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The paper says: Two days of strikeouts, and one day of LOL Dodgers

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The Dodgers come to San Francisco this weekend for a three-game series against the Giants where there will be a license plate frame giveaway to the first 20,000 fans on Saturday, and a Sergio Romo Gnome on Sunday to the first 30,000. The matchups tell us this is whom we should expect to see on the bump this weekend:

Friday: Barry Zito (3-1, 3.29) vs. Clayton Kershaw (3-2, 1.73)
Saturday: Ryan Vogelsong (1-2, 6.23) vs. Ted Lilly (0-1, 5.63)
Sunday: Matt Cain (0-2, 6.49) vs. Hyun-jin Ryu (3-1, 3.35)

Raise your hand if you thought of Zito, Vogelsong, and Cain, Zito would have the best ERA going into May of the three. The stock on Zito was pretty high going into this regular season, but not so much that you thought he’d outdo them by almost double. As Giants fans, you know what you’re going to get out of Zito, Vogey, and Cainer, but do you know what you’re getting out of Kershaw (yes), Lilly (lol), and Ryu (did you know the media guide now says to say his name as “Roo”)?

Kershaw has been harassing the Giants since 2008. How much harassing? Let this table show you:

Year W-L% ERA G GS CG SHO IP H ER HR BB SO BF WHIP
2008 0.00 1 0 0 0 1.0 2 0 0 1 0 5 3.000
2009 1.29 1 1 0 0 7.0 1 1 1 1 13 22 0.286
2010 .500 1.55 4 4 1 1 29.0 18 5 1 10 25 116 0.966
2011 1.000 1.07 6 6 0 0 42.0 29 5 1 8 49 161 0.881
2012 .400 1.62 5 5 1 1 39.0 27 7 2 7 40 147 0.872
2013 1.000 0.00 1 1 1 1 9.0 4 0 0 0 7 30 0.444
Career Total .692 1.28 18 17 3 3 127.0 81 18 5 27 134 481 0.850
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 5/2/2013.

I miss when Clayton Kershaw wasn’t a starter, because even though I’m sure he’d shut down the Giants 1-2 innings at a time, at least he wouldn’t be doing it 6-9 innings at a time as a starter, which he kinda does these days. He averages at least 7.0 IP in every start against the Giants in his career. That’s insane. I’m not sure I’ll get to watch Friday’s game, and I’m not sure it’d make me that happy to anyway. But it is Barry Zito. Somehow, he has done some crazy things lately, and do you wanna be the one that bets against crazy?

Here’s Kershaw’s pitch usage for this year

Screen shot 2013-05-02 at 7.44.38 PMDidn’t realize the usage of the fastball was so high, but there yea go.

Ted Lilly… hasn’t been good. He was tolerable in 2012, but so far, nothing to report. The Rockies teed off on him in his last start, and unless he gets ruled out due to injury, this is who I’ll get to see pitch for the Dodgers in person on Saturday.

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Low velocity everything, so Lilly does not have that big of a margin for error, and as you can guess, he’s not been pitching within that margin, and so he’s been getting hit. The Dodgers are probably happy they have a day off tonight and a Kershaw start tomorrow so the bullpen will be well rested for Saturday’s game.

Hyun-jin Ryu is still the new guy on the block, but he’s actually ahead of Clayton Kershaw in terms of percentage of strikeouts, which doesn’t really make anybody who’s an opponent feel better about facing him, but at least the Giants have seen him once before. It was that ten hit game, and maybe there were some first-game jitters for Ryu, but he’s certainly not the reliever we thought he’d be at worst, and definitely looks like he belongs in the Dodgers rotation.

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Opponents are still getting used to his four pitches, and I’ll admit I’m still getting used to what he’s putting out there despite having the TV on to the Dodgers whenever they’re on down here in sunny Southern California. Always seem to hear from pitching veterans though that a good fastball-changeup combo will do you good, and hey, throw in a third pitch in his slider that’s major league average, and there’s a starter for you, gosh darnit.

All series with the Dodgers are always spirited, but if you make your way to the yard, make sure you play nice!



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