Game 76, 2016

Dodgers at Pirates, 4:15PM PT, TV: Fox

Kenta Maeda makes his first trip to PNC Park. He carries a 6-4, 2.64 ERA record with him and for now appears to be the #2 guy in the Dodgers’ rotation, at least in terms of reliability. He’ll face the Pirates’ Jeff Locke, who’s 6-5 with a 5.44 ERA. His latest outing was a 6 2/3 inning one in which he outdueled Madison Bumgarner with help from the bullpen and won 1-0.

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Dodgers left-handed reliever and native Pennsylvanian Adam Liberatore is having an off-the-radar phenomenal season. In 24 innings over 32 games, he has a 0.75 ERA, second lowest among National League qualifiers, and he didn’t even open the season in the big leagues.

Tepesch DFA’ed, IF Chris Taylor up.

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17 thoughts on “Game 76, 2016

  1. So far on the road trip our six-game winning streak has been broken and turned into a two-game losing streak to a team which was five games under .500 when we arrived.

  2. Why would a pitcher ever bother to throw a strike to Hernandez with two strikes? He swings at virtually anything at that point just as he did in his AB here in the 8th.

    • Quique needs a breather at OKC, and I expect the acquisition of Chris Taylor will give it to him.

      • Maeda pulled off his bunt at the very last second. Ellis had a great view and with his lack of speed had to be ready to run.