Which Dodger pitcher had 10 plate appearances in one game?

Now for Harry Potter talk.

2 days in a row Loney failed to convert in the 9th. Not that it means anything at all just an observation and a place to vent my no more shutout frustrations.

When I looked, I forgot to specify "only as a pitcher."

The only other pitcher to have 5 ABs in a game this year is:

Russ Ortiz!

14 I think aces aren't born; it's a metamorphasis, like the butterfly emerging from the cocoon.

I remember watching this game and rooting for an improbable pitching win for a position player. To his credit, Hamilton did make it 1 2/3 innings.

Kind of like when Lindsay Lohan failed to convert driving home drunk into getting home safely.

I forgot how bad John Shelby was in 1989. His OPS+ that season was 36.

Billingsley's game score would have been 84 had he not given up the two hits in the ninth.

http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/bestgames

A little nod to the old adage. :)

Ugh.

I made it home without dying. DT Day was so fun it kind of made me sad.

The Rockies could do some regressing as well next series... With what they are doing to the Pad's bullpen...

i would do that trade in a heartbeat. Clay Buccholz is legit.

The post up top says it was lost on the final batter.

Chad is a grown-up now. I'm sure he knows how to relieve himself

Jim Deshaies is awesome as a color analyst. He is very perceptive to new ideas, has a good sense of humor, and at various times in the game had the following observations:

a) He called Pierre's sac bunt in the first inning "questionable strategy" for playing for one run so early
b) When Kent was on first base after a single in the first inning, JD said Kent said more to Lance Berkman at first base than he did during his entire Astros tenure
c) He was lobbying for OPS to be shown during the broadcast rather than the "old school" Avg-HR-RBI rubric.

I was looking over the last few Dodger complete games, and from 2004-2007 the pitchers were Lowe (six times), Weaver (thrice), Penny, Billingsley, and Kaz Ishii chimed in with two shutouts in 2004!

The heart of enemy territory: SF, CA.

Mike (Utica,NY): Do you see any top prospects being moved at the trade deadline?

Kevin Goldstein: Actually, no. The trade talk is really, really dead. It looks like all of the teams asking for starting pitchers are asking the world, and it's going to be a slow final ten days. I did see a rumor of Chin-Lung Hu to the Royals for Odalis Perez, which would be absolute highway robbery for the Royals.

He probably means Dotel because I don't think there is any way Odalis is coming back.

If you'll excuse me, I'll go back to reading the Elmer Dessens entry in my 2007 Dodger media guide.

46 Will be truly "scary" if Atkins starts to hit like he did last year. If that happens, Hurdle would be stupid not to then have Taveras hit leadoff, Helton next, followed by Holliday, Atkins, Hawpe, Tulowitzi, Matsui, Torrealba and the pitcher. Then Hurdle finally allows Hawpe to hit more against lefties [he'll never learn how to unless he has that chance]. Moving Helton up to the 2-hole seems the obvious move given his woeful power drop while still retaining the ability to get on base with the walk, but Clint seems stuck on that righty, lefty, righty, lefty thing, and my lineup would mean lefty, righty, righty, lefty. And, yes, it was nice, in real life and in fantasy, to have Hawpe homer there with Corpas picking up the save [and who would have thought a month ago that my two best closers would now be Jonathan Broxton and Manny Corpas].

It is sad that DT Day is past. Can't wait until the next one. But I sure have had fun bragging about our day to all my friends and family.

i just vomited in my mouth.

No. I drove the day before. I moved away two years ago, so I still have friends down there that I try to see at least once a year or so.

DT Day was the centerpiece of my trip.

They supposedly asked for Matt Kemp first.

Someone alert Ken!

earlier today baseballprospectus has some trade deadline talk and Pirates have looked to acquire a bat in exchange for Snell. They mentioned Salty of the Braves and Kemp and Ethier of the Dodgers.

Hu, Josh Bell and Delwyn Young. My final offer Pittsburgh.

i agree in the sense that I think other teams are really weary of "prospects" that the Dodgers are willing to give up in trades. I mean, we haven't really given up anyone of significance over the last 3-4 years. Shane Victorino looks to be one of the few that Dodgers should have regrets about and they didn't even trade him away.

But they did show the clip of Kent licking his bat - I hope everyone saw that so you know I wasn't hallucinating back in the other thread. Kruk mentioned something about how dirty the ends of bats are.

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Mark Sweeney just tied Manny Mota's for 2nd in all time pinch hits with #150. No!

The AL record is 14 half innings scored in. It hasn't been done since June!

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