Game Seven, 2023

Dodgers at D-backs, 7:10 PM PDT, TV: Bally Sports Arizona, SPNLA

RHP Dustin May (0-0, 0.00 ERA) gets the ball for the Dodgers; RHP Merrill Kelly (0-0, 0.00 ERA) gets it for the Diamondbacks.

Today in Dodgers’ history:

  • 2001 In the home opener at Veterans Stadium, Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Bunning’s number 14 jersey is retired. Kentucky’s Republican U.S. senator, who compiled a 224-184 record in his 17-year career pitching for the Tigers, Phillies, Pirates, and Dodgers, joins Richie Ashburn (1), Robin Roberts (36), Steve Carlton (32), and Mike Schmidt (20) as the fifth player to have his number retired by the Phillies.
  • 2004 Adrian Beltre becomes the 36th player in baseball history to hit 100 home runs before the age of 25. The Dodger third baseman joins Cal Ripken Jr. and Lou Gehrig to have exactly 100 homers on their 25th birthday.
  • 2016 The Padres, with their 7-0 loss at Petco Park, become the first team to be shut out in the first three games of the regular season, surpassing the dubious mark set by the Browns, who opened the 1943 campaign with 26 straight scoreless innings. San Diego also dropped their first two decisions of the three-game series against the Dodgers, 15-0 and 3-0.
  • 2021 Oakland’s As begin the season 0-6 when the team drops a 5-1 decision to the Dodgers, matching the 1916 Philadelphia A’s, who posted a 36-117 mark that season for the worse record in franchise history. The club has been outscored 50-13 in their first half-dozen games, losing all six by at least four runs and four times by at least seven runs.

Lineups when available.

46 thoughts on “Game Seven, 2023

  1. Their guy was effectively wild. Mookie gets 101 in the helmet but his reaction time is so fast it seems to have merely glanced off. Not my idea of fun, however.

  2. May must be wondering if he could again wind up with a no decision after a great start.

  3. Good things happening and then Martinez did his copyrighted out at third. Thanks for the double though.

  4. Barves walk off against the Pads, so Dodgers can expand their division lead to two games by winning tonight.

  5. What an arm! Reconstructed at that. Hope for years of Julio, Dustin and Walker.

  6. Dodgers (4-2)
    Diamondbacks (3-3)

    SP Dustin May R
    0-0 .00 ERA 7IP 4K
    Merrill Kelly R
    0-0 .00 ERA 3.2IP 4K

    Lineup:
    2B Mookie Betts R
    1B F. Freeman L
    C Will Smith R
    3B Max Muncy L
    DH J. Martinez R
    LF D. Peralta L
    CF James Outman L
    SS Chris Taylor R
    RF J. Heyward L