Clayton Kershaw (1-0, 1.35) vs. Blake Treinen (0-0, 1.35).
All the talk today will be about the return of Clayton Kershaw to the Dodgers, who have struggled with a triple-A revolving door of talent while waiting for the ace's return of a six-week DL stint. Some savages would have you believe that the Dodgers' season is already lost. But I refuse to have accepted the Dodgers' mediocre 18-15 record as a portent of things to come (after all, last season's 42-8 tear came only after a 30-42 start, midway through June), and instead think that Kershaw's return, coupled with some timely slump-busting sports from [whomever in our outfield is healthy enough to play tonight], will be the talk of the town.
The Nationals call up Blake Treinan to the majors for his first career start today. He's given up two runs in 11.2 IP in Syracuse. Anecdotally, the Dodgers tend to struggle with pitchers we have not seen prior. So in a clutch situation with a hitter's count, coming off yesterday's shutout loss, it will be interesting to see if Mattingly gives the green lantern to swing for the fences. (My word, that was a painful setup.)
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Today's TMZ gossip: girl friend and baby mama of Carl Crawford baby mama is demanding $15k-per-month in child support.
From a guy with a $142 million contract.
Same guy that is getting paid $15k-per-hit.
ONE HIT PER MONTH IS ALL I ASK
But he doesn't play every day! If he did, it would easily be $14k/hit.
I just did the math, if Crawford's salary really was 15k per hit, he would need 1,400 hits to earn his annual salary.
Also, when did Baseball Reference the ability to adjust salary figures for inflation? Apparently Crawford is earning a mere $1,068,551 (in 1871 dollars).
Let's get this party started. I'm in Laramie, WY, so there's NOTHING else to do but sit here and cry if we give up runs.
CC
Baby get's a new gold-plated crib!
^ gets
Hanley's still hurt, isn't he?
it may have been explained already but what's the KC cross thingy on the back of the mound?
good inning for Clayton, a ground single for Werth but the others went down without much trouble
Gordon 2B
Crawford LF
Ramirez SS
Kemp CF
Ethier RF
Uribe 3B
Van Slyke 1B
Butera C
KERSHAW!!!! P
Matty with a leadoff single
Dre follows with his own single to left center
yeesh, Uribe with a weak grounder to second resulting in a devil jumpup
Gotta stop this LOB
SVS with the slow grounder to third, 2 singles wasted
Uribe did his best to get runners off base
Scott Hairston with a leadoff single
Dre scoots over to get the pop into right foul territory
excellent - the devil jumps up on the next pitch, 6-4-3
There is crazy movement on Treinen's pitches, kinds looks like Kevin Brown or AJ Burnett
Clayton grounds to the pitcher, Dee pops out to foul left
nice play by CC, good inning for Clayton
no-out single for Rendon
Hanley gobbles up a grounder in the hole but Werth beats the throw
2 on, no out
Uribe ranges waaaay behind third in foul territory to get the LaRoche pop
Hairston goes down swinging for the second out, Desmond up, will really piss me off if Clayton can't get out of this
And Clayton gets him swinging on a nasty curveball
SVS can't handle the sweeping slider
and Butera flies to right center, not very deep
Clayton with his 6th K
Clayton left one up but Lobaton flies to left
and of course, Treinen singles to right
This game is TIGHT!
Dee kind of muffs the grounder from Span but he quickly recovers to bat it with his glove to Hanley who was standing on second
wow, Clayton works him to 3-2 before grounding back to the pitcher who then muffs the play
haha Dee with a chopper to LaRoche at first, he bobbles it thinking of going to second, then turns to toss to first but Dee beats it out, 1st and second, no outs
oh man, CC with a weak dribbler up the line and he beats it out. That's about 200 feet of rancho ardiendo
run(s)! Hanley slaps it softly to right to score Clayton, Rancho still Ardiendo
and Rat Williams pulls Treiner. He must be on a pitch count because there was nothing about this inning to make a Gameday Scout think he'd lost anything
Oh Matty, no!
Matty Ks
Dre praying for the walk
Dre tries to double us up but the can only get CC at second, 2-0 good guys, 2 outs
Uribe with the dunker to left, CC comes home, 3-0 good guys
SVS Ks
We never hit the ball hard once but we get 3 runs out of it
First inning I've liked in four games
Rendon with a leadoff single, Werth up. I wonder how long Donnie will stick with Clayton
and Clayton picks off Rendon
Williams thinks about appealing but decides against it
Werth pokes a grounder into right
LaRoche with a single to right, 1st and 2nd, 1 out
Big K of Hairston
nasty hook gets him
and Clayton gets Desmond on 3 pitches, 8 Ks tonight
oh shit, Butera donks himself with a foul ball
Butera manning up on that one.
and now Butera gets donked with a pitch on the elbow
Puig looking bored and/or angry in the dugout
ugh, Clayton with the bunt double play
Dee rips it into the right field gaps and nabs an easy triple. Sure wish that bunt has worked out
Boy, Dee can fly.
oh lord, CC flies to left but Hairston flat-out drops it, Dee scores
YES, YES, YES!!
Nice to see the other team making the errors
Somebody talked to Orel about the "us, we" stuff. He's still doing it, but he's awkwardly correcting himself when he does.
CC caught stealing but takes out Espinosa's legs
What's wrong with Orel saying us and we? He's a Dodger. He is we and us.
Hanley makes up for it by starting the double play
Boy, we've got some raunchy facial hair in our bullpen.
and Clayton gets Spann looking to end the 7th. he's got 9 Ks and has thrown 89 pitches
It sure is good to have The Kid back.
Hanley gets ahold of one to straightway center, 5-0 good guys
Sweet!
wow, the Nats are as bad as us/we in the field
Uribe pops up for the first out, Matty at second after a walk and Dre's 70 foot single
SVS pops to second
Butera salts this one away
Drew!!
8-0 good guys
and that's it for Clayton for the night. That's quite the return
Our bullpen is trying to kill our outfield
and my soul
8-1
Perez getting squeezed a little
but he's not helping himself
cripes, throw strikes, stupid!
Perez comes back to strike out Espinosa
throw strikes, dummy!
ferfucksake, Dre shortarms a ball to right, 2 runs score
8-3
Donnie's gonna let Perez's arm fall off
unreal, another 4-pitch walk
and 34 pitches later, 48 of them balls, Perez is done
Jamey gets the third out
Hanley and CC with their third hits of the night
Kenley in? ummmm
Maybe Donnie is predicting we've got no chance tomorrow vs Strasburg
Kenley Ks Rendon
Matty snags Werth's liner to center, 2 outs
Hey, we won a game! And SF lost!
Grounder to short finishes things out, Kenley with 9 pitches total
good game, yall
(blocks out memory of Chris Perez)
Kevin Kennedy: 141 stories high for this game
you heard it here first
Epic finish in the Gnats v Pie-rats game. Walkoff triple+throwing error send runner home where he was called out. BUT play overturned on a challenge.
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