Dodgers Handed Opportunities In 9th, Take Advantage To Beat Cardinals
The Dodgers had their usual offensive output against Chris Carpenter on Monday night, which is to say almost nothing at all. But they followed their 2011 formula against Carpenter, which is to wait him out, then score two in the ninth inning for a 2-1 Dodgers win over the Cardinals.
Carpenter pitched seven shutout innings on April 17 at Dodger Stadium, and the Dodgers were rescued by Matt Kemp hitting a walk-off, two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth (you might remember Vin Scully exclaiming, "They pitched to the one man who could beat them, and he did!") Tonight, in the top of the eighth inning with a runner on and two outs, that opportunity presented itself again. Carpenter left a curveball up in the strike zone to Kemp, a pitch so hittable that TV analyst Steve Lyons nearly jumped out of his seat as he said, "Hung it!" However, this time Kemp just missed it, and flew out shy of the warning track in left field.
Luckily for the Dodgers, that wasn't their last opportunity.
The Dodgers offense for the first eight innings Monday night mostly consisted of James Loney and Rod Barajas hitting singles, though new cleanup hitter Juan Rivera reached base twice via a walk and hit-by-pitch. Carpenter hit Rivera on what looked like the hand or wrist to start the ninth inning, and that ended Carpenter's night.
Arthur Rhodes was brought in to face Andre Ethier and, because Rhodes throws with his left hand Ethier became the first out of the inning, this time via a four-pitch strikeout. In came relief pitcher Fernando Salas, who gave up a triple into the right field gap off the bat of former Cardinal Aaron Miles to tie the game.
Tony LaRussa brought in his fourth pitcher of the ninth inning, Jason Motte, to face Rod Barajas, the fourth batter of the ninth for the Dodgers. Barajas hit a ball off the glove of Rafael Furcal, who was inserted for defensive purposes to begin the inning. Furcal recovered and threw home but Miles was busy sliding across the plate with the go-ahead run.
The reason the Dodgers were even in a position to tie, then take the lead in the ninth was thanks to Nathan Eovaldi and the bullpen. Eovaldi allowed a second-inning home run to Lance Berkman, but not much else. Eovaldi threw 83 pitches in his five innings, allowing five hits and a walk while striking out two. Josh Lindblom, Scott Elbert, and Matt Guerrier retired all nine batters they faced, and closer Javy Guerra allowed only an infield single to Furcal in the bottom of the ninth, closing out the win.
Notes
- The win tonight was the Dodgers' second all season, in 64 opportunities, when trailing to start the ninth inning
- In Carpenter's last eight starts against the Dodgers, he has allowed a total of five runs and five walks.
- Eovaldi and Danny McDevitt (in 1957) are the only two Dodgers since 1957 to begin their careers with four games of five innings or more while allowing two runs or less.
- Loney has seven hits in his last eight at-bats
- Eugenio Velez was 0-for-3 tonight, tying him with J.D. Drew for the worst starts to a Dodger career by a position player since 1919, at 0-for-25.
- Kemp, batting third for the first time all season, went 0-for-4, snapping his 11-game hitting streak.
- Clayton Kershaw gets strikeout number 200 Tuesday night in the second game of the series, facing Kyle Lohse.
WP - Matt Guerrier (4-3): 1 IP, 2 strikeouts
LP - Fernando Salas (5-5): 1 batter, 1 triple, 1 run
Sv - Javy Guerra (11): 1 IP, 1 hit
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"I Haz the Sadz," says Emo Tony.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
as always
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 22, 2011 8:32 PM PDT reply actions
Has Ethier ever seen a left handed pitcher?
It looks like he hasn’t, given the way he swings at lefty pitchers. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a player so inept against pitchers that throw from the same side as the hitter. I don’t see other players having that kind of trouble.
Baseball is a game, and games are supposed to be fun.
funny thing is
earlier in his career, he was actually decent against them
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 22, 2011 8:35 PM PDT up reply actions
That was the Cardinal's
5th loss after leading through 8 innings. The Cubs are the only other club in the National League with that many losses when leading after 8.
Texas and Minnesota
each have 6 losses after leading going into the 9th inning, some other AL teams have 5 losses including the Angels. As a whole the AL teams fare slightly worse when leading into the 9th.
Great news
Kershaw is the free game on MLB.TV tomorrow.
Yes!
Best news I’ve heard all all day.
Too bad I’ll have to put up with Collins and Lyons though.
Nothing is ever easy.
by drulenarendes on Aug 22, 2011 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Here was one person
who is hoping no new TV deal gets done before 2013. I believe the next deal will end broadcast games for the Dodgers because it will be worth more to sell the whole package to cable network.
…and the Topes lose 16-7 at home.
I’m going to either Friday or Saturday’s game. This is the last homestand of the season for the Topes.
awwww
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 22, 2011 8:48 PM PDT up reply actions
o rly eric
which is to say almost nothing at all at all.
I pitched to Matt Kemp, and all I got was this stupid earned run.
Really drives the point home, doesn’t it? :)
by Eric Stephen on Aug 22, 2011 8:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I just noticed your signature
fucking awesome :)
Nothing is ever easy.
by drulenarendes on Aug 22, 2011 8:55 PM PDT up reply actions
congratulations to tray dog
for not striking out tonight for the first time in his young career
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
A day or two before Kershaw
Strasburg could face the Dodgers:
“On schedule” means Strasburg likely will make only two more minor-league starts before he returns to the mound at Nationals Park. Rizzo will wait to see how the right-hander feels Tuesday before setting a date and place for his next outing, but Saturday at Class AAA Syracuse is the frontrunner. He could then make one final start Sept. 1 at Class AA Harrisburg before coming off the DL to start either Sept. 6 or 7 against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
if the doctors say he is ready
why not?
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
isn't that why we ARE pitching Evo this year?
I mean Strasburg is still a guy with all of 12 major league starts in his career. Experience iss omething he lacks. Why not let him get some while knocking off the rust?
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
Especially against the Dodgers?
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 9:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, sure. Why not get your feet wet against a league doormat?
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 9:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Probably has inside track in spring. It’s either Guerra or Kenley Jansen.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 22, 2011 8:58 PM PDT up reply actions
as great as Guerra's been
I think, based on pure stuff, I might prefer Kenley
/awaitsGScottswrath
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 22, 2011 9:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Agreed
But we don’t make the decisions. :)
I don’t really have a problem either way because Jansen will still pitch a bunch of high leverage innings and will likely be awesome.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 22, 2011 9:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Agree with Eric. If both are healthy, both will make the team, and which ever one gets anointed Closer, he shall have a short leash, with the other dude waiting in the wings.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 9:05 PM PDT up reply actions
word
But we don’t make the decisions. :)
i wish we realized this more often sometimes :)
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 22, 2011 9:05 PM PDT up reply actions
he prefers Kenley too, don’t worry
I pitched to Matt Kemp, and all I got was this stupid earned run.
i'm sure he does
i was just teasing about that bullpen session you guys saw in ST. Where Ellis was telling him he wasn’t throwing what he thought he was or something like that.
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 22, 2011 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I like Kenley's stuff better
Guerra could be a nice set up man though
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How useful do you think a transactions page on Minor League Central would be? For now it would only be able to track players changing, not getting called up or going on the DL.
@andrewngrant
It adds something, if it’s not too much work. Getting callups would be ideal.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 22, 2011 8:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Sadly no way to tell if a guy makes it to the bigs right now.
@andrewngrant
by regfairfield on Aug 22, 2011 9:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Is this old friend Ricky Horton interviewing Miles for Cardinals TV?
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=6886731&ex_cid=nhffromfb
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
I heard that!
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
http://articles.latimes.com/1988-08-31/sports/sp-1263_1_white-sox
Brad Havens, Jesse Orosco, Ricky Horton, & Tim Crews.
I remember it. (Like an elephant, I never forget.)
Except I kept thinking they’d gotten him from the Cardinals for some reason.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
“Those guys know over there that I hunt the heater.”
by Eric Stephen on Aug 22, 2011 9:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Both are true.
The answer though is “we lost.”
by Eric Stephen on Aug 22, 2011 9:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Don't worry, WGT.*
*third
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 seems like a lot
from the Isotopes:
A total of 21,069 hot dogs were devoured by 6,675 people at the ‘Topes’ third and final 50-Cent Hot Dog Night! That’s an avg. 3.15/person
They knew what they signed up for. They weren’t yellow.
Oh wait.
by Eric Stephen on Aug 22, 2011 9:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Forward, the mustard seeds!
Was there a seed dismay’d?
Not tho’ a seed would know
They would be fillin’;
Theirs not to make reply
Theirs not to reason why
Theirs but to do and die;
Into their sausage casings
Went, oh, a million.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 9:21 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
That poem is all I know about the Crimean War, except that there was a war called the Crimean War.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions
OK, reading the wikipedia article on the Congress of Vienna. This seems pretty important.
The objective of the Congress was to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. This objective resulted in the redrawing of the continent’s political map, establishing the boundaries of France, Napoleon’s Duchy of Warsaw, the Netherlands, the states of the Rhine, the German province of Saxony, and various Italian territories, and the creation of spheres of influence through which Austria, Britain, France and Russia brokered local and regional problems.
I knew that sleeping through European History wasn’t a good idea, but I was so tired, and my desk was so soft and inviting.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I wonder what the Guinness World Record is for the number of hot dogs consumed by multiple people in one venue over a given amount of time.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 9:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Just wait until you have to write a story about that record. And then wait until everybody calls you up asking to confirm all the qualifiers on that record. Your head has not begun to hurt.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 9:30 PM PDT up reply actions
and then they option the rights to that record. And you’re like, what do I do with a record? That’s not a movie. And they say thats what these 50 underpaid writers are for. Find them some offices. Or a lawn.
by Josie Becker on Aug 22, 2011 9:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, sure, you like them now.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 9:36 PM PDT up reply actions
“Jimmy, you only ate .15 of that hot dog”
“Well I already ate three.”
“Jimmy, why’d you eat so many damn hotdogs?”
by Josie Becker on Aug 22, 2011 9:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Jerry Sands hit his 25th tonight
(Speaking of Albuquerque)
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
with two doubles
so i hear
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Aug 22, 2011 9:21 PM PDT up reply actions
rumor has it!
I assume we’ll see him in a week.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
I realize it's somewhat ironic to say this
But how bad of acting is the women’s wrestling portion of raw, lol. I saw this after watching Alberto Del Rio act like a tool bad for 10 minutes so bad he could be on Jersey Shore.
"If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate"
Would like to answer this if I hadn’t stopped watching wrestling since ’03
by Julio Nievas on Aug 22, 2011 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I fell back into it before Wrestlemania with false hopes of the Rock
Damn you, Dwayne!
"If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate"
CM Punk is a pretty good promo guy. Can’t say I know much about anyone else on that show.
by silverwidow on Aug 22, 2011 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I've become a pretty big fan of Punks the last month or so
He’s seriously fun to watch, unlike 95 percent of the other morons on the mic.
"If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate"
I know how Holliday feels. I often get a Moth story stuck in my ear and can’t get it out.
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 9:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I once swallowed a bug while riding a motorcycle. Not pleasant one bit.
But I hate Holliday and LaRussa, so way to go moth. He gave his life for a good cause.
Unless the trainers squashed the poor thing… it was alive when it was pulled from Holliday’s ear.
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 9:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Ah then hopefully tomorrow after being set free it seeks out Pujols.
by Freddy V on Aug 22, 2011 9:59 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
No word on the color of the moth, but if it was Dodger blue, it is currently running third in the race for team MVP.
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 10:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Also, considering this was Holliday… Here is the requisite joke. It’s not too good. Feel free to do better:
I’ve heard of having moth problems and then getting balls, but Holliday is the first guy I know of to have ball problems and then get a moth.
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 10:00 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
No joke but funny enough (apparently to some people)… Speaking of flying bugs, I found a way to avoid mosquitos while trying to sleep. Since my eyesight is no longer sharp enough to see and swat, I simply remove the blankets from the bed, exit the room and close the door, go into the other bedroom and flop on that bed and go to sleep. Consequently, the jokers I work with say I have a “mosquito room.”
Fuck
Justin Verlander is good at baseball.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Aug 22, 2011 10:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Uh, gross
Holliday’s moth update: IT WAS ALIVE WHEN THEY REMOVED IT. And Holliday kept it. (Waiting for the @HollidaysMoth account.)
Chris Shut has chosen the wrong phrase to put in all caps.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Also
I know the odds are against it, but if this game ever becomes famous or memorable for any reason, I Hereby Dub Thee the Holliday Moth Game.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 10:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I remember an episode of ER where they pulled a cockroach out of a woman’s ear. Bugs crawling in my ear canal is my top irrational fear
by Josie Becker on Aug 22, 2011 10:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I have no irrational fears, only irrational hatreds.
Newman and Ruiz, I’M LOOKING AT YOU TWO
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
You bring up a good point. I wonder if I am hated in an irrational manner by anyone.
I suppose not. The only hatreds I engender — by Bride, by Spawn, even by Folly — are entirely rational.
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 10:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Hating any baseball player is irrational.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 10:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Pierzynski isn’t just a ballplayer. He is the living incarnation of all things evil. One cannot walk with the righteous and not hate Pierzynski. He is a bunch of lies, getting lost, and death, if you know what I mean and if I’m not going too far and offending in which case I don’t really mean it, it’s just a joke and I withdraw.
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 10:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Eh, I think I’ll stay somewhat inscrutable. Mocking the Bible is dicey territory.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 10:48 PM PDT up reply actions
yes
hating a baseball player for being a baseball player is irrational
hating a miserable human is just good sense
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 22, 2011 11:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I didn’t see that movie for the first time until I was, what, 20 years old or thereabouts.
Good gosh, that sounds so young now, but at the time, I thought, “Why haven’t I seen this movie until now?!”
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions
The girlfriend had never seen it. In fact, I don’t think that she had seen any Paul Newman movies at all. Outside of Cars.
They are all ones to watch. Fucking asshole being so fucking good all the fucking time.
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quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur
by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions
In fact, as I get old, The Verdict is the one that gets me.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve never seen The Verdict. Don’t know how I’ve gone through 26 years without seeing it, but I should remedy that sometime.
The
Verdict has the one scene at the end that I love where Newman gives his summation.
by bhsportsguy on Aug 22, 2011 10:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I really liked Absence of Malice. Different kind of role for Newman.
Baseball is a game, and games are supposed to be fun.
He’s good in it. Movie as a whole is hit-and-miss, but it’s hard to forget the scene of the woman staying up all night on her front porch, then stealing all of her neighbors’ newspapers.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Makes you wonder what is locked up in the brains of people around you, and how they react.
Baseball is a game, and games are supposed to be fun.
I don’t know how I’d react
and no man can eat 50 eggs
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 22, 2011 10:59 PM PDT up reply actions
I didn’t watch The Big Lebowski until last week! Fancy that.
Overqualified in an underqualified world since 2008.
consider me fancied
you still waited too long
I hope you saw it on DVD and not edited for TV
nice ginger action
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 22, 2011 11:02 PM PDT up reply actions
yep, DVD
it just never was screened anywhere, and I guess I’d see it eventually so I never pursued it.
Overqualified in an underqualified world since 2008.
OTOH
In the edited for TV version you do get the classic line,“That’s what you get for finding a stranger in the Alps.”
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
irrational appreciation of Paul Newman was instilled in me at a young age
saw Butch and saw the Sting as a boy
my mama was a fan and my daddy didn’t object
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 22, 2011 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions
how in the hell is that irrational?!
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view--until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
cause the chances are like being afraid my plane is going to fall out of the sky
by Josie Becker on Aug 22, 2011 10:30 PM PDT up reply actions
inner ear canal bugs on super turbulent planes.
not that far fetched
by NotJoeTorre on Aug 22, 2011 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I am on a plane in 9.5 hours
I look forward to being infested
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 22, 2011 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions
colby rasmoth?
“@keithlaw: When they took the moth out of Holliday’s ear, it asked for its dad so the Cardinals traded it”
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by underdog on Aug 22, 2011 10:37 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I think we found the moth joke. Beats the hell out of mine.
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by Humma Kavula on Aug 22, 2011 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions
this shit doesn't happen in any other sport
c’mon now, this is the sport that witnessed flying maggots causing a dominant reliever to blow a game in the AL playoffs, thus sealing the Yankees’ fate and allowing Joe Torre to come west.
Overqualified in an underqualified world since 2008.
I once saw a football game won by a snow plow
by Hollywood Joe on Aug 22, 2011 11:05 PM PDT up reply actions
soccer game
when the home team goes into the court fans usually throw paper cut into little squares into the crowd, i once saw a group of those papers preventing the ball from entering the goal.
If Whinewright had been pitching
He would’ve complained about the moth…
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