Dodgers at Phillies, 10:05 AM PDT, TV: NBCSP, SPNLA
Whodaguy starts for the Dodgers (we’ll know more at game time) and LHP Ranger Suárez (5-3, 0.98 ERA) goes for the Phillies. That’s one heck of an ERA.
This day in Dodgers’ history:
- 1984 Former Dodgers Don Drysdale and Pee Wee Reese, along with Twins slugger Harmon Killebrew, American League hurler Rick Ferrell, and perennial All-Star shortstop Luis Aparicio are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
In 2006 the Portland Beavers honor Rodney McCray, the former Vancouver Canadian who gain everlasting notoriety in 1991 when he literally ran through the right field plywood fence trying to catch Chip Hale’s fly ball in Portland’s Civic Stadium. The PCL team commemorates the memorable play with a bobble head promotion which features the moment of impact and renames the right field area of their current ballpark “McCray Alley.”
In a great moment of fan history, in 2014 Tim Pinkard, attending his first game at Minute Maid Park, catches two home run balls, both off the bat of the Astros’ DH Chris Carter. In the third inning of Houston’s 10-4 victory over Minnesota, the Springfield (VA) resident gets his first souvenir of the night when the ball rebounds off a sign in left field, and then in the fifth frame, against astronomical odds, catches the second round-tripper stroked by the same batter, which is a laser shot hit directly to his seat.
Lineup when available.
NPUT
Total meltdown by Chisox closer.
You got me watching.
Let’s not hear anyone complain about Kenley again.
Great ending!
Pathetic effort by the offense. Wasted a nice job by the bullpen. At least we took the series from a good team in their house.
Enjoy the rest of your day and the Field Of Dreams Game tonight.
Wow. One out already? Up to you to do something, Seager!
One pitch, one out. Too quick.
Whatever it is, he will do it fast.
You struck out on that one.
Luckily, he didn’t.
Bradley, Archie enemy.
Why a lefty pinch hitter against Suarez?
No JT, no Mookie.
Right.
Smith is available, but that would burn the backup catcher. Better him with RISP.
Billy at least making Suarez work.
And drew the walk.
A really good AB. Got on base and got Suarez out of the game.
In This Day in Dodger History yesterday, the following was posted: “1969 Don Drysdale announces his retirement. The last Dodger to have played in Brooklyn, Drysdale will be elected to the Hall of Fame in 1984.” I thought that was correct, but then the name Bobby Aspromonte popped into my brain. Aspromonte, a native of Brooklyn, as I am, played one game for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1956. He next returned to the Dodgers, in L.A., in 1960 and 1961, and was made available in the expansion draft for 1962. The Houston Colt .45s (before they were called the Astros) took him and he played 13 years in the majors, retiring as a Met after the 1971 season. So, I think he was the last former Brooklyn Dodger to play in the majors. Apart from his MLB career, Aspromonte, now 83, was/is clearly a wonderful human being. Read this long story about him from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) to see why I say that: https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/bob-aspromonte/
Good find. Eighteen year old Aspromonte with the ’56 Bums.
What a thrill it must have been for a kid right of high school to play for his home town team (borough).
DP please
Thanks!
And here I thought you were channeling an osteopath…
Refresh WBB. My clumsy thumbs plus autocorrect = refresh.
Never mastered thumb writing. Well, actually never tried.
pwned.
My thumbs need an osteopath.
Bellinger: Feast or Famine. In his last four games plus his one AB today: 5-for-18 with 4 HRs and 7 Ks. His other hit was a double.
Suarez not the sort of lefty to get healthy against. Lefthanded batters hitting .078 off him this year.
I think Suarez won’t go more than three, four at the most.
My guess as well. That said, if Mookie weren’t on the IL, would have been a good game for Belli to not start to avoid throwing him off track as he regains his swing and his confidence.
They’re turning him into a starter, but he’s not likely to go very deep yet, and the Fillies’ pen is shaky.
Even on some of his K’s, he’s had extended ABs.
Okay I’ve seen enough.
7-0.
4-0. One out.
Meanwhile, gnats up 2-0 bottom 4th bases loaded one out.
Walk
Off
Wow!
Most one-run losses this year:
t-1. Marlins – 23
t-1. D-Backs – 23
t-3. Atlanta – 21
t-3. Cubs – 21
t-3. DODGERS – 21
Anybody else watching the Field of Dreams game?
Which one is it?
Yanquis v. Chisox. It’s on Fox. Kevin Costner made the lineup introductions after the players walked out of the cornfiields.
Fun! That’s pretty cool actually.
In retrospect, a dopey movie that I still love.
I hate depending on the Rockies, who begin a four-game series in San Francisco tonight.
Tonight and tomorrow, at least, the Rox have an advantage in starting pitching.
I am not crazy about it either, but, that is the position we have found ourselves in.
Considering all the injuries to key players, the poor replacement players performances, and the Bauer fiasco, we’re doing pretty good.
Not a surprise, there. McKinney is on the team because of all our injuries.
Go Rockies!
Marquez vs. Webb.
Things being as they are, Gnats might lose!
McKinney just not doing it for me.
But for Mookie, he wouldn’t be on the roster.
I know. Isn’t there anyone else we could bring up?
A healthy Lux would be a better bench option, but he’s on rehab and not an outfielder.
Well, the ump generated an exciting half inning.
ugh
WP would be good.
I said it first.
Ahhh, but I hadn’t refreshed, you see.
Wild pitch would be nice.
Oh man. Billy, this is your chance!!!! (Wish I had more faith.)
McKinney’s time to shine.
Okay Ump. You get one of those.
Makeup call…
I prefer Smith over Barnes here.
We are missing cookies down the middle.
Gifts for us. Take advantage!
Barnes has gotten some big hits this year. Can he do it again?
He won’t but Smith might.
Another really good AB by Bellinger.
Making the pitchers work lately.
Another one-pitch out.
Several near-misses today.
The umps taketh away, and the umps giveth back.
There’s our baserunner. As Mike Shannon would say now, “We need a tweener.”
Grrr. CT3 missed one.
We need to get Bellinger an AB this inning.
Kennedy is a well-travelled warhorse.
Poor man’s Edwin Jackson.
Kenley carves through the meat of the lineup.
Didn’t look rusty at all.
Last hacks. Let’s Go Dodgers.
Time running out.
One run game – curses!
Tie games actually end up worse.
Gregorious is killin’ us.
Our bullpen doing well. We need runs!
Meanwhile, in Iowa… https://twitter.com/jessespector/status/1425894105901641729?s=20
One of the managers should be Cornelius McGillicuddy.
Maybe Rob Manfred could walk into the cornfield and never reappear.
Knapp limping after that one.
I didn’t see it, but perhaps Knapp’s leg fell asleep.
Might see Realmuto after all.
Will the Real Muto please stand up. (With apologies to Bud Collyer. Wow, am I showing my age).
Nope. Guess not.
Got him.
Bickford takes Knapp.
Here is the key moment of the game.
Keep breathing, RBI.
You can exhale now.
Thanks!
Get Torreyes please.
Got him, but not out of trouble yet.
The walk to Harper notwithstanding, Vesia has been really good lately.
Agree.
The Bickford Files, Episode #36. Hot Philadelphia Afternoon.
For want of a replay safe call, a base was lost. For want of a base, a run was lost. For want of a run, an inning was lost. And all for the want of a replay safe call.
Still got a chance to save the game(kingdom).
Does the “R” in RBI stand for Richard (the 3rd)? Does the “B” stand for The Bard? Does the “I” stand for you?
Yes. Totally.
I think we will pull this one out. Bellinger is due to do a 180 and homer again.
That, however, is not going to get it done.
Maybe the A’s could ship us some of their surplus runs from Cleveland.
Time to blow the doors off this jalopy.
Plenty of time to win this one. Go Blue!
Got’em right where we want them. LOL
https://twitter.com/BlakeHarrisTBLA/status/1425891479696723970/photo/1
Well NY got that wrong.
It seemed obvious.
Amazing that they can’t get it right even with replay.
Bad NYC!
East Coast bias?
That’s pretty maddening.
Bad call I think.
Toes were off the base I think…
It certainly looked that way.
D-glorious.
Safe?
Knapp almost caught that popup foul through the hole in the screen cut for the camera.
Decent job by Mitchy. Still very much in this one.
Isn’t it rain delay time yet?
Good buckling down, White.
This is when the Phillies really miss Realmunto.
Exchange of pleasantries between Corey and Torreyes, both played SS for the 2015 Dodgers.
I think I’d pull him now.
White is knackered.
Ooph. Too. Many. Balls. Definitely tiring.
Mitch pitching suddenly looks a little tired?
Mitch struggling to get the third out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQqHCb16MNg
Great piece of music.
I sorta like it, but it’s pretty bland.
Torreyes again.
Too many “ground balls past a diving Turner…” Also, two walks will kill you.
Walked Harper on strike one, but whatever.
Probably for the best although it was a strike.
White wants nothing to do w Harper.
Exchange of pleasantries between two ex-Snakes at second base, Pollock and Segura.
White has been very efficient so far.
Well that’s annoying – Suarez infield hit.
More like “bear” hand, amirite?
Clever.
Okay let’s get the run back.
Harper held in check until now.
Hot day. Fastball, albeit well-placed.
Rats – not a bad pitch, either.
Solo shot thank goodness.
Suarez likely more than an opener, as he has already gone 3 innings several times this year.
Mitch called up, so Quack back in the bushes.
Good call I believe.
At this point it is pretty much of a merry-go-round with OKC and getting someone who can give you some innings, rather than the relative merits of the pitchers being shuttled. White, I grant you, is a much better pitcher, though Quack might be effective in some spots given his awkward delivery as shown by his performance at OKC.
Yes, but for whatever reason I have slightly more faith in Mitch.
I have a lot of faith that White can give us 3-4 innings of at least average pitching. Quack, no.
Quacker DFA’d, actually.