Game 123, 2016

Dodgers at Reds, 10:10AM PT, TV: SPNLA, FS-O

Lefty no-longer-teenager Julio Urias (3-2, 4.41 ERA) makes a spot start for the Dodgers, allowing them to push Kenta Maeda back a day. He’ll face RHP Anthony DeSclafani (7-1, 3.10 ERA), who rolled his ankle in his last start but recovered to pitch his 10th quality start of the year.

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39 thoughts on “Game 123, 2016

    • It’s an early game, so they’ll be home by bedtime. Still, it’s weird scheduling.

  1. Woo-HOO!!! And I haven’t even watched a minute, just came on here to see when the next game was! Family wedding all wkd…

        • Link: I am a Cal grad. I hope that the Bears can play better in the football game than they did in losing to the Rainbow Warriors in the first round on the NCAA basketball tournament this year, a game in which the underdog U of Hawaii certainly outplayed Cal.

          • Considering that UH has had five consecutive losing seasons, and not of the 5-6 kind but more of the 1-11 or 3-9 kind, I think Cal’s got a pretty good shot. We had four years of the “let’s hire the big name guy” philosophy with Norm Chow and he couldn’t get it done, perhaps because he was used to getting bigger faster stronger players at BYU and his other stops on the Mainland.

          • Cal improved with Goff at QB, but he is now with the Rams and it may be back to the starting blocks this season. I am not a big fan of Cal Coach Sonny Dykes. I had season tickets last year. It is about a 2 1/2-hour drive to Berkeley. I didn’t renew this year. One often doesn’t learn the starting time of the games until perhaps a week before, and there were two night games last season, meaning that I didn’t get home until about 1 a.m.

  2. Great outing by Urias, but I am surprised that he was allowed to throw 97 pitchers. As for Reddick, I think Winnipeg Dave said it right with the “sinkhole” comment a while ago. I know Reddick has hit into some tough luck, but that doesn’t camouflage what is now a 10-for-66 performance with no homers and no RBIs in 17 games. I’d play Toles over him.

    • 6 innings for Urias. Which feels like about 8 1/3 considering how long the starters usually go. But yeah, 97 is right at the max edge for him I would imagine.
      I think he is at about 102 or 103 innings pitched this year. So he doesn’t have much more than 3 or 4 starts left for the season – if they want to keep innings at about 115 to 120.

      • The Dodgers are desperate for starting pitching so they are stretching Urias. Not a great idea.

        • It has some long term risks I suppose. And after being so carefully managed for the last 3 years, it feels like the have been all over the place with handling the plan this year.

        • We don’t actually know the innings level that the FO has in mind, but 120 innings would seem to be part of a natural progression and not stretching. They are of course desperate for starting pitching, so what they seem to be doing is changing from an approach of using him out of the pen for those those remaining innings to using him as a starter at this point.

  3. I was surprised how quick the replay of the pick off was. It seemed to me that the tag was there before Phillips got back to the bag. Anyway, glad Urias was able to focus and get Duvall to pop up.

  4. Almost got 2 runs there. But have to be happy with one. Reddick is a sinkhole wherever he is in the lineup these days.

  5. Okay, two fairly average pitchers were able to beat us, maybe we will have better luck against an ace type pitcher.