Dodgers at Rockies, 12:10 PM PDT, TV: ATTSportsNet-RM, SPNLA
RHP Tony Gonsolin (1-1, 1.51 ERA) pitches for the Dodgers and RHP Antonio Senzatela (4-2, 3.30 ERA) goes for the Rockies. Gonsolin is coming off his best performance of the year; he went seven innings against the Padres on Wednesday and gave up just one run. Senzatela threw a nine-inning complete game last Tuesday, beating the As 3-1.
Here’s Mookie’s mad dash:
Today in Dodgers’ history:
- 1907 At Exposition Park in Pittsburgh, Nick Maddox no-hits the Dodgers, 2-1. At the age of 20 years and ten months, the Pirates hurler becomes the youngest pitcher and the second rookie to throw a no-hitter.
- 1911 Bill Bergen ends his major league career with the lowest lifetime batting average for a position player in major league history by hitting an anemic .170 during his 11-year tenure with the Reds and Superbas. The 33 year-old backstop, who had only one year of batting above .200, also holds the records for lowest season batting average for a regular season (.139 in 1909) and the longest streak of at-bats without a hit (46 in 1909).
- 1954 The Giants clinch the pennant when they beat the Dodgers at Ebbets Field, 7-1. The National League champs, finishing the season five games ahead of second-place Brooklyn, will go on to sweep Cleveland in the Fall Classic.
- 1959 The San Francisco Giants, bowing to the Dodgers, 8-2, play their last game at Seals Stadium. The transplanted New York team, who compiled a 163-145 record in their two-year stay in the former PCL park, will move to the newly constructed Candlestick Park next season.
- 1961 In a 13-inning contest, Sandy Koufax goes the distance, beating the Cubs, 3-2, in the last regular season game to be played at the LA Memorial Coliseum, which was originally built for the 1932 Olympics. The Dodgers are leaving the only home they have known since moving from Brooklyn four seasons ago to play in a brand new stadium in Chavez Ravine, located a few miles from downtown Los Angeles.
- 2011 Clayton Kershaw becomes the Dodgers’ first 20-game winner since Ramon Martinez accomplished the feat in 1990. Allowing just one run in 7 1/3 innings, the southpaw gets the victory when LA beats the visiting Giants, 2-1.
- 2012 Washington secures a playoff spot when they beat the Dodgers at Nationals Park, 4-1. The last time there was postseason baseball in the nation’s capital occurred 79 years ago, when player-skipper Joe Cronin and the Senators lost to the Giants in five games in the 1933 World Series.
Lineup when available.
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Not much else going on today, so… https://twitter.com/MLBVault/status/1308140719215964162?s=20
Five AL teams are in the playoffs with a week to go. Only two NL teams are: the Dodgers and the Padres.
Hoornstra on the paradox of the 2020 season and the playoffs. http://enews.newsletters.ocregister.com/q/e9TQd1u_n2ux-jEpkFXz6R8_t8T2yRW3mq65JrujWylIdP4QQHnltDh56
“The Dodgers have a really good team and they might not get rewarded for it.”
The Dodgers’ road record in this irregular regular season concludes at 22-8. They went 7-3 vs. Colorado overall.
Next game Tuesday with the team formerly known as the Philadelphia Athletics.
And I will be blacked out for three straight nights.
You envision the onset of a horrible medical condition?
PG&E?
Yeah. it’s called MLBTV.
The white elephant logo was adopted in 1909 as a rebuttal to a slur from John McGraw of the giants.
Close, but I’d say out.
Aw phoo.
Very fine AB by Poilock!
Yes, and if Seager can get on Taylor would represent the potential tying run. (I never understood the term “represent” in that context. Sounds like a defense attorney.)
It’s easy to defend Taylor these days.
Like representational vs abstract art.
Nothing’s carrying today.
Really nice effort by Ríos and Lux, but not quite enough to turn the DP.
Link: Is “Today in Dodgers’ history” picked up from a site? If so, which one is it?
NationalPastime.com
It’s linked over on the right sidebar in the Non-Partisan section.
Thanks. The site is incorrect regarding when/why the L.A. Coliseum was built. It opened in 1923 and was expanded for the 1932 Olympics. When I was a newspaper reporter I wrote a story about the L.A. and Oakland coliseums.
There’s a contact link on the site. I’ve used it to communicate errors and found that the proprietor is very amenable to changing when his data is shown to be wrong. Send him a note with a source for your correction.
Good idea. Thanks.
The Oakland Coliseum has its drawbacks, but at least it’s better than SF’s Software Stadium.
For the story that I did on the coliseums, I visited centerfield. My most significant takeaway was how much ground the outfielders have to cover.
I visited centerfield only in Oakland. It was about 25 years after the Dodgers had left the L.A. Coliseum, although they did play in an exhibition game there in 2008 — it drew a record record crowd — to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their first game in L.A.
Fogerty’s ostensibly a Gnatfan, but… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8l3jaMNgPM
Wood is not at his best. Every out feels like a struggle.
We’re seeing the end of his time with the Dodgers and, perhaps, in MLB.
M’s just blew the lead, now trail Pads 3-1 in sixth.
Alex Wood, the mop-up man.
Drat it, Cody.
He threw him nothing but fastballs, and he swung and missed at three of them. This is not 2019.
The first two might have been strikes but they were in an unhittable location. The third he just missed.
But he still swung and missed at three of them.
He shoulda laid off the first two (easy for me to say).
Do you think he is standing too close to the plate?
I dunno. What he’s not doing is elevating the ball.
C’mon Cody, tie it up.
A doubly interesting game going on at The Litterbox.
Half as interesting now.
No longer interesting, but Seattle maintains a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the sixth, with Pads threatening.
Dodgers want to clinch at home…
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Not a whole lot the Dodgers can do…
Improve their shift?
Nibbled to death
Three bleeders and one more run for the Rockies. Pfui.
Rockies small ball is working.
Great Goose story from Joe.
Zack looking like he is enjoying all the business he has been getting in right today.
Pederson (personal) took some at-bats against Walker Buehler (finger) in a simulated game Saturday, David Vassegh of AM 570 LA Sports reports.
The Dodgers placed Pederson on the family medical emergency list Wednesday, but he’s since reported back to the team. Expect the Dodgers to officially activate him ahead of Tuesday’s series opener versus the Athletics.
Rookies keep hitting it to the new guy
Who has never played right field in his professional life.
Reaching out and softly poking the ball to the opposite field. Now would be a good time to get more Ks.
Zach heir apparent for Quique? Lefty bat, though, with Seager and Lux already batting from that side (not to mention Max and Rios).
I’m old enough to remember when the Dodgers acquired Sean Green because their lineup was too RHH.
I’m old enough to remember when McKinstry got his first hit.
I’m old enough to remember when Green spelled his first name Shawn.
For some reason Hernandez and Taylor are weaker at third base than any of the other positions they play so if McKinstry can be stronger at third than those two it will help him stay on the team.
Rios would like a word with you.
He has made a couple of nice plays lately and has been hitting the ball hard again. He doesn’t need to talk with me while his bat and glove are speaking like they have been.
I kept reading that Gonsolin had 4 good pitches and that would make me wonder why the Dodgers kept moving others to the MLB before him.
Gonsolin struggles in the third, now on pace for 123-pitch perfecto with just 21 K’s.
Zack hooray
McKinstry’s first MLB hit.
Record is eight.
Our co-Ace looking pretty good
We may have three co-aces: Kersh, Walker and CatMan
6 Ks to start the game!
On pace for a 126-pitch perfecto, with 27 K’s…
Second violation of Rule No. 9. Otherwise, he probably would have done it.
Belli bows to tradition and makes the second out trying for third.
But his average is climbing. Maybe he’s figured it out just in time for the playoffs.
Thanks A-Rod?
Gag.
Still…
I’d like to see Bellinger end the season at nothing worse than .250. There are six games remaining after today.
With one out, his speed, and Tapia’s potentially difficult recovery, it made sense.
Well it wasn’t the first or third out at third
And he raised his batting average to .234. Oh boy, oh boy.
Hard to get a triple on a ball hit to left plus the left fielder was running toward the infield so had momentum for his short throw to third.
Hitting .346 in the previous 7 games (30 PA)
Do you think they dropped Bellinger to the No. 5 from the No. 4 spot so the Rockies won’t pitch around him because Smith is next, but if he was batting fourth and Muncy fifth they might have done that? Or am I overthinking this?
Yes.
No argument with that.
If anything trying to get them to pitch to Max? I missed the first part, but Joe was saying that Max leads (NL or Dodgers) in having pitches out of the zone called strikes.
Just from the games I’ve watched I would agree about Muncy’s unique strike zone.
By definition, if the pitch is called a strike, it is a strike. (From someone whose 18 consecutive years of umpiring youth baseball was ended by the pandemic.)
I don’t think anybody who has umped youth baseball for 18 years could be anything but a very good umpire. I’m proud to be here with you scoop.
They’re replacing you with robot umps?
McKinstry is the new Mookie.
Mookie gets the day off, Seager and Smith back in the lineup, McKinstry gets his first career start.