I apologize for not getting a post up for yesterday’s game; I was SURE Monday was an off day. Sorry!
Dodgers at Mariners, 1:10 PM PDT, TV: MLBN (out-of-market only), ROOTNW, SPNLA
LHP Julio Urias (2-0, 3.86 ERA) goes for the visiting Dodgers. He’ll face LHP Marco Gonzalez, (1-1, 8.22 ERA). Urias wants to get back to the height he achieved in his first game this year when he went seven innings giving up just one run on three hits; in his last two starts he’s given up eight runs over 11 2/3 innings. Gonzalez’s first two starts were awful: he gave up twelve runs in 10 1/3 innings. In his last start he gave up just two runs in five innings.
- 1999 A crowd of 37,317 fans enjoys a 3-2 victory over the Braves when LA surpasses the 100 million mark in attendance at Dodger Stadium. The ballpark opened in 1962, four seasons after the franchise moved from Brooklyn to the west coast.
- 2011 Bud Selig announces MLB is taking over operations of the Dodgers because of concerns over team finances and the ability of Frank McCourt to run the franchise. Los Angeles is facing substantial debt payments, which the owner plans to meet by using funding from the club’s new $2.5 billion, 20-year media-rights deal with Fox Sports, but the Commissioner has withheld his approval of the agreement between the News Corp.’s media company and the team.
- 2012 The Reds become the fifth major league team to record their 10,000th franchise victory with a 9-4 win over Chicago at Wrigley Field. Cincinnati joins the Giants, Cubs, Dodgers, Cardinals, and Braves in reaching the milestone.
Lineup:
Today's #Dodgers lineup at Mariners: pic.twitter.com/nekQFMPrEh
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 20, 2021
As expected, no Mookie.
NPUT
The shift is harming baseball and must go. So says SI’s Tom Verducci.
If you’ve got your shots – https://twitter.com/BillShaikin/status/1384961958806532097?s=20
Got my second one 3/9.
So, you’ll be there?
A productive off-day, as both Gnats and Pads lose. Dodgers now lead SF by 3 and SD by 5.
Taylor you have to score here.
The Beerboys are starting to blow away the Pads.
Fillies blow one badly to the Gnats, so Dodgers cannot increase lead tonight.
The Dodger hitters may not have realized that it was a day game today either….
But Urias and Company did.
Perhaps the Dodgers should hit the batting cages on their off-day tomorrow. They have now amassed eight runs and 13 hits in their last four games, yet have won two of them, both by shutouts. It’s the wins that count.
Saving those hits and runs for the Dodger faithful to watch when they take on the Padres.
I hope so.
Now the Fillies and the Beerboys have to get to work.
An efficient, dominant Kenley.
Woo-HOO!!!
Dodgers win!
Way to bring them home Win-ni-peg!
Wow!
Don’t blow out your arm there Kenley. 97mph!
There’s two.
And made Lewis look really bad.
My first name is Lewis and I am happy he made Lewis look bad.
May the good Kenley keep it going.
There’s one.
I umpired youth baseball and some adult baseball from 2002 through 2019. The pandemic halted that. I am beginning to reluctantly feel that perhaps robot umpires should be given a shot.
This year so far they seem especially bad.
They seem to be seeking an early retirement buyout.
Just lost power. On to Gameday.
Here comes Kenley.
As the late, great Tigers announcer Ernie Harwell used to say: “He stood there like a house on the side of the road.”
Ha!
Couple of getaway strikes.
Inconsistency, thy name is UMPIRE!
180 feet away from another run.
No eyes, no ears. Was Taylor right in trying to score there?
He had no chance to score.
So we gave up 180 feet on the basepaths.
Yep.
It was a go on contact play.
Running on contact. Bad contact.
Terrible situational hitting by Turner.
Really uncharacteristically bad.
So frustrating.
270 feet away from another run.
90 feet away from another run.
Battery giving out and no charger in sight! Gunna have to rely on you guys to bring this one home.
Yes!
Smooth fielding!
Víctor shows his athleticism…
And now he steals second. Sloppy sloppy.
Argh. Walking a guy who is hitting .115.
Just barely missing.
Well the ump is not helping suddenly.
They are playing like they have a plane to catch and they are double parked outside the stadium.
Probably the case on getaway day.
Classic getaway feel.
Great if ump is in the same frame of mind at this point, given the score.
I thought he was – until the last few pitches.
Blue making me blue.
Drat.
Very bad future person.
We have offensive anemia.
Or anorexia.
Who should pitch the 8th and, if there is one, the 9th?
Nice having the off day tomorrow. Can use the pen today and still rest them before the 4 game series with the Padres.
CK usually the guy and then KJ.
Pat on the back. Marvelous day’s work for Julio!
Do you think he is done for the day? Or do they bring him back out in the 8th?
It looks like Gonzo.
7 solid innings.
Beautiful curve, Julio!
https://twitter.com/MLB_PLAYERS/status/1384624387605811204?s=20
At 81 pitches through six, Julito has been efficient.
Especially since he has 10 k’s which take at least 3 pitches and usually more per at bat.
Weird catch by Pollock.
I could take a whole heap of Urias pitching like this for another 7 years.
Urias: 10 strikeouts in five innings is Koufaxian.
10 K! Burgers for everyone in LA!
Are you going to fly in for the fete?
Nah. I’ll just complain to Jack that the prize ought to be nationwide.
How about (cough) continental-wide (cough)?
Hey!
I wouldn’t eat there even if you paid for a limo.
You can pick him up at LAX.
I don’t like any burgers at all! Not even gourmet ones.
How about the Impossible Burgers?
Nope. Veggie and Turkey burgers I like.
They taste like hamburgers, so…
Now Moore is annoying at the plate.
https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/1384619751469510657?s=20
Verdict in Minnesota: Chauvin guilty on all three charges.
He got off easy.
Justice.
Indeed.
Lowwwwww strike.
Smith seems to be struggling of late.
He is indeed.
Mendoza-adjacent.
There goes the no-hitter. 😉
On the board!
Corey w the RBI! Finally.
Why not last night?
I’m talking team-wise.
That was a crazy good catch.
Like Butch Cassidy almost said: “Who is that guy?”
Oh man – so robbed!
Nice AB by Barnes.
Puig has found a home. https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1384608426240602116?s=20
Allen Lorenz with a double.
Where does the J come from?
Hmm…his father is named Al. Maybe A.J is short for Al Junior.
No eyes. Does Seager the Elder have the same batting stance/approach as the Younger?
He may be a bit more selective, walks a bit more than his kid brother.
Pretty good first for Julito.
Yikes. We just got away with one there.
Ha! I me self didn’t realize today’s was a day game and just tuning in now.
Like most of the rest of us, you appear to be a senile citizen.
Dodgers go silently in the first.
Our MO lately.
This afternoon’s contest is MLBTV’s free game of the day.
Doc says tests negative, but Mook feeling sore.
Why am I not surprised?
Link: The bottom line is that you are OK. We were worried. How you are is far more important than the postings on this great blog.
Hear hear!
Thanks guys.
I’m late to the party but this was my exact sentiment as well!