4.12 4.40p: Andrew Heaney vs. Chris Archer 4.13 10.10a: Clayton Kershaw vs. Chris Paddack
Aren't these twins cute?* Except the Dodgers are facing a different group of Twins, who re-stocked their last-place lineup with cheater Carlos Correa as well as former San Diego Padre Chris Paddack (whom the Dodgers see on Wednesday). Wednesday would also mark the 2022 debut of Clayton Kershaw, on whose shoulders we could be leaning to get us back above .500 (assuming we win Tuesday, that is).
(*) I know, you expected me to put up a different type of photo to accompany this post. See how much we've matured here at SoSG? Well, not really. But for this particular picture, yes.
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1 – 200 of 216 Newer› Newest»Looks like a lot of rain forecasted for today (and thundershowers tonight). I don't think today's game is going to happen.
Tarp coming off the field and game is expected to start on schedule. Still more rain coming but Hartung says there's a window to get the game in.
Building a new stadium in Minnesota without a roof is still one of the dumbest things ever.
GAME 1
Betts RF
Freeman 1B
T Turner SS
Muncy 3B
J Turner DH
Smith C
Bellinger CF
Taylor LF
Lux 2B
Heaney P
Wow there's a game! Cool!
@karen thanks for posting the lineup
@quad: it is a beautiful field, though. :)
Our Boys are all bundled up in the cold Minnesota air. Gavin Lux looks like he's getting ready to rob a bank.
Cheater stranded on second. Our guys coming to bat.
Top of the second actually. Forgot we are on the road.
0-0 through 2 frames.
We don't have a hit yet.
Cody Ks on three pitches. Yay
CT3 Ks as well
Lux double breaks the seal! Now here's Mookie with two out
Dammit, Mookie flies to left. Three out.
0-0 through 2.5
Heaney gets two Ks in a clean B3.
0-0 through 3.
It'd be cool if the Dodgers score some runs here.
Someone needs to shoot off a memo to Fab Freddie to tell him not to be nice to Spitter Correa.
Freeman with a leadoff double to start the fourth, and then Turner grounds to short, Muncy pops to third, and JT Ks.
Seriously, this is pathetic.
We have two hits through four innings.
I hate Carlos Correa.
Now Correa with a leadoff double, in B4.
Polanco flies to right. One out.
Heaney gets Urshela to ground to third (5-3), and then Ks Gary Sanchez on three pitches (83 curve, 91 fastball, 84 changeup).
0-0 through 4.
Time to start getting some runs, guys.
Heaney at 52P / 35S through 4; Archer at 63P / 39S.
Oh wait, Archer is gone. Josh Winder comes in for the fifth.
Heaney looking pretty good through 4.
Will Smith works it full but gets Kd anyway. One out.
CODY BELLINGER TAKES A FIRST PITCH FOR A BALL!!!
And now it's 2-0 on Cody. Who put on Cody's uni?
3-0 to Cody!
Cody takes a five-pitch walk. Wow.
Bellinger steals second.
This is going to be a short game, we really need to score here.
Double steal. Nice.
Alright. We're on the board. 1-0.
Lux with a sacrifice fly to center! Bellinger had stolen third as well on a double-steal (CT3 walked and stole second).
Two outs, CT3 on third, Mookie up. Dodgers on the board 1-0
Score
Mookie flies out. He's now 0-for-3.
1-0 LA through 4.5
This is basically what they expected when the Dodgers put together this lineup: scratching out runs with sac flies and double steals, one run per frame.
Uh oh, leadoff double by Max Kepler.
Jeffers grounds to third, so runner holds at second. One out.
Heaney hits Miguel Sano on the second pitch. First and second, one out.
So much for my plan of getting on the board and praying for rain.
Trea Turner turns a GIDP ball into no outs and a run for the Twins. Damn.
Bazooka coming in to pitch in shirt sleeves. What a freaking stud.
Trea Turner makes an error, allowing Max Kepler to score. Tie game. Heaney chased.
Trea Turner is now batting .200 and also has two errors in four games.
Graterol checks in at 100 mph.
The Spitter is coming up. If that bastard gets a hit I might cry.
Tears avoided.
For now.
Bazooka gets us out of the mess.
1-1 through five. I'm not watching this game; is rain beckoning? We need to take a lead quickly.
@Sax. Yes. Rain is coming.
Dammit! Freeman was up 3-0 on the count and grounds to second. Come on, man.
sounds like lightning is coming. they're gonna have to call this game.
Max works a two-out walk.
Twins call for a pitching change, also to stall for time given the rain.
Turner Ks on three pitches. Great.
If the game is stopped today and it’s still tied, do they finish it tomorrow?
I would think they'd finish the game tomorrow
I think so too. They'll pick up in whatever inning they were in when the game was called.
David Price relieves Graterol with two out and a man on first. He has Max Kepler 1-2 and loses him to a walk. Thanks, David.
Jeffers flies to second for the third out.
1-1 through 6 frames.
one pitch line-out for Will Smith (0-for-3 today).
We have two hits all game.
Cody Ks on three pitches again.
Cody: 0-for-2 with 2 Ks. And a walk.
CT3 triples! Holy cow.
CT3 now batting .556
Taylor was hustling hard on that triple
Dammit
And, Lux strands him.
Dodgers now 0-for-6 with RISP
Can't blame Lux though as he and CT3 are the only people hitting in the lineup
Daniel Hudson with a 1-2-3 sixth, including a K on Buxton. Nice!
Colorado winning; SF up on SD 6-0 in B1
Mookie works a 0-2 count into a leadoff walk. Promising.
Redemption for TT!!! Mookie scores on Turner's hit. 2-1 T8, no outs.
Trea Turner atones! Single to left scores Betts from second.
Freeman on second, speedy Trea on first. None out, Dodgers up 2-1
@karen, is it windy where you are? today was nuts.
Bases juiced for JT. Still no outs.
No outs
@Sax...It did get windy this afternoon but it didn't last for long.
JT brings in Fab Freddie. 3-1 and still nobody out for the Fresh Prince.
Another horrible call against Will.
Wow Jeffers got his bell rung.
The Fresh Prince doubles in two. 5-1 Good Guys.
Third K tonight for Belli.
Bellinger strikes out again
Gotta bench him soon
6-1 Dodgers
Babe Lux brings in another run. 7-1 LA.
Arraez is having quite an inning over at third.
I thought they were getting rid of the shift this year?
That's a wrap
Umps calling for the rain delay. 7-1 B8.
So what happens if they call the game? Do we lose those six runs because they didn't get fair ups?
David Vassegh just said play is supposed to resume at the bottom of the hour.
Game back on.
Target Field is almost completely empty.
Oh, this is not re-starting well.
Walk, single, and then force at second. Twins at the corners, one out.
Our infield look like a bunch of terrorists.
Sanchez Ks on a high fastball. Still Twins at the corners with two out
96mph on that strikeout fastball. Nice job, Garrett
Doc coming out with a hook. Phillips coming in.
Max Kepler base hit scored Nick Gordon, so it's 7-2 LA.
Hey Sax...Did you hear Joe and EK talking about the Padre, Giants game with the Hated Ones leading 12-2 and one of them came up and bunted for a hit? I missed most of it but it sounded like there were some pissed off Padres after that.
End of the eighth. LA up 7-2
Joc Pederson just got his first HR of the season, off of Wil Myers of the Padres (who was pitching in a blowout 13-2 game)
Muncy works the walk.
The rain delay let me hear David Vassegh opine on Muncy, who apparently hasn't hit a HR all year yet (incl. preseason). Cause for concern?
Wild pitch allows Max to take second. JT up there with a 2-2 count.
JT walks. Dodgers at first and second.
ok two out!
Byron Buxton is up with two out in the bottom of the ninth.
@karen: I didn't hear that. I'm listening to the radio but not watching it (it's a long story). That's so Giants.
WIN
WIN!!
See you bright and early tomorrow! 10a start.
GAME 2
Mookie Betts RF
Freddie Freeman 1B
Trea Turner SS
Max Muncy DH
Justin Turner 3B
Chris Taylor LF
Cody Bellinger CF
Gavin Lux 2B
Austin Barnes C
Will Smith (batting .111) sits. But Dodgers have not won this year with Barnes in the lineup.
Innings pitched from starters
Buehler 5.0
Heaney 4.1
Gonsolin 3.0
Urias 2.0
Never would have guessed Heaney would be #2 on the list (through four games).
Sorry--Will Smith is batting .182 after going 1-for-5 last night.
HAPPY FIRST KERSHAW DAY OF 2022!!!
@karen! GM!
@Sax...Back at you!
38 degrees for first pitch. Yikes.
Leadoff double for Mookie! That's a good sign
@Sax...Since you were listening to the radio broadcast yesterday....Joe and EK were talking about Mookie and how much he hates the cold. EK said that the day of the news conference introducing him he had a hoodie on under his jersey and it was in the 70's.
What a catch by Gordon
Two on, one out here in the first
Muncy HBP to load the bases
@karen 10.13a: yeah I can't imagine this game. 38 degrees, wind at 18mph out to center. yikes.
Ouch. Muncy plunked in this cold weather.
Bases juiced for JT....
why is JT swinging on a pitch head-high
JT comes through with a two-run single to right! Great
Solid hit for CT3...haha but we'll take it
Its gonna be a long season for the Twins
Why does Bellinger have to bat
CT reaches on a fielding error by Paddack. Bases loaded again, this time for Cody.
Horrible. Bench the fucker already
Cody works a 3-0 count back into a strikeout. Nicely done, Belli.
AND, Paddack pitched him inside (instead of away), three straight pitches, and Cody Kd. He can't hit down and away, and now he can't hit inside.
Lux grounds to second to end the inning.
Two runs, three hits. Should have been more than two runs.
Clayton starts out 2022 with a strikeout!
2-0 LA through 1
Mookie with a one-out single in the second.
Freeman doubles! Mookie moves to third.
Trea Turner sac fly makes it 3-0.
Muncy flies out. Again, we leave ducks on the pond.
5 LOB through two innings.
But we're up 3-0
4 K's for Clayton through 2.
Kershaw has two Ks through 2 innings!
3-0 LA through 2.
Nice Kershaw
Cody double whaaaaaaaat?
Two out, though
Lux Ks on three pitches. Oh well.
6 LOB in 3 innings.
Dodgers 2-for-8 with RISP
Kershaw Ks Gordon for the third out.
Kershaw has 32 pitches through 3; Paddack has 64 pitches through 3.
Kershaw with five Ks through 3.
Kershaw with two more Ks in the fourth. 7 Ks through four.
3-0 LA through four frames.
Two on no outs for JT.
Two leadoff walks for the Dodgers, then JT advances them on a sac fly. Trea on third; Max on second. CT3 up with one out. Top 5
Yikes. Trea out at home on an FC. And then Cody grounds out on the first damn pitch.
SOMEBODY STOP CODY
Dodgers team LOB now 7 through five frames (2-for-11 with RISP). My god, string some fucking hits together guys
Spectrum keeps freezing up. If it doesn't quit I'm going to have to pull an Elvis and shoot my tv.
Clayton opens up the fifth with a K on Polanco. That's 8 Ks on the day.
Buehler and Heaney each have 5 Ks, so Clayton moves well into the lead.
Clayton at 9Ks through 5. The fifth took him only eight pitches.
1 more K for Clayton and it's Jumbo Jack heaven for us.
As man. I want a free jumbo jack.
TWELVE K's through 6. Whoa Nelly!!
Dayum
Doc is going to earn his check on this one.
Clayton with 13 Ks now, with that K of Buxton to start B7.
Kershaw gets Luis Arraez to pop out to third.
Goosebumps
Kershaw has something very special here, through 7.
Dayum. Almost had a heart attack
@Sax...Nothing yet. The talk is about should he leave Clayton in to continue to pitch. The plan was for 70 pitches and 5 innings.
@karen: oh, got it. thanks
Gotta leave Kershaw in.
Taylor is 0-for-4 now, and plummeting back to a .333 average
Bellinger HRs WHAAAAAAAAAAT
Bellinger?
Belli and Lux go back to back. 5-0 LA T8.
Lux HR! Back to back
Back to back baby!
And now Barnes!!
Lux and Bellinger now tied with Barnes for the 2022 Dodgers HR lead
Fuck yeah. Wtf?
And BARNES comes back to re-take the lead!
Barnes hits the third consecutive HR here. Wow
What is happening?
Daniels Jewelers is giving away $50 gift cards like water
In other news, Trevor Bauer's leave extended to April 22.
Betts flies to second for out #2 of T8
With that HR (and double earlier), Bellinger gets above Mendoza. Muncy is now the only Dodgers starter below .200 (he's at .063), besides Will Smith (.182, but not playing today).
Shades of Chicken Strips first start.
Turner grounds out to end the inning.
On to the bottom of the eighth, 6-0 LA.
Kershaw is getting pulled! What the hell.
That sucks.fucking Roberts
Kershaw only at 80 pitches.
Wow! Tuned in late. Sucks to have Kersh pulled on this one.
Alex Vesia gets a ground out, and then Gary Sanchez singles.
HORRIBLE CALL TO PULL KERSHAW
Way to go, Alex Vesia.
I'm pissed off. Fuck
Two on, one out.
Vesia escapes.
6-0 LA through 8. Twins have one hit and two errors.
Hey we flipped comment pages! wow
How about a hit here, Max
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