Cubs Win, Knock Ely Out Early
by Michael White on Jul 10, 2010 4:10 PM PDT
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PrintThe Chicago Cubs bats decided that they wanted to get in on the fun today, as they took the 3rd game of the 4 game series 7-3. John Ely started for the Dodgers and put in his second rough outing in a row and left without making it out of the 3rd inning. In Ely's 2.1 innings of work, he allowed 6 runs (all earned) on 5 hits, a home run and 3 walks. The lack of control was particularly frustrating, as Joe Torre was forced to pull Ely in the top of the 3rd when he surrendered a bases loaded walk.
After Ely was removed, Travis Schlichting entered the game and was able to pitch 2.2 while surrendering only 2 hits. Of course those two hits came immediately after he replaced Ely so it resulted in 2 runs being charged to Ely (and could have been three if it hadn't been for a brilliant outfield assist by Xavier Paul.) Travis Schlichting has now lowered his ERA to 0.64 on the year. Carlos Monasterios saw his first action since he returned from the disabled list and pitched well other than a solo home run to Aramis Ramirez in the 7th. Monasterios struck out 3 in his 2 innings of work. Justin Miller worked the last two frames for the Dodgers without incident.
Tom Gorzelanny got the win for Chicago and pitched quite well. Gorzelanny was effective with the strike out, recording 7 strikeouts in his six innings of work allowing 2 runs (1 earned.) Gorzellany left after six and was replaced with Sean Marshall, Andrew Cashner, James Russell and Carlos Marmol (yup, 4 relievers to close a 4 run game) who pitched the last 3 frames. The Dodgers started to think about a rally in the 9th as Andre Ethier drove in Blake DeWitt to push the game to 7-3 followed by a single by Matt Kemp. However, Marmol was able to retire James Loney to close out the game.
But the story for Dodger fans is clearly John Ely. While Ely's statistics on the year aren't necessarily cause for concern for the fifth starter (4.63 ERA after today's game), the fact that Ely has had to be pulled early in the past two contests is a problem. I do think Torre will allow Ely some time to struggle, but if Ely demonstrates a continued inability to pitch deep into games it will likely result in a demotion to AAA.
WP - Tom Gorzelanny (4-5): 6 IP, 6 hits, 2 runs (1 earned), 1 walk, 7 strikeouts
LP - John Ely (4-7): 2.1 IP, 5 hits, 6 runs, 3 walks, 1 strikeout
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I get the feeling
and its probably wishful thinking, that GA will be dfa’d or cut or w/e once Manny comes back.
Rudimentary creatures of flesh and blood, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding.
WHOA!
Rafael Furcal has been added to the National League All-Star roster, according to a source.
Aggravated his oblique today. Also, Jason Heyward is officially out of the game so his replacement should be coming soon. I really hope CarGo gets it.
Heyward was supposed to be a starter, so one of the existing reserves will surely start instead. In fact, this makes it easier to start an actual CF (Byrd?) in his place, and let Ethier and Braun take the corners. Whoever replaces Heyward on the team, like CarGo, will be a reserve. There are an awful lot of OF reserves (5). Do they all have to come in? Surely a number of reserves have to be held back in case the game goes into extra innings, no? Reyes seemed to be first SS reserve, but Tulowitski was the only other one and he can’t play either, right? So Furcal will be first SS reserve to Hanley Ramirez, and will surely come in later in the game. I guess they’ll be using so-called 1B and PF reserves as DH, right from the beginning. I wonder if they’ll put Adrian Gonzales straight in there to start, rather than wait to take Pujols out. I would. Ryan Howard and Joey Votto are also waiting as reserve 1B, maybe also DH.
Dylan says it's now official from MLB
…although i can’t find any independent link yet at MLB.com. But it’s on Dylan’s twitter page linked by Alex above.
Reds rookie Travis Wood has a perfect game through seven innings against the Phillies.
Game tied 0-0.
Halladay's pretty good too.
Still shut out, though there’s been four hits on him and a walk. One out top of 9th already.
by berkowit28 on Jul 10, 2010 6:10 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Halladay 5th hit, 2 out. 3 out. 9 shout out innings, 9 K, 117 pitches.
Wood 9 perect innings, 24 put. 8 K. Bottom of 0th starting.
by berkowit28 on Jul 10, 2010 6:16 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
There it goes
and who was it? Carlos fucking Ruiz.
Carlos Ruiz
Specialist in kicking puppies, killing dreams and taking perfect games from little kids.
Probably owns BP and convinced LeBron to leave Cleveland via the 1hr. ESPN special too.
"Go fuck yourself" -Eric Stephen 6-29-2010
by K3vo on Jul 10, 2010 6:22 PM PDT reply actions 4 recs
The cake is a lie. . . .
. . . because Carlos Ruiz ate it.
"Go fuck yourself" -Eric Stephen 6-29-2010
Lee
got touched up today
Rudimentary creatures of flesh and blood, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding.
His last start had a screwy box score too
Gameday had him pitching in the 7th inning with 125+ pitches.
Updated box score looks like that was a flaw, and he only had 113 in 5.2.
I’m hoping that has nothing to do with him being pulled early today and he just had a rough inning and they pulled him to keep his inning total down.
Phillies walk off in 11th
1-0. Ruiz double, Rollins single.
Are you fucking me
Those guys will haunt my dreams.
"You're the only woman to ever love me." "I never loved you." "I meant physically!"
Ughh. I got into an argument with someone who told me Kershaw was not an ace, but an ace in the making. His reasoning was that Kershaw can’t go deep into games, Kershaw won 8 games last year (though he’s got 9 this year already…guess that doesn’t matter), Kershaw walks too many, Kershaw hasn’t had a great season yet, and it takes more than about 2 great seasons to make you an ace.
Then he went on to say Josh Johnson and Ubaldo JImenez are great examples of aces…I loled. Obviously not because they arent, but because Johnson’s had 1 good season, 1 great season, and one exceptional half season and Jiminez has had 1 great season and 1 exceptional half season. Funny how they are definitely aces, but Kershaw’s not.
This guy is a Blue Jays fan and has a hard on for Halladay, so he basically told me he thinks every “ace” should have halladay numbers. Oye. I know Kershaw isn’t like Halladay, or Johnson or Ubaldo, but come on, lol.
"You're the only woman to ever love me." "I never loved you." "I meant physically!"
Kershaw is an ace in the making
He is still learning to pitch.
Usually they have something called minor league ball to learn this thing called baseball, Kershaw is just doing his learning in the big leagues.
But how are people definining "Ace" is the question
It’s not like there’s an agreed upon definition and you meet x and y criteria. And whatever it is. Kershaw is sure putting ace-like numbers up this year, period. The only reason he’s not called an “ace” is because a) he’s young and b) because he hasn’t been officially sanctioned as such by the Royal Society of Ace Denoters (which includes elder statesmen Peter Gammons and Joe Morgan).
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Rockies beat Padres 4-2
Rockies move into 2nd place alone, 1 game behind.
Dodgers 3rd, 2 games behind.
Giants win, 4th, 4 games behind.
(Arizona out for the year; available to teams who need to improve their record by winning or sweeping a series.)
Something to distract those
worried about whether Dodgers will sign first rounder Zach Lee:
The DBacks’ #6 overall pick in the draft failed physical. Yikes.
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2010/07/dbacks-firstrounder-fails-physical.html
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
NPUT
http://www.truebluela.com/2010/7/11/1564128/tie-breaker-game-preview-all-star
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