Lineup: Pos Padres Pos Dodgers CF Margot LF Toles (L) 1B Myers SS Seager (L) 2B Solarte (S) 3B Turner RF Renfroe 1B Gonzalez (L) 3B Schimpf (L) 2B Forsythe C Hedges CF Pederson (L) SS Aybar (S) C Grandal (S) P Cahill RF Puig LF Jankowski (L) P Hill (L) Game Notes
| Pos | Padres | Pos | Dodgers |
|---|---|---|---|
| CF | Margot | LF | Toles (L) |
| 1B | Myers | SS | Seager (L) |
| 2B | Solarte (S) | 3B | Turner |
| RF | Renfroe | 1B | Gonzalez (L) |
| 3B | Schimpf (L) | 2B | Forsythe |
| C | Hedges | CF | Pederson (L) |
| SS | Aybar (S) | C | Grandal (S) |
| P | Cahill | RF | Puig |
| LF | Jankowski (L) | P | Hill (L) |
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Discussion (29)
Disagree, not disagreeable
Meanwhile, because you know we have to: Today for Oakland:
Cotton, 4.1ip, 8 hits, 5 ER, 2bb, 4k
Montas: 2.2ip, 2 hits, 0runs, 0 k
I liked what I saw from Wood in relief. That could add a whole different dimension in the pen; having a guy with that stuff who can go multiple innings late in a game
Hill taken out after 75 pitches. I would have liked to see him go 1 more inning.
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Romo comes in and gets a scoreless inning but wasn’t that sharp and gives up several hard hit balls. He has a changeup now to go along with his slider.
Another GIDP.
Well, it looks like one of our pitchers with a “long injury history” is dealing tonight. Glad he is on our side.
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Knights27: “Almost every other ball club has had to tank in order to properly rebuild. Even then, there are no guarantees you get back to a winning culture. I’m a Laker fan and the last 3 seasons have been absolute hell.”
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I am also a Laker fan, makes me appreciate FAZ even more. In the year 2017, Laker management doesn’t even know how to tank in order to properly rebuild. Unbelievable!
Spring Training evidently isn’t Rich Hills thing.
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Then again, these are the Padres!
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This guy can spin the baseball for real!
Mark and Hawkeye, totally agree where you guys are coming from, and I would never put any hate on Roberts, who to me could be the Dodger manager as long as he wants to. I know this platoon thing will play way in to the season, but at what point do you just say,”The hell with the stats or matchups, my guy is raking and I don’t care who is pitching,” Just ride the damn wave into shore. I am kinda worried that over the long run some of our young guys are going to be so used to getting pulled when a leftie or righty pitcher comes up, they won’t have any confidence in themselves to be a complete player. Do the other elite teams like the Cubs, Indians, Red Sox or Nationals platoon as much as we do, and at what success rate? Kind of curious about that. ( I’m not going to mention the Giants because we don’t use that word in our household).
They have brought Gutierrez over for one reason. They have to play him against left handers. I am not a Gutierrez supporter. Kike is the one that surprises me. Maybe Roberts will give Kike at bats to see what he has. I think we will see Taylor soon.
I am watching Seattle play. Paxton looks great. A few years back there was some talk of the Dodgers trading for him. He would be another left hander. He would be #2 in our staff.
The Dodgers will be facing 2 RHSP against the Pads, then are scheduled to face 2 LHSP (Kyle Freeland and Tyler Anderson) and RHSP (Jon Gray) against the Rox, and 2 RHSP (Jake Arrieta and John Lackey) and 1 LHSP (Brett Anderson). I think we will get a better feel for how Roberts will be setting up lineups in the next two series. At least no Jon Lester.
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Gutierrez did have one of the hits, and put the ball at the CF wall on his first AB. Kike’ didn’t get the ball out of the infield. Regardless, neither Joc or Toles would have made a lick of difference, offensively or defensively. Game 2 is history, now on to Game 3.
Roger, I agree.
Do we ever see that lineup against a LHP the entire season? Doubt it.
If anything, we score 14 runs game 1, when the good mojo is going, why not keep it up? I know, the stats do not support it but it is frustrating, the outcome would not have been any worse.
This should have been the lineup they ran out there against the lefty. Show everybody your not afraid of going lefty on lefty and stick with it. Give the young guys, like Joc and Toles, a vote of confidence and put them in there until they figure it out. I would much rather have Toles and Joc facing a lefty than Kike and Guitierrez. I will take my chances, stats be damned. It’s only the 3rd game and already “The Platoon” is getting under my skin. I guess I better get used to it.