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Monday, April 05, 2010 |
And We Shall Not Speak Of This Again: Pirates 11, Dodgers 5
One of the surprises I didn't mention earlier was the fact that Rule 5 pick Carlos Monasterios made the team out of spring training. If you were listening to or watching today's catastrophe of a season opener, he, Ramon Russ Ortiz, and Jeff Weaver were the only Dodger pitchers to escape unscathed. Vicente Padilla (seven runs, all earned over four and a third wretched innings) and George Sherrill (three runs, all earned, over an inning) both got spanked by the Pirates — the Pirates! — on Opening Day, a rather humiliating development that we hope will pass tomorrow. (Update 4/6: Ramon Ortiz pitched in relief of Padilla in the fifth, and not only allowed all his inherited baserunners to score, giving up a bases-loaded double to Ryan Church, but let Ronnie Cedeno knock in Church on a doinker single. Both the Yahoo and ESPN box scores — which I suspect are derived from the same sources — originally failed to record Ramon's appearance in the game. The possibility that having two R. Ortizes on the team is confusing the scorers may prove problematic for as long as both are on the 25-man roster.)
Zach Duke wasn't terrific but lasted long enough for the win. 28-year-old sophomore Garrett Jones, who only once before had a SLG over .500, that in a partial season at AA New Britain, started off this year with a bang, hammering a pair of longballs off Padilla; shockingly, the second, a solo blast in the third, was not a knockout blow.
So the Dodgers, and the day. Claims that the Dodgers weren't aligning the rotation for starts by Billingsley and Kershaw at home ring somewhat hollow now, at least, it seems so to me.
Incidental notes:
- About MLB.com Gameday Audio: This has been renamed "At Bat with Gameday Audio". On Linux, I had terrible problems with it hanging up; on my iPhone, not so much. I eventually gave up and hauled an AM radio to my office. I know, it sounds like I'm whining, but dammit, I'm a paying customer. Stop using Flash if it's so breaky, or quit reworking everything every single year.
The new Gameday is huge. I expect next year it'll be a mandatory fullscreen, at which point I'll stop paying for it if they keep this up.
- There's also no more "Multimedia" on the mast of all the MLB.com websites; there's only a single link called "Video". But I don't want video, I want audio.
- The new dropdown is now a mega-layer, with images and tons of crap that cause it to be very slow to load on Firefox. Why?
- Every damn year — and in fact, more often than that, since IIRC it demands a cookie with an expiry date of about 60-90 days or so — MLB.com demands I renew my request that their idiotic home page autoplaying video be disabled whenever I go to angels.mlb.com or dodgers.com, etc. Why? Why be such irritating jerks about it?
Labels: blecch, dodgers, pirates, recaps
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