Dodgers at Mets, 5:00 PM PT, TV: ESPN
If the Dodgers win they’ll sweep the season series with the Metropolitans.
A win on Sunday would also give the Dodgers their first sweep in New York since July 20-22, 2012, and would give them their first season sweep of the Mets ever. The Dodgers took five of six games from New York in 1981, 2009, and 2013, and won 16 of 18 in 1962 and 1963, but have never dropped a seasonal bagel on the Big Apple.
The Dodgers send LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu (3-6, 3.83 ERA) to the mound to face LHP Steven Matz (2-4, 5.30 ERA). Ryu has been very good in his last four starts, giving up just six runs and striking out 23. He has been far better at home than on the road, however; he’s got a 4.25 ERA and opponents are hitting .295 against him in their own parks. Matz is 0-2 with a 12.21 ERA in four starts after the All-Star break.
This day in Dodgers’ history:
- 1981 The players approved a split-season format necessitated by the seven-week strike. The Yankees, A’s, Phillies, and Dodgers are declared the first-half champions and will be automatically qualified for the divisional series.
Great moments in labor-management relations: In 1908 Detroit outfielder Ty Cobb gets married, having departed the Tigers three days ago to participate in the ceremony without the team’s permission. The 21 year-old Georgia Peach’s six-day defection during a pennant race will be described by club co-owner Frank Navin as the most arrogant act he had ever heard of in baseball. (Note: The Tigers got to the World Series anyway. They lost to the Cubs, the last time the Chicago team would win a World Series until 2016.)
Lineup:
Dodgers lineup:
Taylor LF
Seager SS
Turner 3B
Bellinger 1B
Forsythe 2B
Barnes C
Hernandez CF
Puig RF
Ryu P— Eric Stephen (@truebluela) August 6, 2017
NPUT
From a Sunday recap, this seems to be missing a 5th pitch. What was/is it?
“Ryu mixed five pitches to near perfection, earning two strikeouts each via the changeup, fourseam fastball, cutter and curveball.”
Slider would be my guess. Normally the third most thrown pitch by him. But, then the math wouldn’t work, since he got only 8 Ks.
Could be no Ks on the slider but 2 each on the other 4.
Fun numbers to crunch. Alternatively, what the Dodger impact players have done and continue to do:
https://dodgers.mlblogs.com/a-25-man-plus-rosters-impact-on-a-historic-50-game-run-bb5553bb2820
We used to hear complaints that the Dodgers had no “impact players.”
Yeah. funny thing, that. Thought about it as I wrote.
Simply amazing how many impact players can be home-grown, or maybe acquired by trade. Dodgers have racked up both ways.
About the time FAZ took over, I remember reading that Friedman is rarely wrong about a player. Looking like that’s been borne out.
This FO will miss on a few. All FOs do. But FAZ has been and will be right way more often than not.
Howie Rose is the Mets’ radio guy. He was annoyed with ESPN’s slow pace of getting the game started yesterday.
Ex-Met 1b Ike Davis is now pitching for the Dodgers’ AZL team. Actually, he’s thrown one inning in one game and struck out the side.
He’s spent most of the year at AAA and is now rehabbing. It may just be opportunistic.
Eric Stephen at True Blue LA:
Man, when you read it in print like that, it’s even more unbelievable than hearing it on the tube or the radio.
How Turner became a Dodgers (from the Mutts’ perspective): https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/sports/baseball/los-angeles-dodgers-star-justin-turner.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fsports&action=click&contentCollection=sports®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=4&pgtype=sectionfront
In other news, both Don Baylor and Darren Daulton have died.
Gleaned from TBLA… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/665f4b077c89a0b4988dbddabe1b7c8e9b51eaad6814b9f02fd7a3be82a77f03.png
Ryu thinks the intra-staff competition is a good thing.
I didn’t realize that was a one-hitter!
Better that it was a clean hit, relatively early in the game. Given his injury history, I don’t think Dodger mgmt wants Ryu to go nine – unless he can do it in fewer than 100 pitches. In any event, he looked dominant last night.
Off Day Monday.
Woo-HOO!!!!
Lost connection there right at the end but glad to see that we won!
Yeehaw!
Kenley!
Can Kenley hold an eight-run lead?
Is Citi becoming Dodger Stadium East? Not only do the Dodgers own the Mets with a 7-0 season sweep, but I’ve seen some beach balls on the loose. 😉
Camera also showing lots of Dodger gear in the stands.
They were talking on ESPN that the Dodgers are drawing well on the road.
Good turnout in Atlanta.
Fine inning for the Cingrani reclamation project!
He is the new Hatcher, only use him with a big lead or deficit.
Hatch performing quite well in minor rehab. I would expect to see him again in the Bigs soon.
Likely. But wonder for how long…
Up to him.
Much younger, has had some success.
From dodgers.com–
“I think some guys in the clubhouse here think I was on that team.” — Hill, age 37, on the current 43-7 run being the best since the 1912 New York Giants
Love it! Farmer playing 3rd.
First time in the field!
Quite a story about Farmer and Wood and tattooed tributes to a friend.
Been watching while exercising but have a meeting now so may have to delay my woo-hoo if it is called upon!
Meeting on a Sunday evening?
Yeah. Only time we could do it! Glad the game started early!
Belli!!!!
Big Belli!
Bellinger!
So, is Taylor a one hit wonder? Does he start at 2b next year?
One hit? He’s had lotsa hits.
Meaning will he have a good year next year or do the sophomore fadeaway?
Not as if he is a rookie.
Who would you put in LF?
Bellinger if Gonzales is healthy.
It might interest you, Hendley, that my neighborhood brewpub serves choripan. I chose cider over beer, which I don’t care for.
Choripan!
Choripan!
I’d never heard of it till now but I want some. Look at that photo!
Dodgers are making it look too easy.
Well, they ARE playing the Mets.
Yeah, but the Mutts ain’t the Gnats…
Mets tied with Cubbies for fifth in NL in R/G, so not that terrible on the offensive side. Certainly not to the extent to downgrade performances by Maeda and Ryu.
Ryu seems totally in control.
Not that I am hoping for the game to become closer but I am wondering if Jansen might pitch today. I see he hasn’t pitched in a week.
Could happen anyway with an off day tomorrow, just to keep him sharp.
That was my thinking as well.
Turner disagreed rightly with two of those strike calls.
Bellinger had a questionable one earlier as well.
As well. Ump has some place to be.
Ryu has gotten a couple, though.
True.
I’m all in on electronically called balls and strikes
Ryu taking it up a notch in this inning.
Hasn’t forgotten how to pitch and has new pitches in his arsenal.
As I continue to catch up, I see yesterday’s game was filled with long balls. Every run scored was via the HR. Glad to see that our bats woke up late.
Just had the joyful experience at looking at the Dodgers baseball reference page for this season. Not many red lines in the last 50 games…
Puig not too happy with the K. Haven’t seen much of that sort of fishing from him this year.
I spoke too soon. Matz has maybe found his groove.
Nice Logan.
Gonzalez, Wood injury news as well as Darvish throwing lefty.
A 3 pitch mix as a lefty. He might have pitched as a lefty against the Dodgers last year.
Matz is not long for this game.
70 pitches.
How long has Kershaw been out for and when is he expected to return?
Couple weeks. No timetable but already throwing, though not off the mound.
The way they’re playing, no urgency.
They’d be silly to rush him back too soon
Kershaw beginning to like mid-summer as a time for holidays apparently. Here’s hoping it just lengths his work in the fall.
First HR I have seen for a few weeks!
Fortunately that is not true for the Dodgers and the rest of you!
It was nice to score runs the old fashion way in the first, but now back to the Power!
If I’m dreaming, I hope i never wake up
Bronchitis all gone
Coming out of his slump.
Turner says hi!
I thought after 2 steals, he have nothing left to give
My goodness.
JT!
I realize this is an old topic, but I am imagining that most here were pleased/excited by the trade for Darvish. Did anyone think they gave up too much for him?
Flipped a good prospect, but he didn’t have a clear path to the majors with the Dodgers.
Yes – I think it was good for Calhoun to end up in the AL.
Calhoun’s ready offensively, but has no position. The others are far away.
And from what I’ve read is not really good defensively anywhere, so his future might well be as a DH.
The only downside to the Darvish deal is that he’s a free agent at the end of the season. But if they win it might cause him to decide he likes it in LA.
Will be looking for mega deal, however, so not sure he would fit into plans to dip under luxury tax threshold.
Darvish being on the wrong side of 30 after this season, with stats that suggest he is declining is the only thing that would stop me from trying to grab him.
And then there is Kershaw, Hill, Stewart, Buehler, Ryu, McCarthy, Wood, Stripling, Kazmir, Maeda,
And Shohei Ohtani
Sigh…
Good point. And perhaps Urias will be back some point late next season.
Hello friends. I’m getting a rare off day and see that a Dodger game is happening at a time I can follow along with it!
Nice to see the team winning today – and this summer!
Monday morning?
Yep. 8:42am.
10.59 am here, (but I’m at work) 🙁
Yes – you are living further in the future than I am!
RKU !!!
Good inning by Ryu!
I got to the pub just in time to see the go-go Dodgers score.
Another review?
It seems he never touched the plate until he slid past it.
Good job by their catcher.
Very good but almost violated the Posey rule.
Almost.
Barnes delivers again.
Mid-August
Ha!
Upon further review, Dodgers score two.
Nice Logan! (And Justin and Belli)
Rosario missed one of those yesterday, no?
Link, were you ever in Hawai’i during the PCL years?
Me and the Islanders. I probably saw 40-50 games the summer of 1978 when I first got back to Hawai’i from Kwajalein.
When, as a kid, I was a Tacoma Giants fan, we heard radio re-creations that started at 11 p.m. Pacific time. One time I was stunned, after falling asleep early, to learn that Tacoma scored 11 runs in the ninth to beat the Islanders 11-8.
I recall many of the PCL players you mention, most notably Carlos Bernier, who had a reputation as a bad guy. I also saw Bo Belinsky pitch for the Islanders in Tacoma.
That’s both interesting and sad.
Fillies rally to smash the Rox in the ninth, while Gnats are leading the Snakes. Dodgers could gain ground on both.
That said, with this big lead, it’s hard to care that much about what other teams are doing.
Watch the Nats and the Cubbies.
It wouldn’t bother me if the Cachorros failed to win their division, but the Cerveceros are getting some great pitching lately.
Ryu is 2-0 with a 2.16 ERA and 23 Ks in 25 IP in 4 lifetime starts v the Mets.
IIRC he tends to rise to the occasion, topping StL in playoffs one year for one example. For another, In his last out v Bumgarner, he matched pitching lines exactly… 7 5 0 0 1 7 on 14 less pitches. Especially in light of battling back from shoulder and other injuries, would love to see him have an overpowering pitch to combine with his psychological and mental game …but didn’t happen. Could be among the best if he did have one.
You never know with this FO, but they probably won’t re-sign Ryu with all the rising young starters and his increasing age and high mileage. But he’s trending up recently and may make their decision a tough one. His first couple years in LA he pitched more like a #2 than a 4 or 5.
I’ve always liked Ryu, and his comeback is admirable even if he’s not what he once was – the Gnats have a poor offense and he benefited from multiple timely DPs, including Quique’s great throw to the plate.
One might say that his approach might be more sustainable as he ages, i, e. doesn’t have an overpowering pitch to lose. Not sure about high mileage, though. At least with the Dodgers has only average about 100 innings per year over four. He does have another year left, no?
Had the impression he pitched tons of innings in Korea. ??
Yep. From age 19 to 25 averaged about 180 innings per year in Korea.
http://ken.arneson.name/2017/08/sonny-gray-and-the-collective-bargaining-agreement/ Great read from Ken Arneson of Toaster fame. He looks at the success and failures of the A’s in relation to whether it was ahead or behind the curve to changes in the rules of the game, both on and particularly off the field
Somehow the As are going to finance their new stadium privately, they say. $3B is a lot of money to find without taxpayers’ help. I hope they’re right, because the Coliseum has been a horrid place for baseball for years.
So behind the curve in this regard, no? In that taxpayers in general seem a lot less willing to provide financial support than in the past.
It’s still a better place to watch a game than TPBTBNL, though.
I really would like to see a game at the Giants’ park just because the thing looks like it’s sited so beautifully.
I’ve concluded I’ll never go there again. Candlestick was far superior.
Ken lives nearby, in Alameda, though I’ve never met him. It’s Arneson, by the way – he’s a Swede.
Last time the Dodgers won the WS, their season record against the Mets was 1-10, who the beat 4-3 in the NLCS.
From TrueBlueLA: “Hyun-Jin Ryu gets the start in the series finale, his second straight start on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball. He was brilliant last weekend against the Giants, striking out seven in his seven scoreless frames.”
Somehow I hadn’t noticed he was the starter last Sunday on SNB.
That blog post also has some interesting data on how well-rested most of the Dodgers’ starters are and have been all season long.
Here’s a good way to end a potential rally in the ninth inning.