This is the earliest Dodger game you will watch this year. With a start time of 9:10 AM PST/12:10 PM EST the game will be over before lunch on the west coast. So grab your coffee and wake up early for some Dodger baseball in the morning.
It’s a happy morning for the Dodgers as they wake up back in first place. Rookie phenom Julio Urias gave the club something they sorely needed, a quality start. Thanks to his 6 shutout innings, a Chase Utley home run and a couple of well timed RBIs from Corey Seager, the Dodgers were able to beat the Reds 4-0 on Sunday afternoon. That coupled with the Giant’s 2-0 loss to the Mets on Sunday night baseball put the Dodgers back in first place by a half game.
Dodgers Lineup @Cincinnati
Utley 2B
Seager SS
Gonzalez 1B
Grandal C
Pederson CF
Kendrick LF
Toles RF
Segedin 3B
Kazmir P
Scott Kazmir-10-6 vs. Homer Bailey-2-1
Game Time 9:10 AM – TV-SNLA
Josh Reddick has been scratched from today's lineup due to a jammed right middle finger.
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 22, 2016
That’s what I love the most about this team, their ability to pick themselves up from the boot straps and come back. After two consecutive blowout losses the Dodger win on Sunday gives the Reds a 2-1 series lead. The Dodgers will try for a series split today before flying back home to open a huge game home stand with the Giants. Since the Giants are idle today, a Dodger win would put them one game ahead in the standings before the big series starts on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium.
So today it is up to left hander Scott Kazmir (10-6 4.41) to get the Dodgers a win before they hit the road back home. Kazmir beat the Reds back on May 25 by tossing 6 innings of one-run ball and striking out 12. He notched a win in his last start against the Phillies by giving up 2 earned runs on 8 hits over 5 innings. The Dodgers won that game 7-2 but Kazmir oddly only struck out one. Kazmir is undefeated on the road this year with a 6-0 record and a 4.77 ERA. The veteran is 2-0 with a 1.38 ERA in 2 career starts against the Reds.
Kazmir vs. Reds
| Name | PA | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | SH | SF | IBB | HBP | GDP |
| Brandon Phillips | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .600 | .667 | .800 | 1.467 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Joey Votto | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Eugenio Suarez | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Zack Cozart | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Billy Hamilton | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tucker Barnhart | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Adam Duvall | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dan Straily | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 28 | 26 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | .154 | .214 | .192 | .407 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
The Reds will counter with Homer Bailey. The 30-year old right hander and former first round pick is recovering from Tommy John surgery and has had many setbacks along the way. This is his fifth start this season and he is 2-1 with a 3.66 ERA with 27 strikeouts against 6 walks. He’s allowed 9.6 hits per nine across 19.2 innings pitched. Bailey has thrown two no-hitters in his career before he blew out his arm.
He has a two-seamer, four-seamer, and three different breaking balls. He also throws a slider, curve, and splitter. Bailey is 4-3 with a 3.84 ERA in 9 career starts against the Dodgers. Adrian Gonazlez clearly has Bailey’s number. Gonzo is hitting .435 (10 for 23) with 5 home runs against Bailey.
Bailey vs. Dodgers
| Name | PA | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | SH | SF | IBB | HBP | GDP |
| Chase Utley | 30 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | .222 | .267 | .222 | .489 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Adrian Gonzalez | 24 | 23 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 5 | .435 | .458 | 1.174 | 1.632 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| A.J. Ellis | 13 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | .200 | .333 | .200 | .533 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Justin Turner | 9 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .333 | .375 | .708 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Josh Reddick | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yasmani Grandal | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Howie Kendrick | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Bud Norris | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jesse Chavez | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 90 | 82 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 17 | .268 | .315 | .488 | .802 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
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Team
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W
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L
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PCT
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GB
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HOME
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AWAY
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L10
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1
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68
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55
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.553
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–
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38-24
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30-31
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4-6
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2
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68
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56
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.548
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0.5
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35-28
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33-28
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3-7
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3
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60
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64
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.484
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8.5
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32-31
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28-33
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5-5
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4
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53
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71
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.427
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15.5
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30-31
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23-40
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4-6
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5
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51
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73
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.411
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17.5
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21-40
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30-33
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3-7
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First pitch is in a couple of hours. Everyone wake up!
Go Blue!
Early starting time reminds me of waking up to the Gillette Blue Blade for the quickest slickest shave of all song before the World Series in the 50″s.
Bum
Sorry I can’t relate to that.
In other news, Josh Reddick was scratched with a jammed finger.
In still other news, Dave Roberts was seen pounding on Josh Reddick’s finger while Andrew Toles held him down!
I saw that. Agon brought him the mallet. Team doesn’t want Reddick or Puig.
Bum
What makes you think that?
The part of my brain that insists on trying to be funny regardless of the facts.
Facts have never mattered to some. Humor is always appreciated – by most.
Mark
You beat me to the punch!
Anyways I hope that Toles has a big day, and we win this game, and then get ready for the Giants for tommorow night.
Badger
Our you saying I don’t have a sense of humor?
Not worth repeating but oh well–
Roberts has a bunch of coaches and trainers that he can think with and hopefully come up with the right lineup and rotation. FAZ will have final say about De Leon joining the rotation.
An outfield of Toles, Pederson, and Reddick would be the best defensively but now is not the time to start giving lefty hitters a look at lefty pitching. It was smart to get Joc fixed first before exposing him again to lefties. That can be done next year.
But, taking a player, Joc, that is OPSing .842 mostly against righties out of the lineup against lefties is hard to replace. Add to that the drops in performance by Agon, Seager, Utley, Grandal, Reddick against lefties and there is no wonder why the Dodgers sputter against lefties.
Duke Snider benefitted from all the right handed hitters he played with in that most teams would make some attempt to not pitch a lefty against that them of Campanella, Hodges, Reese, Robinson, and Furilo. The Dodgers need a right handed Duke Snider to take advantage of teams that try their best to start lefties against the Dodgers.
Reggie Smith was the lefty, I know switch hitter, that protected the Dodgers against all the righties against Cey, Baker, and Garvey not to mention Russel and the Toy Cannon.
Puig and Turner haven’t been lefty killers, Kike’ is rusty, Thompson has a broken back and Puig might not be back on the team anyway. The best prospects are lefty swingers in Barringer and Verdugo,
Maybe more than pitching the Dodgers need a stud righty bat that would allow Pederson to stay in CF now and Toles in LF, Barringer at 1st base, and Verdugo in RF for the future. I am talking about a Duke Snider/Reggie Smith type of righty bat (for thosse that are overly literal, I know that Snider was a lefty bat).
If a trade were made now, Cespedes might be the best fit that might be posibly made. Puig and something else would be my idea.
Cepedes would be a problem like Puig, but he has had better stats then Puig lately.
Cespedes had an sore something, but he still played golf before his game, so almost the same type of problem, that Puig has been.
I don’t think the Mets would do that trade, until the year of Cepedes’ opt out.
But would the front office trade Puig for another player, that causes much the same issues?
Who else might help that might pass waivers?
Bum
I will have to think about that.
And after Reddick hasn’t worked out, I think it would be better, to think about someone in the National league.
Anybody that can throw 7 innings of 4.0?
Almost every player gets placed on waivers during this month. Teams like to see who will be claimed and if you remember quite a few years ago, the Yankees claimed Jose Canseco to block him from going to the Red Sox and got stuck with his contract when their claim was honored. Right now the Dodgers are in a bad spot waiver wise because the Giants could claim and block someone they might want.
Kazmir just passed waivers last week I read.
Trying to be positive here and believing we will see the good Scott Kazmir this morning and not his evil twin,.
Michael
That won’t take long, considering Kazmir’s first inning usually gives us a clue.
And according to the lineup posted on dodgers.com, Reddick is batting 6th and in RF….no Toles…..sorry to burst the comedy bubble. and Scott. the game is at 9:35 not 9:10
Michael
It was a last minute change, Toles is playing.
Yeah, I am watching the game, and we got Kazmir’s evil twin….
Spoiler alert–it was his evil twin again.
Yahoo!!!
What a start!
Of course Kazmir hasn’t thrown a pitch yet.
Artieboy
Did you hear Orel, hree runs on on’t four pitches!
This is a nice start so far. Let’s take this and make this a winning road trip!
Toledo missed that ball by 30 feet????
Yikes!
Sorry I meant Toles.
Holy Toledo was right.
But Toles hit that fourth run in, unlike Reddick, who lost two flyballs, in the sun.
Unbelievable!
Actually it’s standard operating procedure now. Oh well time for the bullpen rotation to get circulating.
We have the evil Kazmir today it seems. It’s awful for the Dodgers to score 6 in 3 innings and only be up by 2. We gotta’ get better starting pitching.
That has been my point all along. They have mediocre starters.
I really dislike watching Kazmir pitch. He’s looked like this all year except today instead of HR’s, he gave up some bloop hits. Every hitter is deep in the count, a ton of walks, and usually a dinger or two.
He reminds me of Ted Lilly on his bad days except Ted could work in some gems. I remember about 1 or 2 actual nice outing by Kazmir this year.
Huge HR!
HR’s (plural)
🙂
Artie boy
I bet you didn’t even see Reddicks at bat?
That is ok, it is just more of the same.
Tole takes a toll on the Reds, and Segdein gets in the fun too!
And Kazmir just sucks, why do we have to have this guy?
Ask the FAZOPHILES that one. They undoubtedly will think he is a brilliant pick up by the FAZ MASTER
Segedin gets one too~!
Nice! That’s what you expect when the Dodgers arrive in Cincy.
Thank heavens for the bats. Geez our starting pitching staff F’ing sucks ass
Aug trade deadline is a week away.
I propose we send our veterans Rich Hill and Josh Reddick to Oakland for 3 prospects, who may or may not make it. How bout we ask them for Grant Holmes, Jharrel Cotton, and Frankie Montas??
Just throwing out some ideas.
Anyone remember the last time we hit 4 hr in 1 inning??
Sweeten the deal with Anderson and Kazmir.
Funny. If Hill and Reddick don’t come through it also makes the 3way deal with Cincy look bad.
I was feeling good about good about Trayce, Montas, and Johnson. Especially Montas. Now Trayce is out, Montas plus others are gone, and Johnson has been mediocre at AAA.
Could that have been that game against SD? Drew, Kemp, Martin, and Byrd. Did I get guess correctly?
yeah, last time was the game they hit 4 HR’s in the ninth inning to tie the Padres and then Garciaparra hit a homer in the 10th to win it.
Eleven runs! Close contest today between our hitters and our pitching staff. Wonder what Badger would say the over/under is between them?
Roll with Toles and Segedin for the next two weeks, and go with a 6 man rotation the rest of the way until Kershaw gets back.
I’d like to see Dayton go for at least 2 innings here with a big lead.
I haven’t followed the game this am. My brain is focused on tomorrow. Will tomorrow’s game against the giants be the beginning of a culture of winning that has escaped this team for years? Will the new blood finally break through and beat the 3 time champions? It HAS to begin sometime, unless we are forever doomed to division titles i.e., kissing your sister. The giants have lined up their horses, much as Mattingly did last year against them. We must score, score, score. I hope there are 0 giants jerseys in the stands tomorrow. Just blue and white. And loud.
We must hope that Kike` still owns Bumgarner.
I don’t think neither team are any good, at this point in the season.
Still a lot of games left between the two teams.
We have at least a 50/50 chance of winning when we score 12 runs or more.
GEEZ!
I very much doubt Reddick could do half as well as Puig has at OKC. I would imagine he has passed waivers already with no takers…
Oh no!!!! Here comes Homer Baez.
On Puig: I read the team is still shopping him. Another team in a pennant race could use his bat?, but he has the potential to really piss off the players on his contending team. Not worth the risk. Our team has the same problem with him.
Dammit, why didn’t Roberts just leave in Dayton.
Don’t sleep on Agone, he has three HRs today.
Mark we might make your twenty prediction, that four players, will hit twenty HRs this year.
Agon would like for this game to go on forever. It’s like a winning streak at the crap table.
Wondering
I want Agone to continue to hit like this, the rest of the season.
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Good ones.
18-7 Rams over Bengals.
Batting practice. Wrap this up already and get on the plane.
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Not Bud Norris!
Now Kazmir has some health issue. He may be added to the DL. I’m sure nobody here is crying
Like I said Friday, Because Cincy was playing so well I would def take a split in the 4 game series on the road. We went to 2 cities. We won 2-1 and split 2-2. I’ll take that on the road, especially since Cincy has the 2nd best record in baseball since the break.
Dave Roberts is my manager of the year.
Tomorrow the season begins. Us vs them. Does it get any better ??
Bobby
Is that true about Kazmir?
I heard in the back ground on intentional talk, that a player jammed there finger getting a food delivery.
That must be Reddick.
Unfortunately we need Kazmir as our number five in the rotation.
I didn’t hear that but I wasn’t paying attention totally.,
Andy McCullough
Andy McCullough – Verified account @McCulloughTimes
Scott Kazmir has been dealing with back and neck issues. The team doctors will examine him tomorrow in LA.
Well with an offensive outburst that would have made the Bronco’s proud we were able to overcome the appearance of Kazmir’s evil twin. It was bombs away on getaway day! 7 homers. I was at Dodger Stadium years ago when they hit 7 homers and beat the Reds 18-1. Pitching that day was obviously better on our side.