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Pretty wild that LAD takes the 1 H SO in the series opener, and then turns it right around on CHC in game 2. I expect both teams to absolutely tee off on one another today. Arrieta was pretty good, as usual. Held LAD to 2 H through his 7 IP. He started missing the zone in his last inning and walked them loaded but struck out Justin Turner looking to end the threat. I can't say enough good stuff about the game Kazmir had, 6 scoreless on 1 H, 1 BB and 7 K. Nice to see him start to find a rhythm. Blanton was excellent as well, 2 perfect innings of relief.

Alex Guerrero DFA'd by LAD, Alex Wood to the DL and Urias recalled. I don't see any possibility for Guerrero not to clear waivers, so I assume he will get released and they will eat his deal unless there is an AL team that wants to see if he can be a DH. The only hang up with that plan is that he's only hit like .136 in his rehab starts across three levels in the Minors. Probably not a lot of interest in a DH that looks like he can't actually hit. I will forever appreciate the bat he displayed until June of last year, but other than that, he hasn't done much beyond getting part of his ear bit off by Miguel Olivo. Not much of a defender at any position they've used him at, and obviously his offense is pretty much non-existent.. I feel bad for Wood, who has seemed to turn a corner starting with his last start in April, it seemed as if he finally had it all figured out and was beginning to look like the pitcher that people have been expecting him to develop into.

Any word on what MIL would be getting in return?

His medicine got taken when NYM won the series. And the difference between throwing inside to a guy and behind a guy is nowhere near the same deal. We will never know if Familia didn't feel comfortable throwing in, because Utley tomahawked the first pitch he threw him. Syndergaard had his opportunity in the game he HR'd twice in 3 weeks ago. It wasn't a big enough deal then? He saw Utley 4 times that night and sat him down all 4 times. I would take greater pleasure in giving a guy an ohfer every time I saw him than if I drilled him once.

Coincidence? The fucking guy has a lifetime .282/.377/.522 with 189 H and 36 HR vs NYM. Pretty simple to figure out, he's a Met killer and has been for a good long time. Did he have "diplomatic immunity" last night, when he ripped that 2B off Familia to tie it? Syndergaard didn't protest his ejection too much, he knew it was coming and took it for what it was. Not all that long ago, throwing behind someone would get you the thumb like 7 of 10 times. Roberts said in his post game that before the series started, there was a discussion about Utley being thrown at. No official warnings given, but it's not as if NYM wasn't aware of the possibility of ejections coming their way. Syndergaard has owned LAD in the few times he's run into them, getting himself tossed fucked the Mets good tonight.

Alex Wood gets scratched from tomorrow's start against NYM, Dodgers announce they are promoting Julio Urias to go in his place. Wood is going to pitch Monday in Chicago, so Urias likely doesn't stick around the rotation long, perhaps only the one start. I figure he'll see most of his use come from bullpen innings in order to baby him a little bit. He's in the middle of a 27 IP scoreless streak at AAA, so he's definitely on top of his game right now. Looking forward to see what he does against an MLB lineup. When he got promoted to AAA last year, he got shellacked, something like 9 ER in less than 5 innings across two starts. Here's hoping his debut in the Bigs doesn't bring him the same.

Nomar Mazara mashed the motherfuck out of a ball against LAA today. Statcast called it 491', good for longest in the Bigs thus far.

My thoughts exactly, but Conigliaro was young enough to come back and put up some pretty impressive numbers in 69 and 70 before the damage to his vision chased him from the game.

Holy shit. Bad news. I hope it turns out to be just an orbital fracture or something and there's no damage to the eye itself. If it's anything more serious than a fracture, that's probably the end of his career, not real likely a 38 year old guy bothers with attempting a comeback after something like this. Here's hoping it ends up being relatively minor.

I turned on the PIT - COL game this morning just in time to see Vogelsong get HBP in the face. He went down and stayed down for a couple minutes, but got up and onto the cart on his own, then they got him right in the ambulance. It got him just under the earflap, looked like in the cheek or just under the temple. Pretty scary stuff, but it looked like he will be ok.

I think birding is cool as hell. Would you be so kind as to clue me in to something? Do you have to make a visual confirmation on a species, or can you mark one down by call alone?

You not believing that Bautista should get a suspension is pretty homerish of you. As noted, he admitted to be out to get someone, it's his second offense on the slide rule and if not for that slide, he doesn't get grilled by Odor. Utley didn't catch a suspension because Torre tried to enforce a rule that hadn't yet been written and knew that Utley would win his appeal. I said that a suspension was likely warranted when it happened, and I would have no problem had he been disciplined. The only reason he didn't is because there were slides just as bad if not worse and with similar endings that brought no talk of discipline or rule changes or anything like that. National TV has a whole lot more eyes on it than a PIT - CHC day game 3 weeks earlier that Kang's leg gets broken in.

That's a sweet piece of memorabilia. That lineup was straight ridiculous. APW shows from that era are some of the best shows I have ever been to in 30 years of going to shows.

Coming back from breaks this year, SportsNet LA has been showing lots of pictures of the old-time Dodgers, and Vin just gets to talking about Campanella or Newk or Snider or Don Zimmer and it is so much fun to hear him talking about those guys and teams. The love in his voice for the game makes me smile through all nine innings, even when LAD is getting boatraced.

I agree. The guy couldn't be farther removed from the situation, and they make him light the fire. I got a pretty good laugh out of that. On the plus side, he picked up his first W. I hope he kept the ball he threw for the HBP as a souvenir.

His whole rap about how much he loved to watch Musial is the stuff I'm going to miss. He still calls a fantastic game, although his age is definitely showing over the last few years. The beautiful way he just weaves the ongoing game into what feels like a one on one conversation has always done it for me. The first game I remember watching, he was calling.

I hope the dude does well for himself. Not on the mound, although that would be super great as well. Just that he keeps himself out of trouble for the most part, and if he relapses then I hope he can get himself back into a good place mentally and get past it. Even making it back this far is a huge deal, and I'm glad to see it happen.

Kershaw with another motherfucker of a line. 13 K, 3 H, 1 BB CG SO. First pitcher in franchise history dating back to 1913 with double digit K's in 5 straight starts. I don't know why it only goes back that far, I would suppose because the records before that are incomplete. Bartolo got beat up on early, 4 in the 1st and 1 more in the 2nd, then settled down and kept LAD in check. We live in a glorious time that all this fantastic pitching is out there for us to enjoy. I love that on any given day I can watch Fernandez or Kershaw or King Felix or Arrieta just slice and dice a lineup.

The first one he hit was a mistake by Maeda. Fastball on the heart of the plate that Syndergaard just mashed. The second one was far more impressive, as he went down and got a slider away, which has been Maeda's bread and butter this year. His next AB was pretty great, in the 6th he came up with the bases loaded and was squaring up and fouling off a handful of pitches and then Hatcher K'd him. The one in the 8th wasn't anything special, but the crowd was interesting. You could tell they wanted to see him get a hold of another one, but they still popped huge when Blanton struck him out. Scully had been talking about what a terrible hitter he had been so far this year when he ripped the first one, I always enjoy when the timing lines up for that sort of stuff. Except for Ozzie's LH HR against LAD in the 85 NLCS. Fuck that HR.

He sure did, and then Tepera in the same situation in the 13th doesn't even bother to throw a pitch over the plate and gives it away with the BB on 4 pitches.

It's the exact same excuse that a lot of guys come up with, but he provided the league with whatever the medicine was that contained the substance, so it seems a little more on the up and up than others. Not much, but I hold it in a little more regard than everyone else that says pretty much the same thing. Josh Ravin just caught an 80 gamer for PEDs, had the same excuse, except he didn't have anything to verify his (likely) bullshit statement.

JT Realmuto just turned a 2 R HR into an RBI 1B after passing Marcell Ozuna on the basepaths. Ozuna was going back to tag, I guess thinking that the ball was going to be caught, but it landed just over the wall in that monstrosity of a HR feature out in LCF.

Some from column A, some from column B, right? Lloyd should have continued avoiding him, seeing as how that fight ended up when they finally got together.

The way the Alphabet Boys allow the titles to get splintered further and further drives me fucking nuts. I can't even imagine trying to tie any of the current champs back to a time before all the sanctioning bodies. One of my favorite things ever with the WBA title is when Lloyd Honeyghan dumped that piece of shit in the trash to dispute them sanctioning fights in South Africa. Anyway, here's hoping to a quick turnaround for GGG - Canelo. Should be fun to watch them tee off on each other for however long it goes.

I like that Canelo was right on top of getting GGG's name out of his mouth, but what are the chances that fight actually goes down? I'd love to see the middleweight crown completely unified again, who was the last undisputed champ at 160? Jermain Taylor?