Dodgers / Nationals Game 162 Chat
by Eric Stephen on Oct 3, 2011 12:00 PM PDT
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PrintLos Angeles Dodgers at Washington Nationals, Sep 8, 2011 2:05 PM PDT
Game Time: Noon Dodger Time
TV: Outer Limits
| Dodgers | Nationals | |||
| CF | Kemp | SS | Desmond | |
| 2B | Carroll |
LF | Bernadina | |
| SS | Gordon | RF | Werth |
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| LF | Rivera |
3B | Zimmerman | |
| 1B | Loney | 2B | Espinosa | |
| RF | Sands |
1B | Morse | |
| C | AJ Ellis | C | Ramos |
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| 3B | Miles | CF | Ankiel | |
| P | Eveland | P | Strasburg | |
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It's time for Dodger Baseball
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Top of the First
Matt Kemp leads off, looks comfortable in the lead off spot.
Strasburgh showing no signs of rust hits 98 on the black. Kemp takes his base doing his best not to rub
Carroll takes the count 3 – 2, full count pitch, Kemp goes, Carroll dribbles it to 1st base Morse throws
to Stras for the out, however Kemp keeps going, headed for 3rd, Strasburgh was not paying any attention after taking the throw from Morse and Kemp slides in head first as Strasburgh doesn’t even attempt a throw.
Kemp seems agitated about being hit and is doing his best to annoy the future flameout. Kemp goes on the first pitch, Dee reaches across the plate but misses it the squeeze, Kemp with a full winter of rest in front of him plows into
Ramos and knocks him into the 4th dimension, with the ball headed toward the seats. 1 – 0 Dodgers.
Pudge Rodriquez now catching.
Dee Gordon strikes out waving meakly at 98 at the knees
Juan Rivera strikes out on three pitches. Stras was clearly angry.
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LOL
Strasburgh showing no signs of rust hits 98 on the black. Kemp takes his base doing his best not to rub
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Dee hitting 3rd.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Reason for this is obvious
Dee makes Miles look like a reasonable choice as a #3 hitter, from a power perspective.
Two things
1. Kemp better get his 40th
2. He better get it in some obscure and totally weird way.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Oct 3, 2011 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Alex Cora ends up in CF due to crazy circumstances
and leaps up to catch a home run bound ball hit by Kemp to straightaway center field, catches the ball but loses his glove.
The Blue Dahlia runs on to the field distracting Werth and Ankiel, who run into each other while pursuing a Kemp gapper to RCF. Hilarity ensues.
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Bottom of the First
Ian Desmond leads off poking a single over Loney’s head, he’s going for two, Sands picks up the wet baseball and fires it to Dee who applies the tag on Desmond. One out
Bernadina lifts a ball down the line in LF, Juan Rivera is not going to get but Dee Gordon is snatching the ball going full horizontal just as the ball was about to land fair.
Werth takes strike one, ball one, strike two, ball two, ball three, then drives it deep to CF, Kemp is on his horse and pulls it down in dead center with his back to the plate.
Eveland tells Velez he got his guys.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Dodgers radio deal with KLAC 570 runs through 2014, and says DodgerTalk will run for “at least one hour after every game.”
They will also have a one-hour DodgerTalk from the start of spring training through opening day Monday through Saturday at 7pm.
No word yet on who will be on those shows.
I can recall the Dodgers being on
640 KFI, 790 KABC, 1150 Fox Sports, 980 KFWB and now 570 KLAC. The Dodgers were on KMPC when they first arrived to Los Angeles but moved to KFI in 1960-61.
BST
I once got in a huge argument with a Brit about whether or not Britain had an equivalent of Daylight Savings Time.
There was a press release going out saying X would happen at Y o’clock GMT. It was an international release, covering many time zones, so it had to be right. I asked if that was right. We got in a huge argument. “Greenwich is in London,” he said. I said, “Yes, I know Greenwich is in London. I have been to the Greenwich Maritime Museum and taken the cheesy picture of myself with one foot in the east and one foot in the west. I am not asking you where Greenwich is. I am asking if Britain is on Greenwich Mean Time in the summer.”
His response was not kind, which I guess I deserved.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
2nd Inning
Jim Loney laces a stand up double into the right center gap
Sands strikes out on four pitches
AJ Ellis walks
Miles hits into a double Play
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
A normal sized person would have gotten a hit.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Oct 3, 2011 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I know I got short somehow, but I think I would have remembered that.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Oct 3, 2011 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Bottom of 2nd
Eovaldi now in to face Zimmerman, Espinosa, Morse
Zimmerman watchs Eovaldi throw four straight 99 MPH for balls and takes his base
Eovaldi settles down and walks Espinosa on six pitches
Morse launches the gimme strike deep into the bleachers putting to rest the idea that Eovaldi can minimize home runs.
AJ Ellis visits the mound, smacks him on ass, and heads back.
Eovaldi now feeling invigorated by the smack on his ass dials his 99 upto 100 and strikes out Pudge, Ankiel, and the pinchitter, LaRoche.
Score 3 – 1 after two
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Eovaldi’s first strikeouts as a reliever!
by Eric Stephen on Oct 3, 2011 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Kemp hasn't homered yet?! DFA him!
{taps foot expectantly}
Oh well, maybe he’ll have a flair for the dramatic… ;-)
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Eric recycles!
Los Angeles Dodgers at Washington Nationals, Sep 8, 2011 2:05 PM PDT
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Meanwhile, OT, and harsh...
RT @jimcallisBA Would help if system wasn’t worst in game. @pgammo: Ken Williams: “we’re going to let the kids play” . . . young culture coming #WhiteSox
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Youth culture killed Kenny Williams’ dog.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Oct 3, 2011 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I hope someone
is scoring this game at home.
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3rd Inning
Velez pinch hits himself for Eovaldi when he sees the Nationals have replaced Strassburgh with Atahualpa Severino.
Velez bunts toward Morse and beats it out as Morse and Severino were caught in no mans land by the perfect bunt.
VELEZ GETS A HIT
Matt Kemp walks up as the tying run. Severino nervously looks at Kemp and decides not to look over at Velez hoping he will steal second so he can walk Kemp on purpose. Velez is having no part of it, and doesn’t take off.
Ball one
Ball two
Ball three
Zimmerman visits the mound and chastises the kid for being afraid to throw strikes.
Strike one, down the middle.
Strike two, down the middle
The kid is feeling confident and lets er fly
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two milestones in one inning
WHAT ARE THE ODDS?!?!?!
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Oct 3, 2011 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions
You couldn’t script it.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Oct 3, 2011 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s hoping for a big 2012.
"It takes a special fan to root for a last place moribund bankrupt franchise."
by Little Blue Bicycle on Oct 3, 2011 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
He’s playing like there’s no tomorrow!
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by David Young on Oct 3, 2011 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
The Dodgers wanted to sign him but he said no way to a backloaded deal.
"It takes a special fan to root for a last place moribund bankrupt franchise."
by Little Blue Bicycle on Oct 3, 2011 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Gameday has the ump squeezing Severino.
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That's why they call him
The →→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→→ uh…
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by David Young on Oct 3, 2011 12:38 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
After the game
The official scorer takes pity on Severio, figuring anyone who actually gives up a hit to Velez might become suicidal, and calls the play an error, because really, there must’ve been an error someplace if Velez ended up on first, right?
Hey Ives, you kept hitting me with your elbow. Is it true you can’t control the flail of your arms?
by Josie Becker on Oct 3, 2011 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I was about to be all pissy and say you linked it wrong, but I see flipflopflyball did it FOR Grantland. Is Grantland something I’m supposed to hate? I can’t keep track.
by Josie Becker on Oct 3, 2011 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions
If Grantland just stuck to sports, it would be awesome. The NFL preview pieces are good (Bill Barnwell from Football Outsiders) and they have some good baseball writing (I like Jonah Keri and the other guy’s name that I can’t spell).
But the whole “Hollywood Prospectus” crap is stupid.
and BS is still writing for ESPN, this is just his side project that directly competes with them and is a conflict of interest?
by Josie Becker on Oct 3, 2011 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Having multiple ways to laugh at Bill Simmons can’t be a bad thing.
Minor League Central @mlcentral @andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Oct 3, 2011 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL
at the last two categories.
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surprised that the Cardinals have done almost as well in the draft as the Rays. But the best fans in baseball deserve a homegrown team
by Josie Becker on Oct 3, 2011 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions
@TheRealMattKemp has more twitter followers (~55,000) than any of the playoff teams except Yankees, Phillies and Rangers, and he’s close to Texas at ~61,000.
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Matt Kemp hit that so far he broke open the skies and the deluge has started. Tarp on the field
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crap
hope the game doesn’t get rained out
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Oct 3, 2011 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I hope Velez gets Vince Coleman-ed
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
I predict now that he finishes behind Teddy Roosevelt too.
"It takes a special fan to root for a last place moribund bankrupt franchise."
by Little Blue Bicycle on Oct 3, 2011 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
That's not rain
that’s the Big Blue Dodger in the Sky weeping tears of joy that he created Matt Kemp.
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No, there’s a rain delay. Didn’t you read?
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
my god, such simple things bring such joy
by Hollywood Joe on Oct 3, 2011 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Vin Scully has a direct line to the man upstairs, doesn’t he? Can’t he do something about the rain?
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Oct 3, 2011 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions
HJ Proposed a situation a while back that was absolutely perfect. Ninth inning, and Eugenio Velez comes in to pinch hit and gets his first hit of the season in order to extend teh inning just long enough to give Kemp an extra at bat. Kemp hits #40. THis must happen.
too late.
magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Oct 3, 2011 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions
don't care.
im choosing my own fantasy to live in.
Been there done that
back in the 1150 days. It was as painful as you’d expect it to be.
Kind of OT
I never watched the “Outer Limits” because as a kid, that opening sequence freaked me out. Also, I just enjoyed the Twilight Zone more and never got into Outer Limits or Night Gallery.
Night Gallery sacred by littleness something fierce, I would not watch it
Twilight Zone and Outer Limits also scared me, but I loved watching them
by Hollywood Joe on Oct 3, 2011 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
ALSO
has this been linked yet? Hank Aaron voting is up now.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/fan_forum/haa/y2011/index.jsp
Game called on account of rain
thus ending the bittersweet 2011 season.
NPUT
http://www.truebluela.com/2011/10/3/2463745/dodgers-roster-breakdown
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on fire with your animal cruelty
we being the beast of course
by Hollywood Joe on Oct 3, 2011 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Aw man now it’s like the game never happened.
by Alex41592 on Oct 3, 2011 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Knew it was looking bad when I checked the Weather Channel
"It takes a special fan to root for a last place moribund bankrupt franchise."
by Little Blue Bicycle on Oct 3, 2011 1:01 PM PDT up reply actions
you magnificent bastard
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Oct 3, 2011 1:02 PM PDT up reply actions
not gonna lie
i was so fuckin lost reading this…
by lakersdodgersyankees4life on Oct 3, 2011 5:16 PM PDT reply actions
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