Clayton Kershaw (12-8, 2.85) vs. Eric Stults (5-2, 2.45).
The Dodgers' last two games have ended in walkoff fashion, so we're all well aware of this "Shredder Punto thing" going on. But I warn you this because tonight is Matt Kemp Replica Jersey night, which means Punto may be hiding behind the turnstiles waiting to pounce unwitting jersey. I'd be on my guard, if I were you, especially if Kemp ends up doing something dramatic tonight.
Stults has never faced the Dodgers, with whom he went 8-10 with a .444 ERA over four years (2006-2009). With the Padres, though, Stults has blossomed, with a 149 ERA+ (Kershaw is at a 133 ERA+ this year). We greeted former Dodger starter Nathan Eovaldi last month with a six-ER outburst that led the way to a 11-4 victory. I have nothing against Stults, but I'm hoping we get on the board early this time, saving us from late-inning dramatics...and the threat of another jersey massacre.
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Lineup from GameDay:
Mellis 2B
Guy With No Bat Masquerading As Victorino LF
Gonzalez 1B
Kemp CF
Ramirez SS
Ethier RF
Cruz SS (I think they meant 3B)
Ellis C
Kershaw P
Victorino and Ramirez are batting .500 against Stults (small sample size of 2 and 6 AB, respectively). AGon is 0-for-2 against Stults.
Punto waits until fourth to go after Alyssa Milano? What's wrong with him?
Punto is a little challenged on the scoring, if you know what I mean.
Yeah shouldn't Alyssa be first? And second, and probably third?
Depends on if order also correlates with base achieved.
COL 2, @ATL 0, T6
NYM 0, @STL 2, B2
HOU 0, @PIT 1, T2
Karros rockin' the goatee!
So if I have DirecTV, no Lakers games for me?
My chair is pulled up, Vin!
Great start
Ouch. One pitch, one HR. Pads 1-0.
When did Vincent D'Onofrio retire from acting, anyway?
So Clayton wanted to spot them a run. Okay.
Orioles in first place!
Let's show Stults how much we missed him.
Mark Ellis doesn't hit a HR on the first pitch. Slacker.
But he hits a double on the second pitch. Okay!
@Orel: Cut or trade him!!!
Bunting is back!
Mellis picked off at third. Cut him!
Aw dammit.
That would have been the tying run MEllis!!!
Mellis wouldn't have been picked off second. Stupid bunt.
Mellis getting picked off third is a nutshot, indeed.
Soft tossing lefties just carve this lineup up.
Except for Ethier.
In other "former Dodger" news, Jamey Carroll ends MLB's longest active homerless streak. He went 3 years without a HR until tonight.
GONZOOOOOO
Marla keeps obsessing about his favorite type of porn
So Ethier's HR ties it. 1-1
Pirates, Cards up big late
Sf and AZ tied at 1 in the second
epale everyone!
one question: aren't the rally monkey and Pujols from another county?
Epale, K!
High strike on the low guy.
Kershaw Ks Cabrera to get out of a jam!
66 pitches over four innings for Kershaw.
4-1 Snakes.
AZ 4, SF 1, mid 3!
A-Gon leadoff single!
No DP, Matty.
Man! Looked like Kemp killed that one but it was just a routine fly ball to center.
"Off-speed, the slow freight at sixty-seven." —Vin
I love how Mark Walter is always in his box clapping and cheering. Way better than old rat-face.
Marco Scutaro is carrying the Giants to the playoffs.
AZ 4, SF 2, bot 3
Cards win, Barves lose, Bucs about to win.
Hanley SB!
Vin keeps calling Grandal "Grandalf."
Hanley barehands the shot off Kershaw's glove. Nice.
Combo breaker.
Kershaw at 79 pitches through five.
AZ 6, SF 2, top 4
Cruuuuuuuuuuz
Say what you will about Hanley's lax effort at times but the dude seems like a really solid clubhouse guy. Just showed him in the dugout helping out Victorino.
That canned "Go Dodgers, Go!" chant over the loudspeakers has GOT to go. Who thought it was a good idea?
That was a great camera catch of HanRam and Vic, wasn't it? Love it.
Mellis single makes it 1st & 3rd, 2 out.
Man, Victorino has been especially useless.
Even I want to throw the ball at Victorino's head now.
Kershaw with the eephus? 49 mph?
"Vicente Padilla, where are you? With that soap bubble." —Vin
"That 49 mph whatever-it-was." —Vin
Kershaw Ks Call Me Maybin with a nassssssssssty curve. Man stranded at third.
That curve was everything that earlier Eephus pitch was not.
GONZOOOOOOO
A-Gon leadoff double! Why is he always leading off?
Vin: lambchop, wolf, etc.
KEEEEEEEEEEMP
Kemp single! 1st & 3rd, no out!
NO GIDP PLEASE
A-Gon dead to rights. Dammit.
What the fuck is up with everyone on third base tonight?!?!
ARGH
If we don't score here, it is the season.
We really know how to squander an opportunity!
AALDFSAJHFKJHDFKJAH
SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT
'Tis the season!
You heard Sax. Season over.
@Dusty 8:45p: I hate the Go Dodgers Go, but I hate the "Everybody clap your hands!" lemming call even more.
Marla, ask Siri if this season is indeed over.
Is that Rick?
AZ 6, SF 2, bot 6
I'm not allowed to be frivolous.
CRUUUUUUUUUUZ
CRUUUUUUUUUUUUZZZZZZ
ZZZ
Z
Cruz is a badass with the glove too. So awesome.
Eric Stephen @truebluela
Dodgers with 3 straight 200-K seasons: Koufax (1961-66), Drysdale (1962-65), Valenzuela (1984-86), Nomo (1995-97), now Kershaw (2010-2012)
AZ 6, SF 3, bot 6
AZ 6, SF 5, bot 6
I'm feeling a homer this inning.
Ajellis speed!
All right, it's Adam Kennedy!
San Diego feed just showed George and Michael Bluth in the stands.
BUNT
Kennedy advances the to-be-stranded runner
Damn, 116 pitches for Kershaw.
Oh sweet merciful Batman, another runner at third?
Mellis double! Great throw holds Ajellis at third.
Mellis hits a nice one. Not sure why AJEllis couldn't score on that one.
And Ajellis disappears into a quicksand trap at third!
The Vicster.
AJellis should have realized Denorfria wasn't gonna get that
When did the Padres sign Rod Beck?
Well, at least Shane can't GITP.
Hit him,
No get a hit.
"AJellis should have realized Denorfria wasn't gonna get that"
Unless the 3B coach is holding him at second.
Joe Torre would call for the squeeze play here.
SHAAAAAAAAANEEEEEE
ZZZZ
Great baserunning by Vic!
Hit him,
No get a hit.
All right, Shane was pretty good there.
THAT is how you get out of a run down
Nice One!
Wow lucky!
Thanks, Thayer!
Marla 9:35p: good point. Maybe Hoffman has taken over Wallach's body?
Now, WE have a friend in the diamond business.
(Fanerman may be the only one to get that.)
Big RBI oppa-tunity for A-Gon.
That pitcher could play a young Wilfred Brimley
RBI fly! 3-1 Dodgers!
AGon Sac-s up!
GONZZZZZZZZZZZOOOOOOOO
ZZZZZ
ZZZ
Z
Z
That SD pitcher on the bench: "Ooooh I hates them varmints!"
Branded looks really bad.
But Leelee Sobieski is kinda cute, in a young Helen Hunt sort of way.
@Cliff 9:43p: nice.
BOXBURGER
BURGERBOX
robneyer @robneyer
I think my favorite thing in all of baseball might be #dodgers and #sfgiants fighting for division title in September.
Kemp swinging and missing at a lot of junk lately.
AZ 6, SF 6, bot 7
MattyG lives!
BOXBURGER
But still no Elymania.
PHEW thought Quentin got all of that.
Buster Posey hit into a DP? Thought that guy could do no wrong.
MattyG dies!
Matt Guerrier: not good.
3-3
Matt G sucks.
Sorry, Clayton.
Why the hell is he pitching in any kind of critical situation?
Kershaw denied thanks to you, Matt
for real, Orel
agreed, Nic
Matt walks the next guy. YANK HIS ASS DAMMIT
And why is he still pitching!?
All tied up in L.A. and SF right now.
WTF? 3-3? It was 3-1 a couple minutes ago. Stupid bastards.
The Giants got to call up an endless supply of reliever to cover up a struggling Zito, Lincecum, and Vogelsong. The Dodgers got to call up Guerrier to be a professional batting tee.
I was all, hey, no big, solo shot. Then I remembered Headley was on and got pissed.
Me too, Nomo!
A-Gon, Gold Glove! Randy Choate, Frankenstein!
Crap that was close.
Stupid head-first slide!
Well done Choate
So I guess the D'backs had the bases loaded and Justin Upton popped up?
@nicJ, to be fair Scutaro has been better than Victorino
Kubel too, inning over.
DSB playing at phone park.
Glad to see the heart of the order go down quietly.
Luis Cruz is the heart of the order now?
(cries)
Giants first and third no outa.
Well...yeah.
Outs
Ugh. Beli vs. Headley promises to be ugly.
HEY BATTA NO OUTA
The big Zarguski pitching for the D bags.
Belly vs. Headley
Stomach vs. Skull
Zagurski ks Kobe.
One out.
Phew.
Let's get Beli the win.
He said unconvincingly.
Ajellis
Abreu
Mellis
One down. Bobby Time.
Ely's up!
Abreu really fooled there.
Full count.
Abreu walks!
Why no pinch-runner for Abreu?
Giants fail to score!
Sounds like the Giants are about to bust it open.
Yeah, like Abreu is going to steal. What are you thinking, Vin?
Giants GIDP!
The Vic.
Dee Gordon should run for — never mind.
Free baseball.
That was a knuckleball off the bat.
Shane is still not good.
Traitor Vic?
I'll have to keep that headline for when he bails on us at season's end
200
This is not cool.
Breaking open Sapporo#4
Marla! Check the one-run-victory sustainability meter!
A Low Down Dirty Shane
Pretend you're starting a game, Ely.
Ankylosing spondylitis.
One down.
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