Padres at Dodgers, 1:10 PM PDT, TV: Bally Sports San Diego, MLBN (out-of-market only), SPNLA
RHP Trevor Bauer (2-0, 2.70 ERA) takes the hill at Petco Park for the Dodgers in hopes of sweeping the Padres, who send out LHP Blake Snell (0-0, 4.35 ERA), last seen being removed from Game Six of the World Series despite his complete mastery of the Dodgers to that point of the game. He had a terrible outing his last time out, not getting out of the first inning against Pittsburgh. Bauer, meanwhile, has been terrific through six innings in each of his first three starts, giving up no more than two hits and striking out nine during those periods.
On this date in Dodgers’ history:
1925 At his Waldorf-Astoria apartment, Dodgers’ owner Charles H. Ebbets dies of a heart attack at the age of 65. Later in the day, his team opens the home season in Brooklyn losing to the Giants at Ebbets Field, 7-0.
1939 In Brooklyn, Red Barber calls the action in the first broadcast of a regular-season Dodger game, a 7-3 loss to New York at Ebbets Field. The future Hall of Fame announcer was brought in from Cincinnati by the team’s new president, Larry MacPhail, who had hired the ‘Ol Redhead’ when he was in a similar post with the Reds.
1947 Dodger president Branch Rickey names team scout Burt Shotton to replace Leo Durocher, who was suspended ten days ago by Commissioner Happy Chandler for acts “unbecoming to a major league manager.” Brooklyn’s new 62 year-old skipper reluctantly takes over the team two games into the season and will manage the club for one year in his street clothes along with wearing the team’s hat and jacket.
1950 Vin Scully calls the first game of his illustrious 67-year career with the Dodgers, detailing Brooklyn’s 9-1 defeat to the Phillies on Opening Day at Philadelphia’s Shibe Park. The 22-year old broadcaster, who will be awarded the Commissioner’s Historic Achievement Award by Bud Selig in 2014, will become the team’s primary announcer just three seasons later.
1950 The Phillies play their first game with name official changed back from Blue Jays, routing the Dodgers at Shibe Park, 9-1. The team wears red pinstriped uniforms designed by manager Eddie Sawyer that are reminiscent of club’s look in the early 1900s.
1952 On Opening Day in Brooklyn, Willie Mays is knocked unconscious when he smashes into the Ebbets Field wall after chasing pinch hitter Bob Morgan’s seventh-inning, two-out base-loaded line drive into the gap in left field. All three Dodgers base runners cross the plate but do not score when the motionless Giants center fielder comes to his feet and jogs into the dugout, apparently unhurt, having held onto the ball after making a fantastic catch for the third out to end the inning.
1958 At the Los Angeles Coliseum in front of a National League record crowd of 78,672, the Dodgers play their first game in the City of Angels. Carl Erskine gets the win, besting Al Worthington and the Giants, 6-5.
1959 Branch Rickey, former general manager of the Cardinals, Dodgers, and Pirates, is appointed the president of the Continental League. The third potential major league never materializes, but helps to accelerate the expansion of the existing leagues, including putting a National League team in New York to fill the void created by the Giants’ and the Dodgers’ departure to the west coast in 1958.
1964 L.A. southpaw Sandy Koufax throws the second of his two career immaculate innings when he strikes out the side on nine pitches. Although Leo Cardenas, Johnny Edwards, and Jim Maloney all strike out quickly in the top of the third inning, Cincinnati will score all of the game’s runs in the next frame, thanks to a three-run homer hit by Deron Johnson, to beat the Dodgers in the Chavez Ravine contest, 3-0.
1966 Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills singles to center off future Hall of Famer Robin Roberts, becoming the first batter to hit on artificial turf in a major league game. The Astrodome’s new playing surface, called Chemgrass initially by its manufacturer, the Monsanto Company, couldn’t be made quickly enough, so the season begins with the artificial material only on the infield with the outfield remaining painted dirt until July.
2008 The Dodgers announce Joe Beimel has been selected by fans, in an online poll during Spring Training, as the player whose likeness will now be used in an August 12 bobblehead promotion. The 30 year-old southpaw reliever, considered a long shot for the honor, gets the nod due to a strong internet campaign orchestrated by his parents, Ron and Marge.
Lineup when available.
Huh. Lux to the IL, so they bring Neuse up to play 2B rather than slide Taylor or Muncy over there.
NPUT.
A disappointing game, which I can live with, but now we have to worry if Mookie has a broken arm or wrist. I am not sure where he was hit.
Come on AJ. Surprise me!
I thought you were going to future me.
I wish.
There is the Pollock we have come to know.
Last year he was really good.
I am firmly in the what have you done for me lately camp though.
True. But man he’s frustrating when he’s like this. Seems like he’s 0-2 before he even picks up his bat.
Frustration is heightened because we are aware of what is has shown he is capable of (playoffs excepted!).
Dodgers do need another RH bat. Neuse’s not ready.
Yep, though surprisingly Zach is hitting lefties almost as well as he hits righties.
OK, AJ, here’s your opportunity.
Sorry, but that didn’t surprise me.
Ex-Gnat prospect dies of COVID in the Dominican. https://twitter.com/DiegoGuzmanRD/status/1384232499102900224?s=20
How sad.
Seager!!!
COREY!!!!
From the sound off the bat, I thought A.J. might have gotten that one.
I wonder If AJ’s bat will wake up again any time soon?
We chattign here tonight?
Looks like it. A rare miss by Link. Hope all is well.
If he does make a new page, maybe we will get a nice nostalgic NPUT to tell us.
Vin got a World Series ring.
Crap! I misread the schedule and thought today was an off day! Sorry folks!
Second straight game in which the difference: unearned run(s).
Here’s hoping that all is well with Link and family.
Yes.
Yes. I hope we hear from him tomorrow.
He wrote me that he misread the schedule. He should be back today.
Rats. If Mookie’s badly hurt I’m going to be so angry.
Argh.
Why don’t they replace Mookie?
Fastest runner?
Don’t mind this situation.
I am without eyes tonight.
Mookie got dinged hard.
Mookie hit by a pitch right in the inside elbow area. Looked like it really hurt him.
I fear the possible damage.
OUCH. That’s so bad.
Ouch!
Beerguys have downed the Pads at the Litterbox.
Well that pleases me no end.
Big chance lost.
Beerguys now lead Monks 3-1 in the eighth.
Seager is not an elite defender.
He’s been very sloppy lately.
He’s never been a great defender, but his offense more than compensates – usually.
Eventual 3rd baseman i should think.
Not a word from Link yet.
I hope he’s okay.
Now would be a good time to make a Neuse Dodger debut hit.
How ’bout a Raley repeat?
instead we got a sedate strikeout.
McKinstry, ROY.
Zach attack.
Ezachly!
Let’s see if we can get more than two runs and three hits tonight.
Yes and yes.
With the Giants having won tonight, their second straight shutout, we need to win to maintain a 3 1/2-game lead.
Actually, the Fillies lost.
So I guess the Giants didn’t really win then. Hmmmm.
Technical distinctions are important.
Got it.
Beerguys have taken a 2-1 lead over the Pads in the fifth.
Leadoff walks always come back to bite the pitcher. Except of course when they don’t.
Sounds rather Zen to me.
Well that was a nice catch.
It was indeed. High degree of difficulty.
Alright Dodgers continue to make that transition from sluggish to slugging.
Well said. And we are not a team of sluggards.
Sluggo Smith has a nice ring to it.
I’m not sure what Will was waiting for…
Tonight, when it comes to our battery, where there’s a Will, there’s a May.
Sweet double after three bad calls!
It’s like he got walked twice!
Walked and balked…
Turner not letting bad strike calls get to him. Fighting pitches off.
Meanwhile, the Beerguys have tied up the Pads.
Seager the Younger!
They won’t overturn that.
Wow. I’m happy to be wrong.
Now say the Dodgers wont come back from being down by 3.
We had five hits in the 12th inning on Friday. Since then we have six hits in 20 innings. Still, we split the last two in San Diego — after winning the first — and this game is in its very early stages.
I just sent Link an email, we’ll see if he responds.
Thanks.
He does have an elderly mother living nearby.
Well – will the Dodgers play a bit flat after their intense series vs SD or will they stay rev’d up facing Seattle?
Thus far it’s the former.
Sadly true.
Where is Link’s Link? Oh well. Marmewhatever just hammered that May pitch.
He’s a small marble column.
https://twitter.com/jonweisman/status/1384242912469282818
We arrived in San Diego with a 2 1/2-game lead over both San Diego and San Francisco; we leave with a 3 1/2-game lead over both.
Good perspective.
Pfffffffft
Double ugh. I thought JT had Tatis out.
That was the right call, though.
I think if JT had kept the glove on Tatis he would have had him, but yes.
Seager messed one up the other day, but the Dodgers came back.
Bring it home safely friends. It’s dinner time here for me.
When in doubt – or even if you’re not – swing!
Once again, leadoff batter gets on. And by leadoff, I guess I meant Mookie!!
Bauer doesn’t count as a batter? With that swing he shouldn’t.
Whoops! Conveniently forgot about that Bauer at bat!
So did Bauer I bet.
Oh well. Still won the series in their yard. I’ll take it.
Me, too. We’re 7-3 on the road, 6-0 at home, and now head to Seattle for two games before the Padres come to Dodger Stadium for four games starting Thursday,
Hasn’t this crew been with the Dodgers for the last two series, including this one?
Yes, and consistently terrible.
Perhaps familiarity breeds contempt.
Turner struck out three times today. None of the called third strikes were in the zone.
I wonder if there are any repercussions for them?
I understand that they are graded and only the better performing ones are chosen for the playoffs, but I don’t know of anything beyond that.
I’m usually in favor of humans, but I’ve never seen such a bad zone as today.
And Muncy has a great sense of the strike zone.
JT, also.
Thanks for correcting me. I should have said Turner.
But these calls made everyone look bad.
Worse for a team such as the Dodgers that takes a lot of pitches.
So does Muncy.
WORST UMPIRE EVER!
I mean, what can you do?
Cuzzi must have a grudge.
Sure feels like it.
Well, I guess we really can’t win them all…
Not over yet.
Reverse jinx hopefully.
Bah squared.
VERY costly error.
3 unearned runs so far.
Pfffffffft
Costly error, as I feared.
Hosmer is annoying.
Many of the Pads are.
Yikes. 3-2.
Nice to get Manny out for the first time today.
Bah
Pray for a DP.
Tough with Manny.
Pop-up! Raley getting tested bigtime.
He does hit hard ground balls.
True that.
Ugh.
Can’t give them outs. That could mean the ballgame right there.
Sloppy error by Seager.
It was indeed. Ríos is tall, with long arms, but too much of a stretch even for him.
Should be two outs now…
And nobody on.
Burned 2 pinch hitters for the Padres just then. Me thinks they saw that as their one chance.
Worth the shot, but they certainly have more chances. They still have top of the order coming up next inning and Manny will get another at bat at least.
Prescient, and not in a good way…
Myers doesn’t wear gloves. Grabs some dirt.
Grisham worries me, Caratini didn’t.
He shouldn’t worry you any more.
That goes without saying, now.
Suddenly balls are balls again.
Do they have quotas?
The strike zone according to Cuzzi is confounding to me.
Pham is barely hitting a lick, but he sure worked our pitchers today.
He doesn’t K much.
With 12 of our 21 outs being strikeouts and at least one coming on a foul pop, we have hardly put any balls into the field of play today.
I’m surprised that wild pitch wasn’t called a strike.
PB, but yeah.
Hindsight being 20-20, maybe Graterol should have made his 2021 debut in a more relaxed situation.
Yeah, though not sure Doc has a lot of options at this point.
It’s that man Manny again.
He is the heart and soul of that team.
Someone ought to introduce home plate umpire Cuzzi to the strike zone. I can’t recall a worse called game. He is in his 31st year as an MLB umpire.
Cataracts?
The Padres TV announcer said the called third strike on Taylor was a “horrible call.”
I can’t disagree.
Brusdar sighting!
It looks as if these umpires are campaigning to be replaced by robots.
They are so over this series. They just wanna go home.
These calls are egregious!!!!
Bad, too.
Amazing strike three pitch, Bauer!
The pitching has been lights out this entire series.
I might still get guys out if you gave me the benefit of that strike zone.
I don’t know about my pitching personally – but I know I could strike out as a batter with that zone!
Another questionable call.
Time to pile up some hits and runs. We have only five hits and four runs in the last 14 innings.
More than the Pads have, though.
Exactly. Pads also have really good pitching.
That goes without saying, WBBsAs.
I blame the ump!
Generous call on strike 3.
Generous, as in “bad.”
Dave, do you know the story of the Winnipeg? https://southernconeguidebooks.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-long-petal-of-sea-book-review.html
I saw you reference once before – but no I actually didn’t.
Winnipeg (the city at least) is from a Cree word meaning “muddy waters. Which is true of the two main rivers here.
JT trips over his own base? That’s MY kind of move…
Bauer threw out the safe sign! Lol
Ha! Just got home. Time to turn on the tube.
Machado seems to own Bauer.
Yep. Joe and Orel have talked about that a bit.
They had a shot of the Dodger dugout. Thought I saw Kenley sitting on the bench. Shouldn’t he been in the pen?
Closers, Kenley among them, have been know to hang out in the dugout before going down to the pen in late innings.
Good thing it’s not high school. The pen might not like one of their own sitting at a different table for most of lunch and only sitting with them for the last bit of the free period.
Closers are considered to be more equal than other relievers
Nice Animal Farm reference!
I don’t like Machado, but I admire his abilities.
He wasn’t very likable even when he was on our side.
His skills are undeniable, but he’s easy to dislike.
Nice swing Manny! Lol
Cronenworth is an All star against the Dodgers.
(Just not as a pitcher.)
Hot Corner!
Oy.
Tight game! Just started listening. We’ve been at a granddaughter’s 4th birthday party, our first social outing in months and months!
On Friday, we dared to dine indoors, at a Peruvian in Pacifica. We’re both fully vaccinated, tables set widely apart. My wife didn’t want to sit outdoors, even with space heaters (it gets cool and windy there).
My 94 year old Mother has been insisting we eat out as much as we can on my weekly visits. So we have. I think there were only a couple of months where we couldnt eat outside at the very least.
Where are you?
She lives in Pasadena, I am in Ventura County.
Does she have a pretty little flower bed of white gardenias?
No, but she drives over to the Huntington several mornings a week to help prune in their famous rose garden.
In her brand new shiny red super-stocked Dodge?
She isn’t quite the terror of Colorado Boulevard if that is what you are asking.
“Go Granny go Granny go
Granny go!”
But can she navigate dead man’s curve better than Tiger Woods?
Good for her!
You’ve been missed! Also – 4 is one of the best ages for kids. So fun at that age!
I agree. She is adorable. You can almost see her brain growing!
That’s it exactly. Learning things and loving it!
Smooth inning for Bauer.
At 67 pitches after three innings for Snell, I do not think that the Padres will be facing a 6th inning conundrum about leaving Snell in.
Really thought that little jam shot was going to make it to outfield grass.
4-6-3 DP!
Let’s get Neuse, Sheldon!
https://twitter.com/mike_petriello/status/1383881694848065543?s=20
Oh Mike.
Just missed AJ.
https://twitter.com/MLBBarrelAlert/status/1383881406493773830?s=20
Whata smack!
Second longest of his career says Joe Davis.
CT3 for 2!
It was at the same time both a dunk and a deep 2. To use basketball parlance.
CT3!
Love getting the leadoff guy on.
After getting swept by the Devil Rays in the Bronx, Yanquis now have second-worst record in all of baseball. Only the Rox are worse.
Feels like playing with house money today. (So let’s keep on rolling…)
https://twitter.com/DodgerYard/status/1383865562044911616?s=20
With Lux going on the IL, here’s a lineup surprise. https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/1383859731849048064?s=20
That’s big Neuse for Sheldon.