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I hope we win!

we need it

keithc13 - October 3, 2011 reply

Top of the First

Matt Kemp leads off, looks comfortable in the lead off spot.

Strasburgh showing no signs of rust hits 98 on the black. Kemp takes his base doing his best not to rub

Carroll takes the count 3 – 2, full count pitch, Kemp goes, Carroll dribbles it to 1st base Morse throws
to Stras for the out, however Kemp keeps going, headed for 3rd, Strasburgh was not paying any attention after taking the throw from Morse and Kemp slides in head first as Strasburgh doesn’t even attempt a throw.

Kemp seems agitated about being hit and is doing his best to annoy the future flameout. Kemp goes on the first pitch, Dee reaches across the plate but misses it the squeeze, Kemp with a full winter of rest in front of him plows into
Ramos and knocks him into the 4th dimension, with the ball headed toward the seats. 1 – 0 Dodgers.

Pudge Rodriquez now catching.

Dee Gordon strikes out waving meakly at 98 at the knees

Juan Rivera strikes out on three pitches. Stras was clearly angry.

I love that Kemp just powered in a run on base running

Tougher than a robot made of nails!

LOL

Strasburgh showing no signs of rust hits 98 on the black. Kemp takes his base doing his best not to rub

pleased you noticed

Dee hitting 3rd.

Reason for this is obvious

Dee makes Miles look like a reasonable choice as a #3 hitter, from a power perspective.

Kemp’s getting his 40th today!!!!! YES!!!

WGiles24 - October 3, 2011 reply

HGT

Two things

1. Kemp better get his 40th
2. He better get it in some obscure and totally weird way.

is Canseco’s head in play?

Alex Cora ends up in CF due to crazy circumstances

and leaps up to catch a home run bound ball hit by Kemp to straightaway center field, catches the ball but loses his glove.

The Blue Dahlia runs on to the field distracting Werth and Ankiel, who run into each other while pursuing a Kemp gapper to RCF. Hilarity ensues.

Bottom of the First

Ian Desmond leads off poking a single over Loney’s head, he’s going for two, Sands picks up the wet baseball and fires it to Dee who applies the tag on Desmond. One out

Bernadina lifts a ball down the line in LF, Juan Rivera is not going to get but Dee Gordon is snatching the ball going full horizontal just as the ball was about to land fair.

Werth takes strike one, ball one, strike two, ball two, ball three, then drives it deep to CF, Kemp is on his horse and pulls it down in dead center with his back to the plate.

Eveland tells Velez he got his guys.

This game is going by fast.

Dodgers radio deal with KLAC 570 runs through 2014, and says DodgerTalk will run for “at least one hour after every game.”

They will also have a one-hour DodgerTalk from the start of spring training through opening day Monday through Saturday at 7pm.

No word yet on who will be on those shows.

Eric Stephen - October 3, 2011 reply

I am going to guess

it will be the producer for the Petros and Money show, David Vassegh

I can recall the Dodgers being on

640 KFI, 790 KABC, 1150 Fox Sports, 980 KFWB and now 570 KLAC. The Dodgers were on KMPC when they first arrived to Los Angeles but moved to KFI in 1960-61.

i am waiting for the call to host this

BST

I once got in a huge argument with a Brit about whether or not Britain had an equivalent of Daylight Savings Time.

There was a press release going out saying X would happen at Y o’clock GMT. It was an international release, covering many time zones, so it had to be right. I asked if that was right. We got in a huge argument. “Greenwich is in London,” he said. I said, “Yes, I know Greenwich is in London. I have been to the Greenwich Maritime Museum and taken the cheesy picture of myself with one foot in the east and one foot in the west. I am not asking you where Greenwich is. I am asking if Britain is on Greenwich Mean Time in the summer.”

His response was not kind, which I guess I deserved.

Bloody Yanks

not knowing about time and all it’s facets.

2nd Inning

Jim Loney laces a stand up double into the right center gap

Sands strikes out on four pitches

AJ Ellis walks

Miles hits into a double Play

A normal sized person would have gotten a hit.

You might have broken in half by the sheer velocity of the fastball whizzing by you?

I know I got short somehow, but I think I would have remembered that.

Bottom of 2nd

Eovaldi now in to face Zimmerman, Espinosa, Morse

Zimmerman watchs Eovaldi throw four straight 99 MPH for balls and takes his base
Eovaldi settles down and walks Espinosa on six pitches
Morse launches the gimme strike deep into the bleachers putting to rest the idea that Eovaldi can minimize home runs.
AJ Ellis visits the mound, smacks him on ass, and heads back.
Eovaldi now feeling invigorated by the smack on his ass dials his 99 upto 100 and strikes out Pudge, Ankiel, and the pinchitter, LaRoche.

Score 3 – 1 after two

Eovaldi’s first strikeouts as a reliever!

Eric Stephen - October 3, 2011 reply

I still think

meercatjohn’s radio drama will be more entertaining than this game.

Kemp hasn't homered yet?! DFA him!

{taps foot expectantly}

Oh well, maybe he’ll have a flair for the dramatic… ;-)

underdog - October 3, 2011 reply

Eric recycles!

Los Angeles Dodgers at Washington Nationals, Sep 8, 2011 2:05 PM PDT

Meanwhile, OT, and harsh...

RT @jimcallisBA Would help if system wasn’t worst in game. @pgammo: Ken Williams: “we’re going to let the kids play” . . . young culture coming #WhiteSox

underdog - October 3, 2011 reply

Youth culture killed Kenny Williams’ dog.

I hope someone

is scoring this game at home.

3rd Inning

Velez pinch hits himself for Eovaldi when he sees the Nationals have replaced Strassburgh with Atahualpa Severino.

Velez bunts toward Morse and beats it out as Morse and Severino were caught in no mans land by the perfect bunt.

VELEZ GETS A HIT

Matt Kemp walks up as the tying run. Severino nervously looks at Kemp and decides not to look over at Velez hoping he will steal second so he can walk Kemp on purpose. Velez is having no part of it, and doesn’t take off.

Ball one
Ball two
Ball three

Zimmerman visits the mound and chastises the kid for being afraid to throw strikes.

Strike one, down the middle.

Strike two, down the middle

The kid is feeling confident and lets er fly

SHE GONE

two milestones in one inning

WHAT ARE THE ODDS?!?!?!

Tommy Blackjack - October 3, 2011 reply

You couldn’t script it.

#cantpredictbball

40/40!!!

WGiles24 - October 3, 2011 reply

Atahualpa Severino

sounds like the perfect name for a Mayan.

Baseball’s answer to Cuahtemoc Blanco.

Little Blue Bicycle - October 3, 2011 reply

He’s hoping for a big 2012.

He’s playing like there’s no tomorrow!

Little Blue Bicycle - October 3, 2011 reply

The Dodgers wanted to sign him but he said no way to a backloaded deal.

rec

Gameday has the ump squeezing Severino.

That's why they call him

The →→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→ uh…

hitng

nolander - October 3, 2011 reply

After the game

The official scorer takes pity on Severio, figuring anyone who actually gives up a hit to Velez might become suicidal, and calls the play an error, because really, there must’ve been an error someplace if Velez ended up on first, right?

what official score

it never happened

homerun matty?

??

bornblue86 - October 3, 2011 reply

I read that as Manny

ives has a live chat right now

Hey Ives, you kept hitting me with your elbow. Is it true you can’t control the flail of your arms?

too much MLS for me

but just enough USMNT to keep me interested.

The 2011 MLB playoff teams in infographic form.

I was about to be all pissy and say you linked it wrong, but I see flipflopflyball did it FOR Grantland. Is Grantland something I’m supposed to hate? I can’t keep track.

If Grantland just stuck to sports, it would be awesome. The NFL preview pieces are good (Bill Barnwell from Football Outsiders) and they have some good baseball writing (I like Jonah Keri and the other guy’s name that I can’t spell).

But the whole “Hollywood Prospectus” crap is stupid.

yeah, pretty much

and BS is still writing for ESPN, this is just his side project that directly competes with them and is a conflict of interest?

Having multiple ways to laugh at Bill Simmons can’t be a bad thing.

regfairfield - October 3, 2011 reply

Grantland is an ESPN-owned site.

ah, there it is. Those bastards

LOL

at the last two categories.

best one

surprised that the Cardinals have done almost as well in the draft as the Rays. But the best fans in baseball deserve a homegrown team

The last criterion is the best.

@TheRealMattKemp has more twitter followers (~55,000) than any of the playoff teams except Yankees, Phillies and Rangers, and he’s close to Texas at ~61,000.

Matt Kemp hit that so far he broke open the skies and the deluge has started. Tarp on the field

crap

hope the game doesn’t get rained out

Tommy Blackjack - October 3, 2011 reply

I hope Velez gets Vince Coleman-ed

Little Blue Bicycle - October 3, 2011 reply

I predict now that he finishes behind Teddy Roosevelt too.

Does Supernintendo Chalmers need to mentor him?

as in throwing firecrackers at kids?

That's not rain

that’s the Big Blue Dodger in the Sky weeping tears of joy that he created Matt Kemp.

is this game really going on?

its not on any of the sports sites…?

bornblue86 - October 3, 2011 reply

No, there’s a rain delay. Didn’t you read?

Orson Welles is guest color commentator.

WGiles24 - October 3, 2011 reply

my god, such simple things bring such joy

Don't let the jackals fool you

It’s a re imagining :)

Let me know when the game is back on.

Alex41592 - October 3, 2011 reply

Vin Scully has a direct line to the man upstairs, doesn’t he? Can’t he do something about the rain?

HJ Proposed a situation a while back that was absolutely perfect. Ninth inning, and Eugenio Velez comes in to pinch hit and gets his first hit of the season in order to extend teh inning just long enough to give Kemp an extra at bat. Kemp hits #40. THis must happen.

court168627 - October 3, 2011 reply

too late.

don't care.

im choosing my own fantasy to live in.

court168627 - October 3, 2011 reply

flattered you chose mine…i guess?

aren’t we all?

no.

court168627 - October 3, 2011 reply

I like to believe otherwise.

Can’t wait for when Vic the Brick hosts Dodgertalk.

Alex41592 - October 3, 2011 reply

Been there done that

back in the 1150 days. It was as painful as you’d expect it to be.

Kind of OT

I never watched the “Outer Limits” because as a kid, that opening sequence freaked me out. Also, I just enjoyed the Twilight Zone more and never got into Outer Limits or Night Gallery.

Night Gallery sacred by littleness something fierce, I would not watch it

Twilight Zone and Outer Limits also scared me, but I loved watching them