Clayton Kershaw (2-2, 2.96) vs. Jair Jurrjens "Binks" (1-0, 0.00).
Businessperson's Delight! Or Businessman's Special. Yeah, I think it's Special. Anyhoo, the Dodgers go for the series win this afternooner on the first of five throwback jersey promotional days. The light blue uni, chosen by fans in online voting, originated in the 1940s.
April 21 marks the anniversary of the Dodger franchise's first victory, which also came against the Braves, and took place in 1890.
If my math is right, and it probably isn't, a win today would give the Dodgers victory number 9,200.
photo by Jon SooHoo/Dodgers
167 comments:
Argh! My mlb.com badge case has been robbed! I got nothing!
The Dodgers' hats, read across in that picture, spell "BLAB"
I am gonna ditch work to go to one of these games this year.
@Paul: Me too. But this one isn't one of them, unfortunately.
Yeah too late for today. I might just put on jeans and a dodgers shirt get some peanuts and beer and cheer at my computer screen.
That might get me some mental health leave.
Gwynn LF
Blake 3B
Ethier RF
Kemp CF
Uribe 2B
Loney 1B
Barajas C
Carroll SS
Kershaw P
Day 2 of Dodger Emancipation.
Win to spite Frank! (and Jamie to a lesser extent)
@Rbnlaw: Jamie is legally entitled to 50% of any win-stoked spiting you want to invoke
I'm trying to find the Star Wars reference...
I don't know, maybe McCourts are the evil empire?
Orel calls the Braves' starter Jair Jurrjens "Binks."
Sax is correct:
Win to spite Jamie her 50%, or just 100% hate, Hate, HATE for the McCourts.
where the f' are my badges?
I think Dre walked. Gameday=Bud Selig Speed
Mired in bureaucracy, Vinny!
BTW, The first Dodger game I go to this year will be one of these Businessmen's Specials. I'll drink at the Shortstop and eat at the Stadium.
Foolproof plan (with a designated driver, that is).
i think the mlb badges function has been discontinued.
anyone else have an empty case?
I would have rather seen the dodgers use those early 1900's uniforms.
Loney, every time I think you're going to redeem yourself, you disappoint
hey, single for Clayton with two out in the second!
Why can't we play the Braves more often?
#re-realignmentnow!
Kemp seems to be pressing a bit.
Okay, we either have to score or end the inning before Loney comes up. Woohoo! Not his fault! Not his fault!
@RBN
Give me a heads up when you plan on going to one of the day games. I can meet up (at Short Stop I mean - screw the game!)
Sax, I keep tellin ya we don't need no stink in' badges.
Well ain't that some shit.
Well, that went for naught.
DB, you're on. If I have to bring a kid or two, they can eat at the Mexican place next door. That also allows me to stop in for free chips and salsa.
AAAARRRRGHHHHH! SO FRUSTRATING!
Loney is not good at baseball.
Loney will look good in in Pittsburgh black and yellow.
Kershaw almost has double Loney's batting average.
WE SUCK
Dammit!
Kershaw has 2 hits; Loney 0, and now the game comes down to a solo HR?
Horseshit!
Vin is in his element today. I'm really getting a kick out of him humming along to the 40s-era music they are playing at the Stadium.
I haven't seen this much getting on base and not scoring since middle school
Hey, Urine!
Urine power!
Appropriately, it appeared that Kemp dry humped Uribe in the dugout after the HR.
I TAKE FULL CREDIT FOR URINE'S TURNAROUND
I powered him with my heat vision. Because I can do that.
Is there anything in the world more soothing than hearing Vin call a Dodger homerun? It's more effective than meditation.
Urine has five RBI in two games. I can't believe it.
I, for one welcome the contributions of our token fat guy.
I also welcome our MLB overloards.
Sorry, I needed to borrow one of DB extraneous commas to complete my appositive.
@Sax 1:32 pm:
Hi-yoooooooo
great dp Dodgers
now get minotaur some f'ing runs
Flat Breezy!!! We win!!! They give up!
Holy crap! A George Sherrill sighting.
WTF? Sherrill got an out?
He leaves as quickly as he came.
HOORAY FOR BEARD!
BEARD!
Beard mode!
"He leaves as quickly as he came." Don't make me say it.
Crap. Missed that HR as well.
Is the Beard back? Or is it the Beard's back?
Kershaw with seven Ks through eight
give him some insurance, Dodgers!
I predict:
Kemp single
Uribe single, Kemp to third
Loney 3-run HR
right, guys?
Kemp with a leadoff walk, keeping my prediction (sort of) alive
Wow, mid-day game and everyone is quiet. Or still hungover from the McCourt news yesterday.
Uribe out, but Loney could still hit a two-run HR
Dodger throwback uniforms not coming up on mlb.com GameDay
on GameDay, they're still wearing their home whites
Loney lines to second. 0-for-4. Now batting .171.
How low can you go?
hoping they keep kershaw out there and not bring in big jon
Kershaw's still bringing the heat. 91 mph.
fly out to kemp for out #1
Wow. Back-to-back CG's.
two-out single to left from Chipper...
come on clayton
1-0 count
great pitch. 1-2 count
3-2 count
i just lost the "live look in" so now it's back to charley over my iphone
wow, men at second and third now
mattingly arguing the call
here's freddie freeman, who hit a HR earlier today
It's Kershaw's to win or lose.
Freeman walks. Here's David Ross. Oh no.
dammit, is broxton coming in? We'll lose for sure then
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT
SHIIIIIIIT
oh man, that is a killer.
Fuckety fuck fuck fuck
I liked the idea of back-to-back complete games until just now.
*BANGS*HEAD*ON*KEYBOARD*
Me and my big mouth. Shit.
What a crappy way to end a crappy homestand.
well, at least we have 8-9-1 Carroll, pitcher's spot, and Sands coing up in the ninth.
@el montanero 2:38p, please don't ever jump the gun like that again, i beg you
@el montanero 2:50p: big props for taking accountability, however
http://youtu.be/SP_9zH9Q44o
1-3 vs. the Cardinals
looks like 2-2 vs the Braves
adds to a 3-5 homestand
(cries)
@ Mr LA SC: my brother.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo1pkHKHuts&feature=related
Wow, Brox has gone to the slider 63% in his last 5 appearances.
Not that it helps.
100?
Geez. Not even close.
Hey, did Brox really strike someone out, or is Gameday fucking with me?
100
Now back to this one. . .
I feel confident.
leadoff walk to Carroll, setting me up for an even more crushing defeat
C'mon. Miles gets on; Sands goes deep. Frank sleeps in the street.
We make party.
Ball 5
Ball 6
3-0 count to miles, prolonging the crushing blow
miles now sitting at 3-2
Ball 7
miles can't deliver, one out
Screw you, Miles.
WILD PITCH!
wild pitch advances carroll into scoring position, but the Dodgers will find a way to lose...
sands swinging and missing, twice
2-2 count
make that three times. Sands falls
Screw you Sands!
You're still the future of LF; just not today.
Oh thank Beard.
IN BEARD WE TRUST!!!
BEARD KEEPS US ALIVE
It's almost like Sax and I are pulling a Rick and Charley.
I'm Rick, BTW.
Beard mode! Wide eyes!
can mister walkoff 2010 do it in 2011?
The beard is back!!!
@rbnlaw i can't be rick since I'm commenting with the score of the game
Oh yeah and delayed FuCK!!! For blowing the lead. When I saw that I thought Broxton did it.
Charley's call on Blake's single:
Base hit! Carroll rounding third...and the Dodgers take--er, tie the game!
extra baseball, peoples
Better than the usual. "Base hit.....and that brings up Andre the winning run."
Broxton out here for the tenth. So that's how we're gonna lose it.
Freddie Freeman sounds like a cartoon bird's name.
prado with a two-out walk, so now we can lose by two runs
I'm callin slider or fastball on next pitch.
holy cow, brox got a third out
without letting a run score
Okay let's get a run!!
if Loney were still in the lineup he'd hit a HR right here
Kemp K
Uribe K
Thames K
Yeah, that was a good 10th.
two-out single for the braves in the top of the 11th
Miles can't field it cleanly, so now there's runners at first AND third with two out
holy smokes, a K for the third out
on to the bottom of the 11th
MattyG's still got it. I wonder how many people will be calling for him to be closer...
Epale, all! I finally in a location where I can shirk responsibility properly.
(I've been lurking for a half-inning, but I didn't want to be the Schleprock if that little rally ended badly)
Barajas leadoff HBP, and Carroll sacs him over to second, but Miles flies to left and how here's Sands with two out
Booooooooooo!
leadoff man on first with none out and we can't score him.
Criminy.
why so serious, you guys? feast on the pending heartbreak and sadness!
I love that we live in the future.
I'm watching the game on my pc at work. I have to go to a meeting, so it goes on my iphone. I get back do my desk to see pics emailed from the game to me from my wife, who is rubbing it in that spring break is effing sweet for teachers to!
Just checking: do we still suck?
Who's being serious? We don't tolerate that shit around here.
We suck, it's just not clear whether it's the good kind or the bad kind.
ground out, ground out, strikeout
Guerrier with a nice second scoreless inning. On to bottom 12.
OK, what's with blogger sending me back to main page when I refresh the comment thread? I blame Ubragg.
God bless Guerrirrererrrrr!
TOO BIG TO FAIL
one out double for Andre Ethier
Here comes Kemp, 0-for-4
Of course, Rick Monday predicts that Kemp won't be pitched to, and of course, Kemp is being pitched to
WE MAKE PARTY!
HOLY SHIT!!!! KEMP BABY!!!
How sweet it is to be .500!
We make daytime party! And just in time for happy hour! Thanks, Matt.
BOOOM!!!
to be fair, Monday said he was surprised they pitched to Kemp
Where da party at????
Matt Kemp up in dis bish!!!!!!!!
We somehow took a series from an NL East team that isn't the Mets!
The shitty thing about Steiner is that the whole time he was calling Kemp's HR, I was just automatically assuming it was a meandering, mostly harmless ball. So I didn't get to feel the excitement of an actual HR call.
So glad I got to see that at home (as opposed to watching it on Gameday at work, that is).
FUCK YEAH! Eat it, Frank! (and save 50% for Jamie)
@DB: If it's any consolation, we got to hear Vinny for only the last part of the call.
My son was saying his oral math facts which I interrupted with, "MATT KEMP!!" The sound was un-muted to hear, "Gone!"
Party status: made
POST-GAME THREAD UP!
Selig!
@Dusty Baker 4:10: oddly, since I was "watching" the game on GameDay with the Steiner audio feed on the iphone 30 seconds delayed, I at least knew it was a HR, so I didn't recognize how bad Steiner's call was.
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