Diamondbacks at Dodgers, 7:10 PM PDT, TV: Bally Sports Arizona, SPNLA
RHP Zac Gallen (2-9, 4.32 ERA) pitches for the D-Backs against the freshly-off-the-IL LHP Clayton Kershaw (9-7, 3.39 ERA). I expect that Kershaw will pitch no more than four innings unless the Dodgers are leading, in which case I suspect he’ll try to talk Roberts into letting him go one more to become eligible for the win.
On this day in Dodgers’ history:
- 1925 In the first game of a twin bill, Robins’ (Dodgers) starter Dazzy Vance no-hits the Phillies at Ebbets Field, 10-1. The Brooklyn hurler had one-hit the team from the City of Brotherly Love five days earlier.
- 2005 During the six-run second inning uprising by San Diego, each Dodger outfielder commits an error. The fielding of Ricky Ledee (lf), Jose Cruz Jr. (right field), and Jayson Werth (cf) contributes to the 6-4 loss to the first place Padres.
Lineup when available.
Tonight's #Dodgers lineup vs. D-backs: pic.twitter.com/zT0MOg4CKx
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) September 13, 2021
NPUT
Woo -HOO!!!
Poor and bizarre scheduling: Starting tonight, the Giants play 10 of their final 19 games against the Padres. But the Dodgers have played their last series vs. the Giants. Also, the Giants’ schedule includes six games at Colorado this month.
Great job, Dodgers. Now if only the blasted Giants wouldn’t keep winning too.
Great pitching again tonight and more than enough hitting. Let’s hope for at least five innings from Gonsolin on Tuesday and, dare I say, a loss by the Giants.
Dodgers win!!
Alright pen. Close it out now.
Doubles by Bellinger in consecutive games.
Whither (wither?) the Padres. At the end of play on June 30 the Padres, having just won three in a row, were at 49-33 and in third place in the NL West, 2 1/2 games behind the Giants and a game behind the Dodgers. Since then, they have gone 25-36 (including tonight’s loss in San Francisco) and they are now 19 1/2 games behind the Giants.
Better them than us!
What a collapse for a team that thought it could win the NL West. The Padres are now in a desperate fight to gain a Wild Card berth.
Double figures in hits!
The Dodgers lead MLB in HBP. Beaty just became No. 98. The Reds are next with 94.
https://twitter.com/ericstephen/status/1437646577821110277?s=20
I think it is now 99. I will check tomorrow.
Yeah Mookie got hit. So I think 99 as well.
So Lux did score the Dodgers fourth run of the game. Just a few innings later.
That time, Lux was safe.
Exactly.
I see that Kershaw is now outhitting Bellinger by 99 points, .258 to .159. I also noticed that Bellinger got his first hit in September yesterday, but tonight he failed to cash in a runner from third with one out.
Not true. JT was on second and moved to third on the play.
OK, so he failed to cash in Turner from second with one out. Regardless, he is a poster boy for failure at the plate this season.
I’m confident he’ll return to form. I’m not sure it’ll be this season.
I absolutely hope you are right, but I don’t share your optimism.
He’s suffered two major injuries. He may need a fully healthy off-season.
I’ll grant you that. But he has had only one month since May 2019 when he hit as much as .280, and that was in September/October 2019.
Remember that Seager had to miss a full year and wasn’t fully recovered until well into the next one. That may be what Bellinger needs as well.
Dodger offense still not clicking consistently.
For weeks now.
We were at a wedding in Sonoma over the weekend, so I was out of the loop. What a great three-game series vs. the Padres, particularly the pitching. However, sometimes I get the feeling that the Giants may never lose another game.
Wine country right? Did you enjoy a nice bottle of red?
It was wine country, indeed. (You know your California geography). We went to a winery on Sunday, the day after the wedding, with five friends and we sampled several wines, but I prefer whites to reds. Some of the once quaint towns north of San Francisco, such as Rohnert Park and Petaluma, have lost much of their charm. Rohnert Park, for example, now features the big box stores that are as impersonal as much as they architecturally awful.
The town of Sonoma and also Healdsburg still retain a great deal of charm. Petaluma’s Mystic Theatre is a fine live music venue.
A friend of ours went to a wedding there recently and returned with COVID (lots of people from Orange County). She was fully vaccinated, but still felt the effects and had to quarantine for ten days.
I am hoping not to repeat her misadventure.
The Orange County contingent did not believe in masks or jabs.
Meanwhile the Giants have found another puppy ready to roll over and get its belly rubbed.
Leave him in!
I am guessing that Kershaw was on a 50-pitch count.
Seems like if that was really the case they shouldn’t have let him start the 5th at all. But yeah, I guess so. They were lucky he got a first pitch out!
Questionable reversal of fortune.
I actually thought it took Lux a bit to touch the plate.
Normally you need a really clear case to overturn it. That was not a no-doubter.
You know what: I agree with you!
Klayton’s not been at his sharpest, but he has been efficient.
Checking in from the Sierras. I owe you several Woo-HOOs!!!! We wrap the short tomorrow and I can get back to my wonderful calm writer’s life.
3-1 is an improvement over 0-1.
Jt!
Not sharp so far.
Last night may have been the most purely pleasurable game of the season. If only tonight’s could match it!
And I had to read about it!
Go Kersh. Go Dodgers.