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If you’re watching tonight’s “Sunday Night Baseball” game on ESPN, you’ll notice something a little different. For the first time, you’ll hear a female voice, as Jessica Mendoza will be replacing the suspended Curt Schilling. Mendoza is a two-time Olympic softball player who also took Stanford to their first College World Series appearance, and made her debut on Baseball Tonight last year. It’ll be a welcome change. But dear lord, do not look at Twitter during the game. Just don’t. The game won’t be blacked out in Los Angeles, though, so there’s that.
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5:05 p.m.
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Los Angeles
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CF
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Fowler
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SS
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Rollins
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RF
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Denorfia
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2B
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Utley
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3B
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Bryant
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1B
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Gonzalez
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1B
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Rizzo
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RF
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Ethier
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2B
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Castro
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LF
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Crawford
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LF
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Szczur
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C
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Grandal
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C
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Montero
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CF
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Pederson
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Arrieta (R)
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3B
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Hernandez
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SS
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Russell
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P
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Wood (L)
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Of course, the story is actually that the Dodgers and Alex Wood are trying for the sweep against Jake Arrieta and the Cubs tonight, and I can think of worse ways to welcome the Giants tomorrow night than on a six-game winning streak. The pitching matchups for that one: Brett Anderson vs. Jake Peavy tomorrow, Zack Greinke vs. Madison Bumgarner (!) on Tuesday, and Clayton Kershaw vs. Mike Leake on Wednesday. Good times. Good times.
In other news, we’ve been wondering for about a week what the plan behind Justin Turner would be at third base now that Alberto Callaspo is gone. Tonight, we find out, and it’s not Chase Utley: It’s Enrique Hernandez, who will make his Dodgers debut at the hot corner. (He made one start there for Miami in 2014, and got into three games overall for them at third.) In case you thought the answer was going to be “Alex Guerrero,” well, ha, no.
With Hernandez at third, that of course gets Joc Pederson back into the lineup in center, though interestingly enough he’s hitting seventh, ahead of Hernandez.
Finally, a thing no one cares about, but which I found interesting anyway: Eric Gagne!
Eric Gagne pitched four solid innings for the Can-Am League's Trois-Rivieres club to beat Quebec last night. Yes, that Eric Gagne.
— JJ Cooper (@jjcoop36) August 30, 2015
Gagne turned 39 in January and hasn’t pitched in affiliated ball since 2008, and hadn’t even pitched in independent ball since 2009. Yes, he’s playoff-eligible if he’s signed before midnight ET tomorrow…
