Dodgers at Astros, 4:10 PM PDT, TV: ATT Sportsnet-SW, SPNLA
Dustin May, (0-0, 2.08 ERA) makes his second start of the year for the Dodgers. He’ll face the Astros’ Cristian Javier (0-0, 0.00 ERA), who’ll make his first big league start in place of the injured Justin Verlander. We know about May; Javier was the Astros’ 2019 Minor League Pitcher of the Year. He threw a scoreless inning in relief on Saturday.
Here’s the pitching sequence from Joe Kelly to the Astros in yesterday’s game:
Today in Dodgers’ history:
- 1915 Pirates third baseman Honus Wagner reaches Robins hurler Jeff Pfeffer for a grand slam in the eighth inning, helping Pittsburgh beat Brooklyn at Forbes Field, 8-2. The inside-the-park round-tripper makes the 41 year-old infielder the oldest player ever to hit a home run with the bases full, a record which will last until 1985.
- 1996 After a mild heart attack last month, Tommy Lasorda, 68 year-old Dodger manager of twenty years, announces his retirement due to his health. The future Hall of Fame skipper, who was named the National League Manager of the Year in 1983 and ’88, led Los Angeles to four pennants and two World Series championships during his 21 seasons at the helm.
Lineup when available.
Today's #Dodgers lineup at Astros: pic.twitter.com/smnmfDyGKp
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) July 29, 2020
NPUT
More than half of the Fishes’ active roster are now positive. https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1288858219696226305?s=20
What a sweet strike three pitch.
Perfect pitch
3-2 count
How ’bout a big inning? I wanna watch the second half of “Midsomer.”
Is the first half good?
I saw the end of the game. Young Mr Santana worked pretty hard for a couple of innings there, didn’t he?
Three easy fly ball outs.
And now we need Max, Mookie and Cody to start catching fire at the plate
Maybe in the second extra inning the runner should be placed on 3rd base.
I wondered about that myself.
Why not just give both teams a run.
Almost five hours.
I didn’t think I would get to watch and comment as much as I did this game!
We needed you throughout.
Love being part of this team!
I think you fell one short of your record game comments from 2015.
Ha – you made that up! Right?
Who me? (Yes, I made that up.)
Well played!
I think it would take too much labour to actually research that.
I do know that I am closing in on 20,000 comments though!
When I tried to find how long you have been posting, and the number of times, I did notice that you were nearing the 20,000 mark. Starting with 1871, there have also been nearly 20,000 major league players.
I have no idea when I started commenting either. I do recall the old Dodger Thoughts on the Baseball Toaster site. I recall following the action but maybe not posting when Alex Cora fouled off 14 pitches in a row in his 18 pitch at bat. That was in 2004 I think.
I have posted slightly more than 8100 times, so you have me beat by plenty.
WBB is leading the field I believe with almost 22500 comments.
i had no idea but, if so, it probably includes other sites than here.
I’m at 16k plus! I am shocked.
Who me? (Yes, I made that up.)
So the Dodgers now have 10.8 wins an 5.4 losses.
What a marvelous and unexpected win in extra innings.
So very gratifying, considering the opposition.
Still not sure about the runner on 2nd shortening games though!
With apologies to RBI: Woo–HOUston!
I love it.
How about that pen!
Can you believe them?
Orel just called them “elite.”
Woo-HOO!!!!!!!
I was just going to say it is safe to look now RBI. And bring out the Woo-Hoo!
I was upstairs making my husband tell me what was happening until the HR. Then I came back downstairs.
He is a good man!
The best. Had to become a baseball fan because of me.
I like him already!
4-2 record. Lets win 3 or 4 in AZ.
4 please
Ground out a win.
Only wish there had been fans there to take it all in!
All 5 hours?
The whole series!
Sweep
Dodgers win!
We could trade a run for an out, if we wanted to, though I don’t think it’s possible.
That would be a neat trick for sure
Santana is making a living at the bottom of the zone.
Barnes blocking well I must say.
Go Santana go!
¡Oye cómo va!
Correa gets what he deserves!
Let’s go!
One out to go! Pleeeeease.
Please. Just please get 3 outs this inning.
I can’t bear this. Please get this first out.
Leaving Santana in. Strange to me.
Exactly. Why?
He’s been a starter in the minors.
But they’ve seen a lot of his pitches now.
Santana is the swingman tonight. Hopefully getting them to swing and miss.
https://twitter.com/Ned2point0/status/1288680867854917632?s=20
I beat Ned 2.0 to the punch.
The old rally killer
EdWIN Rios?
How did we not see it before?! lol
¡Poder boricua!
https://twitter.com/ericstephen/status/1288680433547268096?s=20
Who pitches the bottom of the 13th?
But first – I would gladly take another run or two.
Hernandez since Martin isn’t on the team
That think was so high as it soared it needed to be assigned a squawk.
Sweep in play
I’ll bring the brooms!
Rios es Dios!
Diosly for sure
En serio…
But now there is no one on second. Can we put another guy back on there before the next at bat?
Rios!!!!
Rios finally gets to play and he comes through.
Rios!!!!
Time for Rios’ first hit of the season.
You called it!
The Dodgers are 1-for-14 with RISP, Mookie’s 11th inning double. The Asterisks are 3-for-17.
Warm up Kelly!
Agreed.
As I live and breathe…
Dennis! Lets go!
Or just any kind of out now
Lets get a ground ball dp
Can we use the fourth out in the next inning?
When you can’t get the calls that doesn’t help matters.
Strike 3!
He wants to go home.
He could be replaced and go home for good.
Ummm, that was a strike ump.
I am not watching. Was Tucker trying to bunt with a man on second, no one out, and the game tied?
No.
I find that very strange.
I want to see Mookie throw someone out at home plate just because.
4-for-40 isn’t going to get things done.
Is that what it is? Feels even worse.
Pathetic.
What happened to all those ringing doubles in summer camp of the bat of Seager
Exactly!
Falling into gloves? Just saw that in 28 AB he has whacked 12 balls with exiting bat at +100 mph.
Not having much luck advancing the runners with nobody out.
Where are our bats???
For the third straight inning the first batter fails to move the runner up from 2nd.
Next inning we should try stealing a base or bunting just for fun!
If there is one… odds getting slimmer.
It just has a feel of a 13 inning game to me – he says hopefully…
You called it!
i was fortunate but I will take it!
In Bob’s palapa?
I fear no broom for us tonight.
Nope, they are out for the night and won’t return until the morn.
Astros seem to have a better plan for this kind of weird inning. Our lead off hitters are swinging away for a normal situation.
Alright more hits here blue!
We live for another inning. This is the first extra-going game this season that has gone more than 11 innings.
Wow!
Springer sure was looking for a fastball the entire at bat. Never got one.
Springer walks away to the dugout before the ump even called strike 3!
Springer hitting .050 for the year
Maybe he has sprung a leak.
Good one!
I was thinking about leaving Dave hanging
I was thinking about leaving Dave hanging
That probably would have been the right call.
Just for a little while though
Nothing is ever easy between these two teams.
Said Vin Scully about the LA and SF – but yes, it is push and shove all the way along.
If only Mookie’s ball had gone out…
Or if JT’s at bat had been better.
Yeah, that, too.
JT will be rethinking that at bat in bed tonight.
I hope he will be rethinking it on 2nd base in a few minutes.
The Dodger bullpen is being stretched this series.
The batter, Toro, is Quebecois-Venezuelan.
That is cool.
Apparently fluent in English, French and Spanish.
That would travel well!
Actually, he’s fluent in Canadian
i leave for 5 minutes to say goodnight to my son. I left with the bases loaded and a 2-1 lead. Things havent turned out well since then.
You still get points for saying good night to your son.
Night time prayers is still a thing.
Add one more for the Dodgers
Alexander threw an 0-2 meatball down the middle of the plate to Gurriel. Perhaps the beginning of the end tonight.
I fear you are correct.
Suspending Kelly for eight games in a 60-game season is the equivalent of suspending him 21.6 games during a 162-game season. Also, suspending a reliever for eight games is a far worse punishment than suspending a starting pitcher the same number, which usually means one missed start and perhaps pushing a second one back a few days. Meanwhile, no Astro was ever suspended, even for a single game, for cheating during the 2017 World Series. I am guessing that Kelly will appeal and his suspension will be cut to five games.
It’s outrageous.
Kelly is appealing and should get the days reduced. I am not a fan of Kelly and either is my wife but after she heard that the incident was against the Astros, she said “you go Kelly”.
He was not ejected, nor did he even get a warning.
I hope we score a ton on these guys tonight. This is absurd and makes me furious. And Dusty yelling obscenities at Joe? That wasn’t bad behavior?
Apparently Dusty drew a fine.
They are all over Scott this time.
That’s it. I’m so frustrated.
Not good. Not good at all.
I fear this game is not yet over.
I fear it is
Go Scott.
They are loud off of his bat. Muncy has my kind of speed.
Should have scored more than 1., Oh well
Meaning it was close to being a HR
Yeah.
Yeah!!! Double!!!
Okay Betts either get an extra base hit or – less good – make an out, survive the bottom of the 11th, and score from second on a single in the 12th.
The former, please.
You called it!
Do we get bonus points for being first to get the runner to third?
I prefer Will Smith to Austin Barnes. How about you guys?
Yes
Yes, but he can’t play every day (though he should get the bulk of playing time).
I think it is supposed to be a 3/2 split on games with Smith getting the 3 games.
Rats.
I wonder what the longest minor league game with this crazy rule is?
So – how does it help to have a runner on second?
Increases the probability of a run being scored.
For both teams though right? So doesn’t it keep it just as likely that it will go to 11 or 12 etc as with no ghost runner? I don’t get the math/logic on how it ends it more quickly.
If you don’t get it, no one does
I would have only said that to you! You are the guru on these things I think and I trust your math etc.
Ha! You are the math guy around here. I think that they are trying to increase the odds that anyone scores a run.
I guess I begrudgingly agree to that. The 3 on 3 hockey is an apt analogy.
Went looking for the math, but can’t find it, which surprises me. What they do show is results, which indeed show a shortening of games with the rule.
Thanks for checking.
Makes it easier for the home team I should think if they blank the visitors in the top half. Now a bunt and a sac fly can win it for you.
Wow!
Terrific job by Alexander!
This thing goes to 11!
Nigel Tufnel leads off…
Good start.
Hope they have a good set of signs working.
Somebody has to like the runner at second so I guess I will volunteer.
This extra inning solution is just plain silly.
It’s shameful.
I am definitely not a fan either.
Ridiculous. I have to remind myself that any baseball right now is a gift, one that likely will not last very long.
Flail flail flail. Okay, deep breath. I’ll stop.
We look TERRIBLE at the plate.
I would rather see Joc getting his fourth at bat coming up next against a righty than Kike’. Will we see Rios finally?
That was unlucky.
Seager hit it hard and once again, right at them.
So if the Dodgers score, we can send in Kelly for the win?
Let’s do it!
Ha!
Kenley!
Lots of pitches for Jansen. Not liking his chances of pitching a second inning tonight.
Kelly is available, right?
That would be great for him to get the win! Lol
Fudge. Sundae.
So it would be JT on second if it goes to the 10th. Do they swap in Gore?
Gore already put in for AJ in previous inning.
Oh, Leave it to the new guy to not know what is going on.
I am dying here, Dave. I need help in coping, and we are only at six games.
Does it help knowing we are 10% through the season?
Nyet.
I understand that by the time they get home from the road the season will be about a quarter over.
But each one is worth 2.7!
I think it is hard because the Dodgers have faced SF and then Houston – the 2 biggest villains right now.
I hate these calls. He was giving those close ones to their rookie.
One more.
For now…
C’mon Kenley.
Just so frustrating, and Kenley not getting the close calls.
Tight game apparently.
Dodgers keep getting their flags yanked out of their belts.
How was your son’s game?
Lost 26-6 but then won 50-13. Love the other parents on his team and the coaches are awesome.
Doubleheader in handegg?
Yeah – the schedule is mostly set up to play 2 games a night. Games are 1 hour each so it works.
My stomach agrees.
Put it in play Austin!
Ugh.
How ’bout stealing home?
Heck at this point I was hoping that even AJ might try it.
AJ doubles our pleasure.
Not quite – it wasn’t another dinger.
Our bats seriously need to wake up…
We have bats in our palapa that we wake up every morning with a broom (just to scare them).
Can we borrow a few?
Can we borrow your broom and wake up our bats?
And, sweep the nastros.
We’re making Javier look like Koufax.
In fairness, he looks like a true talent.
Nice play, JT.
Saved by McGee.
80 pitches in in 3 1/3 innings made it feel like the Astros were always up. Dodgers haven’t gotten through the lineup twice yet and we are 80 minutes into the game.
Mayday
Ha!
Uh, ump?
DP would be nice.
Okay JT. Get something going here.
I sure wouldn’t mind saying buhbye to Javier…
Is May on a pitch count?
Undoubtedly, probably around 75 (unless he gets in trouble again).
Thanks.
Orel just said 80-85, unless he gets in trouble.
And he did. I still think May has the highest upside of any young starter.
Hopefully his arm tires?
His pitch count is pretty low, but he’s probably on a short leash anyway.
Javier dealing out Ks, unfortunately.
He appears to have great stuff.
He does. Great control as well. Painting.
Very aggressive and confident.
Straw, man is he fast. May probably doesn’t get over there in time in any event.
Still, he’s gotta get over there.
Not disputing the correct process, just highlighting the probable result.
Let’s go Corey!
Corey!!!!
https://twitter.com/DarthOskie/status/1288610450335125505?s=20
Maybe it will be May and not Buehler that string together many opening day starts.
Winning will be the best revenge. Muncy needs to find his swing again. He looked bad there.
Muncy made Javier look good.
Perfect night tonight in Winnipeg for watching my sons flag football games. So I won’t be too focused on Dodgers – Gastros.
Good excuse. Enjoy.
The Asterisks are the cheaters, but… https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1288581253873242115?s=20