There was a fire near the Sunset Gate. I knew it!

With Kuroda coming back, I’d say Padilla should go to the ’pen. Garland is probably more dependable.

dang, if our bullpen wasn’t eroding we might have a nice little lead in this division…. question if asked before the season… “so, we are playing arizona in a 4 game series in september. padilla and garland start 2 of the games. the other 2, we lose. how many games above .500 are we in this scenario?” answer: “over .500 lol… who’s leading off, rickey?”

Way to go Garland! His mom was great in the Wizard of Oz too.
vr, Xei

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Just saw the punch Blount just layed on tat Boise st. player, that was nasty

living here in giants country makes one appreciate the dodgers. it is incredible that they are “in the race” with their “lineup.” their offense is HISTORICALLY awful. they have one starter who would start for the dodgers – and he seems to operate on a diet of horchata and fat sandwiches. (seriously, sandoval, get in shape. I hate your team but I don’t want to see any 25 yr old baseball player die on tv of a heart attack) the ab’s in the 9th were so hilarious… sandoval hacking at lidges 6th straight slider (6 inches from hitting him in the foot) to strike out… molina (“cleanup hitter”) then lunging at a 3-1 slider out of the zone to pop up… fred lewis (not good enough to start in the worst outfield in baseball but good enough to pinch hit for your starting 1st baseman with the tying RISP in the 9th) grounding out weakly…. the greatest part is that this season is going to buy a couple more years for the incompetent boch and sabes – much to the chagrin of mccovey chronicles. great site (when they are railing on their own team – not when they are trying to out-cute each other with star wars references, supposedly witty puns and references, and lets say “flamboyant” little inside “jokes”)….. but I am willing to wade through it to get to the self-hate. oh and they traded their #3 prospect for a guy who is in fresno. did I mention that bengie molina hits cleanup? every single day?

This is one of the coolest things ever (found via Rob Neyer): a nice chart of the Mets 2009 roster. I sooo want to do this for the Dodgers.

http://www.seanengelhardt.com/files/gimgs/17_mets2009090209.gif

with the only hit being Manny’s bomb. For once the 5-7 group chipped in with some timely hitting.

Garland continues to pitch at the level he’s continued to pitch at in the 2nd half. Billingsley continues to have trouble getting past the sixth. Do you even consider a rotation of something like this:
Kershaw/Billingsly for game one – tag team of epic proportions
Wolf – Kuo/Beliario/Sherril/Broxton –
Day Off
Kuroda – Kuo/Beliario/Sherril/Broxton -
Garland – McDonald/Troncoso/Sherrill(K’s Howard to end game)
Day Off
Kershaw/Billingsly for game Five – tag team of epic proportions if we need five games with Kuo/Belisario/Broxton available.

Just tell Clayton to throw as hard as he can for five innings. Have Billingsley ready to go to start the sixth with the idea he will pitch from the sixth – ninth.

Jason (LA)


Jayson, which lefty do you think has the brighter future, Clayton Kershaw or David Price? Kershaw does not get as much pub as Price but is dominating with just 2 pitches, thoughts?
Jayson Stark
  (1:28 PM)


I think I’d still take Price. But right now, Kershaw is the more advanced pitcher. Maybe the NL/AL issue skews this discussion. But Kershaw has been absolutely unhittable in about 10 starts this year. And Price still has a lot to figure out about changing speeds and locating his fastball before he becomes the big winner everyone still expects him to be.

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Kershaw’s FIP of 3.18 ranks 12 in MLB (Halladay is 11th) amongst starters. Kershaw ranks ahead of some “True Aces” like Dan Haren, CC Sabathia, Derek Lowe, Johan Santana, Josh Beckett, Roy Oswalt and John Lackey.

BTW, Billingsley’s FIP of 3.64 ranks 19th, ahead of all those listed above except Haren and Sabathia.

Too bad the Dodgers don’t have a “True Ace.”

http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=130&type=1&season=2009&month=0

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/GwPPw

The Dodgers lead the NL in lowest BA allowed for opposing teams in RiSP.

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ct lion (ct): so in a perfect world, who does porcello become? brandon webb? kevin brown? and in my biggest nightmare he becomes chien ming wang?

Eric Seidman: A couple of chats ago, I was asked who I thought was better for the future between Kershaw and Porcello. I went with Kershaw as I see him becoming a legit #1 pitcher in the future. With Porcello, I simply don’t see that. Now, there’s nothing WRONG with being a #2 or #3 starter. People pay lots of money for those guys. But Brandon Webb and Kevin Brown each struck out a ton of guys in their first few years. Porcello is still young and if I’m wrong on this I’ll buy you a Porcello jersey (save this web URL and hold me to that), but I cannot see him becoming a a 7-8 K/9 guy.