Diamondbacks at Dodgers, 7:10 PM PDT, TV: BS Arizona, SPNLA
The D-Backs’ LHP Madison Bumgarner (6-15, 5.01 ERA) meets the Dodgers’ RHP Dustin May (2-2, 3.46 ERA). Bumgarner is having the worst year of his career by far; he’s lost six of his last nine starts, all since his last win. He’s given up 42 earned runs in that span of 48 1/3 innings.
Here’s a wonderful profile of Dusty Baker at The Athletic.
On this date in Dodgers’ history:
- 1934 “If I’da known he was gonna throw one, I’da thrown one, too.” – Dizzy Dean, after his brother threw a no-hitter in the nightcap of a double-header. In the second game of a doubleheader at Ebbets Field, 22 year-old Cardinal hurler Paul Dean, called Daffy by his teammates, becomes the fifth rookie to throw a no-hitter, beating the Dodgers, 3-0. His brother Dizzy held Brooklyn hitless until the eighth inning in the opener, settling for a two-hitter in the team’s 13-0 blanking of the Bums.
- 1952 In front of the second largest crowd this season, with many of the 8,822 fans rooting for the Dodgers, the Braves play their final home game in Boston. Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella hits the last home run at Braves Field in an 8-2 victory over the Milwaukee-bound club.
- 1969 In a 3-3 tie in the bottom of the tenth inning at Candlestick Park, LA’s Pete Mikkelsen quickly retires the first two Giants batters, but then is ordered to intentionally walk Willie McCovey, who is 4-for-4 in the game. The Dodger reliever proceeds to issue free passes to the next two hitters unintentionally, loading the bases, and then loses the game when shortstop Maury Wills boots pinch-hitter Jim Davenport’s ground ball.
Lineups when available.
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NPUT
Well, rats. We haven’t looked really good the last couple of games.
Vargas hit that one squarely… and right into a mitt.
In other baseball news, the Yankees beat the Pirates, 14-2, tonight (Judge did not homer) after scoring five runs in the bottom of the 9th last night to beat Pittsburgh, 9-8. In their last nine innings, the Yankees have scored 19 runs.
Baseball being baseball – watch the Dodgers light up Zac Gallen tomorrow night. (I hope!)
Comments here almost as sparse as our hits.
Balls are staying in the stadium for the most part.
WP brought in a run…
Good throw, but not quite good enough.
Taylor really looks lost.
He’s striking out at about the same rate as Bart, and that’s not good. Thompson makes it a threesome.
Thompson looks like he’s seeing the ball better than Taylor.
Every DBack walk makes it to second.
Mookie getting us started.
Mookie! Gets one back
If we go back and let the Diamondbacks win that first game yesterday – could the Dodgers get their mojo back in exchange?
Wow. Another stinker so far.
Suddenly our starting pitching looks a bit thinner for the playoffs. Lol
Dodgers playing like it was still yesterday.
Trayce botched that one.
Sadly it was going to be a double before he even got to it.
Not if he comes up with it cleanly.
May is not fooling anyone.
Cheap hits and a couple walks. He’s not been bad, and he just needs to get himself into post-season shape. This is his spring training.
True. And yet…
Yep. Walk. Steal. RBI.
Deja vu all over again…
So suddenly Bumgarner has found his mojo? Very annoying.
He’s not annoying. He’s revolting.
Yep. Annoying for sure.
He hasn’t beaten the Dodgers since 2017.
That doesn’t reassure me for some reason.
Oh I agree. It feels more like he is due or something.
BadGums might be the worst FA signing the Snakes have ever made. Too bad the Gnats didn’t pay to keep him.
You should take Bumgarner, Bart and Crawford out for dinner and get to know them.
There’s no evidence that Bart remotely approaches BadGums and Greasylocks in loathsomeness.
Ugh. Broken bat. Good effort but to no avail.
That’s better!
At the game. Hoping May finds the zone…
Go Dodgers!! Stick it to MadBum.
No less loathsome than when he was a Gnat.
About tonight’s Snakes starter… https://twitter.com/Deadspin/status/866744519047426049?s=20&t=A0pqfqJuWc6cXlPgKeUyww