That's the one I meant. It just seems to be in prime location for a hard hit foul ball from the left side.
Calling it on Puig being the one to do it. Out in front because he's too amped up and puts a hole in it.
i think its awesome they are playing on a converted cricket field. the similarities are pretty obvious. spent a month in sri lanka ten years ago and cricket was the ONLY sports on tv so i developed an appreciation for it. was commenting on it to an english friend of mine and he recommended a book written by a cricketeer that spent a spring w an mlb team. i looked for it but couldn't find it sorry but it was a great read. have to figure Abner watched a few test matches before inventing the game.
Oddly enough I've been watching a documentary about the history of baseball today. The documentary suggests the idea that 'Abner Doubleday invented baseball' is likely just a myth. Baseball does have similarities to cricket and rounders from England, and it evolved over time in the early 1800's. It seems that the biggest step in evolving the game to what we know today was when the New York Knickerbockers baseball club made a set of rules in the 1840's - before that there were lots of different variations of the game.
I was (probably still am) quite a talented cricketer. Played at the highest local level. Hell of a way to waste whole days of a weekend standing in the sun. Don't really miss it too much, but pretty good sport.
Dodgers try their hand at an Aussie accent hahahaha http://dodgers.mlblogs.com/2014/03/...dger-mate/?partnerId=as_lad_20140320_20377104
That was great...I have to say that my favorite player of all time , Wilson, was the best. It looks as if Clayton was on to the accent, but didn't hang around long enough to do it. Ryu was game... I'm pretty good with accents, can do cockney easily (since I am one really), but Australian has a life of it's own. Americans usually do a pretty bad job in movies if they are trying to play an Australian, but Streep and Robert Downey (in Natural Born Killers) were very good.
i had heard it was a myth as well but for the sake of simplicity went with what most people tend to think. just like we live in a free country etc.
Just like the Dodgers are something different than they always are. The season starts in two days, whether we like it or not, and we don't have Matt Kemp, Zach Greinke and NOW....Adrian Gonzalez. With a back injury? And they put him on a 17 hour flight back (or whatever it is) immediately....but it's "nothing" to worry about? WTF?
Puig leads comeback against Team Australia Dodgers right fielder homers, throws runner out at plate in final tuneup By Ken Gurnick | MLB.com LOS ANGELES TIMES Yasiel Puig launches a two-run home run in the 8th inning against Australia to tie the game at 2 SYDNEY -- A flop in the Cactus League this spring, the Yasiel Puig who dazzled America last summer revived the show Down Under on Thursday at the fabled Sydney Cricket Ground. The Dodgers' flamboyant right fielder slugged his first home run of the exhibition season and threw a runner out at the plate as the Dodgers edged Team Australia, 4-2, in their final tuneup for this weekend's Opening Series against the D-backs. "I haven't hit one for a while, so it's great to get back out again," said Puig, who came into the game with a .122 batting average this spring. "I did feel bad [about the poor spring numbers]. I have been preparing well, but it's not going as well as I'd hoped for. Spring Training, at the end of the day, doesn't matter. It's two months, and the season is long. Those at-bats are the ones that matter." Manager Don Mattingly seemed to agree, discounting Puig's batting-practice results as well. "With him, batting practice means pretty much nothing," Mattingly said. "We know Yasiel can hit. The games before we left, he swung OK but didn't get hits. "I see this as a year of transition for him. We've seen [pitchers] make adjustments and seen him handle the adjustments and make them back. He showed last year he can." Puig tied the game with a towering two-run shot to left field in the eighth inning off Matthew Williams, scoring A.J. Ellis, who had walked. It was only the second hit of the game for the Dodgers, the other coming from first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, who left after his fourth-inning at-bat with lower back tightness. The Dodgers took the lead later in the eighth. Chone Figgins followed Puig's homer with a walk, took third when second baseman Logan Wade booted Mike Baxter's routine grounder and scored on catcher Ryan Battaglia's passed ball. Baxter scored on Juan Uribe's single. The Dodgers went with a lineup that might show up again Opening Night, although Mattingly wouldn't confirm that. It had Dee Gordon leading off at second base, Puig batting second and Scott Van Slyke in left field. Prospect Zach Lee, the starting pitcher for the Dodgers, allowed one run on three hits with six strikeouts in four innings. Fellow non-roster pitcher Red Patterson allowed one run on two hits with four strikeouts in three innings. MLB.com ZACH LEE Lee, most likely ticketed to Triple-A Albuquerque this year, said SCG felt like a typical baseball stadium and resulted in "just a normal game." Lee pitched out of a second-inning jam by getting Logan Wade to bounce out with runners on second and third and two outs, but Australia found the scoreboard in the third inning. With one out, former Boston prospect Mitch Dening was nicked by a pitch, Brad Harman doubled him to third and Red Sox farmhand Stafan Welch's sacrifice fly to deep right field scored Dening. Australia scored another run in the sixth inning on a leadoff walk to Harman, a wild pitch, a groundout and a two-out, broken-bat infield single by Mike Walker, who took second on Justin Turner's errant underhand flip to first. Tim Kennelly then singled to right field, but Puig easily threw out Walker at the plate to end the inning. Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. __
Start time of the first game has me feeling old. I read somewhere how late one has to stay up to see game 1, I'm thinking about how early I would have to get up.
