The Light at the End of the Tunnel
Turns out, it WAS a train! Be careful what you wish for (Kenley Jansen) you might get it! Kenley sure has had some dramatic losses for us this year. I blame his Doctors they said he could pitch. It was obvious he could not! Malpractice is what it was! According to Ken Gurnick of Dodgers.com, Jansen may have been too amped up: Jansen said he was so excited
Turns out, it WAS a train!
Be careful what you wish for (Kenley Jansen) – you might get it! Kenley sure has had some dramatic losses for us this year. I blame his Doctors – they said he could pitch. It was obvious he could not! Malpractice is what it was!
According to Ken Gurnick of Dodgers.com, Jansen may have been too amped up:
Jansen said he was so excited to be activated, he might have been a little too excited.
“The first two hitters, I wasn’t in my comfort zone,” Jansen said. “I think I tried to maybe be amped up to be back and try hard and everything flattened out. I definitely didn’t come back too soon. Stuff happens, but you’ve got to move forward. Tomorrow, if I have a shot, same hitters, I’m looking forward to it.”
Well, I guess that happens, but this stuff can’t happen much longer – not just the blown saves, but the failure to hit with RISP. The Dodgers are 2-1/2 games out and theres not much margin for error. It was just one game, but there aren’t that many left! The fact of the matter is: Jansen has lost 4 games and blown 3 saves this season!
To those who think Roberts is FAZ’s puppet, are you watching what this genius (I use that with sarcasm) is doing? FAZ is giving him all the data every game and he continues to do stupid stuff. Gomber is death to RH hitters, so Doc lines up his three worst RH hitters in a row: Hernandez, Taylor and Barnes. Dave Roberts thinks he is the smartest person in the room, when he not even in the top 75%. He’s not FAZ’s puppet – he’s a contrarian – he does stuff just because he thinks he’s smarter than they are. It’s going to cost him his job!
Rants and Raves
- Austin Barnes body language screams “Please walk me – I can’t jump out of a boat and hit water!” Kike ands CT3 are all-or-nothing players… mostly nothing!
- I do not think Alex Verdugo is a solution (long-term) to play CF, but he can play there for a while. The Dodgers need his OB% bat in the lineup, like NOW! What is the holdup?
- el Gasolino has not given up a hit or run his last 4 appearances, spanning 5.1 innings. That’s a start. He is starting to pitch… not just throw.
- Maeda looked comfortable out of the pen. Wood was not comfortable as a starter. I think Chicken Strip will take Wood’s spot when he comes back. Wood is better suited to the bullpen right about now.
- CT3 and Kike: Only one should be on the roster – they are the same player right about now… unless one decided to adopt Bellinger’s approach.
- These guys better get busy – time is running out!
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DODGERS PLACE JT CHARGOIS ON DL
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LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Dodgers today placed right-handed pitcher JT Chargois on the 10-day disabled list with nerve irritation and recalled SHP Pat Venditte from Triple-A Oklahoma City.
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Chargois, 28, exited last night’s game against the Cardinals after facing one batter in the fifth inning with neck discomfort. In 38 relief appearances this season with Los Angeles, he has gone 2-4 with a 3.45 ERA (12 ER/31.1 IP) and has held hitters to a .228 average, while striking out 38 against 15 walks.
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Venditte, 33, will make his eighth stint with the big league club this season and has appeared in five games with Los Angeles allowing four runs over 4.1 innings (8.31 ERA), while striking out four against one walk. In 45 relief outings with the OKC Dodgers, the ambidextrous pitcher has gone 4-2 with four saves and has posted a 1.75 ERA (10 ER/51.1 IP), while holding the opposition to a .168 average. He has also punched out 62 batters against 14 walks, while posting a 0.86 WHIP.
I think Harper will be a Cub:
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1. He is best friends with Kris Bryant;
2. His dog’s name is “Wrigley.”
3. The Cubs have the money, even if they have to eat part of Heyward’s deal.
4. A DOG NAMED WRIGLEY? That’s all you need to know.
Re. any Harper to LA trade: even for 6 weeks of Harper, Wash would ask for Verdugo PLUS. They sure as hell won’t ask for Kemp and the $26mil left on his deal
Anyone else getting tired of watching Muncy trying to play defense anywhere on the field?
The energy and urgency is just not there, like they are waiting for the next bad thing to happen. This brand of baseball is insufferable, bad bullpen and lack of clutch hitting will doom all teams, .500 team in more ways then one.
Tweet by Gurnick…..Dodgers hitters struck out 12 times last night and 6 times through 3 innings tonight.
This is who the Dodgers are. Any runs scored are the result of HR’s, no scoring= a lot of strikeouts. This team is not built for a sustained offensive threat and instead are entirely too reliant on the long ball. They can’t seem to get a big hit when they need it as Joc displayed with a bases loaded flyout.
Say what you want and I’m not a Doc apologist and have questioned many of his moves, but this is the team given to him by the FO. Serious regression by CT 0 for 3, Cody, Keekee, Barnes, Woods, a suspect BP have all resulted in a subpar season.
I want to see another post season but I’ve got to think a failure to do so will result in some serious changes.
In before anyone else: Horrible at bat by Puig! Put the damn bat on the ball when 2nd and 3rd and nobody out.
Update: Horrible at bat by Dozier as well! Pathetic
Such horrible lack of fundamental baseball we are witnessing. 2nd and 3rd no outs and we get 2 K’s and then a weak flyout to the OF. Dozier looked a lot like Forsythe at his AB striking out feebly on an off speed pitch. Lets DFA Turner Ward.
Runners on 2 and 3 and no outs. We score 0.
Bobby,
“Pathetic” is a good description. Great minds think alike. I was about to describe it as “pitiful”.
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Think I’ll skip this one. It’s about midnight here in the east, and I’m tired.
Tweet by Plunkett……..Andrew Friedman on #Dodgers string of late losses over past 10 days: “Those things have happened. They’re in the bank. But as we look ahead, we feel really good about all facets of our team and feel we will click and play really good baseball down the stretch.”
Not sure what he is supposed to say..” I put a terrible roster together that can’t hit in the clutch, I failed in the BP construction, couldn’t get our first round draft pick signed, gave up ten players for only marginal results but hey were under the CBT and there’s always next year.”
Lol agree nothing to say but I expect a little accountability in the off-season.
This little league philosophy of everyone plays and who cares about getting players into a groove is dooming us with risp. Baseball is hard enough but to have to come through after always being off a day is impossible. The thought process has to change a bit in the off-season, these are not machines!!
Swing the bat Kemp. Two strikes protect!
9 Ks. 7 LOB. 1 for 7 with RISP. These games all start to look the same. At least no bullpen runs yet, but they don’t have the lead so maybe the ‘pen doesn’t have to allow a run tonight.
Is that 7LOB for Joc alone tonight?
And AZ just beat Anaheim. We’ll be 3.5 back if we don’t come back
The light at the end of the tunnel is an apt title for your article.
To quote Poltergeist
Stay away from the light. The light is dangerous. Don’t go near it. Don’t even look at the light.
Incredibly bad base running by Kike. JT coming up as the tying run and he makes a true knucklehead play.
Just havnt felt the love for this team all season.
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We just havnt got into any kind of rhythm with all the injuries and shuffling of players.
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We have some easier looking fixtures with the Padres & Texas coming up, but we will almost need 2 sweeps there.
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Fundamentally though, our shit or bust philosophy offensively has been proven to be flawed.
It is embarrassing to watch.
Another nail in the coffin and it’s feeling like it won’t get pried open. How long can we hold our breath, especially while yawning?
Per ESPN.com, “The Dodgers have stranded 25 runners in the first two games of the series.”
Has any team ever finished first in the league in ERA and runs and not made the playoffs? We might just be the first to accomplish that!
This is crap laddie!
The 10 game winning streak begins tonight!!! (I got nothing and the coffee hasn’t kicked in yet)
We left 11 man on base last night. Petersen left five runners on in scoring position. Muncey is horrible on defense. Turner got the error, but Mincey should of had that throw. They just are not much fun to watch.