Carlos Monasterios (2-0, 2.20) vs. Edwin Jackson, RHP (3-6, 6.03)
It's a businessperson's special afternoon home game, one of only two at Dodger Stadium this year, so it's time to sneak out of work, catch the game, and see if we can extend our streak of walkoff victories to a third consecutive game (although, as Jon Weisman puts it, "getting an early lead is fine as well").
Former Dodger Jackson has been "pitching better of late" according to mlb.com, if you can count lowering his ERA from 8.07 at the start of May down to its current 6.03. Jackson lasted 6.2 innings against us in mid-May, giving up six runs and taking the loss. Meanwhile, Monasterios is undefeated and almost halfway to a five-bar gate. So why make the man with a schizophrenic audio settting suffer through a tense outing? Why not just score early (literally) and often, and let the crowd of Dodger fans just bask in the sun, enjoying getting even closer to the Padres before their afternoon scuffle with the Mets? And maybe have a couple of cold ones while we're at it (it's not like we're going back to work this afternoon, anyway)?
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Guess we will have to wait for MSB to get another hit steal two bases and then a balk.
Oh man, with Blogger's bugginess, I can't tell if Mr LA SF got #200 or not
Nobody likes a braggart, Sax.
LaRoche leadoff single in the tenth
Augie Doggie to pinch run for LaRoche
Sax wins the 200 sweepstakes.
All these goose eggs are making me hungry.
Augie goes to second on the sac bunt. One out
If GAARP gets the walk-off today, I'll still think he sucks.
Augie Doggie.
Flyout, groundout, and strikeout due up in the bottom of the 10th.
One freakin run!!! Is that Lotnof much to ask?
go Loney go!
Finally, somebody other than snake-eyes gets on base!
No stealing 2nd FJL
FJL!
Please, please, please let GAARP bunt.
Nice hit! Let's keep it going.
Howdy, everybody! Sounds like i've been missing a good one! Just got out of a 2-hour meeting that seemed like 4
FJL!
Took Gameday about 5 min to post the double.
Non Carroll hit!
If GAARP drives in Loney, there's going to be some strange shit going on.
Hey, no chance for a GAARPGIDP.
LONEY!
LEADOFF DOUBLE!
DON'T GET PICKED OFF SECOND THIS TIME!
Yes, Gameday stalled for me too...
FUGAARP
ooof
boobirds are out for GAAAAAARP
He only made one out. Probably the best possible outcome we could expect.
Of course he did.
I mean 3rd!!!!
Now we just leave it in the hands of Belly2 and a PH.
Cmon Heilman, do what you do best!
And Garret Anderson strikes out. The 0-for-4 outing drops Anderson's batting average to ONE FORTY EIGHT
Anderson weighs TWO TWENTY FIVE
Words can't describe how sucky that AB was
3-0 count to Belliard--this has to be on purpose
Raffy to PH.
please no GIDP, Raffy
well at least we can't pinch hit Anderson in this situation.
Not that Torre wouldn't try.
Let's have a walk-Raf!
Come on RAFFY!
They go around Belli, but they go after GAARP. What does that tell you, Joe Torre?
and that's what Raffy does best
Furcal is coming off of a 0-for-5 game yesterday
It's in the hands of Martin now.
We're screwed.
It's all up to A.J. Ellis?
pop foul to third base? Are you frickin' kidding me, Raffy?
All up to PH J Martin
GAARP is still hitting over 0.400. "Hitting" as in OPS-ing. I included today's oh-fer. I believe he's now at 0.409
That could have been worse.
damnation
Oh good. J-Mart. Win this thing!
That inning was depressingly awful.
Martin batting an even .250 after last night's 2-for-4
I guess not?
DAMMIT MARTIN
Smonk will be awarded before a run is scored.
Leadoff double and we can't even advance him to third?
ANDERSON, I BLAME YOU
Shit. Who wants to win this thing?
Smonk could have advanced Loney there
Can you make call ups mid game?
Martin swung on a pitch that is about a mile outside the little Gameday rectangle
When the Dodgers are scuffling, MSTI and MOKM turn Twitter into a Statler and Waldorf routine.
Sucks we are wasting our bullpen during a 16 game strech cause we can't score one run against the NL's worst.
throw strikes, kid
*holds breath and curses Garrett fucking Anderson at the same time*
Schlichting Time!
So far, so good.
Schlichting mispronunciation log:
Monday - Schlichling
Screw it. Duty calls.
Have to stomach Steiner on the radio.
Hell of a lot better than his season debut last season.
He schicht 'em!
nice job schlichting!
Hah. I pissed off the guy moderating the MLB twitter account.
nice work, kid!
Matty gets another chance, unless Casey beats him to it
Okay, now we're getting into the mook pitchers. We should be able to get a run here.
@MLASF What did he say?
one out. It's up to beard.
He basically said that the feed is not a live blog and there are 30 fan bases following.
OMG Carroll did not reach base!
This is painful.
If Jamey Carroll gets Kd, does Kemp even have a chance?
Hey guys, what did I miss? Kemp going to do it again?
So how many walkoff chances will Andre get in this game? Four? Six? Twenty?
MR LA SF, I find the MLB moderator thing kind of hilarious.
Guess not.
Kemp Ks, just like MSB
We go to the 12th.
Now, I'm glad I'm not there, only insofar as they stopped serving beers five innings ago
and it's hot
and I'd be wearing a tie
Brutal. 1 run in the last 21 innings.
I find it amusing that he even bothered replying at all.
MOAR SHLIKTEENG
Hey, the LA County American Federation of Labor wants everyone to have time off!
Whoo hoo! I'm leaving right now!
FanGraphs is even more useless than usual for games like this.
Wow I leave and still we're not done? WTH...these are the Dbags.
I really need a nickname for Schlichting. I can't keep typing that name. It's almost as tedious as Saltalamacchia
Upton on first with one out
Vin is probably thumbing through his files, trying to find a funny story involving Hiram Bocachica and Shawn Green fighting over a team bus seat-cushion.
Sax said: "Smonk could have advanced Loney there"
Free Smonk!
arg! at work late. Should I stay and finish the game or chance running home?
throw strikes, kid
3-0 count to rusty ryal
make that 3-1
@MLASF: T-Slick?
uhoh
@Josh - I like it!
Double play for T-Slick!
dammit, ball off of blake's glove. And Gameday just says "Ryal singles on a ground ball to SS Furcal" (which isn't the entire story there).
phew!
Dre?
I was just going to say that Steiner was jinxing the Snakes' 0-for-RISP streak, but Blake gets us out of the inning.
Scoreless, going to the bottom the twelfth, where we've got Ethier, Loney, and ThirdOut.
Meg Whitman dissing SF, Sanctuary City
There's no reason Dre can't get a walkoff here. The game has gone on long enough for Kendry Morales' injury to heal, let alone a pinky.
@Sax I was about to say the same thing. Steiner infuriates me
The good part of this is that Andre can catch up on plate appearances.
Does anyone know why San Diego has such strangely timed games?
Still nothing for Andre.
Getaway for the Metseses.
GA walkoff HR coming up!
*ducks*
I'd like to garrote Anderson.
To the 13th!!!
(breaks down and starts crying)
WHYYY??!?!?? WHYYYYYY!?!?!
GA 0-5.
If we play long enough, the law of averages will apply and GA will get a weak single up the middle.
OK after that meekness, I am going home - see you on the other side
In about 15 minutes Joe West will ride into the stadium on a horse and proceed to murder everyone with a duck-hunting rifle.
Unfortunately my office windows don't open. Otherwise I'd jump.
T-Slick will strike out the side, hit a walkoff homer, and then flip everybody off at home plate.
The Dbags will not go softly into that goodnight, wth is going on?
Since it's been more than a full game since his last appearance, can't Kuo pitch at some point?
T-Slick retires the side.
Take us home, T-Slick.
I just received my AARP application.
Arizona goes down. Johnson is now 0-for-6.
BOTTOM OF THE 13TH, LET'S SCORE A RUN HERE BOYS
And a contract offer from the Dodgers, Dusty?
My son just turned 16 and he wasn't even conceived when this game started.
AZ- Put in that feller that gave up the Kemp HR yesterday.
Hurry up, I gotta go to Gymboree!
I don't think Steiner has pronounced T-Slick's name the same way any time he has invoked it.
Why, Josh? Luke is in college now.
This game is still going? You guys are still here???
I'm taking my grandson to Gymboree.
I'm out. That guarantees a walkoff on the way to the car.
Carroll on deck! Get a hit Casey!
Please be two-out madness, please be two-out madness, please be two-out madness...
Carroll is up. We got this thing.
Oh how I loathe you, Steiner.
Charley just made the wrong call on Carroll's foul.
I hate Charley's mis-calls.
WHY WON'T THIS END?????
Nooooooo!
Steiner you can suck it!
The Dodgers just want the people that went to this game to get their money's worth. Or they want the people that went to this game to get fired from ditching work.
What did Charlie do?
ENOUGH! Going to the gym to try to work off this frustration. I'm hoping that in this lifetime I will see a Blackberry post informing me of a Dodger's win.
The intonation in his voice implied the ball was fair and game was won, only for him to declare it just foul anticlimactically.
Is T-Slick even a starter? Is he capable of pitching this far into a game?
Sax, hurry up and get a beer. They will stop selling them again after this half inning.
oh no, man on first and a 3-0 count to upton
Two on, one out. I have a bad feeling.
T-Slick is leaking into the Gulf now. Get the lad out of there.
@Dusty 4:04p: they should RE-START selling beers in the 14th inning.
two outs, men still at first and second for AZ
yet again, a BAD CALL from Charley, who made me believe they picked off Upton on first
@Sax
They shouldn't ever STOP selling beer!
Yep, Sax, exactly re Steiner's call again. If I wanted that dramatic a re-telling of anything I'd ask my mom about something insignificant.
Travis Schlichting, You Rock The House. Four scoreless innings pitched, in your first Dodger appearance.
On to the bottom of the 14th, 0-0.
Poor T-Slick was probably pushed to the limit.
This is where we take it!
I was joking when I asked how many times Andre would get a chance for the walkoff.
Just home.Are the Dodgers waiting for me to win this game?
Not to sound like one of those weird rubber room/weekly visit guys Steiner talked about yesterday with regard to baseball stats, but T-Slick appeared in two games for Dodgers last year. So not his first as a Dodger today.
Winning run aboard!
All right Kemp!
Leadoff single!
We've got T-Slick vs. "Exxon" Valdez
Karina is here. We can win now.
@DB: hey, you're right on the Schlichting thing. Sorry that I hadn't researched this myself before commenting. I should know better than to think Steiner's words are accurate.
The east-coast games are actually underway right now, and could potentially finish before us.
"This is one of those games, the team that wins breathes a sigh of relief, and the team that loses says this is a tough way to go."
--The Brilliant Mind of Charley Steiner.
As if this couldn't apply to any other game.
Andre lines out and is now 0-for-6.
Dre 1-12 since working his way back from injury.
This solo experiment isn't working out. He needs to re-constitute NWA.
Delay in bathroom remodel as well! This day is all about frusteration.
Wild Pitch! I'll take it!
OK I am back, now we can win
@Sax
Yep, it was Steiner who mentioned that earlier in the game, thus leading you down the wrong path.
I meant to point it out earlier but just didn't have the heart.
Here's a gem from my good buddy @MLB
"Andre Ethier 0-for-6 ... that'll hurt a Triple Crown bid."
wild pitch, 1-2 count to Loney with Kemp in scoring position...
oh no it's up to GAARP again
do SOMETHING for chrisake
Now for the balk-off...
Kemp goes to third, and HERE IS GARROTE ANDERSON
Balk time. Kemp do the running man to distract him!
Well, at least we''l have Belliard leading off in the 15th.
Make that 1-15 for Dre.
#ResurrectEazyE
As much as I'd dislike it if GA got the game-winning hit (more guaranteed weeks with the team), I want this ended right here, right now.
Blake should act like he's running from the dugout.
HOLY FUCK!!!
(p.s. I hate you, Steiner)
WOOHOO no catch!!!!!
GA!!!!!!!!!!
HOLY SHIT!
Whoa!
Free GA!
In a day filled with fail, the greatest failure of all is the hero!!!
O HMY GOD
From Boos to Cheers for GA.
Yeah, he trapped that ball...
OMG - about flippin time, and of course GAARP had to be the one to drive it in.
and charley missed the game winning call as well!
(to be fair, it was a close call)
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