Rant Rave Sunday
Let me remind you that the Dodgers only HAVE TO play three more games without Corey Seager. Think about that one. See, this is a team game. When Kershaw went down last year and again this year, they didn t miss a beat. They are just a very talented team of Junkyard Dogs. Kershaw wasn t himself, but he was OK. The bullpen minus el Gasolino was outstanding! They had to get
- Let me remind you that the Dodgers only HAVE TO play three more games without Corey Seager. Think about that one. See, this is a team game. When Kershaw went down last year and again this year, they didn’t miss a beat. They are just a very talented team of Junkyard Dogs. Kershaw wasn’t himself, but he was OK. The bullpen minus el Gasolino was outstanding! They had to get 12 outs and they did it in 12 hitters. That’s perfect!
- Maeda will not want to go to the bullpen next year and with the contract he signed, you can see why. But it looks like he has found a home. Maybe the Dodgers re-work his deal over the winter.
- Yasiel Puig is the heart and soul of this team right about now. They are literally feeding off him… waiting to see what he might do not. Hopefully, he can keep the knuckleheadedery at bay. I have always believed he had superstar talent. If he can build on this next year, the Dodgers may have four MVP Candidates in their lineup.
- Hopefully Seager can go in the final round of the playoffs.
- Lester verses Hill tonight. I would like to see Hill Dominate!
- There’s nothing more to say except Just Play the Game! Same lineup?
- DJ Peters 1-4 (.125)
- Will Smith 1-3 (.455)
- Matt Beaty 0-4 (.231)
- Yusniel Diaz 1-2 with 2 BB (.400)
- Issac Anderson 1 IP, 2 H, 1 K, 0 R (0.00 )
- Michael Boyle 1.1 IP, 1 H, 1 K, 0 R (3.86)
- Shea Spitzbarth 1. IO, 1 K, 0 R (0.00)
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Discussion (67)
Disagree, not disagreeable
Morrow is no Joey Pancakes.
I’m gonna hit up Turner for tickets for World Series game 1. He’ll do it!
You cannot script this game better than what happened tonight. Rich Hill pitches very well with the exception of one pitch. That seems to be the Dodgers starting pitching problem (the only problem they have had this entire series). Culberson gets a clutch double and scores on a JT single on the right side. Contreras sets up outside, it just did not get outside enough, and JT let the ball come to him.
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The bullpen executes again. Brandon Morrow is just a stud. I remember getting a lot of grief when I called for him in April. I am just glad that he signed a contract forcing the Dodgers to call him up before June 1 or lose him. Fields and Watson do their part to get to Jansen. Kenley’s HBP is the first base runner of a Dodger reliever in either Game 1 or 2.
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Great patience for Puig and CT3. I am happy that Maddon felt he needed to keep Wade Davis for a save situation and let Lackey come in to back to back games for the first time in his career. Move over Dre, JT is then new Captain Clutch.
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Doc is making all the right calls, and Maddon has not yet been able to. The patience the batters are showing is remarkable. They are not afraid to take a strike, but when they decide to swing on the first pitch, it still seems to work.
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I sure hope Chase Utley gets another opportunity to make up for tonight. He did not look good.
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Overall, great win for the Blue. Now on to Chicago, and let’s see if Yu can match his last start.
Morrow, Taylor, and Bellinger started at AAA this year. Cingrani, Watson and Darvish came to us in trades. In those trades we did not give up the players we wanted to keep. The front office certainly can take credit for putting this team together. The coaches have worked with Puig. Taylor and Barnes have forced Doc to play them. The bull pen is in lock down made. Everybody is just doing their job.
Doubt if Dodgers will see Lackey again, well, ever. I think JT put the retirement in the works for him last night. Other than Lackey the pitching was excellent on both sides. Expecting some pitched battles in Chicago. Get it, pitched battles. Dodger pitching gonna be hard to beat. Getting a semi warm fuzzy feeling. I hope not prematurely.
Last year’s NLCS lineup:
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Utley 2B
Seager SS
Turner 3B
Gonzalez 1B
Reddick RF
Pederson CF
Grandal C
Toles LF
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Only ONE PLAYER is the same this year. That’s bonkers.
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Miss Toles do I.
Bluto
I was responding to your staterment, that this group of players, are not exactly out performing, the other group of players!
Because this group of players, did out perform those other group of players , in the first series this year, against the Dbacks, when Corey was in the line up!
And right now, we are not scoring as many runs, as we did, in that last series, without Corey in the line up!
Bluto
I don’t know what your point about Toles is, but our leftfielders, are not doing that well, and that is not true about Toles!
Does anyone have news about Toles progress?
Finally made it back home. Went to wedding on the East side of Indy on Saturday. The mother-son dance was introduced by a Harry Carey recording. There was a Cubs cake. It was an outdoor wedding that had an indoor rustic/bar structure for the reception. About game time, I put myself outside talking to people who I didn’t think would tell me what’s going on in the game. About 9:30 Est time, I saw someone showing someone else the score on their phone. Even though now words were spoken at that point I told my wife we had to go before someone said something. My friend on the South side of Indy had his DVR going for me and let me watch from start to finish in his garage/bar. I felt like it was a good place because he has a Cubs Suck sign permanently in his garage. Got my hung over self to my mother’s in South Bend for Sunday’s game. I thought for sure I woke her when JT went yard. I have finally arrived back in Iowa City to a bunch of moaning crybaby Cubs fans who want Puig drilled by a pitch. Wore my Dodgers gear at all of our stops from Indy to Iowa City. Heavy Cubs country the entire trip. Of course all of my friends who are Cardinals fans are suddenly Dodgers fans this week.
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Julio Urias is throwing a weighted ball, and he looks to be in great shape.
kinda bonkers to think that Urias could be used in a Maeda type role in the 2018 playoffs
He should be back by September.
Great dodger win!! Understatement obviously. Turner is just fun to watch definite junkyard dog, clutch, great defender, sneaky base runner, great team player. Hill is fun to watch and such a competitor. Jansen was either totally dominate unhittable duh! But the cubs were swinging at pitch after pitch over their head they were just overwhelmed. Barnes had poor plate discipline tonight for whatever reason he did not look like the same hitter. Our biggest weakness may be a right handed bat off the bench. No more farmer please! Things are certainly falling the Dodgers way so far but the cubs are very resilient and I think madden is a great manager. Not all moves are going to work but his confidence in every player makes him respected in the clubhouse and most of his decisions are right on. The cubs beat a more talented nationals team so they will not lay down. The dodgers overall pitching is so much better than last year. I have always felt are biggest problem was a third and fourth starter. Brett Anderson anyone?