Game 124, 2022

Dodgers at Marlins, 3:40 PM PDT, TV: Bally Sports Florida, SPNLA

LHP Tyler Anderson (13-2, 2.73 ERA) pitches for the visiting Dodgers. The Marlins have yet to announce their starter as of Thursday evening. Anderson is 2-1 in August with a 3.24 ERA.

Today in Dodgers’ history:

  • 1939 At Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field, NBC televises the first major league game in history on experimental station W2XBS, covering a doubleheader split in which the Reds win the first game, 5-2, and the Dodgers take the nightcap, 6-1. The network employs two cameras, one behind home plate, showing a wide view of the field, and the other on the third base line to capture the plays at first base.
  • 1947 Dan Bankhead becomes the major league’s first black pitcher. The 27 year-old right-hander doesn’t do well in a relief stint, giving up ten hits and six runs in 3.1 innings in a 16-3 loss to the Pirates, but the Dodger rookie hits his only big league home run in his first major league at-bat.
  • 1965 At Shea Stadium, the Mets beat the Dodgers, 5-2, making Tug McGraw (2-2) the first Mets pitcher to defeat Sandy Koufax (21-7). Previously, New York had lost 13 consecutive times to the future Hall of Fame southpaw.
  • 1993 The Mets announce that Vince Coleman will remain on paid administrative leave until the end of the season, effectively ending his playing career with the team. Co-owner Fred Wilpon’s unequivocal decision that the controversial outfielder, who signed a four-year $11.95 million contract before the 1991 season, will not ever put on a Mets uniform again is the result of Coleman admitting to tossing a M-100 firecracker from a Jeep departing from a Dodger Stadium parking lot last month, injuring three people.
  • 2020 “Our team and the Reds felt that with our community and our nation in such pain, tonight we wanted 100 percent of the focus to be on issues that are much more important than baseball,” – BRENT SUTER, the team’s MLB Players Association representative.

    MLB postpones the Miller Park contest to respect the Brewers’ decision not to participate in the game against the Reds following the police shooting of a 29-year-old Wisconsin black man. Later in the day, the Mariners, who have more Black players than any team in the sport, and the Dodgers also choose not to play.

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104 thoughts on “Game 124, 2022

  1. Dodgers have hit HRs and hard line drives.
    Marlins have hit one HR too – but mostly bloops and simple ground balls.

  2. Aaron Judge just hit a monstrous three-run homer deep over the centerfield fence to snap a 0-0 tie.

  3. When Okert was a Gnat, they had another reliever named Osich. I’ll let you guess what their nicknames were.

  4. Except for a bloop hit in the first, we would be talking about how interesting a game this is.

  5. I’m going to the A’s-Yankees game in Oakland tonight with my daughter and will be rooting for Oakland.

  6. Got back last night from my son’s 5 day National ultimate frisbee tournament. His team had a bunch of tough loses, but he was named MVP for his team.

    Dodgers have not had a bunch of tough loses. They have barely had any tough wins of late. Although today’s game is still scoreless so it might qualify.