Hyun-Jin Ryu (0-0, 0.00) vs. Adam Wainwright (0-0, 0.00)
Steve McCroskey: Jacobs, I want to know absolutely everything that's happened up till now.
Jacobs: Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And then the Dodgers lost two straight 1-run NLCS games started by Cy Young winners. I couldn't believe it.
Well, here we are. The Dodgers are hurtling into the sun, and only Hyun-Jin Ryu can save us.
Hope you brought your hitting shoes, Ryu, since pitching hasn't been the problem. We know now that Hanley Ramirez suffered a hairline rib fracture on that Game 1 pitch from Joe Kelly. (THANKS, JOE!) Somehow, Hanley is still a "game time decision". Yasiel Puig has been MIA. Andre Ethier is still working out a wobbly ankle. And Adrian Gonzalez can't get any pitches to hit without any lineup protection.
Maybe, just maybe, a raucous L.A. crowd will infuse some life into this team and they can pull out a win. I hope so, because I'm not ready to be over Macho Grande.
UPDATE (2:32pm): Hanley is playing tonight.
"I owe too much to this team and this city (not to play)." -Hanley Ramirez
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) October 14, 2013
Dodgers tickets*
*Suddenly VERY cheap. I wonder why.
167 comments:
Jayson Stark @jaysonst 2m
Hanley just made lunging play on ground ball in the hole. Came up laughing. More to come.
J.P. Hoornstra @jphoornstra 22s
If Hanley Ramirez is in pain after taking several hacks in BP, he's hiding it remarkably well. Andre Ethier up now.
Ken Gurnick @kengurnick 1m
Ramirez ends first round of batting practice swings with liner off fence in CF.
And last, but certainly not least:
Dylan Hernandez @dylanohernandez 3m
Hanley just hit a home run to right-center in batting practice.
Hanley will be the spark we need tonight. I say bat him 4th behind AGon.
Of course, that will only work if Puig figures out how to hit too.
Hanley is playing. Post updated accordingly.
Daniel Larusso is gonna fight?!?
Tweet that shit!
Nice!
No knock on Ethier, but...
On one hand, we have Hanley all hopped up on pain killers, tounge-kissing the city of L.A. and saying he'd play through anything. On the other hand, we have Dre saying, "Yeah, I could play, I guess. Lemme check with Donnie."
Different circumstances for sure, but that one's not gonna play well with the masses.
Dre "I don't know if I am gonna play..." *watches Hanley hit*. "Yeah I'm gonna play I'm gonna talk to Donnie right now."
@dylanohernandez: Ethier said he feels he can play. Will talk to Mattingly.
Anyone going tonight?
You, uh, probably should already be there.
Yeah, the tone of the tweets about Ethier changed WHILE I was typing that comment up. Ha!
Crawford LF
Mellis 2B
Ramirez SS
Gonzalez 1B
Ethier CF
Puig RF
Uribe 3B
Ajellis C
Ryu P
Hanley and Dre are IN.
THIS SHIT IS MOST INDUBITABLY ON.
We see you, Hanley! LA All Day, HanRam.
Donkey Kong still looking for an apt "on" simile.
(apologize ahead of time for knowing difference between a simile and a metaphor)
Cards lineup:
Medium-hitting white guy 2B
Throw at his ribs RF
Medium-hitting white guy LF
Token Latino C
Medium-hitting white guy 3B
Fat white guy 1B
Light-hitting white guy CF
Light-hitting white guy SS
White towel complainer P
On like Wrath of Khan?
On like Chaka Khan?
On like Rae Dawn Chong?
Has there ever been a Chaka Khan/Wrath of Khan mashup? Music with Star Trek II storyline?
I know it may be a bit cheesy, but let's all say a little prayer to the Baseball Gods before this game:
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and that could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come."
In Vin's name we pray, amen.
Dusty back in Blue. (Kinda.)
I always look better in Blue than red, or blue and red, or orange and black.
HanRam t-shirt: check
Authentic jersey: check
Old LA cap: check
#ShitIsOn
Oh no I'm yawning. That means I'm really nervous.
Dodgers
Cards
Ryu
Wainwright
Hanley
Band Aids
Vinny
Puig
Nerves
Sam Adams
October
Baseball
#ShitIsOn
I'm wearing red right now. What the fuck am I thinking? Going to change right now. I apologize to the city of LA...with God as my witness,I will never wear red again!
BOYCOTT BUDWEISER
I don't even own anything that's red, except for Razorbacks gear, but that's entirely separate.
As a light-hitting white guy, I endorse Dusty's version of the Cards lineup.
Driving to Boston to kick the shit out of McCourt family members, and up to generally no good.
Nice, DBT. It's almost e.e. cummings if you wouldn't have capitalized anything.
Went to the doctor today to get my prescription renewed. My BP is 110/80. Glad I didn't make an appointment for tomorrow. it would be 220/160.
Thanks for checking in, PPR!
Both the collective surly factor and BP are high. Seat belts, everyone!
Rally thong: Check
Let's do this!
And now, Dusty in actual Blue.
I miss Dusty The Dodger. Haven't seen that in awhile!
Alright, I'm heading home. See y'all on the other side.
Gotta keep pitching
I am gonna lay low around here tonight.
Work fast, throw strikes, change speeds
Gotta start Puiging
45
My Dusty from another mother!
Ryu stay calm.
Stay calm Ryu!!!!!! Please!!!
Nice start.
easy out! 26 more to go
On my personal bar stool at my local cantina, Vinny!
Not good. Not even close.
Settle down big boy. Let's get 2
Pitching around the zone, hesitant to attack it.
Close it out Ryu.
TV went out. Fuck
Gameday showing a high-ass strike zone.
Fuck yeah!! Ryu's toughest inning is usually the first. I like it.
What's the BP now, BJ?
Jump on this complainer early boys!
Okay back on. Whew
It spiked Dusty!
It spiked Dusty!
Huey Dewey and Louie in the booth announcing. They're not good enough to hold Vinny's spit
Ball four Ellis fuck!
It was those towels!!!
Yeah MFs
Hitting the road...
Firestone Pale 31's waiting on the other side.
Did MEllis swing at that? I didn't notice that he did and the ball was under the plate.
Break on through to the other side, DBT!
Sigh
It's aight. Ryu isn't unsettled and Wainright isn't Koufax. This judge called the first inning a draw.
Safer looks like he dresses with Geranimals
Sager
Good job make him work Puig. Now get on.
Uribe kills all of Puig's at bat with a first pitch out.
No words
That was low. I'll the ump that, but he god damn better call it a strike for Ryu.
Come on guys! Nice start Ryuster.
Another good at bat. Get a walk AJ!
Dodger pj pants on and beer in hand. I'm clocking in.
Ryu Ks looking.
Hard grounder for Crawford and that's 3 down.
Bats need to wake up. Ryu facing 2-3-4 second time around. Big inning here.
Does Puig's hair remind anyone of a Triceratops?
22 innings without a run. Feels familiar.
It does have a prehistoric look.
I'm inside praying to the baseball gods, Scott's out front shooting the police copter flying overhead
I am seeing a lot of red in the stands. Or maybe jt just stands out.
Keep grindin Ryu!
MARY HART!
#FuckYouMeathead
Atta babe Ryu!!
Another 1-2-3 inning for Ryu.
Fast game
The towels again!!!!
I guess Jay expects Beltran to catch everything.
Please score.
Sack up,AGon.
So I'm listening to the police scanner to see why the bird was circling, and heard a report that was 2 hours old about a threat of someone in the hills by Dodgers Stadium with an AK47. I guess Kimbrel's in town.
AGon!!
YEAH!!
We scored!!
pinche dre.
BOOM! Open the floodgates?
I hope?
fuck fuck yes
Puig adjusted! RBI triple!
Double yeah!
Puuuuuig!
Two singles to open the 5th. Nobody out.
hahahaha.
Throw these mofos out!
Or at them!
Or both!
I like that Scott is out front (I'm assuming wearing underwear and stained wifebeater t-shirt) taking wanton potshots the the 5-0 copter flying overhead. Excellent imagery!
holy shit! AJ!
AJEllis hits it deep and ends up on third!
The John Jay affair! Hah!
AJ!!
For the record, there are no historians at this bar.
Looks like we are back to our old ways. Come on Ellis get a hit.
pathetic
jesus christ
Need another solid inning Ryu.
Lol Dusty. Sorry to ruin your drunken imagery, but shooting as in a camera. Wish we could post photos here.
I'm a historian!
In a really narrow field.
@BJ
Ok now I'm picturing Scott our back wearing the aforetomentioned attire but with a camera, not a sawed off.
Ryu stepping up. Come on knock this pitcher out of the game.
Ryu gotta keep pitching
It is going to be one of those games...
...One of those games that we win!
Segment on Ryu's popularity amongst L.A.'s Korean population prominently features two Latino guys.
One more HJR
toma
Nice seventh Ryu! Way to go
I'm stuck on MLB at bat boys and girls. What happened to David freese?
I wish I had a tv here
(goes back to banging tin cup on concrete ground)
@Sax: Tight baby cow.
Puig is back
Puig baby with a leadoff single
Pinche John Pee
@gnomes: thanks my man
Wilson gives up a lead off single but gets out of it. Still 2-0 us.
Wilson's on fire. Gotta be that troll hanging from his beard.
Thank you Brian Wilson Jesus! #BowsDown
@Nomo re Ryu segment
I was trying to figure that out. Best I could figure is just that we so diverse that even a Korean bar in Koretown features a whole buncha kinds of mofos.
#LALove
R.I.P. Cards outfield defense.
That was def the case, DB. I just found the timing hilarious, especially since it was a segment with uberwhite Craig Sager.
Geico time.
Come on boys!
Rally!
safe!
Kenley coming in.
Beltran fouls out. 1 down.
Mothballs couldn't avoid the light. 2 down in the 9th now.
22222222222222
One more!
Molina fouling off a lot of pitches.
Cracked bat grounder and game over. Party time!!
Make party!! We got one! 3 to go.
win
Yes. And a shutout.
I have no words for Hanley's guts. He is what we all want in a leader. Great job Ryu.
Ryu, HanRam, AGon, and Puig all stepped up. Great team effort tonight.
get some ice on those robs, Hanley!
gnite all!
Didn't see Sax in the game thread tonight. He must be the rally bear.
I like this Ryu guy.
Great gutty win. Same thing tomorrow.
PGT finally up! Sorry!
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