Sunday, June 15, 2014

Game 71 Thread: June 15 vs. Diamondbacks, 1p

Josh Beckett (4-3, 2.35) vs. Bronson Arroyo (6-4, 4.22).

With five wins in their last seven games, the Dodgers have closed the division lead gap to 6.5 games, the lowest it has been all month. Do we wanna be startin' somethin'? Because, holy mullets, Bronson Arroyo is today's opposing starter! Arroyo is 5-5 with a 3.75 ERA lifetime against the Dodgers, and though he's run rings around us before, the Dodgers' recent resurgence (including yesterday's impressive come-from-behind victory) means we will likely continue a fine Dodger tradition this afternoon and start scribbling all over ol' Saturn Nuts at the Stadium.

The Dodgers are 10-3 against the Diamondbacks this season. Let's keep this rolling, ladies and gents!

17 comments:

Dusty Baker said...

Gordon 2B
Ramirez SS
Puig RF
Gonzalez 1B
Kemp LF
Van Slyke CF
Romak 3B
Butera C
Beckett P

Dusty Baker said...

Honduras folds - terrible disciple. Lose 3-0 to beatable France.

Ecuador, you folded, too. Your players were rolling around like frightened, whiny schoolgirls crying for a foul while the Swiss took the ball downfield and scored the winning goal.

Discipline is key.

Steve Sax said...

Where the heck is everyone?!

2-1 AZ but they are threatening in the seventh

karen said...

Cody. Fucking. Ross.

karen said...

Dodgers score 1 in the 7th. 4-2 Snakes.

karen said...

Bringing Chris Perez in is equivalent to throwing in the white flag. Snakes now lead 6-2 in top of 9, 2 on 0 out.

Dusty Baker said...

Bringing in that fathead Chris Perez is the equivalent of bringing in Chris Perez.

karen said...

Rox making noise in frisco. 7-6 top of 8 and still batting.

karen said...

Bringing in fathead Chris Perez is equivalent to a big fat L. Final score 6-3 Snakes. HOWEVER Rox now leading gnats 8-7 and still batting in the 8th.

Fred's Brim said...

this team was all kinds of right place at the wrong time can't get out of the way of their 2 left feet all thumbs momentum killing frustrating asshole fuckwads today. They were good enough at times to make me think they could win but would fuck up in the most assinine ways to make me want to throw my computer out the window

Fred's Brim said...

If Matt Kemp was relegated to left for his poor defense in center, where does he get relegated to now? Is he on a one-man slow down strike? Or is Hanley part of it too?

Dusty Baker said...

@FB

What did Kemp do with the leather today? Wasn't able to follow.

Fred's Brim said...

@Dusty 2-1 DBags in the 7th, Montero on first with an infield single with one out. Hill hits a single to Kemp who takes his time to get the ball and get it back in assuming Montero will just stay at second. Montero sees this, tries for third and makes it, Hill goes to second on the throw. The infield is now in with less than 2 outs and Dee gags on a chopper that looked very playable and 2 runs score.

Of course if Dee makes his play, maybe it's a different inning and Kemp is off the hook, but it's just another example of Kemp's lazy/disinterested/unfocused play that got him bumped to left.

Fred's Brim said...

Of course as soon as the Az lead is extended, we mount a rally and score the run that would have tied it if we hadn't given up those 2 runs. But we never would have had the rally if we were only down 1

Dusty Baker said...

@FB

Thanks for walking me through it. Consistent with what I observed the other night when I was there. Total lethargy and lack of focus from Kemp.

Steve Sax said...

To be fair, that seventh inning was full of gags. Gonzo went for an ungettable ball and left first unoccupied when Beckett brainfucked and didn't cover first. Then after kemp's lackadaisical attitude in left, dee totally screwed the pooch on defense to let two runs score.

So it's a collective fuck up. With Kemp on the top

Fred's Brim said...

@Saxy I agree on the quantity and quality of the fuckups, plus Butera overrunning third, all of the GIDPs and Perez existing. Kemp isn't wholly to blame. I am just sad that Kemp's play hasn't changed despite a fairly clear message that it needs to. Maybe it wasn't that clear to him (as CC has suggested) but he has to know that stuff isn't acceptable