Giants at Dodgers, 6:10 PM PDT, TV: MLBN, NBCS-BA, SPNLA
RHP Johnny Cueto (0-0, 4.97 ERA) goes for the Giants; LHP Clayton Kershaw (1-0, 0.00 ERA) pitches for the Dodgers. Cueto started Opening Day against the Dodgers and went four innings while giving up one run. In his subsequent two starts he was much less effective, going 3 2/3 innings against the Padres and 5 innings against the Rockies. Kershaw’s first start of the year was delayed by back trouble but was worth waiting for: he went 5 2/3 scoreless innings against the D-Backs. In his career he’s 23-12 against the Giants.
Roberts says “Seager is day to day. He’s getting tests on his back and will likely not play tomorrow.”
Here are the Dodgers’ four home runs in last night’s game.
On this day in Dodgers’ history:
- 1903 In the third inning of the 4-3 nightcap loss to New York at the Polo Grounds, Dodger starter Henry Schmidt is thrown out of the game after he throws the baseball out of the park. The Brooklyn hurler became very angry when opposing pitcher Joe McGinnity dashed home from third base while his infielders were arguing the close call at the bag.
- 1954 Gil Hodges comes to bat three times in the eighth inning when the Dodgers score 13 runs en route to a 20-7 rout of the Reds at Ebbets Field. The first baseman will go 1-for-3 in the frame with a leadoff triple, but will be responsible for all three outs when he hits into a double play and flies out to centerfield to end the Brooklyn barrage.
- 1957 Club President Walter O’Malley makes it official, announcing the Dodgers will play in Los Angeles next season. The club’s departure from Brooklyn corresponds with the massive social shift taking place in the borough that finds many of its former residents leaving for the suburbs of Long Island.
- 2000 Cubs hurler Phil Norton becomes the 18th pitcher in major league history to give up four homers in one inning in the Dodgers’ 7-5 victory at Chavez Ravine. Kevin Elster, Darren Dreifort, Gary Sheffield, and Shawn Green all take the 24 year-old southpaw deep in the bottom of the fourth inning.
- 2000 Darren Dreifort hits two home runs and gets the win in the Dodgers’ 7-5 victory over the Cubs. The starting pitcher, who hurls 6.2 innings, goes deep in the bottom of the fourth and fifth frames.
- 2000 After kissing one another in the seventh inning, a female couple is abruptly asked to leave Dodger Stadium immediately and are told never to “set foot back on the premises” for “lewd behavior”. The pair had planned to sue the organization, but ended up not doing so after the team apologized, promising to contribute 5,000 tickets to LGBT organizations and continue sensitivity training for all its employees.
Lineup:
Tonight's #Dodgers lineup vs. Giants: pic.twitter.com/gPXQ9DNAed
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 8, 2020
NPUT
Kershaw was as unimpressive this outing as he was impressive in the last.
Yeah, even the outs were mostly sharply hit.
It’s a little disconcerting to see the Giants’ CF and realize he’s the grandson of a guy I remember watching make the last out of a famous playoff game in 1978.
Dodgers are now 3-3 against SF. With a plus 16 run differential. 33-17 total runs in the 6 games.
Got pretty far with just 2 hits.
I thought AJ might have had that one.
On the bright side, the Pads have lost (though the Rox won in Seattle).
There’s a runner!
Walker, actually.
Should be a pinch runner, I think.
Who is swift of foot? Anyone besides him I guess.
Where is the wind when you need it?
Calling Mariah!
Bellinger Turner Muncy – let’s find a way to score 2 runs.
Well – if nothing else, the Dodgers helped themselves by not damaging their all-important run differential too much.
I gotta give full credit to Quique for running out that fly ball.
And to the center fielder who made a late entrance to the play
He picked up the ball, therefore Gameday description of the play.
Someone had to since Pence didn’t know where to start his hunt for it.
I think Gameday called it a line drive, which it most definitely was not.
Sharp fly ball, which it wasn’t either. Hung in the air for 6.7 seconds.
Pence looked sad and perturbed but unless he was looking away when the pitch was made what could he have done if he couldn’t follow the ball off the bat.
It’s that time of the night, when it’s to lose things in the sky. That’s happened to me in softball.
Cody is not hitting a lick, but that walk on a 3-2 pitch was big.
Turner couldn’t have picked a better spot for his first homer of the season.
Ooh, that’s right, it was his first. I agree.
Tried to hit it to Pence.
Back in it!
I feel for Cueto while rejoicing for the Dodgers
I will gnever feel for a Gnat.
You misspelled Giant
No, you misspelled “Gnat.”
Agreed.
I feel bad for Johnny being on the giants.
Let’s gooo! Turner!
A great biography about the aforementioned Eddie Basinski followed by a list of the 100 oldest former major leaguers, which includes 14 Dodgers::
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/eddie-basinski/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_living_Major_League_Baseball_players
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_living_Major_League_Baseball_players
Mr Basinski and I share a birthdate.
Was Quique’s ball catchable?
A routine fly ball to left field lost in the 5 decks of paper sleeves
I just saw a replay.
Gameday says that was hit to Yasztresmki – not Pence after all?
Gameday is wrong. Over Pence’s head in left.
Did he charge it? Gameday is always erratic.
Lost it and stood there while it went over his head.
It was Pence.LF.
Can you send me an email to @conosur.mac.com? I have a question that has nothing to do with baseball.
Make that conosur@mac.com (It was the Torrontés speaking).
Got it.
Starting with WBBsAs?
A run! A run! 5-1.
Good grief.
On the bright side, the Snakes have taken a lead over the Pads.
Maybe that one got caught by the wind for us!
Triple because of a blind outfielder called Pence.
Johnny is an interesting guy.
Was
Could this be the ugliest game of the year? I have no video.
Oh yes. Definitely.
What are the chances this one of those games were the Dodgers score 7 runs in one inning?
Ump! Come on! You’re driving me nuts!
How many weak fly balls can one team hit in a game?
Another wildly uneven strike zone.
It’s weird watching a Hall of Famer struggle. It’s like when Roger Federer started having many more unforced errors.
You know how NHL players grow playoff beards?
I’ve got pandemic hair.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/mMXMJEXZzxBwLaxr9
I like it!
My cousin saw it on FB and said I was a dead ringer for Ben Franklin.
This has to be one of the worst games ever by Kershaw against SF.
The ball appears to be sailing, at least for the Gnats. Kershaw does not have an out-pitch, either.
He has a hit-it-out pitch though.
Good one. Painful, but good.
Arrrgh! What the heck Clayton.
Steiner again!?
Pence trying to remain above .030.
So many high – but still very lazy – fly balls to CF.
In Oakland today, https://twitter.com/AsteriskTour/status/1292279361723338753?s=20
Suddenly, I feel better about our game.
https://twitter.com/nut_history/status/1292278698574585856?s=20
I’m about to exercise. I put on my Dodgers t-shirt for luck.
Let’s get a few back.
That was not a great strike call but we will take it for now.
Double grr!!
Lyrics to the song below. They are all, every one of them, a baseball player’s name.
Bloody Steiner jinxed him!
What did he say?
He said Slater hadn’t homered yet this year. I’m going back to Jaime now.
That’s quite a jinx!
Ugh.
Grrr.
That’s more like it.
Much better.
Never really noticed before but it looks like Kershaw has a little grey in his beard.
Not much of a rest for Kersh.
Bit of a shaky first for Kershaw? No video here.
Phew! Got out of a tough spot!
That catch by Belli for the first out turned out to be helpful later in the inning (obviously – but you know what I mean).
Are there good explanations as to why Kershaw struggles in the first inning compared to other innings? He seems like he should be as prepared as anyone to start well.
He did so well the first inning of the first time he pitched this year, I was hoping he’d started a new trend!
It just seems weird to me. 6th or 7th inning I would understand more.
There’s a cliché about “get to the great ones early ’cause they get better as the game goes on.”
Klayton has never liked the first inning.
On Dodger starts against the giants, Van Lingle Mungo checks in at 54. Read that the most by anyone against them is Warren Spahn with 108.
I think Van Lingle Mungo has always been my favorite Dodger name.
How have I never heard of this player?!?!?!
Did you not read Jon’s book on Dodger pitching?
Dave Frishberg likes it too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKzobTlF8fM
Frishberg has been a SABR member for 36 years.
In that context, the oldest living ex-Dodger is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Basinski, whom I watched in the PCL.