Aaron Harang (1-2, 5.72) vs. Travis Wood (0-0, -.--)
Today features a rubber match with the Cubs before our boys head back home. Here's hoping Harang can bounce back from his poor performance in Colorado. It should be easy pickings for the offense against Travis Wood, who will be making his Cubs debut today. Or Wood might be fired up for the start and pitch the game of his life. Or the baseball gods may mistake him for Kerry Wood and curse him with a long-term arm injury.
Dodgers will need a victory to be able to call the current roast trip a relative success, though that may be a bit of a stretch, and it would be nice to have a bit of momentum coming into what will be a tough home stand against the Giants. A win would also keep pace with MLB-leading Rays (19-9).
Best of all, this will be the last game (for awhile) that starts while most of us are still eating breakfast.
UPDATES: A little bit of a rain delay, but nothing serious. However, there is some bad news about Matt Kemp. Reportedly, a tight hamstring means Matty is scratched from the lineup, thus ending the longest active streak of consecutive games at 392.
UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: Kemp is available to pinch hit today.
YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Per @ESPNChiCubs, "Rain stopped but more storms building to west. Could be long day. Dodgers don't return...so they'll wait as long as possible"
GUESS WHAT THIS IS. AN UPDATE!: Appears getting the game in today is going to be difficult, and if it happens it will be later in the day. BUT we have hockey on now. Let's use this thread to comment and root on the Kings!
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Exactly. Pixar made these irrelevant, no?
Blimpie > Subway, right?
I'm not sure where to rank Quizno's. I like them, but I can never wait for the damn thing to toast.
lets get some insurance runs, please!
@Dusty: right.
And even though Cars 2 sucked, it was still the authority on those things.
I like how Quizno's huge selling point is that they toast their bread. Holy shit, they have small toaster ovens! That separates them from everyone else!
I think I pulled something watching Rivera's swing on strike 2
@Saxy, I prefer Blimpie to Subway, not sure if it's better though
@Sax
Yeah those movies blow...are way below the Pixar standard. But it seemingly doesn't matter because they sell so much merch.
It's a 3-2 game and there is NO ONE there.
Rivera leadoff single! Nice at bat Juan not-Uribe
@Dusty, until Blimpie and Subway started doing the same thing
Quiznos: "*sigh* now what?"
Programming Note:
Kings Live Postgame directly after Dodgers game. Props to PrimetTicket for prioritizing a big playoff milestone.
@Dusty 4:40p: we should start a sandwich chain whose differentiator is a LARGE toaster oven
Quiznos board meeting: Ok, guys. We were the thought leader on toasted bread for a long time, but now everyone's catching up. What else we got?
Rest of board: (shrugs)
i have an awful feeling that one of those seagulls will help the Cubs win it in the 9th
"We're Toastierer!"
Loney, hit a goddamn RBI here
Those gulls are starting to look good I'm so hungry.
Goddamn it, that wasn't it, James
"quality ingredients?"
"no"
"great customer service?"
"haha good one"
"celebrity spokeperson?"
"hmmm"
Loney vs. everyone.
James is just friggin godawful. I know he's a good guy with a big heart and everything, but we have to fix ourselves at 1B.
Quiznos board meeting (continued): we could toast BOTH sides of the bread!
@FB
Did you see the Beasties/Mets post?
(promotes Sax after both sides toasted idea)
We could drip the melted cheese into the customers' mouths!
Hello?
In comes Javy to try to close this one down.
Please do, because I don't want to have to re-do the whole PGT cause I need to go pee and get something to eat.
I did - that is quality stuff. I was trying to think of more Mets (or baseball-related) lyrics but my memory has been dumb today
Holy shit, I want a Southwest Patty Melt.
I NEED a Southwest Patty Melt.
And her, as the side.
grr
be mean, Javy!
I would sign the Tupac hologram to play first.
And to endorse Quizno's.
Hot cheese tap? Genius!
I am digging these Prime Ticket models
We could toast the INSIDE of the bread!
We could microwave the customer and toast the sandwich inside of them (radiation side effects notwithstanding)!
That's it, keep talking about how Welington doesn't have a hit. Guaranteed to get him his first HR.
Javy has some serious swagger
We could have a tiny sandwich pill that customers swallow, which would then expand inside them when in their stomachs. A foot long sub in pill form!
Gnats won 4-3 in extra innings.
Man I miss badges.
This is a looooong AB
Nine pitches in this AB.
Adam Jones with a three-run HR in the 17th
We should acquire Adam Jones.
For this game.
DP set up here. Come on boys, let's go home!
Giants squeezed out the win in 11
Guerra needs a DP here
Oh fer crap's sake, Guerra, come on!
Fuck, get someone up in the bullpen!
Like, Kenley in disguise.
throw strikes, stupid!
Losing this game, and this series, would be very bad.
it is NOT a time for your usual MSB tactics Campana, please
Find the strike zone Javy
^the
Castro with a walk off.
This Campana punks better not beat us or karina is in big trouble!
@Nic - sounds about right
Big gap there in right center
Holy shit that is exactly where he hit it
Tie game.
Tie game. Karina, this is on your shoulders!
goddammit!!!!
Mellis had a sweet relay there.
run(s)?????????????
i KNEW it :____________(
Great, now we get more question marks around Guerra, the game continues, we'll get home late...just what we didn't need.
Fuck a doodle doo.
why can't Dee do that?
Oh yeah, he did, a couple of days ago
Man, I am surly.
Why Dusty? i'm not the one who's pitching, i just described Campana's MSB antics, that's all
karina has been right on with her predictions lately
Extra fucking baseball. Seagulls are pissed off here.
Free, if unwanted, baseball. Jesus, Javy.
A loss would have been better. Now we are just delaying our flight even more.
I want me a toasted seagull sandwich.
I blame Loney.
@Sax
I heard hot melted cheese tastes really good on seagull.
gotta go and get some dinner for my mom, please, Dodgers, win the game!
I blame Collins and Lyons.
For making me surlier than usual with their inane commentary.
Fred's Brim :$
Ellis got him. Good call.
Does your mom need some dinner, Neeebs?
Now would be a nice time for an Abreu HR.
sorry karina, your guys have been rough on us lately
Somebody hit that button at a Chicago Buffalo Wild Wings.
What the hell kind of name is "athletico physical therapy" (behind home plate)?
Abreu with a weak comebacker.
damn
@Sax, he hit it pretty hard actually, nearly took his head off
@ Sax re Abreu
Were you commenting on his career arc?
this ump is all over the place with his strike zone
Can we DFA Guerra?
boring
Is Heath Bell available....oh.
Well this is going to be a failure of a road trip.
@FB, you're right, he hit it hard. I was referring to the fact that it was just weak in general.
Jamey Wright in. Game over.
@Sax gotcha
He's been pretty unlucky so far as a Dodger. He's been taking a lot of pitches, when he hits the ball, he has hit them well and when he has struck out, he's gotten jobbed. I won't say I am coming around to him but he seems to be taking better at bats than Rivera and Loney
*sigh* Jamey
I took better ABs than Loney when I was in second grade.
Get Jerry Mather out.
Uribe looks mad
as The Beaver...
THE, KENNEDY, THE
Hairston would have had that
Bryce Harper just stole home.
The beaver got picked off.
Mather caught napping on the base paths.
On to the 11th.
Dodgers chase Beaver in a rundown to get out of the inning.
hey, ummmm, hitters? DO SOMETHING!!!
@Dusty a real steal or a double steal thingy?
when you catch the beaver, you gotta tag it hard
Cubs fans don't stay until the end.
@FB
I'm only following on tha Twitters so not sure how the steal happened. Don't think it was a natural steal, though. I know it happened after Cole Hamels hit Harper and put him on base.
thanks, DB
MLB.tv on Roku effing up, won't go past the 10th inning for some reason. I am forced to watch WGN with Bob Brenly
Mute becoming a very real option
Cmon Dre, earn your payday
you finally get a righty, go to work
Dre with only one hit in this series? Wow.
@FB
At least you don't have to listen to Eric Collins.
Rivera is the whole team
Uribe is the whole team, size-wise.
can we trade Kennedy for a berliner?
that was not good.
Dear god, not Scott Elbert.
Stoopid Kennedy. Should have had that.
Twitter says Bryce Harper just stole home.
@Orel
Are you running ten minutes behind?
The bullpen is crap.
This isn't going to end well
I'm waiting for a press release from McCourt stating how the dodgers were so much better under his reign.
this is terrible
Just end it. This is stupid.
yuck
pathetic
BOOOOO!
Balls.
that Go Cubs Go song might be the worst thing I've ever heard
Burn it down.
That was not the greatest road trip ever.
I believe that makes us .500 if you don't count the pads/bucs in the beginning of the year.
Lucky for us those do count.
346
So. We just dropped two of three to the Cubs.
Loney hitting .067 in May.
call me Surly Howard right now
To be fair, I don't count on winning any game that Harang starts. It just sucks to get comebacked in the ninth YET AGAIN.
Loney hitting me in the back of the skull, repeatedly. Same sensation, same result for the game
GDPGT up.
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