Clayton Kershaw (10-7, 1.91) vs. Jeremy Hellickson (10-5, 4.77).
Down 6-0 in the first game of this series with the red-hot Tampa Bay devil-less Rays, I thought this was going to be a rough weekend. But after a magnificent comeback victory Friday, and a big shutout win yesterday, I'm trying to prepare for today's End of Rays.
ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball will feature our *still unsigned* ace, Clayton Kershaw, whose 1.91 ERA leads the majors. Hellickson isn't bad, though this 4.77 ERA is about a run and a quarter north of his lifetime average, making this the worst ERA+ (81) of his four-year career.
Oh, and this afternoon marks the last game for James Loney at Dodger Stadium, possibly forever. Loney has a OPS of .807 this season, better any of the last four and a half years of his Dodger career. I always liked Loney as a Dodger (an early SoSG favorite), but he definitely disappointed after showing flashes of brilliance in his first two Dodger seasons. He never seemed to hit consistently after those years. So it's with mixed feelings that I look at his 10 HR and offensive resurgence this season, his first as a Ray. Loney, no more.
Godspeed, James!
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Good news: Baltimore @ SF is the MLB.com free game of the day.
Bad news: SF leads 2-0, T4.
Love the pun, but not sure I could dislike that video any more. Black leather with silver studding, dude has all sorts of angst as expressed by repeated shots of him wringing his hands in various ways like Mrs Dusty does when League comes in to pitch.
Crawford 7
M Ellis 4
Gonzalez 3
Puig 9
Ethier 8
AJ Ellis 2
Uribe 5
Gordon 6
Kershaw 1
I did a double-take when at first I thought that said "Goodspeed, James" and was thinking, good speed and Loney have never been synonymous.
MSB alert: Royals have acquired Jamey Carroll from Twins.
@kengurnick Matt Kemp is taking fly balls and grounders in the outfield.
Bison sighting!!!
BAL 4-3 now in 7th over SF.
Or, 3-2 to be accurate.
"Angels blow five-run lead in 6-5 loss to Indians"
Here's a picture of Carroll, the newest Royal.
https://twitter.com/holly_holl/status/366681097637081090/photo/1
@kengurnick
Judging from batting practice bombs, Hanley Ramirez will be starting sooner than later.
8-4 Mutts
@BillShaikin
Brian Wilson: another 1-2-3 inning at AAA. That's 9 up, 9 down in minors. Expected to join #Dodgers in a week or so.
I'm just going to keep reporting other people's news items in this space.
6-2 BAL top of the 8th. #FuckSF
I love Jamey C!!!!!
Cosy Ross out for the season with a hammy? #lovingsunday
How was Loney received in his first AB at the Stadium? I'm hoping he was at least given some applause. I like the guy, even though he frustrated the hell out of me the last two seasons.
Orioles 10, Giants 2, B9
@Cliff: I think someone said Loney was well-received
Mets 8, D'backs 5, T9
@cliff they did a big welcome James Loney on the big board and he got applause.
I missed the beginning of the game when JLo was first introduced. But the rest of the time the crowd didn't boo him to speak of.
Mets win. Seven-game lead!
The DBacks are Marty McFly before his parents kissed.
Lucky 7 games! Cya D'bags
excellent work, DB and Gnomes
And we're live on ESPN. Love the view of Chavez Ravine as the broadcast started up. Let's do this!
Master of the House in the house.
Orel!
blahblahshadows
Hello everybody, and a very pleasant Sunday afternoon to you wherever you may be!
Missing Vinny tonight. Nonetheless, for the record:
On the sofa, Vinny!
me too!
Filthy K for Kershaw's first out.
Love seeing that sea of Blue in the Yard when the camera pans.
Mrs FB in the heezy as well
KK to begin the game.
Hi to Mrs FB. Nice pics of you guys on Facebook.
Great throw, Dee!
Hey, a non-strikeout out! This Kershaw guy is trash.
thanks, DB!
45
dang, Crawpappy ripped that but Bouji made a nice play
Who the hell is this Bourgeois asshole? Capitalist swine.
Puig guessing on the change there
Guessing wrong, looking bad.
Rick Monday just said "a player needs to be cognitive that..." Nice
They were playing a funky beat there in the stadium coming back from commercial, sounded like Joeski Love's Pee Wee Dance
Epale, yinz guys!
Dee not looking terrible this call up.
J-Bone!
Whattup, J Dawg!
Heh, FB and I are always on the same page.
ugh, I thought I wouldn't have to see Ryan Roberts ever again
Fuck, no perfect game. I was feelin it.
In a rarity, my GameDay is ahead of my "real life" on ESPN.
Rays' Ryan Roberts sneaks a walk, but no worries.
Ryan Roberts sucked in Green Lantern
Lobatón was a short-lived musical genre started by Jesus Colorado. It mostly involved him flicking his earlobes into a vocodered microphone
My Giant fan bartender seems resigned to the new order of things. He's completely given up hope on catching the Dodgers. He's just upset that the Mariners have a better record, which, ha!
attaboy, Dre!
Lead off single for Ethier
Also: yo DB and FB!
Stop bunting!
@Jason 5:26p: get ott, pittsburghian!
AJellis with a single! First and second, none out
you jagoffs from Pixburg?
Uribe bunting. Sounds like it was successful, but come on guys. Now Dee is up? And Kershaw?
Prove me wrong Dee
Way to go, Uribe - got that done. Dodgers with men on 2 and 3 with only one out.
Dee batting .167 with RISP
@FB: don't get nebby on me
^Not that I wanted you to bunt.
I agree with helium-sucking Aaron Boone
Dee did not prove me wrong. He still sucks.
Uribe bunting there will be the downfall of...this inning
Or not. Kershaw!
yuck, Dee
Kershaw 2-RBI single
Take notes, Dee!
SIGN THIS MAN
Clayton!
Dodgers won't get Kershaw any run support, so he has to generate it himself.
Dodgers 48-17 this year when scoring first
mini-dammit
Glad we got some runs. Now I can feel better about watching breaking bad in the middle of the game. I AM THE DANGER!
attaboy, Carlos
Game advisory
Coaching visit to mound
That's blasphemy, AC! #GetATivo
Game advisory
Dusty visit to liquor cabinet to make a gin and tonic
3-0 Dodgers! Mellis!
MEllis with an RBI double to make it 3-0 Blue!
DAMMIT!
MEllis!!!!
damn that almost went out
@billplunkettocr
#Dodgers have now scored as many runs this inning (3) as they managed total in Kershaw's previous three starts
Nice stat from Eric Stephen:
@truebluela
15 unanswered runs since Friday night
@dusty. Yeah I need a DVR. I'm one of those rare households with only ONE Tv and no DVR.
3 runs, I like it
@AC I bet Gameday looks terrible on your flip phone
@AC
You also might think about getting one of them new-fangled telephones; it's really cool because you can "call" friends and relatives and talk to them even though you aren't actually in the same place as they are!
DAMMIT!
oh Dee
hehe sorry, DB
Never going to be a perfect game with Dee at SS.
good recovery, Dee!
I wanna rock right now.
AC, Spanky has an Apple II he is looking to sell.
PGT up!
attaboy, Yaz!
Puig with a dub!
hehe nice, saxy
(Not from this game, that is)
good tag, Yaz
Nooooow, GameDay is lagging. All is right with the world.
Guessing Hellickson's time with us isn't long.
oh man, amazing that Puig didn't try to come home
Attaboy, AJ!
4-0 Doyers!!!! Loving me some Blue right now.
Assuming Clay does his job, we got this.
Usually I hate ESPN but I'm in VA and the game is on ESPN, but I still hate their announcers. #missinVin
NSFWH (Not Safe For Wilson Haters)
http://instagram.com/p/c5OZOiQBI_/
that is crazy how much Clayton's arm twists on that screwbally slider cutter thing
nice catch, Dre
Hell yeah, Dre! Nice catch! We didn't forget about you.
Dre!
Wilson looks like a cartoon lumberjack
Hellickson, out!
Actually I don't like knocking the pitcher out early like this. Means Dodger hitters haven't seen him yet so could cool us off.
Of course, dee Gordon bunts, and gets on--meaning that he will bunt the next 30 times up (and not succeed).
Sigh.
Dee sucks at everything else but he can run
That was actually a nice play by the pitcher...got a great throw off, except for the fact that it would have gone foul.
Kid 'n Play beats out a weird bunt/hit thingy to bring up Kid K.
Didn't see the Puig double and score. I'll take it though
Nice two minute soliloquy about how great the Rays are. They ain't bad, but it sorta doesn't fit given that we're about to sweep them and give them their fifth straight loss on the road.
Man, the Stadium looks packed! For sure we're surpassing 4 million this year.
The Rays don't pass the smell test. They're like the Braves of the AL, destined to be also-rans.
AG!!!
6-0 Dodgers. Man this is fun.
AGon gets vengeance for Mellis and his lame called K!
A fuckin Gon! The Blue Train is rollin' boys and girls.
There were multiple shitty calls on that MEllis AB.
18 unanswered runs for the dodgers this series? Wow
wow, Uribe!
Urine!!
5.7 on the Richter scale
Nice play by Uribe.
crud
Orel has an interesting tie on tonight
attaboy, Antoine Jerome
Uribe gets the emphatic punchout from the first base ump on that double play
annoying inning
why did those jerks just leave Tony the Tiger out in the field?
My final take on DG: Speedy, defense is there but highly-questionable throwing arm that has never developed. And will never learn how to hit. I'm ready to cut bait on this MSB.
^Repeat
get it together, Dee
HanRam can't come back soon enough. As mediocre as he is with the glove, I still feel way more comfortable with him at short than Gordon.
I need my Deeraser. Put in the pretty little pony
Dee is a reminder of where we were. He's the past
woop! nice way to erase the mistakes
HanRam's glove is average but at least he can throw a few feet.
UJTD!
Hah! Well said, BJ!
attaboy, Clayton
Another K for kershaw
Thx D.
PGT up! Also not from this game!
Kershaw can hit the ball farther than Dee Gordon
One of my biggest sports pet peeves: lame nicknames given to broadcasters by adding "y" or "ie" or "ey" to someone's name. For example, the one we just heard: "Kruky". It doesn't make him any more human or familiar by calling him that. Runner up: "Gardie" for Ron Gardenhire.
In a game where bunting for outs and throwing errors yielded points, Dee Gordon would be king.
All these PGTs going up and no Mr. F? Weak sauce, Fanerman!
Unfortunately, said game is not baseball.
holy shit, MELLIS!!!
MEllis takes it yard!
"Scary looking train coming down the tracks now." -Orel re Dodgers
Feelin' you, Blue!
Get the shovel. The coffin's been lowered on the TB grave
394 feet on that MEllis blast. Shit went deeper than a Chilean miner.
cc: Neeebs
One might say MEllis raped Lueke on that blast.
Woohoo. BB was good. Now time for dodger baseball and commenting on this interweb site.
Puig looks grumpy
Welcome back, AC!
Isn't there some rule about posting PGTs after a new GT is up? I'm so con-fuzed!
@BJ
There should be.
cc: obsessive compulsive Sons
@AC when does Walter reunite with his son played by Frankie Muniz?
Next episode. Then he kills him.
nice job, Dee, remember that feeling
I put a BB filter on my twitter feed. Not because I didn't want to see spoilers, but because I don't watch the show.
atatboy, Dee. Great inning, Clayton
I hope kersh can go 9
Alex: lol
@dusty. Just give it the first 2episodes. Then you are hooked. I didn't start watching when it first came out but found it compelling and did one of those cram all of the episodes off Netflix in two days.
AT AT Boys
@AC
Surprisingly I'm open minded about TV shows and always try them out before not liking them. However, I just can't like BB. I watched probably 6 or so and quit. Like that so many people get something out of it, but for me it's tripe. #ToEachHisOwn
@BJ 7:10p: yeah, we are kinda just making up the rules here as we go along. Plus I love it when we scooby-doo it here
FJL sighting!
FJL steals comment #200
Is Loney in? I missed that.
Kids steal living room television.
DAMMIT
Loney is on first as a doubleswitch
Yep, JLo in. Hat tip to our old friend. #UJJL
8-1 LA
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