Dodgers at Padres, 7:10 PM PDT, TV: FSSD, SPNLA
RHP Dustin May (1-2, 4.26 ERA) makes his third start for the Dodgers in his ongoing audition for the post-season roster. He’ll face LHP Eric Lauer (6-8, 4.47 ERA), who’s made six starts against the Dodgers in his two-year career and has four wins, no losses and a 1.72 ERA to show for them.
The Dodgers’ only offensive highlight of yesterday’s game was Joc Pederson’s leadoff HR in the bottom of the first inning:
Today in Dodgers’ history:
- 1939 At Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field, NBC televises the first major league game in history on experimental station W2XBS, covering a doubleheader split in which the Reds win the first game, 5-2, and the Dodgers take the nightcap, 6-1. The network employs two cameras, one behind home plate, showing a wide view of the field, and the other on the third base line to capture the plays at first base.
- 1947 Dan Bankhead becomes the major league’s first black pitcher. The 27 year-old right-hander doesn’t do well in a relief stint, giving up ten hits and six runs in 3.1 innings in a 16-3 loss to the Pirates, but the Dodger rookie hits his only big league home run in his first major league at-bat.
- 1965 At Shea Stadium, the Mets beat the Dodgers, 5-2, making Tug McGraw (2-2) the first Mets pitcher to defeat Sandy Koufax (21-7). Previously, New York had lost 13 consecutive times to the future Hall of Fame southpaw.
- 1993 The Mets announce that Vince Coleman will remain on paid administrative leave until the end of the season, effectively ending his playing career with the team. Co-owner Fred Wilpon’s unequivocal decision that the controversial outfielder, who signed a four-year $11.95 million contract before the 1991 season, will not ever put on a Mets uniform again is the result of Coleman admitting to tossing a M-100 firecracker from a Jeep departing from a Dodger Stadium parking lot last month, injuring three people.
Lineup:
Tonight’s Dodger lineup at Padres:
Pollock CF
Muncy 2B
Turner 3B
Bellinger 1B
Seager SS
Smith C
Taylor LF
Hernández RF
May P#Dodgers | @Biofreeze pic.twitter.com/dz6OpdreLw— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 26, 2019
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Tuesday Topics – Well, Dodgers still have MLB’s best record, but it’s a tie with Yanquis. Minute Maids are 1/2 game behind. For best in NL, Dodgers remain six ahead of Barves.
In the division, Snakes (19.5 behind) have overtaken Gnats (down 20). Pads are at 23.5 and Rox at 26.5. Yesterday’s best news is that the magic number is down to 11, over both Snakes and Gnats. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/48c9881811f892d1d24b6a8fcbe3ae818bfcf9c726316279f4c7d02bf2fa0348.png
If ever there was a time for Cody to hit #43…
One bad play in one bad inning was all she wrote.
On the bright side, the Gnats are about to lose, so the magic number will drop to 11.
Maybe not our most painful loss but quite possibly the most stupid.
In a way we’ve been due a slump. Doesn’t mean I have to like it.
Joc should get us a decent prospect this winter. I am tired of him and his 0-2.counts.
It’s worth noting that Joc also gets a lot of ball four counts.
14% of his ABs become walks — 284 career walks in 1955 career ABs.
Walks are not ABs.
Why are change ups fooling us so badly?
Yesterday we lost to German, but we just took care of France. (Trying to lighten things up in advance of our big 9th inning rally.)
Very fine outing by Yimi.
SD fans don’t have to chant Beat LA. The Dodgers are doing it to themselves.
Good grief. Two pitches and two outs.
Ridiculous.
Four pitches and three outs.
Not an immaculate inning but basically an impeccable inning for the Padres.
Everyone swinging happy but not well.
Let’s hope this doesn’t become our sixth straight game with fewer than four runs and fewer than seven hits.
I think they will get the 7 hits no problem.
Missing Verdugo these days of low scoring Dodger games.
Cody has lost his mojo.
Sad but true. He could be below .300 in a few games. I say give him a day or two off or drop him down in the lineup.
Nah. Let’s just DFA him. (jk)
A day off would be good.
That was a snake bit baseball moment there. I can’t even figure out what happened!
So unfortunate.
Un bloody believable.
Poor May. Sheesh. Two bleeders one hit and a ridiculous play.
What happened? (Neither eyes nor ears.)
Terrible play by Turner, failing to catch Pollock’s lob throw and letting it go into the dugout, letting one runner score and putting the lead run on third.
Gee whiz, Dodgers.
Not quite as bad as this play against SD. Except that the Dodgers had a much bigger lead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLWdFeefFIA
Right through the wickets.
And unfortunately May didn’t back up third like he should have.
I watched the replay this morning and the throw should have been able to be cut off and it went over the shortstop’s head and landed too close to Turner’s feet for him to get a read on the hop. It looked like a hard thrown ball to me and not a lob. Pollock deserved the error all the way. May should have backed up third but if the ball was thrown where it could have been cutoff then the third baseman would have been the guy backing up the throw.
May’s struggling a bit now.
I hope they bring Lauer back for the seventh as well. I mean he is only at 110 pitches. Not that long a go 120 was the norm.
That was a moon shot, Kiké!
The A’s scored in 8 straight innings from the 2nd to the 9th and ended up squeaking out a 19-4 victory over the Royals.
Has a team ever scored in all nine innings or all eight in a home game?
It is very rare but yes. I think it happened in Colorado at least once – which would not be too surprising.
I wonder whether any team has ever scored in more than nine innings.
That would be one crazy extra inning game.
In theory, it could an infinite number of innings.
Yep. This 84 hour “game” happened in Canada this week. https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/marathon-baseball-game-unofficially-breaks-world-record-organizers-1.4564774
But what was the score?
$460,000 to many.
An even better question.
It has happened several handfuls of times in MLB history since 1889.
Scroll to the bottom of the page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_runs_records
You get Homer Bailey 19 runs, and he can be tough (full credit to the late great Gnatcaster Hank Greenwald (who also worked for Oakland for some years).
A great announcer.
He and Lon Simmons were great humorists. Hank was at his best when the Gnats were really bad.
Aren’t we all?
Hank made Gnatcasts worth listening to.
Arizona currently leading SF.
If this is not the last inning for Lauer I will eat my proverbial hat.Well, my hat is not proverbial but my eating it would be.
Chomp chomp.
Yep. All game long they had talked about how SD really measured his pitch count each start. Tonight they threw it all to the wind.
Glad they did leave him in!
I swear that Seager goes up there like he is double parked.
That’s what Vinny used to say about Bob Gibson when he pitched against the Dodgers.
Well if it was always Gibson vs Seager, whole games would be about 15 minutes long.
I leave the room for less than a minute and I miss all the action,
One hit. One run. So unfortuante
Fine catch by Pollock. who hasn’t looked that good in the OF lately.
Well at least Pollock can still field brilliantly.
He’s not been good on balls hit in front of him lately.
https://twitter.com/TheStevenWeber/status/1166188627551903744?s=20
May with the mighty infield single.
Smith might be regressing a bit. Which was to be expected for sure.
Seager doing 2 very Seager-y things: hitting a double on the first pitch of his at bat.
Dodgers not pulling away yet but it feels like the offense could explode at some point tonight.
JT!
May’s pitches have great movement.
Waste not, want not.
About all you can say is they’ve gotten Lauer – a recent nemesis – to throw lotsa pitches.
I didn’t like TJ Simers’ columns very often, but his forced departure from the LA Times was so egregious that a jury has just awarded him $15.45M in non-economic damages in an age and disability discrimination lawsuit for his termination in 2013 (good grief, six years ago !).
Justice moves slowly apparently.
I wonder what non-economic damages are? And if you get $15.45M for non-economic imagine how much he would have been gotten if he had been awarded economic damages…
https://twitter.com/truebluela/status/1166177381033230337?s=20
Inauspicious beginning.
On the field, today’s starting off better than yesterday. The last-place Rox walked off v. the Barves so, by winning tonight, Dodgers can go up by seven for best in NL.