For all our bitching and moaning, one game out in early August with all the injuries they've had isn't bad at all. Roberts has done a good job keeping this thing together with duct tape, zip ties and band aids.
Dodgers have gone 5-5 over the last ten games... and still picked up a game. Being one game out is more about the Giants face plant than what the Dodgers are doing. And they (Gnats) will turn it around soon. We need to get more consistent, and quickly.
It's wonderful to see the SFCS lead dwindle...but you're right. With this joke SR we have in August here, the axe seems poised. Need some kinda solid, dependable performances soon. It's really getting hard to blame the bp for any meltdown now like Fien and Hatcher gave us so much earlier. Theirs was due to suckitude, not fatigue from overuse.
Yeah I think the pitching staff needs reinforcements quickly. We're playing pretty mediocre baseball...as you'd expect when your entire rotation is on the DL.
Can't have a letdown with Phillie. This is the kind of series I could see our hitting taking a game or two off.
They scored 8 runs yesterday....so they have their moments. Reddick is still forcing, but Turner and Seager are still raking. Reddick did contribute to an outstanding outfield play. And keep Segudin in the lineup. He was definitely a spark in the bottom of the order.
reddick needs to bust out big in this series so sick of seeing roberts [having to] go to the pen early likley more of the same tonight with julio starting the guys down there are running on fumes and it's going to catch up to us
This is where one of Kershaw's key contributions is sorely missed. Knowing that every fifth game the pen will get a day off. There's no one else in the rotation to give them that.
When you have to go with Chavez, Baez, and Avilan, just to get to Blanton, you already have a problem.
Looking forward to Wednesday, the day we take back sole possession of first place. Six straight hours of baseball. First, by about the time I'm rolling into the office, the Marlins should already have a crooked number up against Samargeeuh. That game ends at noon and Kazmir takes the mound for L.A. I think he brings his A game and we win it going away. Either that or we drop to four back. What the hell do I know, anyway?
Dodgers lineup: Utley 2B Seager SS Turner 3B Reddick RF González 1B Grandal C Pederson CF Segedin LF Urías P