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Post by Blunashun on Apr 19, 2018 16:30:16 GMT
It's a day early. Big series though. Washington Nationals @ Los Angeles Dodgers, Dodger Stadium TV: SportsNet LA, SNLA Spanish Radio: 570 LA Sports, KTNQ 1020 The Nationals are 9-10 / .474 & in 4th place in the NL East, 5 games behind the streaking Mets. They're 5-5 over the last ten games & 6-3 on the road. The Dodgers are 8-9 / .471 overall & in 3rd place in the NL West, 4 games behind the Diamondbacks. They're 4-5 at home. They've won their last 4 in a row. Max Scherzer, RHP Scherzer is off to a great start, going 3-1 with a 1.33 ERA. On his way to his second straight NL Cy Young Award last year, he turned in a dominant start at Dodger Stadium last June, yielding one run on three hits while fanning 14 in a 2-1 win. www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/batter_vs_pitcher.cgi?request=1&submitter=1&pitcher=scherma01&min_year_game=2008&max_year_game=2018&post=1&opp_id=LAD&bats=any&c1gtlt=gt&c2gtlt=gt&orderby=PA&orderby_dir=desc&orderby_second=Name&orderby_dir_second=ascHe's owned the Dodgers. Clayton Kershaw, LHP Kershaw erased the Dodgers' three-game losing streak his last time out with a dominating performance against the Arizona Diamondbacks. The lefty carried a shutout into the seventh inning on Sunday, en route to striking out 12 batters with no walks. www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/batter_vs_pitcher.cgi?request=1&submitter=1&pitcher=kershcl01&min_year_game=2008&max_year_game=2018&post=1&opp_id=WSN&bats=any&c1gtlt=gt&c2gtlt=gt&orderby=PA&orderby_dir=desc&orderby_second=Name&orderby_dir_second=ascClayton has had problems with Zimmerman, Murphy, Rendon & Kendrick. He's wiped his feet on Harper. weather.com/weather/tenday/l/Los+Angeles+CA+USCA0638:1:US |
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Post by Blunashun on Apr 19, 2018 16:33:48 GMT
April 18, 2018 10:57 pm
Nationals' Ryan Madson: Implodes in loss
by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire
Madson (0-2) took the loss Wednesday after allowing six runs on five hits and a walk while recording just two outs against the Mets.
Madson was called upon to protect a 4-2 lead in the eighth inning, but he struggled from the get-go en route to picking up his second loss and first blown save of the year. He still remains a trusted member of the backend of the bullpen -- and second in the pecking order for saves behind Sean Doolittle -- but the six-run blow up leaves his ERA at a bloated 6.97.
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April 18, 2018 10:36 pm
Nationals' Ryan Zimmerman: Goes deep twice
by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire
Zimmerman went 3-for-4 with two home runs and four RBI in Wednesday's loss to the Mets.
Zimmerman's first blast was of the three-run variety in the first inning, then he added a solo shot with the game already out of reach in the ninth. It's been a brutal start for the 33-year-old, as he's hitting just .161 even after the three-hit performance, but it would be a big boost to his owners if the power starts to come around. After hitting a career-best 36 homers last year, the two shots Wednesday were just his second and third.
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April 18, 2018 10:31 pm
Nationals' Tanner Roark: Turns in solid outing Wednesday
by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire
Roark (1-1) allowed two runs on two hits and three walks while striking out six over seven innings against the Mets on Wednesday. He did not factor into the decision.
Roark left in line for the win, but the bullpen absolutely imploded as the Mets tacked on nine runs in the eighth. The 31-year-old earned a quality start for the third time in four games and he's sitting just below 9.0 K/9 with 24 strikeouts in 25 innings. He'll look to find his way back into the win column next time out in San Francisco on Tuesday.
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April 18, 2018 6:29 pm
Nationals' Aaron Barrett: Throws at extended spring training Tuesday
by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire
Barrett (elbow) threw at extended spring training Tuesday, Chelsea Janes of The Washington Post reports.
The headliner of the extended spring game was Daniel Murphy's presence, but it turns out Barrett was the pitcher throwing to him. Barrett wasn't expected to begin throwing in game situations until the spring, so this is a nice surprise. He still projects to miss another month or so, however.
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April 18, 2018 5:34 pm
Nationals' Matt Wieters: Dealing with wrist soreness
by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire
Wieters is sitting out Wednesday due to a sore wrist, Chelsea Janes of The Washington Post reports.
It's unclear which wrist is proving to be bothersome to the backstop, but it sheds light on why he's sitting out for the second day in a row. This seems like a day-to-day situation, so look for Wieters to try to return to the lineup Friday. Pedro Severino will fill in behind the plate while he's sidelined.
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April 18, 2018 5:14 pm
Nationals' Daniel Murphy: Fields groundballs Tuesday
by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire
Murphy (knee) logged five at-bats and took 35 groundballs in game at extended spring training Tuesday, Dan Kolko of MASN Sports reports.
It doesn't seem like Murphy is able to play the field quite yet, but the fact that he's fielding groundballs makes it seem as if a return to the field is close. The veteran still seems to be a bit away from full game action, so his return timetable should become clearer as he progresses further.
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April 18, 2018 3:43 pm
Nationals' Anthony Rendon: Sits for fifth straight game
by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire
Rendon (toe) is out of the lineup yet again Wednesday against the Mets.
Rendon fouled a pitch off his toe Friday and has now missed five straight games. At this point, he's missed half the time that he would have been out if he was placed on the disabled list right away, but since DL stints can only be backdated by three days, he'd have to miss a full week if the Nationals decide to go that route. Washington has an off day Thursday, so it's possible that with one more day of rest he'll be good to go Friday against the Dodgers.
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Post by Blunashun on Apr 19, 2018 16:38:39 GMT
April 19, 2018 6:10 am
Dodgers' Corey Seager: Collects four hits Wednesday
by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire
Seager went 4-for-5 with two doubles, three RBI and a run scored in Wednesday's 13-4 drubbing of the Padres.
Seager's four-hit day raised his batting average over 40 points, but he still owns a disappointing .254/.321/.338 slash line after enduring a slow start due to an elbow injury. It is still early, and the slugging shortstop has posted high-level totals for his position over the past couple of seasons. Seager's .288 BABIP is well below his .352 career mark, and he is making strong contact (55.0 Med% and 35.0 Hard%) while striking out less than usual (14.1 strikeout percentage), so better days at the plate are ahead for the 23-year-old.
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April 19, 2018 5:58 am
Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw: Start moved up to Friday
by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire
Manager Dave Roberts said that Kershaw will have his start moved up to Friday against the Nationals to fill in for Rich Hill (finger), Bill Plunkett of The Orange County Register reports.
With an off day Thursday, Roberts has the luxury of deploying his ace on regular rest Friday after Hill was placed on the disabled list with a cracked fingernail Wednesday. The Dodgers haven't provided Kershaw with the run support required to post a record better than 1-2 through four starts. Fortunately for his fantasy owners, the southpaw has delivered the dominant ratios to help alleviate the lack of wins with a 1.73 ERA, 0.88 WHIP and a 10.3 K/BB ratio over 26 innings.
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April 19, 2018 5:57 am
Dodgers' Kenta Maeda: Strikes out 10 in win over San Diego
by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire
Maeda (2-1) allowed four runs on eight hits and two walks and struck out 10 through 5.2 innings to pick up the win Wednesday over the Padres.
For the second time in 2018, Maeda lasted into the fifth inning, and for the second time, he struck out at least 10 batters. When healthy, Maeda can be as nasty as it gets, but reliability has been an issue both throughout his entire career and already thus far in 2018. That 24:5 K:BB in 14.1 innings, though, is awfully hard to ignore.
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April 18, 2018 8:41 pm
Dodgers' Rich Hill: Dealing with cracked nail
by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire
Hill (finger) said he's dealing with a cracked nail on his middle finger, Bill Plunkett of The Orange County Register reports.
Hill suffered the injury while throwing his fastball during his previous start. The veteran right-hander didn't seem too worried about the issue, however, noting that his placement on the disabled list was simply "precautionary," and that he expects to only miss one turn in the rotation while sidelined. Since his placement on the disabled list is backdated to Sunday, Hill will be eligible to rejoin the Dodgers on April 25, which seems possible at this point barring any setbacks.
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April 18, 2018 7:49 pm
Dodgers' Adam Liberatore: Recalled from Triple-A
by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire
Liberatore was recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City on Wednesday.
Liberatore will join the big club to offer an extra arm out of the bullpen with Rich Hill (finger) landing on the disabled list. The 30-year-old has struck out nine batters through 6.1 scoreless innings with Oklahoma City so far this season. He should work in middle relief during his time with the Dodgers.
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April 18, 2018 6:03 pm
Dodgers' Justin Turner: Back to swinging Wednesday
by RotoWire Staff | RotoWire
Turner (wrist) has advanced to dry swinging, Eric Stephen of TrueBlueLA.com reports.
Turner continues to progress slowly but surely in his rehab program. He still hasn't hit actual pitches, but it seems like his wrist is reacting fine to the increased activity. The third baseman still seems to be a few weeks away from returning.
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Post by Blunashun on Apr 19, 2018 16:44:43 GMT
Dodgers offense overwhelms Padres to complete sweep
LA outscored SD 30-10 in the three-game series
By Eric Stephen Apr 18, 2018, 10:36pm PDT
SAN DIEGO — The Dodgers continued their offensive barrage with a 13-4 victory over the Padres on Wednesday night at Petco Park to complete a series sweep in San Diego and extend their winning streak to four games.
The Dodgers hit doubles (five of them), they hit singles, and even accepted gifts in the form of a two-run throwing error by third baseman Carlos Villanueva. The Dodgers’ own third baseman, newcomer Max Muncy, checked in with a two-run home run in the third inning in his first start with the team. “It’s always nice to get that out of the way,” Muncy said of his home run.
“Offensively this series was really fun to watch,” said manager Dave Roberts. “We’re not afraid to run a count, and we’re taking the walk when we need to. We talked about for this series to use the big part of the field, and Corey did it to perfection tonight.”
Corey Seager was in the middle of it all with two singles, two doubles and a walk, shaking off the early season doldrums by peppering Petco Park with more line drives, including 108 mph, 105 mph and 102 mph off the bat.
Seager in the three-game series in San Diego was 7-for-16 (.438) with three doubles and a walk. Wednesday was the sixth four-hit game of his career.
“For whatever reason I got a little more comfortable and put better, consistent swings on the ball,” Seager said.
Yasmani Grandal had two hits of his own to extend his hitting streak to eight games, and with his RBI double in the eighth inning now has an extra-base hit in three straight contests. He drove in eight runs in the series sweep of the Padres.
The Dodgers hung 10 hits and nine runs against Luis Perdomo, three more runs than he allowed in his first three starts of the season combined.
Perdomo’s career ERA against the Dodgers is now 9.55, in 33 innings.
Kenta Maeda labored in his 5⅔ innings, allowing four runs including a bases loaded walk (on an admittedly questionable call), but welcome to the world of fantastic run support.
Maeda wasn’t bad by any means, and struck out 10 on the night, his second double-digit strikeout game this season and third of his career. He has 23 strikeouts in 14⅓ innings this season, and a 34.8% K rate.
“Kenta really competed out there,” Roberts said. “I really thought he held his velocity well tonight, and he attacked.”
His 106 pitches thrown are the most by any Dodgers starting pitcher this season, helping to ease the burden on a bullpen that recorded 20 outs on Tuesday.
“He gave us the innings that we needed,” Roberts said. “Yesterday the way our pen was, this gave us an chance to reset.”
Maeda will get an extra day of rest before his next start, which comes Tuesday against the Marlins.
Notes
The 30 runs scored by the Dodgers in this series is the most they have ever scored in a series of any length at Petco Park, which opened in 2004.
The Dodgers have scored first in all four games of their winning streak, improving to 8-2 when touching home plate first. When their opponent opens the scoring in 2018, the Dodgers are 0-7.
Before this four-game winning streak the Dodgers were averaging 3.62 runs per game and scored seven or more runs three times in 13 games. They have now scored at least seven runs in four straight games, totaling 35 runs in the four-game winning streak.
Dodgers pitchers struck out 45 Padres in the sweep, the fourth-most in MLB for any three-game series in the last 106 seasons, per STATS LLC.
Wednesday particulars
Home run: Max Muncy (1)
WP - Kenta Maeda (2-1): 5⅔ IP, 7 hits, 4 runs, 2 walks, 10 strikeouts
LP - Luis Perdomo (1-2): 3 IP, 10 hits, 9 runs (7 earned).
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Post by 88bulldog on Apr 19, 2018 17:53:39 GMT
you start the GD threads so early. why not give somebody else chance to do it.
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Post by Blunashun on Apr 20, 2018 20:24:16 GMT
The Washington Post
Washington Nationals
Nationals vs. Dodgers series preview: Two of NL’s best clubs are rounding into form
by Jorge Castillo April 20 at 6:00 AM
LOS ANGELES — The Nationals flew cross-country on Thursday, from New York City to Los Angeles, fresh off winning two of three games against the first-place Mets in a series carrying more importance than most mid-April clashes. An eighth-inning bullpen collapse Wednesday prevented them from a sweeping their top NL East competition, but if one would have proposed the series victory without appearances from Stephen Strasburg, Max Scherzer, Adam Eaton, Daniel Murphy, and Anthony Rendon before Monday, the Nationals would’ve snatched it, no questions asked.
It was a positive opening chapter to Washington’s nine-game road trip, which continues at Dodger Stadium Friday night against the defending National League champions with one of the best pitching matchups baseball will offer in 2018.
SLOW STARTS FOR FAVORITES
Like the Nationals (9-10), the Dodgers (8-9), projected by computers to post the most wins in the NL this season, stumbled out to a slow start relative to expectations. They’ve yet to be over .500; a sweep over the lowly Padres this week brought them within a game of that mark.
Scoring was the problem early on. Through last Saturday, they were averaging 3.6 runs per game. As a result, they were 4-9. Since then, they’ve won four straight, scoring at least seven runs in each game. On Wednesday, they tallied a season-high 13.
Kenley Jansen, arguably baseball’s top closer, has been another unexpected flaw. The right-hander has an 8.10 ERA in seven appearances and blew his second save of the season on Tuesday against San Diego before the Dodgers rebounded to win. Perhaps the mileage from pitching in five straight postseasons, including a certain onerous Game 5 outing at Nationals Park two Octobers ago, has impacted the 30-year-old Jansen.
BATTLE BETWEEN THIS GENERATION’S BEST
Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers’ other marquee 30-year-old pitcher, hasn’t looked any different this season. The left-hander has pitched to a 1.73 ERA in four starts. On Sunday, he compiled 12 strikeouts against the Diamondbacks to ignite the Dodgers’ four-game winning streak. He’s gone at least six innings and allowed two or fewer runs in each of his four outings. It looks like the seven-time all-star and three-time Cy Young Award winner hasn’t fallen off at all.
The same can be said for Max Scherzer, another three-time Cy Young Award winner. While Kershaw has been great so far, Scherzer has been the National League’s best. The 33-year-old right-hander has a 1.33 ERA in four starts. His 38 strikeouts lead the NL, as does his 1.70 FIP. He already has a complete-game shutout under his belt and retired the final 20 hitters he faced in his next start Saturday against the Rockies. The two-start stretch earned him NL Player of the Week honors.
The two weren’t originally scheduled to oppose each other this weekend. Scherzer was slated to face Rich Hill in Friday’s series opener, but Hill was placed on the 10-day disabled list with a cracked fingernail on Wednesday so Kershaw was moved up a day from his scheduled start Saturday opposite Stephen Strasburg. It’ll be a duel between the two greatest pitchers of their generation.
BULLPEN RELIEF
Nobody needed Thursday off more than the Nationals’ seven-man relief corps. The bullpen departed Queens on Wednesday taxed, a reality on full display during the Mets’ nine-run eighth-inning. Ryan Madson, pitching for the third straight day, was on the mound to start the frame. Pitching on fumes, he was ultimately charged with six runs on five hits and a walk. His ERA stands at 6.97.
Sammy Solis replaced Madson, pitching for the second consecutive game after warming up three times on Monday. He walked the two hitters he faced. A.J. Cole, the bullpen’s newest addition, then entered for his second appearances in three days. Yoenis Cespedes welcomed him with a grand slam.
Brandon Kintzler wasn’t available because he had pitched the previous three days. Sean Doolittle was available for one inning. That left just Matt Grace, who had pitched once in the previous six days but isn’t turned to in close, late-inning situations.
PITCHING PROBABLES
Friday: RHP Max Scherzer vs. LHP Clayton Kershaw
Saturday: RHP Stephen Strasburg vs. LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu
Sunday: RHP Jeremy Hellickson vs. LHP Alex Wood
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Post by dodger1214 on Apr 20, 2018 22:37:09 GMT
Taylor CF
Seager SS
Grandal C
Bellinger 1B
Pederson LF
Utley 2B
Puig RF
Muncy 3B
Kershaw P
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Post by 88bulldog on Apr 21, 2018 1:11:46 GMT
Lots of lefties.....
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Post by dking on Apr 21, 2018 2:01:15 GMT
time to kick the nats butt again
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Post by Bklyn_LA on Apr 21, 2018 2:06:38 GMT
If the Dodgers can stick a dagger in Scherzer like they did to the Pads last night would be alright!
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Post by dodger1214 on Apr 21, 2018 2:13:20 GMT
Well that didn't take long. 3 pitches and the Nats have a run. Got to keep Turner off the bases.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2018 2:13:51 GMT
at least the pitch count is low
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Post by dodger1214 on Apr 21, 2018 2:17:14 GMT
Fastball not doing much. Going to have really use his breaking pitches.
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Post by puigout on Apr 21, 2018 2:22:58 GMT
Sometimes when you are sure it's going to be a 2-1 game, it ends up 10-8.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2018 2:23:22 GMT
CT nails it 🔨
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