Ted Lilly (3-4, 4.41) vs. Clayton Mortensen (1-2, 2.83).
The NL West has gone Clayton-crazy! The Dodgers have Clayton Kershaw. The Padres have Clayton Richard. The Giants have Clayton Tanner. And the Rockies have Clayton Mortensen, who has never faced the Dodgers before. And you know what that means. Oh, you don't? Okay, it means the Dodger bats might disappear again, as the team seems to have trouble against unfamiliar pitchers. (Familiar pitchers, too, but that's beside the point.) Then again, the Rockies aren't exactly afire, and the Dodgers are on a mini-roll. Are two straight series wins in the offing? Let's find out!
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Carroll SS,
Blake 3B,
Ethier RF,
Kemp CF,
King for two days? 1B,
Sands LF,
Navarro C,
Miles 2B,
Lilly P
Looks like I don't have to Chase Headley anymore--or at least chase his badge (SD, double). Badge #127.
The NL West is simply a modern day Clayton Place.
Dodgers haven't lost since I attended a game. Not sure what that means, but I'd bet big money in Vegas that the Dodgers are going to win tonight.
I think Brett Wallace (HOU, HR) just rounded out my eighth badge display case. #128!
Neeebs, I'm with you. I've got a good feeling about this game.
epale everyone!
@Paul he's a King all the time ;)
@Sax Headley (SD, double), Napoli (TEX, single) and Soo-Choo (CLE, single) hit Karina's case.
didn't get the Wallace badge
*cries*
@karina: I think I already had Napoli and Choo, perhaps?
Let's see if I can break into case # 9...
hedley
Cards just took a 4-3 lead on the Giants with three runs in the bottom of the eighth, off of Romo, Lopez, and Casilla (nine batters in the frame)
Ack-bar, Lead-off
(clap clap, clap clap clap)
Nice long ABs from Ackbar and Beard...
Not so much for Ethier (2 pitches)
The 13 people in RF bleachers really scrambled to get that ball.
Bison bomb!!!
Sure is quiet tonight.
Use your heat vision to heat things up, Mr LA SC!
Someone please tell me no dodger is injured
FJL GIDP.
Has the King fallen back to earth (after less than a week)?
What was the on-field delay?
I think it was someone on the Rockies arguing with Angel Hernandez on a call at the plate.
Sands leadoff single in the fourth
Thanks mr la SC
Navarro must have something in the clubhouse microwave; he wasted no time flying out there
Aaron Miles??!!
Miles atones!
Oh, hey guys.
Huh. I did not expect that.
5-1 Dodgers
Nice one, Wiggington.
What the hell is going on with all this clutch hitting?
Tracy has got Mortensen on a looooong leash.
How awesome is my new friend at Caesars Palace supposed to be? I mean, "spectacular" is a pretty high bar. I need details.
I'll be damned, there's an NBA game on right now.
Tracy can't yank Mortenson without battling through all of his own rhetorical questions
Lilly getting Wiggy with it (a K, that is)
Catching up on the comments:
My good friend is in St. Looie for the Cards/Giants, and I didn't think he even liked baseball.
Looking at the RFP, looks like all the fans are seated above the aisle. Does that mean the lower level of the pavilion is the VIP section?
Miami is putting Dallas away right now.
@Sax:
Are you saying Tracy is indecisive?
Holy spit, I forgot about basketball.
Heat by 7 with 1:36 left,and the announcers say there's lots of time left.
#goddamnNBA
Lead is now 6.
Just watched the video highlights: Vin noted that of Kemp's 13 HRs, nine have come against his first AB against the pitcher.
@rbnlaw: do you want to know what I think of Tracy's decision-making process? I'll tell you what I think about Tracy's decision-making process.
Miami fans were chanting M-L-B. They really like baseball down south.
Saxy,
You sound a lot like a replicant being interviewed in Blade Runner.
I'll tell you about my mother.
Game over in Miami as the LeBrons beat the Cubans (Mark, not Fidel).
ps-But I didn't forget about Dre.
That pitch was so down the middle that it was in the middle of the middle. . .and at the knees.
Miles misses his second chance to get a baserunner.
And Vinny called him a "little guy."
The run support overfloweth.
Lilly seems to be pitching well.
shit, even when Loney doesn't GIDP, he's involved in a GIDP (Sands)
@rbnlaw 8:43p: love that movie. Dragged my girlfriend, now wife, to the Castro Theatre in SF for the Director's Cut.
As to your earlier question, I don't know if it was so much as Tracy was indecisive, but definitely overly-deliberate. And forgiving.
I have an A-Rod badge now. Should I be happy, or sad?
Broke into my ninth case when I wasn't looking; I'm at 131 badges now.
Kemp's really been listening to my advice.
Missed it by that much!
Dodgers Stadium is apparently Wigginton's Yellow Sun.
Way to go, Lilly. Made it through seven with only two Rockies runs.
Dodgers 5-2, mid-seventh
That guy doing GBA is from a rock band??
snared a coco crisp badge on a triple (OAK). Nice....
The One-Trick Ponies?
it's a final, Arizona does NOT win its eighth in a row
Timewarp back to 8:13p - 8:15p: the on-field delay was apparently because Iannetta and Tracy protested Blake's scoring of a second run off of Kemp's 2-RBI single. Iannetta looked like he tagged Beard on the back, but the highlight also looks like Beard is already over the plate at that time. But I'm biased.
gibbons with a one-out PH single
Lilly's night is over
It's a final; I'm getting another Sam Adams.
There's joy in Mudville!
La Barba!
BEARDOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Bay-eard!
YAY! BARBA POWER!
I hope everyone marked my words, these are the Dodgers playing to the expectations!
37 hits and 23 runs in three games.
Anemic offense what?
Neeebs, you broke the curse!
I got a badge I really wanted:Gerardo Parra <3
These aren't my expectations. I expected shit.
You gotta play halfway between, Dre.
What?
(linking back to Tracy rhetorical questions conversation)
someone explain wtf happened there
Gameday said Kemp flied to right into a force out? Ethier nailed at second? huh?
M's with three in the bottom of the eighth to take the lead, 3-2, over the O's!
Kemp hit a liner to left, and it bounced right in front of Wiggy. There was a chance that Wiggy could catch it, so Andre did not advance to second. By the time he got going, the Rox got the force out at second.
I wonder if King James will have to pay for that...
@Czar hahaha, I always expect them to play well, no matter what.
Sands has the most almostjustmaybealittlemore home runs I've ever seen.
I wonder how much it costs to get the Pac Man in those Indian gaming adds.
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Let's here it for Ned Colletti,Ladies and Gents!!!
I told you he knew what the fuck he was doing.
(cries)
I wanna rub Rubby's tummy.
We make party again!
Making$ $$$$$.
@Mr. LA SC 9:26p: thanks. sorry, was scribing up the PGT...
P G T
U P
B A Y B E E !!!
@Dusty 9:44p: I'll drink to that! (Full-price, of course)
Yay!
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