Game 100, 2022

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Dodgers at Rockies, 5:10 PM PDT, TV: ATT SportsNet RM, SPNLA

Third in a string of lefthanders the Dodgers have trotted out to face the Rockies, Clayton Kershaw brings his 7-2 record and his 2.49 ERA to the Coors Field mound this evening. He’ll face the Rockies’ lefthanded Kyle Freeland (5-7, 4.64 ERA). Kershaw’s only made one start against the Rockies this year, and it was less than stellar. He went four innings, gave up six runs on nine hits and took the loss. Freeland is 1-2 this year against the Dodgers; in his most recent start against them he went 5 2/3 innings, giving up four runs on six hits.

Today in Dodgers’ history:

  • 2004 In a blockbuster trade, the Marlins deal Brad Penny, the winner of two World Series games last season, first baseman Hee Seop Choi, and southpaw prospect Bill Murphy (who will be traded to the Diamondbacks tomorrow) to the Dodgers for backstop Paul Lo Duca, relief pitcher Guillermo Mota, and much-traveled outfielder Juan Encarnacion.
  • 2017 Texas third baseman Adrian Beltre collects his 3000th hit when he doubles in the fourth inning in the Rangers’ 10-6 loss to the Orioles at Globe Life Park in Arlington. The twenty-year veteran, who has also spent time with the Dodgers, Mariners, and the Red Sox, is the first-ever Dominican-born player to reach the coveted milestone.

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39 thoughts on “Game 100, 2022”

  2. Dodgers get righty reliever Chris Martin from the Cubs for McKinstry. Martin usually pitches about an inning per outing and is not a closer. He was with the World Series champs Braves last season and pitched against us in the NLCS.

  3. Just walked the dog, and had a chat with Lee Lacy’s nephew, who lives a couple blocks away.

  4. On the bright side, for what it’s worth, the Twinkies are pounding the Paddies 7-1 in the eighth.

  5. At best a ND for Kershaw, and currently on the hook for an L. Getting to 200 wins this year becomes less likely with this outing.

    • My son and I were joking around this morning about trading Trayce Thompson straight up for Soto and trading Alberto straight up for Ohtani.

  22. At The Athletic, Jim Bowden thinks the Dodgers are one of the five best teams positioned to make a deal for Soto with the Nats, and here’s his proposal:

    The Trade: Soto and C Keibert Ruiz to Dodgers for C Diego Cartaya, INF Gavin Lux, RHP Bobby Miller and OF Andy Pages

    The Nationals got the wrong catching prospect at the 2021 trade deadline when they acquired Ruiz instead of Cartaya in the deal for Max Scherzer and Trea Turner. However, they right that wrong in this proposed deal, which would send Ruiz back to the Dodgers with Soto, and move Cartaya, the Dodgers’ best prospect, to Washington. Likened during the Futures Game by National League manager Mike Scioscia to a combination of Buster Posey and Salvador Perez, Cartaya must be the headliner in a Dodgers deal for Soto. He’s by far their best position-player prospect, and with Will Smith on the big-league roster, he’s expendable.

    The Nationals would also have to get Miller, the Dodgers’ top pitching prospect, who throws 100 mph and has 11.2 strikeouts per nine innings this season. Miller, 23, is 5-4 with a 4.36 ERA in 76 1/3 innings at Double A . His command still needs work but he has great upside. Meanwhile, Lux would immediately become the Nationals’ everyday shortstop and their long-term answer at the position. Pages would give them a corner outfield bat with 30-home run potential. The Nationals might insist on another infield prospect, such as Michael Busch or Miguel Vargas, but expanding this deal to include one of them would mean taking out the Ruiz/Cartaya portion, and I think that would be a mistake for Washington.

    • I would not include Lux in any deal. He has really coming into his own as a hitter. If he departs and the Dodgers don’t resign Trea, who plays short next season, Taylor? Also, who plays second? And of the players now on the roster, who plays third, Muncy, who can’t hit, or the aging JT, who is a FA after this season and turns 37 in November? We’d really have to depend on some of our highly ranked minor leaguers to come through. OK, WBB, tell me why I am wrong,