It’s kind of a running joke in the Dodger online community that whenever anything newsworthy or exciting happens, Hawaii-based Chad Moriyama will inevitably be asleep during it, then wake up six hours later to find out that James McDonald was traded for Octavio Dotel, or whatever horror it happened to be.

Last night, punished by work, I went to bed early in what looked like a routine 2-0 Dodger game. When I woke up, it was to an apologetic email from one of my groomsmen and about 30 tweets that looked roughly like this:

Haha. RT @chadmoriyama For once, I can’t wait until @mike_petriello wakes up. Finally, it’s not the other way around.

— Stephen Caver (@ATXDodger) April 12, 2013

And so here I sit on a rainy morning, apoplectic that I missed Juan Uribe‘s pinch-hit go-ahead homer, giving him the team lead with two. Or the fact that Hanley Ramirez tweeted my GIF of his dugout celebration from the other night. That is all I missed, right?

Sadly, it’s much more than that, and I feel like I don’t need to give anyone the play-by-play of the brawl that ended with Zack Greinke fracturing his left collarbone, because I’m sure you’ve all seen it dozens of times by now. Carlos Quentin alluded to past history between he and Greinke, but the idea that Greinke is really throwing at a guy on a full count in a one-run game is so insane that it’s barely even worth considering. If anything, I might have preferred Greinke not driving his shoulder into the angry 240-pound man running full speed at him, but that’s that’s obviously said with the benefit of video replay, hardly something you can expect in the heat of the moment. Adding insult to incredibly serious injury, Vin Scully had noted earlier in the game that Greinke’s wife and family were in the stands for the game. (By the way, suggestions I’m already seeing that A.J. Ellis or Adrian Gonzalez were somehow at fault for not getting there quickly enough to stop Quentin: no. Stop. Just stop.)

Obviously, Quentin is public enemy #1 in Los Angeles — and not the good, Clayton Kershaw curveball kind — and I know many people are getting a kick out of Matt Kemp barking at him in the tunnel after the game. But as Dodger fans, we’re of course incredibly biased. That being the case, it’s nice to see that fans of other teams are all piling on Quentin this morning. Not, unfortunately, in the way that a half-billion dollars of baseball player piled on Grienke, however.

Even Padres blog Gaslamp Ball can barely spin this in a San Diego way:

If you think that a single pitcher hitting a single batter three times over the course of their careers is excessive (or you’re a Padres fan), then maybe you’re on Carlos Quentin‘s side.

If you’re the kind of person that figures it’s a 3-2 count in a 2-1 game and maybe it’s not necessarily the opportune time to hit a batter because you don’t like him then you’re probably figuring Zack Greinke is out for a really ridiculous reason and that reason is an angry Carlos Quentin.

So what now? Greinke returned to Los Angeles rather than going on with the team to Arizona, where we’ll find out if this is an injury that’s going to be measured in weeks or months. We’ll now get to have the ever-so-fun “Ted Lilly or Chris Capuano?” conversation. And in three days, the Padres come to Los Angeles on Jackie Robinson Day, potentially with Quentin in the lineup if he appeals the suspension that’s inevitably coming. The official Dodger account, anyway, is ready, even if I’m not sure I am.

See you on Monday in Los Angeles: twitter.com/Dodgers/status…

— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 12, 2013

The final game of an endlessly long spring training usually doesn’t mean a whole lot more than just “please, no one get hurt,” and for the most part, tonight’s Freeway Series finale falls under that category. But for Zack Greinke and the Dodgers, there’s at least a little intrigue to it, because Greinke needs to prove he’s ready to start the season with the team rather than on the disabled list.

As we discussed last week, it didn’t matter so much that he looked terrible against the Royals, because it was his first outing after weeks on the shelf. Against another of his former teams, it matters a little more, because he’s simply out of time. Either Greinke shows he’s ready, or the Dodgers have to make a tough decision about whether to start him on the shelf while he gets stretched out. We might see Chris Capuano & Aaron Harang after Greinke tonight, and that’ll be fun because they’re the two men who have their fates tied most closely to how Greinke performs. Again though, I do expect Greinke to start next Friday against Pittsburgh unless tonight goes really, really poorly.

You’ll also notice that Justin Sellers is once again starting at shortstop tonight, further evidence that he really is in consideration to take that job to start the season. Talk about one of the more improbable twists of the spring; for a reference point, 166 people entered the Brooklyn Dodger hat Opening Day roster contest. Only four had Sellers on their lists, fewer people than had Ramon Castro, Scott Elbert, Yasiel Puig, Mark Lowe, or Nick Evans.

There’s no Dodger broadcast of tonight’s game, but the Angels will have it on Fox Sports. However, it’ll be delayed until after the Kings vs. Wild game is over, which starts an hour before first pitch; if you want to check it out live, it’ll be a free MLB.tv broadcast there. (And for all the jokes about MLB.tv failing miserably last night, I believe the problem was more on the end of all the new gadgets in Dodger Stadium than anything.)

It’s possible that the team announces some roster moves after tonight’s game — it’s not like things like sending out Matt Wallach & Stephen Fife aren’t pretty obvious — but my guess is that we don’t get real answers to the questions we posed earlier today until tomorrow. That might just be me hoping that’s the case though, since anything fun breaking late on a Saturday night is never cool. (Especially one where I’ll be at a concert at a venue that’s deep enough underground that probably means cell service is unlikely.)

As for Clayton Kershaw, I still believe that his deal will get finalized by the end of Sunday so as to not conflict with Opening Day ceremonies, though as I said on Twitter earlier, I’m starting to believe that my initial estimate of $200 million might actually be about 10% light. Remember back in January when I guesstimated 7/$159m? That wasn’t all that different from the projections of others at the time, but it now sounds like we’re all going to be wayyy off.

I’m guessing that the deal will be announced at 12:30pm PT on Sunday, and that’s not in any way based on sources or inside info — it’s when I’ll be walking into an Easter dinner with the family, because of course that’s when it’ll happen. Either way, I do think it will happen before he throws his first pitch on Monday, and if it doesn’t, it’ll be because it fell through, not because of bad info.