Nathan Eovaldi (0-0, -.--) vs. Michael Fiers (0-0, -.--).
I received excutive orders (from SoSG Orel) to scribe this evening's Game Thread. Of course, this is a tricky GT to write, since both pitchers are spot-starters called up from AAA, with limited MLB stats from which to glean insights. 22-year-old Nathan Eovaldi makes his 2012 debut for the Dodgers this evening, filling in for injured Ted Lilly. Eovaldi appeared in 10 games last year and went 1-2 with a 3.63 ERA and a 102 ERA+ (about league average).
Fiers has only appeared in two major league games to date, spanning a whopping two innings with a spotless ERA (2 H, 2 Ks, 3 BB). And the Dodgers don't tend to do well seeing opposing pitchers for the first time, so there's a clear and present danger that we could be in trouble tonight, against a team who already took the opening game of the series. Not to mention there's that guy on the Brewers who litigated his way to retain his NL MVP award, won under suspicious circumstances, without remorse.
Will the Dodgers stumble again against the Brewers, as we progress on our hunt for (red) October? Or will Matt Kemp's return to the lineup help knock out the Brewers' starter early, so tonight won't be the sum of all Fiers?
148 comments:
Gwynn LF
De Jesus 2B
KEMP!!!! CF
Ethier RF
Hairston 3B
Loney 1B
Ellis C
Gordon SS
Eovaldi P
MATTY!
Gotta be patient tonight. I think everybody should taketaketake for a time through the lineup.
take Take TAKE!
(Wait, that doesn't sound right.)
Now I'm starting to wonder where that Ford Finger has been.
I'm disappointed that you couldn't fit "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" into the main post, Sax.
Ha - sum of all Fiers. Love it. You should have saved it for the post-game, though, in case the Brewers win.
At the Yard, Vinny!
Is the Ford Finger related to Deltina's finger?
Just as I predicted to MDIL seconds before Braun took that out: "Watch. The idiotic booing will inspire him to hit one out."
Yoink.
Steiner and Monday are pronouncing it FIRES, which, if correct, negates Sax's whole GT post.
Tough gaffe by Vin, losing track of the Brewers' lineup.
Spurs-Heat finals?
I smell comment streak!
Andre gets it started with a broken-bat single!
We don't seem to be working the count like we did against Happ.
If Loney homers here, I will forgive him for yesterday's bases-loaded fly-out.
Vin just pronounced it "fires."
This reminds me of the Rick Porcello Incident.
James Loney remains unforgiven, albeit by a matter of feet.
Cat on lap! Kneading...with claws! Ouch!
Twelve in a row, baby!
Sounds like a lusty crowd tonight.
#AJ2KC Ks looking. I don't like this Fiers guy.
DAMMIT
Club Chipotle doesn't look very fun.
@dodgerscribe: "Braun threw a foul ball into the stands along the LF line. Some fan threw it back."
Good job, Dodger fan!
I enjoyed that straddle various pun in the Porcello thread.
Braun just threw ball taken out of play into stands. Person who caught it threw it back.
Nice dart to first by Eovaldi on the T-Plush bunt!
Was it you, Dusty?
A cello pun a year after the fact? Take a bow, Nomo.
Vin, please stop waxing rhapsodic about Braun.
1-2-3 for eValdi. Nice recovery.
How is that McDonald's ad with aliens not related to MIB3?
Will Dee ever get on base again?
Vin bobblehead makes the Channel 9 news tease.
Good hack, Nate!
Ten straight.
Vin just called Billingsley "Bills"!
"Fiers does just that, gets a strike at 90 mph." —Vin
@dodgerscribe: "Dodgers batters hitting some leather-seeking missiles tonight"
If they lose tonight, I say Orel, AC, and I are off the hook for ending the streak. It was clearly Dusty's fault.
If they win, Dusty has to attend all remaining games for the rest of the season.
Including road games.
Pujols with HR #8.
Hairston with the fancy sliding spin-catch! Style points!
Eovaldi sends some chin music Weeks' way. Should save that for Braun.
Another 1-2-3. Eovaldi settling down?
Pink's: the last small business BofA gave a loan to.
I am totally going to reach 200 comments tonight. Brew some coffee!
We are getting owned by another rookie pitcher.
SHIT!
Loney and Kemp with deep fly balls for outs. I would blame it on the marine layer, but, you know, Braun.
I will get all stabby tonight if the Dodgers lose.
Fiers has retired nine in a row. Get it together, Blue!
Adam Sandler has churned out another classic.
Epale, y'all!
So, what's with the suck?
Adam Sandler should have been put to sleep in 2005.
Ten straight retired by eValdi.
Epale ale, Stubbs! Pick a new catcher yet?
Seems like Brewers have caught all the breaks against us this year. When the hell is sports Karma going to kick in?!
Well, I already had Wieters, so I'm not SOL.
I had Wieters last season. He's a stud.
WHY ARE WE GETTING OWNED BY A ROOKIE?
However, he was probably getting destroyed by that suitcase the very moment I picked him up.
Besides we're the Dodgers, that is.
Because that is EXACTLY what we do whenever they come along?
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if a voice in an Arizona hotel room suddenly cried out in terror and was suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
Diamond just called Ryan Braun "a classless douche." I knew she could write!
SAVE US A.J.
Dee dribbler! Men on 1st & 2nd, 2 out.
Thunder have cut the Spurs' lead to eight in the fourth quarter.
2-0 count to eValdi.
3-0!
WALK HIM, FIRES!
3-2 count...
Ah well.
Backwards K. Eovaldi was taking all the way. Dammit.
Jesus!
Eeeeeeethier!
Atta boy, Andre! 2-1 Brewers.
Kemp seems rusty. Maybe we should send him down to AAA for some seasoning.
Loney has been crap with the bat but nearly impeccable with the glove. Such a disparity.
Middle of the 7th already? I better pick it up if I want to hit 200.
Spurs won. There's a shock.
Wow, what a crappy tie-commercial between Spider-Man and Carl's Jr.
C'mon Loney, transfer some of that glove magic to your bat.
Wow, Loney can make contact, but just to fly out.
We're lying down like lambs.
Im so tired of Loney.
Can't wait until we dump him.
Sorry Orel. I got too busy playing Diablo 3 =/.
Lindblom 1-2-3. Good job.
Are you a PC gamer, MR.F?
Let's touch up Frankie!
Does anyone even call him K-Rod anymore?
I play a little. The only game I play hardcore is Street Fighter, but a bunch of my friends are playing Diablo 3, so I go dragged into it.
Writing the losing PGT now, hoping for a reverse jinx. It's worked before!
Okay, a hundred more comments to go. I got this.
Man, what a BS strike call.
MR.F, have you seen the Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Box Set?
Adam Kennedy is up with two out, no on. I fully expect a game-tying homer.
I know Donnie doesn't have a lot to work with on the bench, but his PH selections drive me nuts.
^
Balls.
Dammit. Kemp will just have to tie it up with a solo HR to start the bottom of the 9th.
*cries like Serena*
It's like Alex just popped in here and burped or something.
The Brewers have only won ONE series on the road this year.
Oh damn. I had heard about it, Orel, but I didn't actually know what was in it. That's a lot of Street Fighter stuff. Too bad I have those games already. It'd be nice to have the animes and music though.
Yeah, about Loney's defense. Saved a double right there.
just checking in before I get my barley soda on at the bar which will undoubtedly produce much burpage!
And of course Braun drives one right past Loney.
Brewers are 5-10 against the rest of the west.
3-1 (about to be 4-1) against the Dodgers.
I wish Wright would turn around and plunk Braun while he was on second base.
@Orel, x2
x3
Here we go! Kemp hits a HR that bounces off Braun's head, Canseco-style.
Make some noise, DS!
This ovation for Kemp is equal amounts "go kemp' and "FU Braun"
Time to hit a dinger off Captain Morgan!
I'd like to see an Axford-Lincecum matchup.
Damn, Kemp swings right through a 99-mph fastball.
Kemp fouling them away...
Come on Matty...
Way to hold up, Kemp! Full count.
At least Vin is enjoying himself.
Another foul! Vin giving the DS crowd props!
KEMP LIVES!
The stadium is set...to explode!
AWWW ONLY A DOUBLE?
Nice double!!!
where is Dylan Hernandez and his attendance tweets now?!
That AB seemed so binary I was shocked when he neither homered nor struck out swinging.
Walk-off please?!
And he got plunked...
Andre plunked!
yeah lets give away outs!!
DON'T BUNT
thats why you bunt.
ARGH
Why not just let Hairston swing from the start?
Yeah, Loney sucks. Ho-hum.
Great Loney up...
Fookin' Brewers again. I am beginning to loathe them.
Only team in the league that can't beat the Brewers.
PGTUP
Dodgers keep losing and the Angels keep winning.
(cries)
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