Diamondbacks at Dodgers, 1:10 PM PDT, TV: FS-A, MLBN (out-of-market only), SPNLA
RHP Mike Leake (9-8, 4.24 ERA) pitches for the D-Backs in the rubber game of this series against LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu (11-2, 1.53 ERA) of the Dodgers. Ryu is freshly off the injured list while Leake is starting his second game for the D-Backs after coming over from the Mariners in a trade for INF Jose Caballero. Leake went 5 1/3 innings in his first start NL start in several years, giving up 11 hits and walking one but allowing the Phillies just three runs, only two of them earned. Ryu’s last start was July 31 when he shut out the Rockies for six innings. He didn’t get the win because the Dodgers were shut out until the ninth when Will Smith hit a three-run HR and Khristopher Negron followed with a two-run blast of his own to win the game.
Muncy opens the scoring in Saturday’s game with a solo blast to center field:
This day in Dodgers’ history:
- 1940 Bees hurler Nick Strincevich completes an unusual 1-1 unassisted twin killing when he doubles up Joe Vosmik, the runner trying to score on attempted squeeze play signaled by Dodger skipper Leo Durocher. The Boston southpaw catches Vito Tamulis’ bunt in the air and continues running until he steps on third base, completing the double play to end the top of the seventh inning in the team’s 3-0 loss to Brooklyn at Braves Field.
- 1946 Sweeping a doubleheader, the Phillies end the Dodgers’ 18-game winning streak, a major league record, in Philadelphia. The Dodgers hadn’t lost in the City of Brotherly Love since May 5, 1945.
- 1950 Vern Bickford, throwing just 97 pitches, no-hits the Dodgers at Braves’ Field, 7-0. The 29 year-old right-hander hurls the first hitless game for Boston since Jim Tobin accomplished the feat, also against Brooklyn, on April 27, 1944.
- 1951 WCBS-TV televises the first baseball game broadcast in color, a Braves’ 8-1 victory over the hometown Dodgers in the first game of a twin bill at Ebbets Field. Brooklyn’s announcers Red Barber and Connie Desmond provide the play-by-play commentary.
- 1969 Don Drysdale announces his retirement. The last Dodger to have played in Brooklyn, Drysdale will be elected to the Hall of Fame in 1984.
- 2015 The Blue Jays, Rays, Marlins, Mets, Indians, Cubs, Royals, White Sox, Twins, Cardinals, Diamondbacks, Mariners, Padres, Dodgers, and Giants all win, making it the first time in the live ball era that every contest is won by the home team in a full slate of games. The unique occurrence became a reality when the two last games to finish end in extra innings, with the host clubs enjoying a walk-off victory.
- 2020 For the first time in over a century, games are played at three different New York major league ballparks when the Toronto Blue Jays face the Marlins at Buffalo’s Sahlen Field, joining contests at Shea Stadium and Yankee Stadium. The last time this happened in the Empire State occurred on September 8, 1915, with the Polo Grounds (Yankees), Ebbets Field (Dodgers), and Federal League Park (Buffalo Blues) hosting big-league teams.
Lineup when available.
Today’s Dodger lineup vs. D-backs:
Pederson RF
Muncy 2B
Turner 3B
Bellinger 1B
Seager SS
Smith C
Beaty LF
Negrón CF
Ryu P#Dodgers | @Biofreeze pic.twitter.com/lq4NF9b47v— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 11, 2019
NPUT
In the long run, Buehler’s off day worked in his favor. https://twitter.com/THEREAL_DV/status/1161310467308044290?s=20
Heh.
“He has a burning desire to be great,” says Dodgers president Andrew Friedman, “in large part to back up the amount of trash he talks.”
Tuesday topics – Yesterday was a quiet day in baseball, and the Snakes gained half a game to trail by 18.5. The idle Gnats still trail by 19.5, while the losing Pads and Rox fall to 23 and 25.5 behind, respectively. For best in NL, the idle Barves remain nine behind the Dodgers.
On the downside, the Yanquis swept the Orangebirds and are now tied with the Dodgers for best in baseball. The Minute Maids remain one full game behind, and play a doubleheader with the Chisox today.
Fun story. https://twitter.com/jphoornstra/status/1161117935441780742?s=20
Monday morning observations – Order restored throughout baseball. Dodgers lead Snakes by 19, Gnats by 19.5, Pads by 22.5 and Rox by 25. The magic number is now 25.
For best in NL, they remain nine games up on the Barves. In all of baseball, they are one full game up on both the Minute Maids and the Yanquis, though NY could pull into a tie by sweeping the Orangebirds in a doubleheader today. Dodgers and Minute Maids are idle.
Meanwhile, anyone complaining about Kenley should take a look at what the Minute Maids’ closer did against Baltimore yesterday.
https://twitter.com/BlakeHarrisTBLA/status/1160999880392769536?s=20
He’s very efficient at giving up runs. When he puts a batter on, that guy usually scores. WHIP doesn’t measure the kind of hits given up. Yimi has allowed 30 hits, 21 for extra bases (12 homers, 8 doubles, and a triple) in 46.2 innings. He is by far the leader in home runs given up by the bullpen (Kenley is second with 7, which is, of course, another problem). Kenta, Walker, and Kersh have given up more, but in way more innings. Ryu has only given up 10.
I think that was the point.
Stats without context can be misleading. There are three kinds of liars – liars, dang liars, and statisticians.
Are you suffering from irony deficiency?
I have been feeling a little rusty.
Perfect game… for umpires?! Something I had certainly never thought about before. https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2019/8/9/20798375/umpire-perfect-game-accurate-robo-umps?stream=top
Muncy, Negron and Beaty are the only starters without two hits.
Rios at one for one doesn’t either–the slouch.
Yimi giving up a single is quite something. He only gives up 5.5 hits per 9. Of the 30 hits against him, 12 have been dingers.
Drat, there went the shutout. Would have been number 16, I think.
Correction: would have been 14. Lead the Indians by one.
With Ryu we are seeing one of the greatest pitching seasons ever, so far.
There’ve been better W-L records, although not many, but combined with an ERA under 1.50? You’re right.
Best ERA+ was Pedro at 291. Ryu came into today at around 270.
SOB!
Isn’t that a Rule No. 1 violation?
Nope. An anguished cry (or maybe it was an epithet directed toward Jody Reed!).
He sneaks up on us with that calm demeanor and pin point control instead of the blazing fastball.
Well doubled up on the 4 runs I asked for off of Leake. And likely could have had double the 5 today as well.
You can’t hit Ryu. You can only hope to be hit by him, sez Tim.
Good job Joc
I think that despite not pitching today, and not even being with the club, Sadler took a big step toward being on the post-season roster.
Woo-HOO!!!
Sunday Summary – Last night marked the beginning of a return to order. Dodgers lead Snakes by 18, Gnats by 19.5, Pads by 21.5, Rox by 25. Magic number is 27. Amusingly, FanGraphs projections now give the Pads a better shot at the mild card than the Gnats. For best in NL, Dodgers are nine games up on the Barves (whose bullpen issues are far more grave than the Dodgers’; see last night’s box score for details).
For best in baseball, Dodgers are one game up on Yanquis but .003 behind Minute Maids in a virtual tie. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/422508b47f29c5323db58ed1b4b98e3919a51f8b09cb84dcf87887303ec3fc39.png
Dodgers win!
Maybe we should have put in a position player like Arizona. He only gave up one run.
Or put Chargois in as a position player rather than as a pitcher.
Quite a drop off from Ryu to this part of the bullpen.
The streaking Mets and the Nats are tied 3-3 after 2 1/2 innings today. The Nats scored all three of their runs in the top of the 1st on a three-base throwing error by Mets first baseman and presumptive rookie-of–the-year Pete Alonso with the bases loaded and two outs. I wonder where Alonso was throwing for it to be a three-base error. Trying to get the force at second?
Could (should) have been on deGrom. Alonso made a diving stop at first, then threw from one knee to deGrom covering first, and it ticked off deGrom’s glove towards the dugout. deGrom picked it up and tossed it to Wilson Ramos at home to get the third guy trying to come home (already two across at this point). Ramos just dropped it, allowing the third run to score. If he holds it, the runner is out by a mile, so there should’ve been a second error on the play on Ramos
Here’s the video. Alonso’s throw was wide of first and deGrom couldn’t reach it.
https://www.mlb.com/video/jacob-degrom-in-play-run-s-to-asdrubal-cabrera?t=most-popular
No, it hit him in the glove. The announcer even says “Off his glove.”
I’d give deGrom the error all the way.
deGrom slowed down as he was approaching first to take Alonso’s throw; had he not, I think the third out would have been recorded then and there.
Thanks.
If Tyler White wants to play in October, he will need to connect with a team in the NFL.
He is now 1-22 (as a Dodger), and 0 for his last 20. He has walked 4 times since coming over, which is half the number of walks Matt Beaty has after his two walks today (not that Beaty had a choice ion the second one).
Also, NFL teams are only looking for guys who can hit.
The article about Sadler’s demotion said that one of the reasons for it was so they can figure out if Yimi and Chargois have what it takes to make the post-season roster.
Yimi did not help himself with that hoe run then
Chargois matches Garcia effort
Yeah. I’m thinking hard pass on both.
Will Smith’s first game back with the Dodgers was July 27.
Since then, he has hit .316 (12-for-38) with 3 HRs and 14 RBIs in 12 games (10 of them as starting catcher).
Since then, Martin has hit .333 (5-for-15) with 2 HRs and 6 RBIs in 7 games (4 of them as starter).
Since being sent to OKC, Barnes has hit .308 (12-for-39) with 5 HRs and 11 RBIs in 10 games.
An embarrassment of riches!
Looks like a win for everyone involved. Though I am sure Barnes would rather be in LA right now.
Garseeya
The Angels beat the BoSox today. Believe it or not, the Halos have only three fewer wins than Boston does, and seven fewer losses.
I don’t think they’re a candidate for a Wild Card, but that shows you how far Boston has fallen in the last month or so.
So I’m thinking that a 1.45 era is pretty good in this day and age.
Almost 200% above average, so yeah.
Would have been typical in the sixties. I remember Yaz won a batting title hitting .301.
In 1968, Gibson’s 1.22 ERA was 258 ERA+. NL average was 2.99!
The Dodgers can sure cure you from being smug, but I like our chances in this game.
Ryu letting fielders help him and have fun doing it
Ryu: Man oh man – that’s some fun stuff.
Ryu is not an easy out.
Sure he is. He’s got ten sacrifices.
The only way to contain Ryu is to walk the guy in front of him.
with less than two outs
It would be interesting to see what Bellinger was doing at second for him to not score
Seeing if ball was going to get caught, I assume.
Tagged up for sure.
Leake’s ship is leaking
Justin! Justin!
Now up to Cody to go back to back x2.
Two for JT!
Could see that one coming. A two home run day for JT
It was kind of Baltimore to pick themselves up, dust themselves off and get a 8-7 come from behind win today against Houston.
“Each time I find myself layin’ flat on my face
I just pick myself up and get back in the race”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIiUqfxFttM
Only 37.5 games behind!
Just a bit of a “phew” moment there. Runners on 2nd and 3rd with 2 outs proves to be old hat for Ryu.
Ah shucks. Arizona now has more hits today than Ryu.
Funny that Ryu gets a hit to start it off – yet it turns out to be the easiest and best inning by Leake today.
Ha ha
I see what you did there!
Ryuth!
A candy bar in the making
Ryu is amazing.
Do we sacrifice him to second?
Joc got the bunt down
Get him off the basepaths.
Done
Soft contact base hit. Oh well.
Great start to this game. Let’s keep it going.
Mr. Martin, you have been awesome but, Smith rakes
Ball sailing today.
True
Joc has looked good in right field. So, it isn’t a right side of field thing.
Ryu is strolling and the Dodgers are rolling.
Beer time
Made progress with our move today. We sold a riding lawn mower, a snow blower, two chain saws, a miter saw with stand, assorted other lawn equipment. Our house is to close no later than September 6 and we will soon be driving cross country to Pacific Northwest. This will be the first time we will not already have a home picked out before we sold a home.
Priced to move, I assume.
Surprisingly, we did really well.
How are the stress levels? It’s a big task to move and bigger to move cross-country.
Stress is dropping as we make progress packing and giving things away.
For $4000 we get access to a 16 foot moving container for a month which includes the cross country move so we are picking and choosing what we want to move or can justify moving instead of replacing before we add a second container.
Sweet 2 out base hit up through the middle by Joc! Nice piece of hitting!
Liked what he saw with Martin’s 15 hopper the other day
Maeda and Ryu can both get bunts down very well, can’t they? They ought to teach classes.
Negron is pretty durned fast.
I think he is now the fastest on the team
Faster than Bellinger?
I think so
And waltzes home.
Ryu. You beautiful pitcher you.
Follows up a 15-pitch first inning with an 11-pitch second inning.
I wonder how many times the Dodgers have gone back-to-back this season.
Cody! The home runs are back!
Cody returns to the hit and homer parade!
Back-to-backers.
With both leadoff batters hit by pitches, can we expect some on-field fireworks today?
Dodgers seem to be supplying their share
The last thing we want is to have a on-field brawl that could injure one or more of our players.
Or a bean ball game
Yes. The problem is that Arizona, one of a big bunch fighting for a Wild Card spot, has far less to lose than we do looking at the post-season.
Being supplied by Turner and Belli.
On the board!
Score first, a path to victory
Justin! 2-0!
I think Joc is a close second to Turner in the unenviable HBP stat.
Turner has 12 and Joc now has 10
Turner also has another home run
Unique and interesting play made by Muncy and Seager
I’m hoping we can score 4 or 5 against Leake. He is the type of pitcher they should be able to handle.
I will check out for now, as I’m en route to Rancho Nicasio for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTh-4Ss07AE
Speaking of whom, still in the Bigs hurling for the Fillies.
Have a nice drive. That’s pretty country.
Casey Sadler was optioned to OKC to make room for Ryu.
Why Sadler? He has been excellent. Did the other right-handed relievers, not named Baez or Jansen, have no options left?
https://www.mlb.com/news/hyun-jin-ryu-activated-from-injured-list
Hopefully this helps to explain it.
WinnipegDave: Thanks for the link re Sadler’s demotion. I still question it, however.
Says Kolarek has been effective? Faced five guys and given up two hits and a walk. Hmm.
Very small sample size, and one hit was a total fluke. As a lefty, he’ll get a long look.
No doubt, small sample size so the jury is out. But to use the same sample to say that he has been “effective”!?
There’s no pool at this ballpark, but will the Dodgers take a Leake on the Snakes today?
You will go to many lengths for a good pun. Never let it be said that you are all wet.
You heard about the Welsh vegetable thief? He took a leek.
May AZ spring a leake and sink today.