Dave Roberts Heard You All Loud and Clear

Thank you Captain Obvious!

A loss is a loss. You don’t get extra credit for effort – if you did then the Giants would have extra credit points instead of their crappy record. There will be no “breakthrough” until they start winning regularly again.

Tough loss but great work by the bullpen. This was the first game in awhile the team played to win from start to finish. The Diamondbacks winning streak is finally over. The breakthrough will have to wait another day but the signs are there. Great match up tomorrow with Wood going against Bettis.

Terrible job by Granderson getting the runner over.

Now pitching for the Dodgers, Pedro (El Gasolino) Baez.

Darvish’s velocity is down. He has some physical problem.

Unreal. Turner and Cody leaves two stranded in scoring position , Granderson butchers a ball in LF and then Darvish just loses it.

Well – I saw that the team finally put up a crooked number and took the lead in the 1st. Unfortunately:

1 – they haven’t scored more sense;

2 – the pitching didn’t hold up.

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I was away from my computer for 20 minutes and they were down again.

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No reason to be frustrated – no, none at all.

The Dodgers will win this game!

If the postseason started tomorrow, this would be my rotation:

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Kershaw

Hill

Wood

Ryu

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The pen would include Maeda, Darvish, Buehler, Morrow, Cingrani, Watson and Jansen

Darvish is not “fixed.”

And there it is, we are up 4-1 with Darvish comng around, D-Bags getting hammered by the Madres. Balance being restored.

It was asked if anyone thought the Dodgers could just flip a switch.

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Yes, it appears that they can.

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That question has been asked… and answered!

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First time in 19 games that Cody and Corey have played together.

That feels so much better!

Turner and Barnes comes up big, in the first!

I am so over wondering how to fix our nosedive. It’s happened, yeah it sucks, but we are WAY too talented and gritty for this to continue. Like I said before, we are one come from behind game to turn things around, to get the juices flowing again. Don’t care what anybody says, we are still the team to beat in the play-offs. Hell, bring on the D-Bags, I don’t care, pitch Ray and Grienke twice each. We either run from it or we go to it. I would rather go to it. I know, I KNOW this team has no quit in it, just some rocky times right now. Trust me, nobody wants us in the first round, order will be restored. Besides, the only time you use the word “panic” is when your season ends. Don’t see that anytime soon. Call me crazy, crazy like a fox.

How about putting Grandy hitting 8th and just slide everybody else up 1. Figured I’d throw my 2 cents in there.

Hell, I would hit Forsythe leadoff before Granderson and I wouldn’t do that either. Hopefully, tomorrow he has a scheduled day off.

Taylor could probably use a breather. I have to say this for Roberts – he’s giving Grandyman and Joc every chance he can to get them going. Time for a big game for Darvish so I can jump back on the Yu train. Dodgers by a knockout.

Doc certainly has more confidence in Granderson than I do. Doc sees him every day. I do not.

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Forsythe should never play against righties. Joc should never play against lefties. Right now we have a LF, catcher, and 2nd baseman not hitting. Every game there seems to be one relief pitcher not performing up to standards.

As Mark mentioned the other day, there is no reason to panic. The Dodgers have several highly respected veterans who no how to handle adversity. They know what to say and when to say it. Just a look at he following players tells you all we need to know going from here:

Forsythe

Utley

Cingrani

Keyshaw

Either

Morrow

I think that says it all