4-8-10 Pirates lineup vs LAD

[THE PROFIT]

Pirates here to sweep imo. Dodgers have give up on this road trip & just wanna get home & regroup

[Chi_archie]

1. Rafael Furcal, SS
2. Reed Johnson, LF
3. Matt Kemp, CF
4. James Loney, 1B
5. Ronnie Belliard, 3B
6. Garret Anderson, RF
7. Jamey Carroll, 2B
8. Brad Ausmus, C
9. Chad Billingsley, P

yikes!!!!!


Dodgers go to Florida next profit....

[EXpertcapper]

Billingsbey got waxed last time he went to Pitt, think the same thing happens here

[woodman663]

Crosby > Cedeno

Church is actually pretty decent against righties. Dodgers are resting a lot of players: bet pirates if anything.

[PittsburghPlayer]

Bucs and the under. Stat, Hope Church and Crosby suprise you. GL Buc backers.

[poker_dummy101]

Hopefully the game lasts all day, getting in all 9 and maholm out early/pirates bullpen comes back to earth

[statnerds]

damn, i took LAD RL +105 before seeing that Dodgers' line-up. that is pretty brutal.

T-storms are going to be here around 2 or 2:30, so probably won't get the whole game in. an hour from now i will know if i will be cheering for or against rain.

and watching the game on local Fox Sports HD channel is sweet. only because in the Top of 1st after Loney singled in a run, Belliard was batting. he flew out to deep left-center, but when the ball left the bat i could distinctly hear Malhom say "Fukk!!!"

and another deep fly out to start top of 2nd.

[statnerds]

another warning track fly out.

i'll guess attendance is about 653.

[Chi_archie]

long double

[Chi_archie]

is Treni K still on fox sports pittsburgh Statty?

[Obone44]

I'm on the Pirates. Dodgers are in trouble.

[poker_dummy101]

just checking the radar.. looks like rain but nothing major.. i think theyll get the game in unless it stalls on top of pitt. dodgers top of the order up, need some runs

[poker_dummy101]

dodgers playing small ball already..torre + rain chance

[Chi_archie]

lead off double..... keep us posted Poker


I hate these weather variables

[statnerds]

Bob Walk is my favorite announcer. if Peter Griffin were a major league pitcher, he would have been BW.

ground rule double to left. Dodgers are hitting some hard shots off Pauly boy here. he is not keeping the ball down very well right now. matter of time before one leaves the yard.

[Chi_archie]

2-0 yeah that is how small ball works

[poker_dummy101]

2-0 dodgers.. shut them out billingsley and lets get this game in

[Chi_archie]

I love Bob Walk, I would love to see him get a job managing..... he is prob too goofy/colorful for that..... but he really does know his baseball....


guy could hit for a pitcher too...... alot of bucco pitchers were real good hitters back in those days

[statnerds]

is Treni K still on fox sports pittsburgh Statty?

no idea. if i didn't have LAD RL i wouldn't even be watching this.

garret jones....d'oh.

they just had GM in the booth and i listened to about none of it.

and now i will get some housework done outside before this rain starts.

GL all

unless you are on the pirates.

[poker_dummy101]

hope that bounce doesnt cost us

[rthoughton]

agreed. billingsley will shut em down

[poker_dummy101]

yessssssss double play outof it

[poker_dummy101]

rain will be in shortly

[poker_dummy101]

billingsley cant find the strike zone

[statnerds]

was outside moving some earth.

temp dropped about 10 degrees in 5 minutes. few rain drops on my head.

it is going to storm real soon....

[poker_dummy101]

huge strike out on laroche, get maholm and out of the jam

[Panekkkk]

under was probably the best call

[Chi_archie]

twice the Brilliant idea of having the pitcher bat 9th has backfired in this game.......


well, I don't want to jinx it. so I better not hit reply just yet

[gryfyn1]

just saying, its nothing more than a play on principle if they lose today. But as for today, no play for me

I was curious how this would work out- so i back logged standing though 2003.

Since then 22 teams have been swept in thier opening series.

12 won game 4, 2 went 0-4, 3 0-5, 2 0-6, 2 0-7, 1 0-8.

Overall fading all these teams till they win would result in a record of 27-21.*

by year

2009, 2 teams (WSH,Cle), 6-2
2008 1 team (Det) 4-1
2007 5 teams (Balt,Tex,Phi,Hou,StL) 1-4*
2006 2 teams (Phi,Pit) 4-2
2005 2 teams (NYM, Pitt) 2-2
2004 2 teams (tor,sea) 2-2
2003 8 teams (Tor,ChW,Det,Atl,Cin,MLW,Col,SD) 8-8

in 2007 Hou/Stl were both 0-3 and played in game 4, Stl won, but lost the next game.

[EaglesPhan36]

LaRoche sucks kawk. He should have pulled Maholm and got a pinch hitter in there. Screwing my over.

[rm18]

Need the rain to go away, I got under, and I need Matt Kemp to get a hit to extend my mlb.com streak

[Chi_archie]

correction pitcher bat 8th......

[Panekkkk]

HUGE by Billingsley to get out of that jam... Go Dodgers!

[poker_dummy101]

was outside moving some earth.

temp dropped about 10 degrees in 5 minutes. few rain drops on my head.

it is going to storm real soon....

doesnt look like a big problem but weather.com says it could be there til 6??.. whats local station say? I thought itd be out in an hour or 2

Huge strikeouts.. out of it

[Mikail]

I am leaving the Dodgers alone after today for a while unless I am fading them or playing the under