Don Mattingly is going to manage the Dodgers tonight. Normally, you really shouldn’t have to lead off a game story with confirmation that the manager of the team is still calling the shots, but, well… nothing about this is normal, and for a while today I was really far from certain if Mattingly would still be in the dugout tonight. Ned Colletti, it should be noted, is in Milwaukee with the team, though that’s not entirely out of the ordinary.
David Vassegh reports that Mattingly “isn’t aware of all the rumors in the media today of his job being in jeopardy”, and while I get that he’s probably not spending a lot of time reading the papers right now, I find that more than a little difficult to believe. Then again, I’m really not sure what we expect Mattingly to say in response to that. “Yep, I’m totally going to be out of a job by the end of the week, you got me.” Of course not.
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Brewers
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LF
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Crawford
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RF
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Aoki
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2B
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M.Ellis
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SS
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Segura
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1B
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Gonzalez
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LF
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Braun
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CF
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Kemp
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3B
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Ramirez
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RF
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Ethier
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C
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Lucroy
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C
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A.Ellis
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CF
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Gomez
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3B
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Uribe
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2B
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Weeks
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SS
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Gordon
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1B
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Betancourt
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P
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Kershaw
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P
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Gallardo
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In the meantime, Ted Lilly has been activated and Matt Magill has been returned to Albuquerque. I had originally tried to justify this by saying that it’d be okay as long as Lilly was only here to be in the bullpen to help out some exhausted relievers, figuring that the fifth spot could be skipped on Thursday. That might yet be what will happen, but Dylan Hernandez reports that Lilly still figures to slot into the rotation. The team doesn’t need him, assuming he’s skipped on Thursday, until a week from tomorrow, and there’s a lot that can happen between now and then. Let’s hope it does; I don’t think anyone really wants to see Lilly making another start, especially after Magill looked good in Atlanta this weekend.
Other than Dee Gordon replacing the injured Hanley Ramirez, we’re actually looking at something that resembles the “regular” Dodger lineup tonight, in what should be a marquee matchup between Clayton Kershaw & Yovani Gallardo. I’m pleased to see that the terribly slumping Gordon — now without a hit in his last 17 plate appearances — is still hitting 8th if he has to be in there at all, and there’s not a lot I can do to argue with this lineup. So it’d be nice if they would start to, you know, hit.
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| R | R. Belisario | 15 | - | 21 | 15 | |||
| R | J.Guerra | 48 | - | |||||
| R | M. Guerrier | 16 | 6 | - | 10 | |||
| L | J.P. Howell | 44 | 13 | - | 7 | 19 | ||
| R | K. Jansen | 4 | 22 | - | 21 | 14 | ||
| R | B. League | 19 | - | 19 | ||||
| L | P. Rodriguez | 16 | - | 21 | 2 |




