Dodgers at Phillies, 4:05 PM PDT, TV: NBCSP, SPNLA
Dodgers’ RHP Kenta Maeda (7-6, 3.82 ERA) takes the mound for the third game of this four-game series. He’ll face the Phillies’ RHP Nick Pivetta (4-4, 5.81 ERA). In his last start Maeda went 5 2/3 innings, giving up four hits and three runs. Unfortunately, two of those hits were solo home runs and the Dodgers only got one run themselves, so Maeda took the loss to the Red Sox. Pivetta gave up three runs in five innings to the Nats in his last start, and he’s got a 6.99 ERA in his last five starts.
Here’s Beaty’s three-run PH home run in the 9th in Tuesday’s game. Listen all the way through and you’ll hear Hershiser say what we all thought: “It’s probably a game-winner.” Oh well.
Today in Dodgers’ history:
- 1954 With Jim Gilliam (2b), Jackie Robinson (3b), Sandy Amoros (lf), Roy Campanella (c), and Don Newcombe (p) in the starting lineup against the Braves, the Dodgers field the first team which consists of a majority of black players. The historic five helps Brooklyn to beat Milwaukee at County Stadium, 2-1.
- 1964 In Los Angeles, the Chavez Ravine contest becomes the first Pay-TV baseball game as Subscription Television offers the cablecast to subscribers for a fee. The Dodgers beat Chicago, 3-2, with Don Drysdale collecting 10 strikeouts.
- 1976 Walter Alston becomes the sixth skipper to win 2,000 games when the Dodgers overcome a four-run first inning deficit and beat Chicago at Chavez Ravine, 5-4. ‘Smokey’ will leave at the end of the season, finishing his 23-year tenure in his only managerial position in the majors with a 2,040-1,613 record (.558).
Lineup when available.
Today’s Dodger lineup at Phillies:
Pederson LF
Muncy 3B
Freese 1B
Bellinger RF
Pollock CF
Seager SS
Hernández 2B
Martin C
Maeda P#Dodgers | @Biofreeze pic.twitter.com/AIgFbDavqZ— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) July 17, 2019
Dodgers now 14 ahead of Snakes, 16 ahead of Gnats, 16-1/2 ahead of Pads and 17 ahead of last-place Rox. They are 5-1/2 ahead of Barves for NL’s best record, and and 1-1/2 ahead of Yanquis for MLB best.
How many hours until the second game of this double header? Lol
Okay, Floro. That’s enough of that.
Really. Weak hitter just called up from minors.
Yeah.
NPUT @ 0400 HST, 0700 PDT, 1000 EDT
Dodgers win!
Dodgers win!
Woo-HOO!!!!
One. More. Out. pleeeeease?
At least it’s still a reasonable hour on the Pacific Coast.
At least it’s still a reasonable hour on the Pacific Coast.
Our team looks exhausted.
Orel and Joe are amazing. They just keep on keeping on.
Tim and Rick are not a bad combo either. Well – mostly Tim.
Steiner is missed – at every opportunity.
Rim shot.
Orel talking about Indocin. That’s an NSAID that I was prescribed for gout way back in 1983. Still use it once in a while if I start to feel a twinge of that condition.
Joining in the fun late. But I like our chances. The offence has been hawt the last several games.
Hey, Dave. Company!
I’m back, after a brief departure to pick up my wife at BART.
I wondered…
JT!!!!!
Freese!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHo43B6nu60
Good one! Glad you are hanging in here with me.
Missed JT’s dinger because I had to pick up my wife at BART.
Onward. Could have been better, or a lot worse.
How could he call that a strike and not Urias’s?
Back to even. What a weird series this has been.
Had Báez not deflected, probably a DP.
That was a strike, ump. Your bad…
Thunder and lightning requires some Eddie Floyd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkF4K2xuSF4
Likely to be Julito’s last inning, whatever the result.
Verdugo has oWAR 2.1, same as Harper, but with about 100 PA fewer. (Oh, wait, Bryce at only 1.4!)
$$/WAR different as well
Overall Alex at 3.3, Bryce at 1.6.
The Gnats tried to trade BadGums last month. https://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/San-Francisco-Giants-trade-Bumgarner-month-ago-14103968.php
https://twitter.com/TommyBirch/status/1151685737554706432?s=20
Bad news…
It doesn’t sound good, but we’ll have to withhold judgement until we learn more.
Urias for the six inning save.
At this rate, he could certainly go six. Terrific tag by Seager.
We have baseball again!
https://twitter.com/adburgosjr/status/1151677630464307201?s=20
If needed, who will close tonight?
Thought I saw something where Doc spoke of Kelly or Urias.
Thanks. I would think Urias, but Kelly has pitched well recently.
May need Julio to eat some innings, as Kenta usually doesn’t go past the sixth even on a normal night.
Here’s a good profile in the Boston Globe of Dennis Eckersley, Gibson’s victim in 1988.
A game is considered to be a regulation game (also called an “official game”) if 4½ innings have been played and the home team is leading, or if 5 innings have been played.
If a rainout prevents the completion of a game that has become a regulation game, the result stands, and the remaining portion of the game is not played.
If the game is not yet a regulation game, it is considered not to have started; all statistics are wiped out and the game is replayed in its entirety.
If the game is a regulation game but the score is tied when called, or if the visiting team has taken the lead in its last-half inning at bat and the home team has not had a chance to complete its own turn at bat, the game is a suspended game and is resumed at a later date.
If a suspended game cannot be resumed because of the end of the season, the result is allowed to stand, either as a tie or as a win for the visiting team.
Productive-out ball in the first inning.
https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/51637/rubbing-mud-what-should-the-dodgers-do/ This may be behind a wall, but interesting perspective that FO might be looking for something bigger and to restock rather than to just trying to fill a short-term need in the pen with the Pads in their rear view mirror.
It is behind a wall. What one thing did the article say that surprised you the most?
Talk about a reload beyond the pen, noting that Klayton, Jansen, Turner and Hill are past their prime, such that they could be in the market for SP and position players as well and might go ahead and use the higher prospects to get the job done.
I would add that Ryu will be a FA as well.
Game starts at midnight here, so will get to partake a bit.