Zack Greinke (0-0, 0.00) vs. Tyson Ross (0-0, 0.00)
Greinke takes the mound tonight, following in the footsteps of Clayton Kershaw yesterday. But tonight will also mark the Dodger debut of Yasmani Grandal, whose replacement of A.J. Ellis at catcher represents the biggest positional improvement in projected WAR, short of Jason Heyward's replacement of Allen Craig in RF for St. Louis. Grandal swings the Dodgers' WAR +4.1 (which is still distilled by projected Juan Uribe degradation at 3B to be a net loss of -4.1 in aggregate across all nine positions).
I suppose the starting lineup composition is still manager Don Mattingly's call (perhaps Greinke could choose to opt out?), but I'm guessing Greinke has a Grandal time tonight at the Stadium.
Greinke is 4-0 with a 1.84 ERA in his career against San Diego, going 3-0 with a 1.66 ERA the last two seasons, according to mlb.com. Tyson, on the other hand, was mocked in an early-April appearance last year, from which he's never recovered (allegedly). Ross lost four of his 14 games against the Dodgers last year. So let's go get us some chicken tonight!
Argh, too many bad puns. Head...hurts.
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Rollins SS
Puig RF
Gonzalez 1B
Kendrick 2B
Grandal C
Crawford LF
Uribe 3B
Pederson CF
Greinke P
I like that we lead off with RPG.
We need more position players with vowels (Brett Anderson doesn't count in the 9-hole), now that Ellis and Ethier are both sitting.
Let's go!!!
David Vassegh @THEREAL_DV 3m3 minutes ago
UPDATE: 1st pitch will now be 7:40pm #Dodgers #Padres
took long enough for the game to start,mang
that was a horrible non catch by Crawford. My gawd!
Epale, yinz guys!
Did Greinke get highlights?
runner on first and second for Pederson. knock the shit out of the ball,mofo!
Uribe walk? I'm so confused right now
Joc strapped there with two on, flies out to center for the third out.
1-0 SD through 2
Greinke gets Kemp to ground to Uribe for the third out.
1-0 through 2.5
Just got a Puig highlight from last year on my between-innings MLB.com tv broadcast.
Gah! Maybe a couple of years ago, Rollins, you coulda stretched that into a triple.
JRoll gets rolled trying to stretch for three. Hmm.
AZ takes a 7-4 lead in the fifth vs. SF
A-Gon, leadoff single. Come on, Kendrick
Kendrick SB (1)
Crawford with one out and two on...
Crawford flies out to deep left center, but still a fly out. And here's Juan.
Now would be a good time for your first hit of the year, Uribe
people in ponchos cheering
juan took the first ball for a strike!!! who is this guy, that never happens
Meanwhile, the Kings season is starting to circle the drain. :/
Uribe lunges for one and gets nothing. Grounds to third for the third out.
AZ 7, SF 6 (T6)
Vin's got a bit of a baseball-crush on Tyson. It's not quite CarGo level, but it's there.
Piss?
Let's not start trending that way, Goribe...
Gyorko comebacker for out #1 in the fifth
We should have gotten Ross instead of Grandal for Kemp
Hey guys, we need to score some runs here
This lack of offense is getting me in the mood for the softball tournament.
that 2-2 pitch to Kemp was a strike, but called a ball. Brutal.
As is this beer.
And, Kemp walks with two out.
@Gnomes: "This lack of offense is getting me in the mood for the softball tournament."
OOH BURN
hey wait
@Gnomes, what beer?
I've grown fond of Cooper's and Little Creatures
Kemp steals on Grandal.
Kemp continues to win the trade
dammit, if i'm watching the game on my iphone, I can't MPQ
Upton flies out to Urine
Beer... great idea!
There's always commercials Sax!
PUIIIIIIIIIIIG!
Puig with a lead off double.
It's national beer day so drink up boys and girls.
i'm totally confused here, gameday and tv aren't syncing. puig walks and is on second, but a-gon doubled and yet we didn't score nor have any outs?
A-GON!
AGON RBI!
gameday is jacked. Puig scores on the A-gon double!
1-1
Beautiful double by A-Gon to the right-center gap.
And Kendrick scores A-Gon with a single up the middle!
2-1 LA
Offense! 2-1 Dodgers!
Now Howie with an RBI single through Ross's legs and into center.
González showing off his "speed"
Howie should teach the Kings how to go 5 hole.
^ my phone's keyboard showing off autocorrect
HK CS. Poop.
Lot of running tonight by the Dodgers. Mattingly must feel confident the tarp kept the infield dirt dry.
Petey B on the mound!
Oh, sorry Sax. It's a Sierra Nevada Beer Camp Hoppy Lager. It is what it says it is.
@gnomes - so if AJ was catching, would it be P(etey) B And J?
Nope, that's terrible.
Just got back. Why was Kendrick trying to steal third base???
long AB but Gyorko falls. two out
nice pitch,esay!
@sax - Vin mentioned early I the game that Ross is very susceptible to the stolen base. Maybe Mattingly got the same memo?
The season started? Who knew? FuckTimeWarner
@ Saxy
because third base is a hot commodity in the black market. it's all about the Benjamins,yo
Paco not happening here. Mattingly brings him in for Amarista and he allows Amarista to single to right.
Turner subs for Uribe.
whoops, Barmes came in for amarista
that was a goddamn shame.
Rollins giving us our daily dose of HanRam defense.
JRoll will get this back!
Hey, remember when we were leading? That was fun.
Did Jimmy really have to go ass-over-teakettle on top of missing the catch?
Pretty sure Jimmy's as hungover as I am today
Looked like Puig forgot how many outs there were
shit
FFFUUUUUCCKKK
A FUCKING GONE!!!
AGon AGain!
AGonVP
Vin quoting 50's pop song lyrics. I like it
The old bullpen is back
Ugly.
Puig still Puiging out in right.
When we're bad, we're realllllly bad
At least the Giants lost
Rockies juggernaut atop the NL West
pgt up.
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