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Dodgers / Padres Game XVII Chat

Los Angeles Dodgers at San Diego Padres, Sep 24, 2011 5:35 PM PDT


Dodgers Padres
SS Gordon LF Venable
RF Sands 2B Hudson
CF Kemp CF Maybin
LF Rivera
3B Headley
1B Loney RF Hermida
3B Mitchell C Martinez
C Federowicz 1B Rizzo
2B Sellers SS Parrino
P Billingsley P Harang

Game Time: 5:35 p.m.

TV: Prime Ticket

MLB Gameday

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Comments

First

day Matt Kemp becomes the NL batting leader.

Giants scored a run off Kennedy in the top of the 1st

Took him 26 pitches to get out of the inning.

Surkamp

is not helping Kershaw’s cause right now

It’s like a mini dissapointment when Kemp only gets a single.

His batting average went up some. I’m happy with any hit right now.

I’ll take 4-4 with 4 singles tonight.

I never thought I'd care about batting average so much.
Giants are done tonight

Down 4-1 in the 1st inning

I was kind of hoping they win so that Kennedy doesn’t get #21.

I hope he gives up four runs, gets pulled, DBacks come back and win.

Padre & Dodger hitters going up swinging 2nite? nothing on the line so why take pitches
Surkamp already pulled
only lated 2/3 of an inning

Our good old friend Mota is in

Should be a hit for Loney
Loney!

That probably would have been a double for Dee.

I was just about to say if Dee could ever hit it that hard to make that happen he could get to second.

Braun grounds out.

#7 James Loney

Hell Yeah

6-1 D'Backs
LOL

Kennedy doubled in two runs.

Giant game is amazing

6-1 D-Backs and Giant 2nd baseman runs into umpire. Giants starting 6 rookies.

Aw man, Fedex not catching up to fastballs.

It'd be a bummer

If it turned out he had a slow bat

wow!

Loney beat that?

#7James Loney

4 for 4

Loney moves into a tie for tenth among 1B. Leaders: Cuddyer and Hosmer with 11. In the NL, Pujols and Votto tied with 8.

Get on base, guys.

Give more at-bats for Kemp.

Won’t hurt in terms of winning the game, either.

Ugh

Two of our rookies do not appear to possess elite bat speed.

doesn’t look like the timing is there yet for the pitching at this level
Sellers will have to adjust

At least he's a slick fielder

Indeed so. He has great range and only one error all season (127 TC).

And Jerry can play a pretty solid RF

Decent range, cannon for an arm.

Probably the same defensively as Ethier, I’d say.

the either with or without the bum knee?

I MEANT TO SAY ETHIER

I think Jerry has better range than Andre

And his arm is a lot stronger. Andre should play LF next season.

They both take some really weird lines to balls. Neither is great in hte field, but have good arms.

Is Sands’ arm better than Kemp’s?

Sands’ arm is the best I’ve ever seen. Kemp and Ethier have guns, but Sands has a fucking howitzer

Never seen Vlad or Ichiro (or a number of others) throw a ball?

Bo knows baseball

I was assuming he is younger so went with current players.

Not even the stronger RF Dodger arm I’ve ever seen. Reggie Smith.

Fedex has a "quiet" catching motion
Yes

iv noticed that too. Is a good thing?

Hey so Rizzo and FedEx

should know each other really well right?

8 pitch inning?

can we have another one of those?

Looks like Verlander won't be getting his 25th

Went seven innings, threw 120 pitches, Orioles lead 5-4 going into the top of the 8th. Verlander had 6 Ks.

seven innings, threw 120 pitches

Guess they’re not resting him a little for the playoffs. A lot of teams wouldn’t have run him out there after about six innings or so, at around the 100 pitch mark.

He might have an extra day off before his first start

And the Tigers and Rangers are fighting for 2nd in the AL.

Going 7 also put him slightly ahead of Weaver in ERA. Don’t know if that was an incentive, especially since Weaver is making another start.

He has thrown 120 pitches ten times this year and doesn’t start again until Friday.

That is one explanation I saw on Twitter.

Math question

Is it better for Kemp to go 2-4 today or 1-1 with 3 walks.

Moot point. HE’s going 4-4 with 2 HRs.

Slightly better to go 2-4 than 1-1, cause 1-3 = .333, which is > than his current BA.

But, 1 for 1 is 1.000

And 1 for his next 3 is .333

If he finishes the season above .333, then 1 for 1 would have been better.

Completely depends on how many more AB he gets in the next 4 games.

I can't answer this question

without assuming what the hits are, because I care about his OPS title too. :-)

Holy crap this home plate ump is terrible.

Aaron Harang

Largest man ever to bunt.

Johnson, Randy?

What a large bunt

That picture rules. He looks like a masturbating giraffe.

haha. nice visual

Harang’s wider

No pic

but you know who has 1 sacrifice in his career? Jonathan Broxton.

the few times ive seen broxton at bat i just remember thinking his head was going to explode out of the batting helmet

#7 James Loney

Makes the play for the unassisted third out orf the inning.

Only one

of those 40/40 guys hasn’t used steriods.

soriano?

Yeah, the other 3 we know for sure (Canseco, Bonds, A-Rod).

Something I never, ever want to see again

his arms are so tiny there.

World Series

Score tied
7th game
At home
Dee Gordon at third
One out
Yeah Kemp
Squeeze one off

9th innig

No way. Let your best hitter swing away. Sac fly wins the game.

seriously. an inexperienced bunt is a perfect way to ruin your chances to win.

Billingsley getting some good results tonight

Even if he has only 1 K and 2 BB.

especially considering some of these pitches that have been called for balls.

What if Garland and Padilla come back?

Someone will sign each of them to an NRI deal.

We’ll make room on our DL for Padilla?

DEFENSE!!!!!

yeah

holy fuck justin

SANDS TO SELLERS!

I almost said the SS connection but, uh, yeah. I’m not going with that nickname.

He probably was safe at 3B

But the ump was too enamored of the rookie guns.

Wow!

Sands and Sellars. that Padre should have settled for a double.

That had to have been some stupid baserunning, right?

Out trying to stretch a double into a triple with two outs in a scoreless game. Not good.

With all the dodger fails last year

that was nothing

It was stupid, but the defense was perfect. 2 perfect throws.

Braun doubles.

Another dick move
Fact

The Hebrew Hammer co-stars Andy Dick.

Perfect relay-assist-put out

That was really bad.

Please stop sucking

Federowicz

That was the first hit off Billingsley

No-hitter broken up, batter out anyway.

Federowicz - the next A.J. Ellis?

Bat finally starts to play around age 29?

He needs some

inside joke? or just obscure?

This game is flying.

Alright.

Bison bomb. Next inning.

dodgerthoughts: Braun (2 for 3) doubles in seventh. Up to the minute BA: Braun .3309, Reyes .3295, Kemp .32646 #triplecrown #dodgers

Harang is looking like a pitcher right now, what gives

remember he was an out away from no hitting the dodgers earlier this season…

I like blocking out tragic events

well then you shoudl remember that they came back with two straight hits to walk off.

 I was clearly dazed and confused that day, or maybe I missed watching a hell of a game

Damon hit a three run HR. 6-2 Rays.

Shut up Bob Nightengale
#Mlb #Brewers Braun coming up huge down the stretch, emerging as NL MVP coming down the stretch.
I read a tweet just now

where some guy said that matt kemp could still win the triple crown easily, but he’d give the MVP to Braun anyway.

thank god some guy isnt voting.

MLB.com had some asshat making the stupidest arguments for braun/fielder over kemp and there were so many angry comments that they took it down and put up Peter Gammons’s “STFU, Kemp is MVP” article, which is currently up.

Talking like an east coast fuckwad

Another Dodger hater

Years ago Nightingale worked for the LA Times. Don’t know how he left LA, but once he went national, he has never liked the Dodgers. Wonder if some writers will take out their hate on McCourt by not voting for Kemp. Hope not.

Voting for Kemp means more money for Kemp. More money for Kemp is bad for McCourt.

Ha! Go Jon!
@BNightengale Kemp has higher OPS than Braun over past 7 days, past 14 days, past 28 days and past 365 days.

That was DT BTW. Forgot to note that.

Dammit Chad

At least the pitcher is up

Not good. Better get a DP off the pitcher.

Rays win 1 1/2 back of Boston.

Billingsley has pissed me off

ever since that story came out about how he was a dick to a bunch of kids in spring training couple of years ago

The 5th inning has been his nemesis in the past.

That was the 6th.

before it was the 6th
it was the 5th

Lilly is poised to register a better season ERA than Bills

What are you talking about?

He does community outreach at Mattel Children’s Hospital for the Dodgers.

It was a post from a fan that went to the an inaugural game at Camelback Ranch. p.s., didn’t Odalis Perez do something similar?

Sure sounds reliable to me. No one else picked up on it. I’m willing to guess it was a misunderstanding. He doesn’t have a reputation at all for being a dick.

You’re probably right. You’re much closer to the guy than I. The post was from some dude on Scout.com a couple years ago that took a roadtrip to spring training.

Verlander

in line for the loss right now. Orioles have really been spoilers last few weeks.

Fuck

I’ll say it: a bad pitch.

I’m just waiting for Kemp. This is delaying that. Come on Chad.

Fastballs right down the middle with very little movement. Not how you win, Chad.

Sweet throw Fed Ew.

Cameras just made my head explode

Dammit FedEx

Fucking Rookie Catcher

Fucking veteran Bills

WTF is wrong with this Billingsley dude??!!!
He's a bit gutless.
and heartless

Drenched in perspiration.

Clayton Kershaw

Billingsley is not.

Why not just throw the ball up his ass and it over with?

He missed Maybin’s ass.

Should have tried to jam it up there on the first pitch. What’s the point of waiting til 3-2.

Man

I miss the ’08 billingsley

Chad does too

Loney was able to conjure his former self, why can’t Bills

and I’ve got
One more silver dollar …

Game recap title

Kemp gets 40-40, Triple Crown, as Billingsley shits himself in awe

meh, you gave it your all Bills

next season will be your breakout year, trust me.

Billingsley needs brain surgery.

Brain, Heart, Courage.

He needs to see the Wizard!

Et tu?

He’s folded like a cheap suit lately

Tad Billingslilly

The mediocre vet you need at the back of your rotation.

That explains why

that 3 year extensions looks similar to lilly’s contract

Win one Lose one.
Were the Dodgers up by four at the start of the last half inning, well things would stil be salvageable.

Not a word from you jackals while Billingsley was throwing a one-hit shutout through four innings

Two earned runs in the fifth and out you all come.

Bad innings happen, and I get it that Billingsley has been frustrating for most of the season, but really. 2 runs in 5 IP is 3.6 runs in 9 IP. I’ll take it.

What he said!
Did we get a whole new set of posters tonight?

Last night was all smiles and sunshine. Tonight we have slurs and shit.

against the last place Padres???

They wear major-league uniforms and wield bats.

If he keeps pitching like this as our 2nd starter, we’re in deep shit.

No kidding. He won’t be the first guy to rebound from an off-year. He has all off-season to figure it out, as does Honeycutt et al.

thank you for the sanity report dave!

I don’t really believe having a good start tonight would have meant much towards next year. Bills finished last year strong and that didn’t mean shit this year. He needs to put in a lot of work this offseason.

Like Lamar Odom
Bills is what he is

Mr. Inconsistency

Where are the coaches? It’s not like he’s supposed to look at film only by himself and figure where his release point, mechanics, whatever are off.

he may have an undisclosed shoulder or elbow issue
OR
he may require brain surgery

Dee Gordon better learn how to draw a walk and make it fast

He had two on Thursday.

did he?

haven’t really been watching. that 3.3% walk rate is better than 1.2 or whatever it was

From the game recap:

* Dee Gordon walked twice for the first time in his career, and has walked four times in his last four games.

Looks like his heart wasn't in it today.

He had a shit heart.

Atta boy Jerry. Gets Kemp up.

They shouldn’t have told Chad that he had the lead.

Alright

Kemp, time to save Chad’s ass

Ok here we go Matt.

Some brown stains on that baseball

Way to go Sands!

ok everyone

Kemp is up!

Phillies lose their 8th in a row

that almost put a smile on my face

Harang grips the change up with his entire hand, nice
and hangs it for Jerry

should have stopped at second to avoid the inevitable IBB

Won’t IBB him with both teams out of it and Kemp going for batting title.

Throw him a strike!

A looooooong out. Shit.

Damn this fucking ball park.

godammit

just missed it

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhh
Wish we could've teleported to Coors the second he hit it

sux for Kemp

Braun would have willed that ball out

Bills out

after 78 pitches

He was pinch-hit for in the top of the inning.

right

forgot about that

Probably felt the love from TBLA.

I guess there’s no reason to leave him in but it wouldve been nice for him to finish the season with a QS.

Isn’t dodger stadium 395 dead center?

So Kemp’s guaranteed at least 1 more PA right?

Unless he comes out of the game.

I’ve completely forgotten the circumstances, but Gwynn must be on the DL?

DL is sort of meaningless in September. But, he’s out.

I don’t recall any injury. You’d think he’d be pinch hitting, or sometimes playing rather than Oeltjen.

haven’t seen him for a while

Technically no. He jammed his shoulder and last I heard, still couldn’t swing the bat, but could possibly PR. No reason to DL anyone with expanded September rosters.

Not sure how that first comma got in there.

OK, thanks. So he can’t hit but might PR.

2012 outfield meshing

triple crown update!
dodgerthoughts: Kemp a 400-foot fly out to center in 6th. Up to the minute BA: Braun .3297, Reyes .3295, Kemp .3259 #triplecrown #dodgers

Hell of a throw.

I've always been a Bills supporter

no doubt he’s disappointed us all this year, but let’s not bury him- he’s still valuable to us or to another team. The stuff is still there.

yeah, he’s got the stuff alright

Agree

He just needs to believe in his stuff and stop trying to make perfect pitches. His control problems are killing him.

why does Tony Jackson hate Billz so much?
his twitter is quite feisty twd him

It’s his meme. Bills has talent, doesn’t get results.

Nice play by Sellers to get the tag
an make it look easy.

Rizzo does the splits. Wow.

‘Full 10’ on the splits at first per Vin

that was a helluva play
Finally saw the highlight of the Sand/Sellers relay

Jerry’s throw was fine, but Seller threw an absolute laser there, and got rid of it in a hurry. Really nice play

Screw that guy.

but I love that defense

BTW

Fuck Petco Park.

its a shit ballpark.

Hit catcher

I guess the hitter doesn’t get first base for that. Our only chance that inning.

Effen shortstop killed our rally

goes excellent to his left by the way

Kuo intentionally hit that guy

OBVIOUSLY

lol

what shitty game now

What’s Kuo doing still in there?

That'll

teach you for making those great defensive plays.

Sending Kuo back for a second inning: watch all our pitchers break down.

First time in a long while for the Kuo

we're trailing 3-0

not like were going to send anyone good out in that situation

Giants are 9 outs away from their title defense officially coming to an end.

for realz?

awesoke

only bad thing

IPK will get his 21st win

Kershaw will match him tomorrow.

Fuck those guys as well

Honeycutt: Can I get a double double, extra onions.... send that EO kid
i am really liking fedex

and his ability to get those runners

Not the greatest start for USC.

Tackling is overrated

Catcher has an arm, if only he could learn to use a bat

Ned got 3 pitchers back for Tray

hope they fare better than Link and Ely

LMAO

Henry Blanco triple
10-2, Arizona

Hey gang

What have I missed?

Bile, vitriol etc., etc.

S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y! Night!

Bottom of the 5th debacle

Hyperbole

Two RBI singles, a throwing error by the catcher for the third run.

a throwing error by the catcher

Well, I heard we got Federowicz for his……. what? We got him for his defense? SON OF A BITCH!!

Has Velez made an appearance?

No, but he would be the icing on this turd cake

Dude

Get some balance. This is a meaningless game (other than for Kemp) between two teams who are playing out the string. We’ve seen far, far worse games than this.

Want a turd game?

Switch over to USC

Have you forgotten that I am a UCLA man? Schadenfreude isn’t exactly my thing, but….

I know I guess I’m just bored. We still got Kemp in the top of the 9th right

Right. Against Heath Bell?

He’ll ring his Bell, I’m confident

Lindblom

is a ROOGY tonight

did something happen to lindblom?
Mattingly didn't want him to face Headley
damn

90mph slider

where’s the mirth?

Matt Kemp is only 1-3 with a single (and a 400 ft out – fucking Petco), so everyone’s surly.

Well

Sellers would have made that play easily.

Beat LA towel night

whoever sponsored those is getting their money’s worth

Matt

going to have a challenge in the 9th. I’d be ok with just a single.

How would a game-tying home run sound?

not likely

I’m not saying it is. I’m just asking if you would like it.

We’d all hate it.

Yeah, that’s what I thought.

a full season with the kids in the pen will be fun

Power outage in Arizona. looks really cool

Lights go out

Lights just went out at Chase

Assuming AZ score holds, A team I don't like is going to beat out a team I like even less.

Why do I feel so… empty inside? :-/

Still… HAH. HAH. Giants.

Uh oh, Heath Bell. Won't be easy.
Sometimes

I can’t tell the difference between Dee and Eugenio from afar

Just look in the box score.

Safe?

that was close

just get on base

jerry

Substation out in AZ

Lights could be out for a while or not at all. My guess if they can’t get them on in a reasonable time. It is a suspended game? or is it treated like a rain delay.

Damn... Jerry got off to a good start there but was overmatched at the end.

Here comes Bison!

Fargin sneaky bastage mlb.tv

cuts out right when Matty comes to bat

Selig is a Milwaukee guy, right?

Bummer! It's Working for me.
that is the worst

Well that sucked

DAMNNNNNNNNNNN!

hit that well, too. But a game ending DP.

He’s not a clutchy MVP guy! DFA him!

that sucked

CK will get em tomorrow

Fuuuuuuuccc

Stay classy San Diego, I’m out

he's hitting the ball on the screws

he’ll get those hits for sure.

Kemp's average

now .325 something something

west virginia

got to within 6 right now against LSU, then gave up a 99 yd kickoff return

aww, so we did not win.

bummer

power outage

delaying the inevitable for the giants.

how ironic

Lights back on

Funny comment by Kupier Giants broadcaster….says Giant fan upset about 10 walks and pulled plug…….Geof Blum of the 197 variety just doubles in another run.

any Moneyball reviews?

Go fuck yourself, San Diego.

Lets go to the videotape

I wanted to see who I predicted for MVP, CY, etc.

NL MVP: Hanley
NL CY: Halladay

AL MVP: Mauer
AL CY: Let’s pick somebody weird. I dunno. Trevor Cahill?

magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Mar 31, 2011 10:08 AM PDT up actions

Wow, those picks look great today.

this guy's picks however

are pretty good, sorta

Going through other threads

Score this one “One out of three is really, really not bad”:

Matt Kemp on pace for 243 hits; We’re on pace for 162-0
Hand that man the MVP now…

Dell, Forbort, Frattin, Genoway, Gregoire, Kristo, Malone, Nelson, Trupp. Go Fighting Sioux.
“A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers” -Eddie Cantor
by angelofdeath on Apr 1, 2011 10:28 PM PDT actions

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