodgers game depressed me.
Can the lakers please take the finals in 4? That is all I am asking.
Congrats Lakers. Dont lose to the Celtics, i cant take that again.
We're going back to the Finals! REVENGE WILL BE OURS
My profile has been updated accordingly.
man i really want to know what Dragic said to Vujacic in Slovenian.
Finally recovered from my heart attack. LAKERS BABY YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dodgers Too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tantalus was a punk.
Surprise, surprise, Plaschke wrote about the Lakers.
There is no bandwagon Plaschke does not know.
HR RBI AVGOBP SLG
Albuquerque Isotopes 36 140 8 39 .400 .416 .693
Just sayin. That is all.
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