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Last night’s game was pretty awful, so let’s just move on from it. Tonight, it’s Zack Greinke‘s turn. Eric Stephen tweeted his post out with the perfect sentence.
Dodgers | Brewers | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
5:10 p.m. | Milwaukee, Wisc. | |||
CF | Pederson | CF | Gomez | |
SS | Rollins | LF | Parra | |
2B | Kendrick | RF | Braun | |
1B | Gonzalez | 1B | Lind | |
3B | Turner | 3B | Ramirez | |
RF | Ethier | 2B | Gennett | |
C | Grandal | SS | Segura | |
LF | Guerrero | C | Maldonado | |
P | Greinke (R) | P | Garza (R) |
Zack Greinke starting at Miller Park usually means good things for the Brewers http://t.co/vu56sjZ58P pic.twitter.com/KNWL3TM6fd
— Eric Stephen (@ericstephen) May 5, 2015
He writes in his post:
“Greinke as a Brewer was 15-0 with a 2.93 ERA in 23 starts at home, with 181 strikeouts and 34 walks in 147⅔ innings. The Brewers won 22 of those 23 starts, and in the only Milwaukee loss Greinke pitched eight scoreless innings with 11 strikeouts.
In the last two years Greinke is 0-2 with an 8.10 ERA at Miller Park, allowing five run in four innings in a start in 2013, and allowing four runs in six innings in a loss last season.”
Fun. Here’s hoping Greinke figures out Miller Park as a visiting pitcher. He is coming off his toughest start of the season, when he allowed three runs and seven hits in six innings (what a bum).
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Justin Turner is starting at third base for the third time in five games, while Alex Guerrero is starting in left field for the fourth time in a a week. Don Mattingly was going to have a hard time finding at-bats for everyone, and so far, he’s doing it. Turner has homered in each of his last two starts (good), while Guerrero is 1-for-his-last-12 (three starts) after a blazing start. We all knew Guerrero wasn’t going to keep up the video game-like numbers, but it’d be nice to see him have a solid game sometime soon.
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It looks like the Dodgers have chosen a starter for Wednesday’s game, and it isn’t who was expected.
Joe Wieland said he's been told he's starting Wednesday for #Dodgers. Assume Carlos Frias moved back a day to Thursday
— Bill Plunkett (@billplunkettocr) May 5, 2015
Joe Wieland will be the ninth pitcher to start a game for the Dodgers. This is game No. 26. You’d think the Dodgers were floundering, yet they’re 16-9, which is good enough for second-best record in the National League. It’ll be nice when Hyun-Jin Ryu returns healthy and the Dodgers add Johnny Cueto. Until then, the Dodgers’ quality depth is being tested and is passing thus far.
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