Rangers at Dodgers, 4:10 PM PDT, TV: Bally Sports Southwest, MLBN (out-of-market only), SPNLA
LHP Kolby Allard (1-2, 3.41 ERA) goes for the Rangers and RHP Trevor Bauer (6-4, 2.40 ERA) does the same for the Dodgers.
Today in Dodgers’ history:
- 1940 In a trade which stuns the baseball world, the Dodgers obtain Ducky Medwick and pitcher Curt Davis from the Cardinals for outfielder Ernie Koy, pitcher Carl Doyle, two minor leaguers, and $125,000. The deal to acquire the 1937 Triple Crown winner, which is engineered by GM Larry MacPhail, signals the emergence of Brooklyn as a serious contender.
- 1941 The Braves break up the Waners’ brother act, sending Lloyd, known as ‘Little Poison’, to the Reds for pitcher Johnny Hutchings. ‘Big Poison’ Paul, the older sibling, was signed as a free agent with the team after being released by the Dodgers last month.
- 2005 Hee-Seop Choi homers in his first three at-bats in the Dodgers’ 4-3 victory over Minnesota. The southpaw-swinging first baseman’s solo shot in the sixth off Brad Radke, who also gave up the infielder’s first two home runs, proves to be the difference in the Chavez Ravine contest.
Lineup when available.
NPUT
In DC today, Kyle Schwarber leads the Gnats 4-0 after three.
Crap. To a .182 hitter. Geez!!
Rangers almost blow second chance to score their second run.
Oh man – that was a sloppy Ranger play.
Who is Andy Burns?
Simpsons character?
Seemingly.
And he had better trim his sideburns.
Free baseball. The giants have scored one run in 23 innings so far in this series.
Their ghost runner just scored
Oh well, lick’em tomorrow.
What a total fiasco.
Worst – but certainly not the toughest or hardest – loss of the year.
(So far.)
I had to stop to read
to my twin granddaughters. They’re 13 but still like me to read to them before they go to sleep and no way am I missing that! But looks like it was the right thing to do in any case.
3 grand slam HR’s for the win…
Dodgers have officially entered the Andy Burns era.
Not sure I love it exactly.
Update: I don’t love it.
Ha!
Buehler goes tomorrow afternoon.
For his sake, I hope that Jones is on a day-to-day lease.
Perhaps hour-to-hour.
Things went south tonight when Mookie dropped the fly ball.
Little did we know that would be a sign of what was to come.
That was only the 24th error that Betts has made in his MLB career.
Lead off walk. Here they come!
The Rangers entered tonight’s game having lost 16 in a row on the road.
Team meeting: Well, the road can’t beat us 17 times in a row!
And the Diamondbacks have lost 19 in a row on the road. They didn’t win a road game in May. Their last road win was on April 25, when they won a DH at Atlanta. Arizona has lost 9 in a row overall and has won just won game this month.
Woof. That’s rough!
There are some remarkably bad teams in MLB this year.
I envisaged us winning tonight and the Giants getting swept by the Nationals and the Dodgers ending the evening tied for first with San Francisco.
How would you feel about the Dodgers being 2 games behind with like 98 games left?
Very satisfied.
Agreed.
Jonah is having quite a game.
A whale of a game.
Speaking of whales, have you seen this story? https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2021/06/11/humpback-whale-catches-michael-packard-lobster-driver-mouth-proviencetown-cape-cod/7653838002/
What a whale of a tale.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/cape-cod-diver-left-with-a-whale-of-a-tale-after-a-humpback-spat-him-out-1.5467777
I was thinking one in the 7th, two in the 8th, three in the 9th and four in the 10th on a grand slam.
Lead off walk is not what I call getting it done.
Not exactly our best 8th inning reliever out there. Don’t the Dodgers realize our plan for them to come back and win?
Bauer Burns Barnes Betts
Trying to think of something clever here but can’t think of what it would be. But love the look of those names together.
Bauer Burns while Barnes Betts? That seems to work. We need to add Buehler, Bickford, Beaty and Bellinger. Nearly one-third of the active roster have last names that begin with “B.”
Three in the 8th, three in the 9th. Right, Dodgers?
My thought was 2 in 8, 4 in 9 – just to make it more dramatic.
I mean come on.
That was a bullet.
One down, six to go! AJ!!!
Sweet!
Last night the Dodgers had a run differential of 100 and the White Sox had a RD of 90. As of right now the Sox RD is 103 and Dodgers 94. That is a 19 run difference in one day.
Three innings to make seven runs. Maybe not tonight…
They didn’t listen to you yesterday when you asked them to save some runs for today.
Exactly!
Everything going the way of the Rangers tonight.
Rangers hitting like Dodgers. Dodgers hitting like Rangers.
Well said!
Bauer looking very upset with himself, understandably.
He looks a bit shell shocked as well.
What took Roberts so long to pull Bauer?
It is in Bauer’s contract that he can pitch as long as he wants.
Good one. Given his $40 million contract this year, what do you think Bauer makes per hour? He often looks dour, even sour. Too often the opposition batters don’t cower.
He smiled when he got to first base, however.
Yes, but a good throw from Gallo in right probably would have gotten him at first.
Thus, the smile.
Is that the only time he smiled tonight?
I’m thinking yes.
Not our game.
Bauer at 111.
Mph?
KMH
Spin.
Pitches, alas.
Feels like Dodgers would be doing well to score 1 or 2 runs tonight. 4 or 5 seems like a very big ask.
But you never know…
Hopes are receding.
Pffft
Up to Zach.
Can Andy get Albert in from second?
So you are asking if Burns can hit a HR?
With a triple?
Well, got him to third.
How does deGrom compare to Klayton? https://twitter.com/tangotiger/status/1403747279329243137?s=21
Kershaw and Pedro are pretty evenly matched – except for the difference in eras (not era).
Peak years for Pedro being compared to non-peak years for Klayton.
Understood. But 1999-2001 was peak offensive era which perhaps more than makes up for not going up against peak Kershaw’s numbers?
Turner’s slide made the difference.
Quite the at bat for Trevor.
Dodgers seem to cause other teams to miss bases.
Bauer not too sharp tonight. For the second game he’s pitched, actually, although the Mookie error didn’t help.
Albert playing like a young buck. Only slower.
Muncy goes on IL with the dreaded oblique.
Nats blow a golden opportunity in the bottom of the eighth, and lose to Gnats. Dodgers can only pick up half a game today.
Robles not a good judge of risk-reward.
No score yet here at Nationals Park, after 6.5. Of note, McGee just threw a slider.
I plan to one up President Taft tonight and actually leave Nationals Park in the seventh
Even if the game’s not over?
Nope
Puds lose, Puds lose!!