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Dodgers / D-Backs Game XVI Chat

Los Angeles Dodgers at Arizona Diamondbacks, Sep 26, 2011 6:40 PM PDT


Dodgers Diamondbacks
SS Gordon 3B Roberts
RF Sands
2B Hill
CF Kemp CF Young
LF Rivera
C Montero
1B Loney 1B Goldschmidt
3B Miles
LF Cowgill
C Ellis RF Parra
2B Sellers SS McDonald
P Eveland P Hudson

Game Time: 6:40 p.m.

TV: Prime Ticket

MLB Gameday

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1st in for the last series!

3-2 Phillies Top 8
4-2 Cardinals Bot 5

4-2 Rays Bot 7
6-2 Orioles Top 7

Reyes 2 for 3.

so

does that mean two wild cards ties if results hold?

Yeah, I screwed up. If the Cards can come back. Yes.

not sure who i’m rooting for between cards and braves.

Hard to root for Cards. Mayhem and Chaos are the current fave scenarios here.

Leave it to Houston to muck things up. I’d hardly believe it myself.

2nd inning homer for matt kemp

after the Dodgers bat around.

we can clinch a winning season

with a win tonight!

It would be so awesome if Kemp hit three home runs tonight.

my prediction

1 HR tonite or tomorrow. 2 HR off of Saunders on teh final day of the season.

needs a multi-HR

game desperately

Patrick O'Neal says a lot of dumb things

He said Clayton Kershaw winning the NL Cy Young “should be as unanimous as any vote ever is.”

Thanks for the support... but...
That is dumb.

But as far as dumb things go, I’ll take that one.

I was going to post that. Dudes a doofus

Halladay is not amused

This news is broken

SportsCenter: Breaking News: Ozzie Guillen to leave #WhiteSox to manage #Marlins

Manager trade! Woohoo!

Seems to have worked out well for the Raiders.

You are Tripon for 2 tonight

that’s why I said it’s broken, SC is the one just catching up : )

(but I was talking about last thread)

did I do something awesome?

…ly late, yes :)

I’m sure an organization that got mad at LoMo Twittering will be a great fit for Ozzie.

fire + gasoline

twist?

SI_JonHeyman: sound like @LoMoMarlins is not in ozzie deal. doubt theyll get a player of that stature for manager begging to go

Chuck LaMar pouts.

If Ozzie Guillen didn’t win that WS, he’d’ve been canned long ago.

I think Ozzie Guillen keeps a lot of the spotlight off Kenny Williams acting the same way as Ozzie Guillen.

Ibanez RBI single. 4-2 Phillies Top 8.

Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said he’d consider batting Matt Kemp leadoff in the final game if he’s one or two homers away from 40

http://twitter.com/joe_block/status/118471623400620032

Well just do it tonight!

Not sure why he’s waiting

An excellent point.

Godot hasn’t shown up yet

Just like Phil has always said, i cant believe Dee didnt have more doubles and triples in the minors. Thats just a normal single that he easily stretched into 2.

Great eye Jerry.

Damon sac fly. 5-2 Rays Bot 7.

May just be me, but that grass looks pristine.

Just wondering, have you ever played on a major league field?

Braves have two on with one out.

GIDP

4-2 Phillies Top 9.

i’d like to see Dee steal third here.

from 2-2 to 3-1?

Damn, that was the pitch

GONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

38!!!!!!!

BISON POWER!!!!!!!!

NO THAT ONE WAS!!!!!! YESSSSSSS

wwwooooooooowwwwwww
MATT KEMP IS GOOD AT BASEBALL

Meh, he’s ok.

Thank god for count confusion.

Get’s a generous border-call from an ump and he takes it to the fucking wall.

Deepest part of the field? God lord I want to fornicate with Matt Kemp

you and me both….

Don’t forget me.

same one

that couldnt leave petco

TMI?

Its not something that any of us here haven’t thought about before.

Right?

I mean, me neither.

“Matt Kemp is so good looking that it doesn’t undermine my masculinity in any way to say so” – G Scott

Gary had a funny line about how good looking Kemp is the other day that I can’t for the life of me remember.

“Matt Kemp is good looking”

that was not it

and you know this

i really don’t remember either, and I can’t google my long term memory.

Fucking classic, man

My line

“Matt Kemp is a beautiful man”

Mrs HJ likes that one

and

“I wish I could be inside Matt Kemp’s body for 3 hours”

Mrs HJ is troubled by that one

IT RUBS THE LOTION ON ITS SKIN OR ELSE IT GETS THE HOSE AGAIN

I just shot coffee through my nose. You guys crack me up

40/40

is happening

man alive! thats power!!
Fuck yeah!!!

Bison is a motherfucking BEAST!!!!!!!

LOL

some guy was just standing there, and got hit by the ball!!

Should have brought a glove
he wasn't looking

“Oh, hey, this guy has hit 37 home runs and I’m standing in the” BAM!

man, that line for the Fatburger sure is loOOW!!!

“You know what, I like Fatburger. Other people touching the lettuce that will end up on my burger is just…”

another hipster down

Another Bison home run when I’m not watching the game. I will NOT watch any games this series.

As I recall Matt went on a rampage the last week in 2010.

SHAZAM!

Loney double

i lied

this is what watching a game with Gary is like

to be fair, that would have been a cool double

no doubt

but “James is gonna hit a bomb….jk” gets old fast

he hit it 410 feet, i think that counts.

oh

go bowl a 190

how about a 221 :)

Spoiler, no wait caught at the wall.

Damn Loney just missed one

man

he gave that a ride

“An awesome silence in the ballpark on his 38th home run.”

-Vin

Matt Kemp has an 8 RBI lead on Ryan Howard

God I hope they are not dicks and bring in Kennedy in relief for a 22nd win

he can’t win if we sweep.

couldn’t we do the same with Kershaw?

For what reason? If Kennedy gets his 22nd win in that manner, everyone will know it was a cheap one.

in 5 years, it’ll just be “who was the last pitcher to win the triple crown?”

Clayton Kershaw in 2012.

What did that bomb put his BA at?

.325 something something something

Lincecum hates black people

This is what watching a game with Josie is like.

Josie – Simon just came out

who’s Simon? Came out of the closet?

yes

and who’s Simon? Really? REALLY?

you had a good run. :(

the doctor! sean maher!

SIMON JUST CAME OUT?!!?

More like Dr. Whogivesashit, amirite?

You let me and mei mei deal with this, k?

To be fair, Josie could claim she meant “(Dr.) Who’s Simon?”

no I just, I didn’t watch Playboy Club, so I didn’t know why he’d be in the medi…huh, not surprising though. Very pretty man

Updated NL batting average

1) Ryan Braun .332734
2) Jose Reyes .332703
3) Matt Kemp .325424

Red Sox have the bases loaded with one out for Salty.

They get nothing. 6-2 Orioles Bot 8.

So the CK triple crown is official?

Nothing is official until the season is over, but unless Ian Kennedy pitches again ain’t nobody can beat Kershaw in any category.

So long as Ian Kennedy doesn’t step on a mound until October 1st.

He won't get another start this season.

And while it’s possible he will pitch in relief to tune up for the playoffs, the odds of a win are remote. There are a lot of factors in a reliever getting a win.

Wednesday, Arizona up 4-0 after 4, Kennedy, on his throw day, pitches a scoreless 5th.

22nd win

Of course

But, that’s only thing keeping him from the triple crown.

Belatedly but... BISON! Stampeding to KEMvP!

the snow on that looks like someone took the spray can tool in ms paint and put a little “snow” on their faces

hah hah. I also read that as "feces" for a second. (Which works, too.)
Good start for Eveland, too. Was worried about him in this one

(as worried as you can be for a relatively meaningless game)

gotta take off for soccer alas, hope to come back and hear about 3 more hits for Kemp.

If Kemp gets 40 HRs

It will mean he will have hit more homeruns in this series(3) than he did in the HR Derby(2)

Atlanta down to their last out. Uggla at 2nd base. Heyward batting.

Braves lose.

100 wins for the Phuckers

here’s the HR in GIF form

Watching it live, it looked like it hit that guy in the face.
Actually, it looks like it hits him on the bounce, no?

So, not quite as bombtastic, but, still.

don’t spit in my taco, bro

You know, I wasn’t planning on being on tonight

was tired of being in front of the machine and all, didn’t want to answer work emails

then Kemp hit that bomb and I just had to be with you all

*weeps

/pat

It’s ok.

This comment is both awesome and extremely sad all at the same time.

we’re a family. A really fucked up family

with apparently some incest

is best, incest that is

YOU DON’T KNOW ME

A better reply would have been to make a joke about Greg and Kelly :)

i just love that comercial and take every opportunity to post it

5-2 Rays Top 9
Shields still in
CG machine this year

Posada hits into a double play. Two away.

Jose Reyes just doubled, is 3-4 tonight, and hitting .333962

Suck it, Jose Reyes

Just got home

Was that home run really hit to the deepest part of the park?

I am soooo siked right now

Shields taken out after walking Chavez.

who are those people with baskets coming down the stairs behind home plate?

Asking people to put the lotion in the basket.

at Chase you can order your food from your seat using an iphone app

oh okay

thats pretty nice (not looking at the pricetag)

want to say it’s a free app

Hudson settled down.

Gotta give it to Hudson

For pitching to Kemp like a man

.324873

It’s okay. 40/40 gets the MVP or IT GETS THE HOSE AGAIN!

6-3 Orioles

Boston has a runner at 1st with one out.

Ortiz beats the shift. Two on and one out.

Gonzalez flies out to left

Two away.

Is that Dee Gordon or Dana Eveland?

One out

parra just had a cry to 1st base ump i think

Victorino style dick cry

Legitimate

Looked safe to me

i think dana tagged him on the knee before stepping on the plate

Eveland should have grabbed his crotch in Parra’s direction.

Then follow up with a fastball to the ribs

Lowrie strikes out

We have a tie in the AL Wild Card with two games to go.

Boston loses

Sully and Murph are unhappy

the rest of the free world smiles

These HP Touchpad ads

are pissing me off

These HP TOUCHPAD ads, are making me THIRSTY

Most RBI, single season, LA Dodgers

Tommy Davis (1962) 153
Shawn Green (2001) 125
Mike Piazza (1997) 124
Matt Kemp (2011) 123

153 is a comic book number

Juan Gonzalez and Manny Ramirez laugh at you.

Hack Wilson says

“That the best you got you pansys?” (chugs beer)

Manny had 165 and finished 3rd in MVP voting

american league, offensive era

still a crazy number

finished behind Pudge’s 35HR 25SB and Pedro’s 2.07ERA and 313K in 213.1IP

this is so stupid

“313K in 213.1IP”

13.2 K/9

Kenley laughs

No he doesn’t

nope

if Kenley could keep that pace up over an additional 260IP in the same time frame, he could then laugh.

his arm would explode

whoops, 160IP, still.

Should have been Pedro, or Jeter.

Griffey had 48 HRs and deservedly finished 10th in the voting

damn

that looked good off the bat

Cardinals have two on and nobody out. Top 8. 4-2 Astros.

The East is the best place for collapsing teams.

but when I hear baseball collapse i think about angels and giants

because?

for some odd reason i find angels’ 1995 season and the ’02 world series very memorable

When the Angels collapse

People die

Marc Carig of the Newark Star Ledger, in St. Pete with the Yankees, just tweeted that the folks at the Trop sounded the horn once for the Rays win, and once again when the Orioles won.

Awesome.

I am excited about this development

I am interested

Cowboys looking stupid

I approve

One woman must have had really bad Mexican food.

A woman was sent to the hospital after a toilet exploded at the General Services Administration (GSA) Building in DC, building officials said.

Angels have an easy path

3 wins against Texas
2 Boston losses against Orioles
2 Tampa losses to the Yankees

7 games, they need 7 specific outcomes to go their way.

TGT

Tied at 4-4 in StL

Berkman with a huge double.

some braves fan

just fainted

There goes the perfect game.

perfect game gone
Miles

(says to himself) “Damn you stubby little arms!”

“not the tallest 3B in the league”

Molina walks. 1st and 2nd. Theriot will probably bunt. Chambers running for Berkman.

Bunt successful. 2nd and 3rd, 1 out. Jon Jay up.

Pops it up. Two away.

Nick Punto grounds to Lee who bobbles it. He slides into first base and because of that he’s out by a few inches.

it would be cool if they called him The Federalist, or The Patriot or something better than either of those

Have we talked about

what Guillen got traded for?

Do we know?

Won’t know until after the season when the trade can officially happen.

a sixer of natty light and a carton of smokes

And a

Media noche sandwich

and the ingredients for 1,000 Autopsies.

Thats a lot of autopsies

and some Oakheart Bacardi

I want to try it because it has “heart” in it, and because it annoys the living fuck out of Nolij

this reasoning was the motivation for many of my baseball behaviors

You gotta have heartttttt, miles and miles and miles of heart

A whole lotta Heart

so not hot

Some good music, though.

Girl had some pipes

The Wilson sister on the right

was pretty hot in her day.

She’s just a little half-past cougar in that pic

bobcat

not full coug

Real early years

everyone is pretty when they are young

/facts you find out when you are 44

omg look at that necklace i want that peacock necklace

living fuck is my new favorite phrase

you would appreciate the lexicon of Maddz Daddz

Two minor league players - according to the Entertainment Network

http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/7023269/ozzie-guillen-traded-florida-marlins-source-says

Entertainment Network… heh

Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, not kidding on that one.

white sox win by default

So… can we trade Mattingly for someone? I like Mattingly better than a lot of managers in the league, but if someone is dumb enough to give ANYTHING back for a manager…

nobody wants

a rook manager :)

he’s still under team control for two more years.

yep

managers are overrated.

Most of the reports on Twitter have said a non-40-man player or cash.

I didn’t know about Chuck Tanner to Oakland for Manny Sanguillen

Leave that for us old guys.

Sanguillen’s last trade:

December 9, 1980: Traded by the Pittsburgh Pirates with Bert Blyleven to the Cleveland Indians for Gary Alexander, Victor Cruz, Bob Owchinko and Rafael Vasquez.
Blyleven had just finished his age-29 season.

hasn't furcal played a lot of post season games without winning a ring?

would be nice to give him one more chance before even he gets sick of his injuries

he's already sick of them

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Rafael-Furcal-contemplating-retirement-after-lat?urn=mlb-wp3066

yeah, chance of winning a ring this season i meant

Cardinal fans

WAnt to kill him for all the errors. Apparently Tony benched him the other day

MOAR RIOT

All i know is

They were in first before Furry got there

YES

I WANT HIM TO FAIL

-some guy

that explains

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2011/09/24/Z8F8Txvt.jpg

Dude, Chambers needs to watch his back. Raffy is on the warpath.

Then, when Chambers thought he was safe, Albert swung for the fences.

Fuck, I meant Raffy.

4-4 in Houston Bottom 8
Someone just

Woke up Honeycutt

Apparently Dick Vitale joined Daron Sutton and Mark Grace on the D-Backs broadcast. There aren’t enough mute buttons

In my head this started as

Apparently Dick Vitale joined Daron Sutton and Mark Grace in an investment group to buy the Dodgers

Three men

In search of a Ponzi scheme

The Dodgers have batted in five innings, and Daniel Hudson has retired 15 straight batters.

Oh, but those first three batters….

everyone else

0-2

Pujols due up 3rd, top 9

I am sick of the brothers Ryan, I will be glad when the ugly is out of vogue

I got back to the computer (here at work)

Refreshed the TBLA main page and saw the “3” in the top of the first. Started up Gameday while saying, “oh please, oh please”. Boxscore pops up and Kemp’s line is 1 1 1 3. Yesssssssssssssssssssssss.

It’s these moments that are memorable

dude

go home

yes

If Mad Men has taught me anything

Dave is half an hour from retrieving a Heineken from the work fridge, sitting and drinking it by himself, then going back to his office to pour a Scotch, drinking it, passing out on his couch, waking up, putting on a new shirt and more hair grease, and doing it all again

We just started streaming Mad Men and are through the first five episodes. I love the evocation of the period and Mrs. Dave is quite appalled at the mores and the treatment of women.

yeah, Mrs HJ only warmed up in the second season with the emergence of the womens

I can get that on a “I lived through it and don’t want to see it again” level, but I love it as a social history. I need to know what it used to be like.

we didn’t live through it

we was born in 67

so things in the 80s were awesome and contained no glass ceilings?

they contained mirrors and coke

They’re still here today.

which is crazy considering equal pay for equal work was passed as early as ’63 in New York

I don’t equate “glass ceiling” to “equal pay, equal work”.

I’m thankful I live now.

You didn’t want to go to school solely for the Mrs. degree?

I’m really digging this PanAm thing on ABC. Weight limits, height limits, girdles, age limits, and you couldn’t be married. Wow. Just, wow.

still like that in other countries

flight attendants in Asia chosen for looks and forced to retire when they hit age / weight limits

Singapore girl is a great way to fly

I am old enough to remember the National Airlines “Fly Me” campaign.

oh man, that’s the worst/best

Neither Mrs HJ nor Mrs Dave are that old!

Have to make sure everyone did their fucking jobs and have everything in for the overnight processes. Just about done, so I soon get to save Charley and Rick on the radio.

Gerardo Parra: Bitch

heard this

Parra has penis breath

I heard that too. Confirmed!

Blue Moon: Summer Honey Wheat, not bad

Geraldo is at large

once again

dana playing dirty tonight
Bunting for a hit with two outs and

John McDonald and the pitcher due up is not a bright play.

Pujols flew out to deep center in the 9th inning in Houston

Fucking cunt

Ryan Braun PH double

Kemp is just gonna have to hit two more homers and take the MVP that way.

I think it’s over

40/40 isnt

and is maybe more rare!

it’s not. last 40/40 was circa 2006 Alfonso Soriano. Last Triple Crown winner was Yaz in 1967 and last NL TC was 1937.

but

only 4 have ever done it, and 3 of them roided.

now it is you jinx

kidding

good pitch that got him

damn

jerry hit that well

Don't even think about stealing right now, Dee

only one out, could be fun

those darn sliders
Update!

Reyes .333962
Braun .333932
Kemp .324324

Kemp would need to tear it up these last two games.

or the next brewer and mets games need to go for 20 inning and brain and reyes both go 0-10

If Matt Kemp goes 6 for 9, he needs both Ryan Braun and Jose Reyes to go 0 for 8 to win batting title

ooof

coulda hit that one Matty

damn

he beltran’d that pitch

Vlad Guerrero, all-time hits leader among Dominican-born players.

There are three highlights up on Gameday

Bison blast, Robert diving stop on a Rivera shot (okay, nice play), and then McDonald throwing out a catcher on a play he backhands but doesn’t really have to move than much for – fuck the heck? Pretty ordinary play.

a close, yet terrible to watch football game on tonight

The SEC: Close, yet terrible to watch football

That that was a sure run.

well, that was unlucky
haven't seen 3-2-3 DP for a while
Well this feels like a moment of truth

Waaaaaaay out in front

siddown

one more out

calling in Lindblom

good job Dana

Dbacks commentators say this is a bad move

Confirmation that it is a good one.

why are they taking him out? The game's don't matter. LET HIM PITCH!!!
Mattingly wants this game

Also a good test for Lindblom.

I think he passed the test

if this game didn’t matter, Loney would be pitching

Eveland: 5 2/3, 5 H, 0 BB, 5 K

Finishing stronger than Billingsley.

Dana Eveland

Sorta okay at baseball?

If you squint

The 1:50 A.M. strategy.

she is pretty right now

IM to Lindblom

The bases are loaded; throw strikes bub!

Memo received on 3-1 pitch

He left his phone in the dugout

and still got the message. 94 to K the chump

It always works well when you call them bub.

that 3 – 1 pitch was piped

Just had an awesome idea

the Cowboys should install a weather machine inside their stadium. Game gets too boring? Turn on the rain.

then they would have something to blame it on

Wise of Jerry Jones to build that kickass stadium. Good for the people of Dallas to be able to see important football games in person for once.

/sorry Keith

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
The best part of writing of writing 3 1500-word research reports on topics you don't want to research on a couple of days the assignment is due

is knowing 5 minutes ago that you’ve been doing the assignment wrong and in fact, only have to bring 3 sources that have to be 1500 words or longer.

This was my first dumbass moment in awhile, and I’m loving it.

AND FUCK YEAH, LINDBLOM

I… I barely understand this.

It’s been a long day

USC preps you well. ;-)

Have a Natty light.

Juilo goes to Long Beach St.

and

I don’t go to USC

I am old

Memory shot.

thats how I write papers

FYI – Diamondback announcers gave Mattingly credit for making the right move in bringing in Lindbloom.

Hmm
HunterPence3 Hunter Pence
Interesting question my brother just asked….Has anyone else been on a 100 win team and 100 loss team in the same season?
Look, in the sky....

it’s the Uncle Google signal!!

Loney placed this 400-footer better!

Jim Power
I hate you so much.
Cardinals lose

Braves survive. Still have a one game lead.

Jim Power
Loney does not have Matt Kemp power
he has James Loney power

EJECT HIM!

That had to hurt. right in the kidney

AJ Ellis: extreme patience working that hit by pitch

Ooh, kidney punch.

Charge the Mound!
TOSS HIM UMP

HE HIT OUR POWER HITTER

I know this game doesn't mean much

But I don’t like bunting the #6 hitter, even if it is Miles, with a three-run lead and the runner on 2nd, in a very offensive ballpark. You don’t need to play for one run here – you play for a big inning.

he was trying to bunt for a hit

I also hate trying to bunt for a hit with the bottom of the order coming up.

(and I’m only following on Gameday)

weird shit going down in Dallas

keep on snapping the ball when Romo isn’t looking

Romo is wearing Kevlar to play in this one, and his center is more buggy that Windows. A testament to Romo’s greatness, and the cowshit he’s had to work with

z

“No, I said it last time, this turf hurts, and if you guys won’t block for me, I’m just gonna sit here the rest of the game”

Gwynn in the on-deck circle.

Sellers = Clutch

Sellers!

Gwynn is alive!

Justin Sellers had 7 hits in his last 67 at-bats before that RBI single

Some Sellers Numbahs

Coming into tonight:

With bases empty: .412 OPS
With men on: 753 OPS
With RISP: .930 OPS

He just hates hitting with the bases empty.

Tough loss for the Cards

fail to tie for the WC lead.

Have we talked about the New Jersey Nets deciding to go with Brooklyn Nets when they move in 2012?

Probably like a zillion years ago

it was just announced this afternoon!

its been in the working

for a while

the move, but no one knew what name they were gonna take

oh, I think most right minded folks knew which way the wind was blowing

they could have been the Brooklyn Cylones

Turn around, Cowgill

Matt Guerrier needs one more appearance for 70 games in five straight seasons.

TAKE THAT PARRA

6 FGs enough to take the lead with 1:47 on the clock?

Man, sounds like a boring game.

Dallas has fumbled the ball 7 times, and only lost it once.

Big fail for the Skins

OK, only one person didn't do their fucking job

So I have covered his ass and done it for him. Things will be right in the morning now, so I can go home.

Just in time to hear the top of the order on the radio.

Hell of an inning for Loney

AND ANOTHER ONE!!

NICE PLAY!!

Loney has been really jumping off the bag tonight

we’ll remember him fondly

heh.

I read that as: We’ll fondle him in remembrance

Did you start early today, Jack?

heh.. just coffee. woke up on the weird side of the bed today

Are those donuts?

for some reason, I think that fall was unnecessary.

you mean like the posada-swisher one

One more from the LAT
Compared with uncaffeinated women, those who drank the equivalent of four or more cups of coffee a day are more likely to drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes and less likely to volunteer their time in church or community groups. But a new study finds that well-caffeinated women have a key health advantage over their more abstemious sisters: they’re less likely to become depressed.
All from the 1000-year old tome

“If She Smokes, She Pokes.”

if used to say

“if she puffs, she fucks”

yours is nicer

or

they’ll become like me and get adrenal fatigue and will be unable to drink coffee but will be really fucking cranky

the undiagnosable, unrecognized condition : p

oh you mean because wikipedia said it didn’t exist, right? i’ll have to let my nutritionist know that she’s full of shit

I honestly believe that there is an electricity that binds all living things….but I wouldn’t expect anyone to believe me

Your 2012 Los Angeles Dodgers Starting first baseman.

what?

Did Prince just homer or something?

Cowboys win

on a… fumble recovery

20 pushups, dee.
oh Dee

two of those pitches were not strikes

He had terrible swings against that side-arming lefty. Probably the first one he’s seen

Rob Ryan looks like he escaped an asylum
sands

14 game streak

14-game hitting streak for Jerry Sands

Sands

our 2012 Right Fielder. Ethier to LF

They showed Jered Weaver in the ALCS promo. Cute.

Dammit

Thought he had it in that first instant

end of bat

we still have 40 in play

that is enough for me

no triplecrow

40-40 plox

Probably not a triple crown either

(ducks)

.323777

Seeing these updates is like witnessing a slow death

Braun is still in the game. He’ll bat third in the 8th.

That Kemp was even in the triple crown discussion was an amazing feat in itself. No matter what happens the next two days, Kemp’s season will be one of the best ever by a Dodger.

And we all got to see it.

EO

did the impossible

His velocity is down 4 ticks. Should we just shut him down for the season?

How about just half of the rest of the season?

he's been throwing

95-96

I’ve got this weird feeling in my pants. Don’t want him to pull up lame or anything. He seems off

a rookie pitcher

isnt going to have great command

Eovaldi rusty
Ball four wasn't even close to being a ball
Ump getting squeezy

First pitch was several inches inside the outside edge, second was right on it.

things that are overdone

the pregame football jumping and screaming circle

without cameras that does not exist

false, as a seventh grader I remember going to my brother’s flag football game and there were teams jumping and screaming “feed the faith”

ok, that’s relevant

everything is relevant

everything is illuminated

and yet

the incredible lightness of being

always Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

but with laughter and forgetting

and a Remembrance of Things Past

oh, the things they carried

on their journey to Treasure Island

next to the Island of the Blue Dolphins

but not very close at all to the Islands in the Stream

No brother is an island

but beware his sister Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Beet LA chants starting
geez

c’mon Nathan!

Can't let the ump bother you

hakjhfaehfa;kjdfaohfefaeffae

Get him out of there
bring in Kenley

oh please don’t

this is just so exciting

This would have been a nice spot for Kenley.

Elbert coming in

C’mon Scott!

G. Scott coming in to pitch. let’s go bub!

go after him G dawg

3-0 wild pitch

I think G. Scott’s arm is still hurting.

i’m in the bag

we’re set for the DP now.

go ahead run at the plate now
ah, you're kidding me right now
fuckkkkkkkkk

C’MON!!!

just setting up the DP
BRING IN JANSEN

or… MacDougal

for some reason

when his pitchers are being wild donnie seems to immediatly think mcdougal is the guy to bring in.

Close

Squeezy

But if he wasn’t going to call strikes on pitches that were 4-6 inches inside the zone, he’s not going to give our guy a strike on the black.

and here comes Mac

i am petrified

I think they are doing this to force extra inning

so matty gets more AB’s

Jansen with the all-time lead in K/9, I’d be a little surprised if he pitches again this year, assuming we don’t blow the pen today and Kuroda/Lilly are good.

Oh, it's Phil Cuzzi behind the plate

That explains it

just imagine if we were playing the Yankees or Mets

I <3 bullpen collapse.
.
.
.
Not.

I am incredibly grateful that this game is meaningless

if it meant anything at all I would be beyond consoling

jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzez
OMG- sidenote but the facebook timeline is freaking scary
How so?
It's makes it even easier to stalk people... FROM BIRTH.
c'mon Mac

one more out

I've always doubted him

Bring in Jansen to face Parra

he should have been used

in the first place

Actually

Macdougal King Parra would be more epic on the hilarity scale

And now this guy
now this ass is up

GET HIM OUT MAC!!!!

Need swinging strikes

Anything that’s four inches inside the zone is being called a ball.

FUCK YOU UMP

FUCK YOU PARRA!

we escape parra
vomit inducing inning
I was hoping

that Parra would foul three or four pitches off his shin, then swing and miss for strike three.

I wouldn’t have minded MacDoooogal drilling him in the nutsack with a 97mph heater

Not with the bases loaded
But a foul into the dirt that bounced up and hit him in the sack?

WIN

YES! Absolute win

we were up by 2…

2…close for comfort

Hey gang

What have I missed?

Five walks in the bottom of the 8th for two runs

But… Charlie Steiner told me all game long how good the Dodger bullpen has been!

If Gameday and these comments are to believed

The walkers had a lot of help from Phil Cuzzi. A LOT of help.

Phil Cuzzi made some ridiculous calls behind the plate and two of our rookies couldn’t handle it.

A Kemp 3-run dinger, 1st inning.

I certainly hope that somebody told the D-Backs that that’s why they call him the Bison.

speaking of parra

how far has he got to go to catch up with victerino and ruiz?

I don’t hate Victorino. Dodgers were fucking dumb and let him go for nothing — well, not nothing. $25,000. And they said, nah, we’d rather have $25,000, you keep Victorino.

Ruiz, on the other hand — fuck that guy.

Here comes Brian Byan Shaw

No R? “Byan?” Is that right?

yeah

there’s an R

Miles HBP

the right way to be HBP

AJ was doing it wrong

Gnomey bat flip on that HBP

unwritten rules allow a bat flip after a HBP (but crotch grabs are frowned upon).

That’s doing it wrong.

AJ should give it a ride

Enough Dodgers should get on to give Matt Kemp another PA.

Gritty

Trying to make something happen

Brewers lost. Lead Diamondbacks by ½ game for #2 seed.

Arizona holds the tiebreaker.

Andre

at the game?

they haven’t mentioned him

Has Jansen reached an innings limit?

Strange he wouldnt be used tonight.

Not sure if it’s by design or not, but Jansen has been used back-to-back only once since returning from the DL in late August.

Fucking Dee...

Quit sidearming the fucking ball. Plant and throw over the top

STOP SIDEARMING ON ROUTINE THROWS

Not the best inning for Gordon

oh man

Dee, you gotta make this plays

Dee

messed up that too

Eh?
Easy DP grounder to Sellers

Dee took his eye off the ball on the catch and bobbled it, had to tag the runner.

not sure what Dee was doing

on that receive

thanks for out

D-Backs

Terrible, Kirk

but thanks

Had to be bunting for a hit, and on his own
WINNING SEASON!

Where’s the We Win pic?

Crap! It wasn’t there when I clicked post!

Winning Season!!!!
Guerra has steel ones

If only the first half matched the second half…

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