Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Game 146 Thread: Sept. 10 vs. Padres, 7p

Rizzo, Newk, Jansen. Oh to be a fly on that dugout wall.

Dan Haren (12-10, 4.17) vs. Ian Kennedy (10-12, 3.75).

If Game 1 of this Padres series was a tantalizing preview of the Dodgers offense of full display, yesterday's Game 2 was a cautionary tale about poor defense and missed opportunities. What will tonight's rubber match bring? Dan Haren has been laboriously restoring his good name here in the second half, and the Dodgers are going to need him if they want to stave off the surging Giants.

28 comments:

karen said...

Puig, CF
Turner, 2B
Gonzalez, 1B
Kemp, RF
Ramirez, SS
Crawford, LF
Uribe, 3B
Ellis, C
Haren, P

Steve Sax said...

Mattingly has Puig batting leadoff!

Orel said...

Thanks for posting the lineup, Karen. No excuse for the Dodgers to lose now

Steve Sax said...

From MLB.com:

"The biggest thing is, we need him," Mattingly said of Puig, whose typically late arrival for batting practice Wednesday was excused because of a family issue, according to the club.

"There's always stuff going on with different guys, but Yasiel basically got us to this point and everything we've tried to do so far is to try to get him going, take the pressure off, the same we'd do for anybody. It's time to get him rolling.

"It's no secret that we have a big series coming up [in San Francisco] and hopefully he plays well tonight and keeps it going the rest of the year. At the end of the day, we know we need him. When he's going good, we're a better team. It's time. Sink or swim."

Steve Sax said...

McCutchen had a sweet inside-the-park HR tonight in Philly.

Orel said...

RA for Puig

Orel said...

RA and full count for Puig

Orel said...

backwards K for Puig

Dusty Baker's Toothpick said...

Puig Destroyer

Steve Sax said...

Puig: 0-for-2 with 3 LOB so far. Donnie's move not paying off yet

Steve Sax said...

Haren wriggles out of a second and third / one out situation. Well done Dan

Dusty Baker said...

Fuck, Hanley. How do you get fucking thrown out at first like that? If I were Donnie I'd say any mother effer who gets gunned down at first the rest of the season is going to get their nuts scribbled on. God dammit.

That is all.

Steve Sax said...

Uribe makes it 3-0!

Orel said...

Nice to see Crawdaddy & Uribe teaming up for some Geico

Steve Sax said...

Giants and diamondbacks scoreless through six

Orel said...

A's lost again. Ha ha!

Dusty Baker said...

Can Gibson pinch hit for someone?

Dusty Baker said...

Why are we anti-A's again?

I'd rather them win so we can laugh at the Angels.

Orel said...

Not anti-A's at all, but I do enjoy that they seemed like a mortal lock to win their division

Dusty Baker said...

And I really do want to be able to gloat about how right I was that trading away Cespedes was the worstest idea everer.

Dusty Baker said...

CRAWDADDY four for four! Wow. Keep it up, Crawdaddy.

Dusty Baker said...

Gnats up 2-0 in the 7th and look like they'll win this one.

rbnlaw said...

We should play the Pads more often.

And the Dbags, too.

Orel said...

Bring on the Giants!

rbnlaw said...

Fucking Gnats up 4-nil.

Dodgers gonna have to take matters into their own hands next week.

rbnlaw said...

Or this weekend. . .whenever.

Dusty Baker said...

And the Rox.

Steve Sax said...

post-game thread up