Quick Start By Dodgers All The Support Lilly Needs
by Eric Stephen on Aug 8, 2010 4:17 PM PDT
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PrintKeeping with their post All-Star break tradition, the Dodgers had someone pitch their best game of the season against them. However, fortunately for the home team, today's opposing starter, Jason Marquis came in with a 20.52 ERA in three starts, so his best start was still terrible. The Dodgers plated four tallies in their opening frame, and never looked back, taking the series finale against the Nationals, 8-3.
Ted Lilly, making his second start with the Dodgers, and victim of the second-worst run support in baseball this season, gladly took the offensive bounty and picked up his second win this week. He gave up back-to-back home runs, to Mike Morse and Justin Maxwell, in the second inning, and nearly gave up a third straight to Will Nieves (who hit a ball just foul), but pitched a quality start by definition, giving up three runs in six innings.
The offense was led by grittiness today, as Jamey Carroll had three hits, including a double, a walk, and two RBI, and Scott Podsednik reached base three times and had a stolen base.
Notes
- Ronnie Belliard, who had two hits, including a double, and a stolen base, has played in 14 straight home games. He played all seven games of the Dodgers last homestand, followed by a road trip during which he sat on the bench for the whole week, and then played in all seven games of the current homestand
- Jay "I'm not GA" Gibbons welcomed himself to Dodgertown with pinch-hit RBI single in the sixth inning
- The double by A.J. Ellis in the fourth inning, which drove in Carroll with the Dodgers' fifth run, was his first extra-base hit since April 17, a span of 54 plate appearances.
- For some reason, Hong-Chih Kuo was brought into the game with two on and two outs in the ninth inning, up 8-3. It was the first time he has pitched on back-to-back days since August 30-31, 2009
- Matt Kemp got fitted for a golden sombrero today, with four strikeouts in four at-bats. It was the third time in Kemp's career he has struck out four times in a game.
- Before today, the last time the Dodgers had two different pinch hitters collect RBI in the same game was October 3, 2009 (True Blue LA Night I)
The Dodgers are off tomorrow, then start a seven-game road trip with the beasts from the NL East, Philadelphia and Atlanta.
WP - Ted Lilly (5-8): 6 IP, 5 hits, 3 runs, 0 walks, 6 strikeouts
LP - Jason Marquis (0-4): 4+ IP, 5 hits, 5 runs (2 earned), 2 walks, 3 strikeouts
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However, fortunately for the home team, today’s opposing starter, Jason Marquis came in with a 20.52 ERA in three starts, so his best start was still terrible. The Dodgers plated four tallies in their opening frame,
When you look up “awesoke” in the dictionary, this is there.
The Omar Moreno of this blog
Oh Josie, I had a good chuckle over your status slip on FB.
"You can't please me. You never met me. Zoë, why do I have a wife? "
ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever
How would you define your approach to management, apart from being brilliant?
Eric
Jason Marquis just called me and told me to tell you “Go Fuck Yourself.” His words….
The opening is made me lol
Anyone watching the Madden Pro-Am on NBC
Taylor Landry (fictional character) just threw a rope to for a conversion, and then Joe Montana threw a bomb of a TD pass to some HOFer with James Van Der Beek all over him. I love celebrity charity games!
How would you define your approach to management, apart from being brilliant?
Shannon Elizabeth just had a 40 yard return
maybe that’ll perk interest
How would you define your approach to management, apart from being brilliant?
Color me surprised
by Scotty Pods’ unprofessional haircut. Maybe some grit fell from all that hair and dropped into his eyes on that missed fly ball. Or maybe it was just our arrogant center fielder’s fault, anyway.
I think arb is getting offered
1) Lilly at any half-reasonable price for just one season is a GREAT deal, and the FO will recognize this (offer 8 or 9 mil, talk about how few wins he had this season – slam dunk, good deal for a solid #2/3 starter).
2) Not offering Wolf arb is the smartest thing Ned has done since trading LaRoche for Manny. Any picks we got had he declined would have been either a guy we’re not signing, or a high school pitcher.
I guess that will happen with Lilly anyway.
I’d prefer to just see an attempt to extend Lilly to 3 seasons. Good fit for this team. Consistent guy, second lefty, no history of health problems.
On 2)
What’s wrong with HS pitchers? Some grow up to be major-league pitchers.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Easier to sign
and can usually be had in later rounds.
The MO seems, a lot of times, to sign a guy, talk about how massively skilled he is (and he usually is, don’t get me wrong), and make the few fans paying attention think that you just signed a legit first rounder.
The prospects mavens around here
and other parts haven’t had any complaints about the legitimacy of the Dodger’s first-round picks at the time of the draft, outside if this year’s was a punt. The talent of the players has not been questioned before.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I just think
teams with weaker farm systems should be bolstering them in different ways. But I have no huge complaints about recent first rounders, except of course this year’s.
Also just took a closer
and I guess I’m wrong. They aren’t always signing a HS pitcher in the high rounds. :) It’s just the pessimist in me that the Dodgers aren’t going to take high round draft picks seriously, based on a couple of instances.
Kind of like I assume based on recent Ned trades, that if Loney were to get injured on Tuesday, Dunn would be a Dodger by Saturday, and the Nats would have a 1-2 of Strasburg and Withrow in 2012.
I have mistaken Jay Gibbons
With Jay Payton. I don’t even remember Jay Gibbons from his AL days. I guess I have no beef with Jay Gibbons.
@soyboquense
Next Monday
While Nate is living it up in Cabo, we’ll be on Zach Lee Watch.
I’ll be here tracking down all the details. :)
This team
is so much more likable with they score runs.
Only 5 games out of the wild card behind a team that isn’t any better than us when our offense shows up. 4.5 behind the hated Phillies and 4 behind Stl. Not so bad.
Del Taco is trying to expand in Texas with 80 new stores.
Murphy said the Dallas expansion will help showcase what Del Taco has to offer to the nation: fresh, made-from-scratch Mexican fast food.
LIES. LIES. LIES.
http://fastfood.ocregister.com/2010/08/08/del-taco-to-open-up-to-80-restaurants-in-texas/69299/
haha, i'd probably eat del taco late night if it came to Dallas
they are experimenting by opening an In n out in Plano, and I think that may come to Dallas too
William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.
When Furcal comes back
the lineup gets a million times better. I like a Furcal-Theriot/Carroll/Belliard combo up the middle far more than any combo of 2 of the 3 in the second group. And now there’s 2 viable options at SS to get Rafy some rest here and there.
Kinda hoping Belly gets more starts since he’s shown up with a bat lately.
Some sign of life out of Kemp and Ethier, plus the best SS in baseball this season… if Pods can hit like he did earlier in the season, I’m starting to like our chances what with our pitching.
Feeling better than I have in months. Go Blue!
Does Tron
have options?
Would rather see him sent down than Jansen, who can come back in Sep.
I'd hope so
Either can come back in a month, but Jansen over Tron could make the difference in a win or two in August. Gotta wonder what if Ned does the smart thing though. Thank God Tron isn’t a true “vet” or else we know exactly what would happen.
Now that I think about it, I’m wondering if Weaver may be the least safe of the three…
With everyone healthy
and if Belisario comes back and pitches like he was before he left, I’m not sure there is a spot for Weaver. He has been really average over the last couple of months.
Broxton
Kuo
Dotel
Belisario
Monk (rule 5)
Jansen
Sherrill
That rules out Weaver and Tron until the rosters are expanded. Jansen may be sacrificed for Weaver, which would blow
Agreed
Wow, our bullpen is awesome.
Weaver and Monk are redundant, and you’re not going to get more out of either one than the other.
Would Weaver accept a one month assignment? Who knows. Personally, I don’t care. I almost always even forget that he’s on the team. It could be that Ned has no desire to send Tron back, and it’s between Weaver and Jansen, in which case, say goodbye to Jansen for a month.
They way I wrote it looks funny
Weaver would have to accept an assignment. At this point, who cares if he does. I’d just assume let him go. We would still have Tron in the minors. We also have the German and Justin Miller. I’m not a fan of Miller and the German was bad when he left, but at this point, they are both as good as Weaver.
Weaver's recovery
or “recovery” from whatever ails him could easily take until 9/1, at which point rosters expand anyway.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Sprained
toe/non-throwing-hand pinky/ear
That sounds like more of a Ned move than anything mentioned yet.
He is?
Wow. Shows how much attention I pay to the guy.
I think this is only the second roster move I’ve missed this season. The other was when Hu came back for a cup of coffee.
That's actually when I realized
and had to take a headcount of the roster!
It wouldn't be the worst
thing in the world for him to stay on the DL until 9/1. The rest would probably help him
options
are years, not times sent down and back up. Tron has already been sent down this year before, so this is a year that he had an option.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Dodgers' remaining schedule
is fairly harder than SD’s or SF’s.
I just realized they have 50 games left.
They’ve won 58, so if they go 30-20 the rest of the way – a tall order, they’d win 88. I don’t know that that’s gonna be enough. the enormity of this is sinking in.
by TopDeckTrueBlue on Aug 8, 2010 5:43 PM PDT up reply actions
88
could get it done when you consider that SF, SD and Col will be playing each other for about half their games as we reach that time of year.
If we go 30-20 and SF goes 25-25, assuming Colorado, STL and Phi keep up what they’re doing, we’d tie for the WC.
Jay Gibbons
I guess I never looked too deeply into him. Career 101 OPS+ kinda surprised me. Career -0.5 UZR/150 at all positions. I also like that he provides a career .193 ISO over GA’s career .168 and Paul’s career .158 (in MiLB). For a team sorely lacking bench power, Gibbons seems to be clearly the best option for a 4/5 OF and lefty bat off the bench. Too bad this move didn’t happen sooner.
I with you
but the only thing that should worry you is that all of this happened before 2008.
He hasn’t done anything in the Majors in a couple of years.
That certainly worries me
but what he’s done since 2008 still beat’s what GA’s done since then.
Gibbons’ .969 OPS with 19 HR in 376 AB at ABQ obviously has to be taken with a grain of salt and won’t be translating to the majors, but good numbers are good numbers, and it looks like he can still put the ball out of the park.
He did have a .672 OPS for the Newark Bears in 40 games last season. YIKES!!
I agree with the thought
that he will be better than GA.
XP has an OPS of around 1.027 this year in Albuquerque. And he didn’t necessarily light it up in MLB. (SSS)
I hope he shows out and makes a difference down the stretch.
I just assume
Gibbons showing power at ABQ is an indicator that he still may have the 20+ HR in the AL East power that he had before. All things considered, I’d rather have Paul, but the need for bench power on this team is too great. Having Reed back lessens the need for OF defense.
I'm happy with the GA DFA and the Gibbons call up
Why not give the guy a chance. Not that it takes much to be better than GA was, and I wouldn’t get too excited about him… But as a bench/role player he can be useful at least.
Useful enough for me to post this picture of his namesake!
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Good series. Let’s keep the hits coming and the wins rolling. We are still in this SOB.
by Skunkburner on Aug 8, 2010 6:30 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
I am disappointed in
Delias Man’s hat of choice for TBLA night. While I love the hat he wore, I was lead to believe that he would be wearing a hat to make Eric mad……
plus don't forget about...
- kid with mardi gras super bowl cap
- LADave’s turquoise Nats cap (with sticker!)
- Dude with Dodgers uni and a Blue Jays cap
- West Side Rental Man’s formal wear
El Lay Dave...as in David Young
wore a turquoise nats cap with the sticker still on? Was this done just to upset Eric?
William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.
It was a BROWN Nats cap
with a little turquoise trim on the W logo. It is an awful cap that fell into my possession and I wore it for about five seconds just to get a reaction from Eric.
The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Not to mention
My cousin’s all black Dodger hat.
He’s also lucky I didn’t wear my Ducks hat ;)
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
How did you not mention
that douche canoe in front of us with the stupid Victorino shirt?!
Leading the league in OMGs || Proud owner of a Chad Billingsley Real Doll
My cousin asked me if he should snap his neck
I didn’t think it was a bad idea…lol
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
We scored the runz!!!
Now watch us get shut out in Philly…
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Fun to watch the last two games after coming back from camping, see the Dodgers play with more fire.
Even if against not the best of NL teams exactly. Time to step it up against Philly and be more serious. Good to gain on Giants 2 days in a row at least.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
This place has been dead for like 5 hours
Day games always suck, lol.
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
Hey, Ivdown...
How come you never sent be your address so I can send you a Cadbury bar?:)
Oh I completely forgot about that
I’ve checked my email once in the last week and it was only for one thing, haha. I’ll send you an email back right now :)
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
ha
While Nate is living it up in Cabo, we’ll be on Zach Lee Watch.
I’m really tempted to bring my blackberry to mexico and have one of you guys email me updates.
really…really tempted.
The chances of signing Lee is 0.000000000000000…%
by Julio Nievas on Aug 9, 2010 12:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Good game today
Sorry I missed it though. I was out watching the Air Show (Thunder Birds) along with 70,000 other people. The show was great, but the highlight was probably winning one of those huge stuffed animals for my 6 year old daughter at one of those carnival style basketball shooting games.
This should definitely be considered a loose “we”
by robotmadeofnails on Aug 8, 2010 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I say it's Don Mattingly
He’s got a crazy ex-wife, and his son’s a bust… He’s got some issues there…
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
by angelofdeath on Aug 9, 2010 12:22 AM PDT up reply actions
E
Whats up with raffy. No mention today from you. I assume my 0 AB prediction comes true.
@soyboquense
He was supposed to be out all this week anyway
So I’m guessing we see him tuesday.
"Stop exploding you cowards!!!"
This is very quickly
becoming a team that is Chock (chalk?) Full O’ Grit.
That picture of Jay Gibbons with a bat? Wow.
Leading the league in OMGs || Proud owner of a Chad Billingsley Real Doll
Nice new avatar Maddz
what is that you’re holding?
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 9, 2010 7:05 AM PDT up reply actions
looks like a Lazer! club. wondering how many foo’s she’s bashed with it.
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 9, 2010 7:14 AM PDT up reply actions
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