Hiroki Kuroda (9-14, 2.88) vs. Jaime Garcia (10-6, 3.45).
Oh, these redbirds are ANGRY. Before the woeful Dodgers rolled into town, they were still contending for the NL Central title, facing a large-but-not-impossible 8.5 GB gap with the red-hot Brewers. But having lost Monday's game in the ninth inning after some questionable pitching decisions from the itchy-finger triggering Tony La Russa, and then having been pounded to a pulp by the Dodgers 13-2 yesterday, the Cardinals try to come back today to salvage a victory and potentially sneak back under double digits in the GB column. I can feel the anger!
The Dodgers, meanwhile, may not exactly be snickering pigs, but are indeed fattening up on Cardinals in this series, including breaking out for four HR yesterday. Kuroda is actually on a roll himself, having won three of his last four starts since informing the Dodgers that he wanted to stay in Los Angeles (and with the Dodgers, at that). So I'm guessing there will be no mighty eagle that will save St. Louis today (and certainly not one with a moth in his ear and a fly ball bouncing off his groin).
SoSG Sax would like to thank his mother for the idea for this GT. Thanks, Mom!
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Breakfast baseball, anyone?
Hey, Ned was making an announcement on KABC regarding Chicago this morning. Unfortunately, I believe the words, "taking," "job," "in," and "Chicago" were not being used without the adverb, "not."
Sellers 6
Gwynn 7
Kemp 8
Rivera 9
Blake 5
Loney 3
Carroll 4
Ellis 2
Kuroda 1
That is a banjo-hitting lineup + Matt Kemp if I've ever seen one.
Sellers might be the next biggest power threat, for fuck's sake.
non-furcal
non-manny
kemp
non-ethier
non-beltre
non-prince fielder
non-uribe (thankfully)
non-piazza
kuroda
To be fair, Furcal is not really Furcal anymore either.
I hear LaRussa's itchy-finger condition is closely related to stinkpalm.
SGKRBLECK!
^ Also the name of my IKEA bookcase.
Hmmm, gameday is being a li'l bitch.
...and here I was hoping for a less productive workday.
There's always booze, Mr. C.
Thank God for booze.
@Josh S 10:29a: Love it. Great comment.
Gameday's working for me!
In fact I've already bagged a Felix Hernandez badge from the SEA@CLE game.
It's up for me now, too. Crisis averted!
Gameday is a go, but badge collection still blocked.
(Part of a conspiracy between Sax and my employer to keep me from catching him.)
I don't think I have Tony Gwynn's badge. He really should steal a base today.
I'm a buyer on Sellers!
Hur hur hur.
Batter interference: When someone gets between Juan Uribe and his corn dogs.
Well, not quite yesterday's hot start.
Gotcha, Pooholes.
FJL is en fuego of late
Playing for a job NOW, when he should have been all season.
Josh S, what's with the badgelessness? How can they stop you?
well, that sucked.
0-0 through 1.5 innings
It's weird. My work firewall blocks game sites between 8am-3pm. Before the Gameday revamp this season, almost all of its functionality was disabled during those hours. Now, Gameday works, but for some reason the firewall considers the My Badges screen a game. I get the little badge window in Gameday. I even get the check marks when one unlocks. But collected badges won't load and anything that gets unlocked during those hours doesn't move into my case.
And I leave the house too early to set badge traps at home.
Damnit. Mothballs scored.
For some reason, it seems worse being burned by a dude named "Skip".
Well, this isn't good.
I'd like tell Skip he can't pitch worth a lick.
Brewers are down 2-0 so the Cards probably smell blood
BOOOOOOOOO
Mothballs is quite possibly the greatest derogatory nickname for a player EVER.
The Brewers lead the Cardinals by ten games.
Are you sure it's blood, and not sangria?
Kemp is so Kemp.
Ah, much better.
The Cards are collapsing like a house of, uh, well, cards.
NO MERCY!
Après Kemp, le deluge.
The "We're sorry, Hiro!" tour rolls on!
who ARE these guys? I just flipped back and we've scored five runs without an out recorded in the third????
Leave Jaime in!!
Arsenal/Udinese, nil-nil, 25 min.
In case you wondered.
8 straight batters reach on Garcia? Cardinal pitching has hit hard times.
HIT PARADE
Eight batters, no recorded outs
Hiro breaks the streak
Dammit Hiro!
The world's least English English team was looking pretty shaky there for a bit.
How was Carroll out at 3rd on a FC if he was already on 3rd?
Three straight days of "the best fans in baseball" booing their own team.
Wow I'm gone for an inning and we're up 6-1!
Also, it feels good to contribute to SoSG with a clever nickname =).
BOOOOOOOOO?
@Mr. C: Walcott, Jenkinson, Song (sort of), more then they've had in years. Add Ramsey if you want "British."
Frimpong might play for Engerland as well if Ghana don't want him.
@MR F: WHat's the nickname?
Arsenal sinks lower.
Udinese 1
Arsenal shaky
Interesting pitch sequence, Hiro.
@rbn
That comment had the desired effect. As a Welshman, I'm not going to let England have any claim to Ramsey, though.
As for the match...well, that happened.
@Sax:
Mothballs!
I need to hip Joe Block to my sense of humor.
@Josh - He's a bit of a square.
ujtd!
Gerald Laird GIDP baby! And Hiro escapes the jam.
6-1 Dodgers through four innings.
@Mr. F: Oh yeah, Mothballs, for Nutshot!
AJ Ellis HR
Yet another missed call by Charley Steiner on that. Charley, if it went over the bullpens, why couldn't you tell it wasn't just a fly ball?
7-1 LA, mid-5
AJ, please make us erase the memories of Dioner. Please.\
This first HR is a good start!
Ellis HR?
An embarrassment of riches!
You guys gotta see the AJ Ellis first HR highlight. Everyone in the Dodgers dugout is sitting on the bench, so Ellis goes runnign straight into the clubhouse tunnel.
Nice!
1-1 now, and PKs are out the window.
cc:rbnlaw
Indiana Jones and The Road Trip of Improbable Homers.
That moth should become the Dodgers' new mascot.
Back to back beat-downs. A guy could get used to this.
Plus, it returns some small portion of the misery that the Cardinals have sent our way over the years.
Gerald Laird looks a little spooked in his Gameday pic.
Is it Red Seats Get In Free day there in St Louis?
FUCK YOU, GERALD LAIRD.
Kuroda would be a better option than Velez.
At 27 now?
Eugenio, you do not disappoint, do you?
Kuroda at least has a batting avg
@FB: It's Invisibility Cloak giveaway day.
I'm totally rooting for him to go 0-for-LA now. At least he'll be remarkable in some way.
@Mr C - he's two away from 0-for-his age
Goddamn Padres, you better pull back Taco Bell
Dotel may have been my least favorite temporary Dodger
I am going to miss Casey Blake
He was effing terrible, but he's no Lance Carter.
...and I'd take Carter twice before either of the Fightin' Ortizes.
I don't recall Lance Carter. Was he a Backstreet Boy?
344 badges baby
Wandy Rodriguez and Jordan Schafer are the newest admittees to the Sax Badge Case
Thanks a lot T Gwynn for not stealing a base
Can Matt hold them to less than six runs?
Four singles for the shitty Cardinals pitcher!
goddamn Matt - you have to be better next year. Are we sure he isn't just Brett Tomko who stole Orel's number?
Sweep those goody-goody d-bags!
And Hiro up to 10 wins - amazing
We make party!
Making party for Dodger win.
Partaking in extra party alcohol in honor of badge #200.
post-game thread up!
100!
DAMMIT!
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