Dan Haren (5-4, 3.50) vs. Tony Cingrani (2-6, 4.09).
We finally have Dan Haren on our pitching staff, and we face the Reds. Surely it's time to break out the same pun I've used twice before!
But no, faithful SoSG readers. Today, for this GT, instead I will invoke...the Chewbacca Defense.
Before we discuss today's pitching match, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, think of Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of 2-foot-tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this GameThread? Nothing. Faithful SoSG readers, it has nothing to do with this GameThread! It does not make sense!
Look at me. I'm a blogger who should be discussing Haren's 1-4 record since his 4-0 start, or at least referencing Cingrani's seven shutout innings against the Dodgers last year (a game we ended up winning late (on a Puig HR; knocking the Giants 10 back...sigh)). Instead, I'm talking about Chewbacca! Does that make sense?
Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in this GameThread commentin' and snarkin', does it make sense? No! Faithful readers of this supposed "best Dodgers fan blog" (Sports Illustrated, 2007), it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, the Dodgers must win tonight's game!
UPDATE: Oh yeah, there's a hockey game on tonight, apparently? Feel free to discuss that game too on this GT (since one can actually watch that game on television).
138 comments:
No comments. No lineup. This don't make no sense...
1.Figgy (2B)
2.Hanley (SS)
3.Puig (RF)
4.The Bison (LF)
5.SVS (CF)
6.Bootstrap J. Turner (3B)
7.Jamie Romak (1B)
8.Fed-Ex (C)
9. Dan Haren (P)
SVS gets us going in the top of the second with a laserdonk
Haren nearly gives two back in the bottom
blooper by Cozart to put 2 on, then a wild pitch
walking a dude to get to the pitcher - this can't end well
I'm late getting here. SVS hit a homer?
Thanks DBT for the lineup.
Shit. Another WP. Game tied.
absolutely AWFUL wild pitch lets in a run. Unacceptable
goddammit, Haren, that was horrible
there are a couple of ducks on the field
I can't not comment on Cingrani's sideburns. What is he thinking??
Cinzano with a nice inning against the top of our order
Hanley with a nice play
the burns are impressive but a little too groomed
SVS stumbles in center and can't get to a ball, not sure if he could have gotten there but it would have been close
Cmon, Dan, focus
wow, another nearly fair homer
Somebody's gonna straighten one out vs Haren
but Haren gets the K to end the inning
Haren is making me very uneasy.
karen's happy with that double
My Man Matty! Hits the wall on the fly. This Matt Kemp Whore is rejoicing.
Matty skoots to third on the wild pitch
it's sad that the hockey game isn't on regular tv
SVS works the walk
FB...Its on the NBC sports channel. Do you get that?
C'mon JT. Put us in front.
JT bloops in Matty. Blue on 1st and 3rd with no outs. 2-1 Dodgers.
Turner with a perfectly placed dunker that barely landed in the outfield grass
@karen I do but it's not in the regular mix of channels for us, have to look it up
Romak pops out, foully
Dodgers in front! First and third with one out
Belated: you can watch the Dodgers game on TV too: it's on ESPN, not blacked out in LA.
SVS scores on FedEx fly. 3-1.
FedEx with a sac makes it 3-1. Turner still on first for Haren.
Way to make sure you knock in a run from the eight-hole, Fedex!
3-1 LA through 3.5
Wow, acc to the MLB.com video, ducks really were on the field
SVS comes home on the sac fly
not sure how he did it though, he was going back to third when the ball was caught, then ran SVS speed home and the throw still wasn't even close
Thanks berkowit28! Does that help you out FB?
And, just like that, Haren gives up a leadoff homer to Ludwick in B4, 3-2 LA
Thx for the scoring updates! 3-1 Blue Crew, making me smile. Good to hear that Kemp is squaring up the ball.
wow, Haren sure is tiring, and predictable
I think I want to make Chone Figgins live on Endor
Puig right up in SVS's rump to back up that play
@karen, I am good, I just think it's sad that the game isn't on a real channel, even with the 2 majorest markets represented
@FB...I agree and top of that it's the freaking finals!
@Saxy...Don't laugh at me, but what is Endor?
I think I figured out Cinzano's chops: Wolverine made a baby with Opie Taylor
@FB...'Wolverine and Opie Taylor'. That is the perfect description.
wild pickoff lets Puig advance to second
and Matty walks
I'm bouncing between Dodgers and Kings and just saw the replay on Yasiel's slide into 2nd. That was scary. He's lucky he didn't brake his ankle.
Puig and Phillips sharing a good laugh
SVS nearly has a double into the corner
And then he badonks another one! 6-2 good guys!
SVS straightened that one out! Second homer of the night for Scotty. 6-2 Good Guys.
Hanley and Puig (fake?) fighting over SVS
SCORE KINGS!!! Just as 1st period ends. 1-0 Kings.
good shutdown inning from Haren, Romak with the nice pickup at first for the third out
FedEx with the double
KINGS!! 2-0.
a walk and a single have Haren in some one-out trouble
and that's it for Haren
JP in
JP gets the DP. 6-2 Dodgers after 6.
and he gets the double play!
Karen, Endor is a Star Wars reference. It's where Ewoks live.
wow, that was lucky
too many powerplays though
SVS can do no wrong tonight.
Turner has looked terrible tonight
Nailed it, FB. Too many PPs.
But Kings are about to kill another one
Thanks, Orel. I'm embarrassed to say that I am probably the only person in the free world who hasn't seen Star Wars!
broke stick
penalty going the other way
JP still in for the 7th
Just think of it as having extremely refined tastes, Karen.
SVS, baby. Love it.
This hockey game looks like a matchup of Inigo Montoya clones.
Is JP the next guy that Donnie's going to overuse?
J. Proctor Howell?
wow, that was close
Kings 3-0!
3-0
JP in some trouble
and he gets out of it with another double play!
Another PP for the Rangers. I guess the Kings can afford it
according to Charley, that was Hamilton's first-ever GIDP
L.A. sports owning it today. Love it
League in to impress or frustrate me
I guess it's frustrate
I vote impress!
IT'S A MOUND NOT A BUMP
Frustrate it is.
What happened to Hanley - why was he taken out?
Just now serig our score on GameDay.
come on League. Sack up here
Isn't Serig retiring soon?
he gets the grounder but it gets past Rojas who came in for Rojas
Wilson up in the pen
Geez. RA and no outs.
@Dusty - a double switch of some kind. They will pinch hit for League as he leads off next inning
Oh shit. RA & 0 outs for the Reds. LEAGUE IS BACK
UJTD!
Like I said, OWNING
token DAMMIT for Karen beating me to it
that's a way to do it
Well, League got out of it
Wow. He got out of it.
watch, after that miracle of a DP, he'll give up the 3-R homer
Quick with another point-blank save
and the chopper to short gets him out of it, unreal
Orel...I'll take the token but you got me back on League.
League wriggles out! That is HUGE
Dee up!
oh god, Maholm up in the pen
Great minds, Karen
Kenley too. I kind of wish they had scored a run in the 8th
Dee running well enought to beat that out
leadoff single in the ninth for PH Gordon.
Still 6-2 Dodgers. My sense is that we'll need more.
Dee CS? Say it ain't so
Kings on the PP
Dee CS? Must still be injured....
Kenley in for the 4-out non-save
i mean 3-out, 4 run
Kenley went straight after thr first hitter
Skip grounds out for the second out
Kenley clean in the 9th
Partymakintime!
Purdy dang quiet out there at Madison Square Garden
Boom! KJ shutdown.
6-2 victory!
Rangers pull Lvndqvist
I mean pvll
Ahhh, poor Lvndqvist!
KINGS WIN!
3-0 for 3-0
Quick was a god tonight
The rare Dodgers/Kings win!! I'll take it!
Perfect game by the Kings
These Kings, man.
Now watch it go to Game 7 and then the Kings win it there
POST-GAME THREAD UP, BABY
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