Reporting from San Francisco — Chad Billingsley said Monday that the left hamstring he strained two days earlier felt good enough for him to avoid the disabled list but not good enough to make his next scheduled start.

With Billingsley unavailable, Manager Joe Torre said the final game of the three-game series in San Francisco on Wednesday could be a bullpen game.

Also in the L.A. Times report, Troncoso feels tired, Casey Blake didn’t bother to say sorry to Brian Wilson about his UFC endorsement, and Will Ohman is back to rehabbing.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dodgers-fyi11-2009aug11,0,174736.story

hopefully another tommorow

Are next in line if someone has to put on the DL.

Henry Schulman had this to say in his pregame blog post tonight:

Dodgers ace Chad Billingsley is questionable for Wednesday’s series finale against Tim Lincecum. I’m told by a Dodgers scribe that 25-year-old right-hander Charlie Haeger, who is 11-6 for the Dodgers’ Triple-A Alburquerque team, is a candidate to take the start instead

Emphasis mine.

http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2009/08/11/in-need-of-big-start-dodgers-get-one/

Has been showing Laker highlights at least for the last day or so. Right now , they are showing the deciding Game 6 of the 1980 Finals with the Sixers. While it was viewed an upset since Kareem did not play, you still had Magic, Wilkes, Nixon, Cooper and Jim Chones out on the floor most of that game and those guys could play.

Another difference between that NBA and today’s NBA, Daryl Dawkins of the Sixers almost tackles Cooper on a drive to the basket, today a flagrant 1 for sure and maybe a flagrant 2 (though not as bad as the McHale’s hack on Rambis in the Finals) but back then Cooper got up and shot his free throws.

Annotation taken from the yahoo! sport play-by-play listing, italics mine.

- P. Sandoval lined out to shortstop [a busted bat soft liner easily gloved by Furcal]
- B. Molina homered to deep left [one out, bases empty, three-run lead, challenge-him fastball left up – at least he’s throwing strikes]
- R. Winn singled to shallow center [a many-hop, up-the-middle bounder with eyes that Furcal almost flags, but wouldn’t have had a play on anyway]
- F. Lewis grounded into fielder’s choice, R. Winn out at second [a weak enough grounder to Blake that it was clear they’d never turn two on from the outset]
- F. Lewis to second on fielder’s indifference
- R. Garko grounded out to second [sharply hit, nice diving play by Castro – makes up for the bad luck on Winn]

This is the inning that had some people over the top? As I said, I can’t bring myself to worry about one-run HRs with one out and a three-run lead in the 9th. C’mon, even Mariano Rivera isn’t perfect.

His “luck” seems to fade once you leave the 110. Maybe he needs a similar policy as Vin?

But something happened (either the Padres or Dodgers balked at the last minute).

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ―Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Orlando Hudson might miss a couple of games after leaving Monday night’s 4-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants with a groin injury.