Clayton Kershaw (16-5, 2.51) vs. Mat Latos (6-12, 3.74).
The Battle for Last Place starts tonight, with the Dodgers 12.0 games behind the first-place Diamondbacks, and the Padres 15.0 games behind. The Padres will need a sweep to escape sole occupancy of the NL West basement, with Cy Young candidate Clayton Kershaw (I love typing that) standing in their way. But Padres starter Mat Latos has thrown five straight QualityStart™s, so don't expect a shootout.
Sax's note: If all goes well, I should be covering the game today from the press box. Give a shout out if you're at the Stadium tonight.
photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images
245 comments:
1 – 200 of 245 Newer› Newest»My former high school classmate,, Lorri Bernson, is throwing out the first pitch tonight. Lorri is legally blind. She is an inspiration to many, and she probably has better control than HCK.
Right on,Neeebs.
If Sax is in the press box, then...where am I?
Phoenix?
Or should I say, Jean Grey?
DAMMIT
Soon as my wife and kid pick me up I'll be field side, isle 7 I think. Go blue!
@DBT, can't buy you a beer unfortunately tonight...
Ah shucks, that's cool, maybe the wife will be nice and treat me to a $13 Dos XX
@DBT if you get here before 7 I may be able to see you
Just had my first beer so I'm happy
Sax. Say hi to all the beat reporters.
BREAKING LAKER NEWS
EVERYONE SIT DOWN NOW
PREPARE YOURSELVES
Ron Artest will be on Dancing with the Stars.
(cries)
DBT in da house
Wow, Don Drysdale's daughter just NAILED the National Anthem. Wow.
Drew Drysdale, ladies and gentlemen
@DBT, post coordinates please
Red 5 standing by
Watching my kid build with Duplo, Vinny!
Fld 7 row E seat 7
Just put up a post re: Mattingly's pre-game comments.
Kershaw has some wicked shag comin' out the back of his cap.
Guzman was like 10 miles ahead of that pitch (strike)
Guzman's fouling off a shitload of pitches here
Kemp gets a walk.
Ken Levine just said hi to me. I'm pretty stoked.
DBT: Got it, will try to get down there later in the game
Have a couple of friends to visit.
Sax. Can you hear vin through the wall?
Damn, Kemp was so far going on that one, it was a complete robbery. SB 35 for Kemp
Walk to Rivera. Let's do this, Andre.
Kemp was at second before the ball left the fathers hand.
Nice fan response for Ethier here. Maybe because it's RISP? Maybe because he's good looking? Maybe because they sympathize about his knee?
@AC, All I can hear is Levine and Josh Suchon having a conversation. Which is totally cool and everything, no big deal.
Single and RBI for Andre.
I appreciate Rivera going for home but oh well.
Break out the Pampers.
Andre really kneeded that hit.
Sure looked line Rivera could have scored.
Or at least not just stood there.
Was everyone in the joint cheering for Andre?
Dammit. E-5, Miles. Not enough on the throw.
@AC, seemed to me like the support for Andre there was more than I thought. On the other hand, if they had booed him I think it would have been curtains for Ethier here, so maybe it was to be expected.
Andre drops the ball but gets credit for the putout anyway.
One out, John Forsythe up and trying to make a dynasty
Sax it was a pun. " joint" = knee
nice double play. very difficult as it was slowly hit to short
D'backs up 1-0 on the Rox, in AZ, B3
Giants and Cubs scoreless in SF, B2 2 out
Forgive me for missing the medical humor there, AC...L
Miles hit it right on the button to the O-Dog
Big guy with very, very, very big red backpack just entered the dugout club in the fourth row to the right of home plate (from my vantage point; first base side).
I don't think that backpack fits the size dimensions of Dodger Stadium.
Class warfare! Let them eat cake!
Barajas becomes Latos' first K. Clayton only has one so far, himself.
Cunningham drops one into short right for a leadoff single
1-6-3 double play, executed perfectly. Nice reflexes from Minotaur, and great coverage on the turn by Sellers
That's the second DP Clayton has gotten in three innings. Pretty sweet.
Nice grab by Carroll, too bad he couldn't throw on line to nail Latos.
Kershaw does not look as strong tonight though there have only been two hits and he has no walks (though only one K so far)
Shot right to Miles, who catches it on the fly for the third out.
If the Dodgers win tonight it would clinch the club's first winning month of the season.
Dodgers have scored more runs in the third inning than any other inning, throughout this season
The Dodgers have not lost a game with Sellers batting leadoff (3-0)
The Dodgers have not lost a game with Rivera batting cleanup (5-0)
The Dodgers have not lost a game with Ethier batting fifth (4-0)
The Star Wars Night shirt is seriously weak.
Joe Block has hacked Sax's account.
Loney bomb. Wow.
BOOM, Dodgers up 3-0
You knew it when he hit it. Wow.
Non-Rockie Loney Homer!!!
Ninth HR of the year, on a 1-0 count.
Kemp looked really badly fooled there for the second out.
they're just playing who let the dogs out as the walkup song for o-dog
since when does the visiting team get walkup songs?
Loney has driven in a run in six straight games.
Last Dodger to drive in a run in six straight games was also Loney, in late April - early May
nice pop out to Loney for our #2
3-1 thanks to the Hundley RBI double
Four-pitch walk to Forsythe. Not good.
Finally off work, Vinny!
Why is Ken Levine in tha heezy?
Assorted boos this time for the Ethier introduction. Interesting.
I don't know if they have turned up the loudspeaker or if it's just my position behind the plate, but it's loud as shit up here when they're playing (dodgers') walk-up music.
Great try out there in RF but that was quite a shot from Ethier anyway. Leadoff double into the right-field corner.
Dre almost got all of that one.
That's why you hit the ball to the right side.
Miles advances Ethier to third. One out.
Knee seems OK to me.
Scoring fly ball from Barajas.
How refreshing it is to see Ethier not thrown out at home!
4-1 Dodgers, even though we've only got four hits to the Padres' three
1 one but
I'll take it!
That's disappointing, no one to cover first base. Venable reaches on an infield hit.
^ 1 run
D'backs threatening, two on and none out B6
BIG DP started by a headsup Loney. Well done.
DP!
And we turned a double play!
Third DP of the game for the Padres and it's only the fifth inning.
D'backs up 1-0 in the sixth
Giants down 1-0 after 5
@Sax
Real life is in front of the FOX Sports West feed tonight. You have time to type what happened before I'm seeing it. And I'm "live" on Tivo not lagging.
Or you are REALLY prescient.
another fine play by Sellers. Really rooting for him at this point, esp after talking with his father pre-game
Love Sellers. Think he could be what DeWitt never ended up being for us.
Just pre-ordered the Star Wars blu-rays. I need a shower to wash off the shame of being George's bitch.
Wow, Loney with a loooooooong double
Are you seeing this, Karina???
#JLo
Loney owns Latos.
100
Shame, Josh, shame.
(orders said Blu-Rays)
IBBing Kemp. Lots of booing.
5-nil Dbags in the 6th.
@Dusty 8:33p, let's test this out in the Rivera AB.
1-0 count.
1-1
That booing may have been Dusty Baker's Toothpick calling for more booooooze.
Sellers or Dee, who do you see?
Diamondvision: Rivera became the first Dodger to home in his first AB with the club since Ronnie Belliard on 8/31/09
1-2 count
Sorry, that's a 2-1 count
Playing SS next year.
Paying close attn now, Sax.
Bad swing there for strike 2
deuces wild with 2 on
Just swung
Ground out for Rivera
I feel good about this game.
I hope the free hot dogs are here by now
Sax you had time to type that by the time I refreshed. Big lag.
I could go for a hot dog right now. Good thing Sax and I are the same person.
@Assassin
I'll start cc'ing you on my snide digs at your/Sax's lame campaign to inflate beer prices at DS.
that was only his second K all night
Up jumped Uncle Charlie
wow that was almost hit at kershaw
i guess it was hit at kershaw. i mean, it almost HIT kershaw
big swing for Hundley
Kid is a bit off tonight. He's still a monster. (dry humps Kershaw)
0-2 count to Hundley
How about Loney with 47 rbi's to ethier (my virgina is hurt) 52 rbi's
playable fly ball there, Kemp calls off Sellers (who slips, but gets out of the way)
DAMMIT
@DBT, I don't know if I can get down there today, I can't find a time to get out of this press room
@FV
Ethier has a sprained medial collateral vagina (MCV).
@Sax
Are you on deadline or something?
Single off of Hudson's glove for Ethier, who is now 3-for-3.
Dammit Miles almost had that
beachball just dropped from the upper deck in front of the press box.
grrrrr
way inside on barajas
I bet Ken Gurnick started batting it around.
My porn name is Charlie Twatts.
5-nil CUbbies
Aaron Cunningham is getting a lot of work out there in RF tonight
Carroll up with Ethier still stuck at first
Why hasn't Ethier stolen yet?
0-1 count
1-1 count
Ethier won't run unless Mattingly's after him with the whip.
2-1
gotta send ethier here
Joyce DeWitt 3-run HR.
nope, they didn't 3-1 count
they're not going to pitch to carroll in the 8 hole
ethier laving on that pitch, carroll fouls
NOW ethier will be running on anything
At the height of this press box, DiamondVision's mug of Jamey Carroll's wide eyes is SCARING THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF ME
Carroll called K
showing the trailer for Contagion. Looks like a real feel-good movie! Bring the kids!
tomorrow night: pre-game performance from the cast of Cirque Du Soleil's Beatles Love. Cool.
@DB his MCV must not be acting up 3 for 3 tonight.
This Ikegami camera to my left is HUGE. Canon HJ40x14B IASD-V lens. 40x Tele. Criminy.
4-1 Dodgers
D-backs blow it open, up 5-0 in T8 in AZ
Cubs blow it open to 6-0
watching the Gnats on tv, cant stop smiling
on to the stretch!
God damn you know I love you, Vinny.
But: WE FUCKING KNOW MAX VENABLE PLAYED IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES.
I feel better now. Still love you Vinny.
ps- WE FUCKING KNOW THAT KYLE BLANKS IS BIG
6-0 Cubbies
Interesting. The people in the press box don't really sing along with TMOTTB.
@sax is that the same camera they use for Spank porno movies?
Wait, if I enjoy a night of intimate conversation with Tommy Lasorda, per that commercial, is that implying that I'd get to sleep with him?
"phiten" is a sponsor. Does that rhyme with "sighting" or "bitten"?
Downloading new red hot chicken peppers album.
That's the kind of camera they use to make cartoon bear porn, for sure.
Phiten is pronounced FIE-ten.
If Kershaw can win tonight, he would be the first Dodger hurler with 17 wins since...
Chan Ho Park (2000)
Latos only lasted 99 pitches
Kershaw reaches off of Bartlett's misplay!
They're giving Kershaw the base hit, which bums out Billingsley
Kid K makes his case for team pitchers batting champion.
Sellers wiht a big whiff there
DAMMIT!
sellers fly to center 1 out
We'll reach 200 posts with 70% coming from Sax.
FJL hitting .412 on the homestand
almost flied to left there
this date in dodger history, aug 29 2993, piazza hits his 26th and 27th HR, setting a Dodger rookie record for HR in a season
outside, ball 1
0% coming from Lasorda
JESUS CHRIST THE DODGERS CAN SEE INTO THE FUTURE
I just timed it, I am about 30 seconds ahead of mlb.com gameday
@DB: Who is Lasorda?
Ball 2
cute blonde in the dugout club, sighting
Loney must be distracted as I am, as he whiffs
here comes a double switch
Loney strikes out. He sucks. Trade him!
manny mota on diamondvision
Sax speaking from the future.
Can you send a Terminator to take out SF closer Brian Wilson before he becomes a dominant closer for a hated rival?
Fucking wave has started.
Thankfully the Dodger press box does not partcipate.
free hot dogs are here
gotta hop
Sax is so in the zone that he can't even respond to our comments.
That or he's ignoring me.
(cries)
Missed that Kemp AB, but at least I have a FREE HOT DOG
Dance Cam is on.
Josh Suchon is not moving with the beat.
In fact, no one in this press box is moving to the beat.
I almost think Blogger is broken because our comments and Saxes are on such different wavelengths.
^ Sax's
199
BOOOOOOOOOO
(cries)
DBT heading for the gates. Great game. I guess Ethiers knee is okay. Loney is absolutely on fire. Sax, I'll catch you next time
Why didn't you jump on 200, Assassin? I teed it up for you then stood down.
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