Nationals at Dodgers, 7:10 PM PT, TV: SPNLA, MASN 2
RHP Max Scherzer (6-1, 2.56 ERA) pitches for the Nats and Brandon McCarthy (5-2, 3.38 ERA) for the Dodgers.
Scherzer is 2-0 with a 1.02 ERA, 24 Ks and two BBs over 17 2/3 innings in his last two outings. In his career he’s 1-2 with a 3.98 ERA and 30 strikeouts in 31 2/3 innings (five starts) at Dodger Stadium. McCarthy only went four innings in his last start due to blister problems, but he says there was no recurrence of it during a long bullpen session Sunday.
Will the Dodgers add to their rotation and bullpen at the deadline?
This day in Dodgers history:
- 1944 Baseball cancels today’s scheduled eight-game slate due to the Allied invasion of Normandy known as D-Day. The military operation has 60,000 Allied troops, including six minor leaguers who will be killed in action, landing along a heavily protected 50-mile stretch of the coastline in France to fight Germany to begin an offensive assault against Hitler and the Nazi party.
- 1957 After an 86-minute delay, the first fog out in major league history occurs at Ebbets Field when the umpires call off the Dodgers’ game against the Cubs due to extremely poor visibility. Brooklyn has a 1-0 lead when the game is postponed with one out in the bottom of the second inning.
- 1968 The day after Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles, Maury Wills refuses to play in a 4-2 loss to the Dodgers, his former team. The 35 year-old shortstop stays in the Chavez Ravine training room, reading RFK’s book, To Seek a New World.
- 1994 Mike Piazza hits the longest home run recorded in the history of Joe Robbie Stadium when his first career grand slam is estimated to travel 477 feet. The catcher’s Ruthian blast, one of four Dodger round-trippers during the Florida contest, isn’t enough to thwart the Marlins’ 11-10 come-from-behind victory.
- 2006 When Eric Gagne, who will earn his first save in over a year, throws his first pitch to his receiver Russell Martin, the pair become the first All-French-Canadian battery in major league history. The pitcher and catcher both attended Polyvalente Edouard Montpetit High School, one of the few schools in Montreal which had a baseball program.
- 2006 On the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year of the century, the Dodgers score six runs in the sixth inning during the sixth game of the homestand, beating the Mets, 8-5. On 05/05/05, the Twins scored five times in the fifth inning en route to a 9-0 victory over the Indians.
Lineup when available.
Tonight's Dodger lineup vs. Nationals:
Utley 2B
Seager SS
Grandal C
González 1B
Bellinger LF
Taylor CF
Forsythe 3B
Puig RF
McCarthy P pic.twitter.com/f1hLdFzHv3— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) June 6, 2017
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Rats. One-run losses. Wasted a good McCarthy performance, it looks like.
He was really really good.
Was there an incident after the game ended? Not watching or listening.
Glover gestured and stared Puig down so Puig approached and then the benches semi-emptied before the umps broke it up.
Got it. Thanks.
RBI and WinnipegDave: Enjoyed chatting with you.
Me, too.
Well night all. Here’s hoping Kersh can right the ship tomorrow.
vs. Strasburg.
Gotta pitch a shutout and play for the tie.
Glover being a jerk.
Try to channel BadGums. He should go do a wheelie on his dirtbike.
4-2. 2-1. What’s next, 1-half?
Ha.
Ha!
Ha Ha
What’s Glover’s problem?
Time to send Pederson and/or Puig packing. Enough is enough.
I feel like Puig has been doing better.
Actually, he has, but I am feeling disillusioned, disgusted and “distempered.”
Forsythe is the one annoying me tonight.
Joc gets beat on whether he is in the lineup or not. What, is he having a bad DL?
And then a bad one.
Really bad.
Ugh.
Two good takes by Puig.
Tonight we have brought you “Logan’s Zeroes.”
Pleeeease, Forsythe?
I say Puig drives in a run this inning.
Ain’t gonna be Logan.
He just missed getting a hit.
Wait, what? A hit?
I may never get over my Hatcher dread, even though he got the out.
Hatcher? That’s like adding ignominy to insomnia.
Ha!
I needed this laugh.
Dayton seemed to take a lot longer to pitch than Baezzzzz.
That is very good.
Thanks. I’m feeling sleepy so the zzz’s came to mind.
I believe that’s the game’s first hit since the 4th inning, but I could be wrong.
Max Scherzer is Max Scherzer, but Oliver Perez?
Four.
In reference to?
Outs left to work with I think. Of course it’s down to 3 now.
I ran out of steam.
So – you are no longer angry then?
Overcome by torpor.
Ugh. Five more outs to do something.
At what point will our offense decide to show up?
When JT (and possibly Joc) return?
Missing JT’s fire for sure.
Yes re the former, no re the latter, me thinks.
Houston is human after all. They were up 7-1 but lost 9-7 to end their 11 game winning streak.
Torpor: a state of physical or mental inactivity, lethargy, sluggishness, inertia, lifelessness, listlessness, languor, lassitude, sloth, acedia. “The feeling of torpor in the Dodgers’ bats lingered for days.”
Suggested nickname for Báez: “Full-Count.”
If MLB wanted to speed up the games it would ban Baez for life.
Scherzer’s pitched extremely well, but he’s also benefited from a generous strike zone.
Especially later in the game.
Really strong outing by McCarthy. Kept the Dodgers in this game.
He pitched his heart out. Very good to see.
Dodgers need to hang on again until the bullpen comes into play.
Since returning from the DL, Forsythe is 4-for-41 (including tonight, thus far), dropping his average from .295 to .200.
Didn’t get my wish tonight.
So far, Trea Turner’s speed is the difference.
Solid out for Taylor, at least.
Two of those Cody strikes were balls. He doesn’t need your help, ump!
A fly out at least is not a strikeout.
Save us Chase Utley.
I’m begging you, Chase.
I hope our guys are noticing how productive many of these Nats outs are. Moving the runner over. What a concept.
Nothing Taylor could do but flail.
Well, Scherzer is unlikely to fan 27 tonight (although he could get four Ks in an inning).
There you have it. He’s back on course to fan 27 with four in the third inning.
Ha! That’s wild.
KKK KKK but tied at 1
No politics, please…
Snort!
Scherzer schooling the youngsters.
Too lazy to look it up, but I seem to recall Dodgers have done pretty well v. Scherzer.
He’s dealing tonight.
Blink, and they’ve scored. Jeeze.
Today I wish that Forsythe remembers how to hit.
I hope that our bats show up, but it will be a tough row against Scherzer.
Over the past week the offense has been ranked last in the NL in OPS. Pitching, however, ranked at fourth best in OPS against.
It has been the Dodgers story of at least the last 5 years or so, generally very good at pitching, generally not so good at batting
That is not actually the case. Using OPS+ and ERA+, starting in 2013, for batting Dodgers have been ranked 1,1, 1, 7 and currently 4. Pitching ranked 3,4,6, 5 and currently 2.
Ya hay alineación… https://twitter.com/LosDodgers/status/872226649592528896