When does still being in first place feel like hitting rock bottom? When you're the Los Angeles Dodgers! Let's recap:
- Shut out three straight times by the hated Giants.
- Lost only other good hitter to potentially serious injury.
- Disastrous 1-8 road trip that saw the Dodgers score a total of 13 runs, four fewer than the Mets scored LAST NIGHT ALONE.
- Equipment truck broke down on the way out of Frisco.
- Juan Uribe, Dodger, is still a thing that exists.
- The Dodgers are still technically in first place, but they have to share the catbird seat with the Gnats. Imagine a seat that had to support both Uribe and Sandoval!
- Chris Capuano has been, uh, pretty damn good...but he's being asked to halt a 4-game losing streak for the second time in under a week. Ugh.
- Chris Young has been not so hot against the Dodgers in the past, going 2-5 with a 4.02 ERA. Plus, he's a friggin' giant in the physical sense, and it will feel good to knock around a giant.
- Tonight is Eric Karros Bobblehead Night, so maybe the home run leader will remind them that the ball can actually fly all the way over the fence. (Though, I'd settle for over the second baseman's head at this point.)
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@Dodgers lineup vs. Mets:
Gordon SS,
Herrera 3B,
Rivera LF,
Loney 1B,
Van Slyke RF,
Kennedy 2B,
Treanor C,
Gwynn CF,
Capuano P.
Total karma that i just happened upon some free tickets for this shitfest.
LOOK AT WHO IS BATTING CLEANUP!!!
Maybe i will see a no hitter.
Free bobblehead, Nic. Can't turn that down!
So Ethier's on the DL and SVS gets the call?
Oh, shit, IDJ was optioned. WTF?
I think we all need this right now!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-wOKrD_nRE
No word on Ethier DL.
@truebluela: "Don Mattingly said Andre Ethier is day-to-day for now. Oblique strain is on 'good side.'"
I was standing next to the buses after yesterdays game, watching each player come out, somber, down, and in the dirt. Except Neddie, who was all smiles, waiving at everyone.
Let's find it, fellas!
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.
Sweet! Dodgers Live is interviewing Jerry Hairston and Kurt Angle!
Eating dinny, Vinner!
One out in. Down 1-0. Yay!
Game over?
Oh man those bunt lessons really paid off!
Anything else to talk about tonight?
31 straight scoreless innings
Can't someone just hit a fucking HR?
why is Loney batting cleanup?
why is Loney batting at all?
why Loney?
why anyone?
Of course the giants are winning. Why wouldn't they be.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.
Wait, is Treanor's intro music 'The A-Team" theme song?
Happy EK Day! I an celebrating by choking out the guy down the road whose name is Ismael Valdes.
Depression is a hell of a thing.
What's the streak at?
Lead off double....
3,405
33. Dee's double prevented it from being Naked Gun 33 1/3.
#Revershiser?
IT'S OVER!!!!!!
A run!!!!!!!!
Holy fucking shit! What just happened!?
And 90 feet from another!
MIRACLE
In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened!
Rick and Charley laughing their asses off at Wallach falling down.
Diahrea!
Our cup runneth over!!!
Two runs y'all!
I don't know how to feel just now.
That transition from 8:09 to 8:10 was pretty awful.
Loney the ultimate buzzkill.
Enjoy it, Marla. It may never happen again.
Ah yes, thank you, James "Rally-killer" Loney.
My boss and i got into our cups at a downtown watering hole. Didn't make it over to the game until this inning. We started scoring runs as soon as we sat down. Councidence???
Loney didn't hit into a double play. He is on fire.
Dusty has the runs!
That lead was refreshing while it lasted (two outs).
Dodger bats scored two runs. Their job is done.
@Orel - You mean tie, right?
Sometimes a tie feels like a lead.
Yeah just like how we are tied with the giants but doesn't feel that way.
Oh good, RISP, two outs and Dee Gordon batting. This should end very well.
That coulda gone better...
I blame Dusty.
"Sometimes a tie feels like a lead." This was totally my thinking.
That 4th of July game commercial is creepy! That guy looks like he's gonna vampire-suck his kid.
Loney IS a lazy fly ball.
Kennedy doing his best Uribe impression today.
(cries)
C'mon, Dee!
Goddammit.
Wow. OK, if you say so, ump. Looked pretty goddamn high and outside to me.
Gordon got robbed on that called K.
Why is Sunday's game sold out?
Nice CS there, Treanor!
Fuck Loney, hold on to the goddamn ball
You were dead to me already, Loney, but now you're even MORE dead! You hear me! Deader!!
Lindblom's been Broxtoning all over the place lately.
You know I have to say, I don't mind Loney making errors on routine ground outs like he did, since he makes up for it with his bat.
Hey hey hey, it's fat Elbert
Loney was so afraid of coming to the plate in the bottom of the inning, that he tried to extend the top of the inning with an error
S'up, second place? How ya been?
Take notes, Deeeeeee
What a bunch of GIDPshits.
Rivera trying to save Loney from an inevitable GIDP
ARGH
That fourth inning....good times.
Loney needs to be sent to A-ball. Free Jerry Sands!
Well, if you think about it, that was kind of nice of Rivera to save Loney the embarrassment of grounding into another double play. That's a good teammate for ya.
Paul +1
Loney is unwatchable.
No more runs since Dusty's "1 Dusty 2 cups" comment.
Unwatchable is Loney.
88 Comments? Where be everyone?
My semi-annual test of allegiances has begun.
Come meet DelinO, Sax and our offspring this Saturday. We'll even let you buy us booze
"Unwatchable Loney is"
--Yoda
DelinO ! You going on Sat too?
Stiff upper lip, people. It's Van Slyke, Treanor and Kennedy due up in the bottom of the 9th.
(cries)
Here we go! Walk-off time!
Parnell has NO saves. We got this guy!
Okay, so he throws 98. Big deal.
Work the walk, stupid!
That was our shot.
I totally have faith in Kennedy here.
It's up to Kennedy and Treanor!
PGT up!
AK is hacking for his life.
AK's being a real MSB right now.
Kennedy doesn't strike out, so we should get awarded a run.
Enjoy it for one last AB....yup that is first place.....goodbye.
I'd say that was anti-climactic, but it is Adam Kennedy.
"It could be moving day for the Dodgers." —Vin
Just go....don't look back.
UNSUSTAINABLE
Sign more Cubans!!!
Which wild card can we get?
Maybe the one Arizona doesn't take from us next week.
Good night you princes of Southern Cal.
You kings of LA.
Shut the fuck up, Donny-er, I mean, DelinO.
Post-Game Thread up.
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