Rookie Hazing, Part Four

Lonnie Murray is Director of Marketing for Dave Stewart's company, Sports Management Partners. She posted these pictures at @SMPLonnie:

Rookie Hazing, Part Three

?, Kenley Jansen, Dee Gordon, Tim Federowicz, Javy Guerra, Jerry Sands, Russ Mitchell, Justin Sellers, Trent Oeltjen, Josh Lindblom.

Some additions on the right. Let us know if you know who they are!

Jansen.

Gordon & Sellers.

Federowicz, Gordon, Sands.

Guerra, with Lindblom and ? in the background.

Gumby doing the Gumby?

1, 3, 5 & 7: @Dodgers; 2 & 8: @TheRealMattKemp; 4: @dodgerscribe; 6: PONealFSWest

Rookie Hazing Is Back!

From @Dodgers:

A #Dodgers rookie tries on his outfit for the team flight to Arizona. Any guesses on #Gumby's identity?

UPDATE: @Dodgers: FYI Gumby was @skinnyswag9

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@Dodgers:

RT @DodgerManny58: I just saw my favorite pitcher @JavyGuerra54 dressed as taco coming into the stadium...

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Jerry Sands and Russ Mitchell, from VSIMH (photo by John Pinga):

Post-Game 149 Thread: Ready Steady Gone

PIRATES 6, DODGERS 2

It was a matter of time before Dana Eveland's impressive late-season callup run was going to come to an end. But it was a bit of a starry-eyed surprise to have the end come at the hands of Pirates starting pitcher Paul Oakenfold Ross Ohlendorf, who had not had a HR in his five-year MLB career (3.5 years of which were in the NL). But Ohlendorf's three-run shot in the second inning capped a shaky nine-batter inning for Eveland, who ended up lasting only five innings and seeing his ERA balloon to (a still respectable) 2.25.

Russ Mitchell had a solo HR in the fifth. Matt Kemp went 0-for-3 but reached on a HBP (he was CS). Dee Gordon went 2-for-4 and scored a run off a Justin Sellers double in the first. But other than that, the bats were deathly quiet; Gordon was the only Dodger with multiple hits, and the 4-5-6 Minor Misdemeanor Offenders' Row of Juan Rivera, James Loney, and Jerry Sands went a combined 1-for-12 (a meaningless ninth-inning two-out single for Sands). (And no, I didn't fall for the whole tying-run-at-the-plate thing, when the hail mary needed was an Aaron Miles GS to tie.)

There was some cause for rubberneckin' in the bottom of the fifth inning, however, when the car wreck known as Eugenio Velez PH for Eveland...and struck out on four pitches, bringing his resume to 0-for-32 on the year (and according to Josh S., 0-for-41 going back to last year; Velez hasn't had a hit since May 18, 2010).

(Most of Oakenfold's videos are all non-embeddable, but if you wanted to look at a couple I would recommend "Faster Kill Pussycat" (starring Brittany Murphy), and then this guy's "hack job" Bourne Identity-spliced video to "Ready Steady Go", which is better than the original video.)

Post-Game 46 Thread: That Was...Unexpected

Russ Mitchell saves the day.

DODGERS 6, WHITE SOX 4 (10)

Top of the ninth. White Sox 3, Dodgers 2. Little-used Russ Mitchell up. White Sox de facto closer Sergio Santos pitching — he of the 20 straight scoreless innings. Two out, Dodgers almost down to their last strike. Game over, right?

Nope. Mitchell socks a game-tying home run (!), the Dodgers add three more runs (!!) in the top of the tenth (including a James Loney RBI double (!!!)), and Don Mattingly uses three pitchers to close it out.

Matt Kemp's two-run homer in the first kept the Dodgers in the game, and the only negative news from tonight's game is that Juan Uribe left in the seventh with a strained hip flexor. After all, it wouldn't be a Dodger game without another injury.

AP photo