Kershaw Comes Up Aces: Dodgers 2, Rockies 0

I almost fainted. Luckily, the next words were something like, “Ethier is there” before I lost consciousness.

The Los Angeles Dodgers truly are the most interesting team in the world.

…he just said that he would have liked to see Kershaw come out for the 9th to finish it, “especially since Martin got him that insurance run.” Pretty sure K-Man was already out of the game.

He gets paid for this gig?

are gonna be overshadowed tonight by Braden. But oh well…small price to pay for this surprisingly successful home stand.

And when asked if Haeger would make the trip to AZ, Torre was noncommital, saying only, “I think he’s dressed,” meaning dressed for the trip.

But lucky for me, I have a DVR. So I’m going to watch it later tonight. Sounds like it was a great game. I can’t wait to watch.

Manny thought he saw a hit & run sign in the 2nd inning (his caught stealing)

pitcher’s duel of the season? (All MLB)

I would say that it’s definitely been the best pitching matchup and result of the season so far. Great game

I sat in the loge area (orange seats) right behind home plate. It was amazingly awesome. I was able to tell the players apart! :)

Two foul balls were near me (But not enough to make a play for them). The first one, a teenager actually grabbed the ball from in between an old lady head. The 2nd one was a mad grab of the whole section where security had to be called in order to quell the situation.

Amazingly awesome.

“It’s scary every time they bring Broxton in there.”

Umm, what?

in our regular seats in the Loge. As you know, I had e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y high expectations for this game, despite many warnings to keep my hopes in check. After all, if we got anything resembling Bad Kershaw, it would be a disaster. Good Kershaw would keep us in the game, but we’d lose. Only Great Kershaw would be able to counter Jimenez.

And the first inning: oy. I actually missed much of it due to a ticket snafu, but saw the final strikeout… my heart was beating, both due to the snafu and to the game situation, but it hadn’t quite sunk in to me just how poorly Kershaw was pitching until he got out of it.

In the bottom of the first, I was struck by how… well… hittable is the wrong word… Jimenez looked. He wasn’t BAD — not at all, not by any stretch of the imagination — but the Dodgers were making him work, he was throwing too many balls… For a 1-2-3 inning, it wasn’t DOMINATING. Maybe I was grasping at straws but I had a feeling the Dodgers could get him.

Needless to say, it didn’t work out that way, except that it sort of did. Kershaw turned dominant, but Jimenez was no slouch, and only the one run separated them… Funny, but for a 1-0 game (most of it was 1-0, at least), I never really felt the nervousness that I usually do. Maybe it was because it was a game I didn’t expect to win, or maybe it was because once Kershaw turned dominant, it was a game I felt was written in the stars. Either way, it was simply an absolute blast of a ballgame.

Week in review