OOTS : We're All Dodgers Fans Tonight

[Ceetar]

Because they're playing the stupid Phillies.

Marlins and Braves.

Also the Sox visit the Yankees in the Bronx. supposedly the season starts tonight or something. nothing else matters. it was all a dress rehersal, blah blah blah. Lester versus Garcia. I have to drive to LI from NJ and hope everyone's at the game by 7:30 when I'm passing by.

Or you could just go to the game. It's not sold out. These are $100, which is ridiculous but not when you compare it to the rest of the place.

[metirish]

This game is on MLB Network , it's small of me but listening to Leiter's super enthusiasm on YES makes me want to hurl,couple that with Kay and O"Neill and you have a booth that if I were invited into I would jump out the window, Garcia got tagged for three runs in the first.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Teixera helped off the field, Kay just said. Anyone see what happened?

MFYs down 3-1 after 1

[ashie62]

Totally off topic but 2010 NL ROY Contender Tyler Colvin of the Cubs is now 7 for 81 with 22 k's. Thats bad, very bad.

[ashie62]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Teixera helped off the field, Kay just said. Anyone see what happened? MFYs down 3-1 after 1

Teixeira was shot in the leg by a sawx fan.

[Ceetar]

Posada pinch runs. Yankees scratch out a run (Jeter grounded softly to third to start) with the help of two HBP.

Phillies load the bases, score one to tie but Dodgers limit the damage.

Atl-FLa tied. I"m inclined to root for Florida, but really, neither.

[Ceetar]

Dodgers rally to score 3 more in the top 3rd after the great escape. Still batting. It's that Oswalt guy.

[Frayed Knot]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Teixera helped off the field, Kay just said. Anyone see what happened? MFYs down 3-1 after 1

Took a Lester pitch off the kneecap.

Now 4-1 both in the Bronx and in Philly

Jeter with a cheap hit.
Now needs 13 to reach 3K and do you supposed there's any type of mandate to get him there on this 10-game homestand?

[ashie62]

Frayed Knot wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Teixera helped off the field, Kay just said. Anyone see what happened? MFYs down 3-1 after 1 Took a Lester pitch off the kneecap. Now 4-1 both in the Bronx and in Philly Jeter with a cheap hit. Now needs 13 to reach 3K and do you supposed there's any type of mandate to get him there on this 10-game homestand?

Of course there is!

[Frayed Knot]

Dodgers beat Phils 6-2


Braves get two-hit by some Marlins pitcher named Hand (Spicoli's friend?) but win 1-0 behind Tommy Hansen and 3 relievers.



BoSox 6-3 over the Yanx in a quick (for them) 3:23
That's 7 of 8 for the Bostonians this season.



Nationals in SF scoreless in the 2nd.

[MFS62]

Ceetar wrote: Because they're playing the stupid Phillies.

Speak for yourself. After all these years, I still can't bring myself to root for them.
So they beat them.
OK, but all things considered, I was rooting for the meteor.

Later

[Ceetar]

Part two.

Kuroda vs. Hamels.

Lowe vs. Nolasco.

A.J. Burnett vs. Wakefield.

Noesi, the starter turned reliever who was hanging out in thebullpen for the Yankees sent down for someone I've never heard of after 6ip in relief of Freddy Garcia. Joba strains his flexor muscle, DL'd fora while. haven't seen a call up, think it must've just happened. Luis Ayala moves up one spot in the Yankees bullpen depth.

[Frayed Knot]

Girardi apparently pissed at Papi's bat-flip following his HR last night.
Hijinx (and over-wrought ESPN analysis) to follow.



Nats lose this afternoon in late innings to Cain in SF
Their (Washington's) bullpen which carried them for a while is faltering recently. They tied it at 1-1 on an Ankiel 2B in the 8th but then gave that run plus one more right back.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Frayed Knot wrote: Girardi apparently pissed at Papi's bat-flip following his HR last night. Hijinx (and over-wrought ESPN analysis) to follow. Nats lose this afternoon in late innings to Cain in SF Their (Washington's) bullpen which carried them for a while is faltering recently. They tied it at 1-1 on an Ankiel 2B in the 8th but then gave that run plus one more right back.

I guess Papi's first inning HR indicates Burnett failed to hit the target. Boston up 4 zip already, batting in 2nd

[metirish]

Kay, O'Neill and Leiter reminiscing about the 200 WS...

[metirish]

7-1 Sox.......and the Yankee hacks on Twitter are still jawing about payback for last night.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

MFYs cut it to 8-5... but Jeets hits into a bases-loaded DP to end the rally.

[Frayed Knot]

Kimbrel gets a 2-0 lead and gets the first two outs in the 9th ... then blows the save with a walk, double, and a 2-RBI single.
Marlins & Braves tied 2-2 in the 10th.

[Frayed Knot]

Phils shutout Dodgers 2-0
Howard's HR was the first goner for the Phils in a week.

[Frayed Knot]

Braves go on to win it in the 10th.
That's 7 losses in a row for Florida, and 10 of their last 12.
Soon to be just 1.5 games ahead of your New York Mets.

[Frayed Knot]

And the Sox hold on to win 11-6

Tonight's game took 3:22, virtually the same time as last night which also matches the average game between those teams. 2:50 is MLB average for everyone else.

[Frayed Knot]

- Braves hand Florida their 8th straight loss and another 1-run loss, this time 3-2.


- Phils switch to hosting the Cubs.
Long rain delay but they're back playing in the 8th, 3-1 Phils ... oops, now 3-2



- A Granderson HR in the 1st has the Yanx up 2-0 in the 2nd, also after a loooooooong rain delay.
Sabathia & Beckett



- Washington down 2-1 in the 4th in Sandy Eggo

[Ceetar]

Stupid Marlins can't win a game when I want them to. Bleh. Wanted them to take the Braves down a peg, but hey, maybe it means Braves will be hitting a slump when we show up.

Cubs are crap, just don't get the hits to win do they? you're supposed to beat the 5th starter (6th) before having to face Halladay lee and Oswalt. Stupid Cubs. Still got Madsen to beat..can they do it?

As for the Yankees, the whining (particularly from Sweeney Murti) about the not hitting Ortiz thing is getting annoying. Can't they just make it about the game? no? Even if they win, it was a pretty pathetic showing.

[Frayed Knot]

Why yes, now that you asked, those were back-to-back 9th inning Chicago Cubs HRs served up by Ryan Madson.

4-3 Cubs, still batting w/1-out

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Thanks for being a national net, WGN.

Fun to watch.

[Frayed Knot]

Umps underneath discussing whether 2nd HR counts or was interfered by a fan.
The area in CBP seems very unclear what's a HR


and the answer is .... they're putting him (Tyler Colvin) back at 2nd base.
Tie game then, one out, runner on 2nd.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

You're telling me that was definitively interference? And that the RAILING is the HR-line? (Guh. Whither good design.)

The original call was a HR. If they can't overturn it for sure, doesn't that stand?

[Gwreck]

They should change the rule re: fan interference. If it happens in your park, the visiting team gets the more favorable call. This should properly incentivize teams to correctly enforce a zero-tolerance rule for interfering with balls in play.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Gwreck wrote: They should change the rule re: fan interference. If it happens in your park, the visiting team gets the more favorable call. This should properly incentivize teams to correctly enforce a zero-tolerance rule for interfering with balls in play.

But the visiting team's fans are known to invade the home team's ballpark. This might encourage Phillie fans, for example, to purchase strategic seats at Citi Field.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Mets could use the money.