Aaron Harang (9-7, 3.65) vs. Mark Buehrle (11-11, 3.69).
Greetings, thrill-seekers! If you like traveling from lows to highs in very short periods of time, following the 2012 Dodgers is the ride for you. Fresh off a gut-punch sweep at the hands of the Giants, the Dodgers are now in a position to sweep the Marlins and regain their mojo.
While the pitching of late has been strong, the story has been the hot bats. You heard me. The Dodgers have scored 19 runs in their last two games, and the pinch-me-I'm-dreaming heart of the order of Kemp-Gonzalez-Ramirez-Ethier is just leaving the station. Permanecer sentados por favor!
UPDATE: Via @yvonnecarrasco:
UPDATE: A clearer shot:
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I'm leaving you boys on the heals of the biggest trade in MLB history, and after the reassuring news that Vin will be back in 2013. Wow, what a week!
I'm taking off on a week long family vacation. See you boys and girls in seven days.
Suck it Simers!
Go Blue!!!
Be safe out there, DBT, and have a great vacay!
Thinking about making the roadtrip to the game on Thursday.
Please don't give up runs in the first inning, guys.
I'm with ya, Stubbs, but, well, uh, Harang.
I have very mixed emotions. Next weekend, I will get to see the game up close and personal. But only because I will be sitting in "He who shall not ever be mentioned again's" MVP seats that he still owns. I will find out on Tuesday is HE is going to be there....
¡A HUEVO, CABRONES!
officially my new ringtone
Victorino LF
Punto 2B
Kemp CF
Gonzalez 1B
Ramirez SS
Ethier RF
Cruz 3B
Treanor C
Harang P
Post updated with A-Gon T-shirt goodness.
I think I just peed a little.
If 4-3 ends up being the final score of Loney's first game in Boston, it would be cosmically appropriate.
You should get that checked, Marla.
Ah well, nevermind.
That seems to be happening to you a lot lately, Marla.
RBI single for James, just as I mock him.
Nick Cafardo @nickcafardo
Loney knocks in tying run with single up middle
DAMMIT DAMMIT
Harang better sack up and play like he's worthy of this team.
That Colon stuff may have affected my prostate.
Are you sure you don't have anklebiting spideyosis, Marla?
The Kamenetzkys are pimping the Vin Scully Repository, too? Who made it "hug a Son day" and didn't tell us?
Kamenetzky Brothers @ESPNLandOLakers
Dodger fans should check out this collection of Vin's on-air stories transcribed by @sosgsosg. AK http://bit.ly/Ogr2MW
DAMMIT
On the barstool, Vinny!!!
On the sofa, Vinny!
It's also "Everybody Scoops Orel Day."
It's also — DAMMIT
We should probably clean up a little bit aroud here if all these people are going to be showing up.
I thought it was Everybody Spoons Orel Day. I was off by a week, I guess.
Just saw the video of Loney's hit. It was a dribbler that probably would have been a comebacker if the pitcher were right-handed.
Vin said "fanny"!
Fanny!
DAMMIT
That was nuts!
"The throw, meanwhile, hits him right where he sits, and Ruggiano steals his eleventh base, with an ouch." —Vin
Parmigiano'd him right in the Reggiano.
MSB is back!
That was close!
I love how Vin refuses to stop saying Devil Rays.
Epale y'all
GONZO
R(U)NS
Imagine if Buehrle pitched for Boston or New York. ESPN would go bankrupt without the ad revenue from their semi-weekly 4 hour marathons.
Love the double-steal
Vin can personally remember a hitting streak from 1938.
How awesome is that?
AWO for the other guys. I approve.
Epale, Jaso!
So, someone explain to someone like me, who is sometimes dumb about the machinations of baseball, how Sands can still be playing for the Topes.
Learn how to slide, Treanor!
Gnomes, Sands must not have cleared waivers so he remains the Dodgers' property until after the World Series. Might as well give the 'Topes the best shot at the AAA playoffs, right?
Because he didn't clear waivers. The Red Sox can't acquiire him for real until the waiver period ends.
Same story for Rubby, but I doubt they'll take chances with his new elbow.
Sands didn't clear waivers, so to protect him from another team swooping in, we have to keep him with the acknowledment that he is one of the PTBNL. Red Sox could request that he be benched, but haven't done so.
But yes, they're technically PTBNL.
DAMMIT x2
And now I feel smrt. Thanks, guys.
DAMM...
Oh, never mind.
is it wrong to want that Vinny bobblehead and make an shrine around it?
We saw it on blogger night, K. It's magnificent.
It's so right, Karina.
Punto is out AJ Ellis-ing AJ Ellis
*a shrine
epale everyone!
TWITTER DAMMIT
Ye gods, the Angels are boned, aren't they?
*barely contained glee*
I'd like another run or eight with Harang out there.
Were the cows worth it, Carlos?
As I was saying.
Oh hey, I just remembered that Hanley Ramirez was traded for Josh Beckett.
At least we'll clear Harang.
I don't see Buehrle going all the way today.
Haranged.
Crap.
Now would be a great time to prove how offensively improved we are.
FOr the first time in a long time we are down two runs and im pretty sure we can make that up.
Runs please.
It's the return of GOB!
1.000 OBP for Punto
Two men on for Matty to use.
Punto will carry us to victory!
PUNTO
Rancho Hanleyendo.
Randy St Claire would be a great porn name
Is that a pacifier around Hanley's neck?
ARGH
Got to get at least one back, Dre...
Damnation.
AAARRRGGGGHHH
We really need to make some trades for power hitters. This noffense is annoying.
Bring the bullpen, then.
On the bright side we should get at least 3 innings of the MIA 'pen.
On the other hand the Marlins still get to hit off Harang.
*Cowers before mighty Stanton*
wow - great catch
wow - bad pitching
Cmon, Brandon, keep it low
Justice League made Stanton look silly.
Treanor's throws have been terrible today. Can we get a top level catcher with an insane contract off waivers before the 7th inning?
Don't fuck it up now.
Bullet dodged.
URIBE!
time to win my love back, Victorino
I think Uribe will steal third here.
1-10 with RISP.
Trade for Loney!
this is all my fault. I need to stop watching these games
Punto vacuum!
cmon, Jamey, you can get out of this
nice work to get the one.
you've gotten the hard out, now finish this
Sax is here! Just in time!
attaboy, Jamey!
Let's get some runs with the hosses coming up!
good timing, Saxy. Somebody needs to balance out the hitting jinx I put on this team
Bison walks.
nice start, Matty!
Gonzalez singles! 1st & 3rd, no out!
I was hoping for a rally-killing two-run HR from A Gon, but I'll take it. First and third, nobody out. HanRam needs something here.
AG keeps us going with the single to right!
Can Hanley or Dre get their days started?
Hanley is just swinging at everything, wildly. We have Urine for that.
take your time, Hanley
Ugh, Hanley.
dammit
don't complain about strike 3 when you gave them the first two
Ethier RBI! 3-2 Fish!
E makes it 3-2. We can still do this.
E!
(RUNS)
Dre!
Orel, you're a minute ahead of me here in the Old World, so keep 'em coming!
Cochito vs. Gaudin, 2 on, 1 out. This can work.
@Sax
Was looking at SoSG webmetrics a minute ago and saw your hit from (undisclosed location in the Old World). We need to increase our readership there. From, like, 1 temporary reader to at least more than 0 permanent readers.
I hear Old-World Wi-Fi is the best.
I can't even begin to describe this to you, Sax.
Cruz high pop up along the first-base line. Ethier interferes with Lee. One out. A-Gon tagged out trying to go to third, but umps are discussing whether the play is dead, as Vinny is suggesting.
Oh, and the catcher dropped the pop fly.
Steiner and Monday are totally confused
Ethier sent back to first. Mattingly already on the field. Ozzie coming out now.
@ Sax re Steiner and Monday confused
Are they also watching the game?
Cruz is back to hit.
Can't they just call "do over" like in sand lot play?
Ethier is out. Adrian stays at 2nd, two out. Cruz back up to bat.
1-2 count on Cruz.
Inning over.
It's all for naught, anyway.
Just throw at Stanton already.
Just throw at Dobbs already.
Dusty misses Vicente Padilla.
Dobble
How sweet is it that Adrian Gonzalez plays awesome defense as well?
Make Brantley think he's being IBB then throw at him!
Nice framing, Treanor.
Throw at the side of Kearns' head like G Carrara did!
Belli worries the fuck out of me.
Where was that last pitch? Looked like a strike to me.
Belli gone, Choate in. Come on, Belli.
Dammit, Hanley!
What. The fuck. Hanley.
@Dusty 3:50p: nice
I want to punch the Nissan Grease-pimping singers in the faces
@dusty 3:45p: the problem with enlisting permanent SoSG readers here is that there are no permanent employees here
Got him, Tolleson!
Nice job Tolleson
Goddamn, I'm so late, I may as well be on a tin can and string here
I will say this, though: I'm on a rooftop balcony underneath the moon and stars drinking a nice crianza and listening to the Dodgers. Unfortunately, it's Charley and Rick and not Vin, but you can't have everything.
I'm stoked.
Here comes the comeback.
Not so good there, AJ
What the hell happened to everyone? Did my lack of bathing clear out the SoSG bar?
Great setup, Sax. Makes the painful bullpen antics easier to handle.
I got bored of commenting after watching the 347th pitching change.
I occasionally enjoy a nice credenza myself.
Vic legs it out! 1st & 2nd, one out!
Punto Ks. Kemp next.
Pitching change.
Moe Szyslak in for the Marlins.
Come on, let's get to this Sleastak.
Steve C-Shack
Snakes lost, by the way.
Im hoping we aren't the land of the lost here
Kemp with the plate discipline! Rancho Ardiendo for Adrian Gonzalez!
Rancho Gonzaliendo!
No pressure.
Kemp walks.
Rancho Ardiendo!
Jeez, no pressure here Adrian
Adrian in a quick 0-2 hole.
GameDay called that first called strike abut ten miles out of the strike zone
Damn, sooooo close.
AGon leads the majors with RISP, batting .398
How in living fuck was that first pitch to Gonzo a strike? It was outside by a country mile!
Fuck.
Reyes HR. 5-2 Marlins.
@Sax
It was a god damn ball. I saw it, pronounced it easily a ball, then looked away. When A Gon fouled the next pitch and Vin said it was 0-2, I thought Vin had had a brain fart. That's how not even close it was. And no one complained!
This fucking Tolleson kid is a minor leaguer, and not even a AAA guy. Send him the fuck down to Great Lakes.
Lee Hr. 6-2 Marlins.
Well, that's not very good, Shawn.
Actually send Tolleson down to LLWS.
Suddenly this crianza isn't very good anymore.
Only a two-run deficit vintage?
This pitcher isn't Enik because he isn't wearing a vest.
Never fear, AK is here.
Adam Kennedy will save us all!
I blame Fred's Brim.
AK takes one for the team!
Kennedy takes one for the team!
Here's A.J.'s chance to make everybody look bad.
Sax channels Orel!
International DAMMIT owed by Sax.
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