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Takashi Satio is not going on the disabled list - not now, anyway. His MRI revealed nothing (insert joke here), according to Tony Jackson of the Daily News, and he is on his way to join the team in Houston. Whether he can pitch Tuesday remains to be seen.
"This (injury) started with pain over a large area of his back and neck," Jackson wrote, "and it has since subsided to a small, localized area. Saito told Grady that was exactly what happened in Japan, and the localization of the pain told him then that he was almost ready to come back."
I'm still nervous, but okay.
The Dodgers made a roster move anyway. They called up Eric Hull, whose 3.18 ERA and 60 strikeouts in 51 innings with AAA Las Vegas has intrigued many, and sent down Eric Stults. Stults pitched well for the Dodgers and short of a unbelievably quick comeback by Randy Wolf, should return.
As I've said in other places, it's imperative that the Dodgers give Hull and/or Jonathan Meloan trials of at least a few games before they make a panic trade for a reliever. With the trading deadline coming in barely a week, this callup comes better late than never.
By the way, Diamond Leung of the Press-Enterprise reports that tonight's designated closer is Joe Beimel, with Jonathan Broxton scheduled to get the day off after pitching two games in a row. Broxton threw 40 pitches over the weekend. It doesn't seem to me that this is a demotion - nor, of course, should it be.
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Catching me completely by surprise, Dodger PR director Josh Rawitch passed on the news that Jeff Kent has reached base in 33 consecutive games, and will have the longest such streak in the majors this season if he makes it 34 tonight.
"There are two pretty good hitters with active streaks on his tail," Rawitch wrote in the team's press notes today. "Reigning NL MVP Ryan Howard has reached safely in 29 consecutive games and Dodger rookie James Loney has been on the bases for 27 straight contests, going back to June 22. In the month of July, Kent is hitting .385 (20-for-52) and Loney stands at a .304 (21-for-69) since July 1."
This season, Loney has played in 34 games and reached base in all but two. On June 12, he appeared as a defensive replacement and did not bat. On June 17, the day of his ill-fated right-field adventure, he went 0 for 1. Every other game, he has gotten on.
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Tonight's 5:05 p.m. game:
Very, very nervous.
155/153 - I'm partial to his work on 5 Easy Pieces and Easy Rider, too. What a varied career!
I blogged about it here btw:
http://daily.greencine.com/archives/004133.html
Whew, a relief about Saito...
Okay, it's about game time, eh? Gives me something to do while stuck late at work.
I think Brett Tomko is our on-call starter-for-relief today.
Who's Brett Tomko again?
http://www.doubledogmusic.com/baseball/2006-05-07_Hooks@Travs/13.html
Currently he's our best starter. :)
And he's only 24.
I don't care about pFX...!
17 Great news.
Houston has a problem.
I guess its better to get it out of the way now than in the 10th.
Go into the URL and where it says "y2007" change it to "y2006"
Kent extended his streak to 34.
And Chad with a six-pitch inning!
Greatest name ever.
It already says "y2006". However, there is another "2007" that I changed to "2006", but that didn't work.
3.2 IP, 4 H's, 1 ER, 3BB's, 7K's
I'm fairly happy with that.
Ah, so.
36 Didn't Toad Suck Ferry used to play for the Cleveland Cavaliers?
http://tinyurl.com/ytwytu
19 pitches through 2 IP for Billingsley.
in case people are looking for it, here's a handy road sign: http://tinyurl.com/38do53
Why we don't bring up Meloan and give him a shot is beyond me...
At this point the Dodgers just need SPs to eat up innings. In any way possible.
7th spot: .260 .317 .404 .721
8th spot: .243 .314 .361 .675
LAD:
7th spot: .305 .364 .466 .830
8th spot: .268 .356 .378 .734
Often the Dodgers are batting hitters such as Ethier, Kemp, Loney or Betemit here.
1. Starters being efficient and getting deep into the game.
2. Building nice sized leads.
A few more runs would be nice.
The Windmill's really slowing down lately, isn't he? Good thing, I think Furcal would have been dead meat.
And Windmill's caution pays off.
Sorry about that waste of bandwidth, the complete comment was to read:
Whooo!
This should make it easier for Bills.
As for Meloan, I just don't think it's prudent to start his "clock" yet by bringing him up.
Juan Pierre have a 82% of success stealing bases to go with his 41 steal bases.
It was already dubbed "that Yadier Molina (euphemism)".
And just when I was thinking, "Argh, stop throwing over there with another runner on base, Russell!" he proves me wrong.
Nice pitching there, too, Chad.
When Benito Santiago was Russell's age, he already looked to be 10 years older than Greg Oden looks.
Passing this along mainly to show the nickname spreads ...
Needless to say, all the English-speakers at the table on this end were having a hard time keeping a straight face.
Dammit, Jon, I'm a librarian, not a tree surgeon!
Miller 3.2 4 1 1 3 7 0 3.92
Outside of the 3 walks, not a bad line. I really hope this kid finds his control again.
154. What kind of tree?
Well, you can. I have four free tickets available for the Monday 8/13 and two for the Thursday 8/16 game.
They're in corner of the reserved section (aka Uecker seats), but they're free. First come, first served if you send me an email. bhsportsguy will be there for one of the games.
Dodgers-Astros, Hot August Nights!
Over here in France I just purchased a computer (macbook)with enough punch to order the mlb.com mosaic player - so I'm watching my first Dodger game in over three years, and able to follow your comments as the game proceeds!
Thanks for hanging out with me while I'm watching the game, considering that I don't know anyone over here that I could watch a game with (other than friends to whom I'd have to explain the difference between a strike and a ball…)
And what a play by R. Coltrane in the previous inning !
(sorry for all the exclamation marks…)
Even if he almost got nailed there. Quite a throw by Lee.
But.....
Never mind. I'm afraid Russ Martin is getting warn down already, and we maybe need a more nearly equal back-up.
Despite the DOUBLE!!
But.....
Never mind. I'm afraid Russ Martin is getting warn down already, and we maybe need a more nearly equal back-up.
Despite the DOUBLE!!
IT IS DOUBLE TIME!!!
I grew up in SoCal but I have been living over here for 23 years - now a French citizen. But Baseball and Jazz keeps the American blood flowing.
I am in Sydney, Australia watching on gameday at work and keeping up with the game on DT, too
Bad: Charley Steiner sounds like a drunk Larry Merchant. It takes him 10 minutes to make absolutely no point.
Very good.
And Bills at 69 pitches may have a few more innings, which would be marvelous fot the D's bullpen and staff, for that matter.
Anyway, there were like, other things to do while I was in Paris.
There have been a few Australian MLBers: Are there many average Aussies who understand/follow the game?
It's about the worst insult you can hurl.
Lieberthal time?
Maturation!
In comparison with 2004 (the last time I had a computer that was able to pick up games on mlb.com) the quality has improved enormously. I have only had problems when I try to switch between the 6 game mosaic screen and the full screen with just the Dodger game.
But I can't get the audio only feed(KFWB) - hopefully i 'll be able to figure that out before the next homestand so that I can listen to Vin.
I am a social researcher, mostly public affairs attitude stuff.
Baseball is a big participation sport, especially with kids now. Unlike cricket, where you get one turn at bat, baseball gives you three or four, and lots of chances to field, and its shorter for parents!
At the serious level, there is a pretty good competition in each major city, but no national league (there used to be; Paul LoDuca played here once).
The comp I play in, the Sydney competition, has ex minor league players going around, so its pretty good. (I K'd three times on saturday to a guy who is rehabbing back here who is with Oakland!) But we only get to play once or twice a week.
Lots of kids go off to play college ball, and a few get drafted. One of my 'mates' is a AAA catcher with the Tigers organisation.
'...it's just an addition ... there's nothing mathematical about it.'
Great to see such a diverse crowd here tonight.
BTW I agree with 188 about the international flavor of this site. I'm posting from Israel.
I'm posting from an office above a Vietnamese restaurant in San Francisco. Does that count as international?
Can anyone find out whether Billz's strike to ball ratio tonight is due to the Stros swinging early in the count, or because he just has control tonight?
It wasn't too difficult to find DT - I believe I found it in a google search well over a year ago and i've been a regular reader and very sporadic contributor ever since. It was great to see the photos of so many of you at the DT game last Saturday
a couple of young guys from my club here went over to play.
please ignore me.
220 Sydneydodger, I presume you're not from the States, so I'm curious how did you become a Dodger fan?
Holy cow, looks like CG for Chad.
Israel sports TV televises live games every Sunday. They've got a great Israeli commentator by the name of Ofer Shelach.
I believe if baseball ever catches on over here it will be to the credit of Shelach as much or more than the teams/players.
Sweet swing by J-Lo.
Boy, Moehler, he's... not very good is he?
Seaver was known for his incredible leg strength and during his delivery, his knee would scrape the ground sometime.
Seaver in his prime was scary good.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN200204260.shtml
So! CG anyone?
http://playing4shekels.blogspot.com/
though I'm most proud of my Hebrew language Los Angeles Dodgers T-shirt.
I wore it to Opening Day.
sorry for the excitement, but I don't make it to many Dodger games, and I still hold a big grudge against Corey Patterson for beating out that infield single (by like less than half-a-step).
that was the best game I've ever been to, and I had it coming after witnessing a 20-1 beatdown of the Dodgers at Wrigley Field the year before.
Party pooper.
I play ball with his brother, and have met and gone on a university baseball trip with Chris, and he's a great guy. I feel so bad for him with all his injuries. People who know seem to think he is a real talent, but gets hurt every time he makes it to the show.
Remember this deal? The answer to a Dodgers trivia question is working in the Astros' Spanish-language broadcast booth.
That would be Alex Trevino, a former catcher who was involved in the last trade between the Dodgers and their rivals, the San Francisco Giants. Trevino was acquired at the 1985 Winter Meetings for Candy Maldonado and backup catcher Mike Scioscia.
The only problem with home games and other west coast games is that they often don't end until after 6 am in the morning - Paris time. Fortunately, I often don't work until noon…
Then again how does anyone watch MLB games in Israel which is in a time zone 2 hours to the east of here (11 hours from the West coast…)where an east coast game starts at 3am and a west coast game at 6am…
Actually,I appreciate your humor. Great game,friend.
Imagine if we had traded Loney and our best pitching prospect for one-D Texiera!!!
Bringing up Hull makes total sense, if he fails we find out about it, but he can pitch more than one inning. Stultz may not be the next Koufax but he does seem to know how to pitch and can be used for more than one inning. He is far more valuable to the Dodgers than Roberto Hernandez who at best can only pitch one inning at a time. Can somebody give me a good reason for not sending Roberto back to the minors to at least get sharper.
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