To group anything as broad-based as blogs was just ill informed and pretty lazy.

IP 27.7
Strikeouts 40 (pretty cool)

If you can get Carlos to hit a ground ball, you have a really good chance to get him out since he has only 1 hit in 27 ground balls as a left handed hitter.

AB BA xBA h% bb% ct% Eye G/ L/ F PX
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2006 510 .275 .318 33% 9% 88% 0.81 37/17/47 186
2007 554 .276 .296 29% 8% 91% 0.98 38/19/43 150
2008 85 .224 .311 27% 17% 76% 0.90 40/30/30 140
When nearly of a third of your batted balls are line drives and you still have a BA in the low-.200's, that's just not fair. His strikeouts are a bit high to start the season, but there's no reason to think he won't rebound and finish up with a season much like last year's. "

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IP only 7.1
era 8.59

I got carried away as I often do because of who I am, not because of some clandestine plan to "get" Will Leitch. I am genuinely embarrassed by what I did and I need to reiterate that. It is not representative at all of who I am.

Well, wait. It happened because of who you are, but it's not representative of who you are?

(And is everyone comfortable with the ? outside the quotes there?)

Not clear to me if that means "a blog that is reported and that generates its own information" or "a blog that presents information for its readers" and if it is somehow distinguished from a "blog that presents opinions for its readers."

Not that I personally think these distinctions are especially important, at least in the way that Mr. Bissinger seems to be holding up a category of worthy sports blogs, which are the "information based" ones.

That kinda thing always bugs me.

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15 I have a friend named Winnie and Winnie isn't short for anything (like Gwendolyn)

His overall line drive pct. is .250 right now (19/76) and certainly there can be a dispute between fly balls and line drives that would possibly push that number higher.

Matt [Kemp] told me in the clubhouse that he has the green light to steal unless a no-steal sign is on, which intrigued me to the point that I asked Torre in his pregame session who else had the green light. Turns out Kemp, Furcal, Martin, Pierre and Andruw Jones all have the green light, and the rest of the team [has] at least some degree of freedom, as well.

The Dodgers are on-pace to 167 SB vs. 47 CS this year, a 78.05% success rate thus far. Andruw Jones has zero attempts despite the green light.

Bases empty: .231/.344/.404/.748
Runners on: .087/.192/.087/.279

Don't tell me that Hannah Montana girl is in trouble again ...

Last Dodger to do it was Ethier in July 2006.

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egregious - 1. extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant: an egregious mistake

courtesy of Dictionary Dot Com.

I read about that as well but figured somebody else had posted the story & there thoughts about it already.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi/shareit/YyKf

Still, I would like to see Delwyn Young get one of these starts when Ethier sits against a lefty.

You've been hoodwinked. You've been had. You've been took. You've been led astray, run amok. You've been bamboozled.

Excellent 1st inning for Chad.

Seasoning, seasoning, ladies and gentlemen.

Gotta stick with your young talent and let them grow up on the big stage...

Really nice first inning.

That was a darned good first inning from CBills, and gosh, a pretty good first at bat from Raffy!

Canuck, those 94 mphs fastball had pretty extreme tailing action to them too.

Kershaws curve ball (watching it live) is just scary, that's all I have to say...

Kershaw has a better fastball (if you can believe that) and I think both of their curveballs are comparable. Billingsley sports a slider though.

Darn, we don't want Perez out now!

When I was about 12 I was wandering around by the local Little League field when a game was on featuring about 2nd - 4th graders. The home plate umpire called over to me and asked me if I could first base ump for him. I was quite happy to say yes. On the first play at the base, the 1B pulled his foot to catch the ball, though the throw was plenty in time. I called safe. Even after I explained my ruling, the home plate umpire overturned it and summarily dismissed me. :(

what helps Kershaw also is that he IS LEFTY & A POWER PITCHER, I've heard that EVEN IF HE WAS RIGHTY it wouldn't change anything HE IS JUST A SPECIAL PITCHER.

He shaved, okay?!

Thats absolutely retarded. Who wrote it?

http://tinyurl.com/3h8aqg

And now Bruce Campbell is up.

Including Billingsley doesn't even make sense. Their career ERA+s are almost the same.

Nice recovery CBills!

Just let him work through it and I think you're gonna have an ace before you know it, folks.

Nice second inning for Chad...

Good point, you (and Brad Evans) win, I lose.

The difference in velocity between fb and cb is higher for Kershaw than Billingsley. But yeah, scouts are calling Kershaw's curve one of the best pitches in the minors so i guess its more devastating. If he can duplicate Chad's success, I will be extremely happy.

http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/Wcxt

What's amazing is that the top two streaks cover 18 of 19 Koufax starts in the 2nd half of 1965. Koufax had 190 K in those 19 starts.

Too bad, we let Perez off pretty easy that inning.

Tonight, not so much. 5-1 Phillies in the 3rd.

He must have a) great great movement on his fastball or b) a great secondary pitch to compliment his fastball, if he is being called a great pitching prospect no?

man, Billz is making Wright look wrong tonight. :o)

So happy to see a young and decidedly talented pitcher hitting the note.

Keep goin', boss...

Great play by Delgado and Perez.

And the pitch he swung at was way inside, though not has inside as the second pitch.

One of the many uses of DVR, although it would've come in handier here for me if I remembered to check it before I posted.

Stick with him, Ned...

(Not even taking into consideration the fact that I don't have hands.)

Just for fun I'm gonna respond to that quote & think the tie MUST HAVE BEEN in NY right?

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Okay, Casey Stengel, I knew the Afflac answer, but I can't say I'd heard him called "The Lefthanded Dentist" before. I feel ashamed, but I'd certainly have remembered that.

"Who is the last LA Dodger to play at least 5 games at 3rd and catcher in one season?"

That said, I love Greg Maddux.

Torre, like Stengel, has only been successful with one of those teams.

I would have had a nice chuckle at that exchange, specially cause I would have known he knows nothing about baseball & he came up with something pretty funny of the bat...

& no I'm not joking I really mean it.

The Dodgers won 47 times.

V.

P.

Another Web Gem.

For now, Peacock will replace the Sunday night two-hour block with four back-to-back repeats of "The Office."

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117985142.html

Nice 5th Inning, Chad.

Thanks for the help, Mr. Furcal.

Good young pitchers should be cherished. And nurtured.

I'm not a betting man either but he looks a little better tonight we'll see what happens.

DeWitt goes YARD!!

Nice going, Blake!

That's what working at Shea stadium will do to you.

Nice Blake

The Solution Solves It!

I loved the fake out with the silent treatment in the dugout, too. Quite inspired.

I like that boy.

The fans should give Pierre a standing ovation for every walk.

Holy cow!

You sure called that one.

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Man, now I'm really glad I flaked on going to a SF film fest screening tonight; this was totally worth it.

Btw, Pierre's OBP is probably around .400 now. Say what you will, but Pierre and Furcal sure do a nice job of setting the table.

Wasn't he married to a playmate once?

There is nothing with Pierre if he can keep his OBP about .360

Kent is like your vaguely mean-spirited uncle who took left the family back in the 1990s but always liked you and took you under his wing and took you to your first R-rated movie.

You never forget it. You always appreciate him.

And there goes the shutout. Ah well. Just one more inning Chad!

Ian used to show up occasionally to watch tapings of The Price Is Right. (She was a Barker's Beauty.)

mid-90's pop culture I'm aware off I guess :o)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonora_High_School

There's a significant percentage of the population that are not mothers. I mean I may have given birth once and not remembered it. 1988 has always been a bit fuzzy for me.

Few people who live in Los Angeles County have ever heard of or been to La Habra Heights.

I am one of those few.

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Um, failing to run out groundballs is not going to silence the booing, Andruw.

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Boy, they sure turned on their own on the MetsBlog. I know it can get negative here sometimes when the Dodgers are struggling, but boy...

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