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National League Division Series Game 2 chat

Watching the Pirates tip the table on the Cardinals in a 7-1 romp that evened the other National League Division Series was a sobering reminder of how short-lived success can be. Zack Greinke will aim to keep things stable in Game 2 for the Dodgers, who will now face a lefty starting pitcher in Atlanta’s Mike Minor.

Be strong, be fierce, be winners.

Dodgers at Braves, 3:07 p.m.

Carl Crawford, LF
Mark Ellis, 2B
Hanley Ramirez, SS
Adrian Gonzalez, 1B
Yasiel Puig, RF
Juan Uribe, 3B
Skip Schumaker, CF
A.J. Ellis, C
Zack Greinke, P

Coverage of the game will begin on TNT, because of the length of the Tampa Bay-Boston game on TBS.

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219 Comments

  1. WinnipegDave

    I think Hanley has a big game today. Just a feeling.

  2. I’ve e-mailed TBS to ask if they plan to move start of Dodger game to TNT.

    • WBBsAs

      They have indeed done so.

    • btimmer

      It’s good to know you have that kind of clout! Do their emails come with an echo effect?

  3. TAFKA_Gagne55

    Go BLUE!!!!

  4. Confirmed – Dodger game will start on TNT assuming Boston game doesn’t end on time.

  5. If there’s a Game 4 on Monday, it will be a 6:37 game.

    • Adam Luther

      Thank you Jon – have been waiting for that info!!

  6. John_from_Aus

    why do games start at a time ending in 7?

    • KT

      because TBS did this years ago so if you start watching on their station you wouldn’t change channels to watch something else because it was already started

    • btimmer

      The 7 minutes also allows all the pregame sponsored segments to get aired.

  7. KT

    WHOLE NEW BLUE!!!! WHOLE NEW SEASON…10 more…Come on ZACK!!!!

  8. Bob_Hendley

    Bring on the lefty!

  9. John_from_Aus

    Way to get on after being 0-2

  10. KT

    Let’s go Hanley

  11. Vin is a few seconds ahead for me. How’s it sounding to you guys?

  12. Hooray – day 2!

  13. KT

    Hanley!! Yes!!!!

  14. Bob_Hendley

    Pressure on!

  15. John_from_Aus

    Nice start

  16. John_from_Aus

    Another single from Puig will do

  17. John_from_Aus

    Oh well, 1 run, 22 pitches, great start

  18. Jack Dawkins

    No close games yet in round 1. Hope dodgers continue the trend now.

  19. Worth remembering that Mark Ellis was down 0-2 in the count before working that walk.

  20. WBBsAs

    I switched from the iPhone to the computer, and Vin is now a fraction of a second ahead of the broadcast.

  21. Jack Dawkins

    TBS announcers carping that every close pitch has gone the dodgers way.

  22. WBBsAs

    Nice easy inning.

  23. Bob_Hendley

    Shutdown

    • John_from_Aus

      or shutdown or sitdown :)

      • Bob_Hendley

        I live in DC.

        • WBBsAs

          I lived four months in Mount Pleasant, and really enjoyed it.

          • Bob_Hendley

            I think we figured out that you lived down the street from me and just a couple of doors away from where Walter Johnson used to live.

          • I lived out in the NoVa suburbs in Annandale all through high school.

          • WBBsAs

            Can’t even remember what street I was on, but it might have been Lamont.

          • Bob_Hendley

            Irving or perhaps Hobart or Adams Mills.

  24. KT

    Well we won that inning..I want MOAR Runs

  25. KT

    Juanito!

  26. TAFKA_Gagne55

    Almost a buntlike swing from Uribear for the single.

  27. Bob_Hendley

    Annoucers as bad as the crowd on the pitch calls.

  28. KT

    Let’s go Zack…drive him in

  29. Ellis and Ellis doing well again today.

    • John_from_Aus

      safe to say the DP won’t be to Puig this time

  30. John_from_Aus

    Nice K

  31. Spence

    Ripped

  32. KT

    Ok let’s get that one back

  33. Bob_Hendley

    Can we run on these guys?

  34. KT

    switch channels to TBS

  35. Five of 10 Dodgers have reached base so far.

  36. KT

    Let’s go MEllis

  37. Spence

    Wow turned 2 with CC running

  38. scooplew

    We’ve been hitting the ball hard but have also been unlikely. I think our luck will change but our hard-hitting won’t, and we will have a big inning very soon.

  39. Nice inning for Zack.

  40. Jack Dawkins

    Zach is cruising. 33 through 3.

  41. No more Vin til the 7th :(

  42. Jack Dawkins

    Thats a double for anyone else on the team.

  43. TAFKA_Gagne55

    Third straight lead off baserunner. Let’s make this one count!

  44. Jack Dawkins

    9 pitch ining for Minor. Lot of early swings.

  45. Spence

    Braves lineup seems better than vs righties than lefties. Getting Freeman/McCann vs a righty really makes them better.

  46. KT

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  47. Spence

    Greinke’s been hanging his breaking balls too much tonight

  48. ASW1

    Time to get some runs!

  49. KT

    Need Moar runs now…Let’s go

  50. No MLB game has been decided by fewer than three runs since Sunday.

  51. Greinke holding his own, wake up bats!

  52. RBI

    Nice K!

  53. RBI

    C’mon, Blue! Need hits!

  54. RBI

    Hanley!

  55. Jack Dawkins

    That would have cut the third baseman in half.

  56. RBI

    Such a bad call! Sheesh!

  57. WBBsAs

    I’m already suffering Steiner fatigue.

  58. The strike calls are getting worse..

  59. KT

    good hustle

  60. Jack Dawkins

    Speed never slumps. Ill take my cliche payment now.

    • WBBsAs

      Monday says determination is more important than speed.

  61. Bob_Hendley

    Dang

  62. KT

    quite swing at ball 4

  63. RBI

    Ball four, but a good pitch.

  64. Jack Dawkins

    That felt like the big moment in the game. But 9 outs to prove that feeling wrong.

  65. JHT

    This is where we miss Ethier/Kemp. Not having that fourth legit bopper in a row.

  66. If nothing (much) changes, look for Ethier to hit for Uribe or Schumaker in the ninth inning against Kimbrel.

  67. Greinke due up third in the seventh inning. With 83 pitches and his bat, decent chance he stays in.

  68. scooplew

    Playing for the tie now and then hoping to take the lead later.

  69. No one in MLB thinks sliding into first is showboating?

  70. WinnipegDave

    Is it Dee Gordon time here?

  71. Spence

    Why you sac bunting when you are losing?

  72. WBBsAs

    Don fooled them. Nobody in Atlanta was anticipating a bunt.

  73. Happy just to see Michael Young take the first pitch. Now make me happier.

  74. WinnipegDave

    That helps. Thank you!

  75. scooplew

    Great hustle by Young. But why did the first baseman go so far to his right to field that ball?

  76. RBI

    Sweet. We will take it.

  77. 4d3fect

    FredI Gonzalez: “FUNDAMENTALS PPL”

  78. WinnipegDave

    By name, it hardly feels like the Braves are changing pitchers.

  79. Are you kidding me.

  80. WinnipegDave

    Next inning we get them.

  81. RBI

    UGH!!!

  82. Spence

    Thats what you get for bunting

  83. WBBsAs

    Don continues to love every bunt except the squeeze.

  84. scooplew

    Well, we sure have that DP down pat today. Very frustrating…thus far.

  85. RBI

    Eleven hits. One run. Maddening.

  86. RBI

    Sorry. Nine hits.

  87. scooplew

    Does anyone know or is there any statistical listing that shows how many times we have tried the squeeze this year?

  88. WinnipegDave

    At this point last night, the comments were at about the 350 mark.

  89. ASW1

    Too damned many wasted chances

  90. RBI

    That chop chant is driving me bonkers.

  91. RBI

    We need a DP here.

  92. RBI

    This is what I feared. Should have stuck with Greinke,

  93. All those “breaks” Darling and whoever Ripken were saying the Dodgers got yesterday have apparently moved over to the Braves’ side of the ledger.

  94. Spence

    Simmons has 17 dingers and he’s bunting?

  95. Spence

    Does bunting ever lead to runs?

  96. RBI

    Beauty.

  97. Have mercy – loading the bases for Heyward.

  98. Spence

    IBB’ing the bases loaded. Really Donnie?

  99. Bob_Hendley

    Not understanding this

  100. Spence

    Game over

  101. Donnie knows that Paco can get righties out right?

    • WBBsAs

      Conventional wisdom is important to Don, because he lacks anything else.

  102. WBBsAs

    Don is a master strategist.

  103. KT

    well that backfired

  104. RBI

    Who didn’t see that coming? I mean, seriously.

  105. Spence

    Braves can possibly win this series without having to face Greinke and Kershaw again. Hopefully Ryu is up to the task on Sunday.

    • KT

      you think kersh is pitching on short rest?

      • Spence

        He threw 124 yesterday. I suppose its possible if the Dodgers lose game 3 that Donnie would go back to him over Nolasco.

    • Bob_in_Vegas

      I was thinking about pitching Kersh on Monday — but that count was soooo high last night.
      As throughout this season, great pitching still needs SOME runs to win.

  106. Bob_Hendley

    That’s like something he would have done with Paco early in the season.

  107. Bob_in_Vegas

    Back to Dodger Stadium and hopefully back to the future . . . and away from the early-season offense (all tease, no production) and bullpen (gasoline on the fire).

  108. RBI

    No reason to give that walk away. Really so frustrating.

  109. If you’re going to give some guy an IBB, why not have the outgoing pitcher do the work? Why have the incoming guy have to locate pitches outside the zone and then try to come back in with a new hitter?

  110. RBI

    Ahhh! Beli!

  111. RBI

    And furthermore, I do feel any close pitches are called strikes for them and balls for us.

  112. Ellis, Ramirez, Gonzalez, Puig in the eighth inning,

  113. RBI

    We need a huge inning! Puttin’ on my rally cap, takin’ off my shoes so my toe nails are showing.

  114. KT

    Let’s go…score Moar runs

  115. KT

    Positive vibes everyone

  116. KT

    Nice eye Mark

  117. Bob_Hendley

    Hopefully the Braves’ lead takes the bunt out of Donnie’s arsenal.

    • WBBsAs

      From from it, unless the situation calls for a squeeze.

  118. Just realized Dodgers will probably lose this game 4-3.

  119. KT

    HANLEY!!!!

  120. Vin’s call was so subdued I thought it was a lazy fly ball. Wow.

  121. KT

    MOAR Positive vibes

  122. twaseverthus

    Getting Vin in sync sure is confounding. The digital feed thru the MLB app is unlistenable for me – strangely hollow, with crowd noise at a minimum, Vin sounding removed from the game. My theory? Their feed is uncompressed, straight from the board, with none those AM radio limiters that give baseball broadcasts their magic. So I continue to fumble around in vain to get AM 570 in sync with DirecTV, where Vin remains about 2 seconds ahead. Sigh.

    • KT

      I like the slight advance notice…I get to look up from my keyboard in time to see it happen

      • twaseverthus

        My commercial-break thought aboe aside, my eyes are on the TV.

  123. scooplew

    Donnie’s in-game managing strategy is open for discussion, particularly in a very short series.

    • KT

      he didn’t hit into the 3 DP’s

      • scooplew

        True, but I am thinking of removing Greinke, with plenty of pitches remaining in his arm, for a pinch-hitter and then some of the pitching decisions he made.

        • KT

          yea I didn’t like that either

        • Bob_Hendley

          I don’t like how it got there (Withrow should be able to get Constanza), but Paco should be able to deal with Heyward.

  124. At least we get the free BJ Upton out every night.

  125. KT

    Nice inning BW

  126. scooplew

    I see the name Gerald Laird for Atlanta and I go back four decades and I think of Gerald Ford and Melvin Laird.

  127. scooplew

    Ethier for Schumaker?

  128. KT

    Time to stick the stake in the heart of the Barves…beat kimbrel at home

  129. Bob_Hendley

    Get on for Dre!

  130. KT

    Nice AJ!

  131. Adam Luther

    Send Gordon…wow!!!

  132. Bob_Hendley

    Now Dre has to hit it out (Dee already used)

  133. KT

    bad call

  134. twaseverthus

    Folks, that’s what I call a bunk call.

  135. At least we made their closer throw a bunch of pitches.

  136. KT

    all jon’s fault:
    “Jon Weisman Mod 35 minutes ago

    Just realized Dodgers will probably lose this game 4-3.” ^_^

  137. Don Orsillo, Dennis Eckersley and Buck Martinez doing the As – Tigers game being discussed here if any of y’all feel like it.

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