Sunday Dodgers Pregame Notes
by Eric Stephen on Aug 23, 2009 12:04 PM PDT
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PrintHere are some notes from Joe Torre's pregame discussions with the media:
- James Loney is not in the starting lineup today because of the flu. Loney actually went home early during yesterday's game. He is available to pinch hit if needed today. Matt Kemp and Clayton Kershaw also had bouts with the flu earlier this week.
- Torre noted that Randy Wolf has been great, and that he picked up the slack recently, at a time when the club really needed it. He said Wolf has a great feel for pitching and is very comfortable with and trusts his stuff.
- Hiroki Kuroda will likely travel with the team to Colorado and Cincinnati, and might throw a bullpen session or two on the road trip.
- Torre said that Jonathan Broxton has grown by leaps and bounds this year over last year, most notably in his increased confidence. The Matt Stairs NLCS home run was brought up, and Torre said there comes a point in everybody's career when there is nothing left for them to prove, and Broxton reached that point in the last inning of the NLDS against the Cubs last season.
- Torre also noted that Broxton is a very quiet person by nature, and that he spoke with him again this morning regarding pitching the eighth inning yesterday. Torre said Broxton understood that bringing him in to face the heart of the Cub lineup, even though it was in the eighth and not the ninth inning, was actually a compliment to Broxton.
- The key to Charlie Haeger's success, according to Torre, is the changing speeds of his knuckleball, keeping the hitters off balance. Torre also noted that Haeger was able to get a lot of swinging strikes on high knuckleballs.
- Although nothing is yet official, it appears Vicente Padilla is set to start Thursday in Colorado
Vic "The Brick" Jacobs, clad in a large Dodger poncho, was filming some segment just in front of the Dodger dugout featuring a number of rabbis, and there was much dancing involved (don't ask). As Doug Mientkiewicz was leaving the field after his workout, he quipped, "Where's the dancing bear? Where's the bearded lady? I woke up in the Twilight Zone!" A few moments later, Orlando Hudson emerged from the clubhouse having heard Mientkiewicz and asked, "where is this dancing bear?" to quite a bit of laughter among the press corps.
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Haven’t seen the entire Cubs’ lineup yet, but it appears Jake Fox is in LF, with Sam Fuld in CF today.
Damn, I was hoping Sam Fuld would be out with injuries! :)
What’s with Soriano sitting two days in a row?
The number of World Series winning managers to hold a door open for me has increased to two, as Bob Brenly just held open the door to the media dining room (If he were to describe our meeting using only Bruce Springsteen lyrics: “I was walking in; he was walking out”).
(Lasorda was the other one, who held the elevator earlier this season).
Great info about Torre’s conversation with Broxton. It says a lot about Broxton’s maturity in how he handled that.
I’m feeling more and more confident about our pitching staff, both starters and relievers. Billingsley has finally just about put his mid-season slump to rest, and we still have the solid combo of Kershaw and Wolf. Now, when (if?) Kuroda comes back, that’ll make for a formidable 4-man rotation.
And our bullpen, in my opinion, is the best in the majors (in terms of talent, not stats).
You wanna know how great baseball is? The greatest basketball player ever left his sport to play baseball.
Tim Kawakami shitting on the Giants at the moment.
# @dandibley Too much risk for 31-year-old singles hitter who was already hurt, IMO. G’s love you for unconditional love, though!9 minutes ago from web in reply to dandibley
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Dibs stylishly sipping the G’s Kool-Aid! RT @dandibley No biggie. It’d be retroactive anyway. He’ll be back for the final 20 games.18 minutes ago from web
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@dandibley Yep and he’s GUARANTEED to be healthy and super-effective those 20 games. DL is actually good thing for awesome G’s!20 minutes ago from web in reply to dandibley
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Why, just a few years ago Lincecum, Cain, Sandoval, Pedroia, Hanley Ramirez, Kershaw… all worthless prospects. Who needs ‘em?24 minutes ago from web
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Yep, those prospects NEVER turn out to be anything. RT @DonNelsonRiley gave up so much for sanchez? prospect who hasn’t played in majors25 minutes ago from web
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Just heard Dave Flemming say on KNBR that Giants are considering DL for Freddy Sanchez. Wow.28 minutes ago from web
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Glad this tuf market was skeptical of G’s giving up so much for hurt 31yrold singles hitter. Err, wait, almost everybody cheered the deal.about 2 hours ago from web
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No Freddy Sanchez again today, per Baggs http://bit.ly/cTqtl. That’s 9 missed out of 22 games overall as a Giant. Since I’m counting…about 2 hours ago from web
I hate my laptop. Having issues with the power supply again. If I disappear for a while, you know why!
fox is having a good year
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/gamelog?playerId=28830
incredibly streaky in terms of hits
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